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

[K12beano]

BlueFiestaST said:

Correct me if I'm wrong.
If a terminal is contactless then it accepts apple pay.
Am I correct?
That is what I was saying.

I believe you are correct, although I have come across two outlets where they "said" it wasn't working - one was a Supermarket where, at many locations, I've had no problems apart from users telling me about the "limit" - and the second was a restaurant where, my guess, is they hadn't worked out (and neither have I yet figured) they expected to offer the machine up for the punter to add a tip.

Other than that I have three different cards registered and it has worked for me for about a year now - coffee, supermarket bill, hairdresser, farm shop, etc...

[The Don of Croy]

The term "back story" as applied in too many instances recently.

History GCSE will no doubt become Backstory GCSE in time.

That will happen in the future, or 'forward story'.

[Europa1]

The Don of Croy said:

The term "back story" as applied in too many instances recently.

History GCSE will no doubt become Backstory GCSE in time.

That will happen in the future, or 'forward story'.

It's up there with people who have "journeys".

[FlyingMeeces]

Europa1 said:

It's up there with people who have "journeys".

Journeys and stories. I genuinely wanted to thump half of the Paralympic channel 4 presenting team - on and on and on and bloody on about stories.

[popeyewhite]

FlyingMeeces said:

Europa1 said:

It's up there with people who have "journeys".

Journeys and stories. I genuinely wanted to thump half of the Paralympic channel 4 presenting team - on and on and on and bloody on about stories.

+ "Heroes/superhumans"

[nicanary]

FlyingMeeces said:

Europa1 said:

It's up there with people who have "journeys".

Journeys and stories. I genuinely wanted to thump half of the Paralympic channel 4 presenting team - on and on and on and bloody on about stories.

At least these athletes have some sort of excuse for their "story", not like the knuckledraggers on TV talent shows like X-factor whose journey consists of the transition from holding a hairbrush in front of their bedroom mirror, to warbling out of tune in front of smug lizard Cowell and 3 other z-listers. All because their granny's dog died of cancer 2 years ago, and how she's so strong and inspirational, like, ye know......

[colonel c]

The ridicules rules and prices to take scrap wood to the recycling centre.

(Large car (MPV or estate), mini-van or single axle trailer.
•Unsorted/non-recyclable DIY waste - £79.20
•Flat glass - £36
•Rubble - £45.60
•Plasterboard - £114
•Timber - £73.20
•Scrap metal - £36)

[leigh1050]

colonel c said:

The ridicules rules and prices to take scrap wood to the recycling centre.

(Large car (MPV or estate), mini-van or single axle trailer.

•Scrap metal - £36)

Why would you pay someone to take your scrap metal? I get money off of a scrap dealer for mine.

[All that jazz]

colonel c said:

The ridicules rules and prices to take scrap wood to the recycling centre.

(Large car (MPV or estate), mini-van or single axle trailer.
•Unsorted/non-recyclable DIY waste - £79.20
•Flat glass - £36
•Rubble - £45.60
•Plasterboard - £114
•Timber - £73.20
•Scrap metal - £36)

Wait. You get charged when you take st to the tip? Is this a new thing? Been a while since I last went to my local one but I just turned in my car with a boot full of st and lobbed it all into a metal bin and drove home, no charges.

[Halmyre]

All that jazz said:

colonel c said:

The ridicules rules and prices to take scrap wood to the recycling centre.

(Large car (MPV or estate), mini-van or single axle trailer.
•Unsorted/non-recyclable DIY waste - £79.20
•Flat glass - £36
•Rubble - £45.60
•Plasterboard - £114
•Timber - £73.20
•Scrap metal - £36)

Wait. You get charged when you take st to the tip? Is this a new thing? Been a while since I last went to my local one but I just turned in my car with a boot full of st and lobbed it all into a metal bin and drove home, no charges.

That's how it is with my local council. I did however notice that they're going to introduce a scheme where private vans and trailers will need to book in advance rather than just turning up; presumably this is to stop tradesman trying to pull a fast one by hiring a van for a couple of hours.

