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

[mikal83]

BBC continually putting up that feckin annoying notice in the top right corner.

[ClockworkCupcake]

mikal83 said:

BBC continually putting up that feckin annoying notice in the top right corner.

The red button one that I mentioned earlier?

[CambsBill]

AstonZagato said:

And little grannies get mown down by cyclists as they cross the cycle lane to get to the bus. Meanwhile, that bus is now blocking the solitary, narrow lane, ensuring that all the traffic builds up behind it rather than filtering past as it did before.
It cost £1.7m (40% over budget) and took 20 months (120% over schedule)
Oh and the bit from Long Road to Addenbrookes is just about to begin. Estimating seven months to do it. That bit is perhaps 100m?
FFS.

Just as bad at the other end of town, down the Huntingdon Road

Having been down in Brighton - that bastion of car-loving, free-market watermelons - I now know where Cambridge Council got their ideas from. The Lewes Road used to be another free-flowing dual carriageway, but now has a mess of bus lane, floating bus-stops and cycle lane so I pity anyone commuting by car from Lewes

[Shakermaker]

People who grab a loaf of bread around its middle, squashing all the slices out of shape whilst they carry it.

This I suffered last night when upon reaching the checkout, the loaf of bread I had picked up from the front of the shelf got snagged in the conveyor and required replacement. The checkout supervisor came back holding a new one, but was doing the above method instead of holding it by the loose end of the bag designed for such purposes.

They seemed rather indignant when I asked them to fetch one that wasn't squashed out of shape by their lobster-like grip but hopefully they will learn from their mistakes!

[V8mate]

Shakermaker said:

People who grab a loaf of bread around its middle, squashing all the slices out of shape whilst they carry it.

This I suffered last night when upon reaching the checkout, the loaf of bread I had picked up from the front of the shelf got snagged in the conveyor and required replacement. The checkout supervisor came back holding a new one, but was doing the above method instead of holding it by the loose end of the bag designed for such purposes.

They seemed rather indignant when I asked them to fetch one that wasn't squashed out of shape by their lobster-like grip but hopefully they will learn from their mistakes!

Definitely. Straight to the gallows with these inconsiderate s.

[ClockworkCupcake]

ClockworkCupcake said:

Fastdruid said:

Ebay and its new "See full item description" button.

I only just noticed this.

Yes, it does seem rather crap doesn't it. What are they thinking?

Apparently this is a limited rollout beta test and doesn't affect everyone. If I open a listing with Chrome rather than Firefox then I see the full description as normal. Other users are reporting that they get the button on IE but not Safari.

It looks like eBay are running an experiment to see how badly they can fk things up for everyone. Hopefully they will stop soon.

[DRFC1879]

ClockworkCupcake said:

The "Choose Match" red button icon that keeps popping up on the Wimbledon coverage on my Sky box.

Pressing the 'Back up' button cancels it for a while, but it soon comes back.

This annoys me beyond reason.

Same here.

Even worse when watching the snooker on the red button earlier this year, I pressed back up to get rid of the menu icon and it took me back to the fking Eastenders omnibus or whatever such ste was on BBC1 at the time.

[wst]

Bins, glorious bins. A neighbour of mine has twice, now, taken my bin (The one with the molten lid, that I've had since buying the house), and twice I've lifted it out of their front yard and taken it back to mine. And so today they come knocking on the door and have "phoned the council" and "have been advised to phone the police".

So now I'm looking to see if I've ever been so bored I'd taken a photo of my bin.

[Johnnytheboy]

wst said:

Bins, glorious bins. A neighbour of mine has twice, now, taken my bin (The one with the molten lid, that I've had since buying the house), and twice I've lifted it out of their front yard and taken it back to mine. And so today they come knocking on the door and have "phoned the council" and "have been advised to phone the police".

So now I'm looking to see if I've ever been so bored I'd taken a photo of my bin.

Where is their's?

[lucido grigio]

People bumping a thread that died years ago with a pointless post.

See "Key'd" in GG.

6.5 year's and then

[Fastdruid]

ClockworkCupcake said:

ClockworkCupcake said:

Fastdruid said:

Ebay and its new "See full item description" button.

I only just noticed this.

Yes, it does seem rather crap doesn't it. What are they thinking?

Apparently this is a limited rollout beta test and doesn't affect everyone. If I open a listing with Chrome rather than Firefox then I see the full description as normal. Other users are reporting that they get the button on IE but not Safari.

It looks like eBay are running an experiment to see how badly they can fk things up for everyone. Hopefully they will stop soon.

Hurrah! That did at least fix it...until they decide to fk things up permanently. Which I'm sure they will.

[anonymous-user]

Europa1 said:

AstonZagato said:

It sounds like the type of planners we have in Cambridge. The Hills Road cycle scheme is ridiculous.

Ah yes. A pleasant road, along which traffic flowed freely, with a broad grass verge down each side, then a wide shared use path. Clearly the thing to do was to leave the shared use paths, rip up the grass verge, put in a dedicated cycle lane and install "floating bus stops", so that Hills Road is now an unremitting sea of tarmac along which traffic no longer flows freely and where the road surface is already cracking up because of the half arsed way the Council went about the job.

