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Banks.
All I want to do is transfer an expiring fixed term ISA into a new one with the same bank, but I don't have the option
Ring the bank, "You should be able to..." "I see what you mean..." "You'll have to apply for the ISA, then email us and then we'll do what the system should have done and won't"
30 minutes wasted
Cleaner at work powers off the coffee machine, at the wall, to clean it on an evening.
I power it on in the morning, fill it with coffee grounds, press start, nothing happens.
Coffee machine refuses to work until the clock has been set... WHY?!?!?!
Banks.
All I want to do is transfer an expiring fixed term ISA into a new one with the same bank, but I don't have the option
Ring the bank, "You should be able to..." "I see what you mean..." "You'll have to apply for the ISA, then email us and then we'll do what the system should have done and won't"
30 minutes wasted
All dealt with in 5 minutes when I did this on my Natwest app a month or so back?
That a species that can land people on the moon can't create a method of fitting a seat to a toilet that does not inevitably come loose.
PCN parking fine despite me registering the car and having permission to be there. Have appealed complete with evidence inviting me to be there at the time and date of the "offence".
Hopefully it will be redacted, but I sense a load of faff that I could do without.
That a species that can land people on the moon can't create a method of fitting a seat to a toilet that does not inevitably come loose.
And then when you try and tighten up the wing nuts underneath, you find they are jammed solid, how the **** did they come lose and be jammed solid at the same time?
When you try and get the toaster going (because of cheese toastie desire) and the damned thing will not stay down, despite repeated attempts.
And then finding out that I'd unplugged it so I could plug in the charger for my GoPro.
That a species that can land people on the moon can't create a method of fitting a seat to a toilet that does not inevitably come loose.
our toilets have a great lid system that doesn’t loosen. They click into place and there’s nothing to tighten.
The "stuck" in a thread title. I just winds me up even though I know it's a turn of phrase every time I see it I want to reply. "Just don't ****ing go then".
'Peelable' film on food packaging that is never ****ing peelable and requires the use of a sharp knife to get to the food. 😡
'Peelable' film on food packaging that is never ****ing peelable and requires the use of a sharp knife to get to the food. 😡
I endore this message. The dogs food is a ****ing bastard to open.
What is it with people holding lapel mics in their hands and talking into them. They're designed specifically so they don't need to be held! It makes them look like they don't know how things work. As if they're old grandmas that can't handle technology. But it's young people.
Autoglass have just been out to repair a small windscreen chip. You have to sign a waiver of "there's a risk the chip could turn in to a crack during the repair process". 5 mins later, knock on the door.... "I'm afraid it's cracked. I've never had that happen before".
So now, not only can I not drive the car until it is replaced, I'm also liable for the extra excess payment involved in replacing it!
Only positive is that because there's no fancy sensors involved they can do it on my drive instead of me having to go to them.
Trying to do some work at a verylarge shopping centre today.
I have a half hour to unload my tools in the service yard, then go and park in another dimension, locate the job and gain access from front of house. (Mission in itself),
Leave expensive equipment in service yard and retrieve vehicle from the next postcode, drive around one way system for about half an hour.
Attempt to access loading bay, ‘ah you’re not booked in’
Yes I am, I have the reference number here.
‘Thats for this morning not for now.’
I need to retrieve my tools.
All whilst standing on the door sill of the vehicle shouting into the high level intercom, in the rain as the low one is broken.
There was a chance at that point of an evening news appearance, due to an overwhelming urge to drive full tilt at the barriers.
What is it with people holding lapel mics in their hands and talking into them. They're designed specifically so they don't need to be held! It makes them look like they don't know how things work. As if they're old grandmas that can't handle technology. But it's young people.
I'm sure we'll have done this before under the guise of 'people holding mobile phones out horizontally in front of them', as seen sometimes in The Apprentice. Essentially the same ****wits.
Also people shouting into mobile phones. It's not 2 yoghurt pots connected by string, technology is there to amplify your voice and transmit it. And turn your bloody speaker phone also, I don't want to hear your conversation.
for some reason it makes me disproportionately cross when i hear geordies pronounce plaster as plarster and master bedroom as marster bedroom. (im looking at you george clark and my geordie workmates).
youre not cockneys, youre northerners, its PLASTER and MASTER!
oh and whilst we're on the intricacies of the English language, the over-use of 'yourself' and 'myself' as though its more polite. (im thinking of you 'traitors'). "tonight i'm voting for yourself johnny". no, its "im voting for you".
i realise theres a certain irony oin my language pedantry when im typing in txt-type, but hey, its a forum so thats acceptable 😉
Gogglebox.