One thing I did notice, I was clearing out a garage, and throwing plastic, metal, wood, etc., into the correct skips, but some people were just chucking stuff into the general landfill skip regardless, so the bods on site were constantly having to retrieve stuff and put it in the correct skip.

[Ste1987]

The fact my trip computer only records up to 6214 miles. At first I had no idea why, then I thought of converting it to km and it's exactly 10k. Still annoying beyond reason.

Oh, and traffic on the M1 near Sheffield has been abysmal of late

[droopsnoot]

My local council "report a streetlight problem" web site. Normally this is very good, makes reporting stuff like that easy enough that people will actually bother doing so. It has a map showing all lights as icons, colour-coded so you can tell if they've already been reported, very nice. I reported two lights out a couple of weeks ago, got auto-responses for them. A few days later I got updates to say they'd been scheduled in to be sorted out.

Last week I got a report to say one of the two (which are adjacent) had been fixed. This annoyed me because I couldn't see why they'd fix one, but not fix the other on the same trip, as they are at most 10m apart. However, on passing the same place after dark at the weekend, it seems that neither have been fixed, so the "fixed" email was wrong - whether that was to fudge clear-up rate stats or just a mistake I don't know. But the other light, which is acknowledged as being "out", is still showing as green on their map when I went in to re-report the faulty one, so I am puzzled as to what actually triggers the status to be anything other than "no faults reported". Obviously can't ask the council as all their emails are sent from a "do not reply" email address.

[Doofus]

Ste1987 said:

traffic on the M1 near Sheffield has been abysmal of late for the past three years

[MartG]

droopsnoot said:

My local council "report a streetlight problem" web site. Normally this is very good, makes reporting stuff like that easy enough that people will actually bother doing so. It has a map showing all lights as icons, colour-coded so you can tell if they've already been reported, very nice. I reported two lights out a couple of weeks ago, got auto-responses for them. A few days later I got updates to say they'd been scheduled in to be sorted out.

Last week I got a report to say one of the two (which are adjacent) had been fixed. This annoyed me because I couldn't see why they'd fix one, but not fix the other on the same trip, as they are at most 10m apart. However, on passing the same place after dark at the weekend, it seems that neither have been fixed, so the "fixed" email was wrong - whether that was to fudge clear-up rate stats or just a mistake I don't know. But the other light, which is acknowledged as being "out", is still showing as green on their map when I went in to re-report the faulty one, so I am puzzled as to what actually triggers the status to be anything other than "no faults reported". Obviously can't ask the council as all their emails are sent from a "do not reply" email address.

Private contractor claiming they've fixed it, and being paid for the work, when they haven't actually done it perhaps ?

[Ste1987]

Doofus said:

Ste1987 said:

traffic on the M1 near Sheffield has been abysmal of late for the past three years

Well... Yeah, but southbound between J36 and 33 is usually plain sailing for me in morning rush hour. I appreciate it's a massive ballache for those doing the same route during evening rush hour. Would hate to do that on a daily basis

[Morningside]

I like dogs but people who refer to them as fur babies.

[Evoluzione]

leigh1050 said:

colonel c said:

The ridicules rules and prices to take scrap wood to the recycling centre.

(Large car (MPV or estate), mini-van or single axle trailer.

•Scrap metal - £36)

Why would you pay someone to take your scrap metal? I get money off of a scrap dealer for mine.

I'd never been to a council tip before until last weekend, I was surprised how much stuff people throw away that they could sell, especially just scrap metal. The Council are making money twice and more fool everyone for letting them.

[droopsnoot]

MartG said:

droopsnoot said:

Streetlight stuff

Private contractor claiming they've fixed it, and being paid for the work, when they haven't actually done it perhaps ?

Maybe, but not on my watch...

[silverthorn2151]

Banks. Corporate s the lot of them!

[mikal83]

Sports commentators that say, "well technically it was a .........", foul/freekick/penalty/forward pass/offside....etc.

Betting adverts and more that continue to say......"blah blah blah is FUN"....