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

[rohrl]

FourWheelDrift said:

Was that on a UK library wall? As the UK has over 4000 libraries and in 2015 there are 791 Starbucks coffee shops.

Yes, a UK library.

The reason I gave USA figures was to illustrate that even in Starbucks' most heavily penetrated core market there are more public libraries than Starbucks.

[WD39]

Jon321 said:

Anything that is to do with Christmas before December 1st.

Stuff in shops, adverts on TV and most definitely decorations going up. Even the 1st is still over 3 weeks before the actual day so I'm not advocating it being hushed up until the day before.

I'm not anti Christmas or some miserable bah humbug bd, I just prefer it to not be dragged out over a 2-3 month period so you're saturated with all things Christmas by the 25th.

We run a card and gift shop. As soon as the kids go back to school in September people start asking for christmas cards. The next big wave occurs when the clocks go back. It's just responding to customer demand.

[WD39]

Einion Yrth said:

Issi said:

People who use this site as some kind of weird version of Google.

'How much do kitchen tiles cost?'

'Who was the actor in XXXXXXX?'

'Looking for a pub in East Dribbling?'

Here's an idea - try finding the answer for yourself?

They are finding the answer, by using this weird version of google.

Answers:

£28.99 per sq. metre. All branches of Tile City.
Not one famous actor, but a lot of Xtras.
The Kings Moustache is ok but the best pubs are in West Dribbling, by the river Dribble

[silverthorn2151]

james_tigerwoods said:

JonRB said:

james_tigerwoods said:

and after getting all the players on and screwed down, I realised that they were the wrong way around.

Maybe that's why none of the bolts lined up.

Haha - It was the leg bolts. Turns out there's a tiny dint in the metal poles that the men go on that indicated which end goes where. And it's not mentioned - the Chinglish is special in this one...

Oi, I'm from Chingford. You 'aving a go?

[Roy Lime]

If one were in the market for a new car, it would be perfectly natural to wander into a showroom, pick a colour and drive away in a shiny, new Ford Fiesta, or whatever. Similarly, buying a washing machine is as simple as visiting a shop, choosing a suitable one and perhaps arranging delivery. Same thing with a torch, same thing with a radio, same thing with... you get the picture. Now, imagine you'd made such a purchase and returned home with your spiffing new item. Wouldn't you be a bit miffed to discover Ford expected you to spend a couple of hours under the bonnet every day? Or Hotpoint, Maglite, Sony, whichever company you'd contracted with for the supply of goods you actually expected would work?

Why then, upon my spending several hundred quid on a new computer, did Hewlett bd Packard deem it acceptable to hand over a maddening piece of st that steadfastly refuses to play ball? I'm not a bleeding computer engineer, you fking morons, I don't even fking like computers. They are, sadly, a necessary evil. How am I supposed to magically know which of the handily installed software fking "apps" (and that's a fking stupid word made up by the manipulative bds at Apple and nauseatingly perpetuated by the army of sad, sad dheads that worship at the altar of Jobs) I can safely remove in order to have half a chance of the bd thing working? How is this in any way reasonable?

Picture the scene: "Here's your new fridge sir. You'll just need to whip the back off and top up the Freon. Of course, it won't actually chill anything until you tune the compressor."

You'd tell him to shove the fridge up his arse, wouldn't you? And rightly so. And yet, for some unfathomable reason, we all accept it with computers. We all happily take it up the jacksy, every time we buy a new one of these nasty, stty, rage-inducing little misery boxes.

I fking hate computers.

[james_tigerwoods]

silverthorn2151 said:

james_tigerwoods said:

JonRB said:

james_tigerwoods said:

and after getting all the players on and screwed down, I realised that they were the wrong way around.

Maybe that's why none of the bolts lined up.

Haha - It was the leg bolts. Turns out there's a tiny dint in the metal poles that the men go on that indicated which end goes where. And it's not mentioned - the Chinglish is special in this one...

Oi, I'm from Chingford. You 'aving a go?

Come on then - You n me - aaaartside - naaaahhhww...

[JonRB]

Roy Lime said:

If one were in the market for a new car, it would be perfectly natural to wander into a showroom, pick a colour and drive away in a shiny, new Ford Fiesta

Not to detract from your rant, but not being able to walk into a showroom and drive out with a car is something that annoys me. I'm here, I have cleared funds, I want that one on your forecourt right there. The used one that is all prepped and ready to go. What, I have to come back in a week or two? Why? I want that one. I don't have to come back in a week or two when I buy a bag of potatoes in Sainsbury's. What is it about that second-hand car on your forecourt that you need a week or two for? It's not like you are building a new car or anything. It's there. I am touching it. I want it now.

[Munter]

JonRB said:

Roy Lime said:

If one were in the market for a new car, it would be perfectly natural to wander into a showroom, pick a colour and drive away in a shiny, new Ford Fiesta

Not to detract from your rant, but not being able to walk into a showroom and drive out with a car is something that annoys me. I'm here, I have cleared funds, I want that one on your forecourt right there. The used one that is all prepped and ready to go. What, I have to come back in a week or two? Why? I want that one. I don't have to come back in a week or two when I buy a bag of potatoes in Sainsbury's. What is it about that second-hand car on your forecourt that you need a week or two for? It's not like you are building a new car or anything. It's there. I am touching it. I want it now.

