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

[yellowjack]

Ignorant fking morons who push the button to ASK for a receipt at the ATM, and then walk away before it is printed and dispensed, leaving the next person to deal with their litter, along with having to wait extra time before you can put your own card in. What a bunch of retarded cocksockets. It's fking littering, plain and simple, and also the reason why there's no paper in the machine when I want a bloody mini-statement. Seriously. You've had to push an extra button to ask for the receipt since about 1993. If you don't want one, simply don't request one you wker.

I'm gonna start taking them with me, then drop them in front of a council litter warden. If challenged I shall refuse to give my name, swear at the warden, and walk away. They can identify "me" from the information on the receipt, and pop the summons in the post...

[AlexC1981]

R E S T E C P said:

I believe nearly all VAG cars have this button in the same place.

Speaking of VAG buttons, my Ibiza has a set of buttons in front of the gear stick. Very difficult to press while driving and they are smooth, so you have to look at them to locate the right one before you can press it. I hardly ever use my hazard lights to thank people as the button is in such a stupid place.

[Cold]

yellowjack said:

Ignorant fking morons who push the button to ASK for a receipt at the ATM, and then walk away before it is printed and dispensed, leaving the next person to deal with their litter, along with having to wait extra time before you can put your own card in. What a bunch of retarded cocksockets. It's fking littering, plain and simple, and also the reason why there's no paper in the machine when I want a bloody mini-statement. Seriously. You've had to push an extra button to ask for the receipt since about 1993. If you don't want one, simply don't request one you wker.

I'm gonna start taking them with me, then drop them in front of a council litter warden. If challenged I shall refuse to give my name, swear at the warden, and walk away. They can identify "me" from the information on the receipt, and pop the summons in the post...

I think a lot of that is to do with how long it takes the ATM to do any actual printing. Card and money are back in wallet or purse, the display has returned to the welcome screen and still no sign of any slip of paper. No flashing lights, no beeping noises, no whirring mechanical sounds - nothing.
Hardly surprising the user thinks that the machine has ignored their receipt request.

[NWTony]

Probably been done before, but perfectly able-bodied adults who press the button at crossings rather than wait a few seconds for a gap in the traffic to occur.

[Borroxs]

yellowjack said:

Ignorant fking morons who push the button to ASK for a receipt at the ATM, and then walk away before it is printed and dispensed, leaving the next person to deal with their litter, along with having to wait extra time before you can put your own card in. What a bunch of retarded cocksockets. It's fking littering, plain and simple, and also the reason why there's no paper in the machine when I want a bloody mini-statement. Seriously. You've had to push an extra button to ask for the receipt since about 1993. If you don't want one, simply don't request one you wker.

I'm gonna start taking them with me, then drop them in front of a council litter warden. If challenged I shall refuse to give my name, swear at the warden, and walk away. They can identify "me" from the information on the receipt, and pop the summons in the post...

There isn't enough info on the receipt to identify the account holder...

[MartG]

NWTony said:

Probably been done before, but perfectly able-bodied adults who press the button at crossings rather than wait a few seconds for a gap in the traffic to occur.

Conversely - when you are at a crossing and see a gap in the traffic so start to cross without pushing the button - then some tt accelerates towards you forcing you to leap back onto the pavement This is why I now always press the button

[Balmoral]

NWTony said:

Probably been done before, but perfectly able-bodied adults who press the button at crossings rather than wait a few seconds for a gap in the traffic to occur.

How about those who press the button after they've crossed.

[Halmyre]

Balmoral said:

NWTony said:

Probably been done before, but perfectly able-bodied adults who press the button at crossings rather than wait a few seconds for a gap in the traffic to occur.

How about those who press the button after they've crossed.

I once was approaching a crossing where an old woman and a little girl were walking along the pavement. The woman stopped to let the girl press the button, and then continued on their way (i.e. not using the crossing), leaving me sitting at the crossing and briefly contemplating actions which would have resulted in me becoming the most hated man in the UK.

[The Don of Croy]

MartG said:

NWTony said:

Probably been done before, but perfectly able-bodied adults who press the button at crossings rather than wait a few seconds for a gap in the traffic to occur.

Conversely - when you are at a crossing and see a gap in the traffic so start to cross without pushing the button - then some tt accelerates towards you forcing you to leap back onto the pavement This is why I now always press the button

As we live in litigious times, pressing the button and abiding by the letter of the law will generally protect you from prosecution for jaywalking if passing between moving cars.

Both my brothers were done for this on a zebra crossing - my evidence convicted them! (I was only 10yo and the prosecuting counsel was v. good at leading questions designed to elicit complicit answers from impressionable young witnesses - or so I still claim.)

Most of the weekend I have been properly ticked off with DAB radio non-reception in the kitchen. FM is so much more stable. Can somebody please sort it out, soon...?

