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

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

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anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 2nd January 2015
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JonRB said:
CB2152 said:
Just watched the ad on their website, they do indeed say that. I think a lot of us heard the "1:1 scale model of the original......" and we're too busy thinking "how do they manage that?" to actually listen to the next few seconds hehe
And so the marketing worked. Never underestimate the power of the geekside. biggrin
rofl

I had this discussion with my mrs last night.

I ended up showing her this:



hehe

CC07 PEU

2,297 posts

203 months

Friday 2nd January 2015
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Anything in the news about Payday loans. Who gives a fk about payday loans?! They are certainly not worthy of national news!

DJFish

5,917 posts

262 months

Friday 2nd January 2015
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On the subject of news, news reports giving away spoilers for tv shows I recorded but haven't had time to watch.
It's bad enough when they give away spots results....

24lemons

2,628 posts

184 months

Friday 2nd January 2015
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Issi said:
My fecking neighbours dog. Every night it just stands in the back garden barking at the patio doors. I can honestly say that in 18 months I have never seen it walked, they just seem to sling it out the back and let it bark for hours.

The worst thing is the bark is always the same, it's the same 3 short barks repeated incessantly with about a 5 second gap between 'verses'
Our neighbours kept dogs for a local charity which tried to re-home dogs with behavioral problems. They were never walked or trained and every week new ones would come and go. They constantly barked and fought with each other and all the owner could do was yell at them. The council said that the first thing to try was post them a helpful leaflet;

http://www.worcsregservices.gov.uk/pdf/WRS%20Barki...

And if that didnt help then keep a diary of every time the dog barked. If you make a complaint then this might help to reinforce your cause. You could also try recording the dog barking I suppose.

I feel your pain and I hope you get it sorted soon. Fortunately our neighbour unexpectedly moved out at the beginning of December much to our relief.

8Ace

2,681 posts

197 months

Friday 2nd January 2015
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Issi said:
My fecking neighbours dog. Every night it just stands in the back garden barking at the patio doors. I can honestly say that in 18 months I have never seen it walked, they just seem to sling it out the back and let it bark for hours.

The worst thing is the bark is always the same, it's the same 3 short barks repeated incessantly with about a 5 second gap between 'verses'
Pick it up and put it in your garden. See how they fking like it.

northwest monkey

6,370 posts

188 months

Friday 2nd January 2015
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Any television programme with Vernon Kay in it. Partly because he only ever seems to do shows on ITV with Z-list celebrities in and partly because he's a gurning .

CC07 PEU

2,297 posts

203 months

Friday 2nd January 2015
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The fact that regional BBC news broadcasts are not in HD, meaning you have to change the channel from BBC HD if you want to see the local news. If people with pocket cameras can record in HD, why the fk can't the BBC show regional news in HD? It's not like it's a recent technology or anything so what's stopping them?

JonRB

74,390 posts

271 months

Friday 2nd January 2015
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CC07 PEU said:
The fact that regional BBC news broadcasts are not in HD, meaning you have to change the channel from BBC HD if you want to see the local news. If people with pocket cameras can record in HD, why the fk can't the BBC show regional news in HD? It's not like it's a recent technology or anything so what's stopping them?
It's because BBC One HD is a single region-agnostic channel, but on SD there are many channels - one for each region. The one specific to your region is designated as 100 and all the others can be found up in the 900's (or wherever).

I guess that the BBC feel they can't justify the bandwidth of having one BBC One HD for each region like they do with SD, so just have the one HD channel for all regions (and therefore can't show regional news).


northwest monkey

6,370 posts

188 months

Friday 2nd January 2015
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CC07 PEU said:
The fact that regional BBC news broadcasts are not in HD, meaning you have to change the channel from BBC HD if you want to see the local news. If people with pocket cameras can record in HD, why the fk can't the BBC show regional news in HD? It's not like it's a recent technology or anything so what's stopping them?
This really winds me up - that along with the fact that all the HD channels on Sky are all over the place makes watching TV sometimes really annoying.

