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

[djcube]

When there is a problem, could be work, home, shopping, council (especially), anything really, and a solution is suggested, someone will say "its not as simple as that". Inevitably it is. Boils my piss.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Friends who think that just because I have fairly good dress sense, and am good at picking out clothes that work for me and flatter me, that this somehow means that I would be able to assume the role of Personal Shopper for them and advise them on what would work for them.

I mean, it's flattering of course. But also annoying.

[Roofless Toothless]

People posting on the 'Summer and Thunder' thread to say it's raining and not telling you where the bloody hell they are.

[V8mate]

Roofless Toothless said:

People posting on the 'Summer and Thunder' thread to say it's raining and not telling you where the bloody hell they are.

GDPR, innit.

[anonymous-user]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Friends who think that just because I have fairly good dress sense, and am good at picking out clothes that work for me and flatter me, that this somehow means that I would be able to assume the role of Personal Shopper for them and advise them on what would work for them.

I mean, it's flattering of course. But also annoying.

Does my bum look big in this ?

[nonsequitur]

Roofless Toothless said:

Graduation ceremonies.

I concur. But only a to a small degree.

[Robbo 27]

Women seem to be the guilty party on this one, and especially women who are office workers.

I find it very annoying the way that the tone of their voices goes higher at the end of sentences, whether a question is being asked or not.


Australians also do this a great deal.

eta, just looked this up to see what it might be called, it is called a high rising terminal also is also known as upspeak, uptalk or rising inflection

Also called bloody annoying to Robbo.

Edited by Robbo 27 on Sunday 15th July 12:32

[nonsequitur]

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[Clockwork Cupcake]

Robbo 27 said:

Women seem to be the guilty party on this one, and especially women who are office workers.

I find it very annoying the way that the tone of their voices goes higher at the end of sentences, whether a question is being asked or not.


Australians also do this a great deal.

eta, just looked this up to see what it might be called, it is called a high rising terminal also is also known as upspeak, uptalk or rising inflection

Also called bloody annoying to Robbo.

Interestingly, I had some voice coaching and the coach advocated doing exactly this to make my voice more feminine. It is apparently a key differentiator in gender voice perception. Personally, I agree with you and I even said so to the coach and she immediately adopted an Australian accent and said "Nahhh, this is Australian? Like this? It sounds like a question?"

But, yes, apparently men tend to talk in a monotone and drop the final tone of the end of a sentence, whereas apparently a woman's voice has more inflection (rise and fall) during the sentence and rises at the end.

I cannot explain why it is so, but agree that it can be annoying when over-done.

[98elise]

captain_cynic said:

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.

In Australia, property insurance isn't compulsory.

In most states, medical insurance is collected as part of your registration (road tax).

So the minimum you have to pay for your car insurance is $0. That means companies have to compete with that, as such, charging insane premiums just doesn't fly over there.

I've never paid over A$1000 (£500) for car insurance in Australia, not as a fresh off the test driver, not even whilst owning one of the states most stolen and crashed cars (Nissan 200sx). I've never been quoted under £500 for anything in the UK. Not even a 1L Aygo.

For my first car I paid $350 (£175) for third party fire and theft on a $4000 (£2000) Honda Civic. TP was cheap and allowed young people to build a NCD without breaking the bank.

However I'm sure the resident Insurance Company regional acting-VP of marketing for the south Kent region will be along shortly to tell us how lucky we are to be paying such "low" prices for insurance.

Timmy45 said:

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.

Flat out not true.

The minimum insurance you must have is no insurance.

On the whole, I would prefer mandatory insurance as one of my biggest fears back Oz was having my car wrecked by someone without insurance. Even if I'm fully covered, it'll still cost me my excess and possibly no claims bonus (NCD's in Oz work on fault, not on whose insurance you made the claim on). However if you do make insurance mandatory, the government needs to regulate it better than they do in the UK as we are being fleeced here considering how fewer crashes and fatalities there are in the UK compared to Oz.

I haven't paid over £500 for insurance since I was in my 20's. I don't remember the last time I paid over £300!

If we are being fleeced why hasn't an Australian Insurance company opened a branch here and undercut everyone else?

People buy insurance on price, so even if they were an unknown name they would become very popular, especially with young drivers. £500 insurance for an 18 year old would pretty much corner the market.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

98elise said:

People buy insurance on price, so even if they were an unknown name they would become very popular, especially with young drivers. £500 insurance for an 18 year old would pretty much corner the market.

I must say that it always amuses me when I hear people say "£2000 to insure a £500 car? That's ridiculous!" without realising that the majority of that insurance premium is for the third party insurance, and covering you for the damage to the £60,000 car you just ran into.

(Not saying that insurance premiums for younger drivers aren't ridiculous, mind)

[Robbo 27]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Interestingly, I had some voice coaching and the coach advocated doing exactly this to make my voice more feminine. It is apparently a key differentiator in gender voice perception. Personally, I agree with you and I even said so to the coach and she immediately adopted an Australian accent and said "Nahhh, this is Australian? Like this? It sounds like a question?"

But, yes, apparently men tend to talk in a monotone and drop the final tone of the end of a sentence, whereas apparently a woman's voice has more inflection (rise and fall) during the sentence and rises at the end.

I cannot explain why it is so, but agree that it can be annoying when over-done.

