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

[funkyrobot]

Eng274 said:

The amount of crap we get through the post from previous occupants is unbelievable. There are at least six previous occupants we get post for, including some nice and sensitive stuff like pension letters, greetings cards with handwritten addresses and a new bank card!

We even marked them 'return to sender' and dumped them in the postbox, only for a couple of them to be re-posted to the house.. Between this and all the marketing crap from Iceland, Dominos et al, I am tempted to invest in a solid fuel burner to dispose of it, and bring the gas bill down.

At least your post is going to the right house.

Our house is on a road called [town name] road, [village name]. We keep getting post for the house with the same number on the road that is [village name] road, [town name].

[Balmoral]

We get quite a few Christmas cards and post for people who haven't lived here for twenty odd years. Barclaycard statements are puzzling as where are they sending new replacement cards to if the chap hasn't lived here for decades? Barclaycard won't talk to me about it because I'm not the cardholder, but they still keep sending stuff despite me calling them every now and then to explain.

[Saleen836]

Balmoral said:

We get quite a few Christmas cards and post for people who haven't lived here for twenty odd years. Barclaycard statements are puzzling as where are they sending new replacement cards to if the chap hasn't lived here for decades? Barclaycard won't talk to me about it because I'm not the cardholder, but they still keep sending stuff despite me calling them every now and then to explain.

I keep getting building society statements for a previous occupier/owner of my house, he has a tidy sum sat there gathering minimal interest but I have been here for 20 years and just like yourself, no one will talk to me as i'm not the account holder! go figure.

[anonymous-user]

Saleen836 said:

I keep getting building society statements for a previous occupier/owner of my house, he has a tidy sum sat there gathering minimal interest but I have been here for 20 years and just like yourself, no one will talk to me as i'm not the account holder! go figure.

We regularly get bank statements, credit / debit cards and pin numbers to our address. Our neighbour takes in short term lodgers and they seem incapable of using the correct address (we are xx, they are xxA). To start with I'd take them round and ask that they corrected the address, but as they never do, I either shred them or call the bank to say I have no idea who they are.

[Shakermaker]

Grahamdub said:

Saleen836 said:

I keep getting building society statements for a previous occupier/owner of my house, he has a tidy sum sat there gathering minimal interest but I have been here for 20 years and just like yourself, no one will talk to me as i'm not the account holder! go figure.

We regularly get bank statements, credit / debit cards and pin numbers to our address. Our neighbour takes in short term lodgers and they seem incapable of using the correct address (we are xx, they are xxA). To start with I'd take them round and ask that they corrected the address, but as they never do, I either shred them or call the bank to say I have no idea who they are.

How very honest of you. You know the name on the card, the address it is registered to and all the details.. would be very hard for them to claim there has been a problem if all details match up on that massive online spending spree you go on....

[anonymous-user]

Shakermaker said:

Grahamdub said:

Saleen836 said:

I keep getting building society statements for a previous occupier/owner of my house, he has a tidy sum sat there gathering minimal interest but I have been here for 20 years and just like yourself, no one will talk to me as i'm not the account holder! go figure.

We regularly get bank statements, credit / debit cards and pin numbers to our address. Our neighbour takes in short term lodgers and they seem incapable of using the correct address (we are xx, they are xxA). To start with I'd take them round and ask that they corrected the address, but as they never do, I either shred them or call the bank to say I have no idea who they are.

How very honest of you. You know the name on the card, the address it is registered to and all the details.. would be very hard for them to claim there has been a problem if all details match up on that massive online spending spree you go on....

It's one of my many attributes I am always surprised at how easy it seems to be to get accounts set up to addresses you have no link to and no proof of address either.

[Stan the Bat]

paua said:

Shakermaker said:

Cotty said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Or the other one is Amazon giving you recommendations for printers because you bought a printer.

How quickly are you expecting it to break down, Amazon?

Sainsburys giving me a voucher for 30 extra nectar points if I buy 60 cod liver oil tablets because I bought 60 cod liver oil tablets. at one a day I won't finish them for three months.

Two months

Increasing the dosage improves mathmatic skills.

Edited by paua on Wednesday 19th December 10:31

Not spelling though.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

The trailer for the new Hellboy film. It's set in London, with lots of UK cast, and appears to be very UK-centric, but Hellboy refers to "Legos" rather than "Lego".

https://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/hellboy/62424/...

