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

[A Winner Is You]

12:30AM - get woken up by the absolute down the street whose Harley-type bike is so obnoxiously loud it reverberates off the buildings and makes my cat run and hide.

3:00am - get woken up again by an absolute who pulls' up on my neighbour's drive and lets' them know they've arrived with several blasts of the horn, so they can have a loud drunken conversation outside.

[FiF]

Plymo said:

Doofus said:

Plymo said:

I really don't get people's obsessions with toilets - you literally st in it FFS. If the seat is dirty and you're going to sit down, then wipe it first...
Saying that though, our work toilet is spotless. It's only shared between the 5 of us though but we keep it clean.
Having the cleaning gear to hand in there helps too though, I think it encourages people to actually clean it a little after use. And we give everywhere a quick clean at the end of the day and a proper clean at the end of every week, it's really not hard!

So you clean the bog at least six times a day and it's other people who are obsessed?

As in, if someone splashes or leaves skids or something they will usually quickly clean it up after. We're sailors so have a natural inclination to clean things (or paint them, or grease them)
I suppose in an office full of PBCDs they all expect it to be cleaned up by the cleaner - who turns up, thinks " fk that " sprays some air freshener and goes away. We only have ourselves to blame if it's a state...

But it wouldn't bother me if I went somewhere with a manky toilet, I certainly wouldn't hold it in for days to avoid using it...

Absolutely agree with Plymo, it's a perfectly natural bodily function, even Her Maj.

On the other hand some folks are clearer incapable of using a lavatory in any decent manner. The state of the closets at uni used to drive me insane, not beyond reason as imo it was reasonable to object. Outside term time, only staff present, toilets were clean, working, OK they're 'public' amenities but even so like you'd get in a decent hotel say. Fecking students return, within a day absolute hell holes, filthy, blocked, paper, piss, st and even blood everywhere. Animals.

[captain.scarlet]

Plymo said:

Doofus said:

Plymo said:

I really don't get people's obsessions with toilets - you literally st in it FFS. If the seat is dirty and you're going to sit down, then wipe it first...
Saying that though, our work toilet is spotless. It's only shared between the 5 of us though but we keep it clean.
Having the cleaning gear to hand in there helps too though, I think it encourages people to actually clean it a little after use. And we give everywhere a quick clean at the end of the day and a proper clean at the end of every week, it's really not hard!

So you clean the bog at least six times a day and it's other people who are obsessed?

As in, if someone splashes or leaves skids or something they will usually quickly clean it up after. We're sailors so have a natural inclination to clean things (or paint them, or grease them)
I suppose in an office full of PBCDs they all expect it to be cleaned up by the cleaner - who turns up, thinks " fk that " sprays some air freshener and goes away. We only have ourselves to blame if it's a state...

But it wouldn't bother me if I went somewhere with a manky toilet, I certainly wouldn't hold it in for days to avoid using it...

In an attempt to encourage a clean-up-after-yourself mentality at work, I did once bring some products in (including disinfectant sprays for each male and female cubicle, as bleach sprays are better but could've been more of a 'risk' to people and clothes) post-Lockdown 1 when there was a mini-policy briefly implemented higher about above about regularly cleaning the office during the day.

I was hoping that at least a disinfectant spray for the seat, flush (shiny chrome flushplate with greasy hand/finger marks is concerning IMO) etc or even the floor would be a good idea and would catch on. I was wrong and the sprays were removed and put to other use.

On top of that, the cleaner had all the products tucked away somewhere else so it's not like they were in the ladies/gents to be able to use if need be.

I think this is the case in most workplaces. Could it be for health and safety, to prevent thefts or is it really the cleaner's job?

Until then, anal sphincters going bang and the aftermath beimg left physically visible, puddles/spray on the floor, the emptying bladders on to the seat/rim and lids not being closed before flushing and greasy fingerprints on the shiny chrome of the flushplate or handle will remain constant reminders of some of the people on this planet with whom we share bathrooms!

And that's before we (I) get on to the topic of riff-raff relieving themselves against buildings on an evening only for it to trickle backwards against the flow. Guessing they're too smashed to realise they may as well aim in the direction of flow!

