Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)
Discussion
MitchT said:
The idea is that you "Face Time" (that's Apple speak for video chat) someone and you can select an emoji that will represent you so the person at the other end, who presumably also has to have an iPhone X, will see the emoji talking instead of you. The emoji's facial movements will perfectly mimic your own thanks to the phone's facial recognition abilities. Great use of tech, eh?
Ta 
I'm on my third iPhone now, a 6 that I got 3 years ago. Reasons to upgrade to the latest model just get less and less for me (probably proportionally to the older I get), my iPhone 6 does everything I need and I'd rather a cheap £15 a month deal with unlimited data etc than some of the eye watering contract prices that now seem to be the norm.
Halmyre said:
yellowjack said:
Hugo a Gogo said:
people who clap really loudly, it pierces right through my brain, and I don't even know how they do it
I can't stand it
I'm happy to broadly agree with Hugo a Gogo. And add to that people who clap loudly and then give you a disparaging look because you value the feeling in the palms of your hands and clap noticeably less vigorously than they do.I can't stand it
But loud applause is kind of OK if it's expected, and I can turn my hearing aid down (or off).
What's more annoying is people who whoop, cheer, and applaud when it's entirely inappropriate. And as such, unexpected too.
Idiots who stand up to "lead" a standing ovation, especially. It's a f
king workaday show at a provincial theatre. It's the cast's job to entertain me for a couple of hours. They just about earned their wages, but no-one was going to win an Olivier Award for tonight's effort, so sit the fk down and applaud politely as the cast make their final curtain call, like the rest of us. Clue, numbnuts: You are the only two people in an entire theatre auditorium full of punters that thought it appropriate to whistle, whoop, and stand to applaud the effort. Does that make the other three hundred or so souls wrong in their assessment of the play? Quite probably not.Same at gigs. Especially when members of the band are addressing the audience between tracks. Thanks entirely to w
ksocks whooping and whistling while Phil addressed the audience, I now have no idea what he was saying. But it was a tenth anniversary gig, playing their first album in full, in chronological order, for the first time. So I'm guessing he said something nice about support from fans like me who've been parting with money to see them live since the very beginning. Perhaps you ignorant fkwits could have kept your great ugly traps shut for the thirty second or so that it would have taken for the rest of us to listen to what Phil had to say. Keep your whistling and whooping for choruses and solos. Ideally at the end of 'Cloudy Room', please. Yours, the grumpy fker stood in a booth at the back of the venue near the bar having a whale of a time except for your inane whooping and hollering at inappropriate moments...
Triumph Man said:
Gosh they sound like a pair of ungrateful entitled s.
Update on the oxygen thieves who rented my holiday let for a month on insurance. I came to use my new Dyson (DC54 cylinder) to prepare to lay Cushionflor in the downstairs shower room. They'd left the cleaner strewn under the stairs, not in its special bag. I notice the twin brush head had been fitted so I put on the roller brush head. The roller was locked solid and won't free off. As it's vacuum powered, it can't work at all now. s. I called the insurance company, to follow up an e-mail I'd sent over the weekend. "Did you take a damage deposit?" No, I never do - people won't book if I do. "Oh, we can't do anything about the Hoover." Er, what about the terms and conditions? I cited the bit about leaving the accomodation as found and being responsilbe for any damge. "Oh, said Mrs. insurance, "In that case, they should have left the basin broken." What, the one I'd had replaced on a Saturday morning, which was ASAP???
It turns out that the couple had belated so much to the insurer that he was thinking of demanding a refund. Typical council compo attitude... I won't wear that for a nanosecond.
A new brush head costs at least £39 and via Dyson, one is £60+.
So much for stepping up in their hour of need. b
ds. Edited by davhill on Wednesday 6th December 05:49
davhill said:
Triumph Man said:
Gosh they sound like a pair of ungrateful entitled s.
Update on the oxygen thieves who rented my holiday let for a month on insurance. I came to use my new Dyson (DC54 cylinder) to prepare to lay Cushionflor in the downstairs shower room. They'd left the cleaner strewn under the stairs, not in its special bag. I notice the twin brush head had been fitted so I put on the roller brush head. The roller was locked solid and won't free off. As it's vacuum powered, it can't work at all now. s. I called the insurance company, to follow up an e-mail I'd sent over the weekend. "Did you take a damage deposit?" No, I never do - people won't book if I do. "Oh, we can't do anything about that." Er, what about the terms and conditions? I cited the bit about leaving the accomodation as found and being responsilbe for any damge. "Oh, said Mrs. insurance, "In that case, they should have left the basin broken." What, the one I'd had replaced on a Saturdaymorning ASAP???
