Zia Yusuf on Question Time
Or any other programme for that matter. Smug, argumentative, patronising git. FRO.
I may have said this before, but club riders who return after a few months of not riding and jump straight back into the group they previously rode with and wonder why they struggle.
We have a strict no drop policy but it's taking the piss. Just drop down a group or two for a couple of weeks till you get your legs back.
Oh yes, and check your bike over as well after it's been festering in the shed!
A couple of things here. I mean, £1.60 for a can of Coke Zero is criminal but, my real thing that makes me DC is this in Sainsbury's self checkout.
'Go to Pay'.
Go where? I'm already here bruv. Where am I going?
'Pay' would be just fine. 🙄
I may have said this before, but riders who return after a few months of not riding and jump straight back into the group they previously rode with and wonder why they struggle.
We have a strict no drop policy but it's taking the piss. Just drop down a group or two for a couple of weeks till you get your legs back.
And repeat! Different group, same problem.
People who reply to emails having not actually read the email that was sent, and any of the previous responses that give the nature and context of the interaction. Worse, its the other person on my team, who has now just confused the matter and begun a game of email tennis until they bother to catch up. Cretin.
"68 people have viewed this item in the last 24 hours"
why do online stores do this? what's the purpose of it exactly?
My soon to be 17 year old son makes me disproportionately cross. He pretty much refuses to study, but he is not smart enough to get decent grades without studying. He aggressively refuses all offer of help. He is very much a victim of the perfect storm of COVID shutting down schools at key transition time and peak mobile phone / social media distraction. He is painfully shy but also loaded with agro testosterone. All of this sprinkled with too much XBOX and he really is a challenge.
Parenting is hard.
Queuing for ages behind middle aged men that can’t work out how to use the self serve checkouts 🫢
Self serve checkouts that don’t work properly.
I feel for the poor staff member continually flitting from one station to the other overriding errors and apologising to the irate customers, while a dozen old-skool checkouts sit unmanned and unused.
Queuing for ages behind middle aged men that can’t work out how to use the self serve checkouts 🫢
As for the people who get to the end and hunt out paper vouchers and coins, aaargh!
As for the people who get to the end and hunt out paper vouchers and coins, aaargh!
These are the same people who queue for a cash machine then act surprised that they need to find their bank card once at the front of the queue.
People who reply to emails having not actually read the email that was sent, and any of the previous responses that give the nature and context of the interaction.
"I'm selling [this thing], size medium, £20, collection from [location]."
"Great, how much is it?"
Flies. Specifically swatting of the little buzzy ********. Mostly as they land on a body part which I repeatedly smack with the swatter, painfully injuring said part while the fly buzzes happily off to land somewhere else a second later. It's like I'm on fire and attempting to put myself out!
I'd just like to add that sub-group of checkout lunatics who cannot even locate the holder for their credit card/cash. In and out of the bag they delve cluttering up the till area with a frankly ludicrous pantheon of tat. "Oh yes, here is us hiding under that novelty 8 foot octopus I like to have with me"
Flies.
Teenage Daughter: Hates flies and screams at their presence in the house.
Also teenage daughter: Leave plates of food leftovers and dregs of sugary drinks around all over the place. Leave worktops a mess after preparing food. Doesn't comprehend that there may be a link.
😐
Queuing for ages behind middle aged men that can’t work out how to use the self serve checkouts 🫢
As for the people who get to the end and hunt out paper vouchers and coins, aaargh!
Similarly, people who use the self serve checkouts by scanning their purchases, putting them in the bagging area, paying for them and then putting their purchases into bags right at the end of the process.
and then putting their purchases into bags right at the end of the process.
Guilty as charged. However, in my defence, this is only when using a backpack (walking or cycling), as putting said backpack onto the self-checkout packing area only results in issues requiring a poor staff member to reset the till error, whilst I gaze at the unmanned, unused old-skool checkouts.
Can we add, the B&Q assistants who's job it is to check your receipt and items after you've used the self-checkout. I was behind a chap recently who's response to a request to check was along the lines of " No, you can either trust me to do the job for you for free, or you can put people on check-outs, you can't have it both ways," and then boldly went on his way.
I meekly submitted to have my receipt checked...
However, in my defence, this is only when using a backpack
I scan-and-go straight into a rucksack, by the time I get to checkouts I'm already packed.
Alternatively, take a carrier bag in your rucksack. When checking out, fill carrier bag, pay, lift carrier bag into rucksack.
