Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]

Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]

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Antony Moxey

8,014 posts

218 months

Friday 5th December 2014
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OpulentBob said:
"MOT on purchase".

Buy a car from a second hand dealer. "Oh yes mate, that'll come with a fresh MOT, we'll sort out all the advisories."

A year later, put the same car in for MOT, find it needs 3 shocks, discs and pads all round, a new flexi section in the exhaust, and some bushes/balljoints.

fking cowboys. This is gonna cost me megabucks right before Christmas.
Cowboy? For a list of things to need addressing a year later?

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 5th December 2014
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Antony Moxey said:
OpulentBob said:
"MOT on purchase".

Buy a car from a second hand dealer. "Oh yes mate, that'll come with a fresh MOT, we'll sort out all the advisories."

A year later, put the same car in for MOT, find it needs 3 shocks, discs and pads all round, a new flexi section in the exhaust, and some bushes/balljoints.

fking cowboys. This is gonna cost me megabucks right before Christmas.
Cowboy? For a list of things to need addressing a year later?
Things that would have easily been advisories on the previous MOT, given the style (old-manish) and speed (slow) of my driving. No way all of the issues have developed in the last year.

Antony Moxey

8,014 posts

218 months

Friday 5th December 2014
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OpulentBob said:
Antony Moxey said:
OpulentBob said:
"MOT on purchase".

Buy a car from a second hand dealer. "Oh yes mate, that'll come with a fresh MOT, we'll sort out all the advisories."

A year later, put the same car in for MOT, find it needs 3 shocks, discs and pads all round, a new flexi section in the exhaust, and some bushes/balljoints.

fking cowboys. This is gonna cost me megabucks right before Christmas.
Cowboy? For a list of things to need addressing a year later?
Things that would have easily been advisories on the previous MOT, given the style (old-manish) and speed (slow) of my driving. No way all of the issues have developed in the last year.
Ah right, you didn't say that those were the advisories that they'd said they'd fixed. As you were then.

Hackney

6,810 posts

207 months

Friday 5th December 2014
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Hearing the words, "Would you like her to rephrase the question"

My anger then increases incrementally as
1. we see the plaintive look from the "reporter"
2. the guy stares around the room vacantly
3. said guy stares vacantly into camera and
4. he says, "I'm not going to be who I'm expected to be any more"

furiousfuriousfuriousfuriousfurious

CB2152

1,555 posts

132 months

Friday 5th December 2014
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Hackney said:
Hearing the words, "Would you like her to rephrase the question"

My anger then increases incrementally as
1. we see the plaintive look from the "reporter"
2. the guy stares around the room vacantly
3. said guy stares vacantly into camera and
4. he says, "I'm not going to be who I'm expected to be any more"

furiousfuriousfuriousfuriousfurious
And then the advert continues to say "Bleu de Chanel, the new eau de parfum".

When the exact same advert has been on for the past three years!

simoid

19,772 posts

157 months

Friday 5th December 2014
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Antony Moxey said:
OpulentBob said:
Antony Moxey said:
OpulentBob said:
"MOT on purchase".

Buy a car from a second hand dealer. "Oh yes mate, that'll come with a fresh MOT, we'll sort out all the advisories."

A year later, put the same car in for MOT, find it needs 3 shocks, discs and pads all round, a new flexi section in the exhaust, and some bushes/balljoints.

fking cowboys. This is gonna cost me megabucks right before Christmas.
Cowboy? For a list of things to need addressing a year later?
Things that would have easily been advisories on the previous MOT, given the style (old-manish) and speed (slow) of my driving. No way all of the issues have developed in the last year.
Ah right, you didn't say that those were the advisories that they'd said they'd fixed. As you were then.
What if the MoT garage this year is just looking for work...?

/conspiracyKeanu

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Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

232 months

Friday 5th December 2014
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you didn't look at the discs and pads yourself when you bought it (or any time since)?

