Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)
Discussion
El Guapo said:
Strawberry jam with whole strawberries in it. I cannot spread it on my toast.
You'd have hated my grandma's strawberry jam then, as it was pretty much preserved whole strawberries. 
Apparently it is really hard to do this, and she used to pride herself on it. But, like you, I was never that keen on it as it wasn't very spreadable.
For the past 20+ years I have been annoyed by the fact that there is no technical impediment to cross-network roaming in the UK, but regulatory and economic ones. As a geek, a problem that *can* be solved, but is artificially prevented from being solved, is an annoyance.
This looks like a step in the right direction
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37808943
This looks like a step in the right direction
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37808943
So a good friend who I have known most of my life asks if they can borrow 3k and agree to pay back in instalments last December promising to arrange to start paying it in Jan ... this never happened and I let it roll till June knowing they were skint ... come July they contacted me and said they would start paying £200mth on the 28th of the mth July to November then 2k in December and each month I have to ask what's happening with the payment ... not once has it been on time and it me look like I'm hassling and chasing when all I want it clarity ... if you can't afford something don't promise it! And it's made a good friendship really awkward now as well!!
alorotom said:
So a good friend who I have known most of my life asks if they can borrow 3k and agree to pay back in instalments last December promising to arrange to start paying it in Jan ... this never happened and I let it roll till June knowing they were skint ... come July they contacted me and said they would start paying £200mth on the 28th of the mth July to November then 2k in December and each month I have to ask what's happening with the payment ... not once has it been on time and it me look like I'm hassling and chasing when all I want it clarity ... if you can't afford something don't promise it! And it's made a good friendship really awkward now as well!!
Never lend to friends. Give if you want to, but never lend. Wrong thread though; it's hardly unreasonable to be annoyed.MartG said:
People posting on the internet who are unable to string together a coherent sentence in their native language
Exhibit A
I correspond with people for whom English is a second language and they invariably do a better job than this !
That particular example has gotta be someone who actually has a learning difficulty though surely?Exhibit A
I correspond with people for whom English is a second language and they invariably do a better job than this !
It always makes me smile when I stumble across someone - usually another parent of a small disabled child - who has never seen the word 'respite' written down, or has never taken the time to think about it, and therefore on Facebook and elsewhere spells it 'restbite'. It's really quite common. I suppose accurate too if the writer has a child who exhibits challenging behaviour…
People who get on a plane with what is essentially a half sized suitcase as hand luggage. Sometimes families with kids who have one each. When the overhead bins are full the stewardess comes through and starts asking people who have a small backpack or a small bag if they wouldn't mind shoving it under the seat in front of them so some cretinous t
t who's come on the plane with a fking great big carryon can put it in the overhead bin.
None of them access what they have carried on during the flight, what the hell can they have so much of that they need such a large bag?
Its not like these people are fraught businessmen in a hurry who do this because they don't want to wait for hold baggage, you see the same tts with their bloody great hand luggage bags standing by the luggage carrousel at the destination.
t who's come on the plane with a fking great big carryon can put it in the overhead bin. None of them access what they have carried on during the flight, what the hell can they have so much of that they need such a large bag?
Its not like these people are fraught businessmen in a hurry who do this because they don't want to wait for hold baggage, you see the same t
ts with their bloody great hand luggage bags standing by the luggage carrousel at the destination. JoyDivision said:
ClockworkCupcake said:
Halloween.
And numptys with fireworks.FlyingMeeces said:
I'd be absolutely delighted if the public couldn't buy fireworks at all the rest of the time and indeed to see people nicked for setting them off on small residential streets etc.
Apparently, in Germany it is actually illegal to set off fireworks apart from a few days either side of New Year. Edit: In fact, it would appear that "Only on December 31st from 6pm until January 1st at 1am each year is it allowed to let off fireworks to celebrate New Year (stuff like rockets, bangers, fountains, battery fires...), whether on private grounds or not unless done so by a licensed pyrotechnic specialist".
ClockworkCupcake said:
Apparently, in Germany it is actually illegal to set off fireworks apart from a few days either side of New Year.
Edit: In fact, it would appear that "Only on December 31st from 6pm until January 1st at 1am each year is it allowed to let off fireworks to celebrate New Year (stuff like rockets, bangers, fountains, battery fires...), whether on private grounds or not unless done so by a licensed pyrotechnic specialist".
Well they have had trouble in the past with people causing big explosions and noise. It makes the Poles jittery.Edit: In fact, it would appear that "Only on December 31st from 6pm until January 1st at 1am each year is it allowed to let off fireworks to celebrate New Year (stuff like rockets, bangers, fountains, battery fires...), whether on private grounds or not unless done so by a licensed pyrotechnic specialist".
FlyingMeeces said:
Yes to both. Actual proper public celebrations - Diwali, Guy Fawkes, Hanukkah maybe, New Years both Anglo and Chinese, fine. Four or five times a year. I'd be absolutely delighted if the public couldn't buy fireworks at all the rest of the time and indeed to see people nicked for setting them off on small residential streets etc.
^this bold bit.It's New Year or New Year's Day but never "New Years" - I blame the Murkins for this.
Tyre Tread said:
FlyingMeeces said:
Yes to both. Actual proper public celebrations - Diwali, Guy Fawkes, Hanukkah maybe, New Years both Anglo and Chinese, fine. Four or five times a year. I'd be absolutely delighted if the public couldn't buy fireworks at all the rest of the time and indeed to see people nicked for setting them off on small residential streets etc.
^this bold bit.It's New Year or New Year's Day but never "New Years" - I blame the Murkins for this.
Cheltenham town centre and the complete lack of any meaningful signage to get you through the poxy place.
Three times we've had to drive through it and twice I've found myself dumped down a road to a set of traffic lights with no sign (literally...) of any indication of which fkin way to go. The one time we got through must have been a fluke.
Yes, I know. I need to sort out the satnav holder, even so, sometimes I just find it easier to just follow signs and go with the flow, except in poxy Cheltenham though.
Three times we've had to drive through it and twice I've found myself dumped down a road to a set of traffic lights with no sign (literally...) of any indication of which f
kin way to go. The one time we got through must have been a fluke.Yes, I know. I need to sort out the satnav holder, even so, sometimes I just find it easier to just follow signs and go with the flow, except in poxy Cheltenham though.
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