Captain Muppet

8,540 posts

264 months

Friday 2nd January 2015
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HMRC. Completing my self assessment form has taken 5 hours so far, plus all the time keeping track of expenses. I have a bit more information to collect from banks and an employer and then maybe I'll be done with it. I'm reasonably literate, I have 2 O-Levels in English (google them kids), but the terms they use and the notes to go with them are a real struggle. Also the number of characters I can enter for my trading name isn't long enough (28 characters FFS), and the box for description of the work allows me to type as much as I like before telling me there is something like a 30 character limit.

All so I can pay tax on £500 of profit. They didn't need to know about interest of savings two years ago, when my savings were pretty much the same but I hadn't worked a few days for myself. Why is it so fking important now? Also why do I need to tell them how much tax was taken from an employer through PAYE? They already know this - they got the money already and they've spent it, quite a bit of it on this hugely unfriendly chunk of software.

Running a tiny business is very nearly not worth the hassle involved in declaring the income for tax purposes. FFS. The whole self-assessment thing seems set up to encourage people to avoid declaring any income.

Also would people stop telling me to buy things I don't want just to reduce my tax bill. It's not saving me money to buy a printer I'll never use, you dicks.

Captain Muppet

8,540 posts

264 months

Friday 2nd January 2015
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DJFish said:
On the subject of news, news reports giving away spoilers for tv shows I recorded but haven't had time to watch.
It's bad enough when they give away spots results....
FFS BBC - if someone has just won a world championship why not introduce the news with an introduction of the sport it relates to so we have a chance of turning it off in time, rather than leading with the name of the new champion? F1 is dull enough without having to watch the last race knowing who won.

lord trumpton

7,320 posts

125 months

Friday 2nd January 2015
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24lemons said:
Issi said:
My fecking neighbours dog. Every night it just stands in the back garden barking at the patio doors. I can honestly say that in 18 months I have never seen it walked, they just seem to sling it out the back and let it bark for hours.

The worst thing is the bark is always the same, it's the same 3 short barks repeated incessantly with about a 5 second gap between 'verses'
Our neighbours kept dogs for a local charity which tried to re-home dogs with behavioral problems. They were never walked or trained and every week new ones would come and go. They constantly barked and fought with each other and all the owner could do was yell at them. The council said that the first thing to try was post them a helpful leaflet;

http://www.worcsregservices.gov.uk/pdf/WRS%20Barki...

And if that didnt help then keep a diary of every time the dog barked. If you make a complaint then this might help to reinforce your cause. You could also try recording the dog barking I suppose.

I feel your pain and I hope you get it sorted soon. Fortunately our neighbour unexpectedly moved out at the beginning of December much to our relief.
I can relate to this st too. Our neighbours have 2 miniature dachshunds.

We used to have a serious issue with them and every time we opened the back door, pulled onto the driveway or even breathed too loudly these two fking little rats would race out of the house (through a fking cat flap especially for them so they could go take a st at will) and stand at their back gate barking incessantly.

It was such a grating noise. I went around a couple of times to complain and they would be very apologetic and things would calm for a while before they got bored of the fact that they had to train the little s that they resorted to leaving that flap unlocked once more.

Anyway, this went on for years until one summers day on a Sunday we were relaxing in the back garden, summer cabin open, family around and these little beasts did nothing but stand in their back garden and bark though the bushes. The neighbours had fked off out for the day. Anyway when they returned home I totally lost it and ripped into them royal stopping short of throttling the bloke. Same thing - few weeks and then back to normal.

This summer we had an extension built and the neighbour had changed job where he now worked from home. The dogs used to perform their routine every time the builders rolled up and throughout the day. After a week the neighbour had the bright idea of boarding up his wrought iron gate so that when the little tts burst out barking to see who it was then they couldn't see anything - hey presto!

