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

[anonymous-user]

MartG said:

OpulentBob said:

Foreigner tax.

Went to see the Taj Mahal at the weekend.

Cost for Sanjay Gupta? 20 rupees.
Cost for this white man? 750 rupees. Plus the associated 24/7 hassle from rickshaw drivers (who all conveniently had broken meters - that's 1000rupees sir), shop owners, tour guides, etc, and the groups of people wanting their photo taken with a white face. I should have started charging for it.

(Before anyone calls me racist, I'm nothing of the sort, but I'm blond haired and blue eyed and was getting as much attention as the fking great marble Wonder of the World.)

Quick solution

That made me laugh a lot more than I should have...

[droopsnoot]

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.

Swintons annoy me. I left them some years ago, because they were double the cost of anyone else at the time. But now they write to me every time my renewal is up, telling me they can offer a competitive quote. They don't send me the quote, they just tell me they can do one and expect me to spend time and phone bills phoning them to see what it is.

[SpeckledJim]

droopsnoot said:

Swintons annoy me. I left them some years ago, because they were double the cost of anyone else at the time. But now they write to me every time my renewal is up, telling me they can offer a competitive quote. They don't send me the quote, they just tell me they can do one and expect me to spend time and phone bills phoning them to see what it is.

In fairness to them, how are they supposed know what they are quoting for?

[JonRB]

Logging into Steam, Origin or Uplay to play a game when you haven't logged into one of them for a while, and they force you to wait whilst they download and apply a patch before they will let you play the game you want to play. Then the game has a patch which you are forced to download and apply.

By the time all that has happened, you have either lost interest or the time you set aside to play the game has been mostly eaten up.

[JonRB]

Dear Neighbour

Hi! You must be really tired, what with making hammering noises for the past couple of hours. I know there are hours more daylight to go, but why don't you call it a night and go inside and have some beers? You've earned it dude. In fact, I'd say you've totally nailed it.

Sincerely
Your concerned neighbour,
who is not at all pissed off that you have been banging your fking hammer for hours.

[rich83]

Rage..... why the FIL insists on doing this i have no idea....

[JonRB]

rich83 said:

Rage..... why the FIL insists on doing this i have no idea....

Because he's a giant tit?

[Munter]

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.

Did that Monday. Bye bye big hat sea man, hello supermarket.

[JonRB]

Munter said:

Did that Monday. Bye bye big hat sea man, hello supermarket.

I'm sure that the churn averages out and that they all get as many new customers as they lose existing ones. But the only way they will get the message that cashing in on "renewal apathy" doesn't work is if people do not allow themselves to be shafted by auto-renewing. Sadly, though, enough people bend over that they clearly think it is worth it.

Plus, do you know how many brands are the same company? For example, Direct Line, Churchill, Privilege and Green Flag are all part of Direct Line Group. And Admiral, Confused.com, Diamond and Elephant are all Admiral Group.

[Leafspring]

The company labourer pulling a sicky (he lost his semi pro darts match Wednesday night... probably sulking off his hang over ) when he should be at work loading my shot-blasters hopper so I don't have to crawl out from under this every 20 minutes in full protective gear to do it my self.



Time is money on this contract

Edited by Leafspring on Thursday 18th June 22:27

[james_tigerwoods]

When hedges are allowed to overgrow footpaths - this is the hedge outside my daughter's school. Half of that hedge is spiky, scratchy stuff - Not nice...





The truly irrational part is the that where the grass overgrows the footpath really bugs me...

[slyelessar]

james_tigerwoods said:

The truly irrational part is the that where the grass overgrows the footpath really bugs me...

Just moved to Oz, and on every footpath (and I must state they are rare if you aren't in a big city), has the grass trimmed at the edge. It does look very neat.

[droopsnoot]

SpeckledJim said:

droopsnoot said:

Swintons annoy me. I left them some years ago, because they were double the cost of anyone else at the time. But now they write to me every time my renewal is up, telling me they can offer a competitive quote. They don't send me the quote, they just tell me they can do one and expect me to spend time and phone bills phoning them to see what it is.

In fairness to them, how are they supposed know what they are quoting for?

They put the car details on the letter*. Granted, I could have changed the car, but then it would be clear the quote is for what I had, not what I might have changed it to and not told them. Like when I get emails from confused.com - they just run the quote for the last car I asked about.

• - Or at least I think they do - it happens around Christmas so I can't quite remember. Certainly wouldn't make any sense to be annoyed about it if they didn't, even in this thread.

[Cotty]

GOG440 said:

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.

But if as you say a pot of tea is actually a mug/cup of tea, then a pot of tea for 2 would just be a large mug of tea.

[McAndy]

JonRB said:

Dear Neighbour

Hi! You must be really tired, what with making hammering noises for the past couple of hours. I know there are hours more daylight to go, but why don't you call it a night and go inside and have some beers? You've earned it dude. In fact, I'd say you've totally nailed it.

Sincerely
Your concerned neighbour,
who is not at all pissed off that you have been banging your fking hammer for hours.

Probably related to the same twazzock who was using his circular saw until gone 21:00 last night.

[colonel c]

JonRB said:

rich83 said:

Rage..... why the FIL insists on doing this i have no idea....

Because he's a giant tit?

[james_tigerwoods]

slyelessar said:

james_tigerwoods said:

The truly irrational part is the that where the grass overgrows the footpath really bugs me...

Just moved to Oz, and on every footpath (and I must state they are rare if you aren't in a big city), has the grass trimmed at the edge. It does look very neat.

I trimmed my own grass to the edge and it looks very neat - so when I see one that isn't right, I just want to get my edger and do it.

But that'd make me look like a loon.

More so.

[BOBTEE]

When everyone was doing the ice bucket challenge I took the huff a made a one off donation to Wateraid. They keep posting stuff out to me and I'm sure they must have just about spent my £5 posting crap back to me that I don't want, if any of my money made it to water I'll be amazed!

[SpeckledJim]

droopsnoot said:

SpeckledJim said:

droopsnoot said:

Swintons annoy me. I left them some years ago, because they were double the cost of anyone else at the time. But now they write to me every time my renewal is up, telling me they can offer a competitive quote. They don't send me the quote, they just tell me they can do one and expect me to spend time and phone bills phoning them to see what it is.

In fairness to them, how are they supposed know what they are quoting for?

They put the car details on the letter*. Granted, I could have changed the car, but then it would be clear the quote is for what I had, not what I might have changed it to and not told them. Like when I get emails from confused.com - they just run the quote for the last car I asked about.

• - Or at least I think they do - it happens around Christmas so I can't quite remember. Certainly wouldn't make any sense to be annoyed about it if they didn't, even in this thread.

But they wouldn't know if you have any points on your license, or any accidents, or named drivers, or where you park it, or commuting or not, etc, etc.

[droopsnoot]

Neither do the emails - it notes "based on nothing changing since the last time we quoted" somewhere in the small print, presumably other than my age and the age of the vehicle.

I just think that by showing me what they can quote for the same vehicle they might draw me into a phone call, where just expecting me to take their word for it that they can be competitive when they weren't last time I used them is expecting a bit much.

Just me, maybe.