Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)
Discussion
loudlashadjuster said:
The fact that many of us seem to have forgotten how to use a phone, particularly in public.
History of the telephone (condensed)
Since they are on speaker and are in public I feel no shame in standing closely so I can hear what it being discussed and speaking loudly myself.
Or join in, I sometimes walk by and add the odd word or two History of the telephone (condensed)
1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone, everyone learns how to use one
. .
. . (everyone uses phones normally)
. .
2007: Apple releases the iPhone
. .
. . (some collective regression)
. .
2018: Idiots wander about in public, staring blankly into their phones and shouting into them
Since they are on speaker and are in public I feel no shame in standing closely so I can hear what it being discussed and speaking loudly myself.
It's a similar thing when people sit in cars hooked up to the speakers via blue teeth with the whole conversation blasting out across a quiet carpark.
We have gone backwards in many ways (like texting), now we have the internet there is a chance to teach yourself or learn all manner of things, yet because people use phones to access this new world they only see it through a pinhole so miss much of it and quickly get bored.
Instead of finding something out for themselves they simply ask other people to do it for them instead and the gormless time wasters do it as well. PH et al know this and make lots of money from them.
It's a funny old world.
Europa1 said:
Clockwork Cupcake said:
nonsequitur said:
Not quite. Timothy Dalton fits the Ian Fleming description to a tee.
Fair point. He also captured what a nasty bit of work Bond was too. Dalton is a much underrated Bond. 
Overshadowed by Connery and Moore (who were quite good in their own rights) but Dalton is criminally underrated. Much better than Craig (who I like in other roles... but fooking hate as Bond).
Daniel Craig as Bond and the "re-imagined" recent bond moves annoy me beyond reason.
Europa1 said:
Clockwork Cupcake said:
nonsequitur said:
Not quite. Timothy Dalton fits the Ian Fleming description to a tee.
Fair point. He also captured what a nasty bit of work Bond was too. Dalton is a much underrated Bond. I always preferred the slightly grittier and more realistic portrayal. Shame he only did two.
bristolracer said:
Nom de ploom said:
Bar staff that can't add two f
king numbers together.
"a pint of peroni and a diet coke, no ice please?"
barperson pulls beer first (first mistake but as that was what was requested first immediately assumes that is the first drink to prepare - it is not and never has been).
proceeds to get second drink. Total £4.75. I can add that up from the price list on the bar. no bar person has to go to til, press screen, come back ask for £4.75 (sometimes says please) returns to til, keys in amount to give change, returns with a possible thank you.
i know tills are electronic to keep stock levels and monitored and keep an eye on staff when they have to log in with a key fob everytime but crikey can they just not add up two numbers and save time and serve more people more quickly.
really annoys me
Yep and if they knew the prices in their head (not hard when you have been there a week) you will only have to walk half as much with one visit to the till not two.king numbers together."a pint of peroni and a diet coke, no ice please?"
barperson pulls beer first (first mistake but as that was what was requested first immediately assumes that is the first drink to prepare - it is not and never has been).
proceeds to get second drink. Total £4.75. I can add that up from the price list on the bar. no bar person has to go to til, press screen, come back ask for £4.75 (sometimes says please) returns to til, keys in amount to give change, returns with a possible thank you.
i know tills are electronic to keep stock levels and monitored and keep an eye on staff when they have to log in with a key fob everytime but crikey can they just not add up two numbers and save time and serve more people more quickly.
really annoys me
Having worked in a few busy bars in my time, you can do a LOT of walking during a shift.
While we are at it,bar staff who do not know who is next. Its irritating when some powerfully built director type is waving his 20 around intimidates the staff to get served next,but bar staff should be paying enough attention to know whose turn it is.
Correct procedure should be:
Order drinks
They ask if that is it.
Yes
That'll be £8.77
Pours drinks while you sort out the money.
Hand over money, take drinks, walk away.
Approx time saved: 25%
More customers get served in less time, win-win.
Dishwashers.
By the time you've loaded the damn things up, put the tablet in, cleaned the filter, listened to the drone for God knows how long and unloaded everything out, you might as well have cleaned them yourself in the bloody bowl.
Then there's the space they take up, and the amount of electricity they use, and the damage they can do to your crockery, sharp knives and aluminium pans. AND they don't always do a brilliant job.
Wtf?
By the time you've loaded the damn things up, put the tablet in, cleaned the filter, listened to the drone for God knows how long and unloaded everything out, you might as well have cleaned them yourself in the bloody bowl.
Then there's the space they take up, and the amount of electricity they use, and the damage they can do to your crockery, sharp knives and aluminium pans. AND they don't always do a brilliant job.
