Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]

[james_tigerwoods]

nicanary said:

pablo said:

People who order a vindaloo or a phaal in a curry house without thinking that it might be a bit hotter than the Uncle Ben's Tikka Masala they are more accustomed to. There is always one person who wants to declare themselves the curry god of the table and revels in the quiet hush that surrounds the table after they have ordered a phaal... Then when it arrives, its obviously far too hot for their soft taste buds so they push it around their plate for a few minutes, scrape the sauce of the meat and eat a few chunks before downing pints of water/lager and polishing off all the rice, veg and breads left on the table then declare themselves full up. You ordered the phall, eat the fker and suffer and dont disrespect the curry again.

I love watching people like that. They refuse to admit they were bulls****ing, and suffer in silence, seemingly unaware that everyone else at the table knows exactly what's happened. You can even see the sweat on their brow, dripping down into their food. Gobsh**es. Serves 'em right.

Pah - This is the way to do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdo79znnHl8

[nicanary]

james_tigerwoods said:

nicanary said:

pablo said:

People who order a vindaloo or a phaal in a curry house without thinking that it might be a bit hotter than the Uncle Ben's Tikka Masala they are more accustomed to. There is always one person who wants to declare themselves the curry god of the table and revels in the quiet hush that surrounds the table after they have ordered a phaal... Then when it arrives, its obviously far too hot for their soft taste buds so they push it around their plate for a few minutes, scrape the sauce of the meat and eat a few chunks before downing pints of water/lager and polishing off all the rice, veg and breads left on the table then declare themselves full up. You ordered the phall, eat the fker and suffer and dont disrespect the curry again.

I love watching people like that. They refuse to admit they were bulls****ing, and suffer in silence, seemingly unaware that everyone else at the table knows exactly what's happened. You can even see the sweat on their brow, dripping down into their food. Gobsh**es. Serves 'em right.

Pah - This is the way to do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdo79znnHl8

Superb. Would it be allowed these days by the PC brigade?

[james_tigerwoods]

nicanary said:

james_tigerwoods said:

nicanary said:

pablo said:

People who order a vindaloo or a phaal in a curry house without thinking that it might be a bit hotter than the Uncle Ben's Tikka Masala they are more accustomed to. There is always one person who wants to declare themselves the curry god of the table and revels in the quiet hush that surrounds the table after they have ordered a phaal... Then when it arrives, its obviously far too hot for their soft taste buds so they push it around their plate for a few minutes, scrape the sauce of the meat and eat a few chunks before downing pints of water/lager and polishing off all the rice, veg and breads left on the table then declare themselves full up. You ordered the phall, eat the fker and suffer and dont disrespect the curry again.

I love watching people like that. They refuse to admit they were bulls****ing, and suffer in silence, seemingly unaware that everyone else at the table knows exactly what's happened. You can even see the sweat on their brow, dripping down into their food. Gobsh**es. Serves 'em right.

Pah - This is the way to do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdo79znnHl8

Superb. Would it be allowed these days by the PC brigade?

I sincerely doubt it

I watched Father Ted last night - even that would be "edgy" today

[mez3]

[JonRB]

mez3 said:

Maybe the driver thought that "M/C" meant "Mitsubishi cars"?

[Tyre Tread]

Potential employers who think its really OK to ask you to take 2 days holiday and make two 7.5 hour round trips in 5 days, the second time for a 45 minute interview. Especially when the reason for the second interview is to test whether you have the knowledge to perform the role. Isn't that what should be established at the first interview?

[james_tigerwoods]

Tyre Tread said:

Potential employers who think its really OK to ask you to take 2 days holiday and make two 7.5 hour round trips in 5 days, the second time for a 45 minute interview. Especially when the reason for the second interview is to test whether you have the knowledge to perform the role. Isn't that what should be established at the first interview?

Or to be asked questions at the face to face interview that could have been asked in the phone interview - to find that the 7 hour round trip and considerable expense was a giant waste of time as the answers meant that you weren't, after all, suitable.

Or be actually employed and then a couple of months later: "Oh, you can't do that, we didn't realise that" - Well, no, I never said I could nor did my CV say nor did I ever say I could.

[JonRB]

james_tigerwoods said:

Or be actually employed and then a couple of months later: "Oh, you can't do that, we didn't realise that" - Well, no, I never said I could nor did my CV say nor did I ever say I could.

This one especially. I was contracted by a startup and on the first day they asked to do design a pretty mission-critical database server when my skills are as a C++ expert. I told them that was not my skill set. They told me to just have a go, but then within 2 weeks terminated the contract saying it didn't work out.

A little later, a google search caused me to stumble on a public forum where they were openly dissing me as being "useless" so I created an account and said that they had asked me to "have a go" in an area I had no expertise in, had never claimed to have any expertise in, and had told them I had no expertise in, and that they had been lucky I hadn't sued them for breach of contract when they terminated and they'd be even more lucky if I didn't sue them for libel over this. The entire forum went private within an hour. I really should have snapshotted the lot before posting.

[james_tigerwoods]

JonRB said:

james_tigerwoods said:

Or be actually employed and then a couple of months later: "Oh, you can't do that, we didn't realise that" - Well, no, I never said I could nor did my CV say nor did I ever say I could.

This one especially. I was contracted by a startup and on the first day they asked to do design a pretty mission-critical database server when my skills are as a C++ expert. I told them that was not my skill set. They told me to just have a go, but then within 2 weeks terminated the contract saying it didn't work out.

A little later, a google search caused me to stumble on a public forum where they were openly dissing me as being "useless" so I created an account and said that they had asked me to "have a go" in an area I had no expertise in, had never claimed to have any expertise in, and had told them I had no expertise in, and that they had been lucky I hadn't sued them for breach of contract when they terminated and they'd be even more lucky if I didn't sue them for libel over this. The entire forum went private within an hour. I really should have snapshotted the lot before posting.

