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

[generationx]

bobbo89 said:

I'm one of those weirdo's who cant stand other peoples eating noises but I know to just tolerate it as its my problem not theirs.

However, I have a colleague who whenever they make themselves a brew they sit down and immediately start slurping it and making 'ahh' noises as its too hot to drink. Its literally just come out of the fking kettle and they're surprised at the fact that the beverage they've just made is hotter than the sun! Tit!

I´m right there with you. Noisy eating and slurping drinks fills me with an irrational hatred bordering on the psychotic.

[Bluedot]

technodup said:

Have another kitchen related woe.

Those peel off plastic film things that never peel off properly. Leaving you hacking into it as if it was never a peel off in the first place. Found on ready meals and the like.

You mean the film that normally comes off as a tiny sliver after you have removed something from the microwave, thus forming a minute gap perfectly positioned for the boiling hot steam to come shooting out and scald any skin that happens to be within 6 inches of it ?
Yeah I know that stuff

On a vaguely similar matter, I never understand why people also leave the foil bit over tubs of spread etc etc after the seal of it has been broken. You go to use the spread, take the lid off - only to find someone has folded the foil back over, it is pointless it doesn't do anything at that stage.
We all know the real reason is that people are just to lazy to peel if off and put it in the bin.

[227bhp]

People who are scared of cash.

[RizzoTheRat]

alorotom said:

had this last night, 2315 and huge illuminated signs advising the A19 was closed and to follow a diversion, decided not to bother and just back-road it when forced off, but low and behold, NOT CLOSED! idiots!

Probably the same idiots that close a motorway junction but don't tell you until you get there. Had it some time back with the M25/M3 junction. Signs on the M25 saying the A303 was closed 50 miles ahead but nothing about the M3 junction until I got to it. If the idiots had put a sign up I could have got of a junction earlier instead of having drive miles out of my way.

[RizzoTheRat]

colonel c said:

Wasting £75,000 of public money installing dangerous and totally unneeded ‘Traffic Calming’ chicanes and road narrowing.

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/spate-of-crashes-in-th...

Sounds like it's working well to me. People aren't going to use it as a rat run if it's blocked with crashed cars are they.

[nicanary]

227bhp said:

People who are scared of cash.

Oh yes. Every month there'll be a new thread on here about the future of mankind without cash. IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN FOR DECADES!!!!

Or did you mean the germs on notes and coins?

[Morningside]

generationx said:

bobbo89 said:

I'm one of those weirdo's who cant stand other peoples eating noises but I know to just tolerate it as its my problem not theirs.

However, I have a colleague who whenever they make themselves a brew they sit down and immediately start slurping it and making 'ahh' noises as its too hot to drink. Its literally just come out of the fking kettle and they're surprised at the fact that the beverage they've just made is hotter than the sun! Tit!

I´m right there with you. Noisy eating and slurping drinks fills me with an irrational hatred bordering on the psychotic.

Here as well. Hate it.

Latest ones seem to be after they answer the phone " You'll have to excuse me, I'm just finishing this mouth full". Well why don't you do that BEFORE you answer the phone!

[The Don of Croy]

generationx said:

bobbo89 said:

I'm one of those weirdo's who cant stand other peoples eating noises but I know to just tolerate it as its my problem not theirs.

However, I have a colleague who whenever they make themselves a brew they sit down and immediately start slurping it and making 'ahh' noises as its too hot to drink. Its literally just come out of the fking kettle and they're surprised at the fact that the beverage they've just made is hotter than the sun! Tit!

I´m right there with you. Noisy eating and slurping drinks fills me with an irrational hatred bordering on the psychotic.

In my first job I shared a small office with two others, the junior of whom was always moaning about his lack of cash and how he deserved more etc, and every day while most of us (except the MD who was rogering the sec at lunchtime) tucked into our packed lunches, jnr would drive off to a local pub and return with a french stick filled with sausage and lots of onion. He'd then devour said meal with relish over the foil wrapping, except that he'd insist on talking and thus bits might not stay in his mouth, whereupon his fingers were employed to push bits back in, mid sentence.

When I eventually broached the subject of eating and talking (and stinking the office out) he was totally non-plussed. Totally unaware of any third party negative reaction. Belongs in the council thread, I know. But annoyed beyond reason every day...

