Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)

[MartG]

popeyewhite said:

matchmaker said:

Boydie88 said:

yellowjack said:

People who repeatedly stab at a button that only needs pressing once.

No, you bell end, it will not print and dispense your pay & display ticket any quicker just because you keep jabbing the button repeatedly.

The most infuriating example, pelican crossings.
You're a fellow pedestrian, already waiting at said light with the word 'WAIT' or a red light fully illuminated, telling others it's already pressed yet still people will walk up and hammer away at the button as if this will instantly switch on the green man.

To add to this. As a driver, seeing someone in the distance walk up to a crossing, press the button, then look each way, see it's clear and walk out anyway whilst the lights are still green for cars. These lights then change once said bellend has crossed the road leaving the driver to needlessly stop.

Equally, pedestrians who walk up to a crossing, don't press the button and stand waiting like a fking idiot for the green man to come on!

Wrong thread I know - but alternatively praise is due for those who can still cross a road without the use of a PC. Look right , look left etc...it's a dying breed down to the very last remnants of a lost civilisation.

In some countries it's actually illegal

[Clockwork Cupcake]

MartG said:

In some countries it's actually illegal

Yup. And in some, like Singapore, crossing the road at anywhere other than a proper crossing can be illegal.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking

[V8mate]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

MartG said:

In some countries it's actually illegal

Yup. And in some, like Singapore, crossing the road at anywhere other than a proper crossing can be illegal.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking

In Germany you can be fined if you jaywalk when a crossing is in sight. And at a crossing, you may only cross when the 'man' is green.

As with most laws of this type in Germany, it's about setting a good example, and preventing harm, to children.

[Shakermaker]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

MartG said:

In some countries it's actually illegal

Yup. And in some, like Singapore, crossing the road at anywhere other than a proper crossing can be illegal.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking

And many places in the USA, despite their love of "FREEDOM!"

[popeyewhite]

Shakermaker said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

MartG said:

In some countries it's actually illegal

Yup. And in some, like Singapore, crossing the road at anywhere other than a proper crossing can be illegal.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking

And many places in the USA, despite their love of "FREEDOM!"

In the UK we have PCs in areas way out of town, such as rural DCs - where you can see traffic approaching from quite a distance away left and right. Quite different from the centre of a town. Often I'll get to a crossing on red and there's no one there - they are long gone as they have robotically pressed the button to cross and only then glanced up and checked the traffic to see there was none.

Edited by popeyewhite on Tuesday 7th January 15:00

[washingitagain]

Shakermaker said:

And many places in the USA, despite their love of "FREEDOM!"

Yep. My mate got a telling off by the police in California. If it wasn't for his English accent he'd have got a fine he reckons.

[Allan L]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

MartG said:

In some countries it's actually illegal

Yup. And in some, like Singapore, crossing the road at anywhere other than a proper crossing can be illegal.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking

I like to claim that I studied jay-walking in Calcutta and ran my finals in Metro Manila - 40-odd years ago so not illegal, so much as encouraged, then.

[Frank7]

V8mate said:

In Germany you can be fined if you jaywalk when a crossing is in sight. And at a crossing, you may only cross when the 'man' is green.

I can vouch for this, I went to cross the road in Bielefeld, before the “man” turned green, and one of my German grandsons grabbed me by the arm and said that if a cop saw a German citizen do that, he could possibly get the citizen a licence suspension for a period of time.
I scoffed, and asked my son, a German citizen now for 18-20 years, he said, “I don’t know anyone it’s happened to, but I think it’s true.”

[Morningside]

droopsnoot said:

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See also: flashing headlamps at traffic lights.

Aggggggggghhhhhhhhhh! I still see it happening far too often at roadworks.

"But the sensor on the top detects the headlights"

[kowalski655]

washingitagain said:

Shakermaker said:

And many places in the USA, despite their love of "FREEDOM!"

Yep. My mate got a telling off by the police in California. If it wasn't for his English accent he'd have got a fine he reckons.

It must suck if you're disabled & struggle to walk,to have to walk , say,50 yards down the road to a crossing,then back to the opposite point ,when the road is demonstrably clear!

