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Power BI - the most unintuitive piece of software I’ve ever come across. Useful things hidden in tiny ****ing menus. Just purchase a goddamned WMS!

Incorrect use of language and using flowery bollocks speak where plain and simple language would be better. I’m looking at you business meetings!


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 8:23 am
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Shoe sizes. I wish there was a standardised sizing system

What's wrong with Barleycorns?


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 8:29 am
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'Selfies'. Just the word makes me cringe and twitch.

Pictures of someone's dinner on the internet.


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 8:45 am
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Groups of people who string themselves along the entire width of a trail/path, especially when combined with a complete lack of awareness of other people.


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 8:58 am
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Speaking of which… I don’t own a van but do hire one occasionally. Most of them come with a rear view mirror. These vans have a solid bulkhead and rear doors with no windows. Why on earth do they need a rear view mirror?

Depends on the van type. Lutons or other bespoke body types will have been supplied as a chassis cab and these have mirrors fitted as standard as the finished vehicle is more likely going to have a flat bed which can make use of a rear view mirror (not always according to some of the driving skill demonstrated i by their drivers around these parts). It's cheaper to bash out x hundred thousand standard chassis cab units than have build tickets and the associated computer stuff required to maintain the records.


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 9:23 am
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Power BI – the most unintuitive piece of software I’ve ever come across. Useful things hidden in tiny **** menus.

Oracle Fusion is far worse.
What absolute group of morons dreamed that one up?!


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 9:30 am
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People who butter toast, sandwiches, scones etc. only in a small central patch, surrounded by a dry, arid border. Rendering 80% of an otherwise pleasant comestible, sad, diminished and unfulfilled.

I cannot be friends with these people.


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 9:32 am
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People who throw their rubbish away and not put it in a bin. I particularity detest drivers who throw stuff out of their windows whilst driving.

Smokers and Vapers who blow smoke into my space while walking by me.. That makes me really angry.


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 9:55 am
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People who throw their rubbish away and not put it in a bin. I particularity detest drivers who throw stuff out of their windows whilst driving.

I don't think it's disproportionate to get cross about that.


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 10:02 am
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Subtitles for foreign language films in American English!


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 10:53 am
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Self service tills in supermarkets and the robotic 'thank you, goodbye'.


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 10:58 am
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@asbrooks - YES! Smelling smokers and vapers is the worst! Awful.

...there just isn't any excuse for littering at all.


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 11:03 am
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People who ask “can you show me how you would do…” then as soon as you start to explain they interrupt to say “well let me just show you how I’ve been doing it”.

NO! You asked me to show you. I couldn’t give a **** how you’re doing it.

As mentioned somewhere above - clickbait language;

“UK Doctors are begging people to do this one simple thing”

”iPhone users, don’t forget to do this on Friday”

And worse than anything else in the world… the thing that makes me want to shit; Online recipe writers.

I do not want your life story, anecdotes of how you discovered this recipe, what all your friends think of it, or whatever else you think about anything. Just forget the word count & write the ****ing recipe.


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 11:31 am
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....after a long conversation with a client when they say 'can you put that in an email for me?'

It's been an important meeting, why haven't you been taking notes?!?!?!?


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 11:37 am
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Online recipe writers.

I do not want your life story, anecdotes of how you discovered this recipe, what all your friends think of it, or whatever else you think about anything. Just forget the word count & write the **** recipe.

😂👌


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 11:38 am
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Yeah, sure, I’m certain everyone stood behind you paid nearly £100 to watch the show through your 10″ screen

Related, and topical - idiots who go 10 yards down the beach to get closer to photograph the blue supermoon, ignoring the fact that by doing so they are walking right into your shot.


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 11:45 am
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….after a long conversation with a client when they say ‘can you put that in an email for me?’

It’s been an important meeting, why haven’t you been taking notes?!?!?!?

I've probably done something like that myself. It's because I want you to put in writing what you've just said, in case I misheard or misunderstood it, so I can hold you to it later 🙂


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 11:47 am
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Mary Anne Hobbs (6music) keeps saying, 'such and such MADE this one' as if it's a blinkin bowl of pasta or something.

Aaaagggghhh! 😵‍💫

It's a song. What's wrong with 'this is by, such and such'?

She's such a dick. 🙄


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 11:51 am
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Power BI – the most unintuitive piece of software I’ve ever come across. Useful things hidden in tiny **** menus. Just purchase a goddamned WMS!

More specifically M - I'd like to know which muppet in MS signed off on the decision to make it case sensitive.


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 11:52 am
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And worse than anything else in the world… the thing that makes me want to shit; Online recipe writers.

I do not want your life story, anecdotes of how you discovered this recipe, what all your friends think of it, or whatever else you think about anything. Just forget the word count & write the **** recipe.

It improves their chances of Google putting it high in the search results. The writers are trying to earn money, long stories make more money.

https://jjpryor.substack.com/p/why-are-online-recipes-always-so


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 11:55 am
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Self service tills in supermarkets and the robotic ‘thank you, goodbye’.

"Your Clubcard points add up!"

And here was me expecting long division.


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 1:32 pm
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People who butter toast, sandwiches, scones etc. only in a small central patch, surrounded by a dry, arid border. Rendering 80% of an otherwise pleasant comestible, sad, diminished and unfulfilled.

This post should be marked NSFW


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 2:37 pm
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crisp packets etc stuck in summit cairns, and general lack of respect for being outdoors.

our neighbours.


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 2:58 pm
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Old people in the supermarket, who after paying for their shopping, stand right at the exit to the checkout examining in close detail their till receipt.