[227bhp]

nicanary said:

227bhp said:

People who are scared of cash.

Oh yes. Every month there'll be a new thread on here about the future of mankind without cash. IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN FOR DECADES!!!!

Or did you mean the germs on notes and coins?

It was this: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Which caused my post, but not what annoyed me. I was showing some interest in a car which was for sale and told the guy i'd come down on a weekend, pay cash and take away. Simple eh? No, he wouldn't take it, wanted a bank transfer, so I would have had to take the money back to the bank do it that way. I didn't buy in the end, but to you (being of a certain age) or I 'cash is king', you always knew where you were with cash. It didn't matter where it came from, as long as you were holding folding you were ok. You could travel across country to see a car, wave a wad about and strike a deal, no dicking around, yet now sometimes it seems not.
I read a lot of posts on here about people's attitude to it, how they don't carry any and can understand how its associated with crime, but think that actually being scared of it is on another level and the barometer has swung right over the wrong way.

Edited by 227bhp on Friday 28th April 10:45

[nicanary]

227bhp said:

nicanary said:

227bhp said:

People who are scared of cash.

Oh yes. Every month there'll be a new thread on here about the future of mankind without cash. IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN FOR DECADES!!!!

Or did you mean the germs on notes and coins?

It was this: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Which caused my post, but not what annoyed me. I was showing some interest in a car which was for sale and told the guy i'd come down on a weekend, pay cash and take away. Simple eh? No, he wouldn't take it, wanted a bank transfer, so I would have had to take the money back to the bank do it that way. I didn't buy in the end, but to you (being of a certain age) or I 'cash is king', you always knew where you were with cash. It didn't matter where it came from, as long as you were holding folding you were ok. You could travel across country to see a car, wave a wad about and strike a deal, no dicking around, yet now sometimes it seems not.
I read a lot of posts on here about people's attitude to it and can understand how its associated with crime, but think that actually being scared of it is on another level and the barometer has swung right over the wrong way.

I can understand a reputable franchised car dealer looking a bit suspicious if someone came to their showroom with a black bag of cash to buy a stereotypical gangsta car. That's why they have self-imposed rules about the amount of cash they'll accept. I live in Ulster and it was common practice back in the bad days for paramilitary leaders to buy certain German marques with wads of folding notes - these days many dealers will only take a maximum of £2000 in readies. I can't understand a private seller getting upset about it - why should he care?

I pay for my day-to-day expenses with cash. Food and drink, newspapers etc..It's a way of controlling expenditure. If you pay by card you never really know what's left in the bank as the end of the month draws inexorably closer. I have a weekly allowance which I never exceed because I can't - it's cash in my pocket and there's only a certain amount of it. I reckon cards are the reason why so many people have little or no savings, because they use the card whenever they see something they'd like. If you don't need it, don't buy it.

[vtecyo]

technodup said:

Sainsbury's own brand cling film.

Won't cling to anything.

Have you got it the right way round?

[227bhp]

nicanary said:

I can understand a reputable franchised car dealer looking a bit suspicious if someone came to their showroom with a black bag of cash to buy a stereotypical gangsta car. That's why they have self-imposed rules about the amount of cash they'll accept. I live in Ulster and it was common practice back in the bad days for paramilitary leaders to buy certain German marques with wads of folding notes - these days many dealers will only take a maximum of £2000 in readies. I can't understand a private seller getting upset about it - why should he care?

I pay for my day-to-day expenses with cash. Food and drink, newspapers etc..It's a way of controlling expenditure. If you pay by card you never really know what's left in the bank as the end of the month draws inexorably closer. I have a weekly allowance which I never exceed because I can't - it's cash in my pocket and there's only a certain amount of it. I reckon cards are the reason why so many people have little or no savings, because they use the card whenever they see something they'd like. If you don't need it, don't buy it.

I don't suppose you will know, but why won't they take cash? To me a sale is a sale.

[Shakermaker]

227bhp said:

I don't suppose you will know, but why won't they take cash? To me a sale is a sale.

