Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]
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OpulentBob said:
Rostfritt said:
OpulentBob said:
I've since learned, the trick with travel is take a tiny bag with an iPad and a power bank and a bar of choc, sit on an inside aisle seat as far forward as possible, when you land grab the bag and get straight up, as far forward as you can (the business class folks will have done something similar), straight off, to immigration and baggage reclaim first. I went from wheels down straight to standing outside Mumbai airport with 2 cases in 25 minutes on Saturday. A new record. It helps if you look pissed off when walking through the green channel too.
So you stand up as soon as the plane hits the ground and have to hover by the door for about 15 mins while the plane taxis and they get the gangways attached? I bloody hate that, everyone hovering over me when they are not going anywhere for ages. You are just going to have to stand about at baggage reclaim for ages while they unload it.Last year I took a flight with just carry on baggage. Everyone else stood up as soon as we hit tarmac and were faffing about for ages getting off. I had to wait until last as I was at the back with my luggage some distance away so just read a book until the plane was nearly empty. This paid off as I was the last on the bus to the terminal, so I was the first off, strolled through immigration and was through the terminal in under 2 mins.
All passengers must remain seated until the seat belt sign is switched off, which is when stopped at the terminal or parking spot.
Hanging around by the door would not be permitted. Shocking behaviour.
FYI my record to get through Mumbai is just over an hour.
WD39 said:
All passengers must remain seated until the seat belt sign is switched off, which is when stopped at the terminal or parking spot.
Annoys me when they don't. Apparently it is skill pilots learn to come to a halt so gently that nobody realises it has stopped, so they don't all jump up at the same time.I just try to not stress myself out by hurrying through the airport. They may be miserable places full of the worst kind of people but you are not making it anyone better by charging around the place like you are late for a very important meeting.
When you get settled down to watch a new version of a classic book/film only to find that some ignorant t
t has decided that they can improve it by changing the whole plot and the ending which was the whole point of the original story!
39 Steps 'starring' Rupert Penry-Jones!
Ruined it for me!
t has decided that they can improve it by changing the whole plot and the ending which was the whole point of the original story!39 Steps 'starring' Rupert Penry-Jones!
Ruined it for me!
WD39 said:
OpulentBob said:
Rostfritt said:
OpulentBob said:
I've since learned, the trick with travel is take a tiny bag with an iPad and a power bank and a bar of choc, sit on an inside aisle seat as far forward as possible, when you land grab the bag and get straight up, as far forward as you can (the business class folks will have done something similar), straight off, to immigration and baggage reclaim first. I went from wheels down straight to standing outside Mumbai airport with 2 cases in 25 minutes on Saturday. A new record. It helps if you look pissed off when walking through the green channel too.
So you stand up as soon as the plane hits the ground and have to hover by the door for about 15 mins while the plane taxis and they get the gangways attached? I bloody hate that, everyone hovering over me when they are not going anywhere for ages. You are just going to have to stand about at baggage reclaim for ages while they unload it.Last year I took a flight with just carry on baggage. Everyone else stood up as soon as we hit tarmac and were faffing about for ages getting off. I had to wait until last as I was at the back with my luggage some distance away so just read a book until the plane was nearly empty. This paid off as I was the last on the bus to the terminal, so I was the first off, strolled through immigration and was through the terminal in under 2 mins.
All passengers must remain seated until the seat belt sign is switched off, which is when stopped at the terminal or parking spot.
Hanging around by the door would not be permitted. Shocking behaviour.
FYI my record to get through Mumbai is just over an hour.
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Rostfritt said:
Annoys me when they don't. Apparently it is skill pilots learn to come to a halt so gently that nobody realises it has stopped, so they don't all jump up at the same time.
Unfortunately that's been countered by a skill many passengers have developed to help identify whethe the plane has stopped. It's called looking out of the window...PoleDriver said:
When you get settled down to watch a new version of a classic book/film only to find that some ignorant tt has decided that they can improve it by changing the whole plot and the ending which was the whole point of the original story!
39 Steps 'starring' Rupert Penry-Jones!
Ruined it for me!