Alternatively if you've bought enough to require Rucksack Jenga, take carrier and **** off away from the checkouts so that you can rebag it on the benches at the end.
There is no defence here. 😁
And repeat! Different group, same problem
I'm confused. Can you explain?
I was behind a chap recently who's response to a request to check was along the lines of " No, you can either trust me to do the job for you for free, or you can put people on check-outs, you can't have it both ways," and then boldly went on his way.
Give that man a medal
Our broadband has been ropey for coming in three weeks now. We've had one engineer out but it turned out that didn't fix the problem.
First off it's very difficult to ring them to report the problem as the issue is with the line, which means we can't make landline calls. We also live in an area where the mobile reception is poor so rely on WiFi calling, which needs, you've guessed it, reliable broadband.
So, I spent 75 minutes on hold ("your call is very important to us...") on Friday perched on an upstairs front window sill waiting to get through to someone to log the continuing fault. The guy I spoke to took some persuading that the problem was not with the router or the socket and could he please just get an Openreach engineer booked in. Then, fair play to him, he had the absolute brass balls to try and cross-sell a mobile contract...
Got a text this morning saying an Openreach engineer will be coming between 8 and 1 tomorrow. Excellent, except our road is shut tomorrow because of roadworks. So I tried to ring to rearrange, but after half an hour on hold I gave up. And guess who's digging the road up? Openreach.
And all the while, the loop of actual FTTP fibre is hanging from the pole at the end of the drive, where it has been for the last four years...
@IHN we had a similar experience being hung out on the end of a very long cable from the exchange. When we moved in, 2mbit/second as long as it wasn't raining. OpenReach grudgingly relaid same cable(!), removed the dead rats from the conduits and attempted to stop any more chewing away on the twisted pair, and proudly trumpeted their "Urban ADSL renewal" at which point our broadband was a not even slightly improved 2mbit/second.
No mobile coverage here at all with a phone. Trying to log a fault from someone elses number may well be the most frustrating thing in my entire life. And I've parented too children so the bar is high.
Now we have fibre. The dregs of a pre-brexit EU grant (Remember those?). A shiny gigabit of internet superhighway has banished buffering, lagging and general media poverty misery. Until a tree falls over and takes out the fibre. But you know I'll take that. Fibre hanging off a pole to full install < 4 weeks. You have my sympathy for what it's worth!
First off it's very difficult to ring them to report the problem as the issue is with the line, which means we can't make landline calls. We also live in an area where the mobile reception is poor so rely on WiFi calling, which needs, you've guessed it, reliable broadband.
Maybe time to pinch your nose and chuck money at Musk to get StarLink?
Fibre hanging off a pole to full install < 4 weeks.
/Yorkshire accent
Try 3 months to get an engineer to look at the newly dug pit and say 'Aye, that was put in't wrong place then lad'.
And another 2 months to get a second engineer out to estimate how much to extend the pit/cable so that it could come up the driveway of 4 properties.
And another 2 months to decide we were moving anyway so cancelled the order for fibre.
At least we had a cheque for a fair chunk of money as unexpected compensation for being so shit....
/Yorkshire accent end
Maybe time to pinch your nose and chuck money at Musk to get StarLink?
I'll install two yoghurt pots and a piece of string before that **** gets any of my money
I don't know if it's of any use here but,
If you've got ADSL over the phone line and the line is bad, you need to chase your phone provider (usually BT) rather than your ISP.
If you've got ADSL over the phone line and the line is bad, you need to chase your phone provider (usually BT) rather than your ISP.
Phone and broadband are through Utility Warehouse. They've punted it off to Openreach as it's a network/line problem (the last time the engineer came out there was literally a dodgy connection on the pole outside)
And repeat! Different group, same problem
I'm confused. Can you explain?
Original rant for a club ride on Sunday, that one was for a rider on the local health ride group last night:
Her: Can I ride with Regulars? My first ride of the year
Us: We are doing a longer and hillier route tonight. You'd be better off in the Newbies group
Her: No, I'll be fine.
Dear reader - she was not fine. She walked up a lot of those hills we had warned her about.
It's a social no drop ride, it was a lovely evening. And we only over ran by 20 minutes. But even so, a couple of husbands waiting at the car park for their other halves were a bit miffed.
However, in my defence, this is only when using a backpack (walking or cycling), as putting said backpack onto the self-checkout packing area only results in issues
Yep, me too. And since I usually walk or cycle to the supermarket, I have to do this most times. The thing needs an "I am using a backpack" button.
