Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)
Discussion
Clockwork Cupcake said:
Websites whose shopping cart system wants payment information before it will tell you shipping costs. Doubly so when they want you to create an account first too.
Websites set up like that simply don't get my business, regardless of price. Even more annoying are websites which require you to create a user account before they'll even show you prices and some still don't even show them after doing that, you have to contact them! And you know the only reason they want you to create an account is so that they can spam you to death with marketing crap too.Lemming Train said:
Clockwork Cupcake said:
Websites whose shopping cart system wants payment information before it will tell you shipping costs. Doubly so when they want you to create an account first too.
Websites set up like that simply don't get my business, regardless of price. Even more annoying are websites which require you to create a user account before they'll even show you prices and some still don't even show them after doing that, you have to contact them! And you know the only reason they want you to create an account is so that they can spam you to death with marketing crap too.RizzoTheRat said:
Could be worse, my wife used to have a Micra with the windscreen wiper and indicator switches the opposite sides to every other car I've ever driven.
Which leads me to:Why the hell did we have to change from the perfectly logical standard of having the indicator stalk on the opposite side from the gear lever?
Rhetorical question; to save manufacturers money, and "fit in" with those nations driving on the wrong side of the road, the side effect has been to discourage drivers of manual transmission vehicles from indicating at roundabout exits, or any other time which may require a simultaneous signal and gearchange.
mybrainhurts said:
People who engage in lengthy, random, pointless whistling in public places.
I was doing that the other day. I'd gone away for the weekend for a MTB race and because I'd taken my "race" bike I didn't have a bell on it. I had two days to kill so went for a gentle canal-side ride to keep my legs moving. Because of the lack of a bell I spent most of the tow path part of the ride whistling military marches like Wings and British Grenadier. It worked too, people moved over to let me pass and in each and every case I smiled and wished them a good day. So perhaps I earn an exemption because it wasn't exactly random and pointless..?
mybrainhurts said:
People who engage in lengthy, random, pointless whistling in public places.
Oh gods yes. There was an old guy whistling a tuneless tune (ie. just noodling) in the supermarket the other day, and it was honestly just as antisocial and inconsiderate as if it had been a youth playing crap music out of the tinny speaker of their phone. In fact, worse, because the sound carried over a very large area. (Yellowjack does indeed get a pass though, as his whistling wasn't selfish or inconsiderate. Quite the reverse in fact.)
Toilets positioned too close to the wall
Just come back from a lovely weekend away in South Devon, staying in a relatively new apartment. Except that it was impossible to sit on the toilet if you have a body which has a left arm, left should, left leg and left kidney. Or you have to sit on it wonky.
A left handed person would have had to make some very weird actions to wipe their arse if they were staying there.
How do people not think this is a problem when they are building a bathroom? All they would have had to do was swap the position of the sink and the toilet and you'd have been comfortable whilst pooing (or having a sit-down piss for a treat) AND you'd have had the benefit of the little that was sort-of next to the toilet to be used for your toiletries.
(also, I'm not a woman but I suspect much of the above applies to them as well)
Just come back from a lovely weekend away in South Devon, staying in a relatively new apartment. Except that it was impossible to sit on the toilet if you have a body which has a left arm, left should, left leg and left kidney. Or you have to sit on it wonky.
A left handed person would have had to make some very weird actions to wipe their arse if they were staying there.
How do people not think this is a problem when they are building a bathroom? All they would have had to do was swap the position of the sink and the toilet and you'd have been comfortable whilst pooing (or having a sit-down piss for a treat) AND you'd have had the benefit of the little that was sort-of next to the toilet to be used for your toiletries.
(also, I'm not a woman but I suspect much of the above applies to them as well)
Shakermaker said:
Toilets positioned too close to the wall
Just come back from a lovely weekend away in South Devon, staying in a relatively new apartment. Except that it was impossible to sit on the toilet if you have a body which has a left arm, left should, left leg and left kidney. Or you have to sit on it wonky.
A left handed person would have had to make some very weird actions to wipe their arse if they were staying there.
How do people not think this is a problem when they are building a bathroom? All they would have had to do was swap the position of the sink and the toilet and you'd have been comfortable whilst pooing (or having a sit-down piss for a treat) AND you'd have had the benefit of the little that was sort-of next to the toilet to be used for your toiletries.
(also, I'm not a woman but I suspect much of the above applies to them as well)
You'd hate the bathroom in my new house then. The toilet is positioned so that your right arm is wedged against the wall when seated. But what makes it worse is the fact that whoever installed it (my money's on the previous owner, a cheapskate BTL landlord) didn't install it straight. The cistern is mounted on the "back" wall, but the pan is perpendicular/parallel with neither wall, being closer at the front to the side wall than it is at the cistern end. I've even tried to adjust the seat fittings so that, with the lid down at least, it looks straight. Sadly, the rubber pads under the seat keep lining the seat back up with the pan when it's sat on, so i have to live with a "wonky" toilet until me and my wife can agree on a design for a refit of the bathroom... Just come back from a lovely weekend away in South Devon, staying in a relatively new apartment. Except that it was impossible to sit on the toilet if you have a body which has a left arm, left should, left leg and left kidney. Or you have to sit on it wonky.
A left handed person would have had to make some very weird actions to wipe their arse if they were staying there.
