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

[Shakermaker]

Just been irritated buying something online for my sister from The White Company.

All going very easily, select the appropriate item, put in her address for delivery, select that I want delivered as a gift, add a gift message, go to pay.

No. I can't pay. I haven't added the gift option to the payment.

Re-check. Yes, I have definitely selected the gift option, click again.

No, I can't pay. I haven't added gift option to the payment.

I then check a third time, check all the boxes are selected, I've chosen the delivery method.

Still no.

On the fourth time, I finally notice there is an option I have to select that I want the item packed into the gift box. Why else would I choose a gift box option, if I didn't want you to pack the item into the gift box? Do they expect that I want to send my sister a gift box and a present separately so she can build her own birthday present?

[foxbody-87]

PotatoSalad said:

Faffing about.


The same people come to the same cafeteria at my work every single day and you'd expect them to learn by now that a 5-minute long line could go much faster if they could stop rummaging through their bags in the last moment and pull their change or card while queuing. Instead they act like paying comes as a complete surprise each time, it drives me absolutely mad. Same goes for people getting on a bus and looking for their pass once in, blocking everybody. The driver wants to see your ticket, just like every single time you took the bus in the last 20 years. What a surprise..


Last week I waited for a jet wash in Tesco, one of those where you top up your time with coins. Some young guy was washing his pride and joy with a cloth he brought with him taking forever. After all that he put another pound into the machine and washed that little yellow cloth with the jetwash, squeezed it, washed again, squeezed again, proceeded by opening the boot, rearranging few things and carefully laying that precious piece of fabric flat in the middle of it... My missus was in tears from laughing. Jesus flippin' Christ, get on with it..

I've seen people pull into the jetwash bay, and then start doing their alloys with a cloth and cleaning spray for a good 5-10 minutes before they even put a coin in the machine! I could have washed my car and gone in the time it took them to do that.

[ClockworkCupcake]

People who holiday in Elevenerife.

[Sheets Tabuer]

People blowing their nose in a restaurant, fk off to the toilet you vile bastsrd.

[nonsequitur]

Hugo a Gogo said:

people on here who bang on about perfectly normal cars being 'dangerously slow', 'couldn't pull the cock off a chocolate mouse' or whatever

on 80-90 bhp cars

I would argue that all cars should be restricted to said bhp. Just imagine how peaceful and unhurried driving would be. No serial speeders no dodgy overtakes and no boy racers. Heaven.

[nonsequitur]

Moonhawk said:

Jon321 said:

People in town or city centres who walk slower than me. Generally in London, as that's where I work. Get out of my bloody way - I can't stand their carefree casual meandering! Some of us have places to be!!

I don't mind people walking slower - it's when you try and overtake them and they drift over into your path.

By all means walk slowly - but do so in a STRAIGHT LINE

Just like driving, in fact.

[nonsequitur]

ClockworkCupcake said:

People who holiday in Elevenerife.

I have never heard that expression befive.

[popeyewhite]

nonsequitur said:

I would argue that all cars should be restricted to said bhp. Just imagine how peaceful and unhurried driving would be. No serial speeders no dodgy overtakes and no boy racers. Heaven.

Uhuh. And exactly what would stop people wanting to race each other, overtake each other, or fit more characterful exhausts?

[MartG]

nonsequitur said:

I would argue that all cars should be restricted to said bhp. Just imagine how peaceful and unhurried driving would be. No serial speeders no dodgy overtakes and no boy racers. Heaven.

Really ?

[CivBrum]

nonsequitur said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

people on here who bang on about perfectly normal cars being 'dangerously slow', 'couldn't pull the cock off a chocolate mouse' or whatever

on 80-90 bhp cars

I would argue that all cars should be restricted to said bhp. Just imagine how peaceful and unhurried driving would be. No serial speeders no dodgy overtakes and no boy racers. Heaven.

I managed to hoon around in my 50bhp Polo just fine!

[generationx]

Munter said:

Moonhawk said:

Jon321 said:

People in town or city centres who walk slower than me. Generally in London, as that's where I work. Get out of my bloody way - I can't stand their carefree casual meandering! Some of us have places to be!!

I don't mind people walking slower - it's when you try and overtake them and they drift over into your path.

By all means walk slowly - but do so in a STRAIGHT LINE

That. People who walk slowly (not because they are infirm, just lazy walkers), blocking the whole path, and if they used their (pea sized) brains would realise the crowd behind them would like to get past/have things to do. It's the lack of giving a damn about anybody else, over the slow walking. The slow/zig zag/blocking walking just shows them up for who they are.

Meanderthals

[SilverSixer]

When the air is 34 degrees C outside, and you're in an air conditioned office, and the wimmins insist on having the windows open because it's a nice day and we have to take advantage.

FFS.

[SilverSixer]

Oh, and whilst I'm in the mood, corner yoghurts. If you don't want the sugary fruit crap in the yoghurt buy a plain one. Otherwise, ready mixed is available. Why was it necessary to invent the corner things? Bloody pointless.

