Being forced to listen to other people's taste in music. Radio at work. Tinned music piped around a shopping centre. Adverts on TV. And vapers. Not much difference between the two. And air fresheners that do anything but freshen the air. You can't freshen the air by adding more fumes to it. And people who leave their car engines running so they can use the air con because the air outside too polluted. Etc.
When you're in a takeaway place and your order gets jumped over, so they go 71, 72, 73, 75 and you're sat there thinking 'what about 74', they do it on purpose i think, especially when you have a 6 year old asking you what your number is every time an order comes up!
You know squeezy condiment bottles which are obviously meant to sit on their big flat lid with the label’s writing the correct way up? People placing them lid side up with the writing upside down. Thanks fool, now the ketchup is in the opposite place that it should be.
They should make the top of these bottles round.
The shampoo and conditioner my OH buys are in bottles like this. Only, one has the label one way up, the other one is the other way around. WHY?!
People who say (or type) lend when they mean borrow.
Of all the typos and turns of phrase why is that the one I just can't shrug off?
When you’re in a takeaway place and your order gets jumped over, so they go 71, 72, 73, 75 and you’re sat there thinking ‘what about 74’, they do it on purpose i think, especially when you have a 6 year old asking you what your number is every time an order comes up!
Keep away from Argos then.
People who say (or type) lend when they mean borrow.
I believe this is a Welsh-ism, where it's the same word?
So if you're Welsh you're too stupid to realize that they're two different words in English?
More likely it's not differentiating between loan and lend.
Probably done but...
People who are always late being told they are always late, yet still being chuffing late. For everything.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/woman-finds-game-changing-button-27385714
"Game changing" "life hack"
That's far from the most crossmaking thing about that story. "One woman worked out how petrol pumps work!!1!"
And someone was paid a wage to report it.
Having a girthier fork than god intended
;D
Oh @kayak23 and @funkmasterp, you pair have made me laugh. And wonder how the hell you did that. I used postimage and no matter what I did that was how it wanted the photo to go! So I guess that's on the list as well.
Ooh, while we're here, my username. This place was my first ever foray into social media and whilst signing up I didn't give a thought to coming up with a cool/witty/crap username.
Could be worse. I came up with a very good username back at the beginning of my first into messageboards and forums, friends and online people saying it was very good etc. Then a year later that word become associated with something very unsavoury here in Wales and I was asked if I could change it everywhere I used it. Even now, almost 30 years on, it's would most likely get me banned if I just used the word it now has such nasty connotations.
Mostly selfish people in cars. So people who sit there with their engines idling whilst parked and waiting for people. Turn the engine off FFS.
More specifically near us there's a cash machine by the local shops. It's situated between a mini roundabout and pedestrian crossing. Sensibly it has double yellows by it. Lots of parking within sight and literally a 10 second walk from the cash machine. But no, people are too important or lazy that they park on the road where the double yellows are, between the mini roundabout and crossing.
Similarly people who feel the need to park on the pavement outside the chemist as they can't be bothered to park in the parking bays, which are a whole 15 seconds walk away. This results in you having to squeeze between cars and the edge of the road. I swear I'm going to go full on Falling Down and just knock some wing mirrors off soon.
There’s definitely a growing trend of people who simply HAVE to park as close as humanly possible to shop/house/cash machine. It reminds me of the film Wall-e where we get ever fatter and lazier and evolve to be unable to walk.
There’s definitely a growing trend of people who simply HAVE to park as close as humanly possible to shop/house/cash machine.
Yeah - the gym I go to has an emergency access space near the entrance with markings saying 'No Parking' quite clearly visible and the gym sends out quite regular messages to members asking us not to park there yet there are always vehicles parked there. Parked there because the owners of the vehicles are too damn lazy to walk the short distance from the car park before they then work out. Puzzling.
Even now, almost 30 years on, it’s would most likely get me banned if I just used the word it now has such nasty connotations.
You can’t leave us hanging. Whisper it so the mods don’t hear.
And there is, three of which contain homeopathic amounts of bleach.
People using "is" instead of "are".
It's pervasive. I try not to be bothered by it but I struggle.
People who walk into supermarkets, usually with a trolley and number of offspring, and just stop dead immediately after going through the automatic doors blocking the whole show. I just want to punch them in the back of the **** head. Buying anything from the shop is like an SAS mission for me, always done solo with the aim of being in and out as fast as humanly possible.
