Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]
Discussion
RobinBanks said:
People with loud/piercing voices. When people near you are having a conversation and everyone manages to be very subtle and you can't hear them apart from just one and you hear everything that person says perfectly.
When that person speaks over you when you're trying to talk and you're effectively shouted down...james_tigerwoods said:
When that person speaks over you when you're trying to talk and you're effectively shouted down...
Oh I hate that. Especially when they ask you a question, you start to answer, then they talk over you to ask the question again but a slightly different way, then you try to give them the information they want only for them to do it again. And again. I have been known, on occasion, to interrupt and say "if you stop asking me the bloody question for the umpteenth time then you might get the answer" or "I'll tell you, if you let me get a word in edgeways".
james_tigerwoods said:
When that person speaks over you when you're trying to talk and you're effectively shouted down...
I agree. I was just sitting near a group of 6 people and I couldn't hear any of them apart from one girl and she just went on about herself and kept pointing out that she's from York.That's obvious from your bloody accent, obnoxious t
t.RobinBanks said:
I agree. I was just sitting near a group of 6 people and I couldn't hear any of them apart from one girl and she just went on about herself and kept pointing out that she's from York.
That's obvious from your bloody accent, obnoxious tt.
That's obvious from your bloody accent, obnoxious t
t.JonRB said:
Oh I hate that. Especially when they ask you a question, you start to answer, then they talk over you to ask the question again but a slightly different way, then you try to give them the information they want only for them to do it again. And again.
I have been known, on occasion, to interrupt and say "if you stop asking me the bloody question for the umpteenth time then you might get the answer" or "I'll tell you, if you let me get a word in edgeways".
And when you're on a conference call it's even worse - especially when they're wrong.I have been known, on occasion, to interrupt and say "if you stop asking me the bloody question for the umpteenth time then you might get the answer" or "I'll tell you, if you let me get a word in edgeways".
Recently, I was in a room with a few colleagues and one person kept doing just that and when he turned his back on me (he was sat next to me) to talk over me, the urge to club him to death was barely suppressed...
fatboy18 said:
One of each on two different occasions 
I know it might sound stupid but if someone said to you "its 1.7 Wide" How would you read that? 17cm? 1 meter and 7 mm? 1 meter and 7cm? I meter and 70cm You see its easy to interpret it the wrong way? there are too many variables, If you measure it in Inches there is less chance of getting it wrong IMO.
No-one would say anything was 1.7 wide. They'd clarify it by saying it was 1.7m, or 1.7cm or 1.7mm. Nobody would say just '1.7'. Besides, I thought the construction industry worked in millimetres, so instead of your '1.7', which I would guess to be 1.7m, you'd more than likely be told something measured 1700mm, or probably just '1700'. I suspect pretty much everyone would know what that meant if you said a window was 1700 wide. I know it might sound stupid but if someone said to you "its 1.7 Wide" How would you read that? 17cm? 1 meter and 7 mm? 1 meter and 7cm? I meter and 70cm You see its easy to interpret it the wrong way? there are too many variables, If you measure it in Inches there is less chance of getting it wrong IMO. Of course they could equally mean 1.7 inches, or 1.7 feet, or 1.7 yards.
Antony Moxey said:
fatboy18 said:
One of each on two different occasions I know it might sound stupid but if someone said to you "its 1.7 Wide" How would you read that? 17cm? 1 meter and 7 mm? 1 meter and 7cm? I meter and 70cm You see its easy to interpret it the wrong way? there are too many variables, If you measure it in Inches there is less chance of getting it wrong IMO.
No-one would say anything was 1.7 wide. They'd clarify it by saying it was 1.7m, or 1.7cm or 1.7mm. Nobody would say just '1.7'. Besides, I thought the construction industry worked in millimetres, so instead of your '1.7', which I would guess to be 1.7m, you'd more than likely be told something measured 1700mm, or probably just '1700'. I suspect pretty much everyone would know what that meant if you said a window was 1700 wide. I know it might sound stupid but if someone said to you "its 1.7 Wide" How would you read that? 17cm? 1 meter and 7 mm? 1 meter and 7cm? I meter and 70cm You see its easy to interpret it the wrong way? there are too many variables, If you measure it in Inches there is less chance of getting it wrong IMO. Of course they could equally mean 1.7 inches, or 1.7 feet, or 1.7 yards.
Einion Yrth said:
1) Scientists are humans.
2) The most commonly used floating point representations in computers are inherently inaccurate, in some magnitude ranges wildly so.
3) Real numbers incorporates floats; did you mean integers?
