Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)

[yellowjack]

Fastdruid said:

whoami said:

Fastdruid said:

CC07 PEU said:

The price of fish and fking chips in London these days. £8.50?! I could get chips, fish, and a nice sugary drink for £5 anywhere else! Or, a three course sit down meal in some sort of st hole like Mansfield!

That's not too bad. I paid £10.40 today. Oh no wait, that was for a family of 4...

£10.40 for 4?

Where do you live, 1975?

Not in London.

To be slightly fair there wasn't actually any fish in the order but yes, cost £10.40

Just this Friday a large Cod, large chips at my local chippie was £8

Or £6.90 if you have a small portion of chips. Feeding four at a chippie these days is getting toward £20 easily. Our usual order is sausage & chips three times, a cod and chips for me, and a large curry sauce. That's around £17 after my 10% has come off the bill.

Sadly, I think a family meal deal at KFC is now actually cheaper than going to a 'proper' fish and chip shop. But hey? Friday night is still takeaway night at my house.

[droopsnoot]

All that jazz said:

Radio stations censoring words in songs.

Especially when it's blatantly obvious what the missing word is anyway.

[Morningside]

droopsnoot said:

All that jazz said:

Radio stations censoring words in songs.

Especially when it's blatantly obvious what the missing word is anyway.

Bit like internet forums. fk it I say!

[FourWheelDrift]

Office gas strut chairs that all of a sudden decide to drop down in slow jolts without being asked to.

[ClockworkCupcake]

FourWheelDrift said:

Office gas strut chairs that all of a sudden decide to drop down in slow jolts without being asked to.

I pranked a colleague once by activating the lever on his chair with my foot to do just that - drop him on the gas strut.

[Shakermaker]

ClockworkCupcake said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Office gas strut chairs that all of a sudden decide to drop down in slow jolts without being asked to.

I pranked a colleague once by activating the lever on his chair with my foot to do just that - drop him on the gas strut.

Only once?

You can get away with that one countless times and it is never not funny.

[MartG]

Shakermaker said:

ClockworkCupcake said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Office gas strut chairs that all of a sudden decide to drop down in slow jolts without being asked to.

I pranked a colleague once by activating the lever on his chair with my foot to do just that - drop him on the gas strut.

Only once?

You can get away with that one countless times and it is never not funny.

Even better

[McAndy]

MartG said:

Even better

silverthorn2151 said:

People who don't look where they are going.

I walked into that one.

[WD39]

All that jazz said:

Radio stations censoring words in songs.

Pink - Just Like a Pill :

I'm lyin' here on the floor where you left me
I think I took too much
I'm crying here, what have you done?
I thought it would be fun

I can't stay on your life support, there's a shortage in the switch
I can't stay on your morphine, 'cause it's making me itch
I said I tried to call the nurse again but she's being a little <silence>
I think I'll get outta here, where I can

Run just as fast as I can
To the middle of nowhere
To the middle of my frustrated fears
And I swear you're just like a pill
'Stead of makin' me better, you keep makin' me ill
You keep makin' me ill

etc.

Just play the tune as it was written ffs

Give her a Nobel prize.

[IanCress]

Ha ha.

Since when did morphine you itch anyway? It's probably that new brand of washing powder, or the dog's got fleas again.

[glenrobbo]

WD39 said:

WD39 said:

Antony Moxey said:

V8mate said:

droopsnoot said:

Antony Moxey said:

popeyewhite said:

Antony Moxey said:

V8mate said:

Einion Yrth said:

24/7/365
That's 7 and a bit years. You mean 24/7/52.

No they don't. They mean what they say. It's a reference to the contrary of when other businesses are usually closed.

So, 24 hours a day - because most businesses are only open 8 or 9.
7 days a week - because most businesses only open 5 or 6 days.
And 365 days a year, because most close on Christmas Day, New Year's Day etc.

No, the first one is correct.

24 hours a DAY, seven days a WEEK, 52 weeks a YEAR. Why would you say 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, why not just 24 hours a day, 365 days a year?

Hasn't that just been explained?

Well it has now. The assertion that it should be 24/7/52 rather than 24/7/365 was challenged as being incorrect. My post was to explain why I agreed with the OP rather than the challenger.

