what grinds your gears

[Danllan]

A fertiliser salesman would say......The grass looks alright but is unpalatable. Do you ever apply sodium (salt) or trace elements such as iodine, selenium or cobalt? Imagine eating plain potato crisps all your life.
We did actually find that small applications of salt to grassland increased intake and reduced wastage. The other elements were too expensive to apply as a fertiliser so we bolussed them.
Probably ought to mind my own business but both your posts triggered this info from my memory.

A fair question, but we're alright for TEs - according to the samples that were analysed when I bought the place - plus they have access to licks 24/7 that contain them along with other stuff.

Anyway, I've seen the same behaviour on five continents with any number of breeds, ages, and herd make-up: I think it's just the pleasure of being somewhere 'new' gives them a happy / funny five minutes - plus for some of the younger ones (we've suckler herds) it really is a new place or, at any rate, somewhere they only knew for a few days in their extreme youth.

 

[JWL]

Perhaps they're more closely related to equines than previously thought when it comes to grazing habits

 

[milkloss]

Everyone with cattle knows it will happen, but... every time I move a herd onto a beautiful piece of grass, the first thing the b*stards do is have an 'oh-be-joyful' and trash a decent sized patch of it.

I know it will happen, I'm used to it, I even expect it but, still, every f^cking time it really p!sses me off...

grass is always greener...... until it gives you the sh1ts.

 

[melted welly]

People who ask “is there anything you need me to do?” but have no intention of actually doing anything that’s then asked of them.

Instead, multiple phonecalls of faux exasperation then ensue where they make out the assigned task to be virtually
impossible due to some fault or oversight of the demander. Inevitably, you eventually loose patience and leave your current priority task to go and babysit, ultimately ending up doing this secondary task yourself anyway as they “don’t have time” and you’re then behind where you’d planned to be.

“anything you need me to do?”

Aye, feck off

 

[Bob the beef]

People who ask “is there anything you need me to do?” but have no intention of actually doing anything that’s then asked of them.

Instead, multiple phonecalls of faux exasperation then ensue where they make out the assigned task to be virtually
impossible due to some fault or oversight of the demander. Inevitably, you eventually loose patience and leave your current priority task to go and babysit, ultimately ending up doing this secondary task yourself anyway as they “don’t have time” and you’re then behind where you’d planned to be.

“anything you need me to do?”

Aye, feck off

Aaaash domestic bliss. Been there and got the t shirt. Feel your pain

 

[britt]

Electrical appliances with too short a flex.
Bought Mrs Britt a fly killer for the kitchen, (I know how to spoil her ), flex 2' long, but we don't have sockets at shoulder height and the flies are not at knee height .

 

[DrWazzock]

When the Mrs asks what i would like for tea. So OK I’ll have smoked salmon on brown bread with a touch of lemon juice for starters followed by beef Wellington and cold new potatoes.
We have only got ham and salad? Well why not just say so then and get it on the table.

 

[ARW]

People who live somewhere different to where they grew up or where there family is from and constantly talk about it and how it makes them this and that. Feck off back there if it’s that good!

 

[betweenthelines]

People who live somewhere different to where they grew up or where there family is from and constantly talk about it and how it makes them this and that. Feck off back there if it’s that good!

Scots?

 

[melted welly]

Scots?

 

[Campbell]

These signs along the Worcester Southern bypass. Road is clear, no sign of work or workers. Have they been forgotten about? It causes confusion, drivers not sure to obey or make normal progress.............

 

[Pata]

Electrical appliances with too short a flex.
Bought Mrs Britt a fly killer for the kitchen, (I know how to spoil her ), flex 2' long, but we don't have sockets at shoulder height and the flies are not at knee height .

Off topic, but there seems to be a lot of flies about. Used spotinor but doesn't seem to be lasting and too soon to dose again

 

[Sharpy]

Scots?

English up here!

 

[Cheesehead]

Those who go on and on and on in local Facebook groups saying how UK standards were crap before the EU and it is only down to it that we have the ag standards we do and without it we will be abusing animals pumping them full of antibiotics, packing them as tight as we can into sheds, never letting them see the light of day and pouring pesticides into everyone's drinking water

 

[roscoe erf]

everything

 

[roscoe erf]

Those who go on and on and on in local Facebook groups saying how UK standards were crap before the EU and it is only down to it that we have the ag standards we do and without it we will be abusing animals pumping them full of antibiotics, packing them as tight as we can into sheds, never letting them see the light of day and pouring pesticides into everyone's drinking water

damn we've been found out

 

[DrWazzock]

When the local tv weatherman says “Is it going to rain or shine tomorrow? Tune in later to find out!”
It wouldn’t take as long just to say what it is actually going to do tomorrow then I could move on with my life, or I can actually see instantly anyway on my phone.

 

[ARW]

When I get older and more sour I’m going to move to a new village, immediately join the parish council and take over because I know best

 

[Cheesehead]

When the local tv weatherman says “Is it going to rain or shine tomorrow? Tune in later to find out!”
It wouldn’t take as long just to say what it is actually going to do tomorrow then I could move on with my life, or I can actually see instantly anyway on my phone.

I'm more annoyed by the fact they have a 50/50 chance and still get it wrong for us 90% of the time.

 

[ImLost]

People who ask “is there anything you need me to do?” but have no intention of actually doing anything that’s then asked of them.

Instead, multiple phonecalls of faux exasperation then ensue where they make out the assigned task to be virtually
impossible due to some fault or oversight of the demander. Inevitably, you eventually loose patience and leave your current priority task to go and babysit, ultimately ending up doing this secondary task yourself anyway as they “don’t have time” and you’re then behind where you’d planned to be.

“anything you need me to do?”

Aye, feck off

And on the flip side when you genuinely offer to help someone and say to them "I am available on this day at this time, I can come and help you for X hours to do Y task"

2 days later you get an hour long run down about what a pain it was having to do the job on their own...