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

[yellowjack]

bernhund said:

Website's search facility that never produces anything like what you've searched for even after it suggested the words itself. EG go to Wickes website & search for caber floor. It suggests 'caber tongue & groove flooring' & I think 'that's exactly it. I'll click it'. Pages of fking ladders, garden sheds, bath panels & everything else they fking stock but caber flooring! So many websites have this issue, but type into Google 'caber flooring Wickes' and it takes you straight to the product! WTF is going on???

Yup. Same issue with cycling websites. Click onto the store's site, type a specific model of brake lever into their own search bar and it turns up nothing. So go to the brakes/brake levers/brand menu and narrow the search step-by-step. Still nothing. Go back to Google to try to find another supplier? "Why, here you go sir! Just exactly what you were looking for, and wasted ten minutes on their site fruitlessly clicking through crap for, and it's right at the end of this Google Search link and in stock too!" How does it even happen?

[skinnyman]

Sheets Tabuer said:

My Mrs crazy insanity about me having any type of female friend, talking to one on the phone while I was driving home on the hands free (about her new boyfriend) is going behind her back and cheating...

fking insane!

My wife is also of the opinion that every past relationship must have ended in a tragic manner, and that being friends with an ex girlfriend is beyond the realms of possibility. I've been with my wife 9 years now, got married last year, we have a child together and another on the way. Last Christmas an ex girlfriend from around 12yrs ago was back in town to see her parents so we met up for a drink. My wife had visions of us planning on running away together, in reality we spent the whole time talking about each others partner and kids.

[Sheets Tabuer]

skinnyman said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

My Mrs crazy insanity about me having any type of female friend, talking to one on the phone while I was driving home on the hands free (about her new boyfriend) is going behind her back and cheating...

fking insane!

My wife is also of the opinion that every past relationship must have ended in a tragic manner, and that being friends with an ex girlfriend is beyond the realms of possibility. I've been with my wife 9 years now, got married last year, we have a child together and another on the way. Last Christmas an ex girlfriend from around 12yrs ago was back in town to see her parents so we met up for a drink. My wife had visions of us planning on running away together, in reality we spent the whole time talking about each others partner and kids.

I can top trump you:-

So far she's asked if I can remove all females from my facebook, then after finding out I had gay friends too she wanted them removed too, arranging to see my child is a fking nightmare of epic proportions where every conversation or text is poured over to ascertain any double entendre followed by 20 minutes of slagging my ex off including how she dresses and looks.

A female friend of 30 years texted me at the weekend about the rugby to taunt me when England were losing and from the reaction you'd thought I'd just shagged this woman on the coffee table!

If she wasn't so hot I'd tell her to do one

[Shakermaker]

Toilet seats.

Specifically, the fitting mechanism for replacement toilet seats.

For some reason, it has been determined by every manufacturer of replacement toilet seats that the fixings for these need to be hidden away, perhaps some aesthetic decision to make the toilet look nicer, I don't know?

But this means that when you have to fit a new seat, you are forced to try and get the threaded rod exactly into the shallow little hole on the underside of the nut and use some horrible plastic wingnut to try and tighten it up.

What is wrong with a regular bolt, washer and nut combo that this decision had to be made to make this?

[Halmyre]

Shakermaker said:

Toilet seats.

Specifically, the fitting mechanism for replacement toilet seats.

For some reason, it has been determined by every manufacturer of replacement toilet seats that the fixings for these need to be hidden away, perhaps some aesthetic decision to make the toilet look nicer, I don't know?

But this means that when you have to fit a new seat, you are forced to try and get the threaded rod exactly into the shallow little hole on the underside of the nut and use some horrible plastic wingnut to try and tighten it up.

What is wrong with a regular bolt, washer and nut combo that this decision had to be made to make this?

I fitted a replacement seat which at least had metal threaded rods, but nylon wing nuts which slackened off at the slightest provocation. I threw these away and bought a packet of metal wing nuts from Homebase (caveat - over tightening might crack the toilet pan). My only other gripe was that the metal rods are much thinner than the holes in the pan, so the seat still wiggles around a bit. If I could be arsed (sorry) I suppose I could fill the gaps with mastic.

[MartG]

Shakermaker said:

What is wrong with a regular bolt, washer and nut combo that this decision had to be made to make this?

Plastic wingnut limits the amount of force you can apply to the toilet bowl - using metal nuts and bolts you could apply enough force to crack the bowl

[Shakermaker]

MartG said:

Shakermaker said:

What is wrong with a regular bolt, washer and nut combo that this decision had to be made to make this?

Plastic wingnut limits the amount of force you can apply to the toilet bowl - using metal nuts and bolts you could apply enough force to crack the bowl

Well I did not know this, but I am now aware I shall thank you for your input.

What I want though, is a nut on the top that I can use to actually get enough purchase to hold the thing in place to start with!

[Bluedot]

Shakermaker said:

MartG said:

Shakermaker said:

What is wrong with a regular bolt, washer and nut combo that this decision had to be made to make this?

