BBC website forecasts are legendary for being useless.
Accuweather FTW
To be fair to them itās difficult to express things that people actually need to know. I donāt want to know the chance of any rain - if itās a fine rain than lasts ten seconds then I donāt care. But I do care if there is a reasonable chance of a major downpour. They canāt easily express this with the information they choose to put on the website, but the person talking about it might differentiate.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s I shared a house with a bloke doing a PhD in Meteorology. He was Eritrean so was keenly interesting in rainfall prediction. We were both interested in non-linear versions of various signals filters to produce dynamic forecasts so had a lot in common despite working on very different topics.
Forecasting the quantity of rain that might fall reliably is really, really hard. Part of the issue back then was computational power, but most of the issue simply related to the climatic models not being up to the job. Thirty years on and the computing horsepower is much better but the question of reliably forecasting how much rain will fall on a given day is still unresolved. You can get an inch of rain in 24 hours through steady rain or a vicious localised downpour. The former is relatively benign, the latter leads to flooding and crop damage. You can see why an Eritrean might be interested in the problemā¦
Averaged out over 24 hours is ~25%. For 1 hour thereās a 91% chance.
Seems reasonable. Itās weather, I struggle to get excited by it.
Thatās because you never see it, being a tunnel dweller.
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Troo dat
Has it rained then? 
HMRC. For fuckās sake, they have sent me seven PAYE tax coding changes this year, and itās still wrong.
Itās such a clumsy way of dealing with tax, and itās not helped by the fact that the DWP just doesnāt bother implementing the code they have been given.
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A humungous twatpunch to the fucker who did not just give me the job that I badly wanted
Hell awaits, bitch
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Me again, used all my poo this morning and now im fucking bored
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Not that pooing is all wasted energy, but, maybe now is the time to start investing that time more positively on finding something that doesnāt make you so miserable?
Oh i am, im doing some online courses to be more attractive for role i want.
I still have to sit in the shithole for 8 hours a day tho, pooing is my only release from something akin to vogon poetry.
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ah thats a shame , they are looking for poo donors 
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Ideal job
Yodel who have failed to turn up and collect.
They came yesterday.
They were booked for today. They came yesterday in error.
I had that one year. Every time they sent a coding notice it was too late for that monthās payroll, so I was paid using the wrong code. By the time HMRC had worked out the new code and sent it, I had been paid again using the newer wrong codeā¦ again. 6 attempts before they finally managed to issue the code in time for payroll.
Amazon , normally ok sent one scratched CD and a leaflet supposed to be a kitchen design book. 30 pages including one on how to fit concrete worktops and unbelievable they even suggested composite paper too. As it appears itās American my mind is rather boggled at having a concrete worktop !!!