Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]
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VEA said:
Today, the first time I have ever posted in the "Things that annoy you beyond reason...?" thread.
PH itself. Some of the users on here in specific. There seems to be a never ending increase in people who jsut troll around for the upheaval of long running threads or wanting to start an argument for arguments sake. Quite frankly it's f
king dull. My PH card is getting close to being sent back.
WTF?PH itself. Some of the users on here in specific. There seems to be a never ending increase in people who jsut troll around for the upheaval of long running threads or wanting to start an argument for arguments sake. Quite frankly it's f
king dull. My PH card is getting close to being sent back.Pothole said:
VEA said:
Today, the first time I have ever posted in the "Things that annoy you beyond reason...?" thread.
PH itself. Some of the users on here in specific. There seems to be a never ending increase in people who jsut troll around for the upheaval of long running threads or wanting to start an argument for arguments sake. Quite frankly it's fking dull. My PH card is getting close to being sent back.
WTF?PH itself. Some of the users on here in specific. There seems to be a never ending increase in people who jsut troll around for the upheaval of long running threads or wanting to start an argument for arguments sake. Quite frankly it's f
king dull. My PH card is getting close to being sent back.DUMBO100 said:
When I see an advert on TV for something that I'd like to watch and nobody has thought to add a record or series link button to the advert? FML!
On the same lines. When TV is advertising up and coming films and shows short 10 second flashes of the action but do not bother to put what sodding film it actually is from!Got home one day last week to a strange burning smell in the house. Asked the wife, who said it was coming from the hoover. Strange, I thought, as last time I used the hoover it was fine.
On Sunday she got the hoover out, and immediately I said it didn't sound right. It sounded like the brushes weren't going round.
"Let me have a look" I said. I put the hoover on its side and immediately noticed that she's hoovered up a sock. Not a small sock by the way, but one of my big thick walking socks! This has jammed the brushes and burned through the drive belt. How on earth can you jam a sock in the hoover and not even notice!
Hoover / Vacuum cleaner, yeah I know.
On Sunday she got the hoover out, and immediately I said it didn't sound right. It sounded like the brushes weren't going round.
"Let me have a look" I said. I put the hoover on its side and immediately noticed that she's hoovered up a sock. Not a small sock by the way, but one of my big thick walking socks! This has jammed the brushes and burned through the drive belt. How on earth can you jam a sock in the hoover and not even notice!
Hoover / Vacuum cleaner, yeah I know.
Right towards the end of watching a great programme where you are truly immersed and then this sodding bar appears at the bottom of the screen telling me what is on next. I fking know whats on next my TV planner tells me.
It really spoils the moment for me. Even worse is when the announcer speaks over the end line. bds.
Used to be just commercial TV but the BBC is doing it now.
king know whats on next my TV planner tells me. It really spoils the moment for me. Even worse is when the announcer speaks over the end line. b
ds. Used to be just commercial TV but the BBC is doing it now.
There isn't much spare parking in my village, most spaces are for 3-4 cars. So many selfish bds seem to think its fine to park between 3 and 6 feet from the ends of the bay thereby preventing someone else from getting parked. It gets worse when people can't be arsed to park in the car park when visiting the pub and leave their cars parked on the street, probably because they'll come out of the pub too pissed to walk too far to their cars!
ds seem to think its fine to park between 3 and 6 feet from the ends of the bay thereby preventing someone else from getting parked. It gets worse when people can't be arsed to park in the car park when visiting the pub and leave their cars parked on the street, probably because they'll come out of the pub too pissed to walk too far to their cars! Morningside said:
Right towards the end of watching a great programme where you are truly immersed and then this sodding bar appears at the bottom of the screen telling me what is on next. I fking know whats on next my TV planner tells me.
It really spoils the moment for me. Even worse is when the announcer speaks over the end line. bds.
Used to be just commercial TV but the BBC is doing it now.
And when they squeeze the closing credits into a small box so they can put an ad for the next programme on. Usually only when I've been trying to guess who was in it, or doing the voiceover or whatever. king know whats on next my TV planner tells me. It really spoils the moment for me. Even worse is when the announcer speaks over the end line. b
ds. Used to be just commercial TV but the BBC is doing it now.
DUMBO100 said:
When I see an advert on TV for something that I'd like to watch and nobody has thought to add a record or series link button to the advert? FML!
Ah, the internet generation. You're used to seeing something and being able to click on it to find out more. When I were a lad, we used to have to set a recording by actually putting the start and end times in, with a few minutes either side just in case. Or sit there with fingers poised over the "play" and "record" buttons to get the start spot on.Would be a good idea, though, as would have a "+1" button that automatically switches to the +1 version of whatever channel I'm watching, given that they're never the next channel 'up'.
MartG said:
George7 said:
My Mum does this, but to a less severe degree. On the motorway, instead of keeping a smooth and fairly constant throttle position, she's constantly coming on and off to regulate her speed, treating it like it's digital. It gets tiresome rather quickly.
I've been in a car with several drivers who do this - all women. They are the same with central heating controls - "It's cold" so turns heating full up, followed 20 minutes later by "It's too hot", heating off and windows opened to dump all that expensively heated air, then repeat the cycle - then they wonder why their heating bills are so high. I'd guess drivers who do this manage to get through a lot more fuel than a smooth driver - I know I generally got at least 10% better mpg than my ex-mrs did in the same car. Asian drivers who are on and off the throttle repeatedly, 'The Singapore Bop' it is called in that country, but all Asian drivers do it, and none have ever been able to explain why.
Two today ( so far .... )
1. The elderly woman ahead of me at the checkout this morning - stared blankly into space while her stuff was scanned and only started packing it when asked to pay, took nearly 4 minutes to pack two carrier bags of shopping ( kept taking stuff from one bag and putting it in the other, presumably so similar stuff was all in the same bag or something ), then started rummaging around in her handbag to find her purse, then more rummaging to find the bit of paper with her PIN written on it, followed by two attempts to actually type a 4 digit number correctly, then put the bags in the trolley and spent another minute putting her purse back in her handbag and rummaging around for her car keys - all totally oblivious that all her faffing around had held up everyone in the queue behind her for around 10 minutes more than necessary.
2. The elderly relative who visited me yesterday who insisted on 'helping' by 'tidying up a bit' while I popped out to the shops - I've just spent 10 minutes searching for the ketchup ( eventually located at the back of the fridge ) and I have no clue where she's put my sunglasses
1. The elderly woman ahead of me at the checkout this morning - stared blankly into space while her stuff was scanned and only started packing it when asked to pay, took nearly 4 minutes to pack two carrier bags of shopping ( kept taking stuff from one bag and putting it in the other, presumably so similar stuff was all in the same bag or something ), then started rummaging around in her handbag to find her purse, then more rummaging to find the bit of paper with her PIN written on it, followed by two attempts to actually type a 4 digit number correctly, then put the bags in the trolley and spent another minute putting her purse back in her handbag and rummaging around for her car keys - all totally oblivious that all her faffing around had held up everyone in the queue behind her for around 10 minutes more than necessary.
2. The elderly relative who visited me yesterday who insisted on 'helping' by 'tidying up a bit' while I popped out to the shops - I've just spent 10 minutes searching for the ketchup ( eventually located at the back of the fridge ) and I have no clue where she's put my sunglasses
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