I read the book recently and was surprised to find the 'steps' were nothing to do with Big Ben clock tower as depicted in the Robert Powell film in the seventies. Annoying.t has decided that they can improve it by changing the whole plot and the ending which was the whole point of the original story!39 Steps 'starring' Rupert Penry-Jones!
Ruined it for me!
On a similar note, watching 'Welcome to the Punch' this week with a stellar UK cast was massively under-whelming due to James McAvoy's rubbish cockney accent and a slightly daft/thin plot. Not sure why he needed the accent - they let Peter Mullan speak 'wegian throughout.
And I'm annoyed beyond etc by my own indolence this week.
PoleDriver said:
When you get settled down to watch a new version of a classic book/film only to find that some ignorant tt has decided that they can improve it by changing the whole plot and the ending which was the whole point of the original story!
39 Steps 'starring' Rupert Penry-Jones!
Ruined it for me!
The only one for me is the original with Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll. "Am I right sir?".t has decided that they can improve it by changing the whole plot and the ending which was the whole point of the original story!39 Steps 'starring' Rupert Penry-Jones!
Ruined it for me!
My whinge - people who decide to fill up at a service station on the opposite side of the road, when there is another station on their side of the road, only a couple of hundred yards further on. This results in long queues at busy times, as they try to force their way in front of oncoming traffic, and again on the return journey. Just as bad are the twunts who stop to let them do this, thus creating the traffic jams because the traffic coming the other way don't want to let him in. No common sense from anybody. Trying to save 1p per litre?
Willy Nilly said:
Golf. I fking hate golf. Golf on the radio is utter st. I don't like it when golf infiltrates my favourite radio station. Take your stupid whispering, ridiculous trousers and moronic avian scoring terminology and fk off.
Local to us is a golf course but on common land so everyone has equal right of way. You should hear them bloody moan because someone has walked past.king hate golf. Golf on the radio is utter st. I don't like it when golf infiltrates my favourite radio station. Take your stupid whispering, ridiculous trousers and moronic avian scoring terminology and fk off. Willy Nilly said:
Golf. I fking hate golf. Golf on the radio is utter st. I don't like it when golf infiltrates my favourite radio station. Take your stupid whispering, ridiculous trousers and moronic avian scoring terminology and fk off.
Presumably if you just switch TV channels, and never visit a Golf course, then this need never impinge on your life? king hate golf. Golf on the radio is utter st. I don't like it when golf infiltrates my favourite radio station. Take your stupid whispering, ridiculous trousers and moronic avian scoring terminology and fk off. I don't play Golf, or have any interest in it, so it never really impacts my life.
I mean, be annoyed by all means if you want, but it does seem like pretty petty "dog in a manger" stuff to be annoyed by something that needn't affect your life one bit.
In fact, whilst I'm on a roll, considering that the main demographic of PH is on the whole fairly libertarian and right-wing, this thread does seem to have an inordinate number of posts of people essentially saying "I am annoyed by people doing stuff that I don't like" or "I am annoyed by people having different views and/or interests to me".
ch108 said:
Tradesmen who come to your house to look at a job and say they will price it and come back to you. Then disappear off the face of the earth never to be heard from again. Why not just say you're busy instead of the pretence of coming out to see a job you have no intention of doing?
Presumably they need to see the potential job to decide it isn't worth doing. But, yeah, they should find a polite way to say "I don't want this job".
JonRB said:
Willy Nilly said:
Golf. I fking hate golf. Golf on the radio is utter st. I don't like it when golf infiltrates my favourite radio station. Take your stupid whispering, ridiculous trousers and moronic avian scoring terminology and fk off.
Presumably if you just switch TV channels, and never visit a Golf course, then this need never impinge on your life? king hate golf. Golf on the radio is utter st. I don't like it when golf infiltrates my favourite radio station. Take your stupid whispering, ridiculous trousers and moronic avian scoring terminology and fk off. I don't play Golf, or have any interest in it, so it never really impacts my life.
I mean, be annoyed by all means if you want, but it does seem like pretty petty "dog in a manger" stuff to be annoyed by something that needn't affect your life one bit.