Buying anything from the shop is like an SAS mission for me, always done solo with the aim of being in and out as fast as humanly possible.
Ah, a kindred spirit.
Sensibly it has double yellows by it. Lots of parking within sight and literally a 10 second walk from the cash machine
See also, the chip shop near me. Seemingly it's perfectly fine to park on double yellows or in a disabled bay if you're 'only going to be a minute'.
Had a family produce a camping table and chairs the other day to eat their chips in the road. There's a green area literally across on the other side.
People using “is” instead of “are”.
Fair. I shall be more vigilant in future.
mission for me, always done solo with the aim of being in and out as fast as humanly possible.
Sounds like my sex life.
People using “is” instead of “are”.
[Pedant content warning] In this context Cougar is describing "a" thing. here it's a group of objects, but in the context of the sentence structure there's no difference to the thing being many things or a thing, grammatically it's still just "a thing" so "is" is correct. [/Pedant content warning]
If he'd have said "And there is, three of which contain homeopathic amounts of bleach, and a fourth that's full" it would've changed to "are" because you're describing two things.
Note: I'm not disproportionately cross about it
Buying anything from the shop is like an SAS mission for me, always done solo with the aim of being in and out as fast as humanly possible
You know? I quite enjoy walking the isles of the supermarkets and just checking stuff out. I don't stand at the entrance, getting in the way but I do love a shoogie at what's on the shelves.
And someone was paid a wage to report it.
Yes and no.
While someone would have pieced together the article, the actual "journalism" is just scanning social media for something vaguely interesting then copying and pasting the comments into a "news" report
There's a website called Glasgow Live that supposedly reports on local news but in reality 95% of their content is stolen from the r/Glasgow subreddit
You can’t leave us hanging. Whisper it so the mods don’t hear.
When the word now has a direct link to a predatory paedophile whereas it was just an innocent word before I'll be keeping it to myself thanks.
Disproportionate rage: “It’s amazing and incredible that our highest core value boiler plate company guff is passionate about working tirelessly on a mission, whilst we provide solutions to valued partners so that integrity and honesty are focused on striving constantly to exceed expectations, and that’s a promise to our maximised stakeholders.”
Disproportionate fury and rage: Politicians that tell us that they “work tirelessly, night and day”.
Another one, when you're trying to have a quick poo and you end up having the endless wipe scenario, why can't you just have a ghostie that one time 😡
[Pedant content warning] In this context Cougar is describing “a” thing. here it’s a group of objects, but in the context of the sentence structure there’s no difference to the thing being many things or a thing, grammatically it’s still just “a thing” so “is” is correct. [/Pedant content warning]
I actually went back to reread this as I thought the context was "there is bleach" rather than "there are bleach." But I was talking about bottles so conceded that "there are bottles" is correct.
Now, I'm just confused.
When the word now has a direct link to a predatory paedophile whereas it was just an innocent word before I’ll be keeping it to myself thanks.
Can we tell what it is yet?
“It’s amazing and incredible that our highest core value boiler plate company guff
Twice today in wholly unrelated places - one a news article leaking an internal communication within Facebook and the other our own corporate update - I've read "macro-economic headwinds." WTF? 🤷♂️
I think the people who write this crap forget who their target audience is. FY23, what's wrong with "next year"? Every company update talks about Ebbitt Dah, I'm sure that makes sense to shareholders and accountants but it sounds like a Welsh coal miner to me.
FY23, what’s wrong with “next year”?
Our FY runs Aug-Jul so saying next year can mean two very different things, one is in less than a month, the other nearly six months.
If your FY runs Jan-Dec then it's interchangeable, anyone from a finance background will always make the distinction though
Now, I’m just confused.
It's determined by whether the noun that follows it is plural or singular. There is a group of bottles (singular), there is a bottle (singular) , there are bottles (plural). Gets more complex with collective nouns that are always treated as singular (Army) or plural (Police) but essentially it's pretty straightforward, no?
Our FY runs Aug-Jul so saying next year can mean two very different things, one is in less than a month, the other nearly six months.
If your FY runs Jan-Dec then it’s interchangeable, anyone from a finance background will always make the distinction though
I don't actually know when ours is, I think it's Jan-Dec but might align with the tax year. But that's my point anyway, this sort of Manage-speak just assumes that everyone else understands what they're papping on about.
It’s determined by whether the noun that follows it is plural or singular.
