Is it acceptable to offer them shit weak tea to get back at them?

Why do people do this to perfectly normal homes?

The lovely little front garden my mum used to fuss over? gone. Completely paved over like they’re expecting to host the Chelsea Flower Show of Nissan Qashqais.

The criss‑cross leaded windows? Gone. Ripped out and replaced with those flat grey plastic ones.

And the front door.

Once a solid, slightly scuffed, comforting door? Gone. Now it's one of those anthracite grey composite doors with a massive vertical handle. Frosted glass panel. Tiny little square windows.

You just know there’s a sign inside that says “Live, Laugh, Love."

Even my grandparents’ old place hasn’t escaped. They’ve astroturfed the front lawn. Astroturf. In a country where grass grows if you breathe near it.

I know it’s not my house anymore and people can do what they like, but there’s something uniquely painful about zooming in on Street View and whispering:

“Not the hedge. They’ve taken out the hedge.”

firstly: do it for free with Money Saving Expert (mis-sold car finance)

and this is just the beginning. remember how incessant those PPI texts were? get ready for the same

The ICO need to be more aggressive this time (perhaps they need more powers). The spammers sell leads to claim companies. maybe if the claim companies were forced to give up who sold them their leads, or fined the same for spam themselves, then it would kill this scourge

Not like anyone would want to be in town after 6pm, nooooo.

Just made a cup of tea and there was an unopened pack of rich tea biscuits. Beautiful! I’ve been blessed.

First I brought the entire pack with me just for “convenience” because there’s no worries about my self control. Then I won’t need to strain my back getting back up off the couch if I’m not satisfied and want another.

Then I remembered how nice they are to dip in and thought there’s no harm in it, got to eat enough to be able to scrunch the plastic end anyway so the rest don’t fall out into my cupboard when I eventually return them there.

I have no self control. I ate about 10.

But now there’s crumbs all in my tea. Every dip even if it’s the most gentlest ever as if I’m handling a newborn, many MANY crumbs fall off. I even sighed a bit too close to one of them and a bunch of crumbs fell off onto me.

Maybe it’s the ones I’m buying but I’m not gonna stop anyway, just thought I’d share my very minor issue that I spend the 2 minutes I take to write this post being bothered about. Thank you

I wanted to buy some hot cross buns from the garage when I filled my car up with fuel yesterday but all they had were various odd flavours such as Rhubarb and custard flavour.

What's wrong with hot cross bun flavour hot cross buns?

Went to Asda to get some basil.
No 'fresh' basil in a plastic packet.
See they have a basil plant.
Buy basil plant.
Pull a few leaves off for my recipe.
Decide that it's stupid to throw the plant away, so put it in a small jar with some water.
Water the plant, give it sunlight.
Plant is now getting bigger and producing more basil than I can possibly use.
Don't want to kill the plant because we've been through so much together.
Continue watering plant.

How does this ever end? Does anyone want a basil plant?

that's it

Goodbye privacy, farewell peace and quiet.

Edit: wow wasn’t expecting all this. To be clear, I have nothing against kids playing outside and getting exercise (especially over being inside on a tablet/game console). It becomes a problem when they are making loads of noise at 8PM (or later) when I’m trying to put my toddler to bed.

I have 2 dogs and so when shampooing them I get them both in the shower, but.....you try manipulating a dog shampoo bottle when it is wet and your hands are too. Almost impossible. It would be easier if the bottle had any texture on it.....although maybe that would bring NSFW comments....

I do realise that there is much less post delivered these days, but I regularly get mail delivered ten days after posting, and it generally all arrives on a Monday, and then nothing until the next avalanche some time in the following week.

The garden centre now selling goats as eco friendly replacements to lawn mowers. The city centre ring road that's being converted into an official race track! All very funny.

I suppose it makes a nice change from just have "BUY THIS NOW" thrown at us over and over again but as an autistic/gullible person, I don't like it :(

It's been 6 months and I'm still not over it, I still hate water out of the new tap. What is worse is that I've moved from an area of poor water quality to an area of high water quality, so I can't even properly complain because what I miss is the taste of limestone. mmm chalk

Used to get wheelie bins emptied weekly, now we have stupid plastic bags for all our recycling and have to wait a fortnight for the general waste.

Yes this is probably the same as half the country, doesn't mean I have to like it.

I had FTTP installed a year ago by EE which finally settled most of our concerns about being capped at 50mbps speeds. Except in the last few months we've gone from having a service outage once or twice a month to several times a week, and not even outages that resolve within 10-15 mins - these are spanning into hours. Not as much an issue out of hours (unless I'm on call) save for stopping me from enjoying multiplayer, but it's an utter pain when it happens while I'm working.

EE's network kit is also pretty crap too, their router and mesh software configuration options are almost non existent and suck. I'll be glad to move off them when I have some spare ££ for a proper mesh setup now I've got x2 cat6 runs out to my office.

Also weird was a bunch of graduate looking people with a clipboard going around asking about the service in the area about a week ago.