Well anything is worth a shot.
A quick Google search of other people having this problem with them brings up entire Reddit threads of people having to wait 6 months or just plain never getting it resolved and having to abandon their accounts.
The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan
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Personally I'd go nuclear on them. 
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Stupid internet buzzwords. "Crashout" seems to be the latest one I'm now seeing everywhere, can't somebody come up with something that doesn't sound as if it were made up in a playground during dinnertime and quickly spread around school - or preferably just have none at all. They are fucking dumb.
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Fuck me how to enrage yourself at the just another huge cock screwing us all, read that. I can't see any option for us as a species to survive unless capitalism stops being seen as our endgame, but I have no possible concept what could replace it.Sly Boots wrote: ↑Sun Oct 05, 2025 7:40 amSeems relevant:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... so-rubbish
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People who message me on Teams to say "I've just sent you an email".
I know you've just sent me an email, by the fact that I've just received the fucking thing.](./images/smilies/eusa_wall.gif "Wall")
I know you've just sent me an email, by the fact that I've just received the fucking thing.
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In my experience, there are many people that require that style of prompting, but then I do work with Lawyers...
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Down in the depths, I’m a deep sea diver.”
But real talk, I was lyin’ like a scuba supplier —
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Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan
It's been a real "who pissed on your chips?" kinda day.
This is something I've thought for a while, but our society is really passively hostile towards pedestrians. Drivers who think their indicators are only to indicate towards other cars, so that when needing to cross on the opposite side of a junction to an oncoming car, you stand there like a lemon for no reason because the car pulls into that junction without indicating. This happens bewilderingly frequently, to the point where I genuinely wonder whether indicators *are* supposed to only be for other motorists. Then there's trying to walk through a narrow suburban street where houses don't have adequate drive space so cars park partially on the pavement - I hold the zip on my jacket when passing them because I don't want to risk it scratching a car I have to make my way past, but come bin day every third bloody house puts a wheelie bin directly opposite a car's wing mirror, meaning there isn't enough space to pass without destroying said wing mirror. Then there's the fact that council cuts mean street sweeping and gritting just doesn't happen on anything but major roads, so every pavement becomes like ice on wet days, or actual ice on cold ones. Any paving slabs laid in the last couple of decades are smooth to the point of being genuinely hazardous to walk on in inclement weather if there's any sort of incline. I wear hiking shoes, things that are supposed to be designed with less favourable conditions in mind, and they're bloody useless on pavements.
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It's week 1 of the new academic year at the university where I work. Thousands of undergrads, many of whom have never lived on their own before and are a bit clueless about how the world works descend upon my town and the bus part of my journey becomes infinitely worse. I don't have anything against them; it's not their fault, and my job probably wouldn't exist without the income they bring, and I like my job, but they are partially the cause of the problem. There are three regular buses that leave from the university and head into the town centre. I can catch two of them, but one's less frequent and is only a single-decker. The third doesn't use the route I take home, but ends up in the same place, so it's just as viable for the vast majority of these kids that live in town. I have to practically force myself between scrums of teenagers, and the way the university's bus station works, I'm often traipsing up and down the single lane trying to get to the one I want, as they move forward to get to the end of the lane even if there's a queue next to the door because it's difficult to fit the number of buses into the station unless they move up. Then I have to fight to get off the things because everyone's packed in like sardines and the people stood in the way don't seem to understand that there are 90 people on that bus and not everyone is going to the town bus station. If I drove, it wouldn't be an issue - public transport is miserable compared to having your own private little bit of traffic. And the uni have doubled the price of the subsidised bus pass, bringing it up to the same bloody price as a car parking permit.
I really do detest how car-focussed our society is. It's one of the reasons I've never learned to drive, I don't like the idea of being reliant on the things, walking is obviously better for the planet and for my health, but it feels like I'm ice-skating up hill (literally some days given the above), and would be much better off just becoming part of everyone else's problem.