I think I've just unpicked my own logic. The mistake is in the previous sentence, isn't it. "... there’s like four bottles in the cupboard!” And there is..." should have read "there are four bottles" - is that right?
collective nouns that are always treated as singular (Army) or plural (Police)
Well, that's now going to keep me awake at night.
– is that right?
Yes, your first "there's" is wrong. it should be there are, and there really ought to be a semi colon after "and there is;" but the group after that is singular, so the is there, is correct.
Buying anything from the shop is like an SAS mission for me,
Unless you throw a stun grenade in first before swinging in through a window all guns blazing, I'm going to be very disappointed
websites/apps that insist on giving you a pop up with the list of new features every - ****ing - time you open the app. I don't care. Just make what you have work and give me updates once a year. I have other stuff to be getting on with
When the word now has a direct link to a predatory paedophile whereas it was just an innocent word before I’ll be keeping it to myself thanks.
Can we tell what it is yet?
Rolf, Saville or Andrew?
It’s pervasive. I try not to be bothered by it but I struggle.
people who type contractions.
Also people who know things like this, is it's a contraction?
For reasons I cannot fully explain….
People who attach ‘No Parking’ signs to the boundary wall in front of their property. Makes me want to just go park there because I can. One local person has a driveway with room for two cars, and a garage. He still keeps a car out the front to make sure no one parks there - and if he wants to use that car he will get another one out the garage and park it there.
WHY??
Haha in a similar vein to the above, visited the father in law over the weekend. Someone up the road consistently pops 3 comes outside his house to stop people parking there, even though he has a drive.
I did offer to move them and park there but was told not to wind up the neighbours ☹️
Don't get me wrong we live on a Victorian street with no drive. In fact there are very few houses with drives. Does get annoying when you have to drive around to find a space, normally when getting back from the shops or late at night when the kids are tired. But it's a public road, anyone can park their car there 🤷♂️
Not sure if it’s been said by others but after a day at LEGOLAND (I know, only myself to blame) I can confirm nothing makes me more cross than queue jumpers in any shape or form. Every ride seemed to get near the front and it was all these ****in people appear from nowhere to join the one family member who queued up. Or feral kids who just seem to squeeze their way to the front. Honestly feel like an absolute mug for being fair and finding queuing rules so important.
People who tell you about palindrome dates or suchlike as though it's actually an important thing.
"Hey, you know it 20/02/2002 today right?"
"Oh really, that's mildly amusing"
"Yeah, it won't happen again until 21/02/2012"
"OK"
"I mean we should DO something, man"
"You do realise that more twenty years from now I'll still hate you for this?"
“Yeah, it won’t happen again until
... until the next vaguely coincidental date in about three months' time.
People who tell you about palindrome dates or suchlike as though it’s actually an important thing.
“Hey, you know it 20/02/2002 today right?”
“Oh really, that’s mildly amusing”
“Yeah, it won’t happen again until 21/02/2012”
“OK”
“I mean we should DO something, man”
“You do realise that more twenty years from now I’ll still hate you for this?”
you'll probably hate me for this similar thing.
at 12:34 oclock If i notice i traditionaly exclaim "its 1 2 3 4 oclock"
[i]People who tell you about palindrome dates or suchlike as though it’s actually an important thing.
“Hey, you know it 20/02/2002 today right?”
“Oh really, that’s mildly amusing”
“Yeah, it won’t happen again until 21/02/2012”
“OK”
“I mean we should DO something, man”
“You do realise that more twenty years from now I’ll still hate you for this?”
you’ll probably hate me for this similar thing.
at 12:34 oclock If i notice i traditionaly exclaim “its 1 2 3 4 oclock”[/i]
I still always try to book dental appointments for 2:30pm just so that if asked* what time my dental appointment is I can say "I see the dentist at Tooth Hurty".
*Also helps me remember the time
Google apps on my phone that I've disabled and keep appearing. I've disabled it, I don't want to use it and if I could I'd remove it altogether...and breathe
Decrypting cycle clothing sizing; how can I be 3XL in one jersey and L in another?
Decrypting cycle clothing sizing; how can I be 3XL in one jersey and L in another?
A lot to be said for Fat Lad at the Back clothing - I have a 42" chest, I'll need a size 42 jersey.
Getting up in the morning and finding that your wife turned off the phone charger socket last night after you had plugged your phone in to charge overnight....🤬
A lot to be said for Fat Lad at the Back clothing...