Meanwhile on Digitalspy and Moneysavingexpert forums the people are lamenting...

[eldar]

Overnight oats. Once the poor and lazy student breakfast. Some oats in a bowl, add milk, bung in the fridge and leave for some hours/days and eat. 7p a portion.

Now hijacked by fking hipsters. Requires foraging in woodlands for two days to locate artisan whortleberries. Made in a hand blown kilner jar with vegan ersatz donkey yogurt and Andean peasant rolled oats. £9.50 a portion.

tts.

[yellowjack]

omniflow said:

Temporary traffic lights that are 3-way or 4-way unnecessarily - for example where the 3rd and / or 4th roads are either really minor roads with almost zero traffic, or really minor roads where that junction could be closed completely for the duration of the works and mean that the 6 people / day that use that route have to drive an extra 500yds - rather than holding up the 10,000 people using the main road for longer than is strictly necessary.

Not sure I've explained this very well - we'll see.

Explained with crystal clarity, sadly. And it's very much Mr Kipling levels of annoyance. Feckin' 4 way traffic lights the other day, with one of the four "ways" being barely more than a back alley between two rows of houses. It gives access to a block of garages, but, generally speaking, who the heck actually puts a car in a ropey old garage out of sight of their house? Made even more annoying when the driver of the dumper truck working on site doesn't time his vehicle movements to coincide with green lights for the two (Empty!) minor roads. Oh, no. He seems to enjoy making a game of crawling through the controlled section leading a convoy of irate motorists, Pied Piper style, behind him from the two busier directions...

[captain.scarlet]

eldar said:

Overnight oats. Once the poor and lazy student breakfast. Some oats in a bowl, add milk, bung in the fridge and leave for some hours/days and eat. 7p a portion.

Now hijacked by fking hipsters. Requires foraging in woodlands for two days to locate artisan whortleberries. Made in a hand blown kilner jar with vegan ersatz donkey yogurt and Andean peasant rolled oats. £9.50 a portion.

tts.

I imagine the chap with the large round plastic-framed spectacles blending it, whilst wearing his ethical organic tweed waistcoat, takes his neck-length beard and twirled moustache grooming very seriously as well.

[yellowjack]

eldar said:

This is going to turn into one of there really weird and memorable threads where you discover just how many people have obsessions about st.

I.e. I only st... at 11.07 on Mondays and Thursdays in the same toilet - If on holiday I never st at all. Or only from step 7 on a stepladder, or only ...wearing ear defenders.

I reckon you need a diet change. WTF have you been eating...?

[Whats on Second]

Plymo said:

Saying that though, our work toilet is spotless. It's only shared between the 5 of us though but we keep it clean.
Having the cleaning gear to hand in there helps too though, I think it encourages people to actually clean it a little after use. And we give everywhere a quick clean at the end of the day and a proper clean at the end of every week, it's really not hard!

i must admit that the six blokes who shared our works toilet were fastidious
in keeping it clean and odour free, and other railway workers who asked
politely to use the facility knew to leave it as they found it or they would get a life ban.

[FiF]

captain.scarlet said:

eldar said:

Overnight oats. Once the poor and lazy student breakfast. Some oats in a bowl, add milk, bung in the fridge and leave for some hours/days and eat. 7p a portion.

Now hijacked by fking hipsters. Requires foraging in woodlands for two days to locate artisan whortleberries. Made in a hand blown kilner jar with vegan ersatz donkey yogurt and Andean peasant rolled oats. £9.50 a portion.

tts.

I imagine the chap with the large round plastic-framed spectacles blending it, whilst wearing his ethical organic tweed waistcoat, takes his neck-length beard and twirled moustache grooming very seriously as well.

Obviously I'm just a fking hipster then, albeit without round specs or a tweed waistcoat nor any facial hair. Home mixed muesli, contents oats, dried fruit, nuts, seeds, all foraged from Tesco, few spoonfuls in a bowl, milk, cover with cling film, in fridge, leave overnight, little swirl of cream just before serving.

