Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)

Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)

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Frimley111R

15,537 posts

233 months

Monday 11th July 2016
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Car journos who think any car with a splitter/spoiler, side skirts looks like a Halfords special! Yeah thirty grands worth of CTR or FRS is complete boy racer!

ClockworkCupcake

74,394 posts

271 months

Monday 11th July 2016
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Frimley111R said:
Car journos who think any car with a splitter/spoiler, side skirts looks like a Halfords special! Yeah thirty grands worth of CTR or FRS is complete boy racer!
I must confess that when I bought my Sagaris I bought it in spite of the looks as I considered it to be "Max Powered from factory" although the looks have grown on me. paperbag

But, yes, lazy journalism is annoying.

WD39

20,083 posts

115 months

Tuesday 12th July 2016
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popeyewhite said:
WD39 said:
Always good driving practice. Why approach at speed if you know they are going to change to red? Duh!
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Or were you serious, if so frown
Of course I should have added : When approaching TL that you have observed have been green for some time...

But to save the discussion from being too complicated, how about 'Treat TL with respect and approach with caution at all times.'

WD39

20,083 posts

115 months

Tuesday 12th July 2016
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ClockworkCupcake said:
WD39 said:
A hundred miles! That system is not working.
What, the SI system of International Units where "m" is the defined abbreviation for metres?

Or your system of being trying to be a smart arse? Because I'd agree there. biggrin

(Edit: Yes, granted, British road signs still use 'm' to denote miles but usually 'mi' is used to avoid confusion with SI units and it was fairly clear from context that he meant metres)


Edited by ClockworkCupcake on Monday 11th July 21:44
Far too serious a response for a moment of levity.


Edited by WD39 on Tuesday 12th July 10:44

RobinOakapple

2,802 posts

111 months

Tuesday 12th July 2016
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Stupid Americanisms like 'swap out' when 'swap' on its own would serve the same purpose.

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Tuesday 12th July 2016
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My fking office chair has been annoying me beyond reason for several months now. It's this piece of crap. Piston now leaks on it so I'll be sat there merrily doing computer stuff and it will slowly sink down until the desk top is nearly level with my chin. mad

Also the fact they screen any product reviews left for them and if they're not 4 or 5 stars they don't publish them. This gives the impression to any potential customers that they're a really good company with excellent products yet it's a load of bullst. The real picture only emerges when you go direct to the TrustPilot site and look up the company name.

Edited by All that jazz on Tuesday 12th July 11:42

Europa1

10,923 posts

187 months

Tuesday 12th July 2016
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People choosing (or rather, failing to choose) sandwiches in Pret, particularly the Kings Cross Station branch - standing gormlessly in front of the shelves, completely blocking the view of/access to the sandwiches for others. For fk's sake: develop some decisiveness, and some spatial awareness.

ClockworkCupcake

74,394 posts

271 months

Tuesday 12th July 2016
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WD39 said:
Far too serious a response for a moment of levity.
True. paperbag

MartG

20,620 posts

203 months

Tuesday 12th July 2016
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RobinOakapple said:
Stupid Americanisms like 'swap out' when 'swap' on its own would serve the same purpose.
Watching Indycar - "come to pitlane" when "pit" would do

mickk

28,769 posts

241 months

Tuesday 12th July 2016
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Europa1 said:
People choosing (or rather, failing to choose) sandwiches in Pret, particularly the Kings Cross Station branch - standing gormlessly in front of the shelves, completely blocking the view of/access to the sandwiches for others. For fk's sake: develop some decisiveness, and some spatial awareness.
You'd think they could add a few more tills somewhere in that branch, always rammed that one. Oh and stop pushing me while I'm choosing my yogurt.

The Don of Croy

5,975 posts

158 months

Tuesday 12th July 2016
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yellowjack said:
Or alternatively? Something like this might happen?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36761849
The cause of that accident annoys me beyond reason;

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greate...

Unlicensed 19yo driving at 80mph on urban street, through red lights. Unbelievable. Texts his GF after event telling her he won't go to regular nick and will be out soon. What a piece of work.

yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Tuesday 12th July 2016
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Europa1 said:
People choosing (or rather, failing to choose) sandwiches in Pret, particularly the Kings Cross Station branch - standing gormlessly in front of the shelves, completely blocking the view of/access to the sandwiches for others. For fk's sake: develop some decisiveness, and some spatial awareness.
Extend that to supermarkets.

Particularly the type of customer who is a "Gripper". As in "can't relax their grip on their trolley for even a second". So they stand there in front of shelves in general, and chiller cabinets in particular, deciding what meals they're planning for the rest of the week, while completely blocking any access whatsoever to any items in said shelves/cabinets.

FFS! Park the freakin' trolley in the centre of the aisle. Preferably hidden behind that pillar. Or leave it at the end of the aisle and walk up when it's really busy. Seriously. I have a favourite brand of bacon, and I know exactly how much I want. Just let me get in, I'll grab it and get out again. And you STILL won't even know whether it's chippolatas or proper bangers you want, let alone which meat you want in them, or from which brand!!!