It turns out that the couple had bleatedso much to the insurer that he was thinking of demanding a refund. Typical council compo attitude... I won't wear that for a nanosecond.
A new brush head costs at least £39 and via Dyson, one is £60+.
So much for stepping up in their hour of need. b
ds. h and moan until they get money/item/something for free, my wife works for a stair lift company and some of the tales she comes home with make me want to buy an assault rifle and go ballistic in a shopping centre!!!! The usual favourite is "My stairlift is broken send someone to fix it!!" "We can get someone out to you first thing tomorrow sir/madam" "What do I do till then? I'm stuck down stairs and my bathroom is upstairs!!!" "Well unfortunately we don't have an engineer available until then" "Well that's not good enough, I want to talk to a manager!!!" "Hello I'm the manager" " I DEMAND YOU SEND SOMEONE OUT NOW!!!" "I'm sorry but we don't have an engineer until tomorrow!" AND ON AND ON it goes!!!Johnspex said:
Halmyre said:
yellowjack said:
Hugo a Gogo said:
people who clap really loudly, it pierces right through my brain, and I don't even know how they do it
I can't stand it
I'm happy to broadly agree with Hugo a Gogo. And add to that people who clap loudly and then give you a disparaging look because you value the feeling in the palms of your hands and clap noticeably less vigorously than they do.I can't stand it
But loud applause is kind of OK if it's expected, and I can turn my hearing aid down (or off).
What's more annoying is people who whoop, cheer, and applaud when it's entirely inappropriate. And as such, unexpected too.
Idiots who stand up to "lead" a standing ovation, especially. It's a f
king workaday show at a provincial theatre. It's the cast's job to entertain me for a couple of hours. They just about earned their wages, but no-one was going to win an Olivier Award for tonight's effort, so sit the fk down and applaud politely as the cast make their final curtain call, like the rest of us. Clue, numbnuts: You are the only two people in an entire theatre auditorium full of punters that thought it appropriate to whistle, whoop, and stand to applaud the effort. Does that make the other three hundred or so souls wrong in their assessment of the play? Quite probably not.Same at gigs. Especially when members of the band are addressing the audience between tracks. Thanks entirely to w
ksocks whooping and whistling while Phil addressed the audience, I now have no idea what he was saying. But it was a tenth anniversary gig, playing their first album in full, in chronological order, for the first time. So I'm guessing he said something nice about support from fans like me who've been parting with money to see them live since the very beginning. Perhaps you ignorant fkwits could have kept your great ugly traps shut for the thirty second or so that it would have taken for the rest of us to listen to what Phil had to say. Keep your whistling and whooping for choruses and solos. Ideally at the end of 'Cloudy Room', please. Yours, the grumpy fker stood in a booth at the back of the venue near the bar having a whale of a time except for your inane whooping and hollering at inappropriate moments...
The fact that none of the 3 keyboards on my desk have either a £ or € key, so I have to try to remember the alt codes* . The lack of a £ is fair enough as I'm in the Netherlands, but why the hell is there no € key? fortunately there is a $ key as not having one of them would make Excel a nightmare.
* Alt-156 is easy enough to remember when posting on a car forum, but Alt-0128 is trickier as they're a bit before my time
* Alt-156 is easy enough to remember when posting on a car forum, but Alt-0128 is trickier as they're a bit before my time
RizzoTheRat said:
The fact that none of the 3 keyboards on my desk have either a £ or € key, so I have to try to remember the alt codes* . The lack of a £ is fair enough as I'm in the Netherlands, but why the hell is there no € key? fortunately there is a $ key as not having one of them would make Excel a nightmare.
* Alt-156 is easy enough to remember when posting on a car forum, but Alt-0128 is trickier as they're a bit before my time
On a UK keyboard alt-gr and the $ sign make a € - not sure if the same for a dutch setup.* Alt-156 is easy enough to remember when posting on a car forum, but Alt-0128 is trickier as they're a bit before my time
ukbabz said:
RizzoTheRat said:
The fact that none of the 3 keyboards on my desk have either a £ or € key, so I have to try to remember the alt codes* . The lack of a £ is fair enough as I'm in the Netherlands, but why the hell is there no € key? fortunately there is a $ key as not having one of them would make Excel a nightmare.
* Alt-156 is easy enough to remember when posting on a car forum, but Alt-0128 is trickier as they're a bit before my time
On a UK keyboard alt-gr and the $ sign make a € - not sure if the same for a dutch setup.* Alt-156 is easy enough to remember when posting on a car forum, but Alt-0128 is trickier as they're a bit before my time
I wish I had a keyboard with 1 shift, 1 enter, and no tab, caps lock, alt etc. I am not a super-user.
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