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

[NRG1976]

GasEngineer said:

gregs656 said:

NRG1976 said:

Channel S4C. Want to watch the Wales vs. Poland game and there is no option for English commentary. Turned it off as can’t stand the commentary when it’s in any language I don’t understand.

It's a Welsh language channel, odd thing to expect.

That's why it's on the "Things That Annoy You Beyond Reason Thread".

Where's that Parrot?

Here’s the thing too, they used to have the English language option…but don’t tell Gregs656 it would make him have a nationalistic meltdown

[MiniMan64]

My waterproof coat is broken and needs replacing so I can stand outside at work everyday without needing a wetsuit.

2 weeks ago this wouldn’t have been a problem, in fact I might have even got a decent deal on one in a sale somewhere.

But apparently someone flicked a switch this week and it’s now officially summer as every shop is full of T-shirts and swimming shorts.

But no one told the fking weather so I’m stuffed.

[MartG]

Ice cream vans with exceedingly loud and incredibly distorted 'music' playing to announce their presence

[captain_cynic]

Bluedot said:

Must have been on here before but the security belts at airports really does bring out some absolute lemons.
Why do people stand there holding everyone up as they proceed to unload their trays and layer themselves back up while everyone else's tray gets stacked up behind ?
Just pick your sodding tray up and take it to one of the many purpose built shelves ffs.

People are really just selfish, arrogant, ignorant tts who are completely incapable of following simple instructions all of the time... it's just that airports make it really, really obvious.

Every time I fly I'm more and more convinced that if a catastrophe were to befall this world that could be averted by just half the population following one simple instruction the human race is completely and utterly doomed.

On the plus side, BA have the perfect solution to the hand luggage problem... If the flight is full and you approach the gate with two pieces of hand luggage the larger one is gate checked. No ifs, buts or maybes... no "but this is my ultra important crap", the larger item gets checked. If you ask me this does not go far enough but snipers aren't exactly cheap either.

[Dan Singh]

You Tube. The advert breaks have recently become longer and more frequent and annoying.
I'm not that desperate to watch most of what's on there, they can just FRO. I'm not paying them a subscription.

[Cotty]

Dan Singh said:

You Tube. The advert breaks have recently become longer and more frequent and annoying.
I'm not that desperate to watch most of what's on there, they can just FRO. I'm not paying them a subscription.

Just install an adblocker
https://getadblock.com/en/block-youtube-ads-with-a...

[21st Century Man]

Queuing up to board the Newcastle to Ijmuiden ferry and the scrolling message at check in reads to have your vaccination and negative test documents to hand, STRICTLY no boarding without.

I mentioned it and the reply was that everybody mentions it.

SO fkING CHANGE IT THEN YOU COMPLETE TOTAL UTTER fkING ttS, IT'S BEEN fkING YEARS NOW!!!

[Alickadoo]

21st Century Man said:

Queuing up to board the Newcastle to Ijmuiden ferry and the scrolling message at check in reads to have your vaccination and negative test documents to hand, STRICTLY no boarding without.

I mentioned it and the reply was that everybody mentions it.

SO fkING CHANGE IT THEN YOU COMPLETE TOTAL UTTER fkING ttS, IT'S BEEN fkING YEARS NOW!!!

I think that it may possibly more productive if you directed your wrath at the ferry company.

No guarantee, mind you.

[carlo996]

Pot holes.

fking third world country the SE of England.

[C5_Steve]

MiniMan64 said:

My waterproof coat is broken and needs replacing so I can stand outside at work everyday without needing a wetsuit.

2 weeks ago this wouldn’t have been a problem, in fact I might have even got a decent deal on one in a sale somewhere.

But apparently someone flicked a switch this week and it’s now officially summer as every shop is full of T-shirts and swimming shorts.

But no one told the fking weather so I’m stuffed.

Not sure what you need but I picked one up from Uniqlo last week, they had a few options. But I agree, you need to plan 3 months ahead with buying a coat it seems

[M4cruiser]

Here's an odd one. TV weather presenters, who wear their microphone on their left lapel instead of their right side one!

Why does this matter? Because when they look at the chart (i.e. look away from me) their voice gets louder.

