Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)
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DRFC1879 said:
That looks like a steak knife. An instrument whose very existence annoys me beyond reason.
If I'm eating out and I order a steak I hate it when they bring me a steak knife. If the meat's so tough that it needs a serrated knife to hack through it, I'm going to send it back.
Yes, standards have fallen at Little Chef.If I'm eating out and I order a steak I hate it when they bring me a steak knife. If the meat's so tough that it needs a serrated knife to hack through it, I'm going to send it back.
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I realised yesterday evening that I have an utterly irrational contribution to make to this thread.
The "Question of Sport" theme music. In pretty much any of it's remixes. Drives me mad, I always HAVE to change channels immediately it pipes up.
Whether or not that is driven by the supreme smugness and irritability of those taking part, I'm not entirely sure.
The "Question of Sport" theme music. In pretty much any of it's remixes. Drives me mad, I always HAVE to change channels immediately it pipes up.
Whether or not that is driven by the supreme smugness and irritability of those taking part, I'm not entirely sure.
People who put their full email signature on every reply that they send.
Our corporate standard is quite simple, on the first outbound email to someone outside the company will put all the usual company branding on it
On my first email, it sends my signature (name, title, contact details etc) but for every subsequent reply, just my name and phone number. Useful in long email chains to keep it simple
But there are those who insist on putting some complete waffle on every reply, their full role, contact details, plus all the awards they have done (which are inevitably graphics of the particular award logo), making email chains unreadable on mobile devices and even on desktops at times!
Our corporate standard is quite simple, on the first outbound email to someone outside the company will put all the usual company branding on it
On my first email, it sends my signature (name, title, contact details etc) but for every subsequent reply, just my name and phone number. Useful in long email chains to keep it simple
But there are those who insist on putting some complete waffle on every reply, their full role, contact details, plus all the awards they have done (which are inevitably graphics of the particular award logo), making email chains unreadable on mobile devices and even on desktops at times!
Shakermaker said:
People who put their full email signature on every reply that they send.
Our corporate standard is quite simple, on the first outbound email to someone outside the company will put all the usual company branding on it
On my first email, it sends my signature (name, title, contact details etc) but for every subsequent reply, just my name and phone number. Useful in long email chains to keep it simple
But there are those who insist on putting some complete waffle on every reply, their full role, contact details, plus all the awards they have done (which are inevitably graphics of the particular award logo), making email chains unreadable on mobile devices and even on desktops at times!
People who don't have their contact details in their email signature.Our corporate standard is quite simple, on the first outbound email to someone outside the company will put all the usual company branding on it
On my first email, it sends my signature (name, title, contact details etc) but for every subsequent reply, just my name and phone number. Useful in long email chains to keep it simple
But there are those who insist on putting some complete waffle on every reply, their full role, contact details, plus all the awards they have done (which are inevitably graphics of the particular award logo), making email chains unreadable on mobile devices and even on desktops at times!
To be fair they might not even realise they're doing it, our e-mail signature is put on automatically and I don't see it on the e-mail before I send.
A company I used to work for had their own font, so if you typed an e in this font you got the company logo. I gave up pointing out to people that if you send an e-mail to someone without the font installed, ie anyone in the world who didn't work for the company, you got a big blue e in the signature block that looked stupid, nobody seemed to care.
A company I used to work for had their own font, so if you typed an e in this font you got the company logo. I gave up pointing out to people that if you send an e-mail to someone without the font installed, ie anyone in the world who didn't work for the company, you got a big blue e in the signature block that looked stupid, nobody seemed to care.
RizzoTheRat said:
To be fair they might not even realise they're doing it, our e-mail signature is put on automatically and I don't see it on the e-mail before I send.
A company I used to work for had their own font, so if you typed an e in this font you got the company logo. I gave up pointing out to people that if you send an e-mail to someone without the font installed, ie anyone in the world who didn't work for the company, you got a big blue e in the signature block that looked stupid, nobody seemed to care.
No no, they have to know they are doing it, they have actively added this on themselves as it is a change from the default, and it is on top of the corporate one (which includes the usual blurb about deleting if you arent the intended recipient, company number, scan for viruses etc etc) this is their own personal signature with all their details on every reply, not just on the first reply. Company default always means the main corporate signature is placed at the end of the chain as well, not part-way throughA company I used to work for had their own font, so if you typed an e in this font you got the company logo. I gave up pointing out to people that if you send an e-mail to someone without the font installed, ie anyone in the world who didn't work for the company, you got a big blue e in the signature block that looked stupid, nobody seemed to care.
SCEtoAUX said:
The quiz scoring system in Wetherspoons on a Monday night.
Yet again our score was recorded wrongly, meaning we were last with zero points, when we should have been 3rd or 4th.
3rd of 4th question from the end, the last round where you can gamble a percentage of your points.Yet again our score was recorded wrongly, meaning we were last with zero points, when we should have been 3rd or 4th.
We gambled 100% (and this was the only time that 100% was an option) on the next question. Up it comes, something about the Bronte sisters brother. Anyway, the answer is "D" Bramwell.
Me an wife know this, we press "D".
Come the end of the quiz we have zero points, and the only way to have lost them all was to have taken the 100% gamble and got it wrong. We didn't get it wrong and we most certainly pressed the right button.
The quiz is good fun, but the week before we had a whole load of answers not even registering...
