Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)
Discussion
davhill said:
Two years working in imaging at a medical school (Manchester) showed me the medical pecking order from both sides. However, Gps are not childrens entertainers and deserve some respect.
Aye. They tried it on with my dad too and he said that he didn't even allow his nurses to call him by his first name and he was damned if he was going to encourage patients to do so, and also that it undermined the whole ethos of a doctor being an authority of knowledge and reduced them to a salesperson. (He's retired now, so very much of an older generation of doctor)
67Dino said:
Trouble with belt fed toasters is they either seem to be glacially slow, or produce warm bread rather than toast. Plus there’s a greater risk someone nicks your toast if they can’t remember what theirs looked like.
We had a belt-fed toaster at the canteen of one of my clients, and not only was that a problem but also the fact that different people like different heat settings, so it was always a case of watching your toast like a hawk and whacking the heat setting up for your toast and asking the person behind you want setting they wanted as your toast exited and theirs started to come through. Also, it toasted the bread to a different level on each side, so at quiet times I would put my bread through twice on a lower setting, flipping it over for the second pass, to achieve uniform toasting.
RizzoTheRat said:
Or better yet a belt fed toaster.
Stayed in a hotel a while back and a kid in front of me put two slices side by side in the belt fed toaster like any normal person would, and his idiotic mother told him off and put them in one behind the other, so I had to wait twice as long for mine to go in!
One behind the other means you can butter slice 1 whilst slice 2 is just finishing off.Stayed in a hotel a while back and a kid in front of me put two slices side by side in the belt fed toaster like any normal person would, and his idiotic mother told him off and put them in one behind the other, so I had to wait twice as long for mine to go in!
OpulentBob said:
Local councillors with big mouths, especially young ones who have never had a real job in their lives.
I build roads, I design trafficky bits and change roads, roundabouts, build bridges, that sort of thing. I do it for the council (whoever is in charge), but I am 100% technical and non-political, and most of the things I do are either for congestion or safety. We've got a meeting tonight (me and the boss of Highways) with a couple of local councillors about a traffic island. Smallest traffic island ever, the whole thing will cost less than £2k to put in. Literally tiny, but it will stop people being hit by cars - 4 people have been hit there in the last 6 months, so it's a good thing. A Good Thing.
The local councillors have put the details on Facebook, and now the meeting is going to be attended by 100 NIMBY locals all whinging about how this island is going to ruin their lives, their kids will die, their house prices will go down, I don't know because I don't live there etc etc, moving on to the inevitable bin collections or neighbours dogs barking or something. It's going to last til midnight, I am supposed to be off on my holidays first thing tomorrow, and I just know these pricks are going to be awkward as f
k. And I DO live there. I live about a mile away, went to school just up the road, and use that bit of road several times a week.
All because some bell-end child of a local councillor has decided to look popular in front of his flock, ignoring the safety aspect and just moaning because he's Lab and the council is Con.
I can't wait for tonight. It's going to be miserable.
(V8 you probably can guess/work out most of the people I'm talking about but no names please. I am busy making my (more official) point through other channels...
)
All that moaning. That whinging and whining. And what did you actually deliver?I build roads, I design trafficky bits and change roads, roundabouts, build bridges, that sort of thing. I do it for the council (whoever is in charge), but I am 100% technical and non-political, and most of the things I do are either for congestion or safety. We've got a meeting tonight (me and the boss of Highways) with a couple of local councillors about a traffic island. Smallest traffic island ever, the whole thing will cost less than £2k to put in. Literally tiny, but it will stop people being hit by cars - 4 people have been hit there in the last 6 months, so it's a good thing. A Good Thing.
The local councillors have put the details on Facebook, and now the meeting is going to be attended by 100 NIMBY locals all whinging about how this island is going to ruin their lives, their kids will die, their house prices will go down, I don't know because I don't live there etc etc, moving on to the inevitable bin collections or neighbours dogs barking or something. It's going to last til midnight, I am supposed to be off on my holidays first thing tomorrow, and I just know these pricks are going to be awkward as f
k. And I DO live there. I live about a mile away, went to school just up the road, and use that bit of road several times a week.All because some bell-end child of a local councillor has decided to look popular in front of his flock, ignoring the safety aspect and just moaning because he's Lab and the council is Con.
