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You're all invited to Grandma's Grammar Pantry, BTW.
Royal Bastard Mail's "fee to pay" cards! I've had 2 of them this week, 1, because my ol mum has eaten into their profits by sending a card £1.50 short on postage.. but its not that! It's the recipient who gets the punishment... It can only be a punishment, becuase they have to print, label and stick something on the card that they POST THROUGH THE LETTERBOX! Isn't it just as easy or easier! to post the bloody item through the letterbox??? PLus my mum's name and address was on the back, so go to her for your desperately needed £1.50! Dicks
Then there’s PEOPLE who randomly capitalise WORDS in their sentences. I often wonder if they SPEAK like this too, yelling words AT random mid-sentence.
There are and, they. Do? it. WITH punctuation, and?
Also in.. pacing their. Speech too.
I call it 'Christoper Walken' syndrome.
It’s got to be Cougar 😉
I wouldn't be surprised.
Helium filled foil balloons are the worst, gggrrrrr!!!!
On a scale of 1 to Disproportionate, Chinese Lanterns have to be the worst. All the fun of helium balloons, only on fire
And made of ruminant-killing bamboo.
Chemtrail nutters
Surname fields which don’t accept apostrophes or capitalisation of more than one letter. Have the coders never heard of people of Irish ancestry?
I remember an article by Dara Ó Briain complaining that the Aer Lingus system wouldn’t except his name, the Ó being the issue
Would they accept it instead?
There are and, they. Do? it. WITH punctuation, and?
To a degree at least, I can put this down to phone keyboards which insert a full stop and a capital if you happen to accidentally double-tap the spacebar. (Of course, it's easy to correct if you actually look what you're doing.)
That Mrs. Brown’s boys is considered superior to Ghosts by those who voted for the NTA awards.
The fact that Mrs Browns boys was considered worthy for broadcast.
Being informed that I am correct in identifying that I am indeed not a robot.
As if I was in some doubt.
Being informed that I am correct in identifying that I am indeed not a robot.
I came across a story a couple of weeks back, someone had developed an AI which talked to another AI. In order to establish contact, there's a CAPTCHA-a-like where they prove that they are indeed robots...
I hope they get a patronising green tick too.
Lazy non-blue badge holders parking in disabled bays AND parking shockingly. It’s the combination that creates the disproportionate crossness.. some fat * earlier landed his Range Rover (obviously) at a good 30 degrees to the lines while his missus went into the shop, engine running throughout. If you’re going to be a * fair enough but at least attempt to park in a proper fashion, the bay is big enough FFS!
Danish white bread.
We live in an age where, with a box of tissues, you take one out and the next one cheerfully pops up behind it ready to be grabbed after a surprise attack sneeze. This is not new technology even, I've known it all my life.
So why is it so zarking difficult to get the first one out of the box? Despite careful picking, what am I supposed to do now with the other five?
the bay is big enough FFS!
That's ****ty parking for sure, but I'd contest your point on the parking bays. The average size of your average car has been creeping upwards on average year-on-year, yet we're still designing carparks designed to house your average 1960s Austin Mini. If I drove a large faux-by-four I'd probably choose to take up two spaces myself (though I'd have the grace to do it at the back of a carpark rather than straddling two disabled bays).
The use of the word average 4 times in one sentence must be a deliberate attempt to make readers' brains twitch.
I deliberately did it deliberately, yes.
That’s ****ty parking for sure,
This should probably belong in a thread called disproportionately happy, but my local sainsbo's has double lines between spaces which in theory make it fool proof.. At least it would but you still get Chelsea tractors parking over the lines on occasion even though the car would still fit between the lines if they knew how to use a steering wheel or had any spacial awareness...
Increasingly, facebook. Used to like it a lot for keeping in touch with friends all over the world but also used various groups as an alternative to the forums (many of which inevitably died) but the groups especially seem to be becoming a minefield of scammers and utter cretins to the point where I've removed myself from half the groups I was in this morning and left myself in a tiny handful which are carefully managed. That said, I can see a point very soon where I bin it off completely - did the same a few years back with instagram where every time I went on it, it just pissed me off (and I don't miss it in the slightest) and facebook is rapidly going the same way.
Yeah Facebook is just awful these days...
I still have an account purely for a handful of people and local interest groups but other than that it's just pure spam and advertising.
@mattyfez " but my local sainsbo’s has double lines between spaces"
Shrewsbury, Meole Brace?
Facebook purity gets rid of a lot of the dross and restores a semblance of usability to FB. Only works on a browser though and not on the app on your phone.
"I deliberately did it deliberately, yes."
Nice, I like your style.
YouTube. First it gave me a free trial of premium. It's quite nice not having 5-20 second adverts all the time. I now miss those 5-10 second adverts, as mine, following the end of the free trial of premium, now provides me with 25-40 seconds of adverts before and during the watching of videos. 🙁
People who stand in front of train doors to get on, leaving no room for the queue of people to get off first.
This is true, but you already have the high ground, so you can just walk off the train and barge through them.. I love doing this.. they look so shocked and offended!
