Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)

[Roofless Toothless]

alorotom said:

fking build it yourself kits ... Tried to build a fking gingerbread house kit that the fking MIL bought this afternoon with my daughter. Not a fking chance in hell it was ever going to be remotely ing possible with the supplied items. Total fking joke.

Way to ruin my fking Sunday afternoon. s

You want to try a Caterham sometime.

[DavieW]

Not so much annoying but amusing - girls with short party dresses constantly trying to pull it down over their legs to hide their modesty.

[NoVetec]

DavieW said:

Not so much annoying but amusing - girls with short party dresses constantly trying to pull it down over their legs to hide their modesty.

Or are they trying to reveal more boobage?

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Roofless Toothless said:

You want to try a Caterham sometime.

[alorotom]

Roofless Toothless said:

alorotom said:

fking build it yourself kits ... Tried to build a fking gingerbread house kit that the fking MIL bought this afternoon with my daughter. Not a fking chance in hell it was ever going to be remotely ing possible with the supplied items. Total fking joke.

Way to ruin my fking Sunday afternoon. s

You want to try a Caterham sometime.

Haha ... Well I've been thinking about that lately ... May need to reassess.

[talksthetorque]

Watching Messrs Brewer and China on Quest.
He's just bought a BMW2002tii which is lovely (apart from the bumpers)
However he keeps mentioning things apertaining to it's southern German origins. And mispronouncing the weißwurst out of it.
Bar-varia, Bar-varian Bar-varians.
Annoying Bar-stard.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

talksthetorque said:

Watching Messrs Brewer and China on Quest.
He's just bought a BMW2002tii which is lovely (apart from the bumpers)
However he keeps mentioning things apertaining to it's southern German origins. And mispronouncing the weißwurst out of it.
Bar-varia, Bar-varian Bar-varians.
Annoying Bar-stard.

At least he's not working on a "Beemer Emm-Free" this time though.

[Lemming Train]

Courier drivers.

Given clear delivery instructions to ignore satnav routing to post code and instead use access via x road. The reason for this is my street is split in 2 with bollards in the middle and access to my end is only via another street (all clearly labelled on the road signs with the respective house numbers).

Phone rings and it's the delivery driver. "Can't find your address. I'm at some bollards, can you come and meet me?". Umm no. I can see the bollards from the house, they are 300 yards away, and I can see him stood there looking dumb. My delivery is some flat-pack furniture at 60 kg. No way I'm carting that so give him clear directions on how to get from where he is to my house. He says OK and I await him arriving. 30 mins goes by and no sign so I bell him up. "You cost me too much time as your address is wrong so I take your box back to depot". !

wker !

Because reading instructions is too hard and I'm too dumb to find anything without a satnav holding my hand.

I don't need the stuff until the New Year as the room isn't finished yet so I'm going to enjoy the wholly predictable ping-pong with the seller and redelivery charade - hopefully with him forced to do it properly this time.

[and no my house doesn't have 2 addresses before some smart arse jumps in with that gag ]

[droopsnoot]

Three mobile, again. All sorts of connection trouble on Friday, culminating in trying a different device and getting a "you have hit your download limit". OK, that explains things, except I'm on 3G mobile b/b, I checked in the morning (I've gone over limit before, found out how expensive it is, and keep an eye on it now) and had 1.8Gb available, and there's no way I used that up in three hours from when I checked, to when it stopped working.

I phone them up, wait on the phone for 20-odd minutes, talk to someone in billing, who confirm that I've actually got 1.2Gb available. They put me through to the tech department who tell me there's nothing wrong anywhere, no network issues, did I want to talk to sales to upgrade my device? No thanks (well, not at the moment). Back home later, and it's sort-of back up and running but not quite. Spend an hour or two trying to figure out what's wrong.

Next day I'm in town, and I decide I actually will do an upgrade, because they do a 4G deal now for less money, better performance and more monthly limit. Into the 3 shop, talk to someone, go for it, they ask for photo ID which of course I don't have because I'm buying a broadband deal, not leaving the country. "Oh, we only need that because we're having all sorts of trouble with the My3 site and the network in general while it's being upgraded. There are all sorts of issues, hopefully sorted in the next day or two."

