Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)
Discussion
Shaoxter said:
People who make exhausts vids on Youtube but only record the car revving in neutral, totally unrepresentative of what it will actually sound like on the road.
Does this help?https://youtu.be/t0uzHiNYnds
Funky Panda said:
Sat on the train next to a lady explaining to her friends how she exaggerated her car accident injuries and the pay out was the easiest money she had made. Of course she was on the phone when it happened. Mrs P made it clear I shouldn't say something but I was raging.
I had similar a few years ago. A guy did a reckless overtake, and sideswiped a car with two 18 year old girls in it, I was the only one to stop for them.I spoke to them the next day, they needed to say I was being contacted by someone. Mysteriously they had BOTH woken up with stiff necks. It was a very minor blow from the other car. I told them I wouldn't be offering them any further assistance.
Edited by Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah on Sunday 12th November 12:24
Bobberoo99 said:
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matchmaker said:
People who talk through the two minutes silence. I was with Mrs M in our bus station this morning (picking up the form to claim my free bus pass as I'm 60 next month 
) and an announcement came over the tannoy asking for users of the bus station and adjacent shopping centre to observe the silence. Everyone in the bus station did, apart from the ignorant b
hes in the cafe who continued a loud conversation. 
They didn't seem too happy when I told them to shut up. 
I am becoming a grumpy old man...
Nothing grumpy about that. Some people are disrespectful and need to have it pointed out to them. Selfish and thoughtless. ) and an announcement came over the tannoy asking for users of the bus station and adjacent shopping centre to observe the silence. Everyone in the bus station did, apart from the ignorant bhes in the cafe who continued a loud conversation. They didn't seem too happy when I told them to shut up. I am becoming a grumpy old man...
king phone alone for 2 minutes and the pony tailed ignorant futard who waltzed through the self serve area used the till and was staring at everyone in a challenging manner, wifey grabbed my hand to stop me from saying something!!!! king clueless!rehab71 said:
Had it this morning in the dealership, everyone was quiet except two customers loudly banging seats in a 7 seater whilst chatting away, fking clueless!
Yesterday I was online and talking to a German and at around 10.50am I said/typed "In 10 mins we remember the fallen in the wars... on both sides. 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month. I will log out for this"king clueless!They replied: "Wow. Really?"
Clockwork Cupcake said:
rehab71 said:
Had it this morning in the dealership, everyone was quiet except two customers loudly banging seats in a 7 seater whilst chatting away, fking clueless!
Yesterday I was online and talking to a German and at around 10.50am I said/typed "In 10 mins we remember the fallen in the wars... on both sides. 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month. I will log out for this"king clueless!They replied: "Wow. Really?"
I'm not sure of the worldwide context, but I know that the whole "11th" thing started in the UK - I was under the impression that it was a bit more international than that by now.
Clockwork Cupcake said:
rehab71 said:
Had it this morning in the dealership, everyone was quiet except two customers loudly banging seats in a 7 seater whilst chatting away, fking clueless!
Yesterday I was online and talking to a German and at around 10.50am I said/typed "In 10 mins we remember the fallen in the wars... on both sides. 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month. I will log out for this"king clueless!They replied: "Wow. Really?"
In Germany (and Austria and Switzerland) at 11:11 on the 11th November, Karneval starts (and runs until Ash Wednesday the following spring), a festival with its roots in 5,000 year old Mesopotamia, and with a 'blood line' through the Roman Empire and Catholicism.
So, rightly or wrongly, while you were observing a minute's silence, the Germans were getting royally pissed and enjoying street parties.
phazed said:
Change for changes sake, that's what I feel is the most annoying thing. I know there are worse things in life but this is truly annoying.
It doesn't matter whether it's your phone, your computer, practically anything electronic. It only serves to annoy most people without creating any benefit.
I understand changes behind the scene to improve quality but why change formats that people are happy with and work?
Yes I know I'm old and I have a semi valve amplifier in my sound system, ( that plays CDs). .
Car designers are particularly sIt doesn't matter whether it's your phone, your computer, practically anything electronic. It only serves to annoy most people without creating any benefit.
I understand changes behind the scene to improve quality but why change formats that people are happy with and work?
Yes I know I'm old and I have a semi valve amplifier in my sound system, ( that plays CDs). .
t on this regards!Particularly AC or Media controls.
They can make something that makes instant sense, and add levels of complexity and counter intuitiveness by the spoonful! It's bizarre!
V8mate said:
Why are you surprised that different countries commemorate and celebrate different things? And as for the 'on both sides' bit, that is a particularly modern affectation. It was strictly remembering British armed forces until very, very recently.
Commonwealth rather than just British wasn't it?This weekend my company has had a software migration to a newer version of our CAD system. So of course now nothing works, and our IT "helpdesk" has sent just one explanatory email which is written in Nerd and makes no sense for normal people at all.