In fact, whilst I'm on a roll, considering that the main demographic of PH is on the whole fairly libertarian and right-wing, this thread does seem to have an inordinate number of posts of people essentially saying "I am annoyed by people doing stuff that I don't like" or "I am annoyed by people having different views and/or interests to me".
king day? It really is a st game to listen to on the radio, so why not banish it to Sports Extra so the rest of the population don't have to listen to grown men whispering into a microphone. I have to put up with this bks all day, yet am no longer able to watch Clarkson pissing about in cars. fk golf and the Lexus is rode in on. It's st. ch108 said:
Tradesmen who come to your house to look at a job and say they will price it and come back to you. Then disappear off the face of the earth never to be heard from again. Why not just say you're busy instead of the pretence of coming out to see a job you have no intention of doing?
They are candidates for the Sunshine Coach.
Willy Nilly said:
If you want to hit a small ball around with a metal stick, wear stupid trousers and talk in tongues about various birds, knock yourself out. What get's on my tit's is the blanket coverage of it on the radio. I don't even mind if they go over the the golf for an update, but all fking day? It really is a st game to listen to on the radio, so why not banish it to Sports Extra so the rest of the population don't have to listen to grown men whispering into a microphone. I have to put up with this bks all day, yet am no longer able to watch Clarkson pissing about in cars. fk golf and the Lexus is rode in on. It's st.
I like golf.king day? It really is a st game to listen to on the radio, so why not banish it to Sports Extra so the rest of the population don't have to listen to grown men whispering into a microphone. I have to put up with this bks all day, yet am no longer able to watch Clarkson pissing about in cars. fk golf and the Lexus is rode in on. It's st. Willy Nilly said:
If you want to hit a small ball around with a metal stick, wear stupid trousers and talk in tongues about various birds, knock yourself out. What get's on my tit's is the blanket coverage of it on the radio. I don't even mind if they go over the the golf for an update, but all fking day? It really is a st game to listen to on the radio, so why not banish it to Sports Extra so the rest of the population don't have to listen to grown men whispering into a microphone. I have to put up with this bks all day, yet am no longer able to watch Clarkson pissing about in cars. fk golf and the Lexus is rode in on. It's st.
Meh. It doesn't impinge on my life so it doesn't bother me. king day? It really is a st game to listen to on the radio, so why not banish it to Sports Extra so the rest of the population don't have to listen to grown men whispering into a microphone. I have to put up with this bks all day, yet am no longer able to watch Clarkson pissing about in cars. fk golf and the Lexus is rode in on. It's st. I'm presuming you're in a work environment where you're forced to listen to a radio station that you do not want to listen to? I'd hate that. You have my sympathies.
whoami said:
I like golf.
I don't like golf, but it has no impact on my life at all, so that's fine.Except I'm furious that my 350Z has a sticker in it's stupidly compromised boot to explain how to get two golf bags in it. Nothing at all to explain why your weekly shopping is allowed to bounce off the back of your head when you brake, as packing it for golf seems to be more important than food.
It was some weeks in to owning it that I found the sticker, and it make me feel very negative about the whole car, thinking I'd accidentally bought an accessory for a sport I have no interest in, and people who knew would assume I'd bought it for it's perfect golf bag : occupant ratio, rather than because I have a tiny winkle (which is what I assume the non-enthusiast thinks if they spot it's not a generic normal car).
Perversely I'm furious that my Elise has a boot big enough for a golf bag, if only the hatch were big enough to allow loading of a golf bag. I can't help thinking that more people would want one if it were golf enabled.
I wonder if my confused feelings about golf and cars explains why I just can't find VW Golfs even remotely interesting?
I once knew a huge fan of golf who also drove a Golf. I hadn't made the connection between his pastime and his car until just now. it makes me think that I should market a car called "staring at girls in the summer while wearing dark glasses so I don't get caught" or at least something with more universal appeal than golf. The Ford Football perhaps.
I don't like football either.
ETA: I'm now furious that this forum won't allow : and then a letter o without turning it into a smilie face, even if your using those characters to write a ratio.
Edited by Captain Muppet on Friday 17th July 23:10
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