[Morningside]

Cashiers (normally garage people) who instead of handing the card back into your hand place it onto the counter making it impossible to pick up without sliding it across the surface.

[SilverSixer]

Morningside said:

Cashiers (normally garage people) who instead of handing the card back into your hand place it onto the counter making it impossible to pick up without sliding it across the surface.

This is up there with similar operatives who hand you your cash change note first, then put the coins on top of the note.

[Ste1987]

Balmoral said:

ow about those who press the button after they've crossed.

Or those who wait at a busy crossing and nobody has pressed the button. I used to see this often whilst studying in Leeds

[yellowjack]

The Don of Croy said:

As we live in litigious times, pressing the button and abiding by the letter of the law will generally protect you from prosecution for jaywalking if passing between moving cars.

Both my brothers were done for this on a zebra crossing - my evidence convicted them! (I was only 10yo and the prosecuting counsel was v. good at leading questions designed to elicit complicit answers from impressionable young witnesses - or so I still claim.)

Most of the weekend I have been properly ticked off with DAB radio non-reception in the kitchen. FM is so much more stable. Can somebody please sort it out, soon...?

Prosecutions for Jaywalking? What? In Croydon? Or Tunbridge Wells? You've been watching too much American TV, I reckon...

https://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/3636
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6251431.stm

"Jaywalking". How very Nooo Yoik...

[Halmyre]

Ste1987 said:

Balmoral said:

ow about those who press the button after they've crossed.

Or those who wait at a busy crossing and nobody has pressed the button. I used to see this often whilst studying in Leeds

A crossing near me has the annoying habit of resetting a few seconds after you've pressed the button, for whatever reason. I'm now used to it, but occasionally I'll walk up to it and there's some poor bugger stood there and hasn't noticed.

[yellowjack]

NWTony said:

Probably been done before, but perfectly able-bodied adults who press the button at crossings rather than wait a few seconds for a gap in the traffic to occur.

It may well annoy you, but it is EXACTLY what "perfectly able-bodied adults" are recommended to do when there is the option of using a crossing or not.

More annoying is crossings that take about three minutes to stop traffic, whereupon after about two of those minutes there was a gap, and I've already crossed and disappeared from view.

ALL bloody pedestrian crossings should activate within a few seconds of the button being pressed. Unless they're part of a traffic light junction, where it's entirely reasonable to have to wait a little longer for the correct part of the phase.

I'll continue to press the button, because in my experience drivers take great delight in ensuring they're travelling fast enough, and at exactly the right spacing to ensure that it's not safe to cross without pushing the button.

Things that annoy me beyond reason? Drivers wkers who can't simply lift off the accelerator to make enough of a gap for a pedestrian to cross safely. You feckers know who you are. Speeding up to get to the back of the next queue ½ a second sooner. So don't complain when those peds resort to electronic assistance to make a safe gap. Just because I'm on the footway, and you are on the carriageway does NOT alter the fact that we are both ROAD USERS and need to consider one-another in planning how we will interact. Don't expect ME to stand on the edge of the footway for ten minutes waiting for a gap just to avoid delaying you for forty fking seconds...

[Chris Stott]

People who recline their seats on short haul flights.

Boils my piss.

[yellowjack]

The BBC weather web page...



...because on what planet does three hours of light rain, and six hours of heavy rain aggregate out to an overview of "Drizzle"??????

Surely, if 50% of the time it's "heavy rain" forecast, then the best the overview can hope to be is "light rain" even if it's completely precipitation free for the other six hours? Isn't that how averages work?

[Astacus]

Train in this morning 'disrupted'. Two trains worth of people on the platform waiting for the next train, including a woman with a bloody great electric folding bike., complete with rear baskety thing, presumably holding the batteries. I think to myself, I wonder if she is going to try and get on a doubly packed commuter train without folding that.? Surely not......

Yep, there she is now in the middle of the doorway space with her sodding great bike surrounded by people trying to stay upright around it.

Gaah! At least she could have folded the damn thing.

[Astacus]

And while we are at it: canoodling commuters

[Astacus]

Astacus said:

Train in this morning 'disrupted'. Two trains worth of people on the platform waiting for the next train, including a woman with a bloody great electric folding bike., complete with rear baskety thing, presumably holding the batteries. I think to myself, I wonder if she is going to try and get on a doubly packed commuter train without folding that.? Surely not......

Yep, there she is now in the middle of the doorway space with her sodding great bike surrounded by people trying to stay upright around it.

Gaah! At least she could have folded the damn thing.

Ooo I do her a disservice, she has folded it, but she could have put it in the luggage slot instead of holding onto it. Bah! Going to the trouble of posting unnecessary winges about other people on the internet, only to be busted as a pointless old git!