Well, that's just great. If the tech guy on the phone had just said the network is having some reliability trouble while it's being worked on, or one of their voiceovers while waiting on the phone to speak to someone gave a bit of a heads-up, I wouldn't have wasted Friday evening trying to figure out what's gone wrong with some obscure network component on my PC. Cheers, 3.

[Shakermaker]

Annual Christmas raffle at work.

No problem with that, few quid for charity and some nice prizes to be won.

But my annoyance is that the person organising it is selling tickets at £1 per strip.

There is no option to buy one ticket for 20p, the minimum purchase is therefore 5 tickets.

My chances are not increased by this, but I have to write my name 5X over and tear up 5 little tickets into the bucket for the draw.

Whilst it’s now feasible for me to win 5 prizes, that’s not really the done thing

[Pericoloso]

talksthetorque said:

Watching Messrs Brewer and China on Quest.
He's just bought a BMW2002tii which is lovely (apart from the bumpers)
However he keeps mentioning things apertaining to it's southern German origins. And mispronouncing the weißwurst out of it.
Bar-varia, Bar-varian Bar-varians.
Annoying Bar-stard.

I've seen that episode before and noticed the ridiculous pronunciation of Bavaria.

[Lemming Train]

droopsnoot said:

Three mobile, again. All sorts of connection trouble on Friday, culminating in trying a different device and getting a "you have hit your download limit". OK, that explains things, except I'm on 3G mobile b/b, I checked in the morning (I've gone over limit before, found out how expensive it is, and keep an eye on it now) and had 1.8Gb available, and there's no way I used that up in three hours from when I checked, to when it stopped working.

I phone them up, wait on the phone for 20-odd minutes, talk to someone in billing, who confirm that I've actually got 1.2Gb available. They put me through to the tech department who tell me there's nothing wrong anywhere, no network issues, did I want to talk to sales to upgrade my device? No thanks (well, not at the moment). Back home later, and it's sort-of back up and running but not quite. Spend an hour or two trying to figure out what's wrong.

Next day I'm in town, and I decide I actually will do an upgrade, because they do a 4G deal now for less money, better performance and more monthly limit. Into the 3 shop, talk to someone, go for it, they ask for photo ID which of course I don't have because I'm buying a broadband deal, not leaving the country. "Oh, we only need that because we're having all sorts of trouble with the My3 site and the network in general while it's being upgraded. There are all sorts of issues, hopefully sorted in the next day or two."

Well, that's just great. If the tech guy on the phone had just said the network is having some reliability trouble while it's being worked on, or one of their voiceovers while waiting on the phone to speak to someone gave a bit of a heads-up, I wouldn't have wasted Friday evening trying to figure out what's gone wrong with some obscure network component on my PC. Cheers, 3.

Three has become as a big a laughing stock as Vodafone. Horrendous customer service with a terrible network riddled with problems meaning it's a complete lottery whether or not you'll actually have any signal from one minute to the next. With the exception of a couple of fanboys, everyone in the 4G broadband thread has problems with them. But people keep flocking to them because they're cheap.

[anonymous-user]

DavieW said:

Not so much annoying but amusing - girls with short party dresses constantly trying to pull it down over their legs to hide their modesty.

Related to this - girls who wear short party skirts/dresses with strappy heals with bare legs at this time of the year

Unless you are of model-like proportions and have spent the last few moths sunning your self in warmer climes, I don't want to see your pasty, porky legs and your chubby little toes.

It's enough to put you off your (Christmas) dinner.

[Cold]

Lemming Train said:

Three has become as a big a laughing stock as Vodafone. Horrendous customer service with a terrible network riddled with problems meaning it's a complete lottery whether or not you'll actually have any signal from one minute to the next. With the exception of a couple of fanboys, everyone in the 4G broadband thread has problems with them. But people keep flocking to them because they're cheap.

I've never had any issues with Vodafone and I've been with them for years. If they were crap then I'd change but it's always been reliable and usable. I'm not a "fanboy" as it's just phone/internet line and I can't get particularly excited about that, but it works for me.