Totally deck obvi

[CoolHands]

Trying to clean the car whilst suffering quantum entanglement with extension lead / hose pipe / lance hose while using the Karcher.

Jesus fk it’s annoying. One massive bundle of crap you’re trying to drag round to the other side of the car once you’ve done a few passes.

[stemll]

CoolHands said:

Trying to clean the car whilst suffering quantum entanglement with extension lead / hose pipe / lance hose while using the Karcher.

Jesus fk it’s annoying. One massive bundle of crap you’re trying to drag round to the other side of the car once you’ve done a few passes.

One of these under each tyre and a 12m pressure hose on the lance. Job done.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Detail-Guardz-4Pk-Red-Hos...

Pressure washer stays in one place and the hose no longer gets trapped under the tyres.

[CoolHands]

Hmmmm novel, thanks I will certainly consider that

[AstonZagato]

The BBC News at Ten presenters have started getting up an wandering around the studio.
Just sit down or stand still.
Irrational but it makes me shout at the TV.

[captain.scarlet]

AstonZagato said:

The BBC News at Ten presenters have started getting up an wandering around the studio.
Just sit down or stand still.
Irrational but it makes me shout at the TV.

Reminiscent of the early years of Channel 5 News when they wanted to be seen to be doing things differently.

The likes of Charlie Stayt, Rob Butler and Kirsty Young sitting on the desk and not behind one.

They or the press (can't remember which) actually made a massive point of that.

Along with Channel 5's marketing gimmick of 'news on the hour, every hour', they tried to make it all seem revolutionary.

I also am not entirely sure if my memory serves be right, but weren't these formats of news presenting spoofed? It could have been Dead Ringers.

Needless to say, the present format of TV news and TV scheduling are relics of the past.

News is available at any time we like, without needing to be tied to a scheduled flagship bulletin with the addition of Nick Robinson or Laura Kuenssberg and their 'irony' infested punditry on today's goings on in Westminster which always end seem to end with the same wry question of whether the Prime Minister will make survive another day.

If it's raw footage of something then the YouTube is awash with it.

As for the TV schedules: if you want to watch a lion hunting a zebra or a cobra taking down a deer then you can probably get unedited footage of that on YouTube without needing to tune in to the likes of some obscure, advert-infested digital TV channel simply to have the entire thing drawn out over an hour with percussion instrument music attempting to create a feeling of suspense and dozens of edited cuts of the footage, all narrated over by someone speaking with an ominous tone yet sounding incredibly patronising as though the audience really is that thick to not be able to suss out what's going on in the montage.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Whats on Second said:

PH at it's best with scatological matter.

explain the no solids in the en suite for us plebs with just one toilet

is the WC in en suites of a lesser flush capacity ?

Number of reasons, number 1 it's impolite to sound like your strangling a duck when someone is in bed, number 2 (see what I did there?) despite best endeavours with regards to scent containment it inevitably leaks and fills the room which may lead to an unhappy spouse.

Not me though, I live alone so rotate toilets that way I only have to clean them every three weeks

[Antony Moxey]

Tesco’s new scan as you shop scanners. You used to just scan the barcode, it blipped, told what you’d scanned and on you went to your next item. Not now. Now you scan the barcode and you wait. And wait. And wait. Until eventually it’s uploaded a hi-def picture of your product before then looking it in you basket after yet another wait. Fine if you need to travel from one end of the aisle to the other for your next item, not so if you want to scan multiples of the same wait. Talk about ‘improving’ something that worked perfectly well in the first place.

And yes, click and collect, store delivery, I’m some sad act loner with no social skills so hate having to speak to people. Yadda yadda yadda. I like shopping. I like browsing supermarkets. It annoys me that new tech is worse than the tech it replaces.

[Doofus]

Safeway introduced self scanning twenty years ago.

They ditched it after about a year because so much stuff was being stolen.

[FiF]

Antony Moxey said:

Tesco’s new scan as you shop scanners. You used to just scan the barcode, it blipped, told what you’d scanned and on you went to your next item. Not now. Now you scan the barcode and you wait. And wait. And wait. Until eventually it’s uploaded a hi-def picture of your product before then looking it in you basket after yet another wait. Fine if you need to travel from one end of the aisle to the other for your next item, not so if you want to scan multiples of the same wait. Talk about ‘improving’ something that worked perfectly well in the first place.