I don't see that the /52 or /356 is required at all. /365 annoys me because the /7/ is part of the /365, but if the business is open 24/7 then the next number is superfluous whatever it is.

Plenty of businesses are open 24/7 but not 365. Or are you the kind of pedant who would deny them the 24/7 moniker because they're closed on Christmas Day?

No, because the sequence is hours, days then weeks per year, not hours, days then days. The 365 bit doesn't make sense because you've already stipulated how many days per week, surely the next part of the sequence would be weeks per year rather than days per week then days per year.

How about, 'OPEN ALL THE TIME' or is that too simple.

All of this is starting to annoy me beyond reason.
Please could you all go and dissect your kittens somewhere else?

[glenrobbo]

yellowjack said:

WD39 said:

How about, 'Open all the time' or is that too simple.

G-G-G-G-G-G-Granville!!

You nailed it!

[FlyingMeeces]

IanCress said:

Ha ha.

Since when did morphine you itch anyway? It's probably that new brand of washing powder, or the dog's got fleas again.

Morphine's famously itchy at higher doses, I did myself a real mischief after last surgery when I went for a good scratch but didn't realise I was making myself bleed everywhere because the high dose of morphine was very effectively managing the pain… oops. Antihistamines should help though and the itching goes away if you're able to reduce the dose.

[popeyewhite]

IanCress said:

Ha ha.

Since when did morphine you itch anyway?

If it's enough to get you stoned - you'll itch furiously. Smack addicts have special 'itchers'.

[glenrobbo]

popeyewhite said:

IanCress said:

Ha ha.

Since when did morphine you itch anyway?

If it's enough to get you stoned - you'll itch furiously. Smack addicts have special 'itchers'.

....abd that's only scratching the surface!

[yellowjack]

glenrobbo said:

All of this is starting to annoy me beyond reason.
Please could you all go and dissect your kittens somewhere else?

Oh God no! Don't suggest dissecting kittens. Not even in jest... http://www.gethampshire.co.uk/news/local-news/hawl... - http://www.gethampshire.co.uk/news/local-news/fami... - you'll end up in prison for five years if Bertie's owners get their wish!

[chonok]

People who call any photo of their face a selfie,, even if it's taken by someone else, grrr

Is a selfie not meant to be taken of yourSELF??

Best i've seen is people uploading 'dog selfies'.

Last time i checked, a dog could not use a camera.

[silverthorn2151]

McAndy said:

MartG said:

Even better

silverthorn2151 said:

People who don't look where they are going.

I walked into that one.

Ta-da!

[Shakermaker]

People/Companies that don't follow what I consider to be the conventional means of writing or saying telephone numbers. Especially mobile numbers

Given that I grew up outside of London I have always lived in an area of area code, then the two sets of 3 numbers making up the local identifier and our own extension. Whilst by and large, a lot of these have moved away from this the convention has been to speak the number and pause as appropriate in a 5-3-3 manner.

Now OK, special numbers, those which we have seen on TV adverts or heard on the radio, will have been done differently as they usually have the catchy jingle to go with them.

But landline and mobile numbers are all still 11 digits with a very few notable exceptions, but when I ask for someone's number, I'm now given things in all sorts of weird ways - 4-5-2, 3-3-4, 3-5-3. Very confusing!

[McAndy]

Shakermaker said:

People/Companies that don't follow what I consider to be the conventional means of writing or saying telephone numbers. Especially mobile numbers

Given that I grew up outside of London I have always lived in an area of area code, then the two sets of 3 numbers making up the local identifier and our own extension. Whilst by and large, a lot of these have moved away from this the convention has been to speak the number and pause as appropriate in a 5-3-3 manner.

Now OK, special numbers, those which we have seen on TV adverts or heard on the radio, will have been done differently as they usually have the catchy jingle to go with them.

But landline and mobile numbers are all still 11 digits with a very few notable exceptions, but when I ask for someone's number, I'm now given things in all sorts of weird ways - 4-5-2, 3-3-4, 3-5-3. Very confusing!

Agreed. 5-3-3, please. Always.