Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)
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ttish groups who treat public forums like their own personal forum.
There's a Golf one that I frequent and it's complete overrun by half a dozen posters. I don't know why they just don't set up a WhatsApp group and virtually wk each other in that instead..
Conversely, a US based one that I post on is the friendliest and most accomodating place I've been part of.
ttish groups who treat public forums like their own personal forum.There's a Golf one that I frequent and it's complete overrun by half a dozen posters. I don't know why they just don't set up a WhatsApp group and virtually w
k each other in that instead..Conversely, a US based one that I post on is the friendliest and most accomodating place I've been part of.
RayDonovan said:
tttish groups who treat public forums like their own personal forum.
There's a Golf one that I frequent and it's complete overrun by half a dozen posters. I don't know why they just don't set up a WhatsApp group and virtually wk each other in that instead..
Conversely, a US based one that I post on is the friendliest and most accomodating place I've been part of.
The same can be said for most of the posts in NPE sub on here! Always the same half dozen or so members back-slapping each other and being hostile to any 'outsider' not in their clique. The US politics threads being a prime example.ttish groups who treat public forums like their own personal forum.There's a Golf one that I frequent and it's complete overrun by half a dozen posters. I don't know why they just don't set up a WhatsApp group and virtually w
k each other in that instead..Conversely, a US based one that I post on is the friendliest and most accomodating place I've been part of.
21st Century Man said:
Lane closures and lots of big red signs saying "When queuing use both lanes" and still there are road Captains lane blocking with 800m to go, right alongside the feckin' sign with the road workers pointing out the sign to them and waving them on.
... but they are using both lanes.Perhaps the sign should say "use either lane".
snuffy said:
popeyewhite said:
NRG1976 said:
The Karen in the swimming pool today complaining another swimmer had splashed her when going past doing the butterfly stroke…who would of thought you might get water on you whilst swimming..l
Lol there's always one pool tt wants to show off too close to others. I'm assuming no lanes?123DWA said:
Hackney said:
The sheer number of drivers who cut the corner at this junction.
I get to the giveaway and turn right, and have to be so vigilant for idiots like this van driver.
Not helped by cars parking right up to the junction, like the Smart.
People always do this on my road. About 5/6 years ago I had an E55 Merc which had a gearbox fault nobody could get to the bottom of. Driving to work one morning and a woman in a Qashqai was cutting said corner so I thought 'fI get to the giveaway and turn right, and have to be so vigilant for idiots like this van driver.
Not helped by cars parking right up to the junction, like the Smart.
k it' and let her take the front end off my car with her corner cutting. She learnt not to cut corners & my gearbox fault was no longer my problem (after I spent 2 weeks sweating that they were going to turn round & say they would repair it rather than write it off 
)king gormless, blank stare as they go past! One day I'm gonna rent a car and approach the corner and let one of the tts hit me! I'll make sure my phone is in a holder recording and I've taken out the fully comp insurance with the rental company! Let the rental company insurers absolutely ruin them when they're done for dangerous driving, which will hopefully void their own insurance and leave 'em personally liable! (I'm not using my own car or taking the dashcam out as the holders are properly cemented to the screens! )To be clear, I probably won't do this, but I'd really f
kin like to 
Short Grain said:
123DWA said:
Hackney said:
The sheer number of drivers who cut the corner at this junction.
I get to the giveaway and turn right, and have to be so vigilant for idiots like this van driver.
Not helped by cars parking right up to the junction, like the Smart.
People always do this on my road. About 5/6 years ago I had an E55 Merc which had a gearbox fault nobody could get to the bottom of. Driving to work one morning and a woman in a Qashqai was cutting said corner so I thought 'fI get to the giveaway and turn right, and have to be so vigilant for idiots like this van driver.