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 5th December 2014
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People who order an expresso from Starbucks et al... And the ones who prefer a caramel mocha choco frappe latte with soya milk and a hazelnut syrup shot... And the ones who still, when asked their name in Starbucks, reply Darth Vader, Peter pan, Sid vicious etc etc very funny.... You can all fk off now please

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 5th December 19:25

grumbledoak

31,499 posts

232 months

Friday 5th December 2014
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Meh. I'm more annoyed that I cannot order anything other than an espresso anywhere outside of Italy these days. Because the market has shifted from people who like coffee to the far larger number of stupid fat bints who want to sound all 'sofistikated' ordering a cappuccino when what they really want is a fking milkshake.

King Herald

23,501 posts

215 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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My wife, closing the windows all the time, so the house is hot as hell! We live in the tropics and I've spent years trying to explain to her the house gets HOT when there is no ventilation.

last night I was drunk, went to bed, hotter than hell, so I got up to find the windows all closed! WTF WHY close them????

"I like them closed, it's just my thing" She replied.

I lost it big time and made a fool of myself shouting and yelling. I also tore the curtain down in the en-suite bathroom in frustration. rolleyesredface.....

King Herald

23,501 posts

215 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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My wife, and our maid, and her mother (when she was alive) who cook on full heat ALL THE TIME. I try to explain that you can't get a pan of water hotter than boiling point, no matter how high the gas is turned.

We have a big extractor installed above the stove. But the extractor is left off when they cook.

I demonstrate that turning the gas to low and putting a lid on, still BOILS THE WATER just as much, but no, every fking time they cook the gas is full, there is no lid on, the kitchen is full of steam etc.

The extractor is left off.

Frying. The gas is turned to full, there is no cover on the pan, the fat is spitting and spattering all over the kitchen.

The extractor is left off.

Sitting here typing my last post, I could smell some food cooking, so I went downstairs, there is a huge pan of stew, boiling its head off, billowing steam and stink, full gas, no lid on.

The extractor was off. madfuriousmadfuriousmadfuriousshootpunchrantingmadfuriousmadfuriousmadfuriousshootpunchranting

HD Adam

5,143 posts

183 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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Captain Muppet said:
ExV8 said:
I travel by train to London which is not a bad thing as I get to sit down, read, use my mobile etc on the train.

So why is it that half the train occupants feel the need to read their mobiles as soon as they get off the train? They have had at least 30 mins where they can do nothing ( and with a good 4g signal) but decide that when they get to the station the most important thing to do is use their mobile and not get to the tube/bus/taxi and work. The speed of movement of those looking at God knows what is sloth like and is almost a human pin to my bowling ball trying to get past.
I overtake them and then stop to look at my phone. They learn nothing from it and it makes the situation worse for everyone else, but it makes me less angry.

Before I started doing this I'd get to the point of stroll-rage where I'd actually swear at people for walking without due care and attention, which I'm ashamed about.
This but getting off a plane.

You've been on a long Transatlantic flight I know and you want to check your messages/let someone know you've arrived/update Facebook but DAWDLING ALONG THE fkING JETWAY AT 0.1 MPH IS NOT THE PLACE TO DO IT YOU TARDS mad

Wait till you are in the main concourse where there's a bit of space and P.S., this is also the place to start rooting around for whatever st you need from your carry on.

NOT THE fkING JETWAY.

tts.

Park'O

656 posts

173 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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People who stop at roundabouts when it's completely clear mad

JonRB

74,391 posts

271 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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Park'O said:
People who stop at roundabouts when it's completely clear mad
Yup. Ditherers in general. yes

I had one last night, with no observation (or, indeed, driving) skills. It came to a head when she stopped at a roundabout in the right hand lane of two (to take the 3rd exit at 90° right) because a van was approaching. There was loads of room and time. Enough time for me to say "oh sod this", and move from stationary behind her into the left hand lane, enter the roundabout with plenty of time to avoid the approaching van, and take the same exit that she was waiting for.

Gahhh!

nicanary

9,749 posts

145 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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JonRB said:
Park'O said:
People who stop at roundabouts when it's completely clear mad
Yup. Ditherers in general. yes

I had one last night, with no observation (or, indeed, driving) skills. It came to a head when she stopped at a roundabout in the right hand lane of two (to take the 3rd exit at 90° right) because a van was approaching. There was loads of room and time. Enough time for me to say "oh sod this", and move from stationary behind her into the left hand lane, enter the roundabout with plenty of time to avoid the approaching van, and take the same exit that she was waiting for.

