Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)

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Rostfritt said:

Ours is probably a bit old and rubbish. It takes bloody hours but I usually stick it on overnight so it dried out by the morning. My main annoyance with new ones I have used is that they beep when they are done and won't shut up until you turn them off. There is no immediate action required from me when it is done so why do you even need to tell me? I have however seen one that projects on the ground a display of how long it has left which is pretty cool.

I've got one of those dishwashers that projects into the floor, it is pretty cool! The bottom shelf lifts up to the top level too so you don't have to bend down to load/unload it.

WRT films and books. I hardly ever watch films, I just seem to get distracted and go off and do something else whereas I can read for hours.
I got heavily into the Aubrey Maturin books recently so decided to bite the bullet and watch Master and Commander as it is based on them. It was rubbish basically, I couldn't get through it, the main characters being so at odds with the books that it grated.

[Fastdruid]

After demanding I fill in employment information the ESTA application then fails saying "Job Title contains invalid characters."

Presumably it's either the "-" or the "&" it dislikes.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Fastdruid said:

After demanding I fill in employment information the ESTA application then fails saying "Job Title contains invalid characters."

Maybe it's Positive Discrimination, and you have to a bit of a character. And an invalid.

[227bhp]

captain_cynic said:

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.
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).

No not really, i've never seen anyone walk out of a pub after they've ordered a drink, not once and i'm not a young person.

[V8mate]

227bhp said:

captain_cynic said:

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.
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).

No not really, i've never seen anyone walk out of a pub after they've ordered a drink, not once and i'm not a young person.

All pubs display a price list. It's the law!

The law isn't too detailed on the location of that price list, or of the font size used, however

[Cotty]

These taps are getting on my tits, we have one for 300-400 people. The hot water is not hot enough for a proper cup of tea and keeps cutting out. But the cold water is so slow there is a never ending queue of people filling half litre water bottles from it that takes ages.

[captain_cynic]

227bhp said:

captain_cynic said:

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.
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).

No not really, i've never seen anyone walk out of a pub after they've ordered a drink, not once and i'm not a young person.

I think you've misread my post.

That was the point. Once you've got the pint, you're committed. You could walk out at that point but that would be rude and very un-British. You're culturally obligated to pay for and consume at least 1 pint at that point. If people knew the outrageous price of their pints before they ordered, you'd see a lot more walkouts.

[Shakermaker]

Cotty said:

These taps are getting on my tits, we have one for 300-400 people. The hot water is not hot enough for a proper cup of tea and keeps cutting out. But the cold water is so slow there is a never ending queue of people filling half litre water bottles from it that takes ages.

We've got something similar in our office

The water comes out at a decent rate and you get a nice, cool glass of filtered water to refresh you on a hot day

The hot water comes out at the same rate, very close to boiling, perfect for a cup of tea

Then, once it has done both of those things about three times, it will stop working and an engineer has to come out to fix it, and it takes about a fortnight to get an appointment because presumably, there's only one engineer in our region and he's got to fix every single tap in the region...

[droopsnoot]

Cotty said:

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.uk

Sometimes it distresses me that I am situated up here, in a small town where nothing really goes on, no live music venue locally for example, then I read stuff like this and it cheers me up.

[captain_cynic]

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[V8mate]

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[Morningside]

Shakermaker said:

Cotty said:

These taps are getting on my tits, we have one for 300-400 people. The hot water is not hot enough for a proper cup of tea and keeps cutting out. But the cold water is so slow there is a never ending queue of people filling half litre water bottles from it that takes ages.

We've got something similar in our office

The water comes out at a decent rate and you get a nice, cool glass of filtered water to refresh you on a hot day

The hot water comes out at the same rate, very close to boiling, perfect for a cup of tea

Then, once it has done both of those things about three times, it will stop working and an engineer has to come out to fix it, and it takes about a fortnight to get an appointment because presumably, there's only one engineer in our region and he's got to fix every single tap in the region...

Do you press "9" to get an outside line?

[Frank7]

Cotty said:

These taps are getting on my tits, we have one for 300-400 people. The hot water is not hot enough for a proper cup of tea and keeps cutting out. But the cold water is so slow there is a never ending queue of people filling half litre water bottles from it that takes ages.

I don’t drink tea, never did, don’t even like the smell of the stuff, but I always
thought that it was supposed to be made with boiling water, as in a kettle.

[Cotty]

Frank7 said:

I don’t drink tea, never did, don’t even like the smell of the stuff, but I always
thought that it was supposed to be made with boiling water, as in a kettle.

Its our only option as there is no kettle.

[Shakermaker]

Morningside said:

Do you press "9" to get an outside line?

Ours is a more simple design, but clearly not well designed enough to work regularly

[Timmy40]

When inanimate objects refuse to do as they are told. e.g. load a wheel barrow up, which defiantly decides to fall over, have to right it and reload it only for it to fall over again, by which point I feel like hitting it with a stick and screaming at it for not doing as it bloody well should.

[SpeckledJim]

Timmy40 said:

When inanimate objects refuse to do as they are told. e.g. load a wheel barrow up, which defiantly decides to fall over, have to right it and reload it only for it to fall over again, by which point I feel like hitting it with a stick and screaming at it for not doing as it bloody well should.

Almost every wheelbarrow carries its load too high.

More effort to load. More effort to drive. More likely to topple over. Pants.

[FourWheelDrift]

Donkeys, that's what you need. They have been advertising them on the TV, only costs £2 a month apparently.

[paulguitar]

People pressing a button to call a lift when you are already there, having pressed it, and it is lit up to display this information.

Why?

[Shakermaker]

paulguitar said:

People pressing a button to call a lift when you are already there, having pressed it, and it is lit up to display this information.

Why?

"I don't trust that you know how to operate this lift button properly and despite it being lit up to display this, I'm going to press it again so that I KNOW it has been pressed and the lift is definitely going to stop at this floor"


That, or...

"If I press this button again the lift will come to this floor more quickly"