What grinds my gears...

[FoxesDeb]

1 hour ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Fireworks going off at all hours is annoying, whether it's during Diwali or Bonfire Night.

 

I do think the law regarding this is also unfair

 

The law says you must not set off fireworks between 23:00 and 07:00, except for Bonfire Night (when the cut-off is midnight) and New Year's Eve, Diwali and Chinese New Year, when the cut off is 01:00.

 

Bonfire Night has been a tradition in this country for hundreds of years, Diwali is, in comparison, quite new to this land yet there is this disparity with the rules.

The reason for this is obvious, no? 

[Jimothy]

15 hours ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Fireworks going off at all hours is annoying, whether it's during Diwali or Bonfire Night.

 

I do think the law regarding this is also unfair

 

The law says you must not set off fireworks between 23:00 and 07:00, except for Bonfire Night (when the cut-off is midnight) and New Year's Eve, Diwali and Chinese New Year, when the cut off is 01:00.

 

Bonfire Night has been a tradition in this country for hundreds of years, Diwali is, in comparison, quite new to this land yet there is this disparity with the rules.

I'm more bothered by the fact they will now be going off every night from Diwali through to weekend after bonfire night, at least. It’s relentless. The actual night of the celebration and the closest weekends should surely be enough.

[StanSP]

11 hours ago, Facecloth said:

I'm more bothered by the fact they will now be going off every night from Diwali through to weekend after bonfire night, at least. It’s relentless. The actual night of the celebration and the closest weekends should surely be enough.

If its after this weekend to Bonfire night I'd doubt they're linked to Diwali. 

 

That was Monday just gone, so that's last weekend and this weekend. 

 

Be weird if anyone is setting any off this week and next weekend. Unless people start doing it for Halloween

 

[Jimothy]

9 hours ago, StanSP said:

If its after this weekend to Bonfire night I'd doubt they're linked to Diwali. 

 

That was Monday just gone, so that's last weekend and this weekend. 

 

Be weird if anyone is setting any off this week and next weekend. Unless people start doing it for Halloween

 

They are linked to neither Diwali or Bonfire night, tbf I didn't say they were. They are just on sale, which people think is an excuse to buy them and set them off, sometime even inexplicably during the day 

 

When i said the actual night and the closest weekend, I meant what you are saying, those nights should be when the fireworks are going off for that celebration, the fact we get them going off for 2.5 solid weeks shows that some people are just taking the piss and using the time of year and the fact they are readily available as an excuse to set them off every night.

Edited 26 October 2025 by Facecloth

[RonnieTodger]

Cov fans celebrating how much they charge away fans. Freaks.

[leicsmac]

People diametrically opposed to everything Tolkien stood for and wrote about using his work to promote their own. 

 

At least Orcs and other creatures in Middle Earth had the excuse of being created evil by Morgoth/Melkor. These humans simply choose to be. 

 

 

[Grebfromgrebland]

17 hours ago, leicsmac said:

People diametrically opposed to everything Tolkien stood for and wrote about using his work to promote their own. 

 

At least Orcs and other creatures in Middle Earth had the excuse of being created evil by Morgoth/Melkor. These humans simply choose to be. 

 

 

This is a terrifying post. We really need to make separate ourselves from this kind of ideology before we're killing each other on the streets over here.

 

Anyone voting reform really needs to think about the big picture here and what it really means and if you're having trouble read a history book.

[Silebyfox_89]

The road layout in Aldi car parks.

[Grebfromgrebland]

36 minutes ago, Silebyfox_89 said:

The road layout in Aldi car parks.

May I add some service stations too. I sometimes have a mild panic trying to figure out how to exit these places.

[ajthefox]

5 hours ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

This is a terrifying post. We really need to make separate ourselves from this kind of ideology before we're killing each other on the streets over here.

 

Anyone voting reform really needs to think about the big picture here and what it really means and if you're having trouble read a history book.

If you showed that to someone say 10-11 years ago and then told them it was the White House I think they would laugh in your face.

 

It is absolutely crazy and yet more or less what we have come to expect. 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Everyone should be required to have an avatar Imo

[StanSP]

Amazon delivery drivers not taking proper photos of a delivery.

