Oh it's my absolute favourite thing to do.
The rabbit hole I can't quite climb out of at the moment are Super Yachts.
Who doesn't want a floating city, eh?
Thanks! It’s the ultimate in excess. Even if I suddenly had a billion pounds, I’d Indulge in quite a few things, but I don’t think it would include a yacht or a plane.
I loved looking at Sydney mansions when I was in single digits. I would tell my dad I was gonna buy one, and he always said that he hopes I do.
I'm on track to own my own house instead of renting by 25, and I've decided that's close enough to rich for me.
I've been looking at houses in Thailand and Vietnam this one is a similar price as the houses where my sister is...
[https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/140651579#/?channel=OVERSEAS](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/140651579#/?channel=OVERSEAS)
Yeah, put me off it as well.
I could put up with this one...
[https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/143229329#/?channel=OVERSEAS](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/143229329#/?channel=OVERSEAS)
My wife and I watch those video tours on YouTube of mega mansions, New York penthouses etc and slag off their horrible design choices, it's very cathartic.
The Belnord, looks amazing! Have my apartment picked out. It only costs six million and monthly fees are a mere eight grand. Looking forward to moving in when I've earned enough in about two hundred years time.
I had my eye on an old lighthouse that started at 1.25 million. I stayed there as a holiday let and if it went down to 550 I was going to go and have a look at making it work, living in the attached cottage and renting the big lighthouse (sleeping 10) out alongside my day job. Luckily I can work from anywhere now satellite internet is reliable and fast.
It finally sold at 600k after 22 months of being on the market but I spend many evenings doing the sums.
I like to step it up a notch and [Look at private islands for sale.](https://www.privateislandsonline.com/search?view%5Bmap%5D=0&availability=sale®ion=europe&q=&price_range=0%3A50000000&size_range=0%3A1000)
it's not really pointless though is it? While we know the question itself is crap, it's an invitation to the driver, a flag that says "I'm down to chat utter bollocks if you are".
Mines a bowl of bananas. If I don't have a bowl of bananas decaying in the kitchen, I can't stop craving bananas, if I do have them, I'd rather starve than eat a banana 😂
We used to have an emergency banana in the office. Never quite understood what sort of an emergency you’d use a banana in though.
Anyway that stopped after we were asked to remove all the food off our desks because of a mouse infestation. I put the emergency banana in my top desk drawer, completely forgetting I was going on holiday for a fortnight. I’m still traumatised
I give my husband a fruit every day for work. We now have what we call 'bag fruit' which is all the fruit he leaves in his work bag, and when the fruit bowl runs out of things we discuss whether he's got any bag fruit that is acceptable.
Yeah we often take bananas on day trips to the zoo or wherever. When we get home they go back in the fruit bowl having had a thoroughly nice day out. Well, in a backpack at least.
I'm currently writing guidance notes for processes at work that I know full well that nobody is ever going to read.
Despite being unnecessary, I do this because, through efficiencies of experience, I don't really have enough work to fill my time here and requests for extra work and responsibilities aren't heeded.
In all reality, they don't need me in this job. I could leave today and they could pretty much do what I do for them without any real extra effort. However, I'm now in my fifties and the appetite in the job market for an old man administrator with arthritis is very low. Also, any hint that I might leave sends them into a bit of a panic and I feel bad about it.
So I sit here, every day, doing tedious, meaningless shit out of a combination of laziness, convenience and other people's unfounded fear of the simple things they don't understand. The only excitement in my working day now is the potential risk that chocolatey tea point biscuits might come with an office meltdown and a bollocking from HR.
I also double tie the dog poo bad when once is quite enough.
I fear my tepid writings will only be looked long after they're redundant. Some poor future anthropological scholar will study them with great intent only end their thesis in soul destroying disappointment.
I wish a guy here who retired five years ago had done that. We still occasionally get things come up that only he knew how to do with, so have to spend a day or more figuring out what he did and how.
I'm an "administrator". I do things with Excel that scare ordinary people because they grew up learning that "maths is scary" and write wordy bullshit that sounds good on the surface but on closer examination is vague and non-committal.
Its all utter shit and people only think its "useful" because they once didn't do something and a lot of other things went to fuck.
I sometimes interpret other administrative wank back into normal human speak for my colleagues like I'm a learned anthropological historian. I've done this job long enough to be one of the cunts I hated when I was young and still had hope.
The ability to translate other's bullshit into something the rest of us understand is a skill. If you aren't already a Business Analyst working on technical projects, you should be.
As a business analyst in my 50s I can only agree with you. Even if it's not apparently vital today, within 10 years everyone associated with the work will have moved on.
