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

[Moonhawk]

fking joiners who bury their screws.

Installing some loft insulation and having to remove a few pieces of timber the joiners used as guides. Some of the screw heads are buried 1/4" or more and are a fking pain in the arse to get out.

[nonsequitur]

V8mate said:

yellowjack said:

V8mate said:

nonsequitur said:

SGirl said:

Willy Nilly said:

Supermarkets should have cages that they put old people in who do their shopping at weekends. These cages should have no water, no seats and no lavatories. The doors only get opened at 9am on Monday morning.

I don’t generally mind old people holding me up a bit when I’m shopping. I consider it the price I have to pay for deciding to venture out rather than shopping online.

But there really should be a special place in Hell reserved for the pair of muppets I encountered last week. I need to order curtains. I spent half an hour hunting for fabrics while the sole assistant on duty helped an elderly couple to choose what they wanted. No big deal. But then I stood around for a further half-hour while they went through every fabric available with her, then every pattern, every colour. And just for good measure, the assistant then chucked a piece of paper at me “so I could write down my phone number and she’d call me”. How is that going to help when I need to show her what I’ve just picked out of their collection?

Gave up in the end, just as the couple started on “ooh, maybe something with a hint of yellow...”

I don’t mind waiting if there’s a good reason for it, but FFS! Why didn’t they just do what I did and use their eyeballs to look at the fabrics before dominating the one assistant on duty for over an hour?

I hope their bloody curtains fall down.

Take a deep breath and pull yourself together.

Can we draw this to a close, please?

Is this hitting a raw nerve, old chap?

I was just saving the thread from curtain death.

[sicarumba]

People who write in guest books during their holiday and write words in quotes when they are not quoting anything or anyone in particular. For example, saying something about how this peaceful cottage in the middle of nowhere is their little "piece of heaven".

Why. Why is "piece of heaven" in quotes? Who are you quoting?

Invariably this sort of message is accompanied by a remarkably average sketch of something I can see if I look out of the window whilst sitting in the closest chair to the guest book, drawn with the guest book Biro. Like some famous artist has stayed here and not just some "old codger".

[Fastdruid]

I've had to complete a self assessment thanks to the High Income Child Benefit Tax Charge.

Weeks of waiting for various things to be setup.

Hours of searching for documents filed in the big pile of "I should keep this just in case but it's not important enough to file properly" as well as locating all the bloody interest statements etc.

It turns out I owe an extra £8.43.

FFS.

[Cotty]

SGirl said:

But there really should be a special place in Hell reserved for the pair of muppets I encountered last week. I need to order curtains. I spent half an hour hunting for fabrics while the sole assistant on duty helped an elderly couple to choose what they wanted. No big deal. But then I stood around for a further half-hour while they went through every fabric available with her, then every pattern, every colour. And just for good measure, the assistant then chucked a piece of paper at me “so I could write down my phone number and she’d call me”. How is that going to help when I need to show her what I’ve just picked out of their collection?

Did what you picked out not have a name or a code? I assume the telephone conversation would be you ordering x amount of pattern XYZ.

[SGirl]

Cotty said:

Did what you picked out not have a name or a code? I assume the telephone conversation would be you ordering x amount of pattern XYZ.

To an extent. But it wasn't quite as straightforward as that. I needed to sort more than just ordering the fabric, hence a need to speak to a person rather than just ordering online. And when I did eventually speak to the department on the phone, it took ages because I couldn't show them exactly what I wanted, I had to refer to photos on my phone and she then had to check everything and double-check colours. It would have been a lot simpler to just show her the fabrics and colours and go from there.

Thanks for all the curtain puns, though. I hope we can draw this particular discussion to a close now.

[Willy Nilly]

I've always struggled with spelling, having spell check is great, but sometimes I can't spell a word for the life of me and because my attempts are so far out even google and dictionaries don't help me. That annoys me beyond reason.

