Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)
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People who insist on adding sugar and milk to their coffee, and stirring it, all while the cup remains under the dispenser, instead of moving to the right to allow the machine to dispense MY f
king coffee.
Tall 'horsey' looking woman at Waitrose, Frimley - you knew what you were doing, and I suspect you were doing it deliberately.
Also, people who roll their eyes and tut at my stty parking. Yes, I'm applying "BMW rules" now. It may be 'only' a Mondeo, but it's a nice Mondeo, and it's really really shiny right now on account of it having just had it's annual wash and polish. So no, I don't care that it's parked centrally over the white line and in two spaces. I don't want someone coming back to either the Mercedes or the Audi either side of me and opening a door onto my lovely shiny car. And anyway, I'm only following the example I've been set by YOUR stty parking, along with the Range Rover over there, and the BMW M5 that was tucked up close to the white line preventing me from using an otherwise unoccupied space closer to the store. So fk you, and fk the rest of the store's customers. For whatever a man shall sow, that also shall he reap...
...and you've been 'sowing' abysmal parking for long enough. Reap it the fk up, dhead... 
king coffee.Tall 'horsey' looking woman at Waitrose, Frimley - you knew what you were doing, and I suspect you were doing it deliberately.
Also, people who roll their eyes and tut at my s
tty parking. Yes, I'm applying "BMW rules" now. It may be 'only' a Mondeo, but it's a nice Mondeo, and it's really really shiny right now on account of it having just had it's annual wash and polish. So no, I don't care that it's parked centrally over the white line and in two spaces. I don't want someone coming back to either the Mercedes or the Audi either side of me and opening a door onto my lovely shiny car. And anyway, I'm only following the example I've been set by YOUR stty parking, along with the Range Rover over there, and the BMW M5 that was tucked up close to the white line preventing me from using an otherwise unoccupied space closer to the store. So fk you, and fk the rest of the store's customers. For whatever a man shall sow, that also shall he reap......and you've been 'sowing' abysmal parking for long enough. Reap it the f
k up, dhead... Great Northern, for all the self-satisfied PR it is putting out about new trains on the Cambridge - Kings Cross route.
- they are not actually new, merely new to this route;
- they have fewer seats than the old, recently refurbished at great expense, trains, so overcrowding on the fast rush hour trains to/from Kings Cross is worse (people standing the length of the aisle instead of a couple on each vestibule);
- the layout seems to have been signed off by some drooling, slack jawed incompetent (yes, I am also incompetent for managing to get the photo upside down, and yes, I did take it in landscape) - just who do they think is going to use the space on the non-chaired side of this table?
- they are not actually new, merely new to this route;
- they have fewer seats than the old, recently refurbished at great expense, trains, so overcrowding on the fast rush hour trains to/from Kings Cross is worse (people standing the length of the aisle instead of a couple on each vestibule);
- the layout seems to have been signed off by some drooling, slack jawed incompetent (yes, I am also incompetent for managing to get the photo upside down, and yes, I did take it in landscape) - just who do they think is going to use the space on the non-chaired side of this table?
Europa1 said:
Great Northern, for all the self-satisfied PR it is putting out about new trains on the Cambridge - Kings Cross route.
- they are not actually new, merely new to this route;
- they have fewer seats than the old, recently refurbished at great expense, trains, so overcrowding on the fast rush hour trains to/from Kings Cross is worse (people standing the length of the aisle instead of a couple on each vestibule);
- the layout seems to have been signed off by some drooling, slack jawed incompetent (yes, I am also incompetent for managing to get the photo upside down, and yes, I did take it in landscape) - just who do they think is going to use the space on the non-chaired side of this table?
Luggage- they are not actually new, merely new to this route;
- they have fewer seats than the old, recently refurbished at great expense, trains, so overcrowding on the fast rush hour trains to/from Kings Cross is worse (people standing the length of the aisle instead of a couple on each vestibule);
- the layout seems to have been signed off by some drooling, slack jawed incompetent (yes, I am also incompetent for managing to get the photo upside down, and yes, I did take it in landscape) - just who do they think is going to use the space on the non-chaired side of this table?
TommoAE86 said:
Photobucket, used to be an amazing site now it's a twitching corpse of ad's and pop ups... fk you photobucket owners...