1) Debatable. 2) The most commonly used floating point representations in computers are inherently inaccurate, in some magnitude ranges wildly so.
3) Real numbers incorporates floats; did you mean integers?
2) I know.
3) Sorry, brainfart. I was looking for 'Natural'. Or 'Rational' would have done. I've no idea where 'Real' came from.
Tried for ages to get tickets for the England Six Nations matches and didn't get any. Went on Facebook and this guy I know who has only ever had a passive interest in Rugby has put loads of photos up from the England Wales game, even got the stadium wrong. How can you go all the way to Cardiff and then say you're at Twickenham?
More disappointed that some who applied on the off chance got to go and see such a great game than I am annoyed about it really.
More disappointed that some
who applied on the off chance got to go and see such a great game than I am annoyed about it really.Recruitment Agents who phone you up and try give you a mini interview; asking about your qualifications, experience, expertise, and the like. Go read my CV - I'm not going to spoon feed you. You want to land 20% of my billable income? Try doing your job. I've got plenty of agents and direct clients who do.
JonRB said:
billable
That excuse for a word annoys me beyond reason. It is artificial and usually entirely superfluous in a sentence. It's like people asking me for my contact telephone number. What other kind of telephone numbers are there which do not allow contact to be made? I have no non-contact, dummy telephone numbers. Just telephone numbers. That's all you need to say. Contact number? OK. Just about allowable. Contact telephone number? f
k off.SilverSixer said:
JonRB said:
billable
That excuse for a word annoys me beyond reason. It is artificial and usually entirely superfluous in a sentence. I guess from that you get "billable income" being income derived from billable time, although I agree that it's a tautology.
Councils that cannot be arsed to grit the roads but have the speed cameras out on said icy roads.
Heading south on A3 early Saturday morning to the mothers and just after the Hindhead tunnel as the road dips down the roads got noticeably icier with little sign of any gritting what so ever and then as we approached the Shell petrol station we came across a 5/6 car pile up blocking the inside lane. Slowed right down as doing anything over 50 and you felt the tyres lose grip anyhow just after the petrol station as you go round the bend and there is camera van parked up on the side of the road. fking thicko s.
Heading south on A3 early Saturday morning to the mothers and just after the Hindhead tunnel as the road dips down the roads got noticeably icier with little sign of any gritting what so ever and then as we approached the Shell petrol station we came across a 5/6 car pile up blocking the inside lane. Slowed right down as doing anything over 50 and you felt the tyres lose grip anyhow just after the petrol station as you go round the bend and there is camera van parked up on the side of the road. f
king thicko s. jogon said:
Councils that cannot be arsed to grit the roads but have the speed cameras out on said icy roads.
Heading south on A3 early Saturday morning to the mothers and just after the Hindhead tunnel as the road dips down the roads got noticeably icier with little sign of any gritting what so ever and then as we approached the Shell petrol station we came across a 5/6 car pile up blocking the inside lane. Slowed right down as doing anything over 50 and you felt the tyres lose grip anyhow just after the petrol station as you go round the bend and there is camera van parked up on the side of the road. fking thicko s.
Oh I don't know, it might be the one day a decade when the place the cameras are put is actually dangerous above the posted limit.Heading south on A3 early Saturday morning to the mothers and just after the Hindhead tunnel as the road dips down the roads got noticeably icier with little sign of any gritting what so ever and then as we approached the Shell petrol station we came across a 5/6 car pile up blocking the inside lane. Slowed right down as doing anything over 50 and you felt the tyres lose grip anyhow just after the petrol station as you go round the bend and there is camera van parked up on the side of the road. f
king thicko s. Hooli said:
Oh I don't know, it might be the one day a decade when the place the cameras are put is actually dangerous above the posted limit.
Given that it has been pretty nippy for the last week or so I was surprised to see such little evidence of gritting, the A27 between Portsmouth and Chichester you could see the salt all over roads, Hampshire obviously can't afford so they get the revenue machines out instead. loafer123 said:
Road=Highways Agency
Speed Cam=Surrey Police
Fair enough I just found it rather annoying after seeing 5 or 6 families weekends ruined in a pretty nasty smash to turn round the next corner and see a scamera van parked by the side of an icy road where no one is doing more than 50. Speed Cam=Surrey Police
jogon said:
loafer123 said:
Road=Highways Agency
Speed Cam=Surrey Police
Fair enough I just found it rather annoying after seeing 5 or 6 families weekends ruined in a pretty nasty smash to turn round the next corner and see a scamera van parked by the side of an icy road where no one is doing more than 50. Speed Cam=Surrey Police
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