Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)

[RizzoTheRat]

nicanary said:

My daughter didn't attend hers, no photo in gown, no certificate.

The "certificate" in my graduation photo is actually a length of 1" waste pipe with a ribbon tied round it. The photographer reckoned it looks far better than a bit of rolled up paper that everyone's had their sweaty fingers all over

[MartG]

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[Shakermaker]

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[Moonhawk]

FourWheelDrift said:

I think he is highlighting the moment he is carrying a plate and the imbalanced heavy handle inevitably topples the knife or fork or both off the plate onto the floor. Not the "oooh these are too heavy for me to use"

Exactly this.

[Moonhawk]

V8mate said:

FourWheelDrift said:

V8mate said:

Moonhawk said:

Cutlery with heavy handles..........

WTF?

Don't tell the snowflakes!

I think he is highlighting the moment he is carrying a plate and the imbalanced heavy handle inevitably topples the knife or fork or both off the plate onto the floor. Not the "oooh these are too heavy for me to use"

Well he needs to write more clearly then

How so - I said they annoyed me, I didn't state why.

The fault lies in your assumption as to what exactly it was that is annoying me about them.

People who make false assumptions also annoy me

Edited by Moonhawk on Tuesday 10th July 10:36

[Moonhawk]

DaveGoddard said:

Roofless Toothless said:

Graduation ceremonies.

Agreed. Nothing but Americanised attention-seeking one-upmanship contests for spoilt brats. I didn't even go to my university one as I was commentating on a speedway meeting the same night - I know what I like.

For high school maybe - but graduation ceremonies for significant academic achievements existed in Europe centuries before the USA was formed.

Edited by Moonhawk on Tuesday 10th July 13:35

[droopsnoot]

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[captain_cynic]

droopsnoot said:

I was wondering about the point of a hosepipe ban - from the point of view of actually being able to figure out whether anyone has used one during the ban period. Even if someone had a smart water meter, how would it differentiate between someone using a hose on the garden, or just having a shower, unless it had individual metering points on each outlet?

I guess any kind of action relies on people being prepared to grass up their neighbours, I can't imagine there's a "Hosepipe Detector Van" driving around. But then, UU and the other water suppliers are all privately-owned companies, what can they do if someone ignores the ban?

Such little faith in your countrymen?

Any such system relies on people to respect it, by and large, people will.

Australia has had water restrictions for the better part of a decade, AFAIK very little policing happens as very little policing is needed. You certainly can be fined there, but I've never even heard of such a thing.

[wst]

This thread is the only one on PH with consistently good quoting.

Often the first letter of a post is omitted. If a post has any BBcode tags in it I've noticed people really struggle and end up with them stuck in all sorts of places.

I've never seen any forum on the internet where people are so bad at quoting as PH though. I know a lot of that is modern forums having a more user-friendly interface but I'm recalling my experiences on other forums that are set in 2005 (though these were set in 2005 while it actually was 2005).

[droopsnoot]

captain_cynic said:

Such little faith in your countrymen?

Any such system relies on people to respect it, by and large, people will.

I did consider that, and I had written another line about how the kind of people that would respect the ban are the kind of people who don't need to be told in the first place. But then I thought that perhaps the person who mentioned earlier on about using hardly any water and not necessarily sticking to a hosepipe ban (whose name I can't now see, because PH doesn't show recent posts when adding a new one) might think it was aimed at them, which it wasn't, so I deleted it.

If everyone was a reasonable as they should be, things would work so much better and things like hosepipe bans wouldn't be necessary. I spent a couple of days at Llangollen recently for the classic transport weekend, and it was amazing how many people I overheard moaning because the railway weren't running steam trains, despite the many, many signs up explaining that it was due to the risk of lineside fires. Sure, it's disappointing, but not as disappointing as the entire valley going up in smoke.

[talksthetorque]

wst said:

This thread is the only one on PH with consistently good quoting.

Often the first letter of a post is omitted. If a post has any BBcode tags in it I've noticed people really struggle and end up

Never seen any issues myself

wst said:

with them stuck in all sorts of places.


I've never seen any forum on the internet where people are so bad at quoting as PH though. I know a lot of that is modern forums having a more user-friendly interface but I'm recalling my experiences on other forums that are set in 2005 (though these were set in 2005 while it actually was 2005).

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[Morningside]

V8mate said:

Shakermaker said:

Russian Troll Bot said:

Car insurance renewal time

15 years NCD
No points or convictions
1 minor non-fault accident
Car parked on my driveway in a quiet area





What hell is happening to premiums?