It's like when in Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (the Tim Burton one), Charlie and his British parents kept referring to "candy".

[FourWheelDrift]

And a British cop saying "my bad".

[Clockwork Cupcake]

FourWheelDrift said:

And a British cop saying "my bad".

In fairness, that's kind of plausible. Although I don't disagree with you.

[paua]

Stan the Bat said:

Not spelling though.

I had it write ( ) & changed it after prompting from google spell check bks. Sometimes, you can't win.

[alorotom]

Balmoral said:

We get quite a few Christmas cards and post for people who haven't lived here for twenty odd years. Barclaycard statements are puzzling as where are they sending new replacement cards to if the chap hasn't lived here for decades? Barclaycard won't talk to me about it because I'm not the cardholder, but they still keep sending stuff despite me calling them every now and then to explain.

We had this at our old place. A friend of a friend knew them and asked them if he could share a forwarding address to which they declined as they didn’t want us knowing it (they also left a lot of escalating debts for us to handle and contact about their move etc)

So imagine my joy when we got a series of parking fines in the mail for a shopping park when they probably had been Christmas shopping - I decided to just let them escalate for a couple of months and when they got to many times the original fine I let the debt collecting organisation know they didn’t live there anymore - queue a aggressive visit from her new BF about me not letting them know!

[Toyoda]

The Nurofen advert with the Scandinavian voice over man. Are we supposed to trust him more?

[jdw100]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

FourWheelDrift said:

And a British cop saying "my bad".

In fairness, that's kind of plausible. Although I don't disagree with you.

Ugh, no its not. Unless Policeman is an idiot.

Whilst on the subject of Americanisms...anyone that says or writes 'ass' when they mean arse.

There are a few on here.

If I see 'ass' in a post I immediately assume you to be an idiot (or referring to your donkey like pet).

[RizzoTheRat]

jdw100 said:

Ugh, no its not. Unless Policeman is an idiot.

Whilst on the subject of Americanisms...anyone that says or writes 'ass' when they mean arse.

There are a few on here.

If I see 'ass' in a post I immediately assume you to be an idiot (or referring to your donkey like pet).

I have a similar reaction to "gotten"

[RizzoTheRat]

I was annoyed yesterday when I got a notification that my IT login expires at the end of the year. Great system having it notify you 14 days in advance, but not so good when the site will be closed or a week and a half of that, and quite a few people will be on leave sooner.

However having got my boss to sign it on his last day in the office yesterday and forward it on to the next approver last night, it turns out my annoyance was completely unreasonable as I had an email before 10 this morning to say it was all sorted.

So now I'm annoyed that I was annoyed about something I had no need to be annoyed about.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

RizzoTheRat said:

So now I'm annoyed that I was annoyed about something I had no need to be annoyed about.

[alorotom]

RizzoTheRat said:

I was annoyed yesterday when I got a notification that my IT login expires at the end of the year. Great system having it notify you 14 days in advance, but not so good when the site will be closed or a week and a half of that, and quite a few people will be on leave sooner.

However having got my boss to sign it on his last day in the office yesterday and forward it on to the next approver last night, it turns out my annoyance was completely unreasonable as I had an email before 10 this morning to say it was all sorted.

So now I'm annoyed that I was annoyed about something I had no need to be annoyed about.

So you did gone gotten annoyed for no reason, your bad

[Hugo a Gogo]

jdw100 said:

Ugh, no its not. Unless Policeman is an idiot.

Whilst on the subject of Americanisms...anyone that says or writes 'ass' when they mean arse.

There are a few on here.

If I see 'ass' in a post I immediately assume you to be an idiot (or referring to your donkey like pet).

Cockney geezers pronounce ass like grass, or glass "glarse"
So the more recent spelling of arse is effectively trying to write in cockney

[toppstuff]

On the subject of accents, I am reminded of a 20-something bloke I met the other day. He was clearly a white, well-educated young man from the home counties, but he spoke with a fake accent - a sort of Jafaican tinge. It was totally affected. Someone who knows him more than I, explained that he did not speak like that 5-7 years ago, as they lived near each other.

Definitely annoying. A cousin of mine who is a police officer, reports it is quite common these days. I know that language evolves, but fake street accents simply make the user out as a bell-end IMO.