Gahhh!
At least she was in the RH lane when she intended to turn right. There's a roundabout near my work which has 4 exits, and the approach road has 2 lanes. 4 divided by 2 isn't difficult. Yet about 50% of drivers who need to take the 3rd or 4th exit approach the thing in the left-hand lane and then go round it all the way on that side of the road. They either don't use an indicator at all to signify when they're leaving the roundabout, or have the left indicator on all the way round. When I'm trying to enter the roundabout that does mean some inconvenience to me, you cretinaceous fu**wits! IMO they're just terrified of the notion that they will have to change lanes, so they simply stay in the same one.

MartG

20,619 posts

203 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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UFO fkwits who accepted this pic numerous times as 'proof' that a crashed UFO has been recovered and the US is using alien technology



Anyone remotely familiar with aircraft will recognise the remains of a US Navy F-14 Tomcat with a bit of photoshop work on it. Around 5 seconds on Google and the original undoctored pic can be found ( search for F-14 recovery )



These people are seriously short of anything resembling critical thinking, but usually are the first to reject scientific proof of anything they don't believe in

Stupid fkers !


JonRB

74,391 posts

271 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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MartG said:
These people are seriously short of anything resembling critical thinking, but usually are the first to reject scientific proof of anything they don't believe in
The thing about the Conspiracy Theorists that really makes me chuckle is that they deny that the Moon Landings happened and yet at the same time claim that we have landed men on Mars but it has been suppressed. hehe

MartG

20,619 posts

203 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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JonRB said:
MartG said:
These people are seriously short of anything resembling critical thinking, but usually are the first to reject scientific proof of anything they don't believe in
The thing about the Conspiracy Theorists that really makes me chuckle is that they deny that the Moon Landings happened and yet at the same time claim that we have landed men on Mars but it has been suppressed. hehe
Yes - consistency is not one of their strong points rofl

BorkFactor

7,258 posts

157 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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King Herald said:
My wife, and our maid, and her mother (when she was alive) who cook on full heat ALL THE TIME. I try to explain that you can't get a pan of water hotter than boiling point, no matter how high the gas is turned.

<snip>
Christ that would annoy the hell out of me! I bet the window was shut as well while the extractor was doing nothing?

Another one that gets me is when people make a huge mess when cooking and just leave it. Fat all over the cooker, pans not rinsed out etc. Its not bloody hard!

northwest monkey

6,370 posts

188 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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HD Adam said:
Captain Muppet said:
ExV8 said:
I travel by train to London which is not a bad thing as I get to sit down, read, use my mobile etc on the train.

So why is it that half the train occupants feel the need to read their mobiles as soon as they get off the train? They have had at least 30 mins where they can do nothing ( and with a good 4g signal) but decide that when they get to the station the most important thing to do is use their mobile and not get to the tube/bus/taxi and work. The speed of movement of those looking at God knows what is sloth like and is almost a human pin to my bowling ball trying to get past.
I overtake them and then stop to look at my phone. They learn nothing from it and it makes the situation worse for everyone else, but it makes me less angry.

Before I started doing this I'd get to the point of stroll-rage where I'd actually swear at people for walking without due care and attention, which I'm ashamed about.
This but getting off a plane.

You've been on a long Transatlantic flight I know and you want to check your messages/let someone know you've arrived/update Facebook but DAWDLING ALONG THE fkING JETWAY AT 0.1 MPH IS NOT THE PLACE TO DO IT YOU TARDS mad

Wait till you are in the main concourse where there's a bit of space and P.S., this is also the place to start rooting around for whatever st you need from your carry on.

NOT THE fkING JETWAY.

tts.
Related to this - people who stand up and start pissing about with lockers the second the front wheel hits the tarmac. This annoys me more on a holiday flight as it doesn't matter how quick you get off the fking plane, you've still got to wait for your luggage to be unloaded.

tts.
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