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

[iambeowulf]

Fruit fly things biting my feet.

[slyelessar]

Moonhawk said:

Cash points that ask you twenty fking questions.

Also - why have options for:

1. Cash
2. Cash with Receipt

If when you select option 1 and select the amount you want to withdraw - it asks you whether you want a receipt.

....and - does anybody ever take the option of "cash advice"?

I miss this. I moved to Oz recently, and it asks you even MORE useless questions... everything here asks you more questions. I just want exactly what I came for, nothing else.

[DJFish]

FourWheelDrift said:

People who think a top crust only makes it a pie.

YES!
Anything else is a stew with a hat on.

[Mike22233]

anonymous said:

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Super. I don't think I would have been able to resist "I know a few others that got them since you recommended them to me and they've all had issues, turns out, they're a bag of st, good luck with the AC system!"

[iambeowulf]

slyelessar said:

I miss this. I moved to Oz recently, and it asks you even MORE useless questions... everything here asks you more questions. I just want exactly what I came for, nothing else.

What did you come for?
Do you want a receipt?
Do you want to carry out other transactions?
Do you need a hug?

[Mike22233]

iambeowulf said:

What did you come for?
Do you want a receipt?
Do you want to carry out other transactions?
Do you need a hug?

Even worse - if you go into the bank to withdraw money they ask you more questions than you knew was possible.
"do you want a loan", "do you want house insurance", "do you want to upgrade your account" F off!!!!

[toohangry]

anonymous said:

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As much as she sounds like a bragger, it's pretty unpleasant to laugh at their misfortune.
When she insists you should buy AC, why didn't you just tell her you couldn't afford it?

[Moonhawk]

Mike22233 said:

Even worse - if you go into the bank to withdraw money they ask you more questions than you knew was possible.
"do you want a loan", "do you want house insurance", "do you want to upgrade your account" F off!!!!

The one I hate......"what are you going to use the money for". What the fk has it got to do with you?

One of these days i'm going to start throwing in really bizzare answers just to see how they respond.

• 100,000 jelly babies and three tubes of superglue.

• 500 cucumbers, 10 pots of vaseline and some chocolate sprinkles.

• A bed that is slightly too large for the room I intend to put it in and a chainsaw.

[JonRB]

Moonhawk said:

Mike22233 said:

Even worse - if you go into the bank to withdraw money they ask you more questions than you knew was possible.
"do you want a loan", "do you want house insurance", "do you want to upgrade your account" F off!!!!

The one I hate......"what are you going to use the money for". What the fk has it got to do with you?

One of these days i'm going to start throwing in really bizzare answers just to see how they respond.

• 100,000 jelly babies and three tubes of superglue.

• 500 cucumbers, 10 pots of vaseline and some chocolate sprinkles.

• A bed that is slightly too large for the room I intend to put it in and a chainsaw.

I had this when I tried to close an account a good few years ago before on-line banking was quite so prevalent. It was a Building Society account that my grandfather had set up for me as a child and he had paid a few quid here and there into it over the years before finally giving my the passbook when I was 18. It had about £1000-odd in it, and I just kept it there for years. Then when I heard that new legislation meant that "orphaned accounts" might be reclaimed by the government I decided to close it.

Because there was no signature on file, they asked me to come to a branch in person with several forms of ID (fair enough), then a manager took me off to a private meeting room to go through it and then subjected me to what can only be described as an intensive interview / grilling.

When she got to "what do you intend to do with the money?" (after about half an hour of interviewing) I asked if this question was a legal requirement for gaining access to my money, and when she said that it wasn't, I told her that in that case I had surely taken up quite enough of her time and unless there was any other legal impediment to her drafting a cheque for the money then I'd like her to do so now.

It's amazing how quickly people suddenly start to co-operate when you casually throw the word "legal" into matters.

Edited by JonRB on Thursday 9th July 10:11

[JonRB]

The other one that gets me is the fact that Post Office staff now have to ask you what is in your parcel when you want to send it. Not that I use the Post Office for parcels any more, because they're too expensive and myHermes are cheaper and more convenient, but the last time I was asked I replied "nothing that is on your list of things that you won't accept". Which is all the information they need really.

