Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 8)
Discussion
Chauffard said:
A six pack of crisps from a German based grocery outlet contains only five, shall I take it back to complain, is that petty ? How do I prove it anyway ? Life is so complicated, did Samuel Pepys or Albert Camus have these problems ?
Complain. "These were a lidl short..."ade73 said:
C5_Steve said:
bmwmike said:
Driving on the motorway at night this weekend, first time in a while, and I know we've had this particular moan in here before but MY GOD the headlights on some cars are like badly fitted xenons fitted to chav mobiles from the early 2000's. Particular offender being a 2024 Hyundai Tucson which lit up the entire inside of my car when it was behind, and absolutely migraine inducingly blinding.
And before anyone says get my eyes checked, I'd agree, if it was ALL cars at night, but its definitely a minority and its often newer SUV's as they're higher up. Or driven by idiots who can't turn off the full beams.
Yep, even though my car is very low and therefor would catch possibly more glare than a regular car some are just blinding. Tesla's usually. And before anyone says get my eyes checked, I'd agree, if it was ALL cars at night, but its definitely a minority and its often newer SUV's as they're higher up. Or driven by idiots who can't turn off the full beams.
I've actually been wanting to adjust my own headlights up a bit but was putting it off until I could do it properly. I don't know why I don't just aim them 1000m down the road given the state of some modern cars.
My S2000 has 100W main bulbs
Lotobear said:
brake fader said:
when the cardboard flap on the cereal box won't stay closed properly, you'd think by now this would have been improved but no it's still 4 king rubbish.
On a related topic - fruit and fibre cereal.The lovely fruit bits (raisins) always settle to the bottom and you only finally reach them in the last couple of bowls.
Bluedot said:
Lotobear said:
brake fader said:
when the cardboard flap on the cereal box won't stay closed properly, you'd think by now this would have been improved but no it's still 4 king rubbish.
On a related topic - fruit and fibre cereal.The lovely fruit bits (raisins) always settle to the bottom and you only finally reach them in the last couple of bowls.
Bluedot said:
Lotobear said:
brake fader said:
when the cardboard flap on the cereal box won't stay closed properly, you'd think by now this would have been improved but no it's still 4 king rubbish.
On a related topic - fruit and fibre cereal.The lovely fruit bits (raisins) always settle to the bottom and you only finally reach them in the last couple of bowls.
...and while I'm on - why so many banana slices?, dried banana is hateful stuff
Everything * advertised being compared to the price of a cup of coffee, f
k off, from internet security to diet meals. Is everyone so obsessed with coffee now that the only metric they can understand is the price, greater or lesser, than a cup?
Just because advertising executives swan about getting a coffee in their glass boxed office doesn't mean that everyone in the whole of the UK can't understand finance without having it compared to a fking cup of coffee.
s.
not everything *
k off, from internet security to diet meals. Is everyone so obsessed with coffee now that the only metric they can understand is the price, greater or lesser, than a cup?Just because advertising executives swan about getting a coffee in their glass boxed office doesn't mean that everyone in the whole of the UK can't understand finance without having it compared to a f
king cup of coffee.s.not everything *
nismocat said:
The age demographics on PH. It is becoming more white knightish with some members who have zero sense of humour/just don't get it. People are so offended if you have a little dig at them and cry to the mods. I bet they also have dashcams and report people for being naughty.
I once included a meme into a thread, with someone replying "Is that supposed to be funny or something?"Similarly, on the old "what annoyed you beyond reason" thread, I posted something - which I can't remember now - but likely similar to "Really can't stand that you have to scan your receipt in Sainsburys to exit the checkouts".
This was followed by someone replying "Wow, if that annoyed you beyond reason, then your life must be really hard work"
Both appear to be fun vaccuums. I get stressed and often feel lonely - WFH, limited friends - and forums like this allow me to vent my ridiculous frustrations and talk utter jibberish most of the time. Occasionally mixed in with serious things on the News/Finance/Job forums.
Amazon, or to be more precise, one of there 3rd party suppliers....
I ordered something a month ago, still hasn't arrived but there was no option for a refund without returning the item (which I obviously couldn't). So I contacted them and asked for a refund, which they have promised to action, but this sentence was included in their response:
"We understand the importance of your order and truly value your trust in us. To make up for this inconvenience, we invite you to place a new order with us at your convenience."
1. I have no trust in a company who are unable to send out an order
2. How is putting in a new order and spending money with them, is in anyway making up for my bloody inconvenient?!
I ordered something a month ago, still hasn't arrived but there was no option for a refund without returning the item (which I obviously couldn't). So I contacted them and asked for a refund, which they have promised to action, but this sentence was included in their response:
"We understand the importance of your order and truly value your trust in us. To make up for this inconvenience, we invite you to place a new order with us at your convenience."