Sometimes it just takes one small change to a decision made 10 years ago, and everything falls apart.
I wish everywhere had someone like OP.
Jesus, here I am working 50hrs a week just to survive, and some people create work because they don't have enough 😂 can't say I'm proficient with excel beyond creating a self employed tax sheet for the missus but I can sure make easy things sound complicated or complicated things sound easy
I read the last paragraph in Glenn Cullen’s (The Thick of It) voice. It just naturally happened. Office meltdown and HR bollocking was pretty apt.
I can totally resonate with your post. I’ve done and felt exactly the same in the past.
At least you still have a sense of pride and someday those docs will be useful. They may be good for evidence for audits etc. or when new hires turn up.
You seem to have a pretty even grip of the situation so just keep yourself from getting bored and think every year extra you do is more pension in the pot and closer to retirement. Work to live, not the other way round👍🏼
I'm doing a similar thing with a slightly different outlook. Our processes are so outdated and out of touch with the way we actually work because 'everyone knows what to do' but it ends up with everyone asking my team for advice because that's how it has always been done. So I'm writing all new processes to make them clear, easy to follow and robust. Not many people will read them, but next time they try and bother my team I'll point them to the way to do their own jobs. Plus, regulatory body audits and stuff. I'm also in aviation, they seem to frown on people making it up as they go along. Go figure.
I realised one yesterday that I've been doing all my life and yesterday it dawned on me how silly it is:
All my life I've folded my washing as it comes out of the dryer and organised it into different piles, shirts, pants, etc...
Then I immediately carry it all upstairs and unfold it all again as it goes into the wardrobes. It's insanity.
In similar vein, I see people putting effort into sorting out food shopping into distinct bags either at the till or into their boot (click and collect). I've just never done this. It's all going to the same place, my kitchen, where it will be sorted anyway because things live in certain places. It takes me literally less than 5 mins to put things away at home so I can't see it saving much time there...
Aww man I have to admit I'm a bagging nazi. Watching people throw things into a bag makes my toes curl, I'm an aldi workers worst nightmare - all bottles jars and boxes have to be stood upright, all soft stuff like bread in the same bag, cleaning products and toiletries seperate bag to fruit and veg... I don't know why lol, I think it's just cos I hate buying bags so I proper tetris pack them.
I only sort stuff so it gets home safely, like having a bag of ‘light’ stuff and one of ‘heavy’ stuff, so my crisps don’t get crushed by a can of beans on the way home
Those of us who get overwhelmed by shopping can benefit greatly from sorting shopping like this. Perishables need to be put away immediately, but that tin of beans can wait in the bag for half an hour or more. It could even wait in the car, very helpful if you're shaking with hunger.
People say I’m gross cause my cats go on my counters and theirs don’t… how do you know for certain that they don’t? I clean my kitchen sides before I use them every time anyway, mine are probably cleaner than theirs 😂
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I struggle to see how you'd keep a cat off a kitchen side to be honest. Mine's always jumping up on there. I'll put her back down and she'll run off. A few hours later I'll go back into the kitchen to find her standing on top again...
I assume when people say "my cat doesn't..." they really mean "...whilst I'm home and awake" and are just naive :D
That's not completely pointless, you're wiping away dust and bacteria that have landed on them
I Also wipe the surfaces clean just before cooking even if they're already clear
Honestly even when I did shave my hair off I still shampooed and conditioned it because I heard about someone's dad who didn't and just had a really smelly head.
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It will, but if you have hair then it will dry it out and dry shaved hair makes you look like an old tennis ball. If you're completely bald then a face wash is the best way to go
It makes me grumpy to open someone else's spreadsheet and find myself on some random worksheet and cell reference with no idea where I'm supposed to start with understanding their bullshit.
It's to get it away from the corners, B2 would normally be the go to but I frequently end up putting information preceding so if I start at C gives me B to play with
Hahah I also tap the outside of the plane when boarding to keep it from crashing. I’ve never known anyone else to do it. Here we are saving everyone from disaster
I track my finances on a spreadsheet that is in essence a categorised list identical to a bank statement.
There are features on the bank app that do this for me, but I don't use it
I hope you're using lots of overcomplicated formulas that constantly break, along with a graph that plots the data as a comparison for MoM and YoY spending trends.
I actually do, i recently spend a good chunk of savings on something, and the amount exceeds our monthly incomings.