I can't wait for tonight. It's going to be miserable.
(V8 you probably can guess/work out most of the people I'm talking about but no names please. I am busy making my (more official) point through other channels...
)This.
Possibly the most insignificant piece of street furniture ever created.
No wonder your missus is so disappointed... all that build up and expectation of a significant deployment. And all that arrives is a sub-optimal erection with all the stiffness of Zebedee.
fk you both.
Kieran, you have no idea of the purpose of the island. It is NOT to prevent u-turns - they are not illegal nor are they restricted here. It is to stop selfish wkers driving along 30m of footway to do the u-turn, and mowing down pedestrians at the same time (4 people hospitalised in the last 6 months). The scheme is ENTIRELY a casualty reduction scheme, it is nothing to do with the bus lane. (Which is there to address the pollution down Queen St, a legal requirement - and which was dreamt up by the local Tory Exec Cllr.)
Now, feel free to go and try and turn around there without driving on the footway, let me know how you get on.
ETA this is the problem with highways. Anyone with a driving licence thinks they know everything thats going on and that they know better. No idea of who owns what, what can be put where, the legalities and enforcabilities of certain signs, the difference between PR1 roads, local roads, private roads etc. Armchair experts are not helpful.
Anyway, kept me employed for a while and means I've got a pocket full of spending money for my second holiday of the month tomorrow.
k you both. Kieran, you have no idea of the purpose of the island. It is NOT to prevent u-turns - they are not illegal nor are they restricted here. It is to stop selfish w
kers driving along 30m of footway to do the u-turn, and mowing down pedestrians at the same time (4 people hospitalised in the last 6 months). The scheme is ENTIRELY a casualty reduction scheme, it is nothing to do with the bus lane. (Which is there to address the pollution down Queen St, a legal requirement - and which was dreamt up by the local Tory Exec Cllr.)Now, feel free to go and try and turn around there without driving on the footway, let me know how you get on.
ETA this is the problem with highways. Anyone with a driving licence thinks they know everything thats going on and that they know better. No idea of who owns what, what can be put where, the legalities and enforcabilities of certain signs, the difference between PR1 roads, local roads, private roads etc. Armchair experts are not helpful.
Anyway, kept me employed for a while and means I've got a pocket full of spending money for my second holiday of the month tomorrow.
Edited by OpulentBob on Tuesday 13th August 12:53
Europa1 said:
RizzoTheRat said:
Or better yet a belt fed toaster.
Stayed in a hotel a while back and a kid in front of me put two slices side by side in the belt fed toaster like any normal person would, and his idiotic mother told him off and put them in one behind the other, so I had to wait twice as long for mine to go in!
One behind the other means you can butter slice 1 whilst slice 2 is just finishing off.Stayed in a hotel a while back and a kid in front of me put two slices side by side in the belt fed toaster like any normal person would, and his idiotic mother told him off and put them in one behind the other, so I had to wait twice as long for mine to go in!
Anyway, while we're on automotive annoyances, the fuel tank on my car is seriously annoying me. Well, I say the fuel tank... but I'm probably being rather unfair to the brainless vessel itself... my ire is directed more to the idiotic unthinking cretins at the manufacturer.
I drive the largest car made by that manufacturer. A huge estate car with a 3.6 V6 engine. Yet the manufacturer saw fit to provide it with the same 11 gallon fuel tank that it fits to the rest of their model range, including the little 1 litre city cars.
So I drive a car designed for long distance cruising, yet get little more than 300 miles between fuel stops. Should be capable of twice that. Even for normal business use, I'm filling up every 2-3 days.
I drive the largest car made by that manufacturer. A huge estate car with a 3.6 V6 engine. Yet the manufacturer saw fit to provide it with the same 11 gallon fuel tank that it fits to the rest of their model range, including the little 1 litre city cars.