[RizzoTheRat]

Buying some stuff online, and when I get past the checkout it it popped up a security thing from my credit card company, who texted me a one time code in order to complete the transaction.
So far so good, 2 factor authentication, I'm all for it.
It then refused the sale and I got another text from the CC company asking to confirm it was me, and then wait ten minutes before trying the transaction again.

What's the point of a second level of confirmation done via text to the same phone the first one was done to?

[SCEtoAUX]

This.

You'd think that tickets cost from £8.00. Nope, that's for a CD, despite the listing showing tickets.

Not that I'd ever want to go and see Rick Astley, but my complaint to the ASA is already sent.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

SCEtoAUX said:

This

You'd think that tickets cost from £8.00. Nope, that's for a CD, despite the listing showing tickets.

Not that I'd ever want to go and see Rick Astley, but my complaint to the ASA is already sent.

You see it a lot on eBay, especially from Chinese sellers (some of whom claim to be UK sellers and aren't, but that's a separate annoyance).

You see a dress listed "from £2", and find that every single dress size is £20-odd, but there is a pair of tights somewhere in one of the droplists in order to game the listing.

eBay really need to sort that out.

As an aside though, should you also complain to the ASA that Rick Astley let you down and, indeed, told a lie and hurt you?

[Lemming Train]

For those of us that use ad blockers this st annoys me beyond reason :

https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/crime/lor...

Do they honestly think that people will sign up to read some crappy news article and/or disable their ad blocker when the same incident can be found on a wide range of other websites via 5 seconds on google? Why do they even bother?

[RizzoTheRat]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

.

As an aside though, should you also complain to the ASA that Rick Astley let you down and, indeed, told a lie and hurt you?

[xe mini]

[nonsequitur]

RizzoTheRat said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

.

As an aside though, should you also complain to the ASA that Rick Astley let you down and, indeed, told a lie and hurt you?

[CC07 PEU]

fking dheads that don't wear watches. Too-cool-for-school aholes who think they're clever or are showing off just because they can tell the time using their phone (even though it's less convenient to look at the time on your phone).

[Cobnapint]

CC07 PEU said:

fking dheads that don't wear watches. Too-cool-for-school aholes who think they're clever or are showing off just because they can tell the time using their phone (even though it's less convenient to look at the time on your phone).

What's .....'a watch'.....?

[V8mate]

Cobnapint said:

CC07 PEU said:

fking dheads that don't wear watches. Too-cool-for-school aholes who think they're clever or are showing off just because they can tell the time using their phone (even though it's less convenient to look at the time on your phone).

What's .....'a watch'.....?

It's when you stand on a big, frozen wall looking out for invading zombies.

[Hackney]

Cotty said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

deeen said:

And why can't I ask for a black coffee without being asked if I want an Americano?

Because a lot of coffee shops don't actually sell proper filter coffee, so they're really asking you if an Americano* will be sufficient.

Or, at the very least, an Americano is quicker & easier for them to make than filter coffee.

(* - shot of espresso topped up with hot water)

I don't get why they don't serve filter coffee, unless its because they can't charge as much for it.

The filter coffee should be sitting in the pot waiting to be poured, takes seconds. I have not been anywhere where they make it to order.

But if no-one orders it then it just sits there until someone does order one and it tastes awful, the customer complains and they have to make an Americano anyway. I can understand it in a "diner" where you can have tea or coffee and that's it, but when most people seem to want a bucket of caramel pumpkin flavoured frothy milk then the chances of needing an actual filter coffee are slim to none.

[CC07 PEU]

fking bd millennials eating smashed avocado on toast. Back in the '80s and '90s, if you were caught eating this, you'd be marked out as a total freak. Nowadays, it's considered 'de rigueur' and you certainly can't be considered part of the 'in crowd' unless you are seen to be eating this stuff.

[Hackney]

DRFC1879 said:

Cobnapint said:

Non-Icelandic football fans and the crowd at the Ryder Cup who try to copy their thunder clap.

Stop it, you can't do it properly, you sound fking stupid.

It was created by Motherwell fans...

I'm pretty sure it was created by volcanoes