acute Posted December 5, 2021 #4976 Share Posted December 5, 2021 Haricot Beans (as advertised by Dawn French) are the ones you'll find in a tin of Heinz Baked Beanz. This is not just 'Beans on toast', this is 'M&S Beans on toast'. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted December 14, 2021 #4977 Share Posted December 14, 2021 I hate Christmas, but the worst thing is... the commercials on TV. I have to mute every ad break. Whether it's an advert for chocolates or a dishwasher, why do they have to rhyme? It drives me completely amstrad. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Desertrat56 Posted December 14, 2021 #4978 Share Posted December 14, 2021 13 hours ago, acute said: I hate Christmas, but the worst thing is... the commercials on TV. I have to mute every ad break. Whether it's an advert for chocolates or a dishwasher, why do they have to rhyme? It drives me completely amstrad. You are lucky it is illegal for pharmaceutical companies to advertise on television. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted December 14, 2021 #4979 Share Posted December 14, 2021 2 hours ago, Desertrat56 said: You are lucky it is illegal for pharmaceutical companies to advertise on television. We get TV ads for over-the-counter medicines available from pharmacies. I don't really know what the law is over here, but there's no point in a pharmaceutical company giving us the 'hard sell', because most prescription drugs are purchased in bulk by the NHS. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Desertrat56 Posted December 14, 2021 #4980 Share Posted December 14, 2021 (edited) 2 minutes ago, acute said: We get TV ads for over-the-counter medicines available from pharmacies. I don't really know what the law is over here, but there's no point in a pharmaceutical company giving us the 'hard sell', because most prescription drugs are purchased in bulk by the NHS. Exactly, yet in the U.S. we are subjected to their ads over and over. You can't get them without a prescription but the last sentence in every ad no matter what it supposedly 'cures' is "Ask your doctor about...." what ever drug is being advertised. Edited December 14, 2021 by Desertrat56 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted December 14, 2021 #4981 Share Posted December 14, 2021 15 minutes ago, Desertrat56 said: the last sentence in every ad no matter what it supposedly 'cures' is "Ask your doctor about...." I'm glad we don't have to put up with that! It would drive me mental. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted February 28, 2022 #4982 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Something currently driving me completely amstrad is... A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) It's become a synonym for "technology". Sorry Whirlpool, your washing machines do not have artifirkinficial intelligence. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ant0n Posted March 17, 2022 #4983 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Anything in my way makes me grrrrr ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted March 22, 2022 #4984 Share Posted March 22, 2022 Grrr at the Amazon App logo. Has there been a worse redesign in the history of online commerce? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Desertrat56 Posted March 22, 2022 #4985 Share Posted March 22, 2022 (edited) My crazy, alcoholic cousin texting unprovoked threats and nonsense to her mother (who is now living with me). GRRR. Edited March 22, 2022 by Desertrat56 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiXilver Posted March 23, 2022 #4986 Share Posted March 23, 2022 2 hours ago, Desertrat56 said: My crazy, alcoholic cousin texting unprovoked threats and nonsense to her mother (who is now living with me). GRRR. Restraining Order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Desertrat56 Posted March 23, 2022 #4987 Share Posted March 23, 2022 (edited) 13 hours ago, quiXilver said: Restraining Order. Yeah, too much trouble. My Aunt is 88 and my cousin is a cop. She knows how to work the system. We are going to go to T-Mobile and see if they can print out a transcript of the texts in case my cousin follows through with any of her threats. Edited March 23, 2022 by Desertrat56 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ant0n Posted April 2, 2022 #4988 Share Posted April 2, 2022 Any thing or any being in my way makes me grrrr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted April 7, 2022 #4989 Share Posted April 7, 2022 "Hybrid" vehicles: • Convince yourself you're doing your bit for the environment. • Burn fossil fuel regardless. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Desertrat56 Posted April 7, 2022 #4990 Share Posted April 7, 2022 1 minute ago, acute said: "Hybrid" vehicles: • Convince yourself you're doing your bit for the environment. • Burn fossil fuel regardless. I had a smug co-worker who bought a prius when they first came out. She lived in the country, had to drive 20 miles to town. She worked 50+ miles from where she lived. Then in 2009 she bought a brand new Prius. I went to lunch with her and another co-worker who also lived about 50+ miles from work and drove a 10 year old Honda. I asked the Prius owner what kind of gas mileage she got on the highway. She said "38", smuggly, of course. I looked at the Honda owner and asked her about her gas mileage on the highway and she said "well, my car is old so I only get about 40 miles to the gallon nowadays". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zebra3 Posted April 7, 2022 #4991 Share Posted April 7, 2022 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted April 25, 2022 #4992 Share Posted April 25, 2022 Grrr at the misleading marketing trick of saying "Baked, not Fried". You may think it contains less fat, but no. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Desertrat56 Posted April 25, 2022 #4993 Share Posted April 25, 2022 20 minutes ago, acute said: Grrr at the misleading marketing trick of saying "Baked, not Fried". You may think it contains less fat, but no. It's processed food! What do you think they use to make it taste edible? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted April 25, 2022 #4994 Share Posted April 25, 2022 37 minutes ago, Desertrat56 said: It's processed food! What do you think they use to make it taste edible? Um........ Cooking oil, transfats, salt, sugar, MSG, artificial flavourings, and a long list of unpronounceable chemical compounds. (Did I get it right? ) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Desertrat56 Posted April 25, 2022 #4995 Share Posted April 25, 2022 10 minutes ago, acute said: Um........ Cooking oil, transfats, salt, sugar, MSG, artificial flavourings, and a long list of unpronounceable chemical compounds. (Did I get it right? ) And it they call it "Fat Free" on the label the sugar is increased along with other chemicals. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted April 25, 2022 #4996 Share Posted April 25, 2022 @Desertrat56 Yep! It's like the 'fat free yogurt' thing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ouija ouija Posted April 26, 2022 #4997 Share Posted April 26, 2022 Main current GRRR is being unable to find someone in this county who will fit a garage roller door for a reasonable price. Yes, Darren in St.Austell, I'm talking about you and your " any colour other than white will cost you £95 extra"! And as for you, Jason in Redruth, you're "not prepared to come this far out"? Are you kidding me?! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Desertrat56 Posted April 26, 2022 #4998 Share Posted April 26, 2022 (edited) My grumble is the same one, my reprobate cousin will not allow us to come get her mother's things. It has been 4 months and one of the boxes needed has my Aunt's medicine in it. Edited April 26, 2022 by Desertrat56 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ouija ouija Posted April 26, 2022 #4999 Share Posted April 26, 2022 16 minutes ago, Desertrat56 said: My grumle is the same one, my reprobate cousin will not allow us to come get her mother's things. It has been 4 months and one of the boxes needed has my Aunt's medicine in it. Would the Police help you with the collection? Seems kind of important and surely illegal to withold someone else's belongings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Desertrat56 Posted April 26, 2022 #5000 Share Posted April 26, 2022 (edited) 29 minutes ago, ouija ouija said: Would the Police help you with the collection? Seems kind of important and surely illegal to withold someone else's belongings. We have talked about that. At first we did not want to do that because my cousin is a "cop" (security police for the school district, now) She is crazy and has spent the year before I moved her out threatening my Aunt with telling a judge to declare her incompetent and other legal BS. We didn't want her to loose her job. I am thinking about contacting a family law person to see what we can do legally without getting my cousin in trouble. If she lost this job (bottom of the barrel) she would never be able to recover and would end up homeless, which is what she threatened her mother with on New Years day, which is why I came and got her. There are laws against kicking a relative that has been living with you out in the cold, but I was concerned for my Aunt's safety if she stayed. Edited April 26, 2022 by Desertrat56 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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