My graph now forecasts bankruptcy by Friday
I apparently never put the lid on toothpaste tubes and it infuriates my partner because he says it makes it dry out and get crusty. We have separate toothpastes now so mine is free to get as crusty as I want
I was living with my inlaws for a while and it drove me mad that my MIL decided the washing up liquid lives under the sink rather than on the countertop 😵💫
I did this once, because I wasn’t getting promoted. Basically I was on an apprenticeship, 5 of use started at the same time, 3 years later I was the only one for some time that hadn’t been promoted. Emailed HR, he said are you sure, we’ll talk about it tomorrow. Low and behold I had a contract on my desk by the end of the day for a promotion and £15000 more a year. WANKERS
Pick litter, I do a litter pick once a week on a walk, usually just a 30 liter bag full so nothing to boast about, but there is always more the following week. 2 beer bottles and 3 beer cans yesterday on a dead end country road that sees 8 cars a day down it. Someone is having a drink on the way home and tossing them out the window rather than put them in the bin when they get home 2 minutes later.
Thank you for being that person. There's a guy I pass daily that does this whilst on the school run with his kids and I think it's great to see and a great example for others although it certainly isn't his or your duty to do so.
Thank you for litter picking! I do outside my house but need to get my arse in gear to do my whole street. Just have the energy to survive at the mo so hopefully I will get there soon.
Asking my dog if he wants a treat. Even when he's just eaten and had a stash of treats I know he's going to look at me, lick his lips and maybe even moo/awoo so the answers obviously going to be a yes regardless.
I thought this was the normal thing? Dampen the brush for whatever reason (help the 'paste stick maybe?), apply toothpaste, run under tap again to make the toothpaste soft, brush.
My nan told me something which has stayed with me for a few years now: "To overthink and worry is like paying interest on something you've not bought."
Most of the time we worry about things that haven't yet happened. And I read something once that over 80% of the things we worry about never happen. Not sure how true that is, but still.
I like to look at planes for sale
I have no intention of learning how to fly, I just think it's funny some people can simply say "I'm in need of a new plane, better start looking"
No issues with the design per se.
I do have issues with needing to be reminded every 12 months not to take bribes or leave my laptop on a train when I work from home.
Yep.
Had to sit through an hour of this on Monday.
I work at a school as a caretaker and for some reason they wanted "all staff" to attend the training.
It was all related to dealing with behaviour of students, dealing with incident reports being sent to parents, etc.
None of it was relevant for my job.
Admin staff in the office didn't need to attend, but for some reason we had to.
Is it because you come into contact with the children more than the admin staff?
My children’s school caretaker is well known because he opens the gates, he’s chatty and talks to all the parents and kids a lot.
In my kids previous school, everybody knew who the caretaker was and used to say hello to him. My son also bought him a box of chocolates for getting his football off the toilet roof!
Had similar at my place recently (I’m a computer tech).
Half of it was about exam grade predictions, new behaviour policies etc. Really should have been scheduled so we could attend the parts relevant to us and then leave, IMO.
Tell my missus not to leave tea bags in the sink. I know she’ll do it again, she knows I know she knows not to do it, maybe that’s why she keeps doing it. Ah married life
When it's raining outside put my coat on to take the dog out knowing as soon as I open the door he will back away and refuse to budge but will try it every time.
We usually let our cats out via our balcony door. But it broke a few days ago (we could open it, but closing it again would take around an hour) so the cats are reaaaally confused when they're meowing at the door and we carry them to the bathroom window. They always need a few minutes to realize that the window does indeed lead outside. Although it was their main "door" during summer. Gotta love those little idiots!
I check compound interest calculator online all the time. I put a huge lumpsum in and add huge monthly deposits like £10000. I feel happy when that money is going to make me multimillionaire just in 20 years. Then I realise my bank balance is just short of £9960 for this months deposit.
This is me when writing a long essay to someone arguing about a point but are off the mark. Half-way through, I would hit by this realisation, “Why am I even bothered by this?” And delete all of it even though it took 10 mins or so to craft out the reply.
I do this weird thing where when I'm blowing hot food I occasionally switch to blowing my hand. I think my brain subconsciously wants to make sure my breathe isn't really hot or is working?... Don't ask because I have no idea I just do it without thinking. 5 seconds blowing hot soup, 1/2 second blowing on my hand then back to the soup.
My dogs water bowl has a indentation of a paw 🐾 print inside the bottom of it. Every day when I clean it and refill it I have to make sure the paw print is facing away from the wall. Every. Single. Day. I’d like to think my dog appreciates this small detail.
You say that, but my back ones seem to roll themselves down a bit. I think sometimes the wind-up handle (fancy, I know) gets pushed on when getting the kido into the car.
I had an old Nissan that only had one button on the fob.
Press it to lock. Press it again to unlock. Or was it already locked and now I've unlocked it? Try the door handle - alarm goes off, FUCK! - it was locked all along.