...and people coming up with a perfectly sensible solution to something that's made me disproportionately cross for years! 🙂
It may have been covered above and it's certainly been hinted at...
The replacement of actual news reporting with regurgitation of opinions from the man in the street and publishing them verbatim as if they are incontrovertible fact and proper research. Closely related to this is ascribing the same editorial weight to the the opinion of an angry gammon with an uninsured 1985 V8 Range Rover to that of, say, an actual climate scientist.
People who get insanely ranty about road improvement schemes without actually reading the plans and resent anything that might possibly make the lives of those on more active and sustainable transport modes just a little better. Pointing out to them that they have not in fact read the plans correctly is met with pure unadulterated denial. Likely to be the same demographic found complaining about how dangerous the roads are round here while pointing out the location of speed cameras and how awful it is they have been "taxed" and anyway the speed limit sign is so hard to read ...
Thinking that there is a simple (usually binary) lifestyle consequence free solution to the problems of the world and that any problem we don't presently have a solution to is just a question of "science" or "industry" pulling its finger out and finding the "answer".
@garage-dweller I would say your anger is entirely legitimate rather than being disproportionate.
Especially the first, which gets worse. News reports are now including sections which start with ‘twitter user @someopinionatedtwit had says…’
Honestly, if I gave a flying turd what random people on twitter think, I’d look at twitter.
My family.
[Pedant content warning] In this context Cougar is describing “a” thing. here it’s a group of objects, but in the context of the sentence structure there’s no difference to the thing being many things or a thing, grammatically it’s still just “a thing” so “is” is correct. [/Pedant content warning]
It's a further point about the plurality of bottles, ie, "And there is" (four bottles). Therefore if the previous "there's" should be "there are", "And there is" should be "And there are"
Anyways, notwithstanding I've just done it, people like us writing stuff like this on forums make me disproportionately cross!
My lesson for today is to try much harder to focus on the message. I understood exactly what Cougar wrote so no need for me to nitpick about grammar, spoken or written. My wife and daughter would at least welcome the lack of chuntering from me 🙂 And I might get to become a slightly more relaxed and nicer person. Win Win!
😁
In all honesty, I appreciate learning things.
People saying "drawring" instead of "drawing"
Drives me nuts. There is no "r" in the middle of the word.
Companies that still insist on using phone calls as a method of doing business in 2022. Estate agents I'm looking at you, but it's mainly scumbag marketing companies and so you can have your phone on silent knowing that anyone who insists on calling repeatedly is not to be trusted.
See a business premises on an estate agents website. Click the 'request more information' button. Fill out form to answer the simple question 'is parking available? Yes/No?'. Give email address, phone number is 'required' of course.
Then receive over a week counting of missed calls from the estate agents. Plus multiple emails saying 'we tried to call'. Reply to email saying 'just answer the ****ing question here: Is parking available? Yes/No? I don't want to chat on the phone! It's not 1984!
What is this all about? Do they only get paid for being on the phone or something/ It's such an outdated and inefficient method of doing business these days. Fair enough for personal issues, chatting to relatives etc. But why should one take time out from what one's doing, stop the car, climb down off some ladders etc in order to strain to hear what's being said down a bad line with no method of referring back to the conversation.
Grrrr....
Companies that still insist on using phone calls as a method of doing business in 2022. Estate agents I’m looking at you
Companies that still insist on stuffing bits of paper in envelopes as a method of doing business in 2022. You can email me, get a near instant response, and we both have a full audit trail; or you can post it, spend money, waste trees and have a three-day turnaround. It's utterly braindead. They're going to shit themselves when they hear about these new-fangled fax machines.
Most recently, I set up a new direct debit for car insurance and they got confused and put my account details but my partner's name. I rang them to correct it. Just two short hours and 12 minutes later it was answered, I spoke to a lovely woman who told me that she couldn't put my name on the mandate (because, what, I might be fraudulently paying for something from my own account? 🤷♂️) and that I'd have to complete a new one. Fine, whatever, email it over. "Oh, we don't have the facility to do that, we'll post it out." Really? OK, give me a return email, I'll scan it and send it. No, it has to be returned by post. WTF? What should be a 30-second job took days and two and a half hours of my life.
Companies that still insist on using phone calls as a method of doing business in 2022.
On the flip side companies that only do communication through social media / email web chat and steadfastly refuse to have a phone number and someone who is not utterly clueless on the end of it. It is a regulatory requirement in my job to offer email, post and phone and to deal with all of those competently and in a timely manner.