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And lastly, I get home tonight and the council have replaced my recycling boxes, which fit inside my kitchen, with recycling wheelie bins, which do not fit inside my kitchen. I'm a one-person household, I have absolutely no need for a wheelie bin to store the two wine bottles and 5 or 6 bits of plastic waste I produce a fortnight, but now whenever I need to dispose of something I can recycle I need to put shoes on and go outside to the alley to the side of my house, because that's the only place I can put two extra wheelie bins. If they'd just left the sodding boxes I could have at least made a single trip to the bins to get rid of a week's worth, but now I have to find another container large enough to do that, or make the trip for every item. I know I'm almost certainly an outlier in the low amount of recycling my house produces (and a family will need something larger), but there wasn't even an indication this was happening, else I'd just have not put the boxes outside this morning. I'm far more likely to just stick stuff in the bin now.
And breathe.
This is something I've thought for a while, but our society is really passively hostile towards pedestrians. Drivers who think their indicators are only to indicate towards other cars, so that when needing to cross on the opposite side of a junction to an oncoming car, you stand there like a lemon for no reason because the car pulls into that junction without indicating. This happens bewilderingly frequently, to the point where I genuinely wonder whether indicators *are* supposed to only be for other motorists. Then there's trying to walk through a narrow suburban street where houses don't have adequate drive space so cars park partially on the pavement - I hold the zip on my jacket when passing them because I don't want to risk it scratching a car I have to make my way past, but come bin day every third bloody house puts a wheelie bin directly opposite a car's wing mirror, meaning there isn't enough space to pass without destroying said wing mirror. Then there's the fact that council cuts mean street sweeping and gritting just doesn't happen on anything but major roads, so every pavement becomes like ice on wet days, or actual ice on cold ones. Any paving slabs laid in the last couple of decades are smooth to the point of being genuinely hazardous to walk on in inclement weather if there's any sort of incline. I wear hiking shoes, things that are supposed to be designed with less favourable conditions in mind, and they're bloody useless on pavements.
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It's week 1 of the new academic year at the university where I work. Thousands of undergrads, many of whom have never lived on their own before and are a bit clueless about how the world works descend upon my town and the bus part of my journey becomes infinitely worse. I don't have anything against them; it's not their fault, and my job probably wouldn't exist without the income they bring, and I like my job, but they are partially the cause of the problem. There are three regular buses that leave from the university and head into the town centre. I can catch two of them, but one's less frequent and is only a single-decker. The third doesn't use the route I take home, but ends up in the same place, so it's just as viable for the vast majority of these kids that live in town. I have to practically force myself between scrums of teenagers, and the way the university's bus station works, I'm often traipsing up and down the single lane trying to get to the one I want, as they move forward to get to the end of the lane even if there's a queue next to the door because it's difficult to fit the number of buses into the station unless they move up. Then I have to fight to get off the things because everyone's packed in like sardines and the people stood in the way don't seem to understand that there are 90 people on that bus and not everyone is going to the town bus station. If I drove, it wouldn't be an issue - public transport is miserable compared to having your own private little bit of traffic. And the uni have doubled the price of the subsidised bus pass, bringing it up to the same bloody price as a car parking permit.
I really do detest how car-focussed our society is. It's one of the reasons I've never learned to drive, I don't like the idea of being reliant on the things, walking is obviously better for the planet and for my health, but it feels like I'm ice-skating up hill (literally some days given the above), and would be much better off just becoming part of everyone else's problem.
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And lastly, I get home tonight and the council have replaced my recycling boxes, which fit inside my kitchen, with recycling wheelie bins, which do not fit inside my kitchen. I'm a one-person household, I have absolutely no need for a wheelie bin to store the two wine bottles and 5 or 6 bits of plastic waste I produce a fortnight, but now whenever I need to dispose of something I can recycle I need to put shoes on and go outside to the alley to the side of my house, because that's the only place I can put two extra wheelie bins. If they'd just left the sodding boxes I could have at least made a single trip to the bins to get rid of a week's worth, but now I have to find another container large enough to do that, or make the trip for every item. I know I'm almost certainly an outlier in the low amount of recycling my house produces (and a family will need something larger), but there wasn't even an indication this was happening, else I'd just have not put the boxes outside this morning. I'm far more likely to just stick stuff in the bin now.
And breathe.
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That sounds like a shite time being had. Learn to drive though, open the world up for yourself, you'll be glad you did. Maybe.