1. I have no trust in a company who are unable to send out an order
2. How is putting in a new order and spending money with them, is in anyway making up for my bloody inconvenient?!
Electronicpants said:
Everything * advertised being compared to the price of a cup of coffee, fk off, from internet security to diet meals. Is everyone so obsessed with coffee now that the only metric they can understand is the price, greater or lesser, than a cup?
Just because advertising executives swan about getting a coffee in their glass boxed office doesn't mean that everyone in the whole of the UK can't understand finance without having it compared to a fking cup of coffee.
s.
not everything *
Is it maybe because coffee is arguably the most obscenely overpriced thing on the face of the planet?k off, from internet security to diet meals. Is everyone so obsessed with coffee now that the only metric they can understand is the price, greater or lesser, than a cup?Just because advertising executives swan about getting a coffee in their glass boxed office doesn't mean that everyone in the whole of the UK can't understand finance without having it compared to a f
king cup of coffee.s.not everything *
I can't stand the vile demon diarrhoea personally, so only buy the stuff for my wife from time to time. The last was a large cappuccino from Starbucks at a services on the A303 for Mrs Kermit a couple of weeks back, and it cost over £4.50!?!
If you want to flog something for "no more than a cup of coffee a day" at those prices, you can pretend that £1,650 a year is cheap!
SlimJim16v said:
RizzoTheRat said:
Woman on the tram having a video phone call without headphones.
Sit next to the ignorant and start listening to some drill music on your speaker. Or industrial techno."I can't help it I'm very lonely"
Spotify!
More specifically, Spotify's apparent belief that nobody will ever want to use their app in landscape!
I use my phone all the time in one of my older cars where it makes way more sense to have the phone in landscape mode on the dash, and that's fine with Google Maps and pretty much everything else I might want to use, but Spotify? Nope. No such thing as landscape unless you have it in split screen, which is pretty much unusable too.
More specifically, Spotify's apparent belief that nobody will ever want to use their app in landscape!
I use my phone all the time in one of my older cars where it makes way more sense to have the phone in landscape mode on the dash, and that's fine with Google Maps and pretty much everything else I might want to use, but Spotify? Nope. No such thing as landscape unless you have it in split screen, which is pretty much unusable too.
nismocat said:
The age demographics on PH. It is becoming more white knightish with some members who have zero sense of humour/just don't get it. People are so offended if you have a little dig at them and cry to the mods. I bet they also have dashcams and report people for being naughty.
A bit late to reply to this thread, but yeah, I actually ended up reading a thread from the early 00s and it was quite obvious how much closer to the bone and politically incorrect it was on some of the threads. Some of the stuff that was posted would probably get you banned now. It was hilarious if I'm honest, but then I'm an old dinosaur who prefers that time before people became snowflakes. Mind, I do often wonder if the snowflake thing is more of an internet thing, because when I talk to people in the real world again, I'm reminded that most folks haven't changed all that much, they just don't bother with the internet and all the terminally offended.
Councils, local ones, they're fking idiots. So incompetent it beggars belief. 3 examples:
Spend £300,000 on average speed cameras along a very twisty/roller coaster of a road that is so twisty you can only go fairly slowly down it but our idiot councillor pulls accident stats from over 5 years, inc one fatality and then gets the local rag to photoshop him standing by the road with a normal car blurred to indicate big speed and even put a Fast and Furious into the pic, as if parked behind him (I'm not kidding! - This reads like something from the DM - https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/surre... Most accidents were dumb people not driving to the weather conditions and sliding into a ditch and the one fatality was a guy on a motorbike whom I'd bet was not doing 30mph!
Our pavements in my road are being relaid, they were fine but at a cost of god knows what we've got weeks of this work, How the hell do they think this is a priority when the roads are so bad. I can only assume its a time related thing that they do and no-one checks to see if anything actually needs doing.
Similarly, I have a flat in London, it is in a cul-de-sac which is essentially just a small car park. The tarmac is fine, no holes or anything due to its minimal wear from cars. A year ago the council dug it all up and relaid the tarmac! I mentioned this to the supervisor managing it and he just said that someone should have probably checked the area before they started!
And there's a letter in Autocar this week about some type of bus lanes/gates in Scotland that the council put in despite everyone not wanting them. Are councils a law unto themselves?
