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At this time of year when a lot of the shops and supermarkets and internet sites are all geared towards Christmas. It really bothers me when Father Christmas is referred to as Santa Claus.
Father Christmas just sounds much more jolly and welcoming. And I’ve never really liked the name Santa Claus and it bothers me.
Are there anymore small things or issues that bothers anyone? And by small, I mean quite insignificant that doesn’t bother anyone?
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A really small issue that I do not like. on 20:13 - Oct 10 with 518 views
A really small issue that I do not like. on 20:01 - Oct 10 by Bigalhunter
I’ve clearly been labouring under the misapprehension that shoe horns are designed solely to protect the back of one’s shoe from being repeatedly crushed by one’s heel during forcible ingress of foot into said footwear.
Surely, if it’s a mobility/flexibility issue, you’re virtually there when you use it anyway? **
**cue some smart-arse posting a photo of a one-metre extendable one or some such nonsense.
I knew you'd be disappointed if somebody didn't and I drew the short straw (but the long shoe horn)
A really small issue that I do not like. on 20:01 - Oct 10 by Bigalhunter
I’ve clearly been labouring under the misapprehension that shoe horns are designed solely to protect the back of one’s shoe from being repeatedly crushed by one’s heel during forcible ingress of foot into said footwear.
Surely, if it’s a mobility/flexibility issue, you’re virtually there when you use it anyway? **
**cue some smart-arse posting a photo of a one-metre extendable one or some such nonsense.
"Surely, if it’s a mobility/flexibility issue, you’re virtually there when you use it anyway? **"
A really small issue that I do not like. on 20:18 - Oct 10 by You_Bloo_Right
Introducing, the Sock Donner ....
Have one & it's well nigh useless - the tapes that you pull need to be solid.
A sort of (works sometimes, others not) solution that I've created is to roll the outer edge of the socks round the edge of a lightweight clog, push the inside of the sock in with your fist, then put the clog on floor & insert foot.
A really small issue that I do not like. on 20:54 - Oct 10 by Ryorry
Have one & it's well nigh useless - the tapes that you pull need to be solid.
A sort of (works sometimes, others not) solution that I've created is to roll the outer edge of the socks round the edge of a lightweight clog, push the inside of the sock in with your fist, then put the clog on floor & insert foot.
[Post edited 10 Oct 20:58]
“Well thigh useless”. I think they’re for socks, not suspenders!
On a related note, this from a few years ago. A farmer who had an account at the agricultural dealership that I worked at (yes, I'm a tractor boy in more ways than one) had retired so we rarely saw him - his son ran the farm but he would still make an occasional appearance as he liked to tinker with stuff on the farm and had a big collection of vintage machinery. We hadn't seen him for months but he came into the parts department on a hot, midsummer day for some odds and sods so when he left he jokingly said "Have a happy Christmas if I don't see you before". As he was walking across the carpark back to his car he collapsed and according to somebody who witnessed it, he was dead before he hit the ground. He was a really nice chap and now, whenever I hear that annoying phrase, I think of him and that fateful day. [sadbye]
.............and this to cheer things up.........
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A really small issue that I do not like. on 21:35 - Oct 11 with 263 views
A really small issue that I do not like. on 16:27 - Oct 9 by bluelagos
Pigeons.
I dislike them far more than I should - basically cos they eat grass seed whenever I try and sort out my lawn.
No one else seems to share my dislike for them - I am literally battling the bastards all alone, but it's a battle I won't back down from.
I got a visit from the old bill a couple of years ago for shooting pigeons with a sling shot.
Only I wasn't actually shooting the little b'stards I was firing chick peas at the solar panels to scare them off.
One of my neighbours had been shooting them with his air rifle and one fluttered down to die in an old dears garden, she had seen me firing my chick peas, put 2 and 2 together and made 5.
Plod was quite reasonable but very insistent that I could not shoot the pigeons even as a I kept telling him I hadn't been.
The upshot of the this is that you aren't alone brother, I share your disdain for the feckers.
A really small issue that I do not like. on 21:35 - Oct 11 by GeoffSentence
I got a visit from the old bill a couple of years ago for shooting pigeons with a sling shot.
Only I wasn't actually shooting the little b'stards I was firing chick peas at the solar panels to scare them off.
One of my neighbours had been shooting them with his air rifle and one fluttered down to die in an old dears garden, she had seen me firing my chick peas, put 2 and 2 together and made 5.
Plod was quite reasonable but very insistent that I could not shoot the pigeons even as a I kept telling him I hadn't been.
The upshot of the this is that you aren't alone brother, I share your disdain for the feckers.
You're all atavistic philistines, leave the pigeons alone:
A really small issue that I do not like. on 21:35 - Oct 11 by GeoffSentence
I got a visit from the old bill a couple of years ago for shooting pigeons with a sling shot.
Only I wasn't actually shooting the little b'stards I was firing chick peas at the solar panels to scare them off.
One of my neighbours had been shooting them with his air rifle and one fluttered down to die in an old dears garden, she had seen me firing my chick peas, put 2 and 2 together and made 5.
Plod was quite reasonable but very insistent that I could not shoot the pigeons even as a I kept telling him I hadn't been.
The upshot of the this is that you aren't alone brother, I share your disdain for the feckers.
Your last 'sentence', do you mean the pigeons or the old bill?
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A really small issue that I do not like. on 14:06 - Oct 12 with 90 views
Err, scuse me, he made a distinction between proper pigeons and *feral* pigeons - hordes of the latter being out of control in their populations & a disease hazard are what I think most of us are talking about!
A really small issue that I do not like. on 14:06 - Oct 12 by Ryorry
Err, scuse me, he made a distinction between proper pigeons and *feral* pigeons - hordes of the latter being out of control in their populations & a disease hazard are what I think most of us are talking about!
Proper pigeons ? Ah, the ones that aren't feral, which I guess is homing pigeons ? As with the cormorants and the rats, there would not be so many pigeons in cities if people didn't leave unwanted food all over the place (except the pigeons...and the gulls make the food wanted, they're kind like that.) Anyway, there are maybe a dozen rock doves in the Glen where I live, and a few buzzards. Keep the birds of prey undisturbed but hungry and you are not likely to have a pigeon problem.
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