Bins then. I now have a food waste bin, as of last week. Rather than scrape everything into the black bin, I now have to scrape food waste into another little bin, meaning we have to find somewhere to store a food waste bin inside. Then, when it fills, decant the bag of food waste to the outdoor food bin, and put that out on one of the collection days.
Why? What's the benefit?
Recycling I get, but food waste? Sure, avoid the creation of methane and use the food waste for farming etc, it all sounds great in principle, but who really benefits is going to be pest controllers. Driving to the motorway down a road that has had these bins for a while, and the road is absolutely strewn with rotting food and ripped up bags. My guess is the rats, foxes and badgers are loving the stress-free feeds.
Gonna buy shares in Rentokil.
And kill whoever it is whose car alarm has been going off all the time I have spent writing this. But that's another Room 101 post.
Bins then. I now have a food waste bin, as of last week. Rather than scrape everything into the black bin, I now have to scrape food waste into another little bin, meaning we have to find somewhere to store a food waste bin inside. Then, when it fills, decant the bag of food waste to the outdoor food bin, and put that out on one of the collection days.
Why? What's the benefit?
Recycling I get, but food waste? Sure, avoid the creation of methane and use the food waste for farming etc, it all sounds great in principle, but who really benefits is going to be pest controllers. Driving to the motorway down a road that has had these bins for a while, and the road is absolutely strewn with rotting food and ripped up bags. My guess is the rats, foxes and badgers are loving the stress-free feeds.
Gonna buy shares in Rentokil.
And kill whoever it is whose car alarm has been going off all the time I have spent writing this. But that's another Room 101 post.
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I guess I can make it a triplet of grumblings today. After an extremely stressful day at work yesterday (off the back of several weeks of heightened work stress for various reasons), I woke up at 3am with a dull aching chest - couldn't find a single comfortable position to lay down in that didn't make it worse. After an hour of it, Gaviscon having done nothing to help, I got up and called 111 for advice in case it was more than just terrible indigestion. Went through a whole bunch of questions, was told it was unlikely I was about to die but that I should see a GP ASAP. Took another hour before the symptoms subsided enough for me to lay in bed not sleeping until my alarm went off.
Saw a doctor this afternoon and he explained why it was most likely severe indigestion brought on by a combination of stress, anxiety and back pain. He thought it probably wasn't heart related (even after I pointed out I'd experienced slight, occasional tightness in my chest over the last few weeks), but he's sending me for an ECG next week to be safe and wants me to take it easy until then.
Not sure how I manage that at work right now to be honest, short of simply ignoring the onslaught of colleagues needing things from me while I plug away at deadlines. And I still can't entirely lay down comfortably, so I've no idea if I'll get any sleep tonight. At least I'm not dead, I guess! But yeah, the last 36 hours can fuck aaaall the way off.
Saw a doctor this afternoon and he explained why it was most likely severe indigestion brought on by a combination of stress, anxiety and back pain. He thought it probably wasn't heart related (even after I pointed out I'd experienced slight, occasional tightness in my chest over the last few weeks), but he's sending me for an ECG next week to be safe and wants me to take it easy until then.
Not sure how I manage that at work right now to be honest, short of simply ignoring the onslaught of colleagues needing things from me while I plug away at deadlines. And I still can't entirely lay down comfortably, so I've no idea if I'll get any sleep tonight. At least I'm not dead, I guess! But yeah, the last 36 hours can fuck aaaall the way off.
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Not really connected to that, but similar enough to worth mentioning.
I had to ring 111 about 15 years back because I'd drank too many cups of strong coffee and given myself a combination of what was likely strong indigestion and heightened anxiety through over-caffeination. It was the first time I'd ever experienced this and didn't link the two things together. 111 told me that I'd just had a heart attack (bear in mind I was in my mid-20s at this point, so this would have been quite uncommon for my age), and I should immediately go to A&E. Waited for 5 hours (remember the days when a trip to A&E merely took an afternoon?), they eventually did an ECG, told me I was fine, but I now have a strong anxiety response to indigestion, and for years had to mute the sounds of beating hearts in any sort of media because it provoked a similar response. It took a co-op game that featured them frequently for me to get over that, but the indigestion thing still happens occasionally. I'm entirely unable to burp voluntarily (and it hardly ever happens naturally), which means any sort of gas buildup gives me pressure inside my chest that I can't get rid of, which my brain links to heart problems (which I've been told by multiple professionals that I don't have). The human body is weird.
