Things that shouldn't exist but do.

[Mark-C]

Rape

[Mr Gearchange]

Subsonic air travel.
I'm having to go back and forth to California a lot at the moment - it takes fking ages.

How come in 1969 we could travel at twice the speed of sound as commercial passengers - and in 2017 we have to bimble along at 600mph. Ridiculous

[30v]

HR departments. At best; an unnecessary impediment to efficient working. At worst; universally incompetent and usually exist purely as a means to employ gaggles of psychopathic women.

[Silent1]

RizzoTheRat said:

Dyson Airblade V hand driers, the standard airblades you put your hands in to work really well, so why make a single sided version that's crap and always mounted too high?

I'm fairly sure the airblade V was designed to stop the pool of bacteria growing in the bottom of the airblade opening (from the water on your hands dropping down onto it) which consequently would get aerosolised every time it was used.

[Jazzy Jag]

30v said:

HR departments. At best; an unnecessary impediment to efficient working. At worst; universally incompetent and usually exist purely as a means to employ gaggles of psychopathic women.

This^

Often inventing schemes and programs for staff to complete in order to justify their own existence.
Quarterly staff review, investors in people, surveys...

[Halmyre]

Jazzy Jag said:

30v said:

HR departments. At best; an unnecessary impediment to efficient working. At worst; universally incompetent and usually exist purely as a means to employ gaggles of psychopathic women.

This^

Often inventing schemes and programs for staff to complete in order to justify their own existence.
Quarterly staff review, investors in people, surveys...

Even the bloody name is an insult. Human *resources*.

[Einion Yrth]

Halmyre said:

Jazzy Jag said:

30v said:

HR departments. At best; an unnecessary impediment to efficient working. At worst; universally incompetent and usually exist purely as a means to employ gaggles of psychopathic women.

This^

Often inventing schemes and programs for staff to complete in order to justify their own existence.
Quarterly staff review, investors in people, surveys...

Even the bloody name is an insult. Human *resources*.

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who detests these sociopathic parasites.

[Morningside]

VAT.

[Chris77]

Morningside said:

VAT.

This^

[RizzoTheRat]

Morningside said:

VAT.

VAT on fuel duty. I don't really have a problem with paying a tax on goods, which is what VAT is most of the time, but how the hell is paying a tax on a tax right?


VED. It's based on CO2 emissions, which is directly linked to the amount of fuel used, so why not scrap it, up the fuel duty to cover it, and save a fortune administering the bloody system.

[brrapp]

RizzoTheRat said:

Dyson Airblade V hand driers..... always mounted too high?

So you've tried sticking your in one too?

Edited by brrapp on Wednesday 25th January 10:10

[The Don of Croy]

Emanresu said:

Israel

British colonies

Religion

Nuclear weapons

Hunger

Poverty

War

Terrorism

The BBC/tv licence

Nice touch with the opening gambit - then following up with religion and atomic weapons. Lighthearted much?

I'd nominate the 'common cold'. And catarrh. Ask me why...

[Dr Jekyll]

Morris dancing

[SkrrSkrr]

Police

[Halmyre]

Dr Jekyll said:

Morris dancing

Morris Marina

[Morningside]

Halmyre said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Morris dancing

Morris Marina

I would have said the Ital. Now that really was the pits.

[Halmyre]

Morningside said:

Halmyre said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Morris dancing

Morris Marina

I would have said the Ital. Now that really was the pits.

Not to mention Maurice Gibb.

[RizzoTheRat]

Halmyre said:

Not to mention Maurice Gibb.

Was that the one with the really big front grille?

[StevieBee]

OpulentBob said:

Food banks.
Unemployment "benefits".
Laura fking Ashley.
Electronic buzzers of any kind.
France.
Velcro - learn to tie shoelaces, you fking div.
ADHD/ADD.
"Glandular" weight problems.
Mobility scooters for aforementioned "glandular" problems.
PH NP&E forum.
PH Watch forum.
Cats.
X Factor.
Vape lounges.
Smoking rooms at airports.
Ferries to France.
IT "professionals" - if you did your fking job properly, you'd not be needed to tell us to "turn it off and on again".
Divorce lawyers - Whatever happened to "wife for life"?
Puncture kits for pushbikes.
Spare wheels for cars.

Is that the opening scene to Trainspotting 2?