Topic has been covered on here before, and whilst not a situation I have encountered personally, the general answers have been along 2 main threads

1. Security. The person you have just sold your car to now knows where you live, and that you have a massive wad of cash. How do you know they aren't going to just break in and steal back that cash?
1a: Checking the cash is all legitimate and not full of fake £20 notes etc etc.

2. Convenience. If they give you a big bundle of cash, you then have to go to the bank during business hours to pay it in, which if you work might mean you can't get there straight away etc.

[Halmyre]

technodup said:

Sainsbury's own brand cling film.

Won't cling to anything.

Clingfilm(any brand) clings to everything...except the actual thing to which you want it to cling.

[SlimRick]

Shakermaker said:

227bhp said:

I don't suppose you will know, but why won't they take cash? To me a sale is a sale.

Topic has been covered on here before, and whilst not a situation I have encountered personally, the general answers have been along 2 main threads

1. Security. The person you have just sold your car to now knows where you live, and that you have a massive wad of cash. How do you know they aren't going to just break in and steal back that cash?
1a: Checking the cash is all legitimate and not full of fake £20 notes etc etc.

2. Convenience. If they give you a big bundle of cash, you then have to go to the bank during business hours to pay it in, which if you work might mean you can't get there straight away etc.

Anti-money laundering regulations

Edited by SlimRick on Friday 28th April 11:38

[bobbo89]

The Don of Croy said:

generationx said:

bobbo89 said:

I'm one of those weirdo's who cant stand other peoples eating noises but I know to just tolerate it as its my problem not theirs.

However, I have a colleague who whenever they make themselves a brew they sit down and immediately start slurping it and making 'ahh' noises as its too hot to drink. Its literally just come out of the fking kettle and they're surprised at the fact that the beverage they've just made is hotter than the sun! Tit!

I´m right there with you. Noisy eating and slurping drinks fills me with an irrational hatred bordering on the psychotic.

In my first job I shared a small office with two others, the junior of whom was always moaning about his lack of cash and how he deserved more etc, and every day while most of us (except the MD who was rogering the sec at lunchtime) tucked into our packed lunches, jnr would drive off to a local pub and return with a french stick filled with sausage and lots of onion. He'd then devour said meal with relish over the foil wrapping, except that he'd insist on talking and thus bits might not stay in his mouth, whereupon his fingers were employed to push bits back in, mid sentence.

When I eventually broached the subject of eating and talking (and stinking the office out) he was totally non-plussed. Totally unaware of any third party negative reaction. Belongs in the council thread, I know. But annoyed beyond reason every day...

Talking with your mouth full, to me that is one of the most basic of manners and follows on from chewing with your mouth closed!

[yellowjack]

technodup said:

Sainsbury's own brand cling film.

Won't cling to anything.

Sorry, but you are so wrong!

It loves nothing more than clinging to itself, and only ever tearing off in small, unusable pieces. Never in a usable sheet that would actually be of any use to cover food, etc.

Damn near impossible to "find the end" as well. Hateful stuff.

[Shakermaker]

yellowjack said:

technodup said:

Sainsbury's own brand cling film.

Won't cling to anything.

Sorry, but you are so wrong!

It loves nothing more than clinging to itself, and only ever tearing off in small, unusable pieces. Never in a usable sheet that would actually be of any use to cover food, etc.

Damn near impossible to "find the end" as well. Hateful stuff.

I don't encounter these issues with Sainsbury's cling film. I must be doing something right!

As regards the film on top of ready meals etc, where you only peel off a tiny strip, this is most commonly the preserve of Tesco ready meals.

[technodup]

Shakermaker said:

2. Convenience. If they give you a big bundle of cash, you then have to go to the bank during business hours to pay it in, which if you work might mean you can't get there straight away etc.

WTF would you put cash in the bank?

There'd have to be a very good reason before I did that.

[droopsnoot]

Shakermaker said:

As regards the film on top of ready meals etc, where you only peel off a tiny strip, this is most commonly the preserve of Tesco ready meals.

And it's Tesco who sell a packet of Salami slices nicely laid out in an overlapping pile, with a tab to peel the top off the packet, but put the tab at the opposite end of the top slice of meat. So you then have to try to prise one from the bottom of the pile, or remove the entire top of the packet.