"these phone using morons behind the wheel are an absolute danger. "
What amazes me is the people driving expensive motors like Range Rovers who insist on making a call with the phone in their hand whilst behind the wheel. Are you telling me a 100k car doesn't have bluetooth? Absolute ballbags the lot of them.
Pay on entry carparks - why not pay on exit so that you don't overpay or get penalised for underpaying?
You've just answered your own question.
Pretty much all pedestrian/cycle crossings... Why do I have to wait 2 minutes after pressing the button for it to let me across? Ok, if it's been less than X minutes since the traffic lights last went red, maybe a longer wait, but otherwise, you're just wasting my time, for no gain. Some different drivers are going to have to wait the same amount of time. We can clearly do this easily, it's not a technical limitation. We can even make the lights wait until there's a gap in traffic to go red, which is even more irritating... I can do that on my own!
For balance, there's one crossing I sometimes use on a shared use path which has an inductive coil that makes the lights at the crossing go red so you can cross at just the right time, if you don't ride too fast. Which makes you feel disproportionately powerful.
I seriously think addressing little things like this would make people on foot/bike not feel like inconveniences to the motoring world, and more likely to do it more. I reckon it would be better value than spending another squillion quid on 300 yards of badly designed cycle path.
Auditioning vocalists. Easiest job in the world, assuming a) you can sing and b) you want to sing. So why act like it's an inconvenience turning up on time and then quit because you didn't realise it involves working nights?
To attend this site, you need an enhanced DBS clearance and 3 forms of ID. One of which must be a recent utility bill.
Oh do **** off. If my driving licence and passport aren’t good enough how will a gas bill help?
Arrive at site, oh you don’t need any of that as you’re not a regular visitor.
Oh, so it’s just one or two separate forms of ID needed and it’s a mistake.
Plus I wasted lots of time tying to find a printed utility bill.
No, you need all those forms of ID if you’re here more often.
So you don’t need any of these 4 forms of ID I’ve gathered?
No.
Mobile phones. Specifically used on public transport. More specifically, used on loudspeaker in a crowded carriage. Even more specifically, used by mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, neanderthals, to have a full blown verbal tear up with, based on both sides we can all hear, their other half...though possibly not current. Throbber.
Oh, and people with wheeled suitcases with no concept of pushing it in a consistent direction. Also throbbers.
Not experiencing the best of work trips thus far.
Coming down with a streaming cold on what's forecast to be nicest week of the year so far.
Moving cars off the drive as Severn Trent are due to dig up the road outside our house today between 8:00 and 16:00. It's now 18:13 and the bastards still haven't turned up.
Suspect they will do it tomorrow to add to bin day chaos.
Finding out that as part of the rail line upgrade they're going to permanently close a rail underpass that (when not flooded) provides a cut through to a nice little quiet gravel road.
... this on top of the eleventy bazillion trees they've cut down.
David Haye.
The smell of whatever the contractors at work are using to level the office floor.
Constant banging on about Mandleson.
The stringy bits in bananas.
Picking up an arid marker pen.
Hotels that exist primarily to service the conference industry that don’t have any usable tables and three pin sockets to allow for conference attendees to do any laptop work
Spiders leaving their trailing webs across doorways at face height...out the patio door - face full of spider web; in the garage door - face full of spider web. Aargghh. (Sorry Harry.)
Spiders leaving their trailing webs across doorways at face height
I'll have a word.
Another Banana one from me. I got a home delivery from Tesco and the bananas they supplied where both brown in parts and green in others.
Like many others, no doubt, we're on a water meter here. The billed cost is roughly £1.60 per m3 for 'waste water' (rather more for tap water, although it all goes through the same meter. Anyway, that's probably another discussion altogether...) So when my wife goes into the loo, tears two or three squares off the bog roll to blow her nose and then flushes it, am I being disproportionately cross?
Similarly, turning on the hot tap to rinse your fingers for 5 seconds. Plenty of time for the combi boiler to fire itself up, but nothing like time enough for the warmed water to actually run through the pipework and fall out of the tap. So it's just 'wearing out' the boiler mechanics and wasting gas as far as I'm concerned.
Yep. Hearing the loo flush followed by the boiler igniting, pump pumping and fan spinning FOR 5 SECONDS causes me upset.
People who clearly want a birthday present, and that you are obliged to buy a birthday present for, who tell you they don't want a birthday present.
I got a home delivery from Tesco and the bananas they supplied where both brown in parts and green in others.
Whenever I've had iffy produce delivered from Tesco, I've flagged it with the driver and they've immediately refunded it and told me to keep it.
Those examples are just a drop in the ocean.
My dad's been in hospital for two weeks - he's 83, epileptic (it was a seizure that put him in there in the first place) and has mild dementia. For at least the past week no-one's quite been able to explain why he's still there and they're not discharging him.
The story constantly changes with regards to what they're waiting for and/or who he needs to see before he can go home. He's knackered, so increasingly confused (a dementia ward is not always the calmest of environments...), my 85 year old mum is knackered and increasingly pissed off, it's just a mess.