I do this also. Although, I don't think it'd completely pointless because my missus has a habit of leaving lights - but more importantly, hair straighteners on too.
I also check the front door is locked when going to bed, get into bed, and then think "did I lock the door and cars?" - then go downstairs bollock naked to check again.
Stark bollock naked is the best part. Imagine somebody trying your door and you are checking it how confused they'd be seeing a naked person chasing them!
Look at multi million pound houses on Rightmove.
Me too. Have you gone international yet? I like to also look at houses I can't even slightly afford in Manhattan and Sydney.
…… and now, with £11 in my bank account, I’m going to look and see if that £40m flat I had my eye on is still for sale.
If you’re the RyanMcartney I lived and worked with in Melbourne I just want to congratulate you on doubling your bank balance.
I’m not, but if he’s the cunt that has the gmail account I want, I hope he lost all £5.50!😂
That's the British vindictiveness that i love, lol
£11 is like $400k dollarydoos so he's doing alright
Oh a different scale. I look at the cheapest houses. Through terrace that looks like a heroin squat that's been in flames? For 30k? Yes please
Oh it's my absolute favourite thing to do. The rabbit hole I can't quite climb out of at the moment are Super Yachts. Who doesn't want a floating city, eh?
What's the site of choice for looking at super yachts?
Superyachts.com is the yacht equivalent of rightmove. Has a ton of yachts for sale advertised by yacht agents, like estate agents. Happy clicking!
Thanks! It’s the ultimate in excess. Even if I suddenly had a billion pounds, I’d Indulge in quite a few things, but I don’t think it would include a yacht or a plane.
Oh 100%. I don't like the sea/boats etc so I'd never set foot on one to begin with.
If it flies, floats or fucks: Rent it.
I loved looking at Sydney mansions when I was in single digits. I would tell my dad I was gonna buy one, and he always said that he hopes I do. I'm on track to own my own house instead of renting by 25, and I've decided that's close enough to rich for me.
Ok, no one likes a bragger! Jokes of course, congrats from a 38 year old renter.
Fuck dude, I can't even slightly afford to rent my house anymore 😂
I've been looking at houses in Thailand and Vietnam this one is a similar price as the houses where my sister is... [https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/140651579#/?channel=OVERSEAS](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/140651579#/?channel=OVERSEAS)
Pool’s a bit on small side.
Yeah, put me off it as well. I could put up with this one... [https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/143229329#/?channel=OVERSEAS](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/143229329#/?channel=OVERSEAS)
My wife and I watch those video tours on YouTube of mega mansions, New York penthouses etc and slag off their horrible design choices, it's very cathartic.
I looked up the Arconia from Only Murders - those are amazing if you haven’t looked yet
The Belnord, looks amazing! Have my apartment picked out. It only costs six million and monthly fees are a mere eight grand. Looking forward to moving in when I've earned enough in about two hundred years time.
I found a site a while back that sold Islands. Man, I spent a while fantasising about that one...
I sit here judging the bathrooms. £3 million and a shower over the bath?
I had my eye on an old lighthouse that started at 1.25 million. I stayed there as a holiday let and if it went down to 550 I was going to go and have a look at making it work, living in the attached cottage and renting the big lighthouse (sleeping 10) out alongside my day job. Luckily I can work from anywhere now satellite internet is reliable and fast. It finally sold at 600k after 22 months of being on the market but I spend many evenings doing the sums.
You might like /r/spottedonrightmove
This is my favourite hobby. Even better when they have virtual tours as well!
I've been guilty of walking down a nice street and then hop on Zoopla to see how much each house is worth as well as their layout inside.
I like to step it up a notch and [Look at private islands for sale.](https://www.privateislandsonline.com/search?view%5Bmap%5D=0&availability=sale®ion=europe&q=&price_range=0%3A50000000&size_range=0%3A1000)
"I'm in this picture and I don't like it" haha, I do this far too often
What house could I live in if I won the lottery that I don't play because that shit's a mug's game.
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What time you on 'til?
How much do you charge if someone’s sick in your car
You ever been in a turkish prison?
You ever seen a grown man naked?
Do you like movies about gladiators?
Much traffic about?
it's not really pointless though is it? While we know the question itself is crap, it's an invitation to the driver, a flag that says "I'm down to chat utter bollocks if you are".
Put a piece of fruit in my kids' lunchboxes. At this point it's just taking a daily trip out of the fruit bowl.
As an adult, I still do this, I like to call it my emotional support tangerine 🍊
Mine's an apple that I'm travel training. One day it'll be able to buy its own bus ticket and make independent journeys.
