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

[nonsequitur]

Lord Marylebone said:

One from me:

Men who wear kilts for their wedding or special occasions.

They weren't born in Scotland, haven't ever lived in Scotland, but they happen to have the surname of Robertson or Macdonald or something, which apparently means they MUST wear a fking skirt while they get married.

If you are hardcore Scottish, born in Scotland, live in Scotland, getting married in scotland, and are called something like Hamish McTavish, and enjoy caber tossing and porridge eating then no problem, dress in the most Scottish things you can your hands on. Kilt, Sporran, knee socks, bagpipes... fine. I get it.

But wearing Scottish national dress while getting married just because your grandfather once lived in Aberdeen is fking stupid and you look ridiculous.

Stop it.

Donald, where's ya troosers?

[Rostfritt]

MartG said:

A crossing local to me has a very long delay ( more than 30s ) between pressing the button and the lights changing. This usually means that, despite there being traffic when the button is pressed, a gap has appeared and people have crossed long before the lights change

They should only really have a delay if they are in a busy area and more people are likely to gather in that time. Completely useless elsewhere and just encourages pedestrians to run the risk. If they are worried about the lights being pressed repeatedly in a short space of time, they should set them so the first time they are used they change instantly, but if they are pressed again in the next minute or two they should have a wait time.

[Shakermaker]

The printer at our office, which of course is a scanner and photocopier as well.

I need to scan a copy of my driving licence and my passport to send off to get a pass made up for a site visit next week. The scanner has "auto-detect" for the document size. Can it auto-detect my passport? No. I have to put a sheet of A4 underneath it so that it "knows" that it is being asked to scan something.

[MartG]

People who simply won't admit that you know more about a particular subject than they do and continue trying to argue that you are wrong...

I'm having an online 'discussion' with an American who is adamant that because Russia has built a mobile nuclear power station on a flat bottomed barge ( https://gizmodo.com/russias-floating-nuclear-power... ) that as soon as it leaves port and encounters a wave at sea then it WILL sink because flat bottomed barges are NOT seaworthy at all.

No amount of examples of similar barges carrying outsized cargoes around the world on a daily basis will shift his opinion, nor does suggesting he goes read about things like metacentric height and centre of buoyancy ( which I learned about in a naval architecture course I took years ago ) - he insists that because it is flat bottomed then the first wave it encounters will send it to the bottom :/

[Europa1]

Shakermaker said:

The printer at our office, which of course is a scanner and photocopier as well.

I need to scan a copy of my driving licence and my passport to send off to get a pass made up for a site visit next week. The scanner has "auto-detect" for the document size. Can it auto-detect my passport? No. I have to put a sheet of A4 underneath it so that it "knows" that it is being asked to scan something.

[pedantry alert] Surely if you put a sheet of A4 paper underneath your passport, you will just get a scan of an A4 sheet of paper?

[Shakermaker]

Europa1 said:

Shakermaker said:

The printer at our office, which of course is a scanner and photocopier as well.

I need to scan a copy of my driving licence and my passport to send off to get a pass made up for a site visit next week. The scanner has "auto-detect" for the document size. Can it auto-detect my passport? No. I have to put a sheet of A4 underneath it so that it "knows" that it is being asked to scan something.

[pedantry alert] Surely if you put a sheet of A4 paper underneath your passport, you will just get a scan of an A4 sheet of paper?

Not if you bolt the scanner to the ceiling first

[anonymous-user]

Rostfritt said:

They are trying to make the centre as confusing as possible. I used to cycle from Peros Bridge to Bristol Bridge across Queen Square. I still can't work out what I was supposed to do at the end of Queen Charlotte Street. I want to turn right on to the cycle lane to Bristol Bridge where the zebra crossing is. Am I supposed to wait for the pedestrians to cross, then wait in the middle for the cars coming across? Are they supposed to stop for me? Should I keep left, stop at the side and make cars stop to let me go? Nothing seems to make sense.

That crossing is another awkward one. Barely enough room for 1 car between it and Baldwin Street making it difficult for cars, cyclists and pedestrians alike. I get the impression that the priority in Bristol lately is the great Metrobus scheme and everything else suffers the consequences.

[Fastdruid]

I thought I'd bought a flap wheel to slightly enlarge and taper the holes I'd cut in the dash of my GT40 replica for the vents.

I couldn't find it anywhere. I've spent about 2 hours in total looking for the bloody thing.

Gave up and went to order another one... and realised I hadn't ordered one in the first place.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Fastdruid said:

I thought I'd bought a flap wheel to slightly enlarge and taper the holes I'd cut in the dash of my GT40 replica for the vents.

I couldn't find it anywhere. I've spent about 2 hours in total looking for the bloody thing.

Gave up and went to order another one... and realised I hadn't ordered one in the first place.

That's almost as annoying as knowing you definitely have something, but can't find it anywhere, ordering another, and then finding the original just after the last day that Returns are accepted for the replacement. Thus leaving you with two of the item.

Bonus points for having lost both of them by the next time you need them.

[Fastdruid]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Fastdruid said:

I thought I'd bought a flap wheel to slightly enlarge and taper the holes I'd cut in the dash of my GT40 replica for the vents.

I couldn't find it anywhere. I've spent about 2 hours in total looking for the bloody thing.

Gave up and went to order another one... and realised I hadn't ordered one in the first place.

That's almost as annoying as knowing you definitely have something, but can't find it anywhere, ordering another, and then finding the original just after the last day that Returns are accepted for the replacement. Thus leaving you with two of the item.

Bonus points for having lost both of them by the next time you need them.

I think the confusion came because I *did* buy a smaller one to do the gauge holes...which it then turns out I didn't need anyway as there is very slight variance in the diameter of the gauges and the one that was too tight for the one gauge I'd picked up is actually fine with the gauge that is meant to live in there...

