Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[Accy cyclist]

I've done it again! The other week I left my plastic watering can in my cardboard/paper recycling bin, keeping it there out of the sight of potential thieves, only to forget to take it out before the bin was emptied. It ended up in the bin wagon and that was that. Today I forgot to take a plastic bucket out the bin before the bin was emptied.

 

[colly]

Ah, yes. When you said the second part, I thought you mean the part not on the road, rather than the part where the road footage was from a moving vehicle.

Certainly illegal to be filming that, though at the speeds involved not particularly unsafe.

Not particularly unsafe given the circumstances although on a slippery, icy surface it's probably more unsafe than you imagine.

But is almost certainly a traffic offence.

 

[Tribansman]

Living in a hard water area. Makes surfaces look awful and shortens the life of appliances. Not to mention a scummy film on hot beverages, soap not lathering properly and having to spend a fortune on descaler. Really, really annoying!

 

[CanucksTraveller]

My fruit fly 'community' is becoming problematic! At first there was about 100 of them, maybe even less. Now I'd say there's about 500 of them. I don't store old banana skins now and uneaten bananas are kept in a sealed, clear plastic bag. The flies missing the bananas and their skins have now moved onto my empty beer bottles. I know it sounds daft, but when I open a beer bottle they suddenly appear and mass on the kitchen cupboard door above the beer bottle. After a few minutes they start landing on the bottle and my glass. I have to cover both with things available like envelopes etc. I've had enough of them now and want shut. I tried leaving a banana skin on my outside window ledge yesterday while I went out. I left my window open hoping they'd all go for it and leave my kitchen, but when I got back 4 hours later not one fly was on the banana skin! All of the @'~#rs were still 'hanging out' on my kitchen cupboards. I don't want to use fly spray on them as they aren't really that annoying, but what else can I do?🤔

Don't use fly spray, it doesn't work well on fruit flies. Get a couple of glasses, add a few cm of cider vinegar, wine vinegar, or even cheap red wine (it all works, but cider vinegar works best I find). Add a couple of drops of washing up liquid. Cover the tops of the glasses tightly with cling film. Prick several small holes in the cling film with a fork.

Fruit flies can't resist the smell of the vinegar and they'll climb in for a drink. They can get in through the holes but can't get out of them because of how they fly. When they go to land on the vinegar they drown because of the lowered surface tension. The glasses will be full of flies in about a day or two and your problem will be gone.

Make sure to always rinse out your used beer bottles to stop them coming back. Beer is a magnet for fruit flies as you're finding, but stale beer (even a couple of ml) even more so.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Don't use fly spray, it doesn't work well on fruit flies. Get a couple of glasses, add a few cm of cider vinegar, wine vinegar, or even cheap red wine (it all works, but cider vinegar works best I find). Add a couple of drops of washing up liquid. Cover the tops of the glasses tightly with cling film. Prick several small holes in the cling film with a fork.

Fruit flies can't resist the smell of the vinegar and they'll climb in for a drink. They can get in through the holes but can't get out of them because of how they fly. When they go to land on the vinegar they drown because of the lowered surface tension. The glasses will be full of flies in about a day or two and your problem will be gone.

Make sure to always rinse out your used beer bottles to stop them coming back. Beer is a magnet for fruit flies as you're finding, but stale beer (even a couple of ml) even more so.

I've tried the cider vinegar trick, but didn't use washing up liquid with it as it wasn't explained so well when i looked it up. Even without the washing up liquid and cling film I still caught well over a hundred (as I look now) in a bowl with cider vinegar in it. I hate vinegar and the smell of it. I've also been vacuuming them up when they settle in a group on kitchen cupboard doors and stuff. Before the vinegar and vacuuming I had a few hundred in my kitchen. Now as I look they're in the teens in numbers. I've also been putting beer bottles out after use, instead of leaving them there for a day or so.

There's also a very big, long legged spider in a corner of my kitchen ceiling. It's built a web, but I can't see any dead fruit flies in it.

I also thought about buying one of these.🤔

https://www.ecatering.co.uk/buy/fly...at=vat_yes&gclid=CjwKCAiAheacBhB8EiwAItVO26nS

 

[mistyoptic]

We've found these very good for fruit flies LINKY

 

[oldwheels]

Fascinating things fruit flies. I remember we used to breed them when studying I think genetics at uni many years ago.

 

[mistyoptic]

Fascinating things fruit flies. I remember we used to breed them when studying I think genetics at uni many years ago.

Think Accy's breeding them in his vacuum now

 

[Beebo]

I’ve been using my car window scraper a lot this past week.
The usual model has a hard plastic blade, a rubber blade and a section of foam.
Who ever uses the rubber or foam bit. Totally useless.
The hard plastic blade is the only bit I ever use.

 

[Alex321]

I’ve been using my car window scraper a lot this past week.
The usual model has a hard plastic blade, a rubber blade and a section of foam.
Who ever uses the rubber or foam bit. Totally useless.
The hard plastic blade is the only bit I ever use.

I use the rubber bit sometimes, if a side window is covered in condensation - though I will more often just wind the window down and back up, let the rubber seal do that job.

Don't think I have ever used the foam bit.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Just moved a couple of heavy double mattresses around the bedrooms. Why aren't there any handles on the sides? It would make it so much easier

 

[Accy cyclist]

I've lost another pair of reading glasses. I had them in my pocket (I think), then after putting some recycling stuff in the bins outside I came back in to find them missing. I must lose a pair on average every 3 weeks. I went back outside to see if they were on the floor or even in the bins, but no luck.

 

[Jameshow]

Big bar if fruit and nut chocolate in car ready for long journey... Wife uses car eats half the bar and moves it it passenger door cubby hole.

Gives me 1 piece at a time.

Buys liquorice all-sorts but says they are dry, so stat in my wine gums!

Arrh!!!

 

[lazybloke]

Living in a hard water area. Makes surfaces look awful and shortens the life of appliances. Not to mention a scummy film on hot beverages, soap not lathering properly and having to spend a fortune on descaler. Really, really annoying!

I spent a fortune on a water softener. It does do something - I use much less detergent and shampoo.
So why do all my appliances, taps and loos still scale up?

 

[Jameshow]

Wife eats coussants picking pieces off it with jam at the side of the plate....

No, no ,no!!!