How do people not think this is a problem when they are building a bathroom? All they would have had to do was swap the position of the sink and the toilet and you'd have been comfortable whilst pooing (or having a sit-down piss for a treat) AND you'd have had the benefit of the little that was sort-of next to the toilet to be used for your toiletries.
(also, I'm not a woman but I suspect much of the above applies to them as well)
yellowjack said:
You'd hate the bathroom in my new house then. The toilet is positioned so that your right arm is wedged against the wall when seated. But what makes it worse is the fact that whoever installed it (my money's on the previous owner, a cheapskate BTL landlord) didn't install it straight. The cistern is mounted on the "back" wall, but the pan is perpendicular/parallel with neither wall, being closer at the front to the side wall than it is at the cistern end. I've even tried to adjust the seat fittings so that, with the lid down at least, it looks straight. Sadly, the rubber pads under the seat keep lining the seat back up with the pan when it's sat on, so i have to live with a "wonky" toilet until me and my wife can agree on a design for a refit of the bathroom...
Honestly, I probably would have bought a different house. I turned down two houses when we were looking at the last place because they'd need work to the bathroom, and realistically that isn't work that will happen immediately when you're moving. I feel that if I am spending several years worth of my income on a house, I deserve to be able to have a comfortable poo from day one! Stand up (or should that be sit down?) for the right to toilet comfort!
Yes, it's a throw away comment, do they care, no! Someone asked for advice on a subject, if you have no advice to give then STFU. I have never met you, nor you me, would you care if someone close me or myself snuffed tomorrow, of course not.
It's an Americanism, now with addition of our "hearts and minds" No, you may give 5 minutes, then enjoy dinner and game or whatever, it is just trotted out BS.
It's an Americanism, now with addition of our "hearts and minds" No, you may give 5 minutes, then enjoy dinner and game or whatever, it is just trotted out BS.
Painted islands/roundabouts and the morons not using them correctly.
Those around my town are normally installed/painted onto the road for a minor road joining a main road, so normally 3 way.
You're on the minor road and wish to turn left. A car drives strait across at the 30mph speed limit without slowing or going around. The car behind them is about 50 meters from their entrance. You begin to pull out and notice they've sped up over the speed limit. You're committed and already accelerated.
You glance in the rear view mirror and observe them now doing more than your 30mph, sail strait across the painted roundabout, horn blasting, full beam flashing and they intend to prove how stupid you were by allowing their vehicle to rest inches from your bumper whilst looking like they're having a bouncing and waving competition.
Eventually, they either get alongside to inform you that you need to learn how to drive in a colourful way or overtake and decide to show you that their brakes had indeed been safe for road use.
I'm fully aware that you/I also need to remember to drive defensively and take note of other drivers behaviour.
I may need to re read the highway code but I was under the impression that you;
Give way to traffic entering from the right
Give way to traffic already on the island, especially if they've entered and you were nowhere near your entrance.
I stand ready with soothing cream for the incoming fire.
Those around my town are normally installed/painted onto the road for a minor road joining a main road, so normally 3 way.
You're on the minor road and wish to turn left. A car drives strait across at the 30mph speed limit without slowing or going around. The car behind them is about 50 meters from their entrance. You begin to pull out and notice they've sped up over the speed limit. You're committed and already accelerated.
You glance in the rear view mirror and observe them now doing more than your 30mph, sail strait across the painted roundabout, horn blasting, full beam flashing and they intend to prove how stupid you were by allowing their vehicle to rest inches from your bumper whilst looking like they're having a bouncing and waving competition.
Eventually, they either get alongside to inform you that you need to learn how to drive in a colourful way or overtake and decide to show you that their brakes had indeed been safe for road use.
I'm fully aware that you/I also need to remember to drive defensively and take note of other drivers behaviour.
I may need to re read the highway code but I was under the impression that you;
Give way to traffic entering from the right
Give way to traffic already on the island, especially if they've entered and you were nowhere near your entrance.
I stand ready with soothing cream for the incoming fire.
Shakermaker said:
Toilets positioned too close to the wall
I stayed in a hotel in Shepherds Bush recently that had an entire bathroom that had been fitted into a broom cupboard. The basin actually stuck out in front of the toilet so you had to stand at an angle with one foot outside the room to take a piss. I think taking a dump would have been physically impossible. br d said:
I stayed in a hotel in Shepherds Bush recently that had an entire bathroom that had been fitted into a broom cupboard. The basin actually stuck out in front of the toilet so you had to stand at an angle with one foot outside the room to take a piss. I think taking a dump would have been physically impossible.
I once used a toilet cubicle that was so small, the door had a cutout to clear the bowl, and when you were sat on it, I could touch the walls either side of me with my elbows (and I didn't need to move them far to do so). daqinggegg said:
Yes, it's a throw away comment, do they care, no! Someone asked for advice on a subject, if you have no advice to give then STFU. I have never met you, nor you me, would you care if someone close me or myself snuffed tomorrow, of course not.
Perhaps you should read this and think about it.https://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/island.html
bristolracer said:
read5458 said:
Give way to traffic already on the island,
Theres a roundabout near me thats very popular with the straight line crowd Its annoying and dangerous the way they will treat other road users already crossing the roundabout.
I've never seen anyone else make an effort to go *round* it rather than over it.
Thankfully it's not one that tends to be dangerous but it annoys me beyond reason that I appear to be the only person making any effort, particularly because it's a MUST in the Highway code (rule 188) yet wildly ignored.
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