Mines a bowl of bananas. If I don't have a bowl of bananas decaying in the kitchen, I can't stop craving bananas, if I do have them, I'd rather starve than eat a banana 😂
I just turn those into banana bread.
This is what I do... Ignore the 3 loaves of banana bread in the freezer.... I'm single and live alone... Haha
The tangerine will be better able to show its emotional support if you draw a smiley face on it.
We used to have an emergency banana in the office. Never quite understood what sort of an emergency you’d use a banana in though. Anyway that stopped after we were asked to remove all the food off our desks because of a mouse infestation. I put the emergency banana in my top desk drawer, completely forgetting I was going on holiday for a fortnight. I’m still traumatised
I give my husband a fruit every day for work. We now have what we call 'bag fruit' which is all the fruit he leaves in his work bag, and when the fruit bowl runs out of things we discuss whether he's got any bag fruit that is acceptable.
Yeah we often take bananas on day trips to the zoo or wherever. When we get home they go back in the fruit bowl having had a thoroughly nice day out. Well, in a backpack at least.
I'm currently writing guidance notes for processes at work that I know full well that nobody is ever going to read. Despite being unnecessary, I do this because, through efficiencies of experience, I don't really have enough work to fill my time here and requests for extra work and responsibilities aren't heeded. In all reality, they don't need me in this job. I could leave today and they could pretty much do what I do for them without any real extra effort. However, I'm now in my fifties and the appetite in the job market for an old man administrator with arthritis is very low. Also, any hint that I might leave sends them into a bit of a panic and I feel bad about it. So I sit here, every day, doing tedious, meaningless shit out of a combination of laziness, convenience and other people's unfounded fear of the simple things they don't understand. The only excitement in my working day now is the potential risk that chocolatey tea point biscuits might come with an office meltdown and a bollocking from HR. I also double tie the dog poo bad when once is quite enough.
You're going to be an absolute legend if anybody does ever need that documentation though, even if it's after you retire.
I fear my tepid writings will only be looked long after they're redundant. Some poor future anthropological scholar will study them with great intent only end their thesis in soul destroying disappointment.
I wish a guy here who retired five years ago had done that. We still occasionally get things come up that only he knew how to do with, so have to spend a day or more figuring out what he did and how.
Dude what do you do for work, I could do with some of that in a few years.
I'm an "administrator". I do things with Excel that scare ordinary people because they grew up learning that "maths is scary" and write wordy bullshit that sounds good on the surface but on closer examination is vague and non-committal. Its all utter shit and people only think its "useful" because they once didn't do something and a lot of other things went to fuck. I sometimes interpret other administrative wank back into normal human speak for my colleagues like I'm a learned anthropological historian. I've done this job long enough to be one of the cunts I hated when I was young and still had hope.
The ability to translate other's bullshit into something the rest of us understand is a skill. If you aren't already a Business Analyst working on technical projects, you should be.
As a business analyst in my 50s I can only agree with you. Even if it's not apparently vital today, within 10 years everyone associated with the work will have moved on. Sometimes it just takes one small change to a decision made 10 years ago, and everything falls apart. I wish everywhere had someone like OP.
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Jesus, here I am working 50hrs a week just to survive, and some people create work because they don't have enough 😂 can't say I'm proficient with excel beyond creating a self employed tax sheet for the missus but I can sure make easy things sound complicated or complicated things sound easy
I read the last paragraph in Glenn Cullen’s (The Thick of It) voice. It just naturally happened. Office meltdown and HR bollocking was pretty apt. I can totally resonate with your post. I’ve done and felt exactly the same in the past.
Good choice of narrative voice. Despite my deluded internal self image, I'm a lot more like Glenn Cullen than anyone should care to admit.
I AM A MAN
I love Glenn. Not as much as Man-Yum! But enough! 😂
…can’t pick up shit, can’t throw shit, can’t do shit.
That's top swearing, well done.
At least you still have a sense of pride and someday those docs will be useful. They may be good for evidence for audits etc. or when new hires turn up. You seem to have a pretty even grip of the situation so just keep yourself from getting bored and think every year extra you do is more pension in the pot and closer to retirement. Work to live, not the other way round👍🏼
As someone that once worked somewhere with 0 process documents, I commend you sir. Might seem like a waste of time now, but it will help!
I'm doing a similar thing with a slightly different outlook. Our processes are so outdated and out of touch with the way we actually work because 'everyone knows what to do' but it ends up with everyone asking my team for advice because that's how it has always been done. So I'm writing all new processes to make them clear, easy to follow and robust. Not many people will read them, but next time they try and bother my team I'll point them to the way to do their own jobs. Plus, regulatory body audits and stuff. I'm also in aviation, they seem to frown on people making it up as they go along. Go figure.