That's so you'll pay extra for the version without adverts.k you photobucket owners... I notice it also takes ages to upload photos now. The last time I tried I thought I was uploading the size of photos you see on billboards!
Another thing I hate is the company I work for came up with an intranet site , which includes a staff directory. No issue with that, if you are trying to find contact details for someone at another office.
However, they've now decided to make it like social media, where they want you to upload your hobbies, what your strengths are, your photo and previous jobs. Why would I want to do that? All a directory needs is your name, job title, where you work, email address and phone number. They even launched a big campaign to encourage staff to complete this rubbish, kidding on they are a new Facebook type thing. If your profile didn't meet a certain percentage then your manager was emailed to say you hadn't completed the thing properly.
I'm not interested that Tracey in Birmingham enjoys yoga and eating McDonalds. Or Bill in London likes playing football. If I need to speak to someone in relation to work who is based at another location, I don't need to know this stuff. This is the work of our head office, all fluffy ideas, people floating around with laptops coming up with this nonsense.
ch108 said:
However, they've now decided to make it like social media, where they want you to upload your hobbies, what your strengths are, your photo and previous jobs. Why would I want to do that? All a directory needs is your name, job title, where you work, email address and phone number. They even launched a big campaign to encourage staff to complete this rubbish, kidding on they are a new Facebook type thing. If your profile didn't meet a certain percentage then your manager was emailed to say you hadn't completed the thing properly.
It's st like this that makes me so averse to the idea of returning to permanent / salaried employment after 17 years as a freelancer. As a freelancer I can say "sod off" to crap like this. As an employee you can't really. Of course, you could fill in bogus hobbies and interests; the more ridiculous the better.
That "social media platform" crap happened to imgur as well. It was once just a nice lightweight picture hosting website to get around photobucket being awful (PB has been awful for years), for people on reddit to be able to easily share pictures. Now it has reddit style comments, subsections, you can't just "upload a photo" you have to make an album (even if it is just one photo), the mobile app constantly notifies you of "trending" BS, etcetc.
I know and understand that bandwidth costs money, but there's got to be a better way. A simple banner ad, surely?
I know and understand that bandwidth costs money, but there's got to be a better way. A simple banner ad, surely?
Being 45 and things suddenly hurting for no apparent reason:
Oh I see you are watching TV time to make your arm feel like it's been stabbed for 10 seconds for no reason... Oh I see you're laying in bed time to make you feel like a knitting needle is slowly being driven through your shoulder blade.
fk off.
Oh I see you are watching TV time to make your arm feel like it's been stabbed for 10 seconds for no reason... Oh I see you're laying in bed time to make you feel like a knitting needle is slowly being driven through your shoulder blade.
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k off.Dropbox recently got a whole load more st too. The Public folder used to be shared publicly by default and was shared in such a way as enclosing the link in an HTML <img> tag or a BBCode [img] tag would display correctly in forums like PH.
This functionality has now been removed, which incidentally means that all previously-shared links in your Public folder become dead links which is why loads of historic posts from me on PH are now broken. I've had to go back to self-hosting on my datahamster.com site which is far less convenient as I have to FTP upload a pic and then hand-type a URL rather than right-clicking on the file and selecting "Copy Dropbox Link".
t too. The Public folder used to be shared publicly by default and was shared in such a way as enclosing the link in an HTML <img> tag or a BBCode [img] tag would display correctly in forums like PH. This functionality has now been removed, which incidentally means that all previously-shared links in your Public folder become dead links which is why loads of historic posts from me on PH are now broken. I've had to go back to self-hosting on my datahamster.com site which is far less convenient as I have to FTP upload a pic and then hand-type a URL rather than right-clicking on the file and selecting "Copy Dropbox Link".
MartG said:
Amateur video where as soon as something happens the person holding the camera points it at the ground/sky/anywhere other than at whatever is happening - today's video of Hammond's crash being a case in point
In situations like that, it's a natural reaction to react to it and forget you are filming. A professional would have learned to overrule that natural reaction and keep the camera on the subject. Car adverts that show LHD cars. Especially cars whose country of origin is RHD, like Honda, Mazda, Toyota, and Mitsubishi.
Worse are the ones that go on about the features and then put a caption "UK Specification may vary".
I realise that making adverts is expensive, but it still annoys me.
Worse are the ones that go on about the features and then put a caption "UK Specification may vary".
I realise that making adverts is expensive, but it still annoys me.
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