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

[anonymous-user]

Is it beyond the realm of man to have JUST ONE fkING PARKING APP nationwide? I live in Bristol, “RingGo” appears to be the parking app of choice in the city centre car parks, download it, sign up, put credit card details in and park. Then I go to Cheltenham and it’s something else but only for the local car parks there, can’t be arsed to download the app so I hunt around for change in the car... In Bath, it’s a council parking app you are forced to download which is undoubtedly limited to central Bath. fking ridiculous.

[bristolracer]

pablo said:

Is it beyond the realm of man to have JUST ONE fkING PARKING APP nationwide? I live in Bristol, “RingGo” appears to be the parking app of choice in the city centre car parks, download it, sign up, put credit card details in and park. Then I go to Cheltenham and it’s something else but only for the local car parks there, can’t be arsed to download the app so I hunt around for change in the car... In Bath, it’s a council parking app you are forced to download which is undoubtedly limited to central Bath. fking ridiculous.

At least 3 in London.
Also annoying that some charge you extra for using the app,you know, because it's more expensive to have a robot process a card payment rather than send a bloke around in a van emptying machines and banking all the change.

[AlexC1981]

AlexC1981 said:

When you wake up at 3:50am on a Saturday and can't get back to sleep. On the plus side, I did just get to watch 3 fox cubs chasing each other and playing in the garden.

Found out later that the wind blew my car cover off and one of those foxes did a poo on it

[Taglioni]

People on here who struggle to manage mundane daily tasks and decisions and have to ask internet strangers what to do

Ffs, make a decision and GTF on with it you drippy flanges!

Sorry, meant to ask
What colour socks go best with dark trousers?

[SCEtoAUX]

Pride marches. You're gay, we get it, nobody is bothered.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

SCEtoAUX said:

Pride marches. You're gay, we get it, nobody is bothered.

People who go to car meets. You have a car, we get it, nobody is bothered.

[Moonhawk]

MartG said:

Seeing people walking past the house in summer clothing - it's 13C, blowing a gale, and raining FFS

Not sure I follow - that sounds like typical British summer weather to me.

[Bobberoo99]

The 3 drunk Poles wandering past chanting something which I presume was Polish at the top of their voices and laughing about it at 05.17 this morning, yeah well done you fking morons!!!!

[Frank7]

Bobberoo99 said:

The 3 drunk Poles wandering past chanting something which I presume was Polish at the top of their voices and laughing about it at 05.17 this morning, yeah well done you fking morons!!!!

It may have been “STO LAT!” (100 years), it’s a traditional Polish congratulatory toast, you hear it at birthday parties, it’s along the lines of, “May you live for 100 years!”
Simplest thing if they keep doing it, is call out, Odpieprz się!, but make sure they don’t know where you are if you do it.

[jas xjr]

glenrobbo said:

Last weekend I stayed in a hotel just outside Swansea.

After checking in I went to the bar and picked up a copy of the bar tariff/menu to see what refreshing beverages were available:

They had an IPA. .......... 5.4

I asked the bar tender ( not a barman yet, as he was far too young ) whether that was the ABV of said IPA?
"No", he replied, "the ABV is 5.9" ( Wow! A bit strong for an IPA, but there you go. )

"Then what is the 5.4?" I enquired.

"That is the price" he said.

5.4? 5.4 what exactly?

I wondered if it was some strange Welsh currency that I hadn't encountered previously.

Apparently it was Pounds Sterling.
£££££s.
GBP

£5.40

For a pint of IPA?

"Yes Sir, this particular splendid IPA is crafted in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Bloody hellfire, is it flown over here by private chartered jet?


I settled for a pint of Black Sheep at 4.8 whatevers.



Are they so hard up that they couldn't afford to pay to have the £ signs or 0s included in the price list?

Or is this one of those new fking pretentious designer "trends"?

Or are they so ashamed of their rip-off prices that they are trying to disguise them by omitting any notion of currency units?

I could understand if the hotel.had been in Knightsbridge.
But not fking Swansea FFS!

I get more worked up the more I think about it.

Edited by glenrobbo on Sunday 22 July 11:41

I had to spend a few hours at a hotel in hoxton. At least i think it was there.

They also suffered with the missing £ on the menu

[MartG]

Just how fking dumb can people be...

[V8mate]

MartG said:

Just how fking dumb can people be...

You're referring to the person who wrote the caption, right?

[Frank7]

I realise that I’m going way out on a limb on this site, but the descriptive term “bit of kit”, for virtually everything, a car, a computer, a vacuum cleaner, set of spanners/screwdrivers, a prosthesis, makes me want to nominate whoever wrote, or spoke it, for the “face I’d never get tired of punching” thread.
It’s too early, I’ve only had two coffees, humbug

[Last Visit]

Frank7 said:

It’s too early, I’ve only had two coffees, humbug

Get yourself around mine then, got an excellent new bean to cup machine, quality bit of kit. You'll love it.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Frank7 said:

I realise that I’m going way out on a limb on this site, but the descriptive term “bit of kit”, for virtually everything, a car, a computer, a vacuum cleaner, set of spanners/screwdrivers, a prosthesis, makes me want to nominate whoever wrote, or spoke it, for the “face I’d never get tired of punching” thread.
It’s too early, I’ve only had two coffees, humbug

Or people who refer to their (usually homebrew) PC as their "rig".

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Last Visit said:

Get yourself around mine then, got an excellent new bean to cup machine, quality bit of kit. You'll love it.

[Frank7]

Last Visit said:

Frank7 said:

It’s too early, I’ve only had two coffees, humbug

Get yourself around mine then, got an excellent new bean to cup machine, quality bit of kit. You'll love it.

Touché, a grand touché.

[anonymous-user]

SCEtoAUX said:

Pride marches. You're gay, we get it, nobody is bothered.

Quite. But you're probably going to suffer veiled accusations of homophobia for even thinking about saying something less than 100% positive about it.

There was some interview with a (gay) guy from Years and Years (Radio 1 type band) on the radio at the weekend, and iirc he only used the word "queer" to refer to homosexuality, he never once said "gay", "homosexual", "same-sex" etc. I believe he also referred to himself as a "fag". So, OK for him but no doubt if I used it I would be pilloried (unless I was gay).

Kind of the same with the black kids and "ni**a" terminology.

It's either acceptable or it isn't. Surely that's the basis of equality? It's wrong to request/demand/expect equality (especially with the current trend of Twitter/the media and their witch-hunts), and then hold events that are solely aimed at that subset of society, using language that points out the differences between them and "mainstream" society? Dunno. It's the old "We want equality, but we want MORE of it than anyone else."

Would a "Straight Pride" march be as accepted, or would it be criticised by the likes of Stonewall?

No doubt if the boot were on the other foot I may feel differently but it is starting to get a bit mental, all this offence and stuff.

[captain_cynic]

OpulentBob said:

SCEtoAUX said:

Pride marches. You're gay, we get it, nobody is bothered.

Quite.

If he's not bothered by it, why does he feel the need to bring it up (in the "Things that annoy you beyond reason" thread no less)?

[anonymous-user]

captain_cynic said:

OpulentBob said:

SCEtoAUX said:

Pride marches. You're gay, we get it, nobody is bothered.

Quite.

If he's not bothered by it, why does he feel the need to bring it up (in the "Things that annoy you beyond reason" thread no less)?

It's beyond reason - one does not need to justify ones choices, and if justfied, one has no need to defend their statement

Our (gay, super camp) italian au pair hates the Pride stuff. He says "Why wave the flag, it screams to everyone that you are gay. If people don't know I am gay, then they are either straight or stupid, and they do not matter to my life."