I quite like the programme but I get cross on behalf of the participants. If anyone sat on my sofa tried talking during a programme as much as they do, I will walk out in a huff and turn on the tele in spare room instead.
youre not cockneys, youre northerners, its PLASTER and MASTER!
If northern then it's PLASTA' and MASTA' 🙂
im looking at you george clark
Not a Geordie...
Edit: then again, neither, technically, am I...despite living here for 50 of my 52 years 🤣
Humans riding with their coats open 😂
^^ That would make me disproportionately happy.
The youth think that when I "sang" Flash, aaah he saved everyone of us. I just had the words to an advert wrong.
Just been triggered into saying all those ****ing Flash adverts - ESPECIALLY the ones with a fluffy white poncy dog. Fetch my shotgun please.
Probably been done but retailers who have websites that are so awful to use they clearly don't want your money. Today's dreadful sites include Halfords, Euro Car Parts and B&Q. Hardly any wonder Amazon makes so much money.
How can Halfords keep such a shit website going.?
The post holiday blues. Nuff said.
"muck up day", just **** right off. We've done our best to educate you, cajoled and talked you into studying for certificates, helped with applications and CVs and references and...
So on your last day you plan to throw eggs and water balloons and despoil all those pleasant memories. Don't bother just go away.
Rips ma ****ing knitting
The first big buzzy fly of the year in the house - followed me in through the patio door and spent an hour buzzing and butting up against every closed window in the house rather than just going back out the way it came in
Most of the 'articles' presented in the feed on the mobile when I open a new Chrome tab - especially the ones that start with the words "Here's what you'll learn when you read this article"
No, that's clearly AI-written shite, and it can FRO straight away. I must work out how to turn this feed off before I lob the phone through a window.
Went camping at the weekend in the New Forest, set up in a pretty empty corner of the site (there are no pitches as such, you just set up anywhere as long as you're more than 6m from anyone else) and when we got back from the pub in the evening someone had set up right by us!
They're completely entitled to do so, but I was really annoyed for at least 10 seconds 😑
"muck up day", just **** right off. We've done our best to educate you, cajoled and talked you into studying for certificates, helped with applications and CVs and references and...
So on your last day you plan to throw eggs and water balloons and despoil all those pleasant memories. Don't bother just go away.
We had loads of pranks planned for when we left school. (Not me of course, I was a goody two-shoes girlie swot.) The school gave us a surprise extra holiday, they closed a day early. We all thought "fantastic!" It was weeks later when we realised "hang on a minute..."
when we got back from the pub in the evening someone had set up right by us!
This happened to us a few years back! It's because campers are friendly people and want to chat with other campers! 'Kin weirdos.
Damn annoying when your validation doesn't work on the website
You tube " influencers " semi skilled trades who think they are the dogs bollocks at what they do or know yet still say level when checking perpendicular work
The word is plumb , level is horizontal or like water level
Every loud power tool in the garden the first hint of sun.
Overnight accommodation and holiday lets that ask you to check out before 10.00. Look I get that you need 5 hours in between guests so hows about you have check in at 4pm not 3pm (who wants to check in halfway through an afternoon?) and then I don't have to get up at 8.30 am on Sunday just so we can have breakfast and tidy up before your cleaners start knocking on the door - I mean you are charging enough for the room!!! Grrrrrr.
when we got back from the pub in the evening someone had set up right by us!
This happened to us a few years back! It's because campers are friendly people and want to chat with other campers! 'Kin weirdos.
Maybe there should be a system so that you can opt-out of small-talk, if I don't have a 'fun' windscreen cover or a flag on a 20ft pole for no discernible reason then I'm not staying in a field miles from home to meet people 😀
Went camping at the weekend in the New Forest, set up in a pretty empty corner of the site (there are no pitches as such, you just set up anywhere as long as you're more than 6m from anyone else) and when we got back from the pub in the evening someone had set up right by us!
They're completely entitled to do so, but I was really annoyed for at least 10 seconds 😑
See also: car parks. I swear, I could park in the dead centre of an empty car park and when I got back there would be some Tuesday in an adjacent spot. Does your car get lonely or something?