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Harmless little acts of rebellion

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KungFuPandaWorks · 17/09/2019 17:55

This is completely LIGHTHEARTED.

My husband absolutely cannot stand Cardi B at all. If she comes on the radio he will switch off, if her songs on the TV he will exit the room or change the channel. Now I don't think she's amazing but, I must admit she has some catchy songs.

My little act of rebellion is when I'm in the car alone, if Cardi B comes on the radio I will turn it up extremely loud and sing my heart out, even giving the woman herself a run for her money. Grin

What are you little acts of rebellion?

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ARoomWithoutADoor · 23/09/2019 09:07

If i bring home a bunch of bananas and one develops a 'message' i will know who to blame...

familycourtq · 23/09/2019 09:20

In long queues of traffic merging into one lane I'm that person who will use the overtaking lane right to the front and nip in.

That's not a harmless act of rebellion, it's nasty.

sashh · 23/09/2019 09:27

Sashh water boils at 100 degrees. At 96 degrees it is not "boiling."

It depends on pressure, at sea level atmospheric pressure means it boils at 100°C , go up everest and it can boil at less than 80°C.

Adding salt or other minerals to can increase the boiling the temperature. So unless you are using distilled water your tea is probably not made with water at precisely 100 degrees.

For every 150 m increase in elevation, water's boiling point is lowered by approximately 0.5 °C

Was I the only person awake in science that day?

familycourtq · 23/09/2019 09:36

Was I the only person awake in science that day?

No, several people have made this and similar points in the thread already - were you asleep when you read the thread? :)

sashh · 23/09/2019 09:38

Not asleep and I made the same point up thread.

Video of boiling water at room temp for anyone interested

berlinbabylon · 23/09/2019 09:39

In long queues of traffic merging into one lane I'm that person who will use the overtaking lane right to the front and nip in

I wouldn't let you in if there's a long queue and everyone else got in sooner. HOWEVER, I do think there needs to be clarity on this. On the A303 for example there are signs saying use both lanes and merge in turn so you both queue up in parallel and zip. That makes perfect sense. But you need everyone to be on the same page and doing it the same way.

In terms of my rebellion I cycle on the pavement near my house. There is a short stretch of about 100m I use to avoid having to do two awkward right turns across a busy road. I get off and walk if I see a pedestrian (even though I take up more room doing that than I would if I stayed on the bike and cycled very slowly).

NoNewsisGood · 23/09/2019 12:34

www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/driving-advice/zip-merging/ I was told to merge like this when learning to drive......a long time ago.....

itsme · 23/09/2019 12:55

Its not rebellion, more funny on his part. I hung a bag of food waste on the cupboard handle last night when clearing up after tea (think veg peel and chicken carcass). Usually hang OHs bag on there with his crisps etc in... he took the bag of food waste to work. GrinGrin

HomewardHound · 23/09/2019 13:02

itsme

😂

HomewardHound · 23/09/2019 13:03

Whoops posted too soon. Did you text him itsme or did you leave it as a surprise?

Grimbles · 23/09/2019 13:15

I also change gender to sex on forms.

HiSonicPippinHere · 23/09/2019 13:20

I sometimes eat my husband's spicy nuggets when he's saved them in the fridge for later. Feels so naughty but so good!

itsme · 23/09/2019 14:15

He text me 😂 said he didnt check the bag. He knows what to do next time... his own lunch.

Dangerfloof · 23/09/2019 16:28

If DH has done a crap job of washing up and there is a smear or bit of food stuck to something, I’ll give him the item rather than cleaning it
Oh I do this. If ever I see smears or welded on bits of food I make damn sure he eats off that plate, with that cutlery.
I also changed the order of the cutlery in the drawer. It had driven me mad for 4 years. So I finally put it right.
Took weeks for him to get the right cutlery out.
Some brilliant ideas on here though. Am so going to be a countess or something next chance I get.

