The Whinge Thread, Resurrected

[Mythopoeika]

I reckon if I typed 'Big Hairy Cocks Ltd, Cromer', the website would send me an email excitedly telling me they have found me five jobs there.

Pornhub - try them for a job.

 

[Swifty]

Pornhub - try them for a job.

I've just typed in big hairy cocks, cromer and it's offered me a granny dating site? ..

 

[maximus otter]

I've just typed in big hairy cocks, cromer and it's offered me a granny dating site ..

ls that why you’re typing with one hand now?

maximus otter

 

[Swifty]

ls that why you’re typing with one hand now?

maximus otter

Sssh .. you're putting me off .... nearly there ..

 

[Bigphoot2]

Sssh .. you're putting me off .... nearly there ..

A familiar cry from behind the bus shelter in Cromer

 

[Mythopoeika]

I've just typed in big hairy cocks, cromer and it's offered me a granny dating site? ..

Plenty of work there, yes.

 

[Peripart]

I reckon if I typed 'Big Hairy Cocks Ltd, Cromer', the website would send me an email excitedly telling me they have found me five jobs there.

Don't be daft.

They're in Sheringham.

 

[Swifty]

Don't be daft.

They're in Sheringham.

I applied for a job with the title 'chicken catcher' last night just for a laugh. This year's been so weird, it almost makes sense.

 

[Mythopoeika]

I applied for a job with the title 'chicken catcher' last night just for a laugh. This year's been so weird, it almost makes sense.

Bet you're glad it's not 'chicken choker'.

 

[escargot]

I applied for a job with the title 'chicken catcher' last night just for a laugh. This year's been so weird, it almost makes sense.

I've heard the pay is paltry.

 

[Mythopoeika]

I've heard the pay is paltry.

The working conditions are fowl.

 

[Bigphoot2]

I've heard the pay is paltry.

It's hard work, he'll need a lot of hendurance.

 

[BlackPeter]

This thread is becoming reprehensible

 

[Mythopoeika]

If Swifty gets the job, he'll be cock-a-hoop.

 

[EnolaGaia]

This thread is becoming reprehensible

Agreed ...

If anyone posts another tangential chicken gag I may well pullet ...

 

[escargot]

Poor Swifty, having to scratch a living.

 

[Frideswide]

Eggsactly!

He'll be on a wing and a prayer...

 

[BlackPeter]

You've all been cooped up too long

 

[Swifty]

Hope I don't grab a cock by mistake.

 

[Shady]

You wont cock it up

 

[Iris]

Went out to check the new seedlings that had come up in one of the pots. Confounded snails have eaten them all except 2 small ones which I've covered with plastic cut down bottles now.
Why don't they eat the many weeds that keep coming up?

 

[Shady]

Escargot may be able to answer that

 

[Lord Lucan]

For all of you whingers who need to vent, click below on this wonderful site where your most primal rage filled screams can be released into the wild landscapes of Iceland:

https://lookslikeyouneediceland.com/

 

[Shady]

Will our local Iceland do?

 

[Mythopoeika]

Will our local Iceland do?

Sure. Let us know how you get on.

 

[Cochise]

Do we have something on the perverse behaviour of ropes, string, and cables of all sorts? I'm trying to keep my Saab Aero standard in appearance - that is, I don't want, among other things, to tear out the stereo for a modern one, especially because it interacts with other displays in the car. So I have a couple of trailing leads from USB chargers to power my phone, Bluetooth and hands free.

I carefully coil these cables out of the way when not needed and place them in a convenient pouch that Saab provided in the passenger footwell. So why the French Connection is it that whenever I retrieve said cables they are not only entwined with themselves, they are also cross-tangled one to another?

This is hardly a new problem - Jerome K. Jerome devoted several paragraphs to it in 'Three men in a boat'.

 

[Shady]

That would be the fault of the Tangle Fairies, not a lot you can do unless you put a rubber band round them, the cables not the fairies, ummm, no, def the cables

 

[EnolaGaia]

Do we have something on the perverse behaviour of ropes, string, and cables of all sorts? ...

Just for the record - no, we don't ... Most of the forum discussions addressing tangles concern (e.g.) rat- and squirrel-kings.

So why the French Connection is it that whenever I retrieve said cables they are not only entwined with themselves, they are also cross-tangled one to another?
This is hardly a new problem - Jerome K. Jerome devoted several paragraphs to it in 'Three men in a boat'.

I'm familiar with the effect. I've always attributed it to wires in the cables flexing in unpredictable ways - especially when spiraling coaxial wires are involved.

I don't know of any advice better than Shady's - if you want 'em to stay just so, you have to clip or bind them in the intended arrangement.

 

[Kondoru]

Cables and ropes and snakes are good at that.

coil them up correctly and put them away...and they come out in a mares nest.

 

[escargot]

Do we have something on the perverse behaviour of ropes, string, and cables of all sorts? I'm trying to keep my Saab Aero standard in appearance - that is, I don't want, among other things, to tear out the stereo for a modern one, especially because it interacts with other displays in the car. So I have a couple of trailing leads from USB chargers to power my phone, Bluetooth and hands free.

I carefully coil these cables out of the way when not needed and place them in a convenient pouch that Saab provided in the passenger footwell. So why the French Connection is it that whenever I retrieve said cables they are not only entwined with themselves, they are also cross-tangled one to another?

This is hardly a new problem - Jerome K. Jerome devoted several paragraphs to it in 'Three men in a boat'.

Jerome K Jerome was so right!

The trick is to know this will happen and to prepare for it.
Winding a cable into a loop and securing it with an elastic band works. The secret of that method is that you are introducing a chaperone rather than relying on the cable to behave itself.

As a kid I was once sent to deliver a box of assorted sewing threads. I saw the threads placed into the box and was warned that they would tangle up. Yeah, right.
I carried them carefully straight to where they were going, careful not to shake the box, and an hour later saw them taken out all hopelessly ravelled up like a badly knitted sweater.

A couple of years later when I read Three Men I instantly recognised the tangling incident. Was there NOTHING that man didn't know about?