I was there when this scheme was dreamt up, although that was County Council, not City (where I was working).

That scheme got through, IMO, purely because only the pro-cyclist lobby went to the panels that allocated the money. They were the sole voices at the various meetings - and there are a lot of them in Cambridge. It is a ridiculous scheme, and had given weight to suggestions they should be used in other areas such as mine - which I have been very vocal about resisting.

However, and has been brought up many times, they would be a lot safer if the standard of cycling in Cambridge was a little more European and a little bit less Mad Max.

[popeyewhite]

Indicate, eye contact and a smile and I'll let you in. Giving it the beans and calling me for not allowing you to push in when you bumper challenge me only proves I was right not to let you in. Why don't these people ever learn?

[anonymous-user]

zarjaz1991 said:

The important point you are missing is that councils do not want traffic to flow freely. They want to slow it down and disrupt it. This firstly gives them an excuse to say "tough, take the bus", and secondly gives them a future excuse to introduce congestion charging.

Councils hate cars and if they could ban them completely, they would. Except for themselves obviously, as their jobs are very important and they need a car for security reasons. You plebs can all do without.

Amusing, and maybe anecdotally mildly accurate, but in reality that is so very wrong. Especially in Cambridge - the place is so old and narrow (there are roads in the City which still have wooden foundations), and such a hub for business, education, etc etc, that trying to manage all the traffic in and out is almost impossible.

Add a river, and then only a few bridges across, and you've got major problems with pinchpoints.

Then add high numbers of cyclists and peds and the specific issues they bring, and things get harder still.

Then add the tourist/chinese visitor element - Cambridge becomes a major (MAJOR) shopping hub, which needs deliveries, car parks etc. So you almost have a perfect storm of things that make easy travel impossible.

Then add the fact that every Cambridigan that I have ever met is (in their mind) an educated expert on everything

I feel sorry for the guys that try and deal with Cambridge. The people that live there are going to moan, whinge and argue every single scheme until they get what they deserve - absolute gridlock from 7.30am to 8pm.




HOWEVER.

Beyond reason etc etc. Your complaint is valid

[mikal83]

ClockworkCupcake said:

mikal83 said:

BBC continually putting up that feckin annoying notice in the top right corner.

The red button one that I mentioned earlier?

Back button cancels it but that's it, you can also limit it showing for 30 secs but that's all you can do. You cannot delete it from coming on

[Europa1]

OpulentBob said:

zarjaz1991 said:

The important point you are missing is that councils do not want traffic to flow freely. They want to slow it down and disrupt it. This firstly gives them an excuse to say "tough, take the bus", and secondly gives them a future excuse to introduce congestion charging.

Councils hate cars and if they could ban them completely, they would. Except for themselves obviously, as their jobs are very important and they need a car for security reasons. You plebs can all do without.

Amusing, and maybe anecdotally mildly accurate, but in reality that is so very wrong. Especially in Cambridge - the place is so old and narrow (there are roads in the City which still have wooden foundations), and such a hub for business, education, etc etc, that trying to manage all the traffic in and out is almost impossible.

Add a river, and then only a few bridges across, and you've got major problems with pinchpoints.

Then add high numbers of cyclists and peds and the specific issues they bring, and things get harder still.

Then add the tourist/chinese visitor element - Cambridge becomes a major (MAJOR) shopping hub, which needs deliveries, car parks etc. So you almost have a perfect storm of things that make easy travel impossible.

Then add the fact that every Cambridigan that I have ever met is (in their mind) an educated expert on everything

I feel sorry for the guys that try and deal with Cambridge. The people that live there are going to moan, whinge and argue every single scheme until they get what they deserve - absolute gridlock from 7.30am to 8pm.




HOWEVER.

Beyond reason etc etc. Your complaint is valid

Cambridge certainly has its challenges, but one can certainly see why residents think the Council is anti-car, when one is confronted by situations like East Road, where there are 2 pedestrian crossings close together which are utterly out of phase with each other and nearby traffic lights, and on a major route into the city (Hauxton Road into Trumpington Road, there are 4 sets of traffic lights within very short order, for developments built within a few years of each other, where again the lights are our of phase.

[ClockworkCupcake]

mikal83 said:

Back button cancels it but that's it, you can also limit it showing for 30 secs but that's all you can do. You cannot delete it from coming on

Yup. The backup button cancels it until a fresh one is posted by the broadcaster. And it looks like the BBC keep posting it up. That's the annoying thing.

[Langweilig]

Bloody Money....er, sorry Photobucket. "You can upgrade to 'ad free' for just $2.49 per month".

Am I to understand that you require me to pay to remove something that annoys me beyond reason and I don't actually want? I can't even perform a simple task like "DELETE" without the button being obscured by an ad.

I would like to tell you exactly what I think of your service, but I'm not going to lower myself.

[DJFish]

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[V8mate]

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