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I've found out the reason for the recycling boxes being stolen and replaced with gigantic bins is that my town are moving to a 3-week cycle for recycling collection. This isn't really a problem for me as I don't produce enough in most weeks, but when I do receive a stupidly large packing box from Amazon (like last week when I bought a bit of lighting kit for my photography mini-studio, which is around an inch or two thick but came in a box, no word of a lie, 2 feet deep, and it was filled with packing paper), it is going to be useful to have the extra space. The rationale does make sense, but it doesn't solve the actual inconvenience issue I have, and, I should not have to find out stuff like this from bloody Facebook. I have a digital account with the council (partially because that's how you obtain garden waste collection permits), which has my email address registered - I can understand not wanting to send 40,000 letters out, but they couldn't have sent an email?
I had to ring 111 about 15 years back because I'd drank too many cups of strong coffee and given myself a combination of what was likely strong indigestion and heightened anxiety through over-caffeination. It was the first time I'd ever experienced this and didn't link the two things together. 111 told me that I'd just had a heart attack (bear in mind I was in my mid-20s at this point, so this would have been quite uncommon for my age), and I should immediately go to A&E. Waited for 5 hours (remember the days when a trip to A&E merely took an afternoon?), they eventually did an ECG, told me I was fine, but I now have a strong anxiety response to indigestion, and for years had to mute the sounds of beating hearts in any sort of media because it provoked a similar response. It took a co-op game that featured them frequently for me to get over that, but the indigestion thing still happens occasionally. I'm entirely unable to burp voluntarily (and it hardly ever happens naturally), which means any sort of gas buildup gives me pressure inside my chest that I can't get rid of, which my brain links to heart problems (which I've been told by multiple professionals that I don't have). The human body is weird.
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I've found out the reason for the recycling boxes being stolen and replaced with gigantic bins is that my town are moving to a 3-week cycle for recycling collection. This isn't really a problem for me as I don't produce enough in most weeks, but when I do receive a stupidly large packing box from Amazon (like last week when I bought a bit of lighting kit for my photography mini-studio, which is around an inch or two thick but came in a box, no word of a lie, 2 feet deep, and it was filled with packing paper), it is going to be useful to have the extra space. The rationale does make sense, but it doesn't solve the actual inconvenience issue I have, and, I should not have to find out stuff like this from bloody Facebook. I have a digital account with the council (partially because that's how you obtain garden waste collection permits), which has my email address registered - I can understand not wanting to send 40,000 letters out, but they couldn't have sent an email?
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I got a leaflet about it, but no bins yet. I'm not all that fussed about the changes, though since my bin day is Friday and I go away for the weekend on Fridays quite often, it does now mean that if I miss a week then that bin isn't getting empited for six weeks. Not an issue for general waste as I put maybe a bag a week in there, but six weeks of recycling? Could be an issue. I wonder if they'll allow you to put the old bins out as well if there's overflow.
Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan
You won't *have* old bins, they'll just take them away without asking like they did with mine.
Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan
We have a couple of bags-for-life hanging up behind the kitchen door, and put the recycling in there... then, when those are full - which for a fairly busy household of four is still only a couple of times a week - I take them out the back and empty them into the big wheelie bin.Raid wrote: ↑Tue Oct 07, 2025 4:28 pmAnd lastly, I get home tonight and the council have replaced my recycling boxes, which fit inside my kitchen, with recycling wheelie bins, which do not fit inside my kitchen. I'm a one-person household, I have absolutely no need for a wheelie bin to store the two wine bottles and 5 or 6 bits of plastic waste I produce a fortnight, but now whenever I need to dispose of something I can recycle I need to put shoes on and go outside to the alley to the side of my house, because that's the only place I can put two extra wheelie bins. If they'd just left the sodding boxes I could have at least made a single trip to the bins to get rid of a week's worth, but now I have to find another container large enough to do that, or make the trip for every item. I know I'm almost certainly an outlier in the low amount of recycling my house produces (and a family will need something larger), but there wasn't even an indication this was happening, else I'd just have not put the boxes outside this morning. I'm far more likely to just stick stuff in the bin now.
And breathe.
Could work for you, something like that?
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