Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)
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I re-visited a tenants house, some 5 months after I let it to them. It had a beautiful fitted kitchen with integrated applicances.
They were playing hell about the cooker not working: how christmas had been ruined. They'd be cooking meals using a microwave, sandwich toaster and a couter top halogen type bulb oven (think QVC channel)
I knelt down: logically looked at all 2 buttons on the cooker and all 2 dials. within 30 secs it was running. Their joy was so great, it was like I just shown stone age man fire.
fecking morons. this is a house with 2 adults and 2 grown up teenagers. they must have been using cookers for a some 40 years at least. how stupid are some people ??
They were playing hell about the cooker not working: how christmas had been ruined. They'd be cooking meals using a microwave, sandwich toaster and a couter top halogen type bulb oven (think QVC channel)
I knelt down: logically looked at all 2 buttons on the cooker and all 2 dials. within 30 secs it was running. Their joy was so great, it was like I just shown stone age man fire.
fecking morons. this is a house with 2 adults and 2 grown up teenagers. they must have been using cookers for a some 40 years at least. how stupid are some people ??
People filling their cold drink container up, drinking half of it then filling to the top. Just stood behind a guy in a supermarket that did this, smiled at me and said he was just tasting it for flavour!. I asked him if he was gonna put some fuel in his car for a test without paying for it? Looked very puzzled and replied that would be stealing.
Fozziebear said:
People filling their cold drink container up, drinking half of it then filling to the top. Just stood behind a guy in a supermarket that did this, smiled at me and said he was just tasting it for flavour!. I asked him if he was gonna put some fuel in his car for a test without paying for it? Looked very puzzled and replied that would be stealing.
I'd say if someone topping up a cold drink from dispenser costing the company a few pence is something that "annoys you beyond reason" then your life must be pretty good. 
The kitchen at my workplace.
Specifically, the people who use it.
It has two sinks, with a swivelling mixer tap between them. The tap runs on for a few seconds after you turn it off.
The kitchen is equipped with a roller towel for drying hands/mugs etc, washing up liquid and a sponge.
Colleague 1 is using one sink to clean his lunch things. Colleague 2 wants to use the other to rinse his mug. 1 turns off the tap, 2 immediately swivels it round and in the intervening seconds, a small shower of water is deposited all over the worktop in the middle. Eventually the water level on the worktop reaches such a level that it starts to drip on the floor.
What they do next is place a small piece of towel on the floor under the drip.
Because, you know, wiping up the flood is too hard.
Specifically, the people who use it.
It has two sinks, with a swivelling mixer tap between them. The tap runs on for a few seconds after you turn it off.
The kitchen is equipped with a roller towel for drying hands/mugs etc, washing up liquid and a sponge.
Colleague 1 is using one sink to clean his lunch things. Colleague 2 wants to use the other to rinse his mug. 1 turns off the tap, 2 immediately swivels it round and in the intervening seconds, a small shower of water is deposited all over the worktop in the middle. Eventually the water level on the worktop reaches such a level that it starts to drip on the floor.
What they do next is place a small piece of towel on the floor under the drip.
Because, you know, wiping up the flood is too hard.
Edited by Zelda Pinwheel on Friday 23 September 15:25
All that jazz said:
Fozziebear said:
People filling their cold drink container up, drinking half of it then filling to the top. Just stood behind a guy in a supermarket that did this, smiled at me and said he was just tasting it for flavour!. I asked him if he was gonna put some fuel in his car for a test without paying for it? Looked very puzzled and replied that would be stealing.
I'd say if someone topping up a cold drink from dispenser costing the company a few pence is something that "annoys you beyond reason" then your life must be pretty good. 
t for the last 6 months, had to count every penny, but that's changing next month. I think it's the whole I'll just drink this and top it up for the same price attitude, same as taking grapes to taste then not buying them, munching on French stick and putting it back. Maybe I'm to honest?austinsmirk said:
I re-visited a tenants house, some 5 months after I let it to them. It had a beautiful fitted kitchen with integrated applicances.
They were playing hell about the cooker not working: how christmas had been ruined. They'd be cooking meals using a microwave, sandwich toaster and a couter top halogen type bulb oven (think QVC channel)
I knelt down: logically looked at all 2 buttons on the cooker and all 2 dials. within 30 secs it was running. Their joy was so great, it was like I just shown stone age man fire.
fecking morons. this is a house with 2 adults and 2 grown up teenagers. they must have been using cookers for a some 40 years at least. how stupid are some people ??
Now imagine working in IT and dealing with the general public. - I'm suprised some of them manage to dress themselves and avoid tying their shoelaces together.They were playing hell about the cooker not working: how christmas had been ruined. They'd be cooking meals using a microwave, sandwich toaster and a couter top halogen type bulb oven (think QVC channel)
I knelt down: logically looked at all 2 buttons on the cooker and all 2 dials. within 30 secs it was running. Their joy was so great, it was like I just shown stone age man fire.
fecking morons. this is a house with 2 adults and 2 grown up teenagers. they must have been using cookers for a some 40 years at least. how stupid are some people ??
As for things that annoy me beyond reason; elderly people that refuse to learn how to use computers, yet insist on having them. Specifically when they're my customers and they waste half of my working day by asking questions as if the computer's been teleported into their spare room by aliens and they've never seen it before. They then forget the answers to the questions they've asked one nanosecond after asking them and so repeat asking the same things for hour after hour (no exaggeration).
