Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)
Discussion
RobinOakapple said:
24lemons said:
Those 'Emergency services' blue Christmas lights that have been popular for the last few years.
Our neighbours decided to cover the front of their house, tree and garden wall in them a few years ago. When you approach the house from a distance, especially when the lights diffract through raindrops on the windscreen, looks like there's been a major accident down the road.
Whats wrong with pretty white lights?!
Speaking of pretty white lights, what's wrong with pretty coloured ones? Christmas fairy lights always used to feature several colours, that type are now the exception rather than the rule.Our neighbours decided to cover the front of their house, tree and garden wall in them a few years ago. When you approach the house from a distance, especially when the lights diffract through raindrops on the windscreen, looks like there's been a major accident down the road.
Whats wrong with pretty white lights?!
In contrast to our direct neighbours, the house up the road used to decorate their tree (not christmas tree) with multi coloured bulbs and it looked lovely.
Mums with their pushchairs....who think it's their right to take up the whole aisle of any shop and expect you to get out the way every single time they want to go anywhere.
The spelling and grammar police .....you know what they mean, so get on with your own life, which must be very boring.
The spelling and grammar police .....you know what they mean, so get on with your own life, which must be very boring.
Local Romany Gypsies (who sound Irish) complaining via the press that the Council are discriminating against them by not taking away the piles of dumped rubbish on their site and that they are not treating them in the same manner as other Council run housing.
I don't suppose the other Council run housing have double cab Transits tipping rubbish on their door step which they've overcharged someone else in cash for, for disposing of.
Funny they didn't get much support on the radio phone in.
I don't suppose the other Council run housing have double cab Transits tipping rubbish on their door step which they've overcharged someone else in cash for, for disposing of.
Funny they didn't get much support on the radio phone in.
graham22 said:
Local Romany Gypsies (who sound Irish) complaining via the press that the Council are discriminating against them by not taking away the piles of dumped rubbish on their site and that they are not treating them in the same manner as other Council run housing.
I don't suppose the other Council run housing have double cab Transits tipping rubbish on their door step which they've overcharged someone else in cash for, for disposing of.
Funny they didn't get much support on the radio phone in.
Around here the rules are if it's not in a bin. And if the lid doesn't shut. It doesn't get collected, unless you pay for a special collection thingy.I don't suppose the other Council run housing have double cab Transits tipping rubbish on their door step which they've overcharged someone else in cash for, for disposing of.
Funny they didn't get much support on the radio phone in.
I'd hope the council respond with an invoice for the work before they start.
24lemons said:
Those 'Emergency services' blue Christmas lights that have been popular for the last few years.
Our neighbours decided to cover the front of their house, tree and garden wall in them a few years ago. When you approach the house from a distance, especially when the lights diffract through raindrops on the windscreen, looks like there's been a major accident down the road.
Whats wrong with pretty white lights?!
God yes. Numerous times I've fallen foul of this, approached with caution thinking there's a crash or something when it's just some troglodyte's lit up house. Our neighbours decided to cover the front of their house, tree and garden wall in them a few years ago. When you approach the house from a distance, especially when the lights diffract through raindrops on the windscreen, looks like there's been a major accident down the road.
Whats wrong with pretty white lights?!
People’s behavior in stationary motorway traffic
It’s a long time since I have suffered a motorway closure but unfortunately this afternoon I found myself coming to a grinding halt on the M4 after a coach caught fire. The result was that both eastbound and westbound stretches were closed.
As we came to a halt, handbrake on, engine off, it seemed as if that was the key to start taking selfies. We were one of a few who had NOT got out of their cars and started taking pictures - of themselves with the queue of traffic behind them, one couple sat on top of the concrete central reservation lengthways randomly taking photos of their feet, one bloke filmed from in front of our car a fire engine coming up the hill in the hard shoulder (he needs to review that footage as the whole time my middle finger is extended). A FIRE ENGINE! That demands a photo, photo of the queue, photo of me with the queue, photo of the mirror with the queue in it.
Then people started going wandering...why don't we play Lacrosse on the West bound carriageway as that seems a good idea.... so that’s what a group of 5 or 6 people were doing. People went off down into the verges for a piss, one woman laughing a joking shouting at a bloke stood by his car not realising the relief rescue coach coming up the hard shoulder. Meanwhile the Lacrosse game continued until Westbound was reopened and three lanes of pissed off drivers came at them at 70mph+. Meanwhile more ambulances, police cars, recovery careering down the hard shoulder of the east bound carriageway having to watch for people aimlessly wandering about, now unable to hear anything due to the live West bound carriageway...
Then we started to move, woman who had decided to go for a piss was stood on the hard shoulder looking for her car (obviously a passenger) as all three lanes are now crawling forward...
Absolute utter madness. If the police didn't have enough to deal with I'd hope they'd book the lot of them.
It’s a long time since I have suffered a motorway closure but unfortunately this afternoon I found myself coming to a grinding halt on the M4 after a coach caught fire. The result was that both eastbound and westbound stretches were closed.