Ha! Your post highlights something that annoys me beyond reason on forums/the internet - people asking for advice on insurance for their car, which will bear no relation at all to anyone else's circumstances and therefore any advice that says "Oh you should try Direct Line (or whoever) as they're really cheap for me with my 1.0 Suzuki that I do 5 miles a year in and I'm 56 yo woman with no convictons" is essentially worthless. The only advice is - go and get a quote from elsewhere to compare with. Call a broker, go online elsewhere etc etc.

There must be something about his circumstances that 'U Drive Cover' offers the best quote. Why are all the mainstream contenders abandoning him?

What age bracket are you?

Car insurance annoys me more than anything else. Because it's the law they can think of a number and multiply by 10. Talking to someone from Australia and he was saying because not compulsory they are begging for business and it's very cheap.

Then the comparison sites that oddly exclude everything to make it look competitive.

[Johnspex]

Morningside said:

What age bracket are you?

Car insurance annoys me more than anything else. Because it's the law they can think of a number and multiply by 10. Talking to someone from Australia and he was saying because not compulsory they are begging for business and it's very cheap.

Then the comparison sites that oddly exclude everything to make it look competitive.

Am I misreading this? Are you saying car insurance isn't compulsory? What happens if you crash into someone and they die? You could leave a family with no dad and no income. Surely third party cover is compulsory.

[SpeckledJim]

Johnspex said:

Morningside said:

What age bracket are you?

Car insurance annoys me more than anything else. Because it's the law they can think of a number and multiply by 10. Talking to someone from Australia and he was saying because not compulsory they are begging for business and it's very cheap.

Then the comparison sites that oddly exclude everything to make it look competitive.

Am I misreading this? Are you saying car insurance isn't compulsory? What happens if you crash into someone and they die? You could leave a family with no dad and no income. Surely third party cover is compulsory.

I think third party cover is provided as a part of your 'road tax'.

[Timmy45]

Johnspex said:

Morningside said:

What age bracket are you?

Car insurance annoys me more than anything else. Because it's the law they can think of a number and multiply by 10. Talking to someone from Australia and he was saying because not compulsory they are begging for business and it's very cheap.

Then the comparison sites that oddly exclude everything to make it look competitive.

Am I misreading this? Are you saying car insurance isn't compulsory? What happens if you crash into someone and they die? You could leave a family with no dad and no income. Surely third party cover is compulsory.

Of course it's compulsory. It's as compulsory as it is here, i.e. minimum you must have is 3rd party fire and theft.

[AppleJuice]

FourWheelDrift said:

The microphone landing heavily on the stage made me wince. The sleb, not so much

Edited by AppleJuice on Tuesday 10th July 18:19

[AppleJuice]

Roofless Toothless said:

Graduation ceremonies.

In primary schools, secondary schools and sixth forms, yes!

[AppleJuice]

talksthetorque said:

wst said:

This thread is the only one on PH with consistently good quoting.

Often the first letter of a post is omitted. If a post has any BBcode tags in it I've noticed people really struggle and end up

Never seen any issues myself

wst said:

with them stuck in all sorts of places.


I've never seen any forum on the internet where people are so bad at quoting as PH though. I know a lot of that is modern forums having a more user-friendly interface but I'm recalling my experiences on other forums that are set in 2005 (though these were set in 2005 while it actually was 2005).

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[Clockwork Cupcake]

SpeckledJim said:

Johnspex said:

Am I misreading this? Are you saying car insurance isn't compulsory? What happens if you crash into someone and they die? You could leave a family with no dad and no income. Surely third party cover is compulsory.

I think third party cover is provided as a part of your 'road tax'.

Yes, that's correct. Compulsory statutory minimum Third Party cover is included in their equivalent of Road Tax.

Many years ago, I had a young Australian colleague and he was driving quite a nice car, and we all asked him how he could afford to insure it, and he replied "No worries... I'm driving it on the plate". And when we all gave him blank looks, and asked him to clarify, he explained how it worked in Australia and he had rather a shock when we told him that we had no such thing here in the UK and that he was driving around uninsured, which is illegal.
He got some insurance quotes, swore rather a lot, and then immediately traded the car in for something cheaper to insure.

(Edit: "Driving on the plate" comes from the fact that when you renew your Road Tax in Australia, you get a new number plate to show it has been paid, rather than a disc of paper in the windscreen like we used to have)

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Tuesday 10th July 19:24

[Clockwork Cupcake]

wst said:

This thread is the only one on PH with consistently good quoting.

Often the first letter of a post is omitted. If a post has any BBcode tags in it I've noticed people really struggle and end up with them stuck in all sorts of places.

The "first letter missing" issue has been around for a while, and nobody has ever been able to consistently reproduce it, so it's never been able to be fixed. Not that the forum software appears to be actively in development currently so even if it could be consistently reproduced it wouldn't get fixed.