With many dealers you can. That's what we did with out latest one. Wandered in, test drive, value trade in, agree deal, spend lunch arranging alternate finance, drive out in car about 2 hours after test drive.

[SilverSixer]

JonRB said:

Roy Lime said:

If one were in the market for a new car, it would be perfectly natural to wander into a showroom, pick a colour and drive away in a shiny, new Ford Fiesta

Not to detract from your rant, but not being able to walk into a showroom and drive out with a car is something that annoys me. I'm here, I have cleared funds, I want that one on your forecourt right there. The used one that is all prepped and ready to go. What, I have to come back in a week or two? Why? I want that one. I don't have to come back in a week or two when I buy a bag of potatoes in Sainsbury's. What is it about that second-hand car on your forecourt that you need a week or two for? It's not like you are building a new car or anything. It's there. I am touching it. I want it now.

I share your feelings on the subject, it's frustrating. I'm sure you realise that it's because the car hasn't been properly prepped though. They leave any work needing doing to it until they know it's sold - if it doesn't sell it'll go to auction or something, and they'd have wasted their time/money prepping it. Happened to me a few months back, placed deposit on unprepped car, found car to have faulty ventilation on the test drive, seller has been unable to rectify and has given me the deposit back. Another example was looking at a used X-Type in a main Jaguar dealer years back - salesman asked if I wanted to test drive it, I said no chance until you've changed the front tyres, which are showing canvas.

[JonRB]

Munter said:

With many dealers you can. That's what we did with out latest one. Wandered in, test drive, value trade in, agree deal, spend lunch arranging alternate finance, drive out in car about 2 hours after test drive.

Fair enough. I confess that I don't buy cars very often. It's nice to know that others have had a better experience.

[james_tigerwoods]

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[JonRB]

SilverSixer said:

I share youre feelings on the subject, it's frustrating. I'm sure you realise that it's because the car hasn't been properly prepped though. They leave any work needing doing to it until they know it's sold - if it doesn't sell it'll go to auction or something, and they'd have wasted their time/money prepping it. Happened to me a few months back, placed deposit on unprepped car, found car to have faulty ventilation on the test drive, seller has been unable to rectify and has given me the deposit back. Another example was looking at a used X-Type in a main Jaguar dealer years back - salesman asked if I wanted to test drive it, I said no chance until you've changed the front tyres, which are showing canvas.

Oh, absolutely. I have test driven cars that looked like a dog's dinner and been told the faults wouldn't be fixed until I had agreed the sale (yes, right. Dream on. Walking away). I've also seen my old Chimaera sat on a forecourt for ages looking very forlorn and in need of some love, and been told they wouldn't show that love until someone wanted to buy it (even though I told them that nobody would buy it looking like that. Chicken and egg).

However, in the case of my Swift it really was prepped and ready to go. I really don't know why they made me wait a week or so on it and don't know what they did to it in that time.

But I digress. Plus, as you correctly guessed, my post was tongue-in-cheek anyway.

[McAndy]

JonRB said:

(Apologies for slight derail)

[Roy Lime]

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[Blanchimont]

Roy Lime said:

As I had no idea what PEBKAC meant I Googled it. Wikipedia suggests it is: "often used by tech support operators and computer experts..."

I am neither of these things. Why should I have to be? In an increasingly online world the computer is a necessity. Perhaps I'm a bit thick but when I buy tool I expect to be able to operate it without needing to understand the intricacies of how it works. I don't give a st what happens inside the washing machine; I merely want to put some soap in and have it clean my clothes. Why should a computer be any different?

My point stands.

I work in IT and had to google that. Working in IT, we generally get asked to help setup new computers, especially around christmas time in exchange for some beer.

If you have a friendly IT dept, it may be worth asking them for advice?

I used to work in PCWorld, and the "setup" process they had to follow was ridiculous. We couldn't install any third party software as the end user had to agree to the terms, not us. WHO READS THEM?!

[droopsnoot]

Einion Yrth said:

Issi said:

People who use this site as some kind of weird version of Google.

'How much do kitchen tiles cost?'

'Who was the actor in XXXXXXX?'

'Looking for a pub in East Dribbling?'

Here's an idea - try finding the answer for yourself?

They are finding the answer, by using this weird version of google.

It's probably because Google is so over-run with junk placed by people whose sole purpose seems to be to get their product to the top of Google. Like searching for anything on eBay - pages and pages of junk to wade through before you get close to anything worthwhile. With particular ire reserved for those who add the prefix "not" just to get their items into unrelated searches, as in "Ford Escort Mk1 front wing, not Viva, Avenger, Saturn V, Liberator".

[Hugo a Gogo]

the analogy would be more like;

"I bought this bloody fridge, there's no milk in it, or butter or any ham and cheese like in the one at my mum's house, wtf?

and why isn't it cold?"

[DaveGoddard]

Jose fking Mourinho and the media's obsession with the utter tt.

[MartG]

Hugo a Gogo said:

the analogy would be more like;

"I bought this bloody fridge, there's no milk in it, or butter or any ham and cheese like in the one at my mum's house, wtf?

and why isn't it cold?"

A new PC is a blank canvas

[jr6yam]

MartG said:

A new PC is a blank canvas

If only that were true...