When it's on the right it becomes more natural, i.e. their voice gets clearer when they look at me.

Annoys me so much .... such a simple fix, Matt Taylor I mean you!.

[lord trumpton]

Mr Penguin said:

People who talk so loudly in restaurants that it is hard for others to have their own conversation

Yep, but not just in restaurants. Noisy, loud folk in general. Noisy s.

Edited by lord trumpton on Saturday 30th March 21:21

[M4cruiser]

Tesco Mobile! So annoying ...
Just try to buy a sim card. Choices
12GB £10 per month
60GB £15
12GB £11
Unlimited £25
100GB £17.50
30GB £15
100GB £20
30GB £12.50
Unlimited £30
60GB £17.50
2GB £7.50
2GB £8
Unlimited £30

wtf, how am I supposed to get my head round that?

[Somebody]

M4cruiser said:

Tesco Mobile! So annoying ...
Just try to buy a sim card. Choices
12GB £10 per month
60GB £15
12GB £11
Unlimited £25
100GB £17.50
30GB £15
100GB £20
30GB £12.50
Unlimited £30
60GB £17.50
2GB £7.50
2GB £8
Unlimited £30

wtf, how am I supposed to get my head round that?

Why Tescomobile? Have a look here: https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cheap-mobile-fin...

[valiant]

Bluedot said:

Must have been on here before but the security belts at airports really does bring out some absolute lemons.
Why do people stand there holding everyone up as they proceed to unload their trays and layer themselves back up while everyone else's tray gets stacked up behind ?
Just pick your sodding tray up and take it to one of the many purpose built shelves ffs.

Airports should have their own thread on here with the amount of muppetry displayed.

Waiting a few weeks ago for some bellends to board. Cretins had checked in with luggage and now gone awol. It’s a fking airport. There’s a few shops, a few places to eat, somewhere to st and that’s it. How the fk, considering they want you there three fking hours beforehand, do you manage not to get on the fking aeroplane in good time?

I love travelling, I don’t mind flying but I hate airports with a passion.

[LunarOne]

valiant said:

Bluedot said:

Must have been on here before but the security belts at airports really does bring out some absolute lemons.
Why do people stand there holding everyone up as they proceed to unload their trays and layer themselves back up while everyone else's tray gets stacked up behind ?
Just pick your sodding tray up and take it to one of the many purpose built shelves ffs.

Airports should have their own thread on here with the amount of muppetry displayed.

Waiting a few weeks ago for some bellends to board. Cretins had checked in with luggage and now gone awol. It’s a fking airport. There’s a few shops, a few places to eat, somewhere to st and that’s it. How the fk, considering they want you there three fking hours beforehand, do you manage not to get on the fking aeroplane in good time?

I love travelling, I don’t mind flying but I hate airports with a passion.

TL;DR it's not always the passengers' fault. Some airports can be willfully slow and inefficient.

That was me at CDG a few weeks ago. I have to visit my office in Paris for a week every 8 weeks. I was booked on the last flight of the day to Heathrow. I had arrived at the airport 2 and a half hours ahead of flight. Normally I turn up two hours ahead but traffic from central Paris had been much lighter than expected so on this occasion I was early. Checked in online and then checked in my suitcase on the automated belt. Then came the snaking queue for passport control, where I spent a good 40 minutes inching closer and closer to the security desks.

Finally got through that and then had to do hand baggage security. Yet more snaking queues, and when I got to the x-ray machines the system they had in place was complete chaos. The attendant would tell you which slot to stand in to get your laptop and tablet out. And then it was impossible for anyone who wasn't at the end position to push their tray onto the belt because of the trays coming from the end slot. Got increasingly agitated and started explaining that my flight was now boarding and I needed to get my trays onto the belt.

After another 20 minutes, my bag was diverted because I had not got my computer out. Except I had. They mistook a small external USB keyboard as a computer. And the attendant had told me that I didn't need to get that out. They sent my bag back round to be x-rayed again, and then there was the guy doing the drugs swipe. He was checking all the diverted baggage, but resting and chatting for 5 minutes between each bag he checked. He was delaying a whole bunch of people. I was really angry at this point and told the guy that he was making a bunch of people late for their flights because he was wasting time. He then sulked and walked off until his manager turned up and gave him a bking in French. Suddenly things sped up. By the time I collected my cabin bag together, the screens had shown "final call" for my flight for at least 10 minutes.