0a said:
Hotels without plug sockets near the bed. I stayed in an expensive "executive room" last night - a massive thing, great TV, immense bed, one of those showers with about 10 heads that takes ages to comprehend the plumbing of, enough complimentary toiletries to keep me going for about a year and so on. No plug socket either side or behind the bed. Why???!
Just browsing this topic after a while away.Spotted this post....made me chuckle....
Poster needs to get battery powered "toys" instead of his mains piwered ones?
Surely this must be moved to the thread about things that make you snigger?
sospan said:
0a said:
Hotels without plug sockets near the bed. I stayed in an expensive "executive room" last night - a massive thing, great TV, immense bed, one of those showers with about 10 heads that takes ages to comprehend the plumbing of, enough complimentary toiletries to keep me going for about a year and so on. No plug socket either side or behind the bed. Why???!
Just browsing this topic after a while away.Spotted this post....made me chuckle....
Poster needs to get battery powered "toys" instead of his mains piwered ones?
Surely this must be moved to the thread about things that make you snigger?
The news that a music venue in London will now only accept e-tickets via an app, no proper tickets or print-at-home any more. I don't have a current smartphone, and I'm not dropping a few hundred quid to get one just so I can go there. No doubt this is a harbinger of things to come and I will have no choice at some point as other venues jump on the bandwagon. But given the proliferation of pickpockets at some of these places, and the advice to only bring things you need, it would be intensely annoying to buy a stupid expensive phone, take it with me to the gig just to be able to get through the door, and then have some lowlife scum thieve it from me.
Oh, and "print at home" tickets in general. I haven't got a printer that's up to the job of printing a barcode that can be properly scanned, and again, I don't want to buy one, along with all the space it takes up, the upkeep and not letting the ink dry up, just for the two or three times a year I need to print something like this. Yes, I could go to the library and print there, but there's a whole separate rant about charging a quid per page, or "only" 50p if it's monochrome.
Oh, and "print at home" tickets in general. I haven't got a printer that's up to the job of printing a barcode that can be properly scanned, and again, I don't want to buy one, along with all the space it takes up, the upkeep and not letting the ink dry up, just for the two or three times a year I need to print something like this. Yes, I could go to the library and print there, but there's a whole separate rant about charging a quid per page, or "only" 50p if it's monochrome.
droopsnoot said:
The news that a music venue in London will now only accept e-tickets via an app, no proper tickets or print-at-home any more. I don't have a current smartphone, and I'm not dropping a few hundred quid to get one just so I can go there. No doubt this is a harbinger of things to come and I will have no choice at some point as other venues jump on the bandwagon. But given the proliferation of pickpockets at some of these places, and the advice to only bring things you need, it would be intensely annoying to buy a stupid expensive phone, take it with me to the gig just to be able to get through the door, and then have some lowlife scum thieve it from me.
Oh, and "print at home" tickets in general. I haven't got a printer that's up to the job of printing a barcode that can be properly scanned, and again, I don't want to buy one, along with all the space it takes up, the upkeep and not letting the ink dry up, just for the two or three times a year I need to print something like this. Yes, I could go to the library and print there, but there's a whole separate rant about charging a quid per page, or "only" 50p if it's monochrome.
I just print everything at work. Oh, and "print at home" tickets in general. I haven't got a printer that's up to the job of printing a barcode that can be properly scanned, and again, I don't want to buy one, along with all the space it takes up, the upkeep and not letting the ink dry up, just for the two or three times a year I need to print something like this. Yes, I could go to the library and print there, but there's a whole separate rant about charging a quid per page, or "only" 50p if it's monochrome.
You also definitely do not need to drop "a few hundred quid" to get a smartphone capable of displaying the barcode for an e-ticket.
Still, at least all those ticket touts and exploitation-led resellers will go out of business
Shakermaker said:
droopsnoot said:
The news that a music venue in London will now only accept e-tickets via an app, no proper tickets or print-at-home any more. I don't have a current smartphone, and I'm not dropping a few hundred quid to get one just so I can go there. No doubt this is a harbinger of things to come and I will have no choice at some point as other venues jump on the bandwagon. But given the proliferation of pickpockets at some of these places, and the advice to only bring things you need, it would be intensely annoying to buy a stupid expensive phone, take it with me to the gig just to be able to get through the door, and then have some lowlife scum thieve it from me.
Oh, and "print at home" tickets in general. I haven't got a printer that's up to the job of printing a barcode that can be properly scanned, and again, I don't want to buy one, along with all the space it takes up, the upkeep and not letting the ink dry up, just for the two or three times a year I need to print something like this. Yes, I could go to the library and print there, but there's a whole separate rant about charging a quid per page, or "only" 50p if it's monochrome.
I just print everything at work. Oh, and "print at home" tickets in general. I haven't got a printer that's up to the job of printing a barcode that can be properly scanned, and again, I don't want to buy one, along with all the space it takes up, the upkeep and not letting the ink dry up, just for the two or three times a year I need to print something like this. Yes, I could go to the library and print there, but there's a whole separate rant about charging a quid per page, or "only" 50p if it's monochrome.
You also definitely do not need to drop "a few hundred quid" to get a smartphone capable of displaying the barcode for an e-ticket.
Still, at least all those ticket touts and exploitation-led resellers will go out of business
Bobberoo99 said:
Correct, Samsung Galaxy A5 2017 model, great bit of kit £17.99/PM 1GB data unlimited texts and calls!!!
I had something like this in mind for the OP, at a total of £30, to prove my point onlyhttps://www.carphonewarehouse.com/alcatel/pixi-4-4...
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