Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)

Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)

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RayDonovan

5,529 posts

230 months

Sunday 21st April 2024
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Paying a 'delivery fee' for a click & collect order at Decathlon.

Morons

98elise

29,709 posts

176 months

Sunday 21st April 2024
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RizzoTheRat said:
Dont try my local theater then. You might need to zoom but WTF?

Jesus Christ!

RizzoTheRat

26,816 posts

207 months

Sunday 21st April 2024
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snuffy said:
And that's even worse with a box, you could be in box 1, even seats at one side of the stage, odd seats at the other.
And you could be in Row 1, Box 1, the outer Box 1, or the other Row 1! At least usually if you get the wrong end of a row you can just walk along, if you've got a 1 on your ticket here you could be in one of 6 different places!

There's another theatre we've been to a few times that numbers the seats in a row 1, 3, 4, 7.......8, 6, 4, 2 which is equally mental. It's also very common to number the rows rather than have letters too.




Edited by RizzoTheRat on Sunday 21st April 13:45

snuffy

11,256 posts

299 months

Sunday 21st April 2024
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"Ladies and Gentlemen, please take your seats for tonight's performance. The show will commence in 5 hours, once everyone has found their seats".

snuffy

11,256 posts

299 months

Sunday 21st April 2024
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actionpotential said:
I think I'm Barry !

I was once interviewed in my house for a news item for the national news (the entire story was dropped, which happens all the time it seems, depending on what other news they have), so it was never shown.

But they interview you, and ask the same questions over and over again, slightly differently each time. But they don't tell you that's what they are going to do, so it started and after being asked the same thing for the third time, it took me all my time not to say "I've just answered that, are you stupid or something?". But I must have had a look on my face that said "What on earth are you asking me that again for?"



Mr Penguin

3,456 posts

54 months

Sunday 21st April 2024
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Delivery drivers who don't use the doorbell but knock quietly on the door.

Wombat3

13,590 posts

221 months

Sunday 21st April 2024
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Mr Penguin said:
Delivery drivers who don't use the doorbell but knock quietly on the door.
....and then leave the cardboard /paper wrapped parcel on the doorstep in the pissing rain irked

(That's you Evri / Hermes!!)

carlo996

6,815 posts

36 months

Sunday 21st April 2024
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....or the ones that ring the bell, set the dogs off and fk off when you get a notification it's delivered anyway.

Mercdriver

3,000 posts

48 months

Sunday 21st April 2024
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Amazon suppliers who take three weeks to deliver unless you pay for fast delivery, don’t get me started on Amazon prime, you need eyes in the back of your head not to accidentally sign up for a trial month.
“you can cancel anytime, yeah!” Only if you can jump through hoops.banghead

Cotty

41,277 posts

299 months

Sunday 21st April 2024
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Mr Penguin said:
Delivery drivers who don't use the doorbell but knock quietly on the door.
I am not sure they even knock these days, just dump it on the doorstep and change the status to "handed to resident" curse

stemll

4,625 posts

215 months

Sunday 21st April 2024
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Cotty said:
Mr Penguin said:
Delivery drivers who don't use the doorbell but knock quietly on the door.
I am not sure they even knock these days, just dump it on the doorstep and change the status to "handed to resident" curse
Ours seem to have all agreed to ring the bell twice, knock so it sounds like they're trying to kick the door in, dump it and set to "handed to resident"

Mr Penguin

3,456 posts

54 months

Monday 22nd April 2024
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Not just parcels where they will leave it outside but takeaways who actually need to hand the food over.

CivicDuties

7,729 posts

45 months

Monday 22nd April 2024
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21st Century Man said:
popeyewhite said:
Nethybridge said:
21st Century Man said:
It might well be the case that these people have never actually used or encountered a regular telephone, and so have no idea that a mobile works well in much the same manner and orientation?

Or they might just be monumentally stupid.
This is a strangely popular gripe, and I myself have been guilty of mobile phone ergonomic heresy.

Can we have a graphic representation of the correct and accepted way
of holding a mobile so as not to be the subject of ridicule and mockery.
The bit noise comes out of goes next to your ear.
Indeed.

There's a speaker at the top and a microphone at the bottom.

It's not rocket surgery.

In a lot of phones that's not correct. The speaker is at the bottom, next to the mouthpiece/microphone. So the noise does come out of the top, but only when you're not on speaker setting. Switch to speaker and the noise is indeed coming out of the bottom. My Samsung A32 Android phone is configured that way, so are millions of others, so when you see someone having an "on speaker" conversation, and they're holding the bottom of the phone near their ear, they're likely not being stupid at all, they're doing it right.

I'd send you a picture of the speaker on my phone, but, er, oh well you work it out. wink

It's still reasonable to be annoyed about people having speaker conversations in public places in the first place, of course.

Cotty

41,277 posts

299 months

Monday 22nd April 2024
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I don't understand why a person on their own needs to have a speaker conversations, regardless of where they are.
I assume this comes from one of those reality programs where the camera/microphone would need to hear both sides of the conversation, but in real llife not necessary.

popeyewhite

23,007 posts

135 months

Monday 22nd April 2024
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The above..and also - so what? Phones are pretty small and if both functions listen/talk came from the same part of the phone you could still hold the thing 3" from the side of your face.

21st Century Man

42,331 posts

263 months

Monday 22nd April 2024
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There's nowt wrong with putting the phone on a surface and having a hands free speaker conversation, that's what the feature is for.

But why would anyone do that outdoors on their own on the hoof rather that just holding it in the prescribed and designed manner?

It's plain stupid. That's not even opinion, it's fact.

Deranged Rover

4,058 posts

89 months

Monday 22nd April 2024
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It's funny to think we all laughed when Q handed James Bond his new mobile phone in "Tomorrow Never Dies", pointed at the bottom and said "talk here", then pointed at the top and said "listen here".

I genuinely never thought people would be getting it wrong 25 years later!

21st Century Man

42,331 posts

263 months

Monday 22nd April 2024
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The Ori.

tts.

Short Grain

3,230 posts

235 months

Monday 22nd April 2024
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21st Century Man said:
The Ori.

tts.
Going back a few years there, good storyline though! And yes, tts!

redrabbit29

2,112 posts

148 months

Monday 22nd April 2024
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I got a call today on my phone (rare event for me) and it's bloody uncomfortable holding it to your head for an extended period. I quickly put it on speaker and held it near my chest. 100x more comfortable
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