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 5:19 pm
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What's worse than Power BI? The ****ing assholes who use it micromanage without any concept of the actual job. Or use an exceptional outcome as the norm without checking why its such an outlier....


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 5:27 pm
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Catching clothing on bike handlebars as a I walk past irritates me intensely.


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 5:27 pm
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Old French people paying by cheque in the supermarket with a massive queue behind them and then filling out their stub before moving off.

In fact retired people doing their shopping at the weekend annoys me too - you don't go to work during the week so why are you clogging up the supermarkets and town centres on a weekend when it's going to take you longer !


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 5:31 pm
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People video calling in the supermarket.  They wander around aimlessly, chatting away with no care for anyone else.  Just do your shopping and get out the flipping way!


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 5:49 pm
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Ooh supermarkets full stop. Hateful places with absolutely nothing super about them (apart from the cafe in my local Sainsbury’s). Just dithering idiots strolling about at a pace that makes a sloth look like a speed runner. Just get what you need and piss off out of my way!


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 6:00 pm
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Old people in the supermarket, who after paying for their shopping, stand right at the exit to the checkout examining in close detail their till receipt.

Oh, I have a new supermarket one.

The local Tesco has self scan / Scan As You Go tills... which are the same tills. So I'm there with a scanner in my back pocket, get to the till, zap the barcode, answer "no, there's nothing I couldn't scan," hit Pay, ding my phone, and I'm outta here. I'm in and out in faster than it took me to type that.

Except, they're always rammed with people with baskets stacked two foot high who are painfully scanning every bloody item, the obligatory "unexpected item in bagging area" requiring the one member of staff looking after six tills to have to go sort it out (single point of failure also). And then half the time after they've paid (in exact change, obvs) they then produce carrier bags and start bagging up. You're doing a weekly shop manually at quarter to four, I'm here because my girlfriend's asked me get her a sandwich, and the queue is back to the door. Why not just use a regular till FFS.


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 7:34 pm
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In fact retired people doing their shopping at the weekend annoys me too – you don’t go to work during the week so why are you clogging up the supermarkets and town centres on a weekend when it’s going to take you longer !

I do it because I can and to annoy the you. Think of it as my new hobby


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 9:17 pm
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Banging your bag of nuts on the weighing area but them not getting recognized. Banging them harder and harder until assistant comes up and points out the weighing area is the other side. The other side of the till to the exit!? Total madness!


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 9:22 pm
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Banging your bag of nuts on the weighing area but them not getting recognized

What item do you search for on the display for them - is it under plums or kiwis? Or are yours barcoded? Sounds painful regardless.


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 9:30 pm
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People who go 450 degrees around a roundabout to cut the queue of traffic taking the first exit.

It's aggravated ball-baggery of the highest order. To gain a few seconds for themselves they cut off all the traffic at the other entries to the roundabout and cause those to queue up.

On my way home there's one roundabout where this is rife. One tadger in a golf with one of those awful stickers that shows a stick man dad, mum, 2 kids and a dog in the back window does it every day. I don't think it's goes to far to say him, his wife and kids all need the old testament treatment. The dog probably won't ever drive so it's ok.


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 9:32 pm
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Banging your bag of nuts on the weighing area but them not getting recognized. Banging them harder and harder until assistant comes up and points out the weighing area is the other side.

I mean, I'm open to a bit of uniform fantasy, but the Tesco look is not high on my list.

Or are you misunderstanding "self service"?


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 10:02 pm
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The current crop of commentators on Eurosport DH coverage. One of them seems to be deliberately and forcibly dropping his 'T's wherever possible, even when it sounds harder to do than just pronouncing the word/name with all consonants intact!

I can't help imagine that they think they are somehow 'relating' to a younger crowd of viewers or something by doing it.

Or maybe I'm just repressing memories of being scolded by my dad every time I dropped a 'T'... 🙄


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 10:05 pm
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French people

Getting to the top of an escalator, taking one step off and stopping to check their phone, look for their cigarettes, whatever, with the obvious pile up resulting. I’m sure other nationalities are also guilty but for some reason I associate this asinine behaviour with France.


 
Posted : 31/08/2023 11:12 pm
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In fact retired people doing their shopping at the weekend annoys me too – you don’t go to work during the week so why are you clogging up the supermarkets and town centres on a weekend when it’s going to take you longer !

I do it because I can and to annoy the you. Think of it as my new hobby

I'm the kind of vengeful **** that will end up doing just the same as you


 
Posted : 01/09/2023 12:17 am
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Or maybe I’m just repressing memories of being scolded by my dad every time I dropped a ‘T’… 🙄

What a cun.


 
Posted : 01/09/2023 12:22 am
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Self service tills in supermarkets and the robotic ‘thank you, goodbye’.

"Thank you for shopping at Tasda."


 
Posted : 01/09/2023 9:42 am
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Anything that needs an app to make it work.


 
Posted : 01/09/2023 10:22 am
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Anything that needs an app to make it work.

On that note, app upgrades that 'lose' your credentials and make you go find them again or do a password reset.


 
Posted : 01/09/2023 10:25 am
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New one for me... "Grandparent's Day"... buy, buy, buy...


 
Posted : 01/09/2023 10:26 am
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People who leave their shopping trolleys randomly in supermarket car parks. Yes, someone employed by the supermarket will pick it up from the place you've dumped it but if you managed to walk around the supermarket you can walk the extra 10m to put it in the right place.


 
Posted : 01/09/2023 10:34 am
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People who leave their shopping trolleys randomly in supermarket car parks.

I think they are the same demographic that throw McDonalds wrappers and Red Bull cans out of car windows.


 
Posted : 01/09/2023 10:57 am
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