Plastic wingnut limits the amount of force you can apply to the toilet bowl - using metal nuts and bolts you could apply enough force to crack the bowl

Well I did not know this, but I am now aware I shall thank you for your input.

What I want though, is a nut on the top that I can use to actually get enough purchase to hold the thing in place to start with!

You can get them on eBay (ordered a pack yesterday!), search for toilet seat fixing kit, the ones you want are rubber in a cone shape. They are £4.88 Plus £1.02 p&p
Does the job.

Edited by Bluedot on Tuesday 28th February 14:54

[Munter]

The "1" next to the word Inbox in Outlook. Indicating I have 1 unread e-mail. Yet I do not according to the "Unread email" view, where there are "no items in the folder"

Poxy thing.

[james_tigerwoods]

Munter said:

The "1" next to the word Inbox in Outlook. Indicating I have 1 unread e-mail. Yet I do not according to the "Unread email" view, where there are "no items in the folder"

Poxy thing.

I think you need to have a closer look as mine shows nothing when I have nothing unread - I'd have a look at your mailbox online if you can as I've found that there can be a hidden item there sometimes....

[vtecyo]

Companies with the word "solutions" in their name. I won't use any as a supplier because it winds me up so much. Naff.

[McAndy]

vtecyo said:

Companies with the word "solutions" in their name. I won't use any as a supplier because it winds me up so much. Naff.

That's unfair on companies who produce homogeneous mixtures composed of two or more substances.

[bristolracer]

vtecyo said:

Companies with the word "solutions" in their name. I won't use any as a supplier because it winds me up so much. Naff.

I have the same thing with Logistics and also Facilities management
I thought a new local radio station had started near me and was a bit confused as to why they had all these transit vans with FM written on them

Also very naff when they have an added tag line "excellence through dedication" or some such bull.
You just know they will be the sort of idiots who state "your feedback is important to us" rather than getting the bloody job done.

[Munter]

james_tigerwoods said:

Munter said:

The "1" next to the word Inbox in Outlook. Indicating I have 1 unread e-mail. Yet I do not according to the "Unread email" view, where there are "no items in the folder"

Poxy thing.

I think you need to have a closer look as mine shows nothing when I have nothing unread - I'd have a look at your mailbox online if you can as I've found that there can be a hidden item there sometimes....

Nope nothing. It's corrected itself after a few hours. But in a few days it'll do it again. Leaving me to wonder if I missed something earlier in the day, then scroll around, then check "unread", find nothing and then realise "oh it's doing that again". Irritating little fecker.

[ClockworkCupcake]

bristolracer said:

vtecyo said:

Companies with the word "solutions" in their name. I won't use any as a supplier because it winds me up so much. Naff.

I have the same thing with Logistics and also Facilities management
I thought a new local radio station had started near me and was a bit confused as to why they had all these transit vans with FM written on them

Also very naff when they have an added tag line "excellence through dedication" or some such bull.
You just know they will be the sort of idiots who state "your feedback is important to us" rather than getting the bloody job done.

For me it is any company that has "International" in their name.

[vtecyo]

McAndy said:

vtecyo said:

Companies with the word "solutions" in their name. I won't use any as a supplier because it winds me up so much. Naff.

That's unfair on companies who produce homogeneous mixtures composed of two or more substances.

fortunately I don't have to deal with them otherwise I may well implode.

[ClockworkCupcake]

Balmoral said:

International Logistics and Facilities Management Solutions - excellence through mission statement dedication.

[Shakermaker]

ClockworkCupcake said:

bristolracer said:

vtecyo said:

Companies with the word "solutions" in their name. I won't use any as a supplier because it winds me up so much. Naff.

I have the same thing with Logistics and also Facilities management
I thought a new local radio station had started near me and was a bit confused as to why they had all these transit vans with FM written on them

Also very naff when they have an added tag line "excellence through dedication" or some such bull.
You just know they will be the sort of idiots who state "your feedback is important to us" rather than getting the bloody job done.

For me it is any company that has "International" in their name.

I get the feeling you won't ever be one of our clients then!

[Shakermaker]

This morning, I am annoyed that the PWC accountants who made the embarrassing error at the Oscars the other night have been sent death threats and are now being given personal bodyguards.

It is entirely reasonable for them to get the bodyguards, but I cannot find the connection as to why it is so serious an issue that internet douchebags have felt the need to go ahead and make actual death threats towards them?

Its not as if they are going to be doing the job again, nor did anyone actually get injured, and it didn't really have any long term effects either... but still people have to be dheads!

[The Don of Croy]

Shakermaker said:

...It is entirely reasonable for them to get the bodyguards, but I cannot find the connection as to why it is so serious an issue that internet douchebags have felt the need to go ahead and make actual death threats towards them?...

It's the times we live in. Back a number of years and Japan applied to increase whaling (for purely scientific reasons - not) which lead to a comments section meltdown at the DTelegraph, including more than one entry asking to nuke every city on those islands. Over-reaction?

However, if any PWC employee suffered any sort of personal injury following 'anonymous death threats' then the employer could be held liable for not taking the risk seriously.

It annoys. Beyond reason. Like the V I Poo advert.