I like nothing better than moving an ignorant oaf's trolley if they inadvertently let go of the handle. I only once got a challenge over that, and my response to "Do you mind? That's MY trolley" was "Erm? No, actually. I don't mind, it was in my way. And it's not YOUR trolley, it belongs to Sainsburys/Morrisons/Tesco* - as do the goods in it right up until you've paid for them".

This is less prevalent in Waitrose, but is endemic in Marks & Spencers when they have one of their £10 'Dine in for two' deals on. If it wasn't so damnably annoying it would be hilarious, because the gaggle of pensioners congregating with their tightly gripped trolleys around the offer looks for all the world like settlers with their wagons drawn up to protect against those pesky Red Indians Native Americans, who might have that nice pack of chicken en croûte away before they can check every single one of them for the longest 'use by' date, despite the fact that they're going to cook it just as soon as they bloody-well get home... irked


* delete 'generic, market leading, but slightly downbeat supermarket brand', insert 'Waitrose' - this is PH after all wink

FlyingMeeces

9,932 posts

210 months

Tuesday 12th July 2016
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The current rash of unfunny idiots in my local cafe/bar/preferred lurking spot.

Just.

No.

I think the thing that gets me is that for someone to act like that drunk, they must have been at least somewhat suppressing the same attitude when sober.

ClockworkCupcake

74,394 posts

271 months

Tuesday 12th July 2016
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yellowjack said:
Particularly the type of customer who is a "Gripper". As in "can't relax their grip on their trolley for even a second". So they stand there in front of shelves in general, and chiller cabinets in particular, deciding what meals they're planning for the rest of the week, while completely blocking any access whatsoever to any items in said shelves/cabinets.
I confess that one time when I discovered a trolley parked at a jaunty angle across most of the aisle, I remarked to the lady holding it "If you rotate your trolley just a little bit more, you could block the entire aisle". paperbag

These days, though, I just gently nudge their trolley out of the way with mine.

WD39

20,083 posts

115 months

Tuesday 12th July 2016
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ClockworkCupcake said:
yellowjack said:
Particularly the type of customer who is a "Gripper". As in "can't relax their grip on their trolley for even a second". So they stand there in front of shelves in general, and chiller cabinets in particular, deciding what meals they're planning for the rest of the week, while completely blocking any access whatsoever to any items in said shelves/cabinets.
I confess that one time when I discovered a trolley parked at a jaunty angle across most of the aisle, I remarked to the lady holding it "If you rotate your trolley just a little bit more, you could block the entire aisle". paperbag

These days, though, I just gently nudge their trolley out of the way with mine.
Good idea. I would argue that what yellowjack describes is simply how it is in supermarkets. After all we don't all have a favourite cured meat to sprint and select.

Issi

1,782 posts

149 months

Tuesday 12th July 2016
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I would like to think that Yellowjack would also be scrutinizing the check out girls picture ID before letting her scan his products,as you never can tell if they're impostors or not.

yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Tuesday 12th July 2016
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Issi said:
I would like to think that Yellowjack would also be scrutinizing the check out girls picture ID before letting her scan his products,as you never can tell if they're impostors or not.
Qué? I think (hope?) I detected just a hint of sarcasm in WD39's comment about cured meats, but your comment will need an explanation please.


Anyway. It is annoying beyond reason that I am having to put up with a fking F-18 performing 'dynamic aerobatic manoeuvres' whilst pointing directly at my house during the trade week air display at Farnborough, yet "for safety reasons" the fking LA have decided to close some of the best places from which to view the aeroplanes. Safety reasons my arse! The art of covering one's arse and being SEEN to be "doing something" more like. Still, if it saves just one life!

Also, when the pilot has long since put his Hornet back on the deck, my neighbour's car alarm will no doubt still be chirping away like a demented cricket, despite the airfield being over two miles away. Grrrr! As an aside, the Typhoon has just headed directly away from me with the afterburners lit and it still doesn't seem to make as much of a racket as the Hornet.

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 12th July 2016
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Airfield within 2 miles of your house? Council thread is thataway ------->

hehe Just kidding yj

yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Tuesday 12th July 2016
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OpulentBob said:
Airfield within 2 miles of your house? Council thread is thataway ------->

hehe Just kidding yj
It's not a laughing matter, OpBob. I once made the mistake of mentioning that I lived "on an estate" on here. I was very nearly marched to the exit, put on a diet and forced to shave off my goatee.

Then I checked for a definition, and lo!

Wikipedia said:
A housing estate is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country. Accordingly, a housing estate is usually built by a single contractor, with only a few styles of house or building design, so they tend to be uniform in appearance.
...and therefore I'd respectfully submit that the vast majority of folk who kid themselves that they don't "live on an estate" actually do. My PH membership card was saved from the Haymarket shredder just in time!

Besides which, the street upon which I reside is separated from the M3 motorway by nothing but an acoustic barrier fence and 50 or so metres of woodland, which is almost certainly far more 'council' than living within 2 or 3 miles of the (rather posh, check Google images for photos of the terminal building wink ) Farnborough Airfield runway.

MartG

20,620 posts

203 months

Tuesday 12th July 2016
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