As we came to a halt, handbrake on, engine off, it seemed as if that was the key to start taking selfies. We were one of a few who had NOT got out of their cars and started taking pictures - of themselves with the queue of traffic behind them, one couple sat on top of the concrete central reservation lengthways randomly taking photos of their feet, one bloke filmed from in front of our car a fire engine coming up the hill in the hard shoulder (he needs to review that footage as the whole time my middle finger is extended). A FIRE ENGINE! That demands a photo, photo of the queue, photo of me with the queue, photo of the mirror with the queue in it.
Then people started going wandering...why don't we play Lacrosse on the West bound carriageway as that seems a good idea.... so that’s what a group of 5 or 6 people were doing. People went off down into the verges for a piss, one woman laughing a joking shouting at a bloke stood by his car not realising the relief rescue coach coming up the hard shoulder. Meanwhile the Lacrosse game continued until Westbound was reopened and three lanes of pissed off drivers came at them at 70mph+. Meanwhile more ambulances, police cars, recovery careering down the hard shoulder of the east bound carriageway having to watch for people aimlessly wandering about, now unable to hear anything due to the live West bound carriageway...
Then we started to move, woman who had decided to go for a piss was stood on the hard shoulder looking for her car (obviously a passenger) as all three lanes are now crawling forward...
Absolute utter madness. If the police didn't have enough to deal with I'd hope they'd book the lot of them.
Edited by BristolRich on Saturday 5th December 16:24
BristolRich said:
People’s behavior in stationary motorway traffic
It’s a long time since I have suffered a motorway closure but unfortunately this afternoon I found myself coming to a grinding halt on the M4 after a coach caught fire. The result was that both eastbound and westbound stretches were closed.
As we came to a halt, handbrake on, engine off, it seemed as if that was the key to start taking selfies. We were one of a few who had NOT got out of their cars and started taking pictures - of themselves with the queue of traffic behind them, one couple sat on top of the concrete central reservation lengthways randomly taking photos of their feet, one bloke filmed from in front of our car a fire engine coming up the hill in the hard shoulder (he needs to review that footage as the whole time my middle finger is extended). A FIRE ENGINE! That demands a photo, photo of the queue, photo of me with the queue, photo of the mirror with the queue in it.
Then people started going wandering...why don't we play Lacrosse on the West bound carriageway as that seems a good idea.... so that’s what a group of 5 or 6 people were doing. People went off down into the verges for a piss, one woman laughing a joking shouting at a bloke stood by his car not realising the relief rescue coach coming up the hard shoulder. Meanwhile the Lacrosse game continued until Westbound was reopened and three lanes of pissed off drivers came at them at 70mph+. Meanwhile more ambulances, police cars, recovery careering down the hard shoulder of the east bound carriageway having to watch for people aimlessly wandering about, now unable to hear anything due to the live West bound carriageway...
Then we started to move, woman who had decided to go for a piss was stood on the hard shoulder looking for her car (obviously a passenger) as all three lanes are now crawling forward...
Absolute utter madness. If the police didn't have enough to deal with I'd hope they'd book the lot of them.
BristolRich earlier...It’s a long time since I have suffered a motorway closure but unfortunately this afternoon I found myself coming to a grinding halt on the M4 after a coach caught fire. The result was that both eastbound and westbound stretches were closed.
As we came to a halt, handbrake on, engine off, it seemed as if that was the key to start taking selfies. We were one of a few who had NOT got out of their cars and started taking pictures - of themselves with the queue of traffic behind them, one couple sat on top of the concrete central reservation lengthways randomly taking photos of their feet, one bloke filmed from in front of our car a fire engine coming up the hill in the hard shoulder (he needs to review that footage as the whole time my middle finger is extended). A FIRE ENGINE! That demands a photo, photo of the queue, photo of me with the queue, photo of the mirror with the queue in it.
Then people started going wandering...why don't we play Lacrosse on the West bound carriageway as that seems a good idea.... so that’s what a group of 5 or 6 people were doing. People went off down into the verges for a piss, one woman laughing a joking shouting at a bloke stood by his car not realising the relief rescue coach coming up the hard shoulder. Meanwhile the Lacrosse game continued until Westbound was reopened and three lanes of pissed off drivers came at them at 70mph+. Meanwhile more ambulances, police cars, recovery careering down the hard shoulder of the east bound carriageway having to watch for people aimlessly wandering about, now unable to hear anything due to the live West bound carriageway...
Then we started to move, woman who had decided to go for a piss was stood on the hard shoulder looking for her car (obviously a passenger) as all three lanes are now crawling forward...
Absolute utter madness. If the police didn't have enough to deal with I'd hope they'd book the lot of them.
NarrinRad said:
Mums with their pushchairs....who think it's their right to take up the whole aisle of any shop and expect you to get out the way every single time they want to go anywhere.
The spelling and grammar police .....you know what they mean, so get on with your own life, which must be very boring.
Mothers with pushchairs take up the space they take up.The spelling and grammar police .....you know what they mean, so get on with your own life, which must be very boring.
I would hope that you would, as a courtesy and common decency, give way to a mum/dad with a baby or toddler, or both.
Pushchairs, space, mothers with, kertussy, deesecee, toddla and biybee, way give. (for the SpaG personages.)
