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

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Johnspex said:

Sven hundred and ninety nine.

Sounds like a great name for a Swedish band.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Vaud said:

So I am encouraged to pay at the pump with the app. But I can't use my mobile phone. FFS.

It's one of the vagaries of the rules; apparently it is a total no-no to hold your handset up to your ear and take/make a voice call, but it is totally ok for your phone's transmitter to maintain a data connection.

So it isn't actually contradictory, although it is bloody stupid.

[paulguitar]

People who expect Lewis Hamilton to be really happy when he has lost.

[Cobnapint]

paulguitar said:

People who expect Lewis Hamilton to be really happy when he has lost.

He's got the best sulk in Formula 1.

[Gargamel]

AppleJuice said:

FourWheelDrift said:

And people who cut cheese on the breadboard coating it in crumbs.

People who 'nose' the cheese.

Why ? Are you one of those who pretends the nose tastes different to the rest of it ? This is classic middle class snobbery. Pretending there is really a correct way to cut cheese !

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Edited by Gargamel on Monday 27th August 12:39

[Vaud]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Vaud said:

So I am encouraged to pay at the pump with the app. But I can't use my mobile phone. FFS.

It's one of the vagaries of the rules; apparently it is a total no-no to hold your handset up to your ear and take/make a voice call, but it is totally ok for your phone's transmitter to maintain a data connection.

So it isn't actually contradictory, although it is bloody stupid.

It says "switch off mobile phones".

[FourWheelDrift]

It says switch off engines too, how are you going to drive away after filling up if you can't switch the engine on?

[Vaud]

FourWheelDrift said:

It says switch off engines too, how are you going to drive away after filling up if you can't switch the engine on?

That isn't the point and you know it.

[FourWheelDrift]

People on here who still do not understand what smilies mean.

[nonsequitur]

FourWheelDrift said:

People on here who still do not understand what smilies mean.

Go on then Drift, a complete rundown. (Bank Holiday challenge).

[FourWheelDrift]

nonsequitur said:

Go on then Drift, a complete rundown. (Bank Holiday challenge).

They are already listed.

[nonsequitur]

FourWheelDrift said:

nonsequitur said:

Go on then Drift, a complete rundown. (Bank Holiday challenge).

They are already listed.

Yes, I realise that. But what do they all REALLY mean?

[Frimley111R]

Just coming back from the USA - tipping and receipts. Suggested tips of 18%, 20% and 22%. On a big bill that's a lot. One waitress ticked the top one for me and and another said she'd added on the tip for my convenience! None of them did anything above and beyond their jobs. On a $100 meal that's a $20 tip. Just takes the piss IMO.

[RizzoTheRat]

FourWheelDrift said:

People on here who still do not understand what smilies mean.

PH's thing of having a smiley for the post showing up above the text where it's very easy not to notice it.

[kowalski655]

Vaud said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Vaud said:

So I am encouraged to pay at the pump with the app. But I can't use my mobile phone. FFS.

It's one of the vagaries of the rules; apparently it is a total no-no to hold your handset up to your ear and take/make a voice call, but it is totally ok for your phone's transmitter to maintain a data connection.

So it isn't actually contradictory, although it is bloody stupid.

It says "switch off mobile phones".

hasnt it been shown that getting a call makes sod all difference, theres no danger(it might have been Mythbusters, so perhaps not 100% proper science )

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Frimley111R said:

Just coming back from the USA - tipping and receipts. Suggested tips of 18%, 20% and 22%. On a big bill that's a lot. One waitress ticked the top one for me and and another said she'd added on the tip for my convenience! None of them did anything above and beyond their jobs. On a $100 meal that's a $20 tip. Just takes the piss IMO.

It's best to just think of the tip as a local tax, and the stated price on the menu as being the price before tax. Don't think of it as a tip in the sense we understand it in the UK.

In Singapore, there are several local taxes (I forget what they are) and each one is expressed as a 'plus' or '+', so you will often see prices quoted as "S$123+++", which gets really confusing.

[Vaud]

kowalski655 said:

hasnt it been shown that getting a call makes sod all difference, theres no danger(it might have been Mythbusters, so perhaps not 100% proper science )

It has, which annoys me even more.

I can understand when car phones or a portable phone had a whopping great big battery... but not a modern phone.

[MartG]

Frimley111R said:

Just coming back from the USA - tipping and receipts. Suggested tips of 18%, 20% and 22%. On a big bill that's a lot. One waitress ticked the top one for me and and another said she'd added on the tip for my convenience! None of them did anything above and beyond their jobs. On a $100 meal that's a $20 tip. Just takes the piss IMO.

It's not a tip in the UK sense, which is given in recognition of good service.

Think of it as a more direct way of funding the tax credits low paid workers in the UK are probably claiming - paying the worker directly rather than you paying tax to the government to then hand back to the worker as a benefit.

[nonsequitur]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Frimley111R said:

Just coming back from the USA - tipping and receipts. Suggested tips of 18%, 20% and 22%. On a big bill that's a lot. One waitress ticked the top one for me and and another said she'd added on the tip for my convenience! None of them did anything above and beyond their jobs. On a $100 meal that's a $20 tip. Just takes the piss IMO.

It's best to just think of the tip as a local tax, and the stated price on the menu as being the price before tax. Don't think of it as a tip in the sense we understand it in the UK.

In Singapore, there are several local taxes (I forget what they are) and each one is expressed as a 'plus' or '+', so you will often see prices quoted as "S$123+++", which gets really confusing.

Some years ago I had a stand up, or rather sit down, 'discussion' with a restaurant manager in Chicago on this very subject. He said that the servers are all on minimum wage and need tips to get a decent pay packet. So we the customer have to subsidise the low pay of his staff. I explained that in the UK we tip for 'extra' service over and above the norm and that the meal and service we had received in his establishment was distinctly average. I left 10% tip. He remained tight lipped as we left. In those days they were expecting 12 to 15%.

Apropos above. There is a state sales tax of approx. 8% added to all bills in addition to any tip that may be 'conveniently' attached to the total.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Vaud said:

I can understand when car phones or a portable phone had a whopping great big battery... but not a modern phone.

I think petrol stations are simply too scared to relax the rules, just in case there is some freak million-to-one accident that could somehow be tied to the mobile phone. The rules just simply haven't kept up with technology, and the fact that modern phones are pretty much always transmitting.

Most people don't make calls whilst filling up anyway, so it's not really a problem.