Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)
Discussion
It's on again so I'm being hassled by the insistent Arab, Mustapha Seethe.
What's on? Yet another product of Roy Clarke and his lifetime meal ticket for writing s
te. I remember when Last of the summer ste came out (1973).
Then, it was touted as 'gentle comedy' (=not funny) and it's just gone on and on, and on and on and on.
The same went for Open All Hours and Keeping Up Appearances. The formula is always identical in every case...
The men are idiots who fk about with stuff and come to grief every time
The women are all harpies
The men are invariably intimidated by the women
Meanness is rife
Galton and Simpson's work was always infinitely superior ('Steptoe the Klepto') and
Dick Celement and Ian La Frenais produced some belters (What's an armadildo Warren? King Athur's codpiece innit?')
A lot of John SUllivan's work was good too but Clarke? do me a favour.
What's on? Yet another product of Roy Clarke and his lifetime meal ticket for writing s
te. I remember when Last of the summer ste came out (1973). Then, it was touted as 'gentle comedy' (=not funny) and it's just gone on and on, and on and on and on.
The same went for Open All Hours and Keeping Up Appearances. The formula is always identical in every case...
The men are idiots who f
k about with stuff and come to grief every timeThe women are all harpies
The men are invariably intimidated by the women
Meanness is rife
Galton and Simpson's work was always infinitely superior ('Steptoe the Klepto') and
Dick Celement and Ian La Frenais produced some belters (What's an armadildo Warren? King Athur's codpiece innit?')
A lot of John SUllivan's work was good too but Clarke? do me a favour.
Tesco "Pay at the Pump" er..pump.
Swiping my Clubcard and entering the fuel card PIN is fine, as is entering mileage; but when it comes to entering the registration number why is the keypad set up so you have to scroll through commas, fullstops and dashes etc before getting to the number 1. How many cars have registrations with these in them?
Swiping my Clubcard and entering the fuel card PIN is fine, as is entering mileage; but when it comes to entering the registration number why is the keypad set up so you have to scroll through commas, fullstops and dashes etc before getting to the number 1. How many cars have registrations with these in them?
Plug sockets and plugs are no longer standard. This has probably been going on for a long time, but there are an ever increasing amount of household and work items where the plug is not of a standard size, or for a change, has the cable exiting from the top of the socket.
This is fine, until you are trying to plug them into a bank of floor sockets in the office where the four sockets are "head to head" meaning that plugging in one device now blanks out two sockets - the very reason the sockets were positioned this way was so that all the cables could run away from each other, surely? The oversize charger that came with my phone now takes up two socket spaces, meaning I have to fumble around under the desk every few hours to swap it and the laptop charger over.
This is fine, until you are trying to plug them into a bank of floor sockets in the office where the four sockets are "head to head" meaning that plugging in one device now blanks out two sockets - the very reason the sockets were positioned this way was so that all the cables could run away from each other, surely? The oversize charger that came with my phone now takes up two socket spaces, meaning I have to fumble around under the desk every few hours to swap it and the laptop charger over.
Shakermaker said:
Plug sockets and plugs are no longer standard. This has probably been going on for a long time, but there are an ever increasing amount of household and work items where the plug is not of a standard size, or for a change, has the cable exiting from the top of the socket.
This is fine, until you are trying to plug them into a bank of floor sockets in the office where the four sockets are "head to head" meaning that plugging in one device now blanks out two sockets - the very reason the sockets were positioned this way was so that all the cables could run away from each other, surely? The oversize charger that came with my phone now takes up two socket spaces, meaning I have to fumble around under the desk every few hours to swap it and the laptop charger over.
That gets on my tits as well. I have an extension cable with four sockets that are "head to head" annoying when one plug uses up two sockets. This is fine, until you are trying to plug them into a bank of floor sockets in the office where the four sockets are "head to head" meaning that plugging in one device now blanks out two sockets - the very reason the sockets were positioned this way was so that all the cables could run away from each other, surely? The oversize charger that came with my phone now takes up two socket spaces, meaning I have to fumble around under the desk every few hours to swap it and the laptop charger over.
Cotty said:
That gets on my tits as well. I have an extension cable with four sockets that are "head to head" annoying when one plug uses up two sockets.
And mine - the Eneloop charger for my camera batteries is too big, and I only have one spare socket. So it has to be plugged in via a 2-way adapter block, just to raise the thing above the plug alongside it.matchmaker said:
The speeling and grimmer check in Word. It threw up an objection to the word "company's" and suggested "companies". I knew I was right but decided to try the suggested "companies". Whereupon it threw up an objection and suggested "company's". 
Passive voice is the one that really sts me. There's nothing grammatically incorrect with it nor wrong with it. More often than not it randomly throws it at IT specific terms so it's wrong to mark it that way in the first place. f
k off with your passive voice ste MS Word. Is that active enough for you?wst said:
I can't stop it reverting to "English (US)" when absolutely every other bit of software on this PC is set to "English (UK)".
I have that same problem.I often get the "wiggly red line of wrong" and think to myself that the machine must be right. So I accept it's suggested correction and think "Nah, that looks wrong".
Mostly I then end up thinking "F
k off, Septic, I know how to spell English words proper, like..."matchmaker said:
The speeling and grimmer check in Word. It threw up an objection to the word "company's" and suggested "companies". I knew I was right but decided to try the suggested "companies". Whereupon it threw up an objection and suggested "company's".
"Fragment (consider revising)" is the one that annoys me. It always seems to end with me throwing random commas and semicolons at a sentence until it's satisfied, and the resulting text often just looks wrongModern cars not having the ability to turn the heater blowers back down to "1" or low when the engine is turned off. My missus has a habit of leaving the blowers on max, so like the other morning when it was freezing and i was first in the car, a face full of cold air blasting in your face dosent start the day well. Of course you say turn it down before starting but as its digital.....and a Renault, you cant access the controls until the engine has started.
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