It's approaching the season of the 'unprofessional drinker'. They come to the bar ordering one drink at a time, leave Guinness till last, have to go back to their party to check if x wants ice, medium or large etc and eventually when the time to pay arrives they take 2 minutes searching through their purse/wallet. They also may ask to have a sample of the real ale, have no idea which lager to have in their shandy and worst of all they will say 'Can I get a xxxxx.........'. t
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tscrostonian said:
It's approaching the season of the 'unprofessional drinker'. They come to the bar ordering one drink at a time, leave Guinness till last, have to go back to their party to check if x wants ice, medium or large etc and eventually when the time to pay arrives they take 2 minutes searching through their purse/wallet. They also may ask to have a sample of the real ale, have no idea which lager to have in their shandy and worst of all they will say 'Can I get a xxxxx.........'. tts
Ha ha, you just reminded me of when I used to work as a barman. Used to hate it when a group of amateur drinkers would come in as a group, order daft drinks like a tonic water, a tap water, white wine spritzer, a cup of tea, and other annoying drinks, pay individually, with a £20 note which would wipe me out of change within 10 minutes.tsThe thing I probably hate most is when in a bar which you can just tell is not set up for cocktails, but has a cocktail menu, and only one or two barstaff. You get to the bar for a couple of beers just as someone slides in in front of you and orders four Mojitos.
crostonian said:
It's approaching the season of the 'unprofessional drinker'. They come to the bar ordering one drink at a time, leave Guinness till last, have to go back to their party to check if x wants ice, medium or large etc and eventually when the time to pay arrives they take 2 minutes searching through their purse/wallet. They also may ask to have a sample of the real ale, have no idea which lager to have in their shandy and worst of all they will say 'Can I get a xxxxx.........'. tts
ts
From the Daily Mash:
TheDailyMash said:
BRITAIN’S pubs will have a section of the bar reserved for people who know what they’re doing this Christmas.
You want this and will pay in cash
With Christmas hostelries full of people buying coffee with a debit card, sections of the bar will be solely for habitual drinkers who want to get hammered and know precisely how they’d like that to happen.
Pub owner Tom Logan said: “While I’m giving samples of our real ale to some bell end who’s just going to order a half of Fosters, I could be servicing our core clientele of red men with poor home lives.
“Christmas is a time for happiness, family and laughter so I should be getting our regulars – who have none of those things – as pissed as possible.”
Users of the professional lane require a drinker’s licence. Applicants are assessed on whether they order Guinness before their other drinks, can demonstrate awareness of how long others have been waiting and are able to carry three drinks without a tray.
Pub aficionado Wayne Hayes said: “My local has the misfortune of being bang opposite the business district so every December I’m forced to wait an extra 90 seconds to self-medicate with Stella while some lightweight goes through the crisp options for the fourth time.
“Roll on January when the only sound to be heard in here is the gentle sobbing of Frank after his horse comes in fifth.”
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/pubs-t...You want this and will pay in cash
With Christmas hostelries full of people buying coffee with a debit card, sections of the bar will be solely for habitual drinkers who want to get hammered and know precisely how they’d like that to happen.
Pub owner Tom Logan said: “While I’m giving samples of our real ale to some bell end who’s just going to order a half of Fosters, I could be servicing our core clientele of red men with poor home lives.
“Christmas is a time for happiness, family and laughter so I should be getting our regulars – who have none of those things – as pissed as possible.”
Users of the professional lane require a drinker’s licence. Applicants are assessed on whether they order Guinness before their other drinks, can demonstrate awareness of how long others have been waiting and are able to carry three drinks without a tray.
Pub aficionado Wayne Hayes said: “My local has the misfortune of being bang opposite the business district so every December I’m forced to wait an extra 90 seconds to self-medicate with Stella while some lightweight goes through the crisp options for the fourth time.
“Roll on January when the only sound to be heard in here is the gentle sobbing of Frank after his horse comes in fifth.”
IanUAE said:
Just moved into a new apartment for the project I am working on and the light switch for the bathroom is on the side of the door where the hinges are and not the door handle. Every time I walk to the door, right hand out to switch the light on, forget, left hand out, switch on light, right hand out to open door. Arrrrrr
I've actually done this in my own house when building a new utility room and I have to see it every day
Negative Creep said:
Manager who tired to refuse me compassionate leave to attend my granddad's funeral, before I was able to point out that was a breach of company policy
In a similar vein I reckon I can beat that. My Old Dear passed away on Sunday lunchtime and I had a work assignment that night. Not being in the best state of mind at the time I rang the planning manager (also a friend) to ask if he could arrange cover for me which was not a problem and passed on condolences etc as one might expect. As a courtesy and after-thought I sent a text to the agency who I contract through on this job to let them know my Old Dear had passed away but I'd spoken to X and he was sorting out cover so nothing to worry about. The reply I received back :"OK but in future tell me before telling X. We have now lost that booking that someone else could of had and earned us that money".
Whilst he is correct about them being the first point of contact in such circumstances (and in hindsight, etc..) I thought his reply brought a whole new meaning to the definition of 'insensitive'.
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