[thismonkeyhere]

toohangry said:

anonymous said:

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As much as she sounds like a bragger, it's pretty unpleasant to laugh at their misfortune.
When she insists you should buy AC, why didn't you just tell her you couldn't afford it?

Schadenfreude is sometimes acceptable.

This, I feel, is one of those occasions.

[RobinOakapple]

thismonkeyhere said:

Schadenfreude is sometimes acceptable.

Schadenfreude, one of the most natural and basic emotions.

[Mike22233]

toohangry said:

As much as she sounds like a bragger, it's pretty unpleasant to laugh at their misfortune.
When she insists you should buy AC, why didn't you just tell her you couldn't afford it?

Doesn't matter if it is unpleasant. It's unpleasant of her to go on about all these expensive items which thousands clearly means less to her than it does to him. Maybe he didn't tell her he couldn't afford it because it's not true. Perhaps he can afford it but chooses more carefully what he does with his cash.

I know her type, full of herself so let what goes around, come around.

[bigkeeko]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

You tell him son.

[jogger1976]

People who tailgate through average speed sections at roadworks, especially when there's only one lane.

People who absolutely MUST get in front of you as they merge onto a motorway. Even if there's no space and they nearly causing a massive accident

fk.RIGHT.OFF

[JonRB]

Using Linux at work and Windows at home, and opening a command prompt in Windows and finding that Ctrl-Shift-V doesn't paste. This annoys me beyond reason.

(I apologise for the high geek quotient in this post)

[ch108]

Morningside said:

Lorries now being called trucks.

I worked in haulage offices for 20 years. Never once did I ever hear any staff call the vehicles lorries. It was always trucks.

It always seemed to be the case if someone (usually staff in the despatch department of a customer, or a freight forwarding agent) had a conversation with you about lorries, it became apparent very quickly that they didn't really know what they were talking about.

One such customer phoned to say he couldn't get all the pallets on the "lorry" we sent in, as the trailer we supplied was 12 metres long when he required one which was 40ft. We had to point out the obvious, then he realised it was he that had too many pallets.

Another gem. "You've sent a lorry in to collect our pallet, but we booked this as an airfreight shipment." I think they were disappointed we never sent a plane to swoop in!

[JonRB]

ch108 said:

I worked in haulage offices for 20 years. Never once did I ever hear any staff call the vehicles lorries. It was always trucks.

It always seemed to be the case if someone (usually staff in the despatch department of a customer, or a freight forwarding agent) had a conversation with you about lorries, it became apparent very quickly that they didn't really know what they were talking about.

This reply has really made me chuckle. Especially with regards to the people who feel that no discussion is allowed on posts to this thread.

[gowmonster]

JonRB said:

Using Linux at work and Windows at home, and opening a command prompt in Windows and finding that Ctrl-Shift-V doesn't paste. This annoys me beyond reason.

(I apologise for the high geek quotient in this post)

2 options
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/25590/how-to-enable...

mobaxterm http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download.html

actually there are lots but they are probably the easiest.

I have fedora 22 on virtualbox in seamless mode for certain linux apps.

[CB2152]

ch108 said:

I worked in haulage offices for 20 years. Never once did I ever hear any staff call the vehicles lorries. It was always trucks.

It always seemed to be the case if someone (usually staff in the despatch department of a customer, or a freight forwarding agent) had a conversation with you about lorries, it became apparent very quickly that they didn't really know what they were talking about.

One such customer phoned to say he couldn't get all the pallets on the "lorry" we sent in, as the trailer we supplied was 12 metres long when he required one which was 40ft. We had to point out the obvious, then he realised it was he that had too many pallets.

Another gem. "You've sent a lorry in to collect our pallet, but we booked this as an airfreight shipment." I think they were disappointed we never sent a plane to swoop in!

So you mean you didn't do this?

http://youtu.be/PErEsNhDmo8

I'm gutted.