Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)

Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)

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Moonhawk

10,730 posts

218 months

Saturday 22nd April 2017
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Websites that offer a "free" service and get you to enter a load of information - only then to ask you for registration details before you actually get to the bit you wanted.

Take the Parkers "free car valuation".

It states on the website "Enter your reg number or use the options below to look up your car and find out how much it is worth"

So I enter the Reg number and click the button that says "get valuation".

Only it doesn't go and get the valuation - it takes me to another page that asks a question about whether I own the car (quite what relevance that has is beyond me). So I answer the question and click the button that says "this is the car I want a valuation for".

Does it then take me to the valuation.....no. It then takes me to another page that now requires I enter email address, post code, mobile number, penis length etc etc.

fking hate websites that spring the registration requirement on you after they have asked you a load of questions.

Why doesn't the front page just say "Register for free valuation" - then i'd know not to bother.


ClockworkCupcake

74,402 posts

271 months

Saturday 22nd April 2017
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Moonhawk said:
Why doesn't the front page just say "Register for free valuation" - then i'd know not to bother.
Well there's your answer. smile

Sheets Tabuer

18,898 posts

214 months

Saturday 22nd April 2017
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Kitchen diners, every bloody new build I have been to see today is a kitchen diner, why on earth would I want my living room smelling of cooking or have to turn the TV up when the dishwasher is on.

alorotom

11,908 posts

186 months

Saturday 22nd April 2017
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Sheets Tabuer said:
Kitchen diners, every bloody new build I have been to see today is a kitchen diner, why on earth would I want my living room smelling of cooking or have to turn the TV up when the dishwasher is on.
'Tis the current hipster fashion

Antony Moxey

8,016 posts

218 months

Saturday 22nd April 2017
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People that don't know the difference between a kitchen diner and a lounge diner.

Sheets Tabuer

18,898 posts

214 months

Saturday 22nd April 2017
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Antony Moxey said:
People that don't know the difference between a kitchen diner and a lounge diner.
Apologies tis my birthday and we stopped at the pub on the way home *hic*

ClockworkCupcake

74,402 posts

271 months

Saturday 22nd April 2017
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Antony Moxey said:
People that don't know the difference between a kitchen diner and a lounge diner.
Or, indeed, a kitchen lounge. silly

ch108

1,127 posts

132 months

Saturday 22nd April 2017
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Pete-mojsh said:
Using a car horn repeatedly. The first one is fine, each one after that grates on me even more.
One of my neighbours daughters does that every time she leaves after visiting. I don't really know what she expects her dad to do when she decides to toot the horn half a dozen times as she drives off.

Presumably they've already said goodbye when he has shown her out his front door, so I don't know what this adds to the farewell.




FourWheelDrift

88,381 posts

283 months

Saturday 22nd April 2017
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ch108 said:
One of my neighbours daughters does that every time she leaves after visiting. I don't really know what she expects her dad to do when she decides to toot the horn half a dozen times as she drives off.

Presumably they've already said goodbye when he has shown her out his front door, so I don't know what this adds to the farewell.
On the phone they are probably the same kind who say, "bye, bye.....bye....byebye....bye...bye" then talks for another 5 minutes.

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

115 months

Sunday 23rd April 2017
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ClockworkCupcake said:
Antony Moxey said:
People that don't know the difference between a kitchen diner and a lounge diner.
Or, indeed, a kitchen lounge. silly
A Bed-Sit, being just one room, would resolve all disputes.

Moonhawk

10,730 posts

218 months

Sunday 23rd April 2017
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ClockworkCupcake said:
Moonhawk said:
Why doesn't the front page just say "Register for free valuation" - then i'd know not to bother.
Well there's your answer. smile
Well yes - I know why they do it - but call me old fashioned, I prefer honesty and openness, especially from people/companies who expect me to give them private details about myself........hence why it annoys me wink

wst

3,494 posts

160 months

Sunday 23rd April 2017
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alorotom said:
Sheets Tabuer said:
Kitchen diners, every bloody new build I have been to see today is a kitchen diner, why on earth would I want my living room smelling of cooking or have to turn the TV up when the dishwasher is on.
'Tis the current hipster fashion
It's less that, more the current developer trend. Can't fit as many houses on a plot if they have to have a separate dining room. Also explains the tiny garages, lack of reasonable parking, etc that is the basis for many objections to planning permission. Got to pack them in and make a few more pounds, and if you don't like it, tough, there's no other option in that price range.

So to add to the thread, modern housing developments.

Sheets Tabuer

18,898 posts

214 months

Sunday 23rd April 2017
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I wouldn't mind but I'm looking for houses in the 300k range, an old house is out of the question as I don't want the hassle and they rarely have en suite. I have rented new builds and the lower energy costs plus toilets everywhere makes them attractive and my son can visit.

The lounge diner design for a house they are asking 300k for is insane, I'm not a snob but I do like to cook and have people over so can you imagine trying to entertain with 2 hairy arsed teenagers watching ste on the TV in the lounge area while you're trying to chat to your mate and his Mrs over a curry?

Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

232 months

Sunday 23rd April 2017
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matchmaker said:
This really only came to me last night - why do the names of so many diesel cars always include an "i"? It's not as if you can have a diesel engine that doesn't have fuel injection?
I would say that all names with an 'i' actually have a 'di' - for direct injection, with injectors going right into the combustion chamber, which is a relatively modern thing for diesels

so for example TDI means turbo direct injection, rather than turbo diesel injection

Moonhawk

10,730 posts

218 months

Tuesday 25th April 2017
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Downlights with springs powerful enough to kill a giant mutant rat and which take down half the ceiling when you try to extract them for repair or replacement. mad

Shakermaker

11,317 posts

99 months

Tuesday 25th April 2017
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Hugo a Gogo said:
matchmaker said:
This really only came to me last night - why do the names of so many diesel cars always include an "i"? It's not as if you can have a diesel engine that doesn't have fuel injection?
I would say that all names with an 'i' actually have a 'di' - for direct injection, with injectors going right into the combustion chamber, which is a relatively modern thing for diesels

so for example TDI means turbo direct injection, rather than turbo diesel injection
but you don't get any petrol cars with the TDI name on them because that would be confusing. You might be technically correct, but the reality is TDI = Turbo Diesel to the buying public.

ClockworkCupcake

74,402 posts

271 months

Tuesday 25th April 2017
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Moonhawk said:
Downlights with springs powerful enough to kill a giant mutant rat and which take down half the ceiling when you try to extract them for repair or replacement. mad
Giant mutant rats? I don't think they exist.

https://youtu.be/BOv5ZjAOpC8

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alorotom

11,908 posts

186 months

Tuesday 25th April 2017
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when you travel the length of the country (well almost - Newcastle to Harlow) for a 10am meeting, so come down the night before, to then have the meeting cancelled at 9am ... not like I have anything else better to do is it!

MartG

20,622 posts

203 months

Tuesday 25th April 2017
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ClockworkCupcake said:
Moonhawk said:
Downlights with springs powerful enough to kill a giant mutant rat and which take down half the ceiling when you try to extract them for repair or replacement. mad
Giant mutant rats? I don't think they exist.

https://youtu.be/BOv5ZjAOpC8

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These ?

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/monster-rats...

Moonhawk

10,730 posts

218 months

Tuesday 25th April 2017
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ClockworkCupcake said:
Moonhawk said:
Downlights with springs powerful enough to kill a giant mutant rat and which take down half the ceiling when you try to extract them for repair or replacement. mad
Giant mutant rats? I don't think they exist.
Tell that to the downlight manufacturers wink
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