Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)

Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)

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Antony Moxey

8,064 posts

219 months

Tuesday 10th May 2022
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Zumbruk said:
Antony Moxey said:
Zumbruk said:
That's very kind, but I was very nearly serious. I assume Rooney is something to do with the thugballist, but I've never heard of the other one.
Thugballist? I bet you’re a proper card at dinner parties, aren’t you dahling?
Patronising, much?
Not as much as you. Snob much?

Red9zero

6,855 posts

57 months

Wednesday 11th May 2022
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Just driven into Bristol city centre for the first time in months. fk me I'd forgotten how annoying it is. People who don't know how wide their car is, so refuse to go through a gap 2ft wider than their car. No one seems able to reverse so you have to reverse twice as far instead and then you don't even get a thank you. Idiots driving round looking for a parking space oblivious to the fact you are trying to pull out of a parking space and if they actually stopped to let you out they could have that space. The ignorant woman who blocked me in when I stopped to get a pasty on the way home as her time is obviously more important than mine. Grrrrr. Got a doctors appointment in an hour and a half too, so hopefully typing this will lower my BP enough to not get shouted at, although pasty and bread pudding probably don't help !

Doofus

25,817 posts

173 months

Wednesday 11th May 2022
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In US tv shows and films, if a pedestrian is in the road, why do cars and trucks just slam on the horn and not actively try to avoid them?

Doofus

25,817 posts

173 months

Wednesday 11th May 2022
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21st Century Man said:
People who wear a Yasser Arafat tea towel around their neck like a snood.
Wut

Zumbruk

7,848 posts

260 months

Wednesday 11th May 2022
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Doofus said:
In US tv shows and films, if a pedestrian is in the road, why do cars and trucks just slam on the horn and not actively try to avoid them?
Jaywalking is against the law in most states, so I guess that modifies driver behaviour?

RizzoTheRat

25,162 posts

192 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Doofus said:
21st Century Man said:
People who wear a Yasser Arafat tea towel around their neck like a snood.
Wut
Shemagh.

anonymous-user

54 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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RizzoTheRat said:
Doofus said:
21st Century Man said:
People who wear a Yasser Arafat tea towel around their neck like a snood.
Wut
Shemagh.

shih tzu faced

2,597 posts

49 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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OnTheBreadline said:
RizzoTheRat said:
Doofus said:
21st Century Man said:
People who wear a Yasser Arafat tea towel around their neck like a snood.
Wut
Shemagh.
roflrofl

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

186 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Tradesmen working not on building sites, e.g. in your office/home, who turn up with their own radio.

Doofus

25,817 posts

173 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Johnnytheboy said:
Tradesmen working not on building sites, e.g. in your office/home, who turn up with their own radio.
Yep. They should just use mine.

ro250

2,750 posts

57 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Johnnytheboy said:
Tradesmen working not on building sites, e.g. in your office/home, who turn up with their own radio.
Oh yes. Had someone at home for a week building some cabinets and doing some carpentry work downstairs recently. I clearly said to him that I worked from home and would be on calls upstairs. 10 minutes later the whopping great DeWalt radio comes out and starts booming.

captain.scarlet

1,824 posts

34 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Probably been covered already and I'm sure this won't be the last time: being unable to speak with anyone in customer services because of 'the ongoing pandemic' which is then used as an excuse to justify poor or non-existent customer service: lengthy waiting times, delays, no responses and everything having to be done online or via e-mail.

Tuesday 10 May example:


Plymo

1,152 posts

89 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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captain.scarlet said:
Probably been covered already and I'm sure this won't be the last time: being unable to speak with anyone in customer services because of 'the ongoing pandemic' which is then used as an excuse to justify poor or non-existent customer service: lengthy waiting times, delays, no responses and everything having to be done online or via e-mail.

Tuesday 10 May example:

Definitely not beyond reason!
Seeing as there are no covid restrictions as such anywhere in the UK now, there really is no justification for the "because covid" excuse...
I suppose a translation of that page is "We've saved some money by making you wait longer, and no, it doesn't make anything cheaper for you"

SlimJim16v

5,660 posts

143 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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The fat on the news saying she can't afford to live.

Frimley111R

15,661 posts

234 months

Friday 13th May 2022
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SlimJim16v said:
The fat on the news saying she can't afford to live.
Yep. On the BBC website the other day:

Person 1 – Single mum of 1 who is a teaching assistant. I am sure she loves kids and working with them but doing a low paid job for about half the year is not a luxury she can afford. Get a second job or find one that pays more.

Person 2 – Young bloke, trying to study for something and unemployed. Apparently can’t get a job after leaving retail. WTF, the country is desperate for workers – get a job and study in the evening.

I appreciate the cost of living is hard for some people with specific issues but these two are just lazy.

21st Century Man

40,897 posts

248 months

Friday 13th May 2022
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I've posted this annoyance before...

"The car itself starts on the button"

"The train runs on tracks, the tracks themselves sit on sleepers".

Every single time it's not only superfluous it's utterly cretinous.

captain_cynic

11,998 posts

95 months

Friday 13th May 2022
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Plymo said:
captain.scarlet said:
Probably been covered already and I'm sure this won't be the last time: being unable to speak with anyone in customer services because of 'the ongoing pandemic' which is then used as an excuse to justify poor or non-existent customer service: lengthy waiting times, delays, no responses and everything having to be done online or via e-mail.

Tuesday 10 May example:

Definitely not beyond reason!
Seeing as there are no covid restrictions as such anywhere in the UK now, there really is no justification for the "because covid" excuse...
I suppose a translation of that page is "We've saved some money by making you wait longer, and no, it doesn't make anything cheaper for you"
The "because COVID" excuse really means "we used the opportunity to fire a lot of our employees expecting to be able to hire them back at lower rates. The mass unemployment we were hoping for didnt happen and they found better paying jobs at ASDA they aren't willing to leave".

Same with "worker/skills shortages". Companies paying what people are worth are having no trouble finding and retaining talent. There isn't a worker shortage, there is a serf shortage.

Dermot O'Logical

2,578 posts

129 months

Friday 13th May 2022
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Good news!

I'm no longer receiving spam emails from "dealbistro".

Most of my spam now comes from "deal-mate".

I suppose it's progress of a sort.

anonymous-user

54 months

Friday 13th May 2022
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NPE and the entrenched knobbers on both sides of the political spectrum. Cesspit.

eldar

21,747 posts

196 months

Friday 13th May 2022
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21st Century Man said:
I've posted this annoyance before...

"The car itself starts on the button"

"The train runs on tracks, the tracks themselves sit on sleepers".

Every single time it's not only superfluous it's utterly cretinous.
Your use of single is superfluous. smile