I had a very interesting experience with a young person who was gender neutral, they were looking for a job in the charity sector and was finding it difficult, I have connections with charities and this persons parents thought I may be able to help.

They had worked hard on removing male and female traits from all aspects of their life, including hairstyles, vocal tones including what they said and how they said it, habits and traits, their clothing was not especially male nor female. I found the whole experience of talking to this person to be a revalation.

[Rostfritt]

98elise said:

I haven't paid over £500 for insurance since I was in my 20's. I don't remember the last time I paid over £300!

If we are being fleeced why hasn't an Australian Insurance company opened a branch here and undercut everyone else?

People buy insurance on price, so even if they were an unknown name they would become very popular, especially with young drivers. £500 insurance for an 18 year old would pretty much corner the market.

They wouldn't be in business very long after having to pay out for all the accidents those 18 year olds end up having.

I'm in NZ and the car insurance situation is pretty much the same as Aus. I think there is a bit of a misconception that third party cover is paid for through your rego. It isn't, but there is an 'ACC levy' which covers medical and injury benefits. There is also an ACC levy on income tax and fuel tax IIRC. This depends on the vehicle, so a boring hatchback like mine has an ACC levy of about $50 per year whereas a motorbike pays a huge amount, which is enough to put you off using such a death trap. If you are uninsured then you have to pay the third party's car damage but you are not going to be paying for their whiplash like the UK. In fact I don't think that is a thing here. If you are off work due to an accident then ACC pay your sickness benefit until you are better, but not a lump sum so you can buy a new kitchen to get over the pain.

I think the fact insurance is not covering personal injury is why it is so cheap. I pay $375 for a boring hatchback, which is hardly anything. I know people though who have had uninsured accidents who are still paying off the debt years later though, so it is not always worth the risk.

[Rich_W]

This one is currently bugging me.

Went in Sainsburys and bought my Euromillions ticket for Tuesday. Noticed that the girl fked it up and scanned it twice. So we ended up with 2 identical tickets. Of which I only wanted 1 of course. I had to query what she'd done. And she looked sheepish.

I said "you'll need to cancel that one"
"I will" she said

So I looked at her with a "I'll wait" look
"I'll do it in a minute!
So I said half jokingly "Nah do it now".

And she wrote on it with a pen "cancel" and then put it one side! I have no idea if she ever did do it!


Now, obviously this is annoying me far more than it needs to. The odds on winning are obviously quite small. But if I do win, I don't want some fking idiot Saturday girl costing my half of my winnings!

I would HOPE that if I did win, Camelot would look at the ticket manufacturing times and realise what has happened. Even calling up Sainsburys to get the CCTV from that day to confirm it. But I could beleive that they'd just say "tough titties theres another ticket sharing the prize!"

I guess Id be spending some of my millions on a decent solicitor to sue the fk out of Sainsburys (and their stupid stupid girl) for the remaining money

[David87]

When couples have a joint Facebook profile. I don’t know why it makes me hate Mike ‘n’ Cat Smith or whatever, but it really does.

[talksthetorque]

Rich_W said:

This one is currently bugging me.

Went in Sainsburys and bought my Euromillions ticket for Tuesday. Noticed that the girl fked it up and scanned it twice. So we ended up with 2 identical tickets. Of which I only wanted 1 of course. I had to query what she'd done. And she looked sheepish.

I said "you'll need to cancel that one"
"I will" she said

So I looked at her with a "I'll wait" look
"I'll do it in a minute!
So I said half jokingly "Nah do it now".

And she wrote on it with a pen "cancel" and then put it one side! I have no idea if she ever did do it!


Now, obviously this is annoying me far more than it needs to. The odds on winning are obviously quite small. But if I do win, I don't want some fking idiot Saturday girl costing my half of my winnings!

I would HOPE that if I did win, Camelot would look at the ticket manufacturing times and realise what has happened. Even calling up Sainsburys to get the CCTV from that day to confirm it. But I could beleive that they'd just say "tough titties theres another ticket sharing the prize!"

I guess Id be spending some of my millions on a decent solicitor to sue the fk out of Sainsburys (and their stupid stupid girl) for the remaining money

She'll have been waiting for a supervisor to come and cancel it ( needing the authority to do this) but the supervisor will have been placating an angry councilista fooming because they don't have all the correct letters in their alphabetti spaghetti

[Clockwork Cupcake]

David87 said:

When couples have a joint Facebook profile. I don’t know why it makes me hate Mike ‘n’ Cat Smith or whatever, but it really does.

I always found it strange that my brother-in-law used to tell me not to bother sending emails to both him and my sister, as they both came through to a joint inbox and they read each other's email.

Turns out he was a gas-lighting control freak and reading *all* of my sister's emails was all part of his control.

After things all fell apart and she finally broke free, she had to ask me to set up a secure tablet for her, locked down to the best of my ability, with a private email address, so that she could communicate with her solicitor. And even then he tried to gain access to it through social engineering and phishing.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

talksthetorque said:

the supervisor will have been placating an angry councilista fooming because they don't have all the correct letters in their alphabetti spaghetti

[oceanview]

David87 said:

When couples have a joint Facebook profile. I don’t know why it makes me hate Mike ‘n’ Cat Smith or whatever, but it really does.

You know who wears the trousers in these relationships!

[Clockwork Cupcake]

oceanview said:

You know who wears the trousers in these relationships!

Do you?