Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)
Discussion
67Dino said:
Flat-earthers, Creationists, Anti-Vaxers, Moon-landing conspiracy theorists... i.e. people who annoy me by being beyond reason.
I am convinced that aliens were the middle men involved in the recent PH sale to the Americans. Truly.
Edited by nonsequitur on Saturday 27th April 16:57
nonsequitur said:
67Dino said:
Flat-earthers, Creationists, Anti-Vaxers, Moon-landing conspiracy theorists... i.e. people who annoy me by being beyond reason.
I am convinced that aliens were the middle men involved in the recent PH sale to the Americans. Truly.Edited by nonsequitur on Saturday 27th April 16:57
nonsequitur said:
But taking all things into consideration, a bigger annoyance is criticising other posters who appear, as If by magic, to make a perceived gross error within the PH canon. Grammatical, Quoting, Spelig, and other such misdemeanours that would have the mods gnashing their teeth and wrecking their keyboards.
The sardine boats have a full flottila out today.
I think you mean 'flotilla' The sardine boats have a full flottila out today.
The Don of Croy said:
I Love Cake said:
People who call trousers ‘pants’.
Pantaloons, shirley?Indigestion is currently annoying me. Will have to ask the doctor to up the dose of the proton pump inhibitor (what a term that is).
The one night I don't get bothered by snoring the sodding heartburn wakes me up.
Life can be cruel etc.
Searching for some parts for my bicycle this afternoon, I was trying to find them somewhere I could go to and collect them on a Sunday afternoon. The bits I need are the gear cassette and a chain, very commonly replaced parts on well used bicycles.
I ended up binning off many online stores due to lack of stock, and Halfords went the same way when I'd have had to wait several days for them to get stuff to store to collect.
Evans Cycles looked favourite, but one item was out of stock at my nearest store (Guildford), and Woking didn't have any stock, so the nearest place I could get both items was Reading. And Reading was too far for me to get to before closing time (my fault, I should have commenced searching earlier).
So what was the annoyance? Well, I'm away from home tomorrow, so I thought I'd search for availability nearer my destination. I typed "Bournemouth" into the store locator search box, and was pretty surprised to see the top result for that location was 40 miles away, near Southampton. The next nearest stores? Yup, you've guessed it - Guildford, Woking, and bloody Reading, all 70 or 80 miles from Bournemouth!
So I gave up on the idea of collecting the bits, and ordered them for a lot less money from Merlin Cycles. Evans didn't get the online order because there were far too many boxes to fill in, and hoops through which to jump, to buy items as a "guest" without creating an account which I'll probably never use again because I'll forget I created it. No wonder Evans went into administration. How do they persuade people to go through the doors when their stock levels on the consumable parts of probably the best-selling groupset on new road bikes is so abominably low and patchy? It's all very well claiming to have a price-match promise, but that only works if you stock stuff that folk need.
I'm now at the mercy of Royal Mail Tracked 48 (the free delivery option) too. Suggested delivery time is 2 to 3 days, which will inevitably lead to another annoyance now. Because I'm away all week, and when I get back no doubt there'll be a card in the letterbox inviting me to collect the damned parcel from the delivery office at some unGodly hour on Saturday morning, requiring a squillion forms of ID and probably needing me to be accompanied by all four Grandparents, or whichever hoop it is I'm to jump through this week...
I ended up binning off many online stores due to lack of stock, and Halfords went the same way when I'd have had to wait several days for them to get stuff to store to collect.
Evans Cycles looked favourite, but one item was out of stock at my nearest store (Guildford), and Woking didn't have any stock, so the nearest place I could get both items was Reading. And Reading was too far for me to get to before closing time (my fault, I should have commenced searching earlier).
So what was the annoyance? Well, I'm away from home tomorrow, so I thought I'd search for availability nearer my destination. I typed "Bournemouth" into the store locator search box, and was pretty surprised to see the top result for that location was 40 miles away, near Southampton. The next nearest stores? Yup, you've guessed it - Guildford, Woking, and bloody Reading, all 70 or 80 miles from Bournemouth!
So I gave up on the idea of collecting the bits, and ordered them for a lot less money from Merlin Cycles. Evans didn't get the online order because there were far too many boxes to fill in, and hoops through which to jump, to buy items as a "guest" without creating an account which I'll probably never use again because I'll forget I created it. No wonder Evans went into administration. How do they persuade people to go through the doors when their stock levels on the consumable parts of probably the best-selling groupset on new road bikes is so abominably low and patchy? It's all very well claiming to have a price-match promise, but that only works if you stock stuff that folk need.
I'm now at the mercy of Royal Mail Tracked 48 (the free delivery option) too. Suggested delivery time is 2 to 3 days, which will inevitably lead to another annoyance now. Because I'm away all week, and when I get back no doubt there'll be a card in the letterbox inviting me to collect the damned parcel from the delivery office at some unGodly hour on Saturday morning, requiring a squillion forms of ID and probably needing me to be accompanied by all four Grandparents, or whichever hoop it is I'm to jump through this week...
Bomma220 said:
God Almighty, you were a Pongo and you get upset by stuff like that? Bits for a sodding pushbike?
No wonder the Nation's in such a bloody mess
The nation is only in this bloody mess because they pushed me out of the door at my 25 year point No wonder the Nation's in such a bloody mess
Unofficial motto of the Royal Engineers? "We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, have done so much, with so little, for so long, that now we can do the impossible with nothing".
Successive governments have done so little, through wasting so much, for so long, that eventually there will be nothing left with which to do anything...
And no. I'm not "upset". Just "annoyed", as per the thread title. And if you find that to be "beyond reason" then it's mission accomplished, and my work here is done....
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