 

Wtf does this show

 

[Trav Le Bleu]

8 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Amazon delivery drivers not taking proper photos of a delivery.

 

Wtf does this show

 

TBF, I've done this, assuming it actually went through the letterbox. You pressed the wrong button - the PDA just didn't work - you just plain forgot it needed a photo (not always a requirement) - or, my favourite, the PDA tells you no photo required, you put it through the letterbox box, press enter... and it goes to the camera screen

[CornwallFox]

On 31/10/2025 at 13:03, Silebyfox_89 said:

The road layout in Aldi car parks.

Tbf this is the view from my local Aldi car park so I don't mind too much 😜

[steve555]

4 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

TBF, I've done this, assuming it actually went through the letterbox. You pressed the wrong button - the PDA just didn't work - you just plain forgot it needed a photo (not always a requirement) - or, my favourite, the PDA tells you no photo required, you put it through the letterbox box, press enter... and it goes to the camera screen

Or you put the item half way through & just as you go to take the photo someone pulls in through from the other side ( or the dog grabs it ). This is all whilst trying to hold a bundle of mail. I'd love to see an album of my photos, most are of my feet.

[Trav Le Bleu]

5 hours ago, CornwallFox said:

Tbf this is the view from my local Aldi car park so I don't mind too much 😜

Carbis Bay?

[Tommy G]

6 hours ago, CornwallFox said:

Tbf this is the view from my local Aldi car park so I don't mind too much 😜

You’ll be taxed to walk on that soon 

[CornwallFox]

1 hour ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Carbis Bay?

No, my closest Aldi is in Newquay. Great western beach there. 

[fox_favourite]

If another person or my children say 6-7 one more time.....

 

[Jon the Hat]

8 hours ago, fox_favourite said:

If another person or my children say 6-7 one more time.....

 

I find the best was to stop these nonsense things being cool is to adopt them enthusiastically myself.

[Voll Blau]

Waiting staff who don't write things down. Always a fair chance your order gets fouled up.

 

My missus used to be in that game and can't understand for the life if her why anyone would do it.

 

[bovril]

1 hour ago, Voll Blau said:

Waiting staff who don't write things down. Always a fair chance your order gets fouled up.

 

My missus used to be in that game and can't understand for the life if her why anyone would do it.

 

Depends on the type of person waiting on your table. If it's an elderly woman in an apron in a small restaurant in southern or eastern Europe that looks like someone's front room, you could probably reel off half the menu and she'd be able to perfectly recite your order back to you two weeks later. If it's a guy in his early twenties in an upmarket cafe in the west end of Glasgow who introduces himself by name as you take your seats, then yes you know you're in for a difficult time. 

[grobyfox1990]

2 hours ago, Voll Blau said:

Waiting staff who don't write things down. Always a fair chance your order gets fouled up.

 

My missus used to be in that game and can't understand for the life if her why anyone would do it.

 

Yes agreed. Part of the ‘charm’ that westerners inexplicably put value on and gladly pay a markup for. ‘Ooohhh it was so lovely and cosy and homely with a lovely fireplace and the staff were excellent they didn’t even write our orders down and treated us sooooo well’ 

[Footballwipe]

Couple of shopping grinds:

• People who espouse free market, private companies driving the economy and industry in this country simultaneously moaning that Christmas related things in shops (adverts, music in store, presents, cards, decorations etc etc) are being done "too early." Who are you to tell private businesses that it's too early? Do people really think places waited till 1 December before trying to lure people in to buy xmas gifts and decorations years ago? By all means vote with your feet and wallets and don't spend, and then complain when these places shut and there's a Turkish barbers in its place
• Saw someone moaning earlier about Fosse Park being "too busy" because there's a Christmas market on there now. Can people decide what they want? I thought it was bustling shops, not everything online in front of a screen. I can appreciate people want the town centre back (that rascal SPS and his single-handed changing of people's shopping habits, eh) but if people are yearning for the old days when shopping areas were rammed around Xmas, then surely this is their mardi gras?

[StanSP]

Bit early to moan about Xmas I think