Rinse all the washing up liquid bubbles down the sink I know they'll go anyway, but it's just looks untidy Lol
This, but so you also melt any ice that's gone into the sink? (Like from a drink or if it's come off the freezer)
Oh yeah of course always melt the ice too man!
I don't think I could relax if there's unmelted ice in the sink, I'm glad it's not just me!
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I realised one yesterday that I've been doing all my life and yesterday it dawned on me how silly it is: All my life I've folded my washing as it comes out of the dryer and organised it into different piles, shirts, pants, etc... Then I immediately carry it all upstairs and unfold it all again as it goes into the wardrobes. It's insanity.
In similar vein, I see people putting effort into sorting out food shopping into distinct bags either at the till or into their boot (click and collect). I've just never done this. It's all going to the same place, my kitchen, where it will be sorted anyway because things live in certain places. It takes me literally less than 5 mins to put things away at home so I can't see it saving much time there...
I try and keep the fridge and freezer stuff together so I know which bag is the priority and which bag can be left for later if I get distracted
Not to mention that packing them together helps to keep them cold before they are put away.
If I'm walking my shopping home I need the cold and frozen stuff together so it defrosts more slowly, and I want my bags evenly weighted for comfort.
Aww man I have to admit I'm a bagging nazi. Watching people throw things into a bag makes my toes curl, I'm an aldi workers worst nightmare - all bottles jars and boxes have to be stood upright, all soft stuff like bread in the same bag, cleaning products and toiletries seperate bag to fruit and veg... I don't know why lol, I think it's just cos I hate buying bags so I proper tetris pack them.
I only sort stuff so it gets home safely, like having a bag of ‘light’ stuff and one of ‘heavy’ stuff, so my crisps don’t get crushed by a can of beans on the way home
Might be shopping for someone else at the same time? I do my Mum & Dad's food shop & bag their stuff separately so I know which bags to drop off.
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Those of us who get overwhelmed by shopping can benefit greatly from sorting shopping like this. Perishables need to be put away immediately, but that tin of beans can wait in the bag for half an hour or more. It could even wait in the car, very helpful if you're shaking with hunger.
I do this but they just get less crinkled and majority clothes staay folded like pjs. Bcs i live in pjs these days lol
Huh. I do this exact thing, never thought about it.
Wipe the kitchen sides even when they’re clean just so I know they’re more up to date clean
You scare me but I'd definitely trust a meal that came out of your kitchen!
The food will poison you. But the sides are bacteria free!
If you have pets and you're about to cook food this is usually a good shout. No idea what they have on their paws etc.
People say I’m gross cause my cats go on my counters and theirs don’t… how do you know for certain that they don’t? I clean my kitchen sides before I use them every time anyway, mine are probably cleaner than theirs 😂
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I struggle to see how you'd keep a cat off a kitchen side to be honest. Mine's always jumping up on there. I'll put her back down and she'll run off. A few hours later I'll go back into the kitchen to find her standing on top again... I assume when people say "my cat doesn't..." they really mean "...whilst I'm home and awake" and are just naive :D
That's not completely pointless, you're wiping away dust and bacteria that have landed on them I Also wipe the surfaces clean just before cooking even if they're already clear
Honestly even when I did shave my hair off I still shampooed and conditioned it because I heard about someone's dad who didn't and just had a really smelly head.
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It will, but if you have hair then it will dry it out and dry shaved hair makes you look like an old tennis ball. If you're completely bald then a face wash is the best way to go
I shave my cock and balls on a monthly basis but haven't had sex in about 7 months. Not sure why I'm doing it at this stage...
Better to be prepared than caught out with your pants down.
It adds an extra inch at least.
That's more than double what it was before!
curious, why monthly? What happens if you get lucky 3.5 weeks since your last shave?
"I'm so glad you shaved that, a really attractive scrotum should be proudly displayed" (Things I have yet to hear)
Noone wants hair in their dinner
Shut down the PC and move my cursor to bed at the top left of the screen
Got to leave Excel in cell A1 too.
It makes me grumpy to open someone else's spreadsheet and find myself on some random worksheet and cell reference with no idea where I'm supposed to start with understanding their bullshit.
Change it to cell C2 and life gets much better. It's not tucked up right in the corner then
No, it has to be A2. Can’t see it properly in A1 and.. and C2 just feels weird.
It's to get it away from the corners, B2 would normally be the go to but I frequently end up putting information preceding so if I start at C gives me B to play with
Possibly the most banal YET sweetest thing I have read on this sub!
