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

[SilverSixer]

yellowjack said:

WD39 said:

Festivals also.

TV Camera shots of bands show that flags obliterate the view for most of the audience.

Not allowed at Reading I believe.

No, not allowed at Reading. Which is why I love Reading so much. A royal PITA if it's wet as you can't take golf brollies in either, but hey? You win some, you lose some.

When I see the likes of Glasto on telly, with all those morons with giant flags totally obscuring the view for most people, I get an overwhelming desire to incinerate them. And their wretched flags too...


...Reading really is all about the music. Glastonbury seems to be more about "doing Glastonbury", with all the added 'hippy' bks.

Trouble is, the standard of the music at Reading has been collapsing for about 5 years now, to the extent that it's really not worth going any more. I've been going for 20-odd years, but it's not for me any longer. Which is a shame as I live about 300 yards from the main stage, as the crow flies (I enjoy pointing my neighbour's house out amongst the trees to people when they ask me 'where have you come from'?). There's been nothing worth seeing since Metallica a couple of years back. Biffy Clyro, headline act? fk off.

This annoys me beyond reason.

Edited by SilverSixer on Tuesday 2nd August 09:45

[james_tigerwoods]

227bhp said:

Marty Funkhouser said:

Pointless redesigns like the latest Outlook one. Something works fine, seems to keep everyone happy then they go and change everything.

FFS WHY???

I'm wondering why the heck they've put ALL my inbox emails on ONE page, none of my computers can load the page up now without having to wait. Does anyone know how to get back to the (say) 30 per page system if at all possible?

Not to mention that in Outlook Ctrl-F doesn't do find, like it does in EVERY SINGLE OTHER APPLICATION ON THE PLANET!

[Sheets Tabuer]

Ordering something online from a warehouse 40 miles away, would I like normal 5 day postage at 1.99 or next day for 5.99?

Wtf do you do with it, sit it on the side for 4 days unless I pay £5.99?

[Issi]

Johnnytheboy said:

yellowjack said:

...Reading really is all about the music. Glastonbury seems to be more about "doing Glastonbury", with all the added 'hippy' bks.

'twas ever thus...

Is this why people keep the stickers on their cars for ever - it's the sticker version of 'Oh, this old thing, I just threw it on'

Are people really impressed that you spent 12 hrs on hold to buy a vastly inflated ticket to then go and sit in a field in Somerset for a few days.
That reminds me, I've got to go and scrape the 'Little Piddling Summer Fete 2016' sticker off my windscreen.

Edited by Issi on Tuesday 2nd August 16:43

[ClockworkCupcake]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Ordering something online from a warehouse 40 miles away, would I like normal 5 day postage at 1.99 or next day for 5.99?

Wtf do you do with it, sit it on the side for 4 days unless I pay £5.99?

Presumably they package and send the orders for all the people who paid Next Day first, then they start on the 5-Day orders and then another few orders come that are Next Day, so they stop what they're doing and do those, then go back to the 5-Day orders, then some more orders come in... etc. The 5-day orders get processed as and when.

At least that's what I assume happens. Or it could be that they just sit there twiddling their thumbs doing nothing for 4 days because your 5-Day order is the only order they have and they have literally nothing else to do and just want to annoy you. Who knows?

[All that jazz]

james_tigerwoods said:

227bhp said:

Marty Funkhouser said:

Pointless redesigns like the latest Outlook one. Something works fine, seems to keep everyone happy then they go and change everything.

FFS WHY???

I'm wondering why the heck they've put ALL my inbox emails on ONE page, none of my computers can load the page up now without having to wait. Does anyone know how to get back to the (say) 30 per page system if at all possible?

Not to mention that in Outlook Ctrl-F doesn't do find, like it does in EVERY SINGLE OTHER APPLICATION ON THE PLANET!

All email clients I've used do mail forwarding by default with CTRL+F rather than a more useful "find". Certainly do with Thunderbird and EmClient anyway.

[thetapeworm]

All that jazz said:

^ Those house bricks annoy me beyond reason.

I'm not sure if it's the bricks themselves that annoy me or the fact that whoever used them to build the house didn't either align them all the same way or fully randomise them so that there aren't clusters of bricks pointing the same way.

Oddly the house in the next block on the estate uses completely different brick, then it swaps back to these horrors.

[opieoilman]

ClockworkCupcake said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

Ordering something online from a warehouse 40 miles away, would I like normal 5 day postage at 1.99 or next day for 5.99?

Wtf do you do with it, sit it on the side for 4 days unless I pay £5.99?

Presumably they package and send the orders for all the people who paid Next Day first, then they start on the 5-Day orders and then another few orders come that are Next Day, so they stop what they're doing and do those, then go back to the 5-Day orders, then some more orders come in... etc. The 5-day orders get processed as and when.

From the way we work, priority orders go first (or ones that have been delayed for some reason) and then once those are packed, the normal ones are sent. Also, the couriers often charge a lot more for the quicker service.

