Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)
Discussion
alorotom said:
captain_cynic said:
alorotom said:
You’re annoyed beyond reason at others’ showing care and compassion for you and using their belief and coping system (whether effective or not) in an attempted act of good faith??
Seems harsh but it’s your annoyance.
It would annoy me too. Seems harsh but it’s your annoyance.
I don't need a preacher when I need a medical professional.
(I’m not religious, very not religious actually - but do keep my mind open to outside potential influences)
RicksAlfas said:
Tom_Spotley_When said:
I was in Berlin at the start of March. Probably 2/3rds of the bars we went to didn't take card. Cash only. It was unbelievably irritating.
We went a couple of years ago and it was very much cash biased, even in Berlin. They also liked you to have the exact change as well. Paying for 14.36 with a 20 got you a withering look. Stern those German waitresses. Our friends who live their reckon the retail banking system is about 30 years behind what they were used to in the UK. Crackers!
alorotom said:
captain_cynic said:
alorotom said:
You’re annoyed beyond reason at others’ showing care and compassion for you and using their belief and coping system (whether effective or not) in an attempted act of good faith??
Seems harsh but it’s your annoyance.
It would annoy me too. Seems harsh but it’s your annoyance.
I don't need a preacher when I need a medical professional.
(I’m not religious, very not religious actually - but do keep my mind open to outside potential influences)
But a excerpt from Dawkins (from memory) fits.
What if I told you there was a perfectly preserved Victorian era china tea set exactly halfway between the sun and the moon. There isn't a reliable way for you to tell me there is or isn't so if I am to accept the existence of this china tea set, then I have to do so entirely on faith. It's entirely plausible that the tea set exists, the Soviets could have put it there as a lark or some kind of undocumented Victorian era science experiment... However given my knowledge of physics, astronomy and Victorian era china tea sets I have to conclude due to the sheer improbability of the tea sets existence, that it doesn't.
I feel the same about God, he's too improbable given his(or her) power to be that invisible.
It's good to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out - Attributed to many, including Carl Sagan.
l354uge said:
Selfish b
ds converting their beautiful garage into someone thing that isnt a garage, and especially when they do it in a very difficult to reverse way.
How dare people change a house to their needs and then try to sell it a few years on!
This.ds converting their beautiful garage into someone thing that isnt a garage, and especially when they do it in a very difficult to reverse way.How dare people change a house to their needs and then try to sell it a few years on!
We looked for ages for a house with a big garage where we wanted to be, the ammount that had been converted was ridiculous.
Ended up buying a nice detached with double garage (but it hadn't been touched since the 80's)
Now a house in our cul de sac was sold last year (similar state as ours was, with a double garage too)
They are going through the place updating like we did but I've heard they're going to convert the garage to another room.
Ffs another one gone.
In fairness, so many modern houses have such pokey little garages that they are rarely big enough for a car anyway, and it makes more sense to gain an extra room.
Typically, only special cars owned by enthusiasts get garaged now on the whole, which again makes it desirable to convert a garage into a room for non-enthusiasts.
Were I to move house, a converted garage wouldn't necessarily put me off provided there was sufficient space to build a detached timber garage.
I totally get your annoyance though.
Typically, only special cars owned by enthusiasts get garaged now on the whole, which again makes it desirable to convert a garage into a room for non-enthusiasts.
Were I to move house, a converted garage wouldn't necessarily put me off provided there was sufficient space to build a detached timber garage.
I totally get your annoyance though.
Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Thursday 4th April 14:59
MartG said:
My son reckons the same thing about Japan - online services we expect here simply don't exist there, or are very much in their infancy
Canada isn't much better for online - online shopping isn't nearly as big here as the UK and eBay is tiny.Banking is pretty backwards too, most of the banks charge for their accounts - some of them limit the number of contactless transactions to 25 a month and then start charging per transaction.
Who could be bothered with that?
On the other hand they have something called interac e-transfer here which makes it easy to set up new payees, bars and restaurants all take cards and they all split the bill for you so no traditional British argument about who only drank half a glass of wine ate dust.
gregs656 said:
Canada isn't much better for online - online shopping isn't nearly as big here as the UK and eBay is tiny.
Banking is pretty backwards too, most of the banks charge for their accounts - some of them limit the number of contactless transactions to 25 a month and then start charging per transaction.
Who could be bothered with that?
