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

[Issi]

yellowjack said:

Issi said:

I would like to think that Yellowjack would also be scrutinizing the check out girls picture ID before letting her scan his products,as you never can tell if they're impostors or not.

Qué? I think (hope?) I detected just a hint of sarcasm in WD39's comment about cured meats, but your comment will need an explanation please.


Anyway. It is annoying beyond reason that I am having to put up with a fking F-18 performing 'dynamic aerobatic manoeuvres' whilst pointing directly at my house during the trade week air display at Farnborough, yet "for safety reasons" the fking LA have decided to close some of the best places from which to view the aeroplanes. Safety reasons my arse! The art of covering one's arse and being SEEN to be "doing something" more like. Still, if it saves just one life!

Also, when the pilot has long since put his Hornet back on the deck, my neighbour's car alarm will no doubt still be chirping away like a demented cricket, despite the airfield being over two miles away. Grrrr! As an aside, the Typhoon has just headed directly away from me with the afterburners lit and it still doesn't seem to make as much of a racket as the Hornet.

and this is why, uniformed and liveried or not, any Police officer who has cause to speak to me WILL be asked to show his/her warrant card.

[FourWheelDrift]

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[BristolRich]

Europa1 said:

People choosing (or rather, failing to choose) sandwiches in Pret, particularly the Kings Cross Station branch - standing gormlessly in front of the shelves, completely blocking the view of/access to the sandwiches for others. For fk's sake: develop some decisiveness, and some spatial awareness.

I agree with this...the only observation I'd add is once you reach the display you are confronted by the person who cant help but fondle all of the sandwiches as description on the packet e.g."Ham and Cheese" simply inst enough information to describe the contents.

So as they lean across you turning all the packets into their view, you can see what they are thinking...."What sort of cheese is it?....hmm dont like cheddar. Oh look BLT...oh but its got generic pork sausage I wanted something a bit more exciting ....Oh but they've got egg mayo too...oh I do hope its free range egg?..."

If it mattered that much make your own and take them with you!

[thetapeworm]

Stickyfinger said:

Tar Spots......fecking stuff

Try and get some Autobrite Tardis.

[popeyewhite]

thetapeworm said:

Stickyfinger said:

Tar Spots......fecking stuff

Try and get some Autobrite Tardis.

WD40 also works extremely well.

[Antony Moxey]

Sky Sports. They rename Sky Sports One as Sky Sports Open and dedicate that channel's entire output to golf. Fair enough if you like golf, and there are still half a dozen other Sky Sports channels if you don't. So why has the entire bloody morning on Sky Sports News been almost exclusively about the bloody golf with only a few snippets here and there about other sport? If you're going to dedicate a channel to one sport you don't need to continually broadcast it on the others.

[ClockworkCupcake]

Antony Moxey said:

Sky Sports. They rename Sky Sports One as Sky Sports Open and dedicate that channel's entire output to golf. Fair enough if you like golf, and there are still half a dozen other Sky Sports channels if you don't. So why has the entire bloody morning on Sky Sports News been almost exclusively about the bloody golf with only a few snippets here and there about other sport? If you're going to dedicate a channel to one sport you don't need to continually broadcast it on the others.

I feel the same about Sky Sports F1 cross-promoting other sports. I have no interest in Football, Golf, Boxing, etc., so really don't need to be told that apparently big games / tournaments are upcoming. Especially by the Sky F1 team during actual post-race / pre-race coverage.

[anonymous-user]

ClockworkCupcake said:

Antony Moxey said:

Sky Sports. They rename Sky Sports One as Sky Sports Open and dedicate that channel's entire output to golf. Fair enough if you like golf, and there are still half a dozen other Sky Sports channels if you don't. So why has the entire bloody morning on Sky Sports News been almost exclusively about the bloody golf with only a few snippets here and there about other sport? If you're going to dedicate a channel to one sport you don't need to continually broadcast it on the others.

I feel the same about Sky Sports F1 cross-promoting other sports. I have no interest in Football, Golf, Boxing, etc., so really don't need to be told that apparently big games / tournaments are upcoming. Especially by the Sky F1 team during actual post-race / pre-race coverage.

You can't pay for sky and then moan about advertising...

(Beyond reason, yes, I know, but I'm wearing my pedant-a-mac)

[Moonhawk]

Antony Moxey said:

Sky Sports. They rename Sky Sports One as Sky Sports Open and dedicate that channel's entire output to golf. Fair enough if you like golf, and there are still half a dozen other Sky Sports channels if you don't. So why has the entire bloody morning on Sky Sports News been almost exclusively about the bloody golf with only a few snippets here and there about other sport? If you're going to dedicate a channel to one sport you don't need to continually broadcast it on the others.

We cancelled our Sky subscription years ago because they constantly advertised Sky products on Sky channels.