[Cantaloupe]

Morningside said:

Aggggggggghhhhhhhhhh! I still see it happening far too often at roadworks.

"But the sensor on the top detects the headlights"

Well it does work mr. smartpants, 30 seconds after flashing your lights it turns green, ergo quer carborundum.

[nonsequitur]

Cantaloupe said:

Morningside said:

Aggggggggghhhhhhhhhh! I still see it happening far too often at roadworks.

"But the sensor on the top detects the headlights"

Well it does work mr. smartpants, 30 seconds after flashing your lights it turns green, ergo quer carborundum.

Creased up here.

[Cotty]

Frank7 said:

I can vouch for this, I went to cross the road in Bielefeld, before the “man” turned green, and one of my German grandsons grabbed me by the arm and said that if a cop saw a German citizen do that, he could possibly get the citizen a licence suspension for a period of time.
I scoffed, and asked my son, a German citizen now for 18-20 years, he said, “I don’t know anyone it’s happened to, but I think it’s true.”

As a pedestrian what licence can they suspend? Driving, but what if you don't have a driving licence.

[washingitagain]

Cantaloupe said:

Well it does work mr. smartpants, 30 seconds after flashing your lights it turns green, ergo quer carborundum.

Same logic as whatever the person bought from the chemist for their cold which 'worked' after a few days.

[john_1983]

Tradesmen who assume all customers have the same level of knowledge as them, e.g. when reporting a boiler issue over the phone "Does your boiler have an abc or xyz?" when it's a fairly technical part they're talking about, not something as simple as the model number for example. I always thought they would assume the customer knew very little.

Also tradesmen, who when they find the problem come up to you and say "It's the xyz that's causing the issue" without expanding on to a solution, i.e. can it be repaired, do I need a new one, what are the chances of you having the part in your van etc.

I work with clients, and when I have an issue I tell them what it is, then offer them their options to a resolution - not just report the issue and leave it

[Shakermaker]

Notwithstanding my annoyance at how much packaging is used to put a shirt on the shelf in many high street shops, it is also very annoying that they arrange them with the largest collar sizes near the bottom, and the smallest collars at the top. Therefore anyone with a big neck like us PH double hard company directors has to bend all the way to the floor to find if they have our size or not.

Logically it should be the other way around and those with child-size necks should have no problem as they are already near the floor anyway.

[droopsnoot]

Installers that are not really installers are annoying me. Just downloaded something to combine PDFs, the installer is 18Mb so I figured that would be it. But no, that's just the thing that downloads the real installer from the net, so when I run it, it then actually starts the download running, then installs itself. Double points for the fact that after all that messing around (or: entirely unattended process), it then says "you need Java to run this", I download the Java installer, and that does the same thing. Two steps for each, when I was expecting one.

(* bandwidth limit, close to end of month, have to keep an eye on things).

[yellowjack]

Shakermaker said:

Notwithstanding my annoyance at how much packaging is used to put a shirt on the shelf in many high street shops, it is also very annoying that they arrange them with the largest collar sizes near the bottom, and the smallest collars at the top. Therefore anyone with a big neck like us PH double hard company directors has to bend all the way to the floor to find if they have our size or not.

Logically it should be the other way around and those with child-size necks should have no problem as they are already near the floor anyway.

Usually the same in shoe shops. Yeti sizes on the bottom shelf, smallest sizes on the top shelf. But those with smaller feet are more likely to be short, so it really ought to be the other way around...

[droopsnoot]

droopsnoot said:

Installers that are not really installers are annoying me.

And to add insult to injury, the first thing it come up with when I can actually run the software is "there's a new version available, do you want to download it?". How? How can there be a new version since twenty minutes ago?

[yellowjack]

Arrrrrrgh!

Doing a pre-MOT check of my car this morning, and ALL the lamps/bulbs were fine.

Come out of the test centre with a 'minor' defect. One of the numberplate bulbs has decided it's had enough between my driveway and the test centre. "Such is life with bulbs" said the tester, but I reckon he didn't believe me. To add insult to injury, I have a box of spare lamps in the garage, so if it had already blown when I checked it this morning, I'd definitely have replaced it prior to presenting it for the MOT.