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

[The Don of Croy]

227bhp said:

marmitemania said:

227bhp said:

• Does anyone else remember Mr Meaker et al in Rentaghost?

Didn't they have a Cortina convertible (Crayford) on Rentaghost?

I only have very vague memories of it, but maybe a Google will throw something up. I do remember the Jester Timothy Claypole and Audrey Roberts off of Corrie in it though. I think moves were made to try and bring it back with newer actors in recent years...

I still find even the memory of that clown chap annoying - was he a court jester? Oddly enjoyable at the time.

Kitchen spout 'o' rings are annoying me - just had to order another set after pinching one putting the neck back into the tap body. The only reason it was removed again was to replace a faulty spout...and so I ordered a spare set just in case. Which will fester in a drawer for yonks before being lost when we need to replace again...

[Morningside]

Saying "cup of" before the word "tea". FFS just say I would like a tea!

Time. Five and twenty past or Five and twenty to the hour. What the hell is wrong with twenty five past? I don't say ten and five past.

[PanzerCommander]

Morningside said:

Saying "cup of" before the word "tea". FFS just say I would like a tea!

Time. Five and twenty past or Five and twenty to the hour. What the hell is wrong with twenty five past? I don't say ten and five past.

Regarding tea, it depends where you are from as the word has two different meanings depending on what context its used in.

[colonel c]

Morningside said:

Saying "cup of" before the word "tea". FFS just say I would like a tea!

Time. Five and twenty past or Five and twenty to the hour. What the hell is wrong with twenty five past? I don't say ten and five past.

No! Sorry but just saying 'I would like a tea'. Is just plain wrong.

The time thing, I find fascinating. Just how easily we can switch between a 24hr clock for work, TV schedules, travel timetables etc. To a traditional 12hr clock face way of expressing the time.

[GOG440]

Morningside said:

Saying "cup of" before the word "tea". FFS just say I would like a tea!

Time. Five and twenty past or Five and twenty to the hour. What the hell is wrong with twenty five past? I don't say ten and five past.

In Yorkshire you had best be specific. Around here if you ask for a pot of tea you are likely to get a mug full rather than a teapot. Confused the hell out of my southerner exwife the first time my dad asked her if she wanted a pot of tea "not all to myself"
Also my grandad always used five and twenty past/to for 25past/to whether it was a yorkshire thing or a generation thing I couldnt tell you.

Edited to add

I forgot to add the thing that really really pisses me off, Insurance companies taking the piss with renewals. My oh got her renewal this morning, £430. 10 minutes with the meerkats and i got it down to £230.

Edited by GOG440 on Thursday 18th June 13:01

[JonRB]

GOG440 said:

I forgot to add the thing that really really pisses me off, Insurance companies taking the piss with renewals. My oh got her renewal this morning, £430. 10 minutes with the meerkats and i got it down to £230.

I agree - some companies really take the piss. I changed to a different insurer this year and I told the current one exactly why I was moving. They tried to price match and I told them they'd had their chance to give a competitive quote when they sent out the renewal letter.

[RacingBlue]

Pollen.

[IN51GHT]

JonRB said:

GOG440 said:

I forgot to add the thing that really really pisses me off, Insurance companies taking the piss with renewals. My oh got her renewal this morning, £430. 10 minutes with the meerkats and i got it down to £230.

I agree - some companies really take the piss. I changed to a different insurer this year and I told the current one exactly why I was moving. They tried to price match and I told them they'd had their chance to give a competitive quote when they sent out the renewal letter.

I do the same, if they could have offered me the better price, why not do it from the offset instead of when challenged.

[rohrl]

Bad parents bringing noisy children into the adults section of the library.

[SpeckledJim]

IN51GHT said:

I do the same, if they could have offered me the better price, why not do it from the offset instead of when challenged.

Because money made from lazy > money lost from indignant.

[Einion Yrth]

rohrl said:

Bad parents bringing noisy children into the adults section of the library world.

[MartG]

GOG440 said:

Also my grandad always used five and twenty past/to for 25past/to whether it was a yorkshire thing or a generation thing I couldnt tell you.

Mine used to occasionally refer to a year as a 'twelvemonth'

[nicanary]

MartG said:

GOG440 said:

Also my grandad always used five and twenty past/to for 25past/to whether it was a yorkshire thing or a generation thing I couldnt tell you.

Mine used to occasionally refer to a year as a 'twelvemonth'

And ageing US Marshals called a 5-year term a lustrum.

[Issi]

People with zero general knowledge skills who apply for quiz shows on TV.

This was just overheard -

'The Manx cat comes from which Island?'
'Egypt'

Or the people who when given a multiple choice say things like -

'Well,I've never heard of Botswana, so it can't be that'

Do they honestly think they're going to wing out and walk out with thousands?

[Timmy40]

Issi said:

People with zero general knowledge skills who apply for quiz shows on TV.

This was just overheard -

'The Manx cat comes from which Island?'
'Egypt'

Or the people who when given a multiple choice say things like -

'Well,I've never heard of Botswana, so it can't be that'

Do they honestly think they're going to wing out and walk out with thousands?

Quiz shows tend to be on daytime TV, so are primarily watched by the thick & unemployed, who then apply to go on the show.

[Cotty]

GOG440 said:

In Yorkshire you had best be specific. Around here if you ask for a pot of tea you are likely to get a mug full rather than a teapot. Confused the hell out of my southerner exwife the first time my dad asked her if she wanted a pot of tea "not all to myself" ]

If you wanted a pot containing tea what would you ask for?

[GOG440]

IN51GHT said:

JonRB said:

GOG440 said:

I forgot to add the thing that really really pisses me off, Insurance companies taking the piss with renewals. My oh got her renewal this morning, £430. 10 minutes with the meerkats and i got it down to £230.

I agree - some companies really take the piss. I changed to a different insurer this year and I told the current one exactly why I was moving. They tried to price match and I told them they'd had their chance to give a competitive quote when they sent out the renewal letter.

I do the same, if they could have offered me the better price, why not do it from the offset instead of when challenged.

This is exactly what we did, they made it as difficult as possible for my wife to cancel the auto renewal they had sneaked onto the policy

[GOG440]

Cotty said:

GOG440 said:

In Yorkshire you had best be specific. Around here if you ask for a pot of tea you are likely to get a mug full rather than a teapot. Confused the hell out of my southerner exwife the first time my dad asked her if she wanted a pot of tea "not all to myself" ]

If you wanted a pot containing tea what would you ask for?

A pot of tea for 2 I think.

[Morningside]

RacingBlue said:

Pollen.

Not to be sneezed at.

[RobinBanks]

Issi said:

People with zero general knowledge skills who apply for quiz shows on TV.

This was just overheard -

'The Manx cat comes from which Island?'
'Egypt'

Or the people who when given a multiple choice say things like -

'Well,I've never heard of Botswana, so it can't be that'

Do they honestly think they're going to wing out and walk out with thousands?

The girl on Pointless who just guessed that India gained independence from Great Britain in 1783.

And you're right again on the second one. "I haven't heard of Noel Edmonds, so he probably isn't a former DJ...."

Why wouldn't he be a DJ just because you haven't heard of him?