Normaly people waiting to get on, will leave a channel for people disembarking, so you get a bunched up group of people directly to the left and right of the doors, then you get the free for all of people trying to get on!
This is true, but you already have the high ground, so you can just walk off the train and barge through them.. I love doing this.. they look so shocked and offended!
I enjoy this game - my train to work carries on to another town with a grammar school, so you arrive to a platform full of school kids who, to be fair, know to stand aside and let us off first, but this week there seems to be a lot of adults who don't seem to understand the system - one of them wasn't happy that I prevented him getting on the train as I led the people disembarking this morning. One of the school kids explained it to him, which didn't seem to help his mood.
People who stand in front of train doors to get on, leaving no room for the queue of people to get off first.
More generally, people who stand in doorways. It absolutely baffles me how many people there are for whom "going outside" comes as a complete shock.
See also blocking escalators for no reason... if you want to stand still on the escalator, fine, but allow a gap beside you for people trying to catch an onward connection or whatever.
And ticket barriers... get your ticket out before you get to the barrier.
And ticket barriers… get your ticket out before you get to the barrier.
I've surely posted this before but,
People appearing shocked that they have to pay for something, then eventually after a successful archeological dig to find their purse/wallet several strata down they insist on paying in exact change. Which they invariably then don't have so either a) pay with a £20 note anyway or b) pay with a £20 but also hand over the right amount of coppers to make up the pence figure, confusing the absolute piss out of the 16-year old on the till. Writing a sodding cheque would be faster.
I think I need to get "just take your shit and **** off" printed onto a tee-shirt.
And, and,
It's never at 10am on a Thursday, is it. No, it's always Your Store Is About To Close O'Clock on a Sunday afternoon when all I want is a pint of milk and I'm stuck behind some country & western who's decided that this is an ideal time to get their annual shop in. I expect that these are the same sociopathic bastards who casually get a week's worth of shopping from a petrol station whilst their car is languishing at pump #1 for half an hour.
Cross over post to the Wales 20mph frothing some members have contributed previously... I live in a quiet place with a narrow A road passing through. Garnant. Between Garnant and Glanamman, the next village down there's a lot of on street parking which inevitably narrows the road to effectively a single lane. Since the introduction of 20 mph road speeds have dropped noticeably and traffic flows more smoothly. Oncoming traffic looks ahead and anticipates, pulls in, drives on, whatever. It's almost balletic sometimes. A finger lifted from the steering wheel in acknowledgement is universally utilised as the acknowledgement of the other drivers' good actions.
Except for one or two self entitled cacas who breeze on through, oblivious to everyone else. Looking at you B3KSO or whatever your ridiculously convoluted vanity plate is. On a rust box of a Range Rover with pink trim. Bet she's pushing for that section of road to return to 30mph.
Politeness costs nothing. Grrrrr.
And the person who went away, their intruder alarm goes off. I call the police at gone midnight. When occupant finally comes back days later with the alarm still going she's well put out that we'd called the cops.
And the person who went away, their intruder alarm goes off. I call the police at gone midnight. When occupant finally comes back days later with the alarm still going she’s well put out that we’d called the cops.
Oh man... yeah there's someone within a street or two of me who's alarm goes off on a regular basis... I'm not sure if it's a house alarm or a car alarm, and it's super loud, and it's the same one every time.
I've not figured out exactly where it is yet... it's really annoying.
I can understand false alarms, or if the alarm has not been set up correctly... but when it becomes a repeating pattern over several months....
I keep experiencing something that makes me disproportionately cross, and I think, "I must add it here". Then I forget. Forgetting things that make me DC is making me DC.
Also, this anecdote is shit.
Also, this anecdote is shit.
Don't feel bad... or even disproportionately cross about it, you're eleventy-first person to post something similar on this thread.
I keep experiencing something that makes me disproportionately cross, and I think, “I must add it here”. Then I forget.
I keep thinking this, then not posting about it because I'm not sure whether I've already posted it or not.
TBH I'm not entirely sure whether I've posted this before, either.
Giving way when you don't have to.
Exhibit A. If you're waiting to turn across oncoming traffic, if there's a massive trail behind me then I'll ease off and flash you out to turn in front of me. So why in the name of all that is holy are you looking in any direction other than straight ahead? OK fine, stay there then.
Exhibit B. The other way around, I'm at a T-junction waiting to turn right, a car approaches from the left wanting to turn into the road I'm exiting... they decide to let me out which is lovely and all, but give absolutely no indication whatsoever as to their intention other than slowing to a crawl. Throw me a bone here, either flash/wave or just **** off round the corner that you have priority on anyway, it'd be faster all round.
(Yes yes, I know THC rules on flashing, don't start.)
Giving way when you don’t have to.
People who re-write the highway code on the hoof, expecting other drivers and cyclists to telepathically know what the 'new' temporary rules are and respond within a nano second to a wave of the hand behind a reflective windscreen or a flash of the lights for a moment.
I refuse to let others make my decision over when it's safe or appropriate to move on...