Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)

[RizzoTheRat]

DoubleD said:

People who use the word brigade (apart from maybe firemen)

Even the military? What other context do people use it in then?

[bigpriest]

RizzoTheRat said:

DoubleD said:

People who use the word brigade (apart from maybe firemen)

Even the military? What other context do people use it in then?

Boys

[DoubleD]

RizzoTheRat said:

DoubleD said:

People who use the word brigade (apart from maybe firemen)

Even the military? What other context do people use it in then?

Read most threads on PH and you will see it used.

Made up example

"Oh its obviously one of the we dont care what you think and we are going to do what we like when ever we like brigade"

[Europa1]

RizzoTheRat said:

Even the military? What other context do people use it in then?

Restaurant kitchens.

[vaud]

In modern usage a brigade can also mean "a group of people who have something in common, especially an enthusiasm for a particular belief or subject:"

[popeyewhite]

[anonymous-user]

bigpriest said:

Web forms for 'Contact Us' on websites. Click Submit and your carefully worded message disappears never to be seen/heard of again.

...and the company has no phone number, a difficult to find email address and doesn’t monitor it’s contact form replies.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

V6 Pushfit said:

...and the company has no phone number, a difficult to find email address and doesn’t monitor it’s contact form replies.

The worst are small businesses where the web designer has clearly said"oh you MUST have a contact form and email address!" but nobody has been tasked with monitoring it.

You wouldn't publish a phone number but only have an answering machine connected to it that you never listen to.

[V8mate]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

V6 Pushfit said:

...and the company has no phone number, a difficult to find email address and doesn’t monitor it’s contact form replies.

The worst are small businesses where the web designer has clearly said"oh you MUST have a contact form and email address!" but nobody has been tasked with monitoring it.

You wouldn't publish a phone number but only have an answering machine connected to it that you never listen to.

Yep, I think that's invariably the reason. I even found one major, international company who had never actually set the email account created by the web developer to be assigned to anyone.

[popeyewhite]

David Walliams.

Annoying, creepy, and unfunny.

[droopsnoot]

bigpriest said:

Web forms for 'Contact Us' on websites. Click Submit and your carefully worded message disappears never to be seen/heard of again.

And going to check a company web site to see what their opening times are post-covid, before making a trip with a gas bottle balanced on the passenger seat, only to find that it still shows their Christmas hours.

Clockwork Cupcake said:

vaud said:

It's one of the things that annoy me beyond reason, along with "very unique".

And "quite unique" and, indeed, any analogue value of "unique".

Degrees of unique-ness irritate me too, but don't forget that "quite unique" could be meant in the same way as "quite delightful", in an 18th-century novel kind of way. I can't think of the proper way to describe what I mean, but it's not necessarily meaning "a bit" or "fairly", as in "quite cold".

[North West Tom]

V6 Pushfit said:

bigpriest said:

Web forms for 'Contact Us' on websites. Click Submit and your carefully worded message disappears never to be seen/heard of again.

...and the company has no phone number, a difficult to find email address and doesn’t monitor it’s contact form replies.

The worst one for me, is the 'Live Chat', which is just a pre-programmed bot that posts links to FAQs.

[anonymous-user]

‘We’ll set up your website with a contact form and then you’ll never need to answer the phone or have an email enquiry again’

Yeah right. Or a business.

[MartG]

V6 Pushfit said:

bigpriest said:

Web forms for 'Contact Us' on websites. Click Submit and your carefully worded message disappears never to be seen/heard of again.

...and the company has no phone number, a difficult to find email address and doesn’t monitor it’s contact form replies.

Ah yes...had one of those a few years ago

Ended up finding the MD on Facebook and posting a complaint publicly on their page - he wasn't happy

[21st Century Man]

Rick Stein never clears his plate. If it was so good, why does he leave so much behind on the plate, untouched? As he slings his fork down having finished. Every bloody time!

[DRFC1879]

21st Century Man said:

vaud said:

21st Century Man said:

A Porter should be warm and soft and unctuous

It really shouldn't be.

It was a word that Nigella Lawson took, abused and in then became mostly misused in the English language.

Just looked it up, quite right, my apologies. Just goes to show the power of populist parlance (and ignorance).

Similar in meaning to one of my favourite words: Obsequious.

Has a lovely wring (sic) to it.

[Allanv]

21st Century Man said:

Rick Stein never clears his plate. If it was so good, why does he leave so much behind on the plate, untouched? As he slings his fork down having finished. Every bloody time!

I enjoy cooking but only eat to live, not live to eat. Maybe he is the same.

I waste lots of food but get enjoyment that my wife clears her plate.

We are all different.

And how many takes did he do? And for me I might pick at the food when cooking and therefore only want a bit once all is done.

[21st Century Man]

I'm not bothered by the waste aspect, whether eaten or scraped into the bin, it make no difference. It just seems to jar with the gushing narrative.

[Europa1]

21st Century Man said:

Rick Stein never clears his plate. If it was so good, why does he leave so much behind on the plate, untouched? As he slings his fork down having finished. Every bloody time!

It's strange that you should say that, as I have the opposite impression - I was watching one of his shows the other day and thought to myself the "fork/knife & fork/spoon onto cleared plate" shot was getting repetitive.

[21st Century Man]

I'm watching him now on Dave, it's been every dish, even as I type he's left cake! CAKE! Who leaves cake?