So I drive a car designed for long distance cruising, yet get little more than 300 miles between fuel stops. Should be capable of twice that. Even for normal business use, I'm filling up every 2-3 days.
V8mate said:
Anyway, while we're on automotive annoyances, the fuel tank on my car is seriously annoying me. Well, I say the fuel tank... but I'm probably being rather unfair to the brainless vessel itself... my ire is directed more to the idiotic unthinking cretins at the manufacturer.
I drive the largest car made by that manufacturer. A huge estate car with a 3.6 V6 engine. Yet the manufacturer saw fit to provide it with the same 11 gallon fuel tank that it fits to the rest of their model range, including the little 1 litre city cars.
So I drive a car designed for long distance cruising, yet get little more than 300 miles between fuel stops. Should be capable of twice that. Even for normal business use, I'm filling up every 2-3 days.
Skoda Superb?I drive the largest car made by that manufacturer. A huge estate car with a 3.6 V6 engine. Yet the manufacturer saw fit to provide it with the same 11 gallon fuel tank that it fits to the rest of their model range, including the little 1 litre city cars.
So I drive a car designed for long distance cruising, yet get little more than 300 miles between fuel stops. Should be capable of twice that. Even for normal business use, I'm filling up every 2-3 days.
67Dino said:
So glad we’re focusing on the big issues of the day. There’s people elsewhere on PH wasting time on Brexit, Climate Change and suchlike.
Well, since we're in this thread, I'd like to cite your reply as something that annoys me beyond reason. Because it is possible to care about little things and big things at the same time. Also, why are you posting this on this thread when you could be focussing on bigger issues?
Clockwork Cupcake said:
67Dino said:
So glad we’re focusing on the big issues of the day. There’s people elsewhere on PH wasting time on Brexit, Climate Change and suchlike.
Well, since we're in this thread, I'd like to cite your reply as something that annoys me beyond reason. Because it is possible to care about little things and big things at the same time. Also, why are you posting this on this thread when you could be focussing on bigger issues?
RizzoTheRat said:
Clockwork Cupcake said:
67Dino said:
So glad we’re focusing on the big issues of the day. There’s people elsewhere on PH wasting time on Brexit, Climate Change and suchlike.
Well, since we're in this thread, I'd like to cite your reply as something that annoys me beyond reason. Because it is possible to care about little things and big things at the same time. Also, why are you posting this on this thread when you could be focussing on bigger issues?
Shakermaker said:
V8mate said:
Shakermaker said:
Skoda Superb?
2011, 61-plate; I bought it in Jan 2017 with 17k on the clock from a Skoda dealer. One owner, full service history at that garage. Had been owned by an old chap who pretty much only used it Sundays. Elegance but with lots of extras (don't know why he didn't by the L&K). Utterly mint.
OpulentBob said:
fk you both.
Kieran, you have no idea of the purpose of the island. It is NOT to prevent u-turns - they are not illegal nor are they restricted here. It is to stop selfish wkers driving along 30m of footway to do the u-turn, and mowing down pedestrians at the same time (4 people hospitalised in the last 6 months). The scheme is ENTIRELY a casualty reduction scheme, it is nothing to do with the bus lane. (Which is there to address the pollution down Queen St, a legal requirement - and which was dreamt up by the local Tory Exec Cllr.)
Now, feel free to go and try and turn around there without driving on the footway, let me know how you get on.
ETA this is the problem with highways. Anyone with a driving licence thinks they know everything thats going on and that they know better. No idea of who owns what, what can be put where, the legalities and enforcabilities of certain signs, the difference between PR1 roads, local roads, private roads etc. Armchair experts are not helpful.
Anyway, kept me employed for a while and means I've got a pocket full of spending money for my second holiday of the month tomorrow.
If the authorities wanted to address pollution in Colchester, they would keep traffic moving by getting rid of all the bus lanes, buses, and rephase the traffic signals so that they don't stop all the traffic to allow pedestrians to cross the roads, regardless of any being present.k you both. Kieran, you have no idea of the purpose of the island. It is NOT to prevent u-turns - they are not illegal nor are they restricted here. It is to stop selfish w
kers driving along 30m of footway to do the u-turn, and mowing down pedestrians at the same time (4 people hospitalised in the last 6 months). The scheme is ENTIRELY a casualty reduction scheme, it is nothing to do with the bus lane. (Which is there to address the pollution down Queen St, a legal requirement - and which was dreamt up by the local Tory Exec Cllr.)Now, feel free to go and try and turn around there without driving on the footway, let me know how you get on.