- People who refuse to use the Internet / search engines / books / instruction manuals and so phone you up and waste your time asking how to do really simple things ("How do I turn it on?") etc. - Do they do this to car salespeople too?
- People who treat their laptop like a basketball, knacker the HDD, rip off the Windows COA (licence key), smash the screen, break the charging socket, cover it in food / drink and fill it with malware, viruses and other crap, then expect you to fix it for a fiver, within the day.
- People who come back 3 months after you did a job for them and complain about a laundry list of completely unrelated faults that they've caused themselves. "Since you worked on my computer, my dog died, my kitchen ceiling fell in and I've got a flat tyre on my car". I know this happens to mechanics too!
Fozziebear said:
All that jazz said:
Fozziebear said:
People filling their cold drink container up, drinking half of it then filling to the top. Just stood behind a guy in a supermarket that did this, smiled at me and said he was just tasting it for flavour!. I asked him if he was gonna put some fuel in his car for a test without paying for it? Looked very puzzled and replied that would be stealing.
I'd say if someone topping up a cold drink from dispenser costing the company a few pence is something that "annoys you beyond reason" then your life must be pretty good. t for the last 6 months, had to count every penny, but that's changing next month. I think it's the whole I'll just drink this and top it up for the same price attitude, same as taking grapes to taste then not buying them, munching on French stick and putting it back. Maybe I'm to honest?Issi said:
Fozziebear said:
All that jazz said:
Fozziebear said:
People filling their cold drink container up, drinking half of it then filling to the top. Just stood behind a guy in a supermarket that did this, smiled at me and said he was just tasting it for flavour!. I asked him if he was gonna put some fuel in his car for a test without paying for it? Looked very puzzled and replied that would be stealing.
I'd say if someone topping up a cold drink from dispenser costing the company a few pence is something that "annoys you beyond reason" then your life must be pretty good. t for the last 6 months, had to count every penny, but that's changing next month. I think it's the whole I'll just drink this and top it up for the same price attitude, same as taking grapes to taste then not buying them, munching on French stick and putting it back. Maybe I'm to honest?Fozziebear said:
All that jazz said:
Fozziebear said:
People filling their cold drink container up, drinking half of it then filling to the top. Just stood behind a guy in a supermarket that did this, smiled at me and said he was just tasting it for flavour!. I asked him if he was gonna put some fuel in his car for a test without paying for it? Looked very puzzled and replied that would be stealing.
I'd say if someone topping up a cold drink from dispenser costing the company a few pence is something that "annoys you beyond reason" then your life must be pretty good. t for the last 6 months, had to count every penny, but that's changing next month. I think it's the whole I'll just drink this and top it up for the same price attitude, same as taking grapes to taste then not buying them, munching on French stick and putting it back. Maybe I'm to honest?
If you can fill it yourself it's normally free refills.
Fozziebear said:
Issi said:
Fozziebear said:
All that jazz said:
Fozziebear said:
People filling their cold drink container up, drinking half of it then filling to the top. Just stood behind a guy in a supermarket that did this, smiled at me and said he was just tasting it for flavour!. I asked him if he was gonna put some fuel in his car for a test without paying for it? Looked very puzzled and replied that would be stealing.
I'd say if someone topping up a cold drink from dispenser costing the company a few pence is something that "annoys you beyond reason" then your life must be pretty good. t for the last 6 months, had to count every penny, but that's changing next month. I think it's the whole I'll just drink this and top it up for the same price attitude, same as taking grapes to taste then not buying them, munching on French stick and putting it back. Maybe I'm to honest?This advert annoys me (Weetabix to go):
https://youtu.be/CItZF3_6iq0
Chap wakes up fully clothed for work and has to have his Weetabix to go whilst walking to work as he hasn't enough time to eat at home - only to get to work for a breakfast meeting and promptly pushes his breakfast away from himself as he sits down!
https://youtu.be/CItZF3_6iq0
Chap wakes up fully clothed for work and has to have his Weetabix to go whilst walking to work as he hasn't enough time to eat at home - only to get to work for a breakfast meeting and promptly pushes his breakfast away from himself as he sits down!
Pintofbest said:
This advert annoys me (Weetabix to go):
https://youtu.be/CItZF3_6iq0
Chap wakes up fully clothed for work and has to have his Weetabix to go whilst walking to work as he hasn't enough time to eat at home - only to get to work for a breakfast meeting and promptly pushes his breakfast away from himself as he sits down!
Step this way Sir..https://youtu.be/CItZF3_6iq0
Chap wakes up fully clothed for work and has to have his Weetabix to go whilst walking to work as he hasn't enough time to eat at home - only to get to work for a breakfast meeting and promptly pushes his breakfast away from himself as he sits down!
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Footie commentators. The "pro" ones are usually OK , its the retired footballer that says some real stupid things...
"Oh we aren't allowed a shoulder barge anymore".....then the reply shows the attacker ramming a guy in the back.
"the ref is interpreting the law a bit strict there".....when its a blatant handball. ETC
"Oh we aren't allowed a shoulder barge anymore".....then the reply shows the attacker ramming a guy in the back.
"the ref is interpreting the law a bit strict there".....when its a blatant handball. ETC
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