And yes, click and collect, store delivery, I’m some sad act loner with no social skills so hate having to speak to people. Yadda yadda yadda. I like shopping. I like browsing supermarkets. It annoys me that new tech is worse than the tech it replaces.

Unless they've introduced an even newer type of scanner than the ones introduced in our store about 18 months or so ago, the problem isn't with the scanners themselves but the store WiFi installation. The new ones rely on a mesh system within the store, if you have dead spots of poor or no reception then you get exactly what you're describing. It was the same situation when Sainsbury's started with the same handsets. These scanners have been perfect in our Tesco right from day one. Occasionally they fail to find something on the server and you have to scan that item at the till, but it's very rare.

There were issues with the old scanners that sometimes meant that you could be halfway through a shop or even at the checkout and they would have an irrecoverable brain fart and the entire trolley load would have to be scanned through a till.

[Antony Moxey]

FiF said:

Antony Moxey said:

Tesco’s new scan as you shop scanners. You used to just scan the barcode, it blipped, told what you’d scanned and on you went to your next item. Not now. Now you scan the barcode and you wait. And wait. And wait. Until eventually it’s uploaded a hi-def picture of your product before then looking it in you basket after yet another wait. Fine if you need to travel from one end of the aisle to the other for your next item, not so if you want to scan multiples of the same wait. Talk about ‘improving’ something that worked perfectly well in the first place.

And yes, click and collect, store delivery, I’m some sad act loner with no social skills so hate having to speak to people. Yadda yadda yadda. I like shopping. I like browsing supermarkets. It annoys me that new tech is worse than the tech it replaces.

Unless they've introduced an even newer type of scanner than the ones introduced in our store about 18 months or so ago, the problem isn't with the scanners themselves but the store WiFi installation. The new ones rely on a mesh system within the store, if you have dead spots of poor or no reception then you get exactly what you're describing. It was the same situation when Sainsbury's started with the same handsets. These scanners have been perfect in our Tesco right from day one. Occasionally they fail to find something on the server and you have to scan that item at the till, but it's very rare.

There were issues with the old scanners that sometimes meant that you could be halfway through a shop or even at the checkout and they would have an irrecoverable brain fart and the entire trolley load would have to be scanned through a till.

This is over the entire store. It's not just me either, when I mentioned it to one of the staff they said I wasn't the first one to say something.

[V8mate]

Antony Moxey said:

FiF said:

Antony Moxey said:

Tesco’s new scan as you shop scanners. You used to just scan the barcode, it blipped, told what you’d scanned and on you went to your next item. Not now. Now you scan the barcode and you wait. And wait. And wait. Until eventually it’s uploaded a hi-def picture of your product before then looking it in you basket after yet another wait. Fine if you need to travel from one end of the aisle to the other for your next item, not so if you want to scan multiples of the same wait. Talk about ‘improving’ something that worked perfectly well in the first place.

And yes, click and collect, store delivery, I’m some sad act loner with no social skills so hate having to speak to people. Yadda yadda yadda. I like shopping. I like browsing supermarkets. It annoys me that new tech is worse than the tech it replaces.

Unless they've introduced an even newer type of scanner than the ones introduced in our store about 18 months or so ago, the problem isn't with the scanners themselves but the store WiFi installation. The new ones rely on a mesh system within the store, if you have dead spots of poor or no reception then you get exactly what you're describing. It was the same situation when Sainsbury's started with the same handsets. These scanners have been perfect in our Tesco right from day one. Occasionally they fail to find something on the server and you have to scan that item at the till, but it's very rare.

There were issues with the old scanners that sometimes meant that you could be halfway through a shop or even at the checkout and they would have an irrecoverable brain fart and the entire trolley load would have to be scanned through a till.

This is over the entire store. It's not just me either, when I mentioned it to one of the staff they said I wasn't the first one to say something.

It's an issue with that store though, not common to all Tesco stores and the newer self-scan handsets.