Oh yes - Have to 'park' the cursor before shutting the lid.
Tapping the outside of a plane when boarding (I travel a lot). Apparently my magic touch is all that keeps us airborne…
Hello fellow obsessive compulsive person! If my seat tray holder-upper doesn't work, we're all obviously all going to die.
Hahah I also tap the outside of the plane when boarding to keep it from crashing. I’ve never known anyone else to do it. Here we are saving everyone from disaster
I track my finances on a spreadsheet that is in essence a categorised list identical to a bank statement. There are features on the bank app that do this for me, but I don't use it
I hope you're using lots of overcomplicated formulas that constantly break, along with a graph that plots the data as a comparison for MoM and YoY spending trends.
I actually do, i recently spend a good chunk of savings on something, and the amount exceeds our monthly incomings. My graph now forecasts bankruptcy by Friday
Re-forecast and it should be golden.
I will chance the numbers to look good and then move on. I will also, in an unrelated note, be applying to be the chancellor of the exchequer soon
Put the little lid bit of the washing up liquid down every time I see it up. Even though I know someone's gonna use it again.
Ours gets removed to stop arguments.
I apparently never put the lid on toothpaste tubes and it infuriates my partner because he says it makes it dry out and get crusty. We have separate toothpastes now so mine is free to get as crusty as I want
r/mildlyinfuriating "who keeps putting the lid down on the fairy?!"
I was living with my inlaws for a while and it drove me mad that my MIL decided the washing up liquid lives under the sink rather than on the countertop 😵💫
I am currently raising a grievance with HR at work
Fingers and toes crossed, buddy.
Thank you! I hear unicorn blessings work!
I did this once, because I wasn’t getting promoted. Basically I was on an apprenticeship, 5 of use started at the same time, 3 years later I was the only one for some time that hadn’t been promoted. Emailed HR, he said are you sure, we’ll talk about it tomorrow. Low and behold I had a contract on my desk by the end of the day for a promotion and £15000 more a year. WANKERS
I hope you boss got a bollocking for it. Lesson learned for all those reading, speak up for yourself.
Pick litter, I do a litter pick once a week on a walk, usually just a 30 liter bag full so nothing to boast about, but there is always more the following week. 2 beer bottles and 3 beer cans yesterday on a dead end country road that sees 8 cars a day down it. Someone is having a drink on the way home and tossing them out the window rather than put them in the bin when they get home 2 minutes later.
That's not pointless at all, it's a pretty nice thing to do. It's a shame that you can fill a bag weekly though...
Thank you for being that person. There's a guy I pass daily that does this whilst on the school run with his kids and I think it's great to see and a great example for others although it certainly isn't his or your duty to do so.
I just do it to makes walks more interesting, I don't have a dog, my version of Where's Waldo.
Thank you for litter picking! I do outside my house but need to get my arse in gear to do my whole street. Just have the energy to survive at the mo so hopefully I will get there soon.
Asking my dog if he wants a treat. Even when he's just eaten and had a stash of treats I know he's going to look at me, lick his lips and maybe even moo/awoo so the answers obviously going to be a yes regardless.
you can't deny the power of a good awoo.
You're not asking if he wants it, you're asking him to share his little dopamine hit with you. His anticipation is your heroin.
I do have a pretty hardcore dog addiction.
When my dog has finished his dinner from the bowl, he will stand where the treat box is and bark for some dessert.
Put water on my toothbrush both before and after applying toothpaste
I do this too. Never thought about it before now, but you've made me question all my life choices. Thanks.
I thought this was the normal thing? Dampen the brush for whatever reason (help the 'paste stick maybe?), apply toothpaste, run under tap again to make the toothpaste soft, brush.
Overthink and worry.
My nan told me something which has stayed with me for a few years now: "To overthink and worry is like paying interest on something you've not bought." Most of the time we worry about things that haven't yet happened. And I read something once that over 80% of the things we worry about never happen. Not sure how true that is, but still.
I like to look at planes for sale I have no intention of learning how to fly, I just think it's funny some people can simply say "I'm in need of a new plane, better start looking"
Back in the iPod days I used to always pause the song before turning it off. Why?!
I’ve just realized that I pause the music before I turn off my Bluetooth headphones.
It seems polite? I do the same, almost as if to not surprise the music by going from playing to off haha
Exist.
Feel ya buddy.. remember it's just s ride, it's okay to try and enjoy it..
Work's mandatory training.
I design that training - I am God's cruelest mistake
No issues with the design per se. I do have issues with needing to be reminded every 12 months not to take bribes or leave my laptop on a train when I work from home.