ETA this is the problem with highways. Anyone with a driving licence thinks they know everything thats going on and that they know better. No idea of who owns what, what can be put where, the legalities and enforcabilities of certain signs, the difference between PR1 roads, local roads, private roads etc. Armchair experts are not helpful.
Anyway, kept me employed for a while and means I've got a pocket full of spending money for my second holiday of the month tomorrow.
Edited by OpulentBob on Tuesday 13th August 12:53
V8mate said:
2011, 61-plate; I bought it in Jan 2017 with 17k on the clock from a Skoda dealer. One owner, full service history at that garage. Had been owned by an old chap who pretty much only used it Sundays. Elegance but with lots of extras (don't know why he didn't by the L&K). Utterly mint.
I got similarly lucky with my Golf R. It was a little older than what I was looking for but ridiculously low mileage and with so many options that the original owner must have just ticked pretty much everything. And then barely driven it apart from to put a dent in one of the tailpipes (how is that even possible with a reversing camera and parking sensors?), and a ding in the passenger sill kickplate, and a few scratches here and there. My biggest worry now is that if it were ever stolen or written off, I would have a very hard time finding another as well-specced.
(And, to keep it on-topic, this would annoy me beyond reason)
Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Tuesday 13th August 16:20
V8mate said:
Anyway, while we're on automotive annoyances, the fuel tank on my car is seriously annoying me. Well, I say the fuel tank... but I'm probably being rather unfair to the brainless vessel itself... my ire is directed more to the idiotic unthinking cretins at the manufacturer.
I drive the largest car made by that manufacturer. A huge estate car with a 3.6 V6 engine. Yet the manufacturer saw fit to provide it with the same 11 gallon fuel tank that it fits to the rest of their model range, including the little 1 litre city cars.
So I drive a car designed for long distance cruising, yet get little more than 300 miles between fuel stops. Should be capable of twice that. Even for normal business use, I'm filling up every 2-3 days.
The older I get, the more I appreciate a smaller fuel tank, as my own tank needs emptying more regularly now I drive the largest car made by that manufacturer. A huge estate car with a 3.6 V6 engine. Yet the manufacturer saw fit to provide it with the same 11 gallon fuel tank that it fits to the rest of their model range, including the little 1 litre city cars.
So I drive a car designed for long distance cruising, yet get little more than 300 miles between fuel stops. Should be capable of twice that. Even for normal business use, I'm filling up every 2-3 days.
People who take a picture on their phone of a busy train/tube station when there’s a lot of people in the concourses; be it simply due to rush hour volume or if there’s an incident and people are being held at the barriers. Why do they take a photo of the crowd? It’s a crowd of people have they never seen its like before? Why hold your phone up you c.unts. to post it on social media that there’s a crowd of people…so facking what? its a fairly routine sight a bunch of people.
Also people who stand up on unbusy trains and move to the doors 5/10 mins before arrival at station. Why do you do this? If the train is busy and you want to get ahead fair enough, we all do that. but when there’s a handful of people on the carriage? What’s the point? Invariably when people do this the train comes to an inexplicable stop just before the station…some sort of chaos theory going on I’m sure. Hap you just stayed sitting we would have arrived on time.
theplayingmantis said:
Also people who stand up on unbusy trains and move to the doors 5/10 mins before arrival at station. Why do you do this? If the train is busy and you want to get ahead fair enough, we all do that. but when there’s a handful of people on the carriage? What’s the point?
Not everyone is a seasoned traveller, and if they are an infrequent train traveller they may have anxiety that they will miss their stop, and they overestimate the time needed to gather their belongings and move to the door.It's the same reason that infrequent air travellers arrive hours before they need to, "just in case".
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