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

[JonRB]

Companies that automatically put you on their mailing list if you buy something from them, or even make an enquiry with them (such as getting an insurance quote).

Edit: And I don't mean the standard "Don't tick this box if you don't not want to be included from not joining our opt-out mailing list" shenanigans - I mean just silently subscribing you without asking or giving you the opportunity to opt out.

Edited by JonRB on Wednesday 3rd June 19:14

[m8rky]

Today, all the idle, feckless, lazy, inconsiderate, arrogant, fkhead wkers that think it is ok to launch fag butts, sweet wrappers, bits of sandwich out of their car window. Been behind 5 of the s today.
Is it that hard to dispose of properly you ignorant wkers. I hope you tread in a fking gigantic dog turd.
s.

Rant over.

[fatboy18]

m8rky said:

Today, all the idle, feckless, lazy, inconsiderate, arrogant, fkhead wkers that think it is ok to launch fag butts, sweet wrappers, bits of sandwich out of their car window. Been behind 5 of the s today.
Is it that hard to dispose of properly you ignorant wkers. I hope you tread in a fking gigantic dog turd.
s.

Rant over.

Nice rant, could not agree more

[WD39]

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[WD39]

kowalski655 said:

rohrl said:

Sam99 said:

Grown men, with testicles allegedly, who call their significant others SWMBO.
Term of endearment maybe , but have you any idea how “ under the thumb” it sounds ??

It's a quote from the Rumpole books by John Mortimer. It's not to be taken literally, any more than "'er indoors".

And even earlier, from the novel She by H Rider Haggard.

bigkeeko said:

Here`s something that f**ks me off. People who talk in riddles. ..........

You work with this guy?

Edited by kowalski655 on Wednesday 3rd June 18:19

Played by Frank Gorshin in the Batman TV shows.

I had a long conversation with him once on an aircraft, could not understand a word he said, talked in, of course, riddles.

[Kiltie]

Americans.

Leaders of the free world; my arse!

I wouldn't trust 'em to sit on the bog the right way round.

[Captain Muppet]

Kiltie said:

Americans.

Leaders of the free world; my arse!

I wouldn't trust 'em to sit on the bog the right way round.

I trust them. Not with anything complicated like writing the date in a logical order, but the ones I've worked with are nice enough people.

fking inches though. And the date thing. And dropping the h from "herb".

[AstonZagato]

m8rky said:

Today, all the idle, feckless, lazy, inconsiderate, arrogant, fkhead wkers that think it is ok to launch fag butts, sweet wrappers, bits of sandwich out of their car window. Been behind 5 of the s today.
Is it that hard to dispose of properly you ignorant wkers. I hope you tread in a fking gigantic dog turd.
s.

Rant over.

I live on a quiet country road. The end of my driveway is always littered with detritus thrown from passing cars. Cans, fag packets, McDonalds cups, crisp packets. The type of thing that the scum of society might consume (proved by the fact that only the scum of society would throw it out of the window rather than take it home and put it in a bin.

[Issi]

I walked past two young lads, sat in a generic little car at the end of my quiet suburban street (about 4 miles from the nearest McDonalds/KFC etc), at 10 a clock at night, having a pre-midnight feast of crap.

I knew, I just knew that when I walked back from the pub an hour later, it would be all of the road.

I was sorely tempted when I first walked past to knock on the window and say 'Please don't dump your crap on the street when you've finished eating' but knew that this would probably cause them to kick off.

Bloody annoying but what can you do? (apart from picking it myself and putting it in my own bin when I got home.

I don't understand why they wouldn't choose to just sit down in the place they bought it from and eat it there, what's the attraction of eating in your car?

[RobinOakapple]

rohrl said:

Sam99 said:

Grown men, with testicles allegedly, who call their significant others SWMBO.
Term of endearment maybe , but have you any idea how “ under the thumb” it sounds ??

It's a quote from the Rumpole books by John Mortimer. It's not to be taken literally, any more than "'er indoors".

Actually it's a quote from Rider Haggard, Mortimer was quoting from Haggard's book She: A History of Adventure

[CC07 PEU]

Men using the hairdryer in the gym changing rooms.

[MuffDaddy]

JonRB said:

Companies that automatically put you on their mailing list if you buy something from them, or even make an enquiry with them (such as getting an insurance quote).

You know the trick to this? gmail. say you own JonRB@gmail.... you also own any version of that with dots in, so Job.RB etc. More than this, you can add stuff at the end after a '+'. So JonRB+spamcompanyname@gmail. Then when they spam you, you place anything inbound to this address in to a spam bin. I know it is a pain, but its also a great way to find out who sold your details.

[All that jazz]

MuffDaddy said:

JonRB said:

Companies that automatically put you on their mailing list if you buy something from them, or even make an enquiry with them (such as getting an insurance quote).

You know the trick to this? gmail. say you own JonRB@gmail.... you also own any version of that with dots in, so Job.RB etc. More than this, you can add stuff at the end after a '+'. So JonRB+spamcompanyname@gmail. Then when they spam you, you place anything inbound to this address in to a spam bin. I know it is a pain, but its also a great way to find out who sold your details.

That was patched years ago.

[ChrisW_77]

Parcel Force.

It takes just two days for my parcel to get from a post office in Japan to the UK. Then it sits in Coventry for over a week while I wait for PF to send me an invoice for the customs charges. And they charge an extra £13 for this "service".

[Daston]

What is it with people holding their mobile phones as if they were on the apprentice?

Not a day goes by without me seeing some Berk holding their phone under their chin and have the other person on speaker phone. One person was even complaining that they couldn't hear them.....hold it to your ear then you twonk!

[AstonZagato]

I now have bluetooth noise cancelling headphones that can also make calls via my iphone. I now do that with my phone if someone calls me when I'm walking on the street so people don't think I'm talking to myself.

[m8rky]

ChrisW_77 said:

Parcel Force.

It takes just two days for my parcel to get from a post office in Japan to the UK. Then it sits in Coventry for over a week while I wait for PF to send me an invoice for the customs charges. And they charge an extra £13 for this "service".

Not PFs fault. They have to administer it on behalf of customs. Customs create the charge and the £13 is just the admin fee.

[droopsnoot]

m8rky said:

ChrisW_77 said:

Parcel Force.

It takes just two days for my parcel to get from a post office in Japan to the UK. Then it sits in Coventry for over a week while I wait for PF to send me an invoice for the customs charges. And they charge an extra £13 for this "service".

Not PFs fault. They have to administer it on behalf of customs. Customs create the charge and the £13 is just the admin fee.

Yes, it used to be quite interesting to get a parcel shipped via UPS who were quite early adopters of on-line tracking. You could watch as it was collected in San Francisco, taken to the airport, scanned in there, on a plane within a few hours of collection, arrived in East Midlands eight hours later, then takes about five days to do the next 300 yards. Not always, but often.

[PoleDriver]

When you wait over a week for flat roofers to turn up. You rig up an outside mains outlet for them every day and pull it in again every night. 7:30 Saturday fking morning the s turn up with big hammers and an angle grinder or two!

[mickk]

Flat roofers who use angle grinders and big hammers! You sure they're not nicking the lead from your roof?