FartnissEverbeans · 23/09/2019 16:43

When surveys pop up on YouTube I deliberately select the wrong answer just to fuck with them

bagginses · 23/09/2019 19:42

Mine usually happen if I get a dodgy call. I like to talk in a made up language to the caller telling me I have been in an accident recently.

I also kept receiving those calls telling me there was a virus on my computer and that I needed to turn it on for them to help me sort it out. So I played along, acted all panicked and said that yes, yes I would go and switch on my PC and could they hold on whilst I did it. My record was keeping one person waiting for over 8 minutes before they realised I wasn't going to come back to the phone.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 23/09/2019 23:00

DS has been such a disagreeable little whatsit tonight I may only iron half of his shirt for tomorrow, or turn up the toaster in the morning. It’s odds on certain that next time he has a shower, I will be using the hot water in the kitchen...

Biddie191 · 24/09/2019 11:59

In long queues of traffic merging into one lane I'm that person who will use the overtaking lane right to the front and nip in.

This really annoys me when I'm driving the horsebox - you have to give plenty of space, as the braking distance is further due to the weight, and you don't want to slam the brakes on as it causes the ponies to be thrown around. SO many people do this when I'm driving the box, and also pulling in front then braking when you're steadying up to traffic lights (or a roundabout) so that you can keep moving, so keeping the journey smooth for the ponies. Drives me nuts!

MarianaMoatedGrange · 24/09/2019 12:31

@Charmatt of course it's cobs me duck! Grin

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 24/09/2019 13:55

I always refuse to answer letters telling me they can find no record of a TV licence at this address and demanding money with threats (we don't have a telly, and I have told them this more than once over the years) because it costs me money to contact them. They send crosser and crosser letters, and eventually a little man to search the house.

You don't have to let in someone from the TV licensing authority. The important words are "I withdraw any implied right of access you may have to my property." Then they are not even allowed on the front path and have to go and get a policeman with a warrant; and when they did that, once, I let them in and waited while they searched the house. Then when the man from the TV people said, "Why didn't you tell me you don't have a television?" I said, "You didn't ask." And the policeman had a choking fit.

Longtalljosie, RAJAR figures are only based on people who are part of the RAJAR sample or panel or whatever it is called, and they have to fill in a form of what they listen to or watch; and it is measured in quarter hours, so if you listen to the seven o'clock news in the evening they are going to count you as listening to The Archers as well. Anyone who isn't sending in the form has no effect on the figures at all. I once tried to get onto it but you have to have a telly as well as a radio. Damn it.

There is a table of boiling water temperatures at www.thespruceeats.com/boiling-points-of-water-1328760

familycourtq · 24/09/2019 15:37

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime
You rock!

KittyWindbag · 24/09/2019 15:43

I picked up all the copies of kids magazines I could handle and put them on top of all the copies of The Sun at lidl the other day, after it emerged about poor Gareth Thomas and how shittily they treated him and his parents. I wish I had put them all in the bin.

whatateam · 24/09/2019 15:55

My MIL wouldn’t answer the tv licence letters and when they sent notice that they would be searching, would not open the door. Eventually, took a couple of years I think, they came with a policeman (I think she had notice of this) and she wouldn’t let them in because her husband was not as home (she told me she “played the little old lady card”). So they didn’t come in. They rearranged for a time FIL would be in (rearranged with him interestingly. He was saying all along that they should just say they didn’t have a tv so readily agreed to let them in) and they came and searched and found no tv.

Unfortunately...

  1. The neighbours the thought MIL and FIL were part of the drugs gang that we’re operating in their block of flats which often resulted in the police doorstepping residents. Word got around and their reputation has never really recovered.
  1. They watch tv on the internet every day.

You’d think there would be a computerised way of checking the latter 🤔

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 24/09/2019 16:10

I never thought about the neighbours getting the wrong idea! That's a bit of a blow.

I suppose one could tell people what one was up to before the police eventually showed up, and then gloat about it in the pub afterwards....

Northernlass99 · 24/09/2019 17:01

I give a false name in starbucks.

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