However, in my defence, this is only when using a backpack (walking or cycling), as putting said backpack onto the self-checkout packing area only results in issues
Yep, me too. And since I usually walk or cycle to the supermarket, I have to do this most times. The thing needs an "I am using a backpack" button.
For shopping in the supermarket, I leave the pannier on the bike(its ziptied on anyway) load it all back into the trolley, then wheel the trolley to the bike and pack it all there.
a frankly ludicrous pantheon of tat.
I've just revisited this expression, and realised that what Alex probably intended to write was 'panoply' rather than 'pantheon'. Unless he genuinely meant a temple-full of tat. It's still a good expression despite my pedantry
My road (a long residential hill that drivers regularly shoot along at 10,000 mph) is soon to be getting a 20mph limit and speed humps. Comments from locals are largely positive, with a fair sprinkling of comments like "as long as there's no camera, they're just a money grab for the council, preying on residents, blah blah".
FFS people, do you support a low speed limit or not? Do you even realise that if you simply DON'T 🤬ING SPEED, the camera will not affect you in the slightest? That in effect you're just saying "I want to speed! Others should slow down, not me!"? And what do you have against the council making money anyway? Where do you think the money for the work comes from in the first place? Oh that's right, your council tax. I wonder how we could make that lower, maybe other sources of income, such as...
Oh and while I'm at it, stickers on the backs of cars that read "sorry, I have a black box!" or words to that affect. Why sorry? I didn't notice, because we're both driving sensibly and there's nothing odd here. Oh, you mean you want to speed and drive recklessly and assume I want to too? Well then you're exactly the sort of person who SHOULD have a black box, aren't you, and your amusing sticker does nothing except advertise that you're a d
Ok I'm done.
I'm surprised that road potholes haven't yet been rebranded as "natural traffic calming." The f'ked residential roads don't need resurfacing, they just need better PR.
My road (a long residential hill that drivers regularly shoot along at 10,000 mph) is soon to be getting a 20mph limit and speed humps.
I wish my road would get the same. It’s a long straight stretch of a generally narrow and winding country road and a temptation for the mentally challenged to put their foot down hard. Apart from the obvious danger to everyone else on the road and especially to residents emerging from driveways it reduces the area to an abattoir of wildlife - birds, hares, badgers, deer. Instead of cameras, the council should install machine guns of the sort that Ukraine is using to remotely kill Russian attackers.
Having to listen to diet, health and fitness advice from colleagues I am in way better shape than.
I'm surprised that road potholes haven't yet been rebranded as "natural traffic calming." The f'ked residential roads don't need resurfacing, they just need better PR.
There's a village between Telford and Bridgnorth (Norton, for those that know the area) where I'm certain this is what's happening. Its a generally fast road with good sight lines to the north and south, then there's a short 40 section entering from either direction, and then 30 through the centre. The road surface in the village is variously potholed and deformed, and has been left to deteriorate for 3 or 4 years - no patching, no surface dressing, nothing. It can only be deliberate, as it needs you to weave between the holes to avoid damage to tyres and wheels, and that can only be done at low speed. Effective, but bloody annoying. As you say, it just needs someone to put a sign up to say it's deliberate neglect.
Some 5 or 6 years ago, the Highways Agency had a nearby 1.5mile section of the (60mph) carriageway completely replaced, planed out to maybe 4" deep and renewed, crews and plant on site for a week or two, several thousand tonnes of asphalt, new ironworks, repaint markings, the job would have cost probably a million quid minimum. But nothing's happened in Norton at all.
I was behind a chap recently who's response to a request to check was along the lines of " No, you can either trust me to do the job for you for free, or you can put people on check-outs, you can't have it both ways," and then boldly went on his way.
Give that man a medal
I didn't realise that's what they are for. I just walk on out past them.
Fox forks, or more specifically the fact that rockshox have moved to using standard tools for servicing theirs but fox still need you to smack fragile nuts (or sort out special adapters) to release the lowers and use a special socket to undo the top of the air spring.
There is no defence here.
Except when there is. For example, at a smaller sized version of a supermarket where they don't have self scan. Or you're out of town and have to use a different supermarket.
Local pharmacy has moved onto a system with hand-held phone-a-like gadgets that take forever to use.
Just walk to the alphabetised shelves and give me the bag that has my name on it; we both know that's where the gadget will send you in ten minutes