[V8mate]

Cold said:

Lemming Train said:

Three has become as a big a laughing stock as Vodafone. Horrendous customer service with a terrible network riddled with problems meaning it's a complete lottery whether or not you'll actually have any signal from one minute to the next. With the exception of a couple of fanboys, everyone in the 4G broadband thread has problems with them. But people keep flocking to them because they're cheap.

I've never had any issues with Vodafone and I've been with them for years. If they were crap then I'd change but it's always been reliable and usable. I'm not a "fanboy" as it's just phone/internet line and I can't get particularly excited about that, but it works for me.

I really rate Three - both on infrastructure and customer service. Joined them in 2004, and have three, one-year excursions to other providers over the period to date: T-Mobile, Orange and O2. The other three were all dreadful on both phone service and customer service.

Three call me every time just before my contract ends (which has been SIM-only for about eight(?) years) and offer a straight price cut to stay.

I'm a strong believer in behaviour breeding behaviour, so whenever I have issues with utilities or banks or other 'big businesses', no matter how annoyed I am, I always give my head a wobble before pressing the 'dial' button and am effusively nice to the minimum wage soul on the other end of the phone. And things are always sorted promptly.

[DoubleD]

V8mate said:

Cold said:

Lemming Train said:

Three has become as a big a laughing stock as Vodafone. Horrendous customer service with a terrible network riddled with problems meaning it's a complete lottery whether or not you'll actually have any signal from one minute to the next. With the exception of a couple of fanboys, everyone in the 4G broadband thread has problems with them. But people keep flocking to them because they're cheap.

I've never had any issues with Vodafone and I've been with them for years. If they were crap then I'd change but it's always been reliable and usable. I'm not a "fanboy" as it's just phone/internet line and I can't get particularly excited about that, but it works for me.

I really rate Three - both on infrastructure and customer service. Joined them in 2004, and have three, one-year excursions to other providers over the period to date: T-Mobile, Orange and O2. The other three were all dreadful on both phone service and customer service.

Three call me every time just before my contract ends (which has been SIM-only for about eight(?) years) and offer a straight price cut to stay.

I'm a strong believer in behaviour breeding behaviour, so whenever I have issues with utilities or banks or other 'big businesses', no matter how annoyed I am, I always give my head a wobble before pressing the 'dial' button and am effusively nice to the minimum wage soul on the other end of the phone. And things are always sorted promptly.

A few friends of mine are on vodafone and seem to be very happy. Im on O2 and have been for a while, if I wasnt happy I would switch, service, cost and customer services have all been fine.

[droopsnoot]

I generally don't have much trouble with it. It's settled down a lot, and the biggest problem now is that the connection keeps resetting, and when that happens it pops up a new tab on my browser. That's OK if it's once an hour, but when it's every 20 seconds it gets frustrating.

Last time I looked at the coverage map, Three covers here and every other mobile b/b provider stops about three houses away, so the choices are limited.

[RizzoTheRat]

Lemming Train said:

so I bell him up.

Sorry but that's up there with "inbox me" in terms of annoying me beyond reason.

[V8mate]

droopsnoot said:

I generally don't have much trouble with it. It's settled down a lot, and the biggest problem now is that the connection keeps resetting, and when that happens it pops up a new tab on my browser. That's OK if it's once an hour, but when it's every 20 seconds it gets frustrating.

Last time I looked at the coverage map, Three covers here and every other mobile b/b provider stops about three houses away, so the choices are limited.

Definitely the signal and not your phone?

When you say 'here', do you mean your home, or place of work? If the former, you'd be using your home wifi?

[Lemming Train]

droopsnoot said:

I generally don't have much trouble with it. It's settled down a lot, and the biggest problem now is that the connection keeps resetting, and when that happens it pops up a new tab on my browser. That's OK if it's once an hour, but when it's every 20 seconds it gets frustrating.

Last time I looked at the coverage map, Three covers here and every other mobile b/b provider stops about three houses away, so the choices are limited.

Yes it's a known problem. Their forums are full of complaints but 3 predictably do nothing.