What's annoying me today

Celebrating backing Bayern to win 3-2 at Dortmud with Kane to score...only to belatedly realise I had also added Diaz to score...who didn't.
Oh well. Consolation wine tastes remarkably similar to celebration wine.

I'm supposed to be flying through Bahrain in less than four weeks, and Trump has decided now is the time to try to crash global stocks. He is such a knob.

Lockdown at school. Stuck in my classroom with a bunch of students in silence in the dark. Helicopter circling overhead outside. Of course it had to happen right at dismissal.

Fucking stupid society.

Whilst RA's post puts other things into perspective (and I hope he is safe and sound) I'm annoyed by Ryan the DPD driver, who is apparently sorry he was unable to deliver my parcel. The reason he was unable to deliver my parcel is because he went to number 10, whereas we are number 11. And I know he went to number 10 on account of the e-mail I've just received from DPD featuring a lovely photo of number 10's front fucking door. With a large fucking number 10 on it.

Call 01623 554731. Should take you through to "Platinum" Services.

Thanks, but I'm not sure I'm in the mood for customer service fuckwittery. It's not an urgent parcel so I'll track Ryan on the ap tomorrow and lie in wait for him.
I haven't yet decided whether I'll test him on his 'numerical literacy' and I expect he'll be too young to know Sesame Street ('never delivered there before mate, is it in Shirebrook?')

Is Maths with Sooty still a thing? Taught me everything I know. Until I met Loafs mum.

She says you were a slow learner. Although she used a slightly less PC word for it.

Safe and reasonably sound, thank you.

It does “put it all into perspective” when sheltering in the dark, unsure as to what’s going on outside (turned out it was a prank, so well done that student on committing a felony) with the very distinct possibility it’s someone with a firearm* is, for me, on par for annoyance with Dave Rave’s missing parcel.

Honestly, I was the most annoyed that it made me late getting home. We’re reading the Handmaid’s Tale in class and one of the characters said it’s only out of the ordinary because you’re not used to it.

*I’m not sure about my school but I’d not be surprised if there are students here carrying a pistol. (One of my wife’s students murdered another student a few months ago, for instance. All over being bumped in the hall during passing time).

I get annoyed every time I have to hear the utter shit come out the mouth of Trump and his fellow cunts.

And even more fucking annoyed our ‘patriotic’ press love it when he’s rude about our PM and country.

His latest claim that he’ll stop trade with Spain is a great example of how he doesn’t have the slightest fucking clue what the EU actually is.

Trump and the attack on Iran are not popular in the UK, so the snippy insults are probably no bad thing for Starmer.

The attacks would have happened either way - if he'd jumped straight away, he'd have been badged as weak for not standing up to Trump.

I think it's the perceived crumbling - at first "no", then a day later "yes"

If he thought "no" - then stand by it

He may well have been right in his decisions, but it seems to have left him in the worst of both worlds - annoying the US and the pro war hawks AND annoying his party and the anti war doves.

Didn't Iran bomb uk bases in Cyprus in between the no and the yes?

Well, I see the argument

But, I would argue that if he believed in the no - that it was illegal - then one drone attack on a military base shouldn't have changed it.

The annoying thing is that the sane powers didn't all get together to agree on a response and then stick to it. I think there was a joint statement from Germany France and the UK - but then it was rowed back on.

Although to be fair all my info is from TRIP and I am just Parroting the views of RS - so I could easily be completely wrong. I also appreciate that it is easy for me to snipe - I would probably have answered back to Trump re the Churchill comment - which is one of the many reasons I should never be PM.

As soon as it started getting rainy over winter I discovered the gutters on my bay window leak. Getting some damp in the living room from it. I then discovered they are wooden. Weird. Bit of research and it seems you're meant to treat them every few years to keep them in good nick and functional. Having only moved in 8-9 months ago I didn't realise. Have had to put up with it for the last few months as it's not been warm and dry enough to do anything. Today I have been laying flat on the bay window roof scraping them out with a wire brush and I've now just put wood preserver on. Give it 24 hours then I'm going to coat it with bitumen type product and hope for the best. The quotes I have had to replace them with plastic ones have been in the £1500-2000 range! Mainly as they're quite ornate and would be tricky to detach / replace etc. I did buy some ladders to try and have a go but living on a steep hill makes using them a bit tricky on that side of the house.

Despite apparently only being on delivery 107 (with me being 116) Ryan has just delivered. Well done him for finding the correct door.

Darren delivered yesterday to the hiding place I suggested were we not in. Trouble is, we were in. So I spent ten minutes calling him a lying cunt (not in a nice way) before checking the photograph.