Plus the standard of 'nursing' care (like washing, dressing, making sure he's got is hearing aids/teeth in, that kinda thing) has been crap. After he'd been in a week my mum asked if it was possible for him to have a shower and was told that of course it was, why hadn't he asked? FFS, why should he, why aren't you thinking "he's been here a week, has he had a shower?"
Builders constantly triggering my Ring.
Not having Friday off. From the start of the year, I'm meant to have every Friday off. So far I have managed four. Today the weather is amazing and I am going to be working all day. Why? Because my boss is a massive dick.
Full disclosure I work for myself.
@IHN - you have my sympathy. My mum went in with similar during Covid. It was horrendous.
Builders constantly triggering my Ring.
Is this when they take a Diet Coke break?
No, they're in and out much all day and my Ring only gets a break when they bugger off to the bakers for their lunchtime pie.
I've set it to snooze for 8hrs.
(the old lady next door moved out and the landlord is fully renovating the property).
Deserves more attention than it got. Maybe it is a joke that only people in their 50s get.
Dachshunds, especially miniature Dachshunds, and the people that own Dachshunds.
They're the kind of dogs bought by people who should just get a cat.
Today: People listing parts on eBay with "Or Best Offer" and then not accepting or even responding to any offers under the asking price 🤬
If it's on for £135 or offers, and I offer £120 and that's not acceptable then make a counter-offer FFS don't just ignore it. And if I then offer £130 and you decline it, then just don't put on the option to make an offer because you're clearly not looking for one.
Now I'm going to go and buy it from someone else for £5 more because I'm annoyed and also have no confidence that I'll actually get the item and/or any aftersales service if there's an issue because you're clearly a buffoon.
After a few minutes faffing about in the back garden:-
"There we go", she says, "suddenly there's plants growing in all those pots hanging on the shed. The bonus being, we don't have to water them"
Nope, what we actually have is plastic shite hanging, not plants growing at all. Hey ho.
The front and rear lights that were supplied on my wife's Trek FX7 hybrid bike. They are without doubt the weakest, to the point of being pointless, LED lights I have ever come across.
Good use of the 'Levelling Up Fund'?
I dont think so, more a vanity project. I get better play facilities for kids/teenagers in Toxteth and elsewhere, but not this 🙄
Today: People listing parts on eBay with "Or Best Offer" and then not accepting or even responding to any offers under the asking price
You list an asking price and an offer threshold. If the offer doesn't meet the threshold then ebay automatically rejects it (I'm not even surer if you get an email to tell you). OK, maybe they should've set a lower threshold but then maybe they thought their asking price was fair - send them a message
You list an asking price and an offer threshold. If the offer doesn't meet the threshold then ebay automatically rejects it (I'm not even surer if you get an email to tell you). OK, maybe they should've set a lower threshold but then maybe they thought their asking price was fair - send them a message
No I'd be fine if it auto-declined the offer for that reason because then I could offer more or go elsewhere, but it didn't and just timed out after 24hrs without a decline or a counter-offer so I couldn't go and buy another without the risk of ending up with two. I even did it twice as I appreciate not everyone can be online all the time but 48hrs seemed reasonable for someone actively selling things.
People listing "Or Best Offer" and then auto-declining an offer less than 5% off the asking price is a separate annoyance 😆
People who buy houses next to pubs and then complain about living next to a pub.
Probably been done, but those "cats arse" loo roll dispensers. No hope if the paper tears off inside the dispenser.
Even worse when you are in a self contained gender neutral compartment.
People who buy houses next to pubs and then complain about living next to a pub.
See also churches and bells, farms and cows/sheep, coastal houses and rust on cars, etc. Wallopers.
Technician's birthday today. I was that old last century and not even the second half of the last decade of the last century.
People that reply to emails in a professional setting, with a **** emoji.
Reply all *heart*
Reply all *thumbs up!*
I get enough crap emails without this. Please stop. You're not texting your bestie. I'm getting to the point where I'm gonna just send the senders to SPAM and wait until they say "didn't you see my reply?"
This forum having no Like Button or Avatar option.
Or the ability to upload image attachments.... I'd pay for that 🙂
... or would you?
People that reply to emails in a professional setting, with a **** emoji.
Reply all *heart*
Reply all *thumbs up!*
You see I don't mind this. Even tho Microsoft insists on sending me a summary of emoticon responses at the end of every day. Most of my customers are friends really (well I hope so) and UK university sector is pretty informal at the level I deal mostly with.
What did make me DC yesterday was DPDs delivery updates becoming increasingly excited about the location of a package. Starting with a mostly useful "delivery due between 1330 and 1430" at 9pm, by 1230 I was SEVEN Notifications in, the last one a breathless "it's nearly here" followed by a smug "we've delivered it". I know it's a bloody lawnmower, I'd have noticed if you hadn't.
Although my grumpiness is more that the previous lawnmower is in a state of unknown brokenness having being briefly reconfigured as a deep soil plough. It harvested a half brick in the part of the garden that time and mowers forgot. Which didn't end well for the brick or the mower.