Ignore
Huh, really. So it is me then. I remember airing this view on another forum regarding conducting business over the phone and got the same response. Fair enough, it's me. Stopping everything you're doing, turning off your music, then waiting on hold for forty-five minutes listening to 8kbps Vivaldi, to then strain to make out over VOIP to some distant Indian call-centre, and then having no idea what, if anything was the answer to your question because you're not constantly sat at a desk with a pen and paper to hand Is better than coming home to an email answering your question.
using the phone to do business isn't the problem, it's misusing it.
Conversely, my wife and daughter's refusal to use the phone when it's the right tool for the job.
Exhibit 1; They know I leave work around 6, half past. I'll frequently get a text about that time - can you get some milk / bread / whatever on the way in. I arrive home, switch off car, pick up phone and then find a text. If I've seen it I'll text back - OK. If they haven't had an answer, I haven't seen it. So don't act all ****ty when I haven't get the bread (inevitably it's me that has to go out again anyway!!)
Exhibit 2: My daughter has a complex relationship with some of her friends, one in particular. Like all teenage girls, there's times when they're just shitty to each other. She works Friday evenings, and often changes after work to meet her friends in town. Yet they organise by text or whatsapp, with her getting a series or slightly ambiguous messages, often with big gaps between.
eg: where are we meeting
Assembly Rooms. We're already there.
OK
But we'll be moving soon.
OK, when?
(big gap)
Don't know
OK so should I come there?
Don't know
....just FFS pick up the phone and sort it out!!!!
So it is me then.
Well, no, I despise phones at the best of times, let alone in that sort of environment. "Your call is important to us..." well, you could consider employing sufficient staff to answer the bastard, then.
But, I don't think that's a disproportionate reaction.
Cleaning companies who make all manner of squirty, foamy cleaning solutions for car and home in a trigger spray bottle.
That then fails approx 60% through the contents of said bottle. I know its more single use plastic, but make it man enough and i will re use it on the next foamy spray.. Kills all germs dead
And dont get me started on that grammatical error. Its hardly going to kill it back to life.
I know some chemicals are corrosive amd seals fail but so quickly, really.
Come on chaps, sort it out.
using the phone to do business isn’t the problem, it’s misusing it.
Indeed.
If I meet a mate down the nuclear sub, I'll generally ring them if I can't see where they are. I don't stand at the bar composing an email to ask if they are there yet.
That then fails approx 60% through the contents of said bottle.
... then the cheeky bastards have the nerve to sell refills.
Plastic knives and forks that lack the armour piercing power to get through a gravy saturated chip without shattering into a million tiny choking hazards
Matt Bellamy out of Muse.
Or more specifically, Matt Bellamy's overly audible inward breath.
Just do it in your own time yeah?
Otherwise ok 👍
Morning,
Have we done packaging that isn't recyclable or reusable in anyway ;-(
JeZ
Protesters blocking roads. Go and do it at the houses of parliament instead.
They can't any more. The government changed the law so that they could get rid of Steve Bray.
People that pronounce "thirty" as "thErty"
You wouldn't pronounce "third" as "therd"
No trial, no jury, straight to execution.
People that pronounce “thirty” as “thErty”
You wouldn’t pronounce “third” as “therd”
I read them as exactly the same.
Recaps on tv shows.
America I'm looking at you!
😡
Speaking of flying turds :-
Bagged up dog poo hurled to an inaccessible place in the hedgerow.
FFS just drop it neatly at the side of the path so that the dog shit fairy can take it away (I think my best "score" was well over 10 bags in one walk, on a path where clearly no other Dog Poo Fairy had passed for a week or two).
The beauty of the countryside can be the sole nice thing in some people's day, it's just so egregiously thoughtless to leave these decaying monstrosities in everyone's sight but nobody's reach.
Also, people who don't bother to read the last 12 pages of the thread to find that their gripe was covered in detail 5 pages ago...;)
"We're experiencing an unexpectedly high volume of calls at the moment".
No you're not, and if you are you have been for 4 years. Either way, hire some more staff. This is not difficult.
A current gripe is a chain of e-mails from a well known running shoe manufacturer saying that I'd got something in my basket and giving me a discount code to incentivise me to buy the shoes. Sadly said code doesn't work with the shoes in the basket...
You wouldn’t pronounce “third” as “therd”
How else would you pronounce it? Third sounds like herd/heard 🤔