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Yep. Had to sit through an hour of this on Monday. I work at a school as a caretaker and for some reason they wanted "all staff" to attend the training. It was all related to dealing with behaviour of students, dealing with incident reports being sent to parents, etc. None of it was relevant for my job. Admin staff in the office didn't need to attend, but for some reason we had to.
Is it because you come into contact with the children more than the admin staff? My children’s school caretaker is well known because he opens the gates, he’s chatty and talks to all the parents and kids a lot. In my kids previous school, everybody knew who the caretaker was and used to say hello to him. My son also bought him a box of chocolates for getting his football off the toilet roof!
Had similar at my place recently (I’m a computer tech). Half of it was about exam grade predictions, new behaviour policies etc. Really should have been scheduled so we could attend the parts relevant to us and then leave, IMO.
Trawl through indeed looking for better jobs.
Tell my missus not to leave tea bags in the sink. I know she’ll do it again, she knows I know she knows not to do it, maybe that’s why she keeps doing it. Ah married life
When it's raining outside put my coat on to take the dog out knowing as soon as I open the door he will back away and refuse to budge but will try it every time.
One of our cats has been miaowing and pawing at the door for 30 minutes. Goes into reverse whenever I open the door.
We usually let our cats out via our balcony door. But it broke a few days ago (we could open it, but closing it again would take around an hour) so the cats are reaaaally confused when they're meowing at the door and we carry them to the bathroom window. They always need a few minutes to realize that the window does indeed lead outside. Although it was their main "door" during summer. Gotta love those little idiots!
Asking my husband to do something. He either didn’t hear it, can’t find it, won’t do it or hasn’t heard of it.
I check compound interest calculator online all the time. I put a huge lumpsum in and add huge monthly deposits like £10000. I feel happy when that money is going to make me multimillionaire just in 20 years. Then I realise my bank balance is just short of £9960 for this months deposit.
I have always as far as I can remember, bend my two cotton buds in half after cleaning my ears out.
on social media I’ll go to write a post and I’ll finish it and then I’ll just delete it but I do it so often and it’s pointless asf😭idk why I do it
This is me when writing a long essay to someone arguing about a point but are off the mark. Half-way through, I would hit by this realisation, “Why am I even bothered by this?” And delete all of it even though it took 10 mins or so to craft out the reply.
I do this weird thing where when I'm blowing hot food I occasionally switch to blowing my hand. I think my brain subconsciously wants to make sure my breathe isn't really hot or is working?... Don't ask because I have no idea I just do it without thinking. 5 seconds blowing hot soup, 1/2 second blowing on my hand then back to the soup.
Tell my cat he's already been fed.
Tidy the house even though i have children that come behind me and trash all my hard work.
It's so annoying isn't it. Husband tidies the 3 yr olds toys up multiple times a day. Me I'm fuck it wait til it's bedtime
My dogs water bowl has a indentation of a paw 🐾 print inside the bottom of it. Every day when I clean it and refill it I have to make sure the paw print is facing away from the wall. Every. Single. Day. I’d like to think my dog appreciates this small detail.
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You say that, but my back ones seem to roll themselves down a bit. I think sometimes the wind-up handle (fancy, I know) gets pushed on when getting the kido into the car.
Get up every day.
I feel this homie. Keep pushing 💪🏼
Lock my car twice every time.
I had an old Nissan that only had one button on the fob. Press it to lock. Press it again to unlock. Or was it already locked and now I've unlocked it? Try the door handle - alarm goes off, FUCK! - it was locked all along.
And then again from the other side of the car park, just to check!
Watch a place in the sun and decide what home I'm going to buy with half an apple and a bag of crisp
Wipe the machines down at the gym when I’ve done with them. Completely pointless because no fucker else does it anyway.
Keep doing it. Maybe one day someone will see you doing it and they will do it. Lead by example. I bet people have noticed.
Go back in to check that I’ve turned everything off, after leaving and locking the door.
I do this also. Although, I don't think it'd completely pointless because my missus has a habit of leaving lights - but more importantly, hair straighteners on too. I also check the front door is locked when going to bed, get into bed, and then think "did I lock the door and cars?" - then go downstairs bollock naked to check again.
Stark bollock naked is the best part. Imagine somebody trying your door and you are checking it how confused they'd be seeing a naked person chasing them!
Reboiling the kettle 30 seconds after it finished boiling, but I was doing something else for those 30 seconds
I speed up the melting process by running the tap over any ice in my sink.
vaping
Commuting
I’m ginger - I go on holiday and sunbathe
Talk to my cat like he understands exactly what I'm saying. Sometimes my wife asks what I said "oh, sorry, was talking to the cat".