Not helped by cars parking right up to the junction, like the Smart.
k it' and let her take the front end off my car with her corner cutting. She learnt not to cut corners & my gearbox fault was no longer my problem (after I spent 2 weeks sweating that they were going to turn round & say they would repair it rather than write it off )king gormless, blank stare as they go past! One day I'm gonna rent a car and approach the corner and let one of the tts hit me! I'll make sure my phone is in a holder recording and I've taken out the fully comp insurance with the rental company! Let the rental company insurers absolutely ruin them when they're done for dangerous driving, which will hopefully void their own insurance and leave 'em personally liable! (I'm not using my own car or taking the dashcam out as the holders are properly cemented to the screens! )To be clear, I probably won't do this, but I'd really f
kin like to NRG1976 said:
popeyewhite said:
NRG1976 said:
The Karen in the swimming pool today complaining another swimmer had splashed her when going past doing the butterfly stroke…who would of thought you might get water on you whilst swimming..l
Lol there's always one pool tt wants to show off too close to others. I'm assuming no lanes?After getting “the look” one day when I managed to get to the end and turn between them, I suggested that if they stood against a side wall it would free up the lanes for people doing lengths.
I was informed that it was a leisure pool, not a swimming pool, and I was in the wrong for attempting to swim in it.
Roofless Toothless said:
We have a nice small private spa near us with two pools. The pools are dominated by a group of women who spend most of their time in the water talking to each other, standing along the wall at one end. Every five or ten minutes they progress (mostly by hopping on one leg) to the other end, three or more abreast so their conversation is not interrupted. If you want to swim lengths you’re fooked.
That really fks me off, women having a bloody coffee mornings in the pool.As it happens, up until about 12 months ago, me and the missus would go swimming about twice a week but we got so sick of that very behaviour that we stopped going.
snuffy said:
Roofless Toothless said:
We have a nice small private spa near us with two pools. The pools are dominated by a group of women who spend most of their time in the water talking to each other, standing along the wall at one end. Every five or ten minutes they progress (mostly by hopping on one leg) to the other end, three or more abreast so their conversation is not interrupted. If you want to swim lengths you’re fooked.
That really fks me off, women having a bloody coffee mornings in the pool.As it happens, up until about 12 months ago, me and the missus would go swimming about twice a week but we got so sick of that very behaviour that we stopped going.
Talking of swimming… Those that think because they can swim ten lengths front crawl without stopping automatically means they should be in the fast lane, bonus knob points for not stopping and letting you past and pushing off right in front of you when you gave them a length head start and still caught them up. The whole pool is given over to lane swimming, go in one of the slower lanes instead of holding everyone up.
I bloody hate lane swimming and its stuff like that that is genuinely making me think twice about going again.
I bloody hate lane swimming and its stuff like that that is genuinely making me think twice about going again.
popeyewhite said:
Couldn't you make the effort to find a dedicated lane swimming session in an appropriate sized pool? Surely there's other pools near you?
Well, I could I suppose. But it's just up the road, very reasonable (£20 something a month), so it's ideal, apart from coffee mornings being held in it.I think it's endemic of people's selfish behaviour, as I said above, I don't swim backstroke because I'm being considerate to others, whilst not be afforded the same courtesy in return.
snuffy said:
Well, I could I suppose. But it's just up the road, very reasonable (£20 something a month), so it's ideal, apart from coffee mornings being held in it.
I think it's endemic of people's selfish behaviour, as I said above, I don't swim backstroke because I'm being considerate to others, whilst not be afforded the same courtesy in return.
The (council) lane pool I use is a fair bit colder than the leisure pool at a private gym. Encourages me to get on with it though.I think it's endemic of people's selfish behaviour, as I said above, I don't swim backstroke because I'm being considerate to others, whilst not be afforded the same courtesy in return.
popeyewhite said:
The (council) lane pool I use is a fair bit colder than the leisure pool at a private gym. Encourages me to get on with it though.
