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

[cuprabob]

DaveGoddard said:

fluffekins said:

self service checkout

Does ANYONE have a positive thing to say about those bd hateful things?

Only ones I seem to have any issue with are the ones in M&S,

What annoys me is taking the stuff out the trolley and then having to pack it after it has been scanned.

I wish more supermarkets did the Scan as you Shop that Tesco does. It's just so much easier packing as you go.

[nonsequitur]

captain_cynic said:

RizzoTheRat said:

Yeah, they're brilliant now that most of the muppets who can't work out how to operate them have given up and go to a standard checkout instead. Usually a much smaller queue and really quick.

Yep, love a self service checkout. Possessing the miraculous ability to follow simple verbal and written instructions, its much faster than lining up behind the cantankerous people who complain about them at a normal checkout.

Strange PHer in the bagging area.

[nonsequitur]

DJFish said:

glenrobbo said:

Shakermaker said:

glenrobbo said:

Now that the dark evenings are back with us, I get REALLY annoyed at drivers who sit at junctions/ traffic lights/ in queues with their foot firmly planted on the brake pedal causing their bloody high intensity high level led brake lights to burn out your retinas when you are behind them. When the line starts to move off, your night vision is ruined and you can't see a bloody thing!
aholes!

Talk about seeing red, I truly feel like going and punching them in the face.

We've been waiting for this post since the clocks went back. I think you win this year!

What do I win? A pair of welder's goggles?

Good idea. Then you can't see the traffic lights. So a lose lose situation, not even a single whammy. Let's hear it for handbrake/ neutral.

[98elise]

nonsequitur said:

captain_cynic said:

RizzoTheRat said:

Yeah, they're brilliant now that most of the muppets who can't work out how to operate them have given up and go to a standard checkout instead. Usually a much smaller queue and really quick.

Yep, love a self service checkout. Possessing the miraculous ability to follow simple verbal and written instructions, its much faster than lining up behind the cantankerous people who complain about them at a normal checkout.

Strange PHer in the bagging area.

Add me to the list. Short queues, load straight into the bag, pay and leave.....simples

[nonsequitur]

98elise said:

nonsequitur said:

captain_cynic said:

RizzoTheRat said:

Yeah, they're brilliant now that most of the muppets who can't work out how to operate them have given up and go to a standard checkout instead. Usually a much smaller queue and really quick.

Yep, love a self service checkout. Possessing the miraculous ability to follow simple verbal and written instructions, its much faster than lining up behind the cantankerous people who complain about them at a normal checkout.

Strange PHer in the bagging area.

Add me to the list. Short queues, load straight into the bag, pay and leave.....simples

Is that the one with the cashier attached, with a bit of chat and human interaction?

[Cotty]

cuprabob said:

I wish more supermarkets did the Scan as you Shop that Tesco does. It's just so much easier packing as you go.

My local sainsburys does, but not the little ones in London (square mile)

[silverthorn2151]

DaveGoddard said:

fluffekins said:

self service checkout

Does ANYONE have a positive thing to say about those bd hateful things?

What does get me annoyed beyond reason is the tt that programmed them to give you change in the most random collection of coins.

ah, thirty pee change is it Mr Silverthorn, that'll be 4 x 5 pee, 3 x 1 pee and a fking groat..... probably. M and S machines are particularly adept at this mensa practical challenge. I swear one gave me a threepenny bit the other day.

[I Love Cake]

Tea & coffee rations in hotel rooms.

[glenrobbo]

silverthorn2151 said:

What does get me annoyed beyond reason is the tt that programmed them to give you change in the most random collection of coins.

ah, thirty pee change is it Mr Silverthorn, that'll be 4 x 5 pee, 3 x 1 pee and a fking groat..... probably. M and S machines are particularly adept at this mensa practical challenge. I swear one gave me a threepenny bit the other day.

Not a threepenny bit, that's one of those new duodecadenum-sided New Pound thingies that have been around for a while now. Apparently, if you get one that has had the centre punched out and reversed or turned a bit, you can advertise it on fleabay for £25,000:

[mickk]

I'm off to the shed with a hammer, punch and a pocket full of loose change.

[Moonhawk]

Been doing some work on the house recently - so listening to the radio a lot.

There is an advert running at the moment for "Local Heroes".

It goes something along the lines of "looking for a tradesman who will turn up when they say they will, do the job to a good standard and not rip you off.......you need a local hero"

Sorry - are good tradesmen so rare that when one turns up when they say they will, does the job and doesn't try to rip you off - they are considered a "hero" these days?