Wtf?
Moonhawk said:
Europa1 said:
Clockwork Cupcake said:
nonsequitur said:
Not quite. Timothy Dalton fits the Ian Fleming description to a tee.
Fair point. He also captured what a nasty bit of work Bond was too. Dalton is a much underrated Bond. I always preferred the slightly grittier and more realistic portrayal. Shame he only did two.
227bhp said:
It always annoys me that they don't tell you what the damage is before they've finished. You stand there with a handful of change wondering what the total will be whilst they pour the drinks, they then go back to the till, reckon up and come back, you fumble around with your money whilst the queue lengthens.
Correct procedure should be:
Order drinks
They ask if that is it.
Yes
That'll be £8.77
Pours drinks while you sort out the money.
Hand over money, take drinks, walk away.
Approx time saved: 25%
More customers get served in less time, win-win.
You're not thinking about this like a bar owner.Correct procedure should be:
Order drinks
They ask if that is it.
Yes
That'll be £8.77
Pours drinks while you sort out the money.
Hand over money, take drinks, walk away.
Approx time saved: 25%
More customers get served in less time, win-win.
Customer hears it's £4 a pint, decides to go elsewhere where it's only £2.70 a pint. If pubs wanted you to know how much a pint was before hand they'd put a sign on the tap. Very few pubs do this (one I've seen it in was a Spoons) because they don't want you to know how much your paying before you're obligated to pay. They're less concerned with time wasted and more concerned with having fewer people walk out because of their outrageous prices.
Its an Anglo thing IMHO, bars I've been to in the US and other parts of the world usually have a price list but they almost always operate on a tab system (unless its a stupidly busy bar like the Hard Rock Casino in LV).
Also, pubs that prefer to operate in cash usually have price points set at whole pounds or at least .50 or .20 to save time with counting change. Usually these are pubs which have the owner behind the bar (and if he's a good sort, I usually don't mind £4 a pint).
There's a price list "on display" in most of the pubs I can think of locally, and I thought there was a rule saying that there had to be. I put it in quotes like that because it's a bit like Cuneo's mouse, it'll be there somewhere.
Talking to a chap in the pub the other day, he'd just bought a pint and a glass of wine for £7.40. Told me that the trendy place they go in as well, the one with hundreds of different types of bottled beer on shelves in the back room, was charging £9 for the same round, until last week when it went up in a single bound to £10.10. That's a heck of a jump - I expect stuff in pubs to go up about 5p a time.
Talking to a chap in the pub the other day, he'd just bought a pint and a glass of wine for £7.40. Told me that the trendy place they go in as well, the one with hundreds of different types of bottled beer on shelves in the back room, was charging £9 for the same round, until last week when it went up in a single bound to £10.10. That's a heck of a jump - I expect stuff in pubs to go up about 5p a time.
Pubs MUST display their price list by law.
It must be up to date, easily readable, inclusive of vat and clearly indicate which measure you'll be paying for. You usually see it at one end of a bar or the other, where the bar meets a wall. But then the average punter doesn't want to stand at the end of the bar reading a price list, and getting in the way of the staff access hatch, so the average punter won't see the list...
http://howtorunapub.co.uk/pub-price-lists/
In establishments where I expect high prices, along with the possibility of being taken for a mug, I make a point of checking the price list before ordering, and that also helps me to present the correct change when I'm required to pay.
I've had a few "are you sure" moments with bar staff where the initially requested amount suddenly comes down when their total is challenged. They don't like it, but I don't give a stuff. There are enough other idiots out there paying whatever is asked and not checking their change, but i won't be one of them.
https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2013/0...
The relevant legislation is, according to the above link, the "Consumer Protection From Unfair Trading Regulations 2008".
It must be up to date, easily readable, inclusive of vat and clearly indicate which measure you'll be paying for. You usually see it at one end of a bar or the other, where the bar meets a wall. But then the average punter doesn't want to stand at the end of the bar reading a price list, and getting in the way of the staff access hatch, so the average punter won't see the list...
http://howtorunapub.co.uk/pub-price-lists/
In establishments where I expect high prices, along with the possibility of being taken for a mug, I make a point of checking the price list before ordering, and that also helps me to present the correct change when I'm required to pay.
I've had a few "are you sure" moments with bar staff where the initially requested amount suddenly comes down when their total is challenged. They don't like it, but I don't give a stuff. There are enough other idiots out there paying whatever is asked and not checking their change, but i won't be one of them.
https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2013/0...
The relevant legislation is, according to the above link, the "Consumer Protection From Unfair Trading Regulations 2008".
Edited by yellowjack on Wednesday 25th April 11:04
yellowjack said:
Pubs MUST display their price list by law.