Mine is a council one (and yes, it is a bit chilly sometimes). During the day, half of it is always roped off for school swimming lessons (which I fully agree with, that is a very good thing) and then rest of it is open, and they may rope one lane off for people that are way better than we are ! So it has people whizzing up and down and doing tumble turns !But then during non term time, it's full of kids, so it's even worse for people that just want to swim lengths but are not Olympic standard. I did ask if they did adult only sessions, but they don't. So that makes it unusable for 3 months of year.
I know I sound like a miserable git, but then it does annoy me beyond reason !
Going through the process of buying and selling a house.
Hard to believe that it's now 2024 when it comes to solicitors, stacks of paper forms to fill in, most of the time with boxes to small to actually write what you need to write. then another form asking for the exact same information, why isn't this now all online ?
Next we have the proof of ID checks with paper statements or paper utility bills which is in direct contrast to all of those firms telling you to go paperless.
Hard to believe that it's now 2024 when it comes to solicitors, stacks of paper forms to fill in, most of the time with boxes to small to actually write what you need to write. then another form asking for the exact same information, why isn't this now all online ?
Next we have the proof of ID checks with paper statements or paper utility bills which is in direct contrast to all of those firms telling you to go paperless.
Bluedot said:
Going through the process of buying and selling a house.
Hard to believe that it's now 2024 when it comes to solicitors, stacks of paper forms to fill in, most of the time with boxes to small to actually write what you need to write. then another form asking for the exact same information, why isn't this now all online ?
Next we have the proof of ID checks with paper statements or paper utility bills which is in direct contrast to all of those firms telling you to go paperless.
Amen to that. My house sale should complete in the next couple of weeks, but I had a call from the estate agent the other day, to say that I was holding up the sale, because apparently, I said I would leave rubbish at the house! I’m sure I didn’t, but maybe it was a box that I ticked inadvertently. Hard to believe that it's now 2024 when it comes to solicitors, stacks of paper forms to fill in, most of the time with boxes to small to actually write what you need to write. then another form asking for the exact same information, why isn't this now all online ?
Next we have the proof of ID checks with paper statements or paper utility bills which is in direct contrast to all of those firms telling you to go paperless.
On the other side, I had an offer accepted and started the process, but a week later, the vendor decided that he wasn’t going to sell (despite the house being empty and on the market since early December). 10 days later, he decided he would sell, so the agent asked if I was still interested at the same price, so I said I was and started the process again. A week later, he decided he wasn’t going to sell and planned to move into the property. If it wasn’t for Ring doorbells and CCTV, I would be paying him a visit with a trailer load of manure or readymix concrete for the drive , some frozen sausages for his lawn and brown sugar to encourage ants!
Sigmamark7 said:
Amen to that. My house sale should complete in the next couple of weeks, but I had a call from the estate agent the other day, to say that I was holding up the sale, because apparently, I said I would leave rubbish at the house! I’m sure I didn’t, but maybe it was a box that I ticked inadvertently.
On the other side, I had an offer accepted and started the process, but a week later, the vendor decided that he wasn’t going to sell (despite the house being empty and on the market since early December). 10 days later, he decided he would sell, so the agent asked if I was still interested at the same price, so I said I was and started the process again. A week later, he decided he wasn’t going to sell and planned to move into the property
It's everything these days. It's become a nation full of messers and time-wasters. Nobody keeps their word anymore and nobody has the common decency to let you know they've changed their mind. I've got 2 vehicles for sale on all the main platforms currently and it's been 90% time-wasters arranging viewings then never showing up and 10% people showing up then getting all angry because they haven't bothered to read the very clear advert description properly, which I highlighted in 36 pt bold font with asterisks either end. On the other side, I had an offer accepted and started the process, but a week later, the vendor decided that he wasn’t going to sell (despite the house being empty and on the market since early December). 10 days later, he decided he would sell, so the agent asked if I was still interested at the same price, so I said I was and started the process again. A week later, he decided he wasn’t going to sell and planned to move into the property
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