So I didn't buy the flap wheel I needed and bought the one I didn't *and* spent ages searching for something I didn't buy. <*sigh*>.

[kowalski655]

nonsequitur said:

Lord Marylebone said:

One from me:

Men who wear kilts for their wedding or special occasions.

They weren't born in Scotland, haven't ever lived in Scotland, but they happen to have the surname of Robertson or Macdonald or something, which apparently means they MUST wear a fking skirt while they get married.

If you are hardcore Scottish, born in Scotland, live in Scotland, getting married in scotland, and are called something like Hamish McTavish, and enjoy caber tossing and porridge eating then no problem, dress in the most Scottish things you can your hands on. Kilt, Sporran, knee socks, bagpipes... fine. I get it.

But wearing Scottish national dress while getting married just because your grandfather once lived in Aberdeen is fking stupid and you look ridiculous.

Stop it.

Donald, where's ya troosers?

At my wedding, in Scotland, to a Scottish woman one of the 3 witches from MacBeth I wore a kilt (her lot's tartan) & so did my best man, a fellow Englishman. ALL the Scottish blokes involved wore trousers, bloody traitors to their land

[matchmaker]

I'm a Scot. Married a teuchter from Inverness. Wore a lounge suit from BHS. Last time I wore a kilt I was 5...

[cmvtec]

nonsequitur said:

eybic said:

cmvtec said:

I once had to deliver something to an old chap, a note beside the door bell button read "please ring doorbell HARD".

When I questioned how I should do this he complained to my employer about my attitude.

:

Bit of a daft question to ask, don't you think?

The answer I got was: "I'm a bit hard of hearing".

A doorbell button, no matter how much you jab at it, won't make the noise from the chime any louder.

[talksthetorque]

When serving English breakfast tea either abroad or on a foreign plane they give you non dairy coffee creamer powder to go with it.
If you’re going to the effort of getting proper tea, why bother if you’re going to serve it with flour.

Edited for terrible spelling/grammar/autocorrect.

Edited by talksthetorque on Thursday 3rd May 01:04

[anonymous-user]

People who don't pick up their rubbish when it blows out if their recycling box. It's outside your house. You know it's yours as you had the quinoa surprise yesterday. So pick it up !

[RicksAlfas]

cmvtec said:

nonsequitur said:

eybic said:

cmvtec said:

I once had to deliver something to an old chap, a note beside the door bell button read "please ring doorbell HARD".

When I questioned how I should do this he complained to my employer about my attitude.

:

Bit of a daft question to ask, don't you think?

The answer I got was: "I'm a bit hard of hearing".

A doorbell button, no matter how much you jab at it, won't make the noise from the chime any louder.

I can't decide if you are being funny, or you are one of the increasing number of people who take everything literally. Yes, maybe the note should say "please ring doorbell for a long time" but I'm sure most people know that is what the old chap meant.

My addition to the thread. People who can't think flexibly.

[thetapeworm]

Grahamdub said:

People who don't pick up their rubbish when it blows out if their recycling box. It's outside your house. You know it's yours as you had the quinoa surprise yesterday. So pick it up !

Oh yes. Next door but one are masters of this, they have two recycling bins because they have managed to squeeze 7 of them (and just as many animals) into a 4 bed town house and every recycling day it's a "lids up", balance stuff on top Jenga display of things they haven't even attempted to make smaller. Just squeeze down the 5L bottle of own-brand sugar fizz before you bin it FFS.

Unfortunately I'm at the end house so it's the go to place for the wind to deliver everything, they never even attempt to pick it up.

[RizzoTheRat]

talksthetorque said:

When serving English breakfast tea either abroad or on a foreign plane so I get give you non dairy coffee creamer to go with it.
If you’re going to the effort of getting proper tea, why bother if you’re going to serve it with flour.

In the Netherlands when you ask for milk to go in your tea they initially looks a bit surprised, and then bring you a little jug of hot milk

My uncle has lived here for years and married a local, visiting them a while back my aunt said he'd converted her over the years and she now has milk...in early grey

[bristolracer]

thetapeworm said:

Grahamdub said:

People who don't pick up their rubbish when it blows out if their recycling box. It's outside your house. You know it's yours as you had the quinoa surprise yesterday. So pick it up !

Oh yes. Next door but one are masters of this, they have two recycling bins because they have managed to squeeze 7 of them (and just as many animals) into a 4 bed town house and every recycling day it's a "lids up", balance stuff on top Jenga display of things they haven't even attempted to make smaller. Just squeeze down the 5L bottle of own-brand sugar fizz before you bin it FFS.

Unfortunately I'm at the end house so it's the go to place for the wind to deliver everything, they never even attempt to pick it up.

The whole recycling thing should be in this thread

Containers which do not work for the purpose,we have bags for paper and cardboard-guess what happens on a windy day?
Plastic bins which the collectors take great delight in chucking down the road, everyone has a broken box now.
Food recycling containers,they have a catch to stop the lid opening and the food becoming maggot infested/foxes etc,guess which ham fisted disposal technician broke the handle and the catch?
Guess who has to pay for replacements?
And why do my near neighbours who live in a different county have a completely different system?

I am fully supportive of recycling,as a species we really need to get a grip on this stuff, but when the authorities are just so useless at policy,collection and implementation is it any wonder it ends up in landfill?

Oh and dont tell me on your leaflet that you will recycle batteries,for some reason they never take them

[loudlashadjuster]

bristolracer said:

Oh and dont tell me on your leaflet that you will recycle batteries,for some reason they never take them

Any shop which sells electrical equipment is obliged to take old batteries (of common types) so I just take them to Tesco etc.

(agree on the rest of that stuff though)