[TTmonkey]

You want or need something.
You go to amazon or eBay, search for what you want or need.
Make a purchase.
Item arrives.

Job done.


SO WHY THE FEK DO I NEED AN EMAIL FROM AMAZON/EBAY EVERY DAY UPDATING ME ON THE ITEM I SEARCHED FOR AND ITS NEW AVAILABILITY.....?????

I've bought it already you c**ts so stop sending me spam about the thing I NO LONGER need to buy......!

[Shakermaker]

silverthorn2151 said:

DaveGoddard said:

fluffekins said:

self service checkout

Does ANYONE have a positive thing to say about those bd hateful things?

What does get me annoyed beyond reason is the tt that programmed them to give you change in the most random collection of coins.

ah, thirty pee change is it Mr Silverthorn, that'll be 4 x 5 pee, 3 x 1 pee and a fking groat..... probably. M and S machines are particularly adept at this mensa practical challenge. I swear one gave me a threepenny bit the other day.

I think you need to read up the thread a little bit to understand what it is that set us down this path of self-service checkout bashing in the first place

[Chris Stott]

Short arse women who can't survive an hour and a half flight without needing to recline their fking seats.

[Frank7]

nonsequitur said:

Let's hear it for handbrake/ neutral.

Or not, as the case may be, I fully realise that I can expect a s**t load of flak from the cognoscenti, but I rarely if ever use the handbrake on my wife’s Peugeot 2008, unless I park on an incline, and the only time I get anywhere near neutral, is going through it when going from P to D, or R to D.
As for keeping my foot on the brake, if I KNOW, or can see that I’ll only be stationary for around 10 seconds or less, I’ll keep it applied.
If I can see that it’s going to be longer, then I’ll engage Park.
She’ll use the handbrake every time, in fact the only time I have to use it, is if I get in it when she was the last to use it, as I have to release it.

[Shakermaker]

nonsequitur said:

Good idea. Then you can't see the traffic lights. So a lose lose situation, not even a single whammy. Let's hear it for handbrake/ neutral.

If you are folding it down to avoid the glare from the car in front, you don't need to see the traffic lights. You just need to see when the car in front has gone, which will be when the bright red glare has stopped

[nonsequitur]

98elise said:

nonsequitur said:

captain_cynic said:

RizzoTheRat said:

Yeah, they're brilliant now that most of the muppets who can't work out how to operate them have given up and go to a standard checkout instead. Usually a much smaller queue and really quick.

Yep, love a self service checkout. Possessing the miraculous ability to follow simple verbal and written instructions, its much faster than lining up behind the cantankerous people who complain about them at a normal checkout.

Strange PHer in the bagging area.

Add me to the list. Short queues, load straight into the bag, pay and leave.....simples

A further unidentified PHer in the bagging area.

[nonsequitur]

Willy Nilly said:

glenrobbo said:

Shakermaker said:

glenrobbo said:

Now that the dark evenings are back with us, I get REALLY annoyed at drivers who sit at junctions/ traffic lights/ in queues with their foot firmly planted on the brake pedal causing their bloody high intensity high level led brake lights to burn out your retinas when you are behind them. When the line starts to move off, your night vision is ruined and you can't see a bloody thing!
aholes!

Talk about seeing red, I truly feel like going and punching them in the face.

We've been waiting for this post since the clocks went back. I think you win this year!

What do I win? A pair of welder's goggles?

No, a trip to the opticians to sort your lousy eyes out

To sort out the retinisation caused by blinding traffic light, and other , queues.

[nonsequitur]

Chris Stott said:

Short arse women who can't survive an hour and a half flight without needing to recline their fking seats.

If a seat is capable of reclining, it will be reclined, whatever the flight length.

[nonsequitur]

Frank7 said:

nonsequitur said:

Let's hear it for handbrake/ neutral.

Or not, as the case may be, I fully realise that I can expect a s**t load of flak from the cognoscenti, but I rarely if ever use the handbrake on my wife’s Peugeot 2008, unless I park on an incline, and the only time I get anywhere near neutral, is going through it when going from P to D, or R to D.
As for keeping my foot on the brake, if I KNOW, or can see that I’ll only be stationary for around 10 seconds or less, I’ll keep it applied.
If I can see that it’s going to be longer, then I’ll engage Park.
She’ll use the handbrake every time, in fact the only time I have to use it, is if I get in it when she was the last to use it, as I have to release it.

Your wife has it in one. Never use your handbrake? Frank, you have a lot of catching up to do. ( I've never been called a cognoscenti before, is it rude?)