Todays - What grinds my gears *ARCHIVE*

[A100man]

[hellkat]

At least you have a garden to look out on, though.
Every cloud has a silver lining, etc.
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[chickenstrip]

I'm annoyed at whatever nutter decided that the roof should be on the top of a house. Ridiculous!
And vacuuming the carpets! What's that all about?!
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[hellkat]

Handy little volume by Bill Bryson covers all that:
"At Home"

Fascinating book, full of all sorts of odd information whilst explaining how we all came to have the homes we do today.


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[Polarbear]

[hellkat]

I've been seriously considering getting another doggo.
Looked on most of the major rescue sites on the weekend just gone.
It would need to get on with cats, though.
Cos my lot won't stand for any doggie nonsense.

Really should look into the potential need for doggie travel/quarantine in NZ/Aus though, in case I have to duck off there for a bit at any point.

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[hellkat]

Anyhow, my gears today have been gently ground by encountering a very woke discussion in the midst of a gothic interior decor FB group.

About cultural appropriation and the use of racist acronyms to avoid being "zucced" (even just knowing this word makes my gears grind just that little bit harder).

God, I nearly tossed my lunch.

Woke anxiety!
Handwringing!

Fucking hell, you'd lose the will to live, reading that lot on a regular basis.
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[MarJay]

[hellkat]

Well at least I learnt something.
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[hellkat]

[stinkwheel]

[hellkat]

Yes, thank you for bringing me back down to earth.
I want everything my own way all the time.


The likelihood of having to spend an unspecified amount of time down under looms larger with every passing week
But I really miss having a doggo.
Covid has put paid to most of my dogsitting activities.
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[chickenstrip]

[chickenstrip]

[recman]

Scalpers. A name I'd not come across until I'd try to get hold of a ps5.
Profiteering cvnts.

[A100man]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Talking of getting a dog, I keep seeing videos on Facebook where they (usually Americans) rescue a fearful dog from the street and gradually gain its trust, build its confidence, make it part of the family. Then they move it on! Turns out they were just fostering. Admittedly the dogs always look happy in their new “forever” home but they must fret about being moved on yet again. Doesn’t seem right. Maybe fostering is better than an extended stay in kennels though.

[thx1138]

BBC iPlayer

"You have been signed out for technical reasons, please, blahdedy blah"

ball ache when just wanna catch up on a show I missed, almost never watch telly as it is broadcast

[Polarbear]

[hellkat]

The woman whose office I am currently sharing is starting to do my nut in.
Very nice, quiet and gets on with her work, etc., but neurotic as fuck
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[Riejufixing]

I could not get the small workshop's door open at all earlier on. The continual wet we've been having had swollen it until it was stuck tight.

[hellkat]

Je suis muy troppo agitato.

My mother and my sister can do one, and spin on this.

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[hellkat]

[martin734]

Some silly bint got all hysterical yesterday and threatened to report me to the police after one of my dogs caught and killed a Grey squirrel when out for a walk on our local heath yesterday. I don't know what upset her more, the fact that he caught and killed it or that he just dropped it on the path almost in front of us and tore it apart and ate it there and then. I felt quite pleased for him, that is the first time he has ever managed to catch a tree rat. The woman was very unimpressed by his hunting skills though.
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[martin734]