FFS.
king idiots. So incompetent it beggars belief. 3 examples:Spend £300,000 on average speed cameras along a very twisty/roller coaster of a road that is so twisty you can only go fairly slowly down it but our idiot councillor pulls accident stats from over 5 years, inc one fatality and then gets the local rag to photoshop him standing by the road with a normal car blurred to indicate big speed and even put a Fast and Furious into the pic, as if parked behind him (I'm not kidding! - This reads like something from the DM - https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/surre... Most accidents were dumb people not driving to the weather conditions and sliding into a ditch and the one fatality was a guy on a motorbike whom I'd bet was not doing 30mph!
Our pavements in my road are being relaid, they were fine but at a cost of god knows what we've got weeks of this work, How the hell do they think this is a priority when the roads are so bad. I can only assume its a time related thing that they do and no-one checks to see if anything actually needs doing.
Similarly, I have a flat in London, it is in a cul-de-sac which is essentially just a small car park. The tarmac is fine, no holes or anything due to its minimal wear from cars. A year ago the council dug it all up and relaid the tarmac! I mentioned this to the supervisor managing it and he just said that someone should have probably checked the area before they started!
And there's a letter in Autocar this week about some type of bus lanes/gates in Scotland that the council put in despite everyone not wanting them. Are councils a law unto themselves?
FFS.
Frimley111R said:
Councils, local ones, they're fking idiots. So incompetent it beggars belief. 3 examples:
Spend £300,000 on average speed cameras along a very twisty/roller coaster of a road that is so twisty you can only go fairly slowly down it but our idiot councillor pulls accident stats from over 5 years, inc one fatality and then gets the local rag to photoshop him standing by the road with a normal car blurred to indicate big speed and even put a Fast and Furious into the pic, as if parked behind him (I'm not kidding! - This reads like something from the DM - https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/surre... Most accidents were dumb people not driving to the weather conditions and sliding into a ditch and the one fatality was a guy on a motorbike whom I'd bet was not doing 30mph!
Our pavements in my road are being relaid, they were fine but at a cost of god knows what we've got weeks of this work, How the hell do they think this is a priority when the roads are so bad. I can only assume its a time related thing that they do and no-one checks to see if anything actually needs doing.
Similarly, I have a flat in London, it is in a cul-de-sac which is essentially just a small car park. The tarmac is fine, no holes or anything due to its minimal wear from cars. A year ago the council dug it all up and relaid the tarmac! I mentioned this to the supervisor managing it and he just said that someone should have probably checked the area before they started!
And there's a letter in Autocar this week about some type of bus lanes/gates in Scotland that the council put in despite everyone not wanting them. Are councils a law unto themselves?
FFS.
Yes they are imbeciles. king idiots. So incompetent it beggars belief. 3 examples:Spend £300,000 on average speed cameras along a very twisty/roller coaster of a road that is so twisty you can only go fairly slowly down it but our idiot councillor pulls accident stats from over 5 years, inc one fatality and then gets the local rag to photoshop him standing by the road with a normal car blurred to indicate big speed and even put a Fast and Furious into the pic, as if parked behind him (I'm not kidding! - This reads like something from the DM - https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/surre... Most accidents were dumb people not driving to the weather conditions and sliding into a ditch and the one fatality was a guy on a motorbike whom I'd bet was not doing 30mph!
Our pavements in my road are being relaid, they were fine but at a cost of god knows what we've got weeks of this work, How the hell do they think this is a priority when the roads are so bad. I can only assume its a time related thing that they do and no-one checks to see if anything actually needs doing.
Similarly, I have a flat in London, it is in a cul-de-sac which is essentially just a small car park. The tarmac is fine, no holes or anything due to its minimal wear from cars. A year ago the council dug it all up and relaid the tarmac! I mentioned this to the supervisor managing it and he just said that someone should have probably checked the area before they started!
And there's a letter in Autocar this week about some type of bus lanes/gates in Scotland that the council put in despite everyone not wanting them. Are councils a law unto themselves?
FFS.
I’m pretty sure the Scottish council in question would be Aberdeen City Council. Off the scale moronic decisions using our cash like Monopoly money .
TameRacingDriver said:
nismocat said:
The age demographics on PH. It is becoming more white knightish with some members who have zero sense of humour/just don't get it. People are so offended if you have a little dig at them and cry to the mods. I bet they also have dashcams and report people for being naughty.
A bit late to reply to this thread, but yeah, I actually ended up reading a thread from the early 00s and it was quite obvious how much closer to the bone and politically incorrect it was on some of the threads. Some of the stuff that was posted would probably get you banned now. It was hilarious if I'm honest, but then I'm an old dinosaur who prefers that time before people became snowflakes. Mind, I do often wonder if the snowflake thing is more of an internet thing, because when I talk to people in the real world again, I'm reminded that most folks haven't changed all that much, they just don't bother with the internet and all the terminally offended.
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