[Europa1]

generationx said:

Munter said:

Moonhawk said:

Jon321 said:

People in town or city centres who walk slower than me. Generally in London, as that's where I work. Get out of my bloody way - I can't stand their carefree casual meandering! Some of us have places to be!!

I don't mind people walking slower - it's when you try and overtake them and they drift over into your path.

By all means walk slowly - but do so in a STRAIGHT LINE

That. People who walk slowly (not because they are infirm, just lazy walkers), blocking the whole path, and if they used their (pea sized) brains would realise the crowd behind them would like to get past/have things to do. It's the lack of giving a damn about anybody else, over the slow walking. The slow/zig zag/blocking walking just shows them up for who they are.

Meanderthals

There are also the groups who play that sort of game of tag as they have a conversation - they are not in a close group, but a strung out, having a conversation, then the one at the front stops to say something as the others catch up, then the rest of them slowly pass, then one of the others stops to say something.

Oh, and people who are stationary, then as you get alongside, suddenly start walking at the same pace as you.

When is this weather due to break? I think this oppressive heat may be having an effect on my customary youthful joie de vivre and bonhomie...

[DRFC1879]

SilverSixer said:

When the air is 34 degrees C outside, and you're in an air conditioned office, and the wimmins insist on having the windows open because it's a nice day and we have to take advantage.

FFS.

I get that but have two comments:

1. I don't have air-con in my asbestos-riddled, single-glazed shoddily-plumbed 60's sthole of an office so that coupled with lack of sleep means I'm at peak grumpiness.

2. I have had the air-con blasting in my car throughout the warm spell but also like to drive with the windows down to let in some fresh air. Yeah, fuel consumption related lunacy etc. but I like it so 'nanas to that.

[SilverSixer]

DRFC1879 said:

SilverSixer said:

When the air is 34 degrees C outside, and you're in an air conditioned office, and the wimmins insist on having the windows open because it's a nice day and we have to take advantage.

FFS.

I get that but have two comments:

1. I don't have air-con in my asbestos-riddled, single-glazed shoddily-plumbed 60's sthole of an office so that coupled with lack of sleep means I'm at peak grumpiness.

2. I have had the air-con blasting in my car throughout the warm spell but also like to drive with the windows down to let in some fresh air. Yeah, fuel consumption related lunacy etc. but I like it so 'nanas to that.

From your user name I take it you're from Doncaster? I know another bloke who drives like that, aircon on and windows open. He's from Doncaster too.

[ClockworkCupcake]

DRFC1879 said:

2. I have had the air-con blasting in my car throughout the warm spell but also like to drive with the windows down to let in some fresh air. Yeah, fuel consumption related lunacy etc. but I like it so 'nanas to that.

In a car, your aircon is as much a cold air blower as anything, so that's fine if it's what you like. But in a climate-controlled building, opening the windows confuses the whole system and means some people are sat freezing in some places as the system tries to compensate, which it can't as it is no longer a closed system.

[SilverSixer]

ClockworkCupcake said:

DRFC1879 said:

2. I have had the air-con blasting in my car throughout the warm spell but also like to drive with the windows down to let in some fresh air. Yeah, fuel consumption related lunacy etc. but I like it so 'nanas to that.

In a car, your aircon is as much a cold air blower as anything, so that's fine if it's what you like. But in a climate-controlled building, opening the windows confuses the whole system and means some people are sat freezing in some places as the system tries to compensate, which it can't as it is no longer a closed system.

And that's the bullseye.

[nonsequitur]

SilverSixer said:

ClockworkCupcake said:

DRFC1879 said:

2. I have had the air-con blasting in my car throughout the warm spell but also like to drive with the windows down to let in some fresh air. Yeah, fuel consumption related lunacy etc. but I like it so 'nanas to that.

In a car, your aircon is as much a cold air blower as anything, so that's fine if it's what you like. But in a climate-controlled building, opening the windows confuses the whole system and means some people are sat freezing in some places as the system tries to compensate, which it can't as it is no longer a closed system.

And that's the bullseye.

Another: When in the Navy, opening a porthole when the A/C was operating was a punishable offence.

[mikal83]

nonsequitur said:

SilverSixer said:

ClockworkCupcake said:

DRFC1879 said:

2. I have had the air-con blasting in my car throughout the warm spell but also like to drive with the windows down to let in some fresh air. Yeah, fuel consumption related lunacy etc. but I like it so 'nanas to that.

In a car, your aircon is as much a cold air blower as anything, so that's fine if it's what you like. But in a climate-controlled building, opening the windows confuses the whole system and means some people are sat freezing in some places as the system tries to compensate, which it can't as it is no longer a closed system.

And that's the bullseye.

Another: When in the Navy, opening a porthole when the A/C was operating was a punishable offence.

Garbage