They came around and apologised as having finally experienced what we did wen they went out ie incessant barking that they 'realised how annoying it was' They had a new gate built out of timer and now we never hear a peep. It's fking bliss. Once of the dogs died recently and I shamefully admit to being really really glad the little st was dead.

So, get a tape and make a recording and take it around to them and show then what its like to listen to their little st machines.

I'm totally with you on how annoying a monotonous dog barking is, it actually started to get under my skin to the point I would find myself considering poisoning them with an injected sausage thrown their way one sunny Sunday. I fking hate uncontrolled, untrained and non exercised dogs and it should be treated far more seriously by the council. The laws concerning these noisy st machines need to be tightened up sharpish imho

JonRB

74,390 posts

271 months

Friday 2nd January 2015
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lord trumpton said:
They came around and apologised as having finally experienced what we did wen they went out ie incessant barking that they 'realised how annoying it was'
Sound like decent people. Not many would have the humility to do that.

Langweilig

4,298 posts

210 months

Friday 2nd January 2015
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JonRB said:
There's an advert currently running to do with building the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars. The gravelly film trailer style narrator says that you can build "an accurate 1-to-1 replica" of the iconic ship, and then the advert cuts to the happy model builders constructing the model on a table.

Now, call me picky here, but unless the people long, long ago in that galaxy far, far away were only six inches tall, then I call bks on this being a 1-to-1 scale replica.
Those partworks are never on sale in newsagents for very long. After the first six issues, they no longer stock them. I suppose it's a way of getting you to take out a subscription.

lord trumpton

7,320 posts

125 months

Friday 2nd January 2015
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JonRB said:
lord trumpton said:
They came around and apologised as having finally experienced what we did wen they went out ie incessant barking that they 'realised how annoying it was'
Sound like decent people. Not many would have the humility to do that.
Yeah thy are. That's why it lingered on for so long as they were great about everything else - just the ing dogs

Langweilig

4,298 posts

210 months

Friday 2nd January 2015
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fatboy18 said:
Issi said:
My fecking neighbours dog. Every night it just stands in the back garden barking at the patio doors. I can honestly say that in 18 months I have never seen it walked, they just seem to sling it out the back and let it bark for hours.

The worst thing is the bark is always the same, it's the same 3 short barks repeated incessantly with about a 5 second gap between 'verses'
Report them to the Local RSPCA, they will get a visit from a Officer to see if the dog is being looked after, if the dog still keeps barking, Keep reporting it. Also your local council may have a Dog Warden who can also look in to how they treat the dog wink
I know. One of my neighbours has a similar noise nuisance. Famed for barking at 7.30 a.m on a Sunday morning when all you want to do is have a couple of hours extra kip. The beast has also barked at midnight and 3 a.m.

WD39

20,083 posts

115 months

Saturday 3rd January 2015
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Ganglandboss said:
Newspaper headlines such as this:

'Mother left with horrific leg burns after spilling boiling cup of McDonald’s tea that she claims did not have the lid fitted on'

Source: The fking Mail - what else!

In what fking way is the fact she has three kids relevant to the story (other than perhaps highlighting that people as stupid as her are able to breed)?
It's just journalism.
Painting a complete picture of the subject in the article.

WD39

20,083 posts

115 months

Saturday 3rd January 2015
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CC07 PEU said:
Anything in the news about Payday loans. Who gives a fk about payday loans?! They are certainly not worthy of national news!
Except those who have been subjected to the harsh reality of said loans.

Skii

1,625 posts

190 months

Saturday 3rd January 2015
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Selfies.

Stop taking photos of your own stupid pouting faces you pointless narcissistic fktards.

King Herald

23,501 posts

215 months

Saturday 3rd January 2015
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Skii said:
Selfies.

Stop taking photos of your own stupid pouting faces you pointless narcissistic fktards.
Why don't they call them 'Vainies'??? Or 'Get a life and stop being so self centred-ies'.

And now they have the 'Selfie Stick'.....



A useful weapon to bludgeon some self-centreed twot to death with when it pokes into your face as you walk past them...

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