I ran to the gate only to be told that the flight had closed and they were already unloading my bag. I explained the long queues and delays at security, and the Air France lady rolled her eyes as it's probably something she hears a lot. Eventually they decided that it would be quicker to let me onto the flight than to unload my suitcase, so they start processing my boarding pass. And then three more people turn up with exactly the same experience as me. So they let all of us onto the flight, 5 minutes before it was due to depart.

The flight itself was uneventful, but at baggage reclaim was told that my bag had not made it onto the flight "for some unknown reason" and that it would be delivered to me the next day. I live about 15 minutes south west of Heathrow by car, and the next day (thanks to an airtag in my suitcase) I watched my suitcase go all the way around London in a clockwise direction before my suitcase was delivered back to me at 7pm the next evening.

One of these days I'm going to try to investigate Eurostar. It's a PITA to get to St. Pancras from where I am (especially with luggage) as I'm on the very slow Reading to Waterloo line at Virginia Water. But all my calculations suggest that Eurostar will cost the same or more and take 1-2 hours longer as well as being a faff. If only Eurostar still went from Waterloo!

[Pit Pony]

valiant said:

Bluedot said:

Must have been on here before but the security belts at airports really does bring out some absolute lemons.
Why do people stand there holding everyone up as they proceed to unload their trays and layer themselves back up while everyone else's tray gets stacked up behind ?
Just pick your sodding tray up and take it to one of the many purpose built shelves ffs.

Airports should have their own thread on here with the amount of muppetry displayed.

Waiting a few weeks ago for some bellends to board. Cretins had checked in with luggage and now gone awol. It’s a fking airport. There’s a few shops, a few places to eat, somewhere to st and that’s it. How the fk, considering they want you there three fking hours beforehand, do you manage not to get on the fking aeroplane in good time?

I love travelling, I don’t mind flying but I hate airports with a passion.

2 flights to Verona at the same time. My work colleague got to the airport and through security ages before me, tells me the gate number. I believe him.
Flight Starts to board we are told that we have queued for the wrong flight. Queue a 10 mile run across the airport, getting on the flight as they close the doors.

Never trust anyone.

[Cotty]

Pit Pony said:

2 flights to Verona at the same time. My work colleague got to the airport and through security ages before me, tells me the gate number. I believe him.
Flight Starts to board we are told that we have queued for the wrong flight. Queue a 10 mile run across the airport, getting on the flight as they close the doors.

Never trust anyone.

With things like that I always need to see with my own eyes.

[M4cruiser]

LunarOne said:

TL;DR it's not always the passengers' fault. Some airports can be willfully slow and inefficient.

That was me at CDG a few weeks ago. I have to visit my office in Paris for a week every 8 weeks. I was booked on the last flight of the day to Heathrow. I had arrived at the airport 2 and a half hours ahead of flight. Normally I turn up two hours ahead but traffic from central Paris had been much lighter than expected so on this occasion I was early. Checked in online and then checked in my suitcase on the automated belt. Then came the snaking queue for passport control, where I spent a good 40 minutes inching closer and closer to the security desks. .. and other stuff

CDG is on of the worst airports I've been through. Transferring internally is a nightmare. The most wonderful experience I've had there is when I had 3 hours to "transfer" but as luck would have it I was already in the correct part of the airport - so I didn't bother to try to go anywhere else, and I was able to watch the appalling queues getting in to where I already was.

[M4cruiser]

M4cruiser said:

Here's an odd one. TV weather presenters, who wear their microphone on their left lapel instead of their right side one!

Why does this matter? Because when they look at the chart (i.e. look away from me) their voice gets louder.

When it's on the right it becomes more natural, i.e. their voice gets clearer when they look at me.

Annoys me so much .... such a simple fix, Matt Taylor I mean you!.

Well, Matt must be reading this, because this morning his microphone was on his right lapel! Thank you Matt!