It must be up to date, easily readable, inclusive of vat and clearly indicate which measure you'll be paying for. You usually see it at one end of a bar or the other, where the bar meets a wall. But then the average punter doesn't want to stand at the end of the bar reading a price list, and getting in the way of the staff access hatch, so the average punter won't see the list...
I honestly didn't know that, happy to sit corrected.It must be up to date, easily readable, inclusive of vat and clearly indicate which measure you'll be paying for. You usually see it at one end of a bar or the other, where the bar meets a wall. But then the average punter doesn't want to stand at the end of the bar reading a price list, and getting in the way of the staff access hatch, so the average punter won't see the list...
But what annoys me is that few places are willing to put it on the tap. I can understand if it's a local pub where 98.597% of the patrons go there week in and week out and know the price list like the back of their hand but for a pub in a fairly busy town centre (with multiple pubs) they should display it on the tap or pump, if not on a board.
Paid £5.40 for an ale in Wokingham the other week... Highway bloody robbery.
MartG said:
Moonhawk said:
Europa1 said:
Clockwork Cupcake said:
nonsequitur said:
Not quite. Timothy Dalton fits the Ian Fleming description to a tee.
Fair point. He also captured what a nasty bit of work Bond was too. Dalton is a much underrated Bond. I always preferred the slightly grittier and more realistic portrayal. Shame he only did two.
227bhp said:
Clothes with events on them like Christmas.
I've currently got Christmas underwear and a Christmas T-shirt on, so am I supposed to only wear it for two weeks per year? I'll never wear the fking things out at that rate and will still have them when i'm an OAP.
This just reminded me of my seasonal hate. I've currently got Christmas underwear and a Christmas T-shirt on, so am I supposed to only wear it for two weeks per year? I'll never wear the f
king things out at that rate and will still have them when i'm an OAP.“Christmas jumpers” [sic]
What you’re wearing there is a Christmassy jumper. Christmas jumpers, that everyone has suddenly decided are “a thing” we’re actually normal jumpers bought *for* Christmas by relatives with little or no taste.
That’s the Christmas element. Not it having f
king Rudolph on it. Either way, get to fk with your bloody ridiculous office Christmas jumper days. I refuse to buy something I do not like to wear for one god damn day of the year. And I love Christmas, so no bah humbugs please.
Hackney said:
227bhp said:
Clothes with events on them like Christmas.
I've currently got Christmas underwear and a Christmas T-shirt on, so am I supposed to only wear it for two weeks per year? I'll never wear the fking things out at that rate and will still have them when i'm an OAP.
This just reminded me of my seasonal hate. I've currently got Christmas underwear and a Christmas T-shirt on, so am I supposed to only wear it for two weeks per year? I'll never wear the f
king things out at that rate and will still have them when i'm an OAP.“Christmas jumpers” [sic]
What you’re wearing there is a Christmassy jumper. Christmas jumpers, that everyone has suddenly decided are “a thing” we’re actually normal jumpers bought *for* Christmas by relatives with little or no taste.
That’s the Christmas element. Not it having f
king Rudolph on it. Either way, get to fk with your bloody ridiculous office Christmas jumper days. I refuse to buy something I do not like to wear for one god damn day of the year. And I love Christmas, so no bah humbugs please.
Bobberoo99 said:
loudlashadjuster said:
The fact that many of us seem to have forgotten how to use a phone, particularly in public.
History of the telephone (condensed)
Since they are on speaker and are in public I feel no shame in standing closely so I can hear what it being discussed and speaking loudly myself.
Or wander about in front of you so engrossed in their own little bubble world and when asked to move look at you like you're the problem, I'm not overly ashamed to admit to "moving" more than a couple out of the way!! History of the telephone (condensed)
1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone, everyone learns how to use one
. .
. . (everyone uses phones normally)
. .
2007: Apple releases the iPhone
. .
. . (some collective regression)
. .
2018: Idiots wander about in public, staring blankly into their phones and shouting into them
Since they are on speaker and are in public I feel no shame in standing closely so I can hear what it being discussed and speaking loudly myself.
captain_cynic said:
Paid £5.40 for an ale in Wokingham the other week... Highway bloody robbery.
I paid £5.95 for a Peroni in http://www.oystershed.co.ukCotty said:
I paid £5.95 for a Peroni in http://www.oystershed.co.uk
I paid £1.99 for a Bud Light in Wetherspoons, Ecclesall Rd, Sheffield.Nearly collapsed.
Back on topic...
People who say they don't know their left and right. You're a fairly competent adult and it will take all of 1 minute to learn. It's not impressive that you're being deliberately thick.
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