On the other hand they have something called interac e-transfer here which makes it easy to set up new payees, bars and restaurants all take cards and they all split the bill for you so no traditional British argument about who only drank half a glass of wine ate dust.
To be fair, banks in the UK charge for having their account by offering lower rates of interest on savings and charging more for loans/overdrafts perahps, rather than a standing monthly charge to be a customer... you're paying for it in a different wayBanking is pretty backwards too, most of the banks charge for their accounts - some of them limit the number of contactless transactions to 25 a month and then start charging per transaction.
Who could be bothered with that?
On the other hand they have something called interac e-transfer here which makes it easy to set up new payees, bars and restaurants all take cards and they all split the bill for you so no traditional British argument about who only drank half a glass of wine ate dust.
I heard Japan were still really big on fax machines despite the rest of the world moving on, because despite them being home to some of the world's biggest and best-known electronics/tech companies, that doesn't filter down all the way to the little man in the sticks type person, who won't have amazing wi-fi or internet and still has copper wire, and where the fax still "just works"
alorotom said:
captain_cynic said:
alorotom said:
You’re annoyed beyond reason at others’ showing care and compassion for you and using their belief and coping system (whether effective or not) in an attempted act of good faith??
Seems harsh but it’s your annoyance.
It would annoy me too. Seems harsh but it’s your annoyance.
I don't need a preacher when I need a medical professional.
(I’m not religious, very not religious actually - but do keep my mind open to outside potential influences)
Dr Bronwyn Devine
https://monashivf.com/doctor/dr-bronwyn-devine/
...although I doubt that the vast majority of the PH membership would have much use for her particular set of specialist skills.
Perhaps one (or both) of us has hold of the wrong end of the stick? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Intervention
Shakermaker said:
gregs656 said:
Canada isn't much better for online - online shopping isn't nearly as big here as the UK and eBay is tiny.
Banking is pretty backwards too, most of the banks charge for their accounts - some of them limit the number of contactless transactions to 25 a month and then start charging per transaction.
Who could be bothered with that?
On the other hand they have something called interac e-transfer here which makes it easy to set up new payees, bars and restaurants all take cards and they all split the bill for you so no traditional British argument about who only drank half a glass of wine ate dust.
To be fair, banks in the UK charge for having their account by offering lower rates of interest on savings and charging more for loans/overdrafts perahps, rather than a standing monthly charge to be a customer... you're paying for it in a different wayBanking is pretty backwards too, most of the banks charge for their accounts - some of them limit the number of contactless transactions to 25 a month and then start charging per transaction.
Who could be bothered with that?
On the other hand they have something called interac e-transfer here which makes it easy to set up new payees, bars and restaurants all take cards and they all split the bill for you so no traditional British argument about who only drank half a glass of wine ate dust.
The most common way banks pay for your account is via transaction fees... Not levied directly on you but rather levied on the merchant. Every time you make a card transaction the merchant has to pay the bank and provider out of their cut (which of course you as the customer pay for). For debit it's something like a fixed 20p, for credit it's a percentage of the transaction + the 20p. The EU limited this percentage, which is why Americans rant about getting "cashback" on their cards, because they don't that the bank is just giving them their own money back.
However UK banks are phenomenally good compared to other countries. One of the best and most competitive, if not the best and most competitive systems in the world.
Shakermaker said:
I heard Japan were still really big on fax machines despite the rest of the world moving on, because despite them being home to some of the world's biggest and best-known electronics/tech companies, that doesn't filter down all the way to the little man in the sticks type person, who won't have amazing wi-fi or internet and still has copper wire, and where the fax still "just works"
Japan is a bit of a strange culture, they are incredibly well adapted to some technologies, but incredibly reluctant to adapt to others. With fax, it's still the most secure end to end transmission available. Limited in the data it can send, but very secure as you're on the isolated PSTN network rather than the general internet. Many medical professions still use it for that reason.
gothatway said:
Grahamdub said:
AstonZagato said:
gothatway said:
Bagels.
Niche annoyance.
They end up stodgy doughy and uncooked n the middle or the outside is overdone
Trust me it is a critical part of the design without which it wouldn't have taken off
I know the supermarket ones have an exagerated large hole but that is marketing it as a point of difference
If you get an authentic one the hole is smaller
Anyone who likes a bagel, especially a salt beef one, would be advised to go to beigel bake in Brick Lane, London. The finest and most authentic salt beef bagel known to man
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