Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)
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Now being superseded by "pay-by-phone" which is infinitely superior (no worries about running out) but has the annoyance of spurious charges being added to bump up the cost of your parking. Really gets me for some reason.
My local station car park has just blocked all the credit card slots on their machines to force you to use the app. I buy it at the ticket window where I don't get charged extra.
My local station car park has just blocked all the credit card slots on their machines to force you to use the app. I buy it at the ticket window where I don't get charged extra.
Drummond Baize said:
ClockworkCupcake said:
Pre-divorce, I ended up regularly cooking 3 different meals at 3 different times for 3 people. It was a bloody nightmare.
I remember us having a curry night here and inviting the girlfriend's two kids (sorry, young adults) who are both vegetarians. My culinary skills are legendary, so I was tasked with cooking that evening. But it wasn't as simple as just doing a meat curry and a vegetarian curry, because everyone has differing tastes in spiciness too.So I had to cook:
t? Cooking separate meals for everyone? Have you lost your mind? Just announce what YOU are cooking tonight and await their answers on whether you are to bother or not. If they don't like what's on the menu then simply point them in the direction of the local take-aways or they can wait until you've finished in the kitchen and they can cook their own. Still not happy? Tough! Starve! They'll quickly learn whether their fads and holier-than-youness over not eating meats are worth the effort and probably come to their senses within a couple of days. So long as you keep pandering to them, they'll carry on with their silly fads.Ridiculous web page adverts that are so large and overpowering they increase the time the pages take to download by about 2000%. The latest one is the "Dentek" ad I just got when I did a search on this site!
FFS I understand that sites need advertising money but surely not ones that make the experience on said site infinitely worse.
FFS I understand that sites need advertising money but surely not ones that make the experience on said site infinitely worse.
227bhp said:
ClockworkCupcake said:
Pay and Display parking.
You either buy too little and feel rushed, or too much and then feel ripped off.
Yes You either buy too little and feel rushed, or too much and then feel ripped off.
Plus those ones where the ticket is 'non transferable'.
There is a car park round the back of some local shops that has now been made a pay & display, with a machine that requires you to enter your car reg. number. All well and good, except the keypad is tiny silver/grey buttons with barely visible yellow letters mounted at knee height. This means that this old codger has to kneel down with his arthritic knees in the pi55ing wet puddles on the sunken asphalt to see the f
g tiny things to input the reg whilst squinting at the rain-obscured screen to make sure his podgy finger hasn't accidentally pressed a random key next to the one intended. Fg twunts! 
I'm sure they are making it as difficult as possible so that they can collar more people, using their scamera on a pole to enhance the profits from their theiving PPC business model.
The trouble is, street parking in the area is very hard to find since 98% of it has been allocated "Resident permit parking only", ie no parked cars to be seen all day for 100's of yards up any of the side streets. I'm glad I'm not a local shop owner, trade must have dropped by 80% or so since all this was instigated.
Old Tyke said:
Drummond Baize said:
ClockworkCupcake said:
Pre-divorce, I ended up regularly cooking 3 different meals at 3 different times for 3 people. It was a bloody nightmare.
I remember us having a curry night here and inviting the girlfriend's two kids (sorry, young adults) who are both vegetarians. My culinary skills are legendary, so I was tasked with cooking that evening. But it wasn't as simple as just doing a meat curry and a vegetarian curry, because everyone has differing tastes in spiciness too.So I had to cook:
t? Cooking separate meals for everyone? Have you lost your mind? Just announce what YOU are cooking tonight and await their answers on whether you are to bother or not. If they don't like what's on the menu then simply point them in the direction of the local take-aways or they can wait until you've finished in the kitchen and they can cook their own. Still not happy? Tough! Starve! They'll quickly learn whether their fads and holier-than-youness over not eating meats are worth the effort and probably come to their senses within a couple of days. So long as you keep pandering to them, they'll carry on with their silly fads.They both choose not to eat meat, for whatever reasons they have. I don't choose not to eat meat; I love the stuff, but I respect their decisions and won't force or impose my views on them.
