The First World Whinging Thread

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  1. Some Guy

    Some Guy Manguage Langler Supporter Contributor

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    My browser window likes to shift over to the left and half-cover the desktop icons there, yet it never covers them completely. Consequently, I see them but can't read the names. :(
     
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    Trying to look for properties to rent, and even when I specify a garden or number of bedrooms, I still get hundreds of fucking office property results and parking spaces! Why is there not an option to discard that shit?! :supermad:
     
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    My car has not had a dead battery, the battery has not been disconnected, there has been no interruption of power. And yet my clock loses about five minutes every week. Today, compared to the clock on my phone and my watch, the clock in my car was twenty minutes slow. I have the only digital clock in the world that can't keep time.
     
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    that usually suggests a voltage drop - in a car circuit it would only have to be slight and could easily stem from a micro current leak somewhere in the wiring
     
  5. Some Guy

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    Either that, or you're gradually sliding into the future. Mind giving us the occasional weather report? And maybe the sports scores, so we can place bets? And lottery numbers, etc.?
     
  7. flawed personality

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    Getting frustrated because I have no idea how to tell when I have hot water available. I always use the boost option, which is more expensive, because I don't understand my system.
     
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    Discovering it's gonna be more expensive to live in England. Joy.
     
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    My supervisor said we couldn’t use phones at work anymore. Like zero tolerance now, because other slackers ruined it for all of us.

    Now me and a friend at work are making little slingshots, trebuchets from stuff found within the office.
     
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    https://gearmoose.com/best-weapons-for-cubicle-warfare/
     
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    Sign me up for machinegun and crossbow. Does the crossbow work with accupuncture needles?
    Oops, did I type that out loud? :D *whistles innocently*
     
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    I fucked up my lunch; spectacularly so.
    First, I overfilled the pan.
    Second, I then had to make space by removing some of the food.
    Third, I decided to add some sauce...but promptly put it into the remaining pasta that was still undrained in the pan.
    Fourth, I then tried to drain the sauced pasta (which actually meant losing most of the sauce into the bargain as well).

    How I didn't get hit by a vehicle whilst walking up the main A road this morning is beyond me. :p
     
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    Cave Troll It's Coffee O'clock everywhere. Contributor

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    It was one of those moments where I marvelled at my own ineptitude.
    ETA: It's always good if you can at least do that, if nothing else. :p
     
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  15. flawed personality

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    How the flying fuck are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?! They have elasticated corners for crying out loud! I always end up with more of a ball than a flat piece of linen.
     
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  16. Iain Aschendale

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  17. flawed personality

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    Looks like instructions on how to be a flying squirrel to me. :p
     
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    If it still doesn't fit in your cabinet after this you had at least fun when trying to fold it. :superlaugh:
     
  19. Ma'am

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    Roll it up like an enchilada? I don't know why they even make fitted sheets when it's just as easy to tuck in a flat sheet.
     
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    WTF is wrong with my brain? I read that as you wanted to know how to put a non-elasticated sheet on a bed, so I was going to link to a guide to doing hospital corners, then I noticed you were talking about a fitted sheet, then I realised you didn't even want to put it on the bed, you were trying to fold it! Time for bed, maybe?

    I find, don't hold it by the elasticated bits but instead consider the bits that go on the edge of the top of the mattress the "corners". That said, I can never fold one neatly either. There's just too much fabric.
     
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    Eeeek! No! No! No! Never try to fold a fitted sheet perfectly! If you succeed, you'll tear open an Einstein-Rosen bridge or something! :eek:
     
  22. The Dapper Hooligan

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    End all humanity, myself included? I fail to see a problem with that.
     
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  24. flawed personality

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    Sod that. Flat sheets always come untucked. Ain't nobody got time for that. :p
     
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  25. Link the Writer

    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    I kind of like living, and Earth. :superidea:
     
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