[Sheets Tabuer]

opieoilman said:

From the way we work, priority orders go first (or ones that have been delayed for some reason) and then once those are packed, the normal ones are sent. Also, the couriers often charge a lot more for the quicker service.

I'm sure it never used to be that way, at least for parcels. Everything went on the same van.

[WD39]

[redacted]

[leigh1050]

Bus passengers,why does every person getting off have to ring the bell.

[Marty Funkhouser]

Ludicrous 2 stroke scooters usually driven by 15 year olds. Earth shatteringly loud and irritating.

[NDA]

People taking full sized bikes on packed commuter trains. Several morons did this on my train tonight - nobody could get past. Just because they don't fancy using the bus, tube or taxi, everyone else has to 'enjoy' their hobby.

[ClockworkCupcake]

Marty Funkhouser said:

Ludicrous 2 stroke scooters usually driven by 15 year olds. Earth shatteringly loud and irritating.

So are 15 year olds, on the whole, surely?

[rambo19]

leigh1050 said:

Bus passengers,why does every person getting off have to ring the bell.

I'm going to say london, or a big town/city with a large asian population...........

[RobinOakapple]

[redacted]

[IanCress]

The young lad last night who decided to join the M60, riding some sort of dirt bike with no indicators and no mirrors and no reg plate, and who didn't even bother to look over his shoulder when changing lanes. Talk about a death wish.

[yellowjack]

NDA said:

People taking full sized bikes on packed commuter trains. Several morons did this on my train tonight - nobody could get past. Just because they don't fancy using the bus, tube or taxi, everyone else has to 'enjoy' their hobby.

People have always taken full-sized bicycles onto commuter trains. It's just that in the "good old days" you didn't see them (the people, nor their bikes) because they were at the end of the train in the brake van, and later the guard's van. Then the old slam-door stock, along with the concept of a goods conveying space (guard's van) was replaced with newer, safer, more comfortable rolling stock.

So don't blame the cyclists. Blame the designers and commissioners of the new railway company rolling stock. Oh, and the non-cycling commuters need to shoulder a good deal of the blame too. For it was that lot, repeatedly falling out of trains because they opened the doors to get on or off when said train was already/still moving, which really did for slam-door stock. As a result of safety campaigns (and an obsession with packing too many passengers into too little space, which would be illegal on buses/coaches/aeroplanes, BTW), we've now lost the guard's van, but gained the safety of crew-operated electronically controlled passenger doors. No more space for bikes or simply bulky luggage, just wall-to-wall suit'n'tie wkers spreading themselves and their briefcases out to try to bag more than one seat for themselves, and moaning when it takes more than 5 seconds for the doors to open at the station.


Things that annoy me beyond reason? No offence ( ), but...

Moaning, whinging, maggoty-arsed fking wkers, who think that somehow, because they are "commuting", they get to be more important on a train than all the other passengers who have paid just as much (in most cases more, at peak times) than they have for a ticket. It's A train, not YOUR train, FFS!


And...

Absolute chod-gobblers in queues of traffic who, upon observing a bicycle CORRECTLY passing the queue on it's off side, will deliberately move their car right out to, and sometimes even OVER the centre white line in a vain attempt to block the bike from making progress. Well hey? Watch this, Giblets. I can just as easy nip to the nearside to get past you, then switch back to the offside. And despite your "wah! wah! it's not fair!" protestations, it IS fair. And entirely legal. Just as it is entirely legal for me to get off my bicycle and walk it past temporary traffic lights (and even permanent ones) and get back on it on the other side of the light-controlled area. This is because I instantly become (legally speaking) a 'pedestrian' when I dismount. You could do the same, I imagine. Get out of your car, I mean, and carry it down the pavement past the queues. What's the matter? You not "powerfully built" enough? So no, Mr "powerfully built X5 driver", I did not just "run a red light" (he put it far less politely). I took a walk past a traffic management feature, which, as a pedestrian, I am absolutely permitted to do.

[Cotty]

NDA said:

People taking full sized bikes on packed commuter trains. Several morons did this on my train tonight - nobody could get past. Just because they don't fancy using the bus, tube or taxi, everyone else has to 'enjoy' their hobby.

Depending on your train service they are not allowed during peak times, I saw a guy with a non folding bike get turned away from the barriers last night at about 18:00

"Unfortunately non-folding bikes are not allowed on our peak time services arriving in London from Monday to Friday between 07.00 and 09.59, and leaving London between 16.00 and 18.59"

[Europa1]

Cotty said:

NDA said:

People taking full sized bikes on packed commuter trains. Several morons did this on my train tonight - nobody could get past. Just because they don't fancy using the bus, tube or taxi, everyone else has to 'enjoy' their hobby.

Depending on your train service they are not allowed during peak times, I saw a guy with a non folding bike get turned away from the barriers last night at about 18:00

"Unfortunately non-folding bikes are not allowed on our peak time services arriving in London from Monday to Friday between 07.00 and 09.59, and leaving London between 16.00 and 18.59"

That's certainly the case on the Cambridge-Kings Cross route.