Drummond Baize said:
Erm, OK. Firstly, that particular meal was a one-off; it's quite rare to get both of them in the same place at the same time. Secondly, their "silly fads" have been going on for the last five years or so. I'm pretty sure they would have "come to their senses" by now.
They both choose not to eat meat, for whatever reasons they have. I don't choose not to eat meat; I love the stuff, but I respect their decisions and won't force or impose my views on them.
That's all fine but I wasn't questioning their food choices. The point I was making was that you and the other guy go through the "bloody nightmare" of cooking everyone a different meal because they choose to be awkward/fussy and you let them mess you around. You would save yourself a whole pile of hassle by announcing what YOU have decided to cook with perhaps one other choice if you're feeling particularly charitable and if the other family members don't like either then point them at the nearest take-away or tell them to make their own. You're making a rod for your own back by pandering to their ridiculous food requirements. Most of the time food fads like that are nothing to do with animal welfare but actually a cry for attention.They both choose not to eat meat, for whatever reasons they have. I don't choose not to eat meat; I love the stuff, but I respect their decisions and won't force or impose my views on them.
Old Tyke said:
That's all fine but I wasn't questioning their food choices. The point I was making was that you and the other guy go through the "bloody nightmare" of cooking everyone a different meal because they choose to be awkward/fussy and you let them mess you around. You would save yourself a whole pile of hassle by announcing what YOU have decided to cook with perhaps one other choice if you're feeling particularly charitable and if the other family members don't like either then point them at the nearest take-away or tell them to make their own. You're making a rod for your own back by pandering to their ridiculous food requirements. Most of the time food fads like that are nothing to do with animal welfare but actually a cry for attention.
99% of the time, they'll have the same "other stuff" as us in a meal (veg etc), but with a meat-free alternative to the meat. So it really isn't a "whole pile of hassle" it's just sticking another thing in the oven and hardly messing me around."Cry for attention"? Really?
Perhaps you eat too much red meat.
Drummond Baize said:
Old Tyke said:
That's all fine but I wasn't questioning their food choices. The point I was making was that you and the other guy go through the "bloody nightmare" of cooking everyone a different meal because they choose to be awkward/fussy and you let them mess you around. You would save yourself a whole pile of hassle by announcing what YOU have decided to cook with perhaps one other choice if you're feeling particularly charitable and if the other family members don't like either then point them at the nearest take-away or tell them to make their own. You're making a rod for your own back by pandering to their ridiculous food requirements. Most of the time food fads like that are nothing to do with animal welfare but actually a cry for attention.
99% of the time, they'll have the same "other stuff" as us in a meal (veg etc), but with a meat-free alternative to the meat. So it really isn't a "whole pile of hassle" it's just sticking another thing in the oven and hardly messing me around."Cry for attention"? Really?
Perhaps you eat too much red meat.
Old Tyke said:
So in actual fact "stirring like Fatboy Slim at a pop concert" (whatever that means) wasn't really the big issue you made it out to be then?
In actual fact, I was sharing an anecdotal example of something someone else had mentioned, like you do on an internet forum. If I'd known it would come in for such scrutiny and abuse I wouldn't have bothered. Drummond Baize said:
In actual fact, I was sharing an anecdotal example of something someone else had mentioned, like you do on an internet forum. If I'd known it would come in for such scrutiny and abuse I wouldn't have bothered.
Why bother posting "anecdotal examples" in a thread called "things that annoy you beyond reason" when they clearly do not? 
Old Tyke said:
Drummond Baize said:
In actual fact, I was sharing an anecdotal example of something someone else had mentioned, like you do on an internet forum. If I'd known it would come in for such scrutiny and abuse I wouldn't have bothered.
Why bother posting "anecdotal examples" in a thread called "things that annoy you beyond reason" when they clearly do not? Old Tyke said:
Drummond Baize said:
In actual fact, I was sharing an anecdotal example of something someone else had mentioned, like you do on an internet forum. If I'd known it would come in for such scrutiny and abuse I wouldn't have bothered.
Why bother posting "anecdotal examples" in a thread called "things that annoy you beyond reason" when they clearly do not? 
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