That's incredibly bdy of them - In my case, within the first few days, I was told by the guy that I worked with that he wanted his mate to have the job and, after a couple of months, it was clear that he'd been instrumental in assisting in my removal. No, I don't know AD and DNS backwards, never said I did.

I will say that the job wasn't right for me anyway and the timing of the new job was appalling so it was wrong all round, but such a statement didn't exactly inspire confidence.

On the plus side, I walked back in to my old job and I've not looked back since.

[Sheets Tabuer]

When the sofas I ordered were supposed to be delivered before Christmas only to be told "sorry mate it'll be January"

Fantastic, I have a sodding houseful for Christmas.

[Pothole]

Sheets Tabuer said:

When the sofas I ordered were supposed to be delivered before Christmas only to be told "sorry mate it'll be January"

Fantastic, I have a sodding houseful for Christmas.

Quick visit to your local BHF Furniture and Electrical shop will sort your short term seating deficiency for a couple of hundred quid and make you feel all charitable into the bargain, then when the new sofas arrive you can donate them back again. Merry Christmas everybody!

[Johnny]

Arranging for 2 things to be delivered today, one turning up at 1100 and the other still not bloody here.

Meaning I've sat about all day, missed the chance to pop out and do a load of other things that are more important, and am pretty sure I won't be seeing the second package today.

[Captain Muppet]

People who say "scam" when they mean "transparent voluntary transaction that doesn't benefit me as much as alternatives that I can freely choose".

[Willy Nilly]

Tyre Tread said:

Potential employers who think its really OK to ask you to take 2 days holiday and make two 7.5 hour round trips in 5 days, the second time for a 45 minute interview. Especially when the reason for the second interview is to test whether you have the knowledge to perform the role. Isn't that what should be established at the first interview?

I went for a job interview on a farm once for sprayer operator/combine driver, which is s decent job. As I approached said farm I had already made up my mind.

After a 2.5 hour drive I wasn't offered a cup of tea. He took me around his dirty farm, in his dirty pickup and showed me the dirty combine I would be driving (it was February and he hadn't even blown it off, never mind washed it), then the dirty tractor I'd be driving. Then showed me the bullocks I'd be feeding at the weekend. Next he proudly showed me the decades worth of obsolete equipment he was saving for, err, something instead of scrapping. Then introduced me to his old man that was still shuffling about.

I shook his dirty hand, said I'd think about it and buggered off. Then rang him a few days later and said thanks but no thanks, much to his amazement.

[fatboy18]

Call centers. im at the point of driving up to Manchester and having a little word with the employee from a certain call centre who wont leave me alone

[John D.]

Willy Nilly said:

Tyre Tread said:

Potential employers who think its really OK to ask you to take 2 days holiday and make two 7.5 hour round trips in 5 days, the second time for a 45 minute interview. Especially when the reason for the second interview is to test whether you have the knowledge to perform the role. Isn't that what should be established at the first interview?

I went for a job interview on a farm once for sprayer operator/combine driver, which is s decent job. As I approached said farm I had already made up my mind.

After a 2.5 hour drive I wasn't offered a cup of tea. He took me around his dirty farm, in his dirty pickup and showed me the dirty combine I would be driving (it was February and he hadn't even blown it off, never mind washed it), then the dirty tractor I'd be driving. Then showed me the bullocks I'd be feeding at the weekend. Next he proudly showed me the decades worth of obsolete equipment he was saving for, err, something instead of scrapping. Then introduced me to his old man that was still shuffling about.

I shook his dirty hand, said I'd think about it and buggered off. Then rang him a few days later and said thanks but no thanks, much to his amazement.

What was the alternative? He send you pictures of his dirty farm? Describe it over the phone?

[JonRB]

james_tigerwoods said:

That's incredibly bdy of them

In fairness, they were barely more than kids (early 20's?) and incredibly bright and multi-talented. So they weren't exactly professional and perhaps they thought they were hiring someone equally multi-talented rather than a specialist in just one area, and furthermore a specialist used to dealing with proper companies rather than some hot shot games company operating out of a pre-fab office in the garden of a residential house, plus various "road warrior" locations (I had one meeting with them in a Starbucks in London even though they were based in Brighton).

Mind you, that doesn't alter the fact that they terminated a B2B contract for failing to deliver a skill that was never offered or purported to be offered, nor for dissing me on a public forum.

[Dyl]

The fact that after probably 10 years of development, Sony still haven't found a way of letting you download Playstation 3 updates in the background, or pausing them and coming back to them.

If you are going to force 1GB updates on me after buying a game on a disc, at least let me fart about with the other features while it downloads.

[anonymous-user]

Buskers.

Outside where I work. Making fking racket.

Just fk off you fking noise-gypsy tinker , nobody wants your stinking carcass clogging up the already busy footways, plucking your 4 stringed guitar and screeching in some half drunken, half smacked-up state and hoping those that actually fking WORK for a living will give you the shrapnel from their recent lunch purchase. Well, fk you. I'd rather throw my money down the toilet than give you ANYTHING in recognition of the godawful fking mess of a noise you're "creating". fking noise rat.

Can you believe one of the fking wker s around here actually climbs in to a bin to play? I tried putting half a can of coke in there once, while he was playing, he got shouty. Well, my council tax pays for those bins, you fking dreadlocked waste of DNA. If I want to use it, I will. If you're sitting in it, making it look even less desirable than a public bin could, then you're getting covered in my rubbish.

fking wkers.

[Cobnapint]

Scruffy dodgy gypsy bd Eastern-Block Big Issue sellers.

Fook the Fook off while I'm trying to do my Christmas shopping.

And at any other time of the year come to that.