EVERY SINGLE SETTING has been lost and the whole office has been thrown in to disarray.
Mondays are not meant to be this frustrating.
EVERY SINGLE SETTING has been lost and the whole office has been thrown in to disarray.
Mondays are not meant to be this frustrating.
V8mate said:
Why are you surprised that different countries commemorate and celebrate different things? And as for the 'on both sides' bit, that is a particularly modern affectation. It was strictly remembering British armed forces until very, very recently.
In Germany (and Austria and Switzerland) at 11:11 on the 11th November, Karneval starts (and runs until Ash Wednesday the following spring), a festival with its roots in 5,000 year old Mesopotamia, and with a 'blood line' through the Roman Empire and Catholicism.
So, rightly or wrongly, while you were observing a minute's silence, the Germans were getting royally pissed and enjoying street parties.
A couple of weeks back, my elder German grandson was over for a week’s visit, and while we were out in a pub one night, he asked the barmaid for 2 poppies from the box behind the bar, and stuck a £5 note in the tin.In Germany (and Austria and Switzerland) at 11:11 on the 11th November, Karneval starts (and runs until Ash Wednesday the following spring), a festival with its roots in 5,000 year old Mesopotamia, and with a 'blood line' through the Roman Empire and Catholicism.
So, rightly or wrongly, while you were observing a minute's silence, the Germans were getting royally pissed and enjoying street parties.
When I queried, “Two?”, he said, “one for me, one for my station chief”, my grandson is a firefighter in the German Feuerwehr, our Fire Brigade.
I don’t know his station chief’s story, but both my grandsons wear one every year, their father, my son, was in the army in Germany when he met their mother, my father was in Normandy in 1944, their German grandfather served in Russia and France during WW11 and was captured by U.S. forces, their maternal great-grandfather served in Belgium for the Germans in WW1, their paternal great-grandfather in the BEF in France in WW1.
I asked him if he got strange looks from the average German in the street when wearing his poppy, he said, “Nein opa, I’m not the only German wearing one, there are lots of guys my age with British dads.”
generationx said:
This weekend my company has had a software migration to a newer version of our CAD system. So of course now nothing works, and our IT "helpdesk" has sent just one explanatory email which is written in Nerd and makes no sense for normal people at all.
EVERY SINGLE SETTING has been lost and the whole office has been thrown in to disarray.
Mondays are not meant to be this frustrating.
Think yourself lucky.....I work in CAD and I AM our CAD helpdesk!EVERY SINGLE SETTING has been lost and the whole office has been thrown in to disarray.
Mondays are not meant to be this frustrating.
Gary29 said:
The current trend of re-releasing old songs but sung at half the speed of the original by a female vocalist no one has ever heard of usually around xmas time for a crappy advert or for Children in Need etc etc, and then everyone raves on and on about how amazing it is.
I had a rant about the exact same thing in our office earlier on. Does my head in.Talking about music, what is it about the trend for some years now about women and power ballads?
Shouty, shouty and crappy lyrics by wannabes are all over commercial radio and TV. Is that what we want as it seems so popular or are we just force fed them due to X factor etc?
I love female vocalists, quality voices and lyrics like Laura Marling and others and if I do want them louder I just turn up the volume!
That is annoying...........
Shouty, shouty and crappy lyrics by wannabes are all over commercial radio and TV. Is that what we want as it seems so popular or are we just force fed them due to X factor etc?
I love female vocalists, quality voices and lyrics like Laura Marling and others and if I do want them louder I just turn up the volume!
That is annoying...........
DRFC1879 said:
Gary29 said:
The current trend of re-releasing old songs but sung at half the speed of the original by a female vocalist no one has ever heard of usually around xmas time for a crappy advert or for Children in Need etc etc, and then everyone raves on and on about how amazing it is.
I had a rant about the exact same thing in our office earlier on. Does my head in.One that particularly got my goat last year (or maybe the year before) was the re-hash of Embrace's We Got Family which is a bit of an angry, shouty "Don't fk with us" song but was made into some twee lovey-dovey "buy stuff from our shop so you can have a happy, smiley family Christmas" claptrap.
ETA: For some reason they decided to do away with the lyric, "I own your ass now by rights."
k with us" song but was made into some twee lovey-dovey "buy stuff from our shop so you can have a happy, smiley family Christmas" claptrap.ETA: For some reason they decided to do away with the lyric, "I own your ass now by rights."
Gary29 said:
The current trend of re-releasing old songs but sung at half the speed of the original by a female vocalist no one has ever heard of usually around xmas time for a crappy advert or for Children in Need etc etc, and then everyone raves on and on about how amazing it is.
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