Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]
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Self-service tills. They've been mentioned many times on here, and I hate them as much as the next person.
But there is one thing that annoys me more about them than anything else - because it's so damn cynical on the part of the supermarket/shops.
The change you get when you pay cash.
The charge is £4.35. You insert £5. The machine gives you 65p change. Not, as you might expect, a 50p, a 10p, and a 5p, no, the bloody thing gives you 2 x 20ps, 1 x 10p and 3 x 5ps. I'm sure the sodding things are programmed to get rid of as much small change as is possible, because handling that stuff further down the line costs the supermarkets time and money. So throw it back at the consumer and make it their problem.
Annoyed beyond reason.
But there is one thing that annoys me more about them than anything else - because it's so damn cynical on the part of the supermarket/shops.
The change you get when you pay cash.
The charge is £4.35. You insert £5. The machine gives you 65p change. Not, as you might expect, a 50p, a 10p, and a 5p, no, the bloody thing gives you 2 x 20ps, 1 x 10p and 3 x 5ps. I'm sure the sodding things are programmed to get rid of as much small change as is possible, because handling that stuff further down the line costs the supermarkets time and money. So throw it back at the consumer and make it their problem.
Annoyed beyond reason.
Issi said:
james_tigerwoods said:
JonRB said:
Hipster beards annoy me beyond reason. 
Hipster beards. Just no. Facial hair is ok, but a 20 something year old with a 6 inch beard and a trilby? No sir, you look like a t
t.Have you been out on a weekend recently, it's the oddest thing seeing a bunch of young men all dressed EXACTLY the same, same tats etc.
horpe as we have a different class here...But I'm in Harrogate regularly and I see this sort all the time there - and when I'm out and about and I wonder if they'll be the ones looking back on photos when they're older saying "WTF was I thinking" while covering up tattoos while applying for jobs...
Timmy40 said:
The only civilised way to eat such a buggeration is to cut it up into pieces.
My method is usually to remove all the salad (why do I need/want salad IN a burger) and then, carefully and methodically take hold of the burger in such a fashion that I don't need to put it down. In this manner, I can safely consume the burger, adjusting my grip as I eat it and not worry about how the hell I'm going to pick it back up again if I put it down. Chips and other condiments are eaten with the free hand.It's not the worlds greatest theory, but it's what I go with
northwest monkey said:
Adverts on the radio that for some reason think that using a cockney voice will encourage me to spend money with them.
"The new VW van is a facking diamond geezer of a van. Handy for when you need to get tooled up."
"Get yourself down to Buildbase this Bank Holiday weekend you slaaag."
"Got a job on? Get to Wickes or I'll facking cat your facking face off. Bish bash bosh."
Advertisings.
There's one that plays on Heart in Yorks and Lancs, some scrap metal merchant I think. Despite having heard it a gazillion times now, I still can't make out if they're called IJK or RJK or AJK Metals because of his stupid cockney accent "Ah JK, show us yer me'al, we'w show ya the moneh." "The new VW van is a facking diamond geezer of a van. Handy for when you need to get tooled up."
"Get yourself down to Buildbase this Bank Holiday weekend you slaaag."
"Got a job on? Get to Wickes or I'll facking cat your facking face off. Bish bash bosh."
Advertising
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had ham said:
Self-service tills. They've been mentioned many times on here, and I hate them as much as the next person.
But there is one thing that annoys me more about them than anything else - because it's so damn cynical on the part of the supermarket/shops.
The change you get when you pay cash.
The charge is £4.35. You insert £5. The machine gives you 65p change. Not, as you might expect, a 50p, a 10p, and a 5p, no, the bloody thing gives you 2 x 20ps, 1 x 10p and 3 x 5ps. I'm sure the sodding things are programmed to get rid of as much small change as is possible, because handling that stuff further down the line costs the supermarkets time and money. So throw it back at the consumer and make it their problem.
Annoyed beyond reason.
I was about to write this very post myself after the self-service till at Tesco gave me two 5ps instead of a 10p this morning. I'm 100% sure they're doing it for the reason you gave above. Sneaky fBut there is one thing that annoys me more about them than anything else - because it's so damn cynical on the part of the supermarket/shops.
The change you get when you pay cash.
The charge is £4.35. You insert £5. The machine gives you 65p change. Not, as you might expect, a 50p, a 10p, and a 5p, no, the bloody thing gives you 2 x 20ps, 1 x 10p and 3 x 5ps. I'm sure the sodding things are programmed to get rid of as much small change as is possible, because handling that stuff further down the line costs the supermarkets time and money. So throw it back at the consumer and make it their problem.
Annoyed beyond reason.
kers. I'll pay for my morning paper on debit card from now on and cost them the handling fee.
People (men) wiping bogies on the wall of the toilet. WTF is that about? Is it some territorial thing that I am not enough of an alpha male to understand? I don't have to clean it up, but somebody does.
Even worse in my office - we don't have urinals, so wherever you go to take a leak, you will be stood at a toilet with a well stocked toilet paper dispenser no more than 30cm from your hand, so if you really must pick your nose, the product is easily dealt with; and yet....
Freaks.
Even worse in my office - we don't have urinals, so wherever you go to take a leak, you will be stood at a toilet with a well stocked toilet paper dispenser no more than 30cm from your hand, so if you really must pick your nose, the product is easily dealt with; and yet....
Freaks.
One day, we're going to hear about someone going haywire over something very trivial, and driving a TVR or M3 in to the front of some new fashion gastropub, staffed solely by hipsters, and we'll all be checking this thread to see who it might have been... 
This is probably my favourite thread on PH.
This is probably my favourite thread on PH.
The general acceptance that it's OK to take the wee out of white males when advertising something on TV, but all other social groups are out of bounds.
Can anyone, for one moment, believe that there wouldn't be outcry if the bloke in the train toilet/bike parking advert was a bird? Or black?
Didn't think so.
Can anyone, for one moment, believe that there wouldn't be outcry if the bloke in the train toilet/bike parking advert was a bird? Or black?
Didn't think so.
budfox said:
The general acceptance that it's OK to take the wee out of white males when advertising something on TV, but all other social groups are out of bounds.
Can anyone, for one moment, believe that there wouldn't be outcry if the bloke in the train toilet/bike parking advert was a bird? Or black?
Didn't think so.
Slightly on that subject, watching an advert yesterday for "Pink Casino" or something like that, an online casino aimed solely at women. This seems to be OK (see also: Sheilas Wheels) but a casino catering only for men would not be.Can anyone, for one moment, believe that there wouldn't be outcry if the bloke in the train toilet/bike parking advert was a bird? Or black?
Didn't think so.
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