They also have no respect for the continuity breaks program makers put into their shows to accommodate adverts - instead scattering adverts randomly into programs often right after the opening credits or right before the closing credits.

[Antony Moxey]

ClockworkCupcake said:

Antony Moxey said:

Sky Sports. They rename Sky Sports One as Sky Sports Open and dedicate that channel's entire output to golf. Fair enough if you like golf, and there are still half a dozen other Sky Sports channels if you don't. So why has the entire bloody morning on Sky Sports News been almost exclusively about the bloody golf with only a few snippets here and there about other sport? If you're going to dedicate a channel to one sport you don't need to continually broadcast it on the others.

I feel the same about Sky Sports F1 cross-promoting other sports. I have no interest in Football, Golf, Boxing, etc., so really don't need to be told that apparently big games / tournaments are upcoming. Especially by the Sky F1 team during actual post-race / pre-race coverage.

Yep, that too, they do it a lot with F1 despite having a dedicated F1 channel. I guess because I detest golf so much it winds me up a lot more. Not sure football's so bad - there isn't a football channel - but the build up to a boxing fight months in advance of their PPV showing really is tiresome.

[Mr Snrub]

Sat in all day yesterday waiting for a courier to collect 2 different parcels and they never turned up. Get home today to find they actually attempted collection this afternoon but naturally they aren't answering when I ring the number on the card. Tried contacting the company directly but all I get is a drone who is barely able to speak English and keeps sending the same standard apology, so now looks like I'll have to take it to a drop off point myself. Just have to hope the people who bought the goods are understanding when I tell them it will be there at least two days later than I promised. Not impressed.

[Marty Funkhouser]

Car ads that have 5000 pics of every conceivable angle of the exterior but NONE of the interior!!

[DavieW]

Following on from the SKY posts above, what annoys me is the commentators of any sport somehow always mange to get football plug in somewhere.

Also annoying is the common conception that "England", "Scotland" etc need a new manager - no they don't, the England, Scotland FOOTBALL TEAM need a new manager, not the country. Big headed twunks.

[droopsnoot]

I'm currently annoyed at how many times the various BBC News reporters feel the need to tell me that Theresa May is the UKs second woman Prime Minister.

[WD39]

RobinOakapple said:

Stupid Americanisms like 'swap out' when 'swap' on its own would serve the same purpose.

I believe that the yanks have a category of 'Stupid Britishisms'.

[Stickyfinger]

WD39 said:

RobinOakapple said:

Stupid Americanisms like 'swap out' when 'swap' on its own would serve the same purpose.

I believe that the yanks have a category of 'Stupid Britishisms'.

It is called a English dictionary

[WD39]

Stickyfinger said:

WD39 said:

RobinOakapple said:

Stupid Americanisms like 'swap out' when 'swap' on its own would serve the same purpose.

I believe that the yanks have a category of 'Stupid Britishisms'.

It is called a English dictionary

Like. They probably skip ebony and irony.

[John D.]

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[yellowjack]

John D. said:

...Tbh this is not unreasonable annoyance. Why can't stuff just work!

Stuff can't "just work" anymore because of the obsession with 'economic growth'.

If you bought st, and it worked, and not just worked but worked fine and continued to work for many many years, then you wouldn't be forced to go out and buy more st to replace it.

In my last barrack room I had a fridge. On the back of the fridge was a plate that proudly announced that it had been "Made in Scotland". That fridge was over forty years old, and had been everything from a family's kitchen fridge to a beer fridge, a bait fridge in a mate's garage, to my fridge because the wkers who I shared a kitchen with couldn't keep from eating my food at the weekends. I'd had to clean it thoroughly, including behind the door seals, etc, but it worked just as well as any modern larder fridge. It just outlasted them is all.

Society and the economy have joined forces to convince us that the march of technological advancement is so fast that there's no point in "making st that lasts" because in approximately 17 minutes and 45 seconds that iPad XR3i, that you've not even paid for yet, will be obsolete, updates will stop, and you'll be needing it's all singing, all dancing replacement the iPad GTi now, Sir.

Call me a Luddite if you wish, but I'm just fine with my Nokia C1. It has no "operating system", and requires no updates or patches. Same with still owning a CRT television, riding a 20 year old bicycle, and I've only owned 6 cars in the 25 years I've been driving. I'd rather spend my money on enjoying experiences, rather than on an endless cycle of needlessly replacing "st I already own".


All typed on a desktop computer running Windows Vista...

[Bapple]

yellowjack said:

Also, when the pilot has long since put his Hornet back on the deck, my neighbour's car alarm will no doubt still be chirping away like a demented cricket, despite the airfield being over two miles away. Grrrr! As an aside, the Typhoon has just headed directly away from me with the afterburners lit and it still doesn't seem to make as much of a racket as the Hornet.

It does seem that this fits within the United States embraced concept of "turning fuel into noise" (Harley anyone)?

I suspect that is the reason they liked the Harrier so much.