Halifax deciding to change their credit card provideer from Mastercard to Visa. Great, now I have to put new card details into all the places I use it regularly, and do all the verification and 2FA that comes with it, for absolutely no benefit to me. And they haven't changed the expiry date, so I'll still have to do it all again when it expires next year.
This, presumably times* however many people have their credit card.
*speaking of, might have mentioned this before, but people who say "ten ecs" out loud instead of "ten times". You get one chance, but the two en dee time you do it, you can get in the sea.
Yeah, DPD are infuriating.
Failed to delivery it again. Third time the charm maybe. DPD used to be fab but this is turning into a proper farce. Schrodingers driver- he may be delivering, he may not. Oh it's not again is it. The sad notification flow from "out for delivery" to "delayed" to "er system error.. no idea where it is, not out fault gov"
Halifax deciding to change their credit card provideer from Mastercard to Visa.
I've got the pleasure of this in the near future. I fell out with them last year when they wouldn't reissue my soon to expire card any earlier. I wasn't able to book a hotel beyond the expiry date. In the end I took out a new card with a new provider on better terms...
I know it's been done to death but .......evri........
I usually avoid online companies that use them (email to explain loss of custom if I'm at a loose end)but every so often I slip up.
My new "running shoes" get to the point in the chain where someone is obviously looking for new trainers and then the packaging gets damaged and they get returned to sender who sends me a replacement pair......ad nauseum.
"Claire" send me an email explaining that they have missed the connection, even though the system says it's got to the hub and the app says it's out for delivery.
I think it's this falsehood in the system that works me greatly.
Bluetooth.
More specifically, the auto connect feature.
Oh, like Van Gogh, I've got one here.
The car is paired with two phones, mine and my partner's, mostly for Android Auto (which I think is Wi-Fi rather than BT?) The ****ing thing connects maybe 80% of the time to her phone. If I'm the one driving - which I always am if we're both in the car - then I have to drop out of AA, go back to the device selection screen and choose my own phone, which is multiple touchscreen steps because of course it is. You can't even jab the screen when it's trying to connect to the wrong device because it ignores you.
I've tried everything. A wired connection makes no difference. The system has been factory reset multiple times. During setup I've paired hers last, hers first, makes no odds. It drives me crackers.
Bluetooth.
More specifically, the auto connect feature.
More specifically, the complete lack of an option for it NOT to auto connect to certain devices.
I've got Bluetooth headphones I sometimes use to play stuff through my phone at work. I also sometimes Bluetooth to the main workshop radio. I sometimes Bluetooth to my partner's car, sometimes to my van, sometimes to the kitchen radio.
Sometimes I'll be listening to something on a Bluetooth speaker and my partner pulls up in her car, suddenly my phone has connected to her car Bluetooth.
The other day I was trying to listen to something at work, trying to connect to my headphones. It kept connecting to the main workshop radio. I tried turning on the Bluetooth and lightning fast tapping headphones to outrun it, but no, straight to the workshop radio. I just could not get it to connect to the one of the two devices I'm paired with that I wanted it to.
Sure, I can 'forget' the workshop radio. I can 'forget' my partner's car, but why oh why can't I simply have an option not to auto connect to particular devices? It's such a simple request. Maybe I'm missing it? Can't see the option anywhere (Android)
It means every time I actually do want to use other devices I have to go through the whole pairing thing again.
Does me nut.
A few years ago this happened to me with one of the many pool cars at work. I’m standing in a corridor on a phone call when the phone went quiet. Two floors below me I see one of the work Hyundai. I was surprised, god knows what the driver thought!
YouTube creators with ever longer videos!
Shouldn't be complaining. I mean, if you like a creator then I suppose you should want more and more and more of their content.
But, these hour long or 45 minute long videos appearing more and more. I'm trying to have some kind of life here besides YouTube you know! 😂
EBay is a rich seam of annoyance. Today’s installment - I sold a ball-head. For the non-photo folk it’s a gadget you attach to the top of a tripod and into which you lock your camera. I was waiting for feedback, hoping for the buyer to confirm they were happy with the purchase so I could go ahead and spend the money without worrying about an “item not as described” claim. Feedback was that his camera was loose in the ball-head clamp. Wtf? That thing is clearly adjustable. If you don’t know how to do that, there’s a user manual online. If you still have a problem just send me a message and I’ll help sort it out Don’t just ignorantly post a negative feedback.
The assumption that Youtube is the be all and end all for instructions. Yes it has its place but why not a nice simple set of written instructions that you just read and repeat?
Youtubers. Get a life. Who cares what you think?
Meat . Where's the bloody fat nowadays?
Why can't places and events show prices? All I want to know is how much it costs to get in. I don't need to go through the buying process first. And surely in this day and age it must be possible to put prices on the web before I have to give specific dates. I wanted to book some holiday flights. Didn't matter when precisely but cheapest was best. Could I do that? No.
And any international minorities day/event etc. Womens day apparently just gone? Yet if I promoted a mans day there would be hell to pay. Ladies only swimming sessions locally but mens only? Nope. They dare not do it am told.
Over exaggeration. Apparently the Cairngorm ski area had an epic weekend of snowboarding according to FB. Conceivably snowboarding across Antarctica may be epic but in the Cairngorms? Hmm
And while I at it. Poor use of capital letters. Either none or all.
Over exaggeration
Tautologies. ( Especially unnecessary ones 😉 )
And whilst we're on the subject, I do think it is perfectly possible to have an epic day skiing/ boarding in Scotland... Fair enough not Cairngorm, but Glen Coe ( or Glencoe as some halftards call it) has provided my best ever skiing day.
Yet if I promoted a mans day there would be hell to pay.
International Mens Day is on the 19th November, same as every year.
Anyway, what I came here to say is
The Cycling Faux Pas thread. Why would you title your thread "Stuff that you've done according to accepted etiquette"
People who turn up late to a meeting and expect a recap. Today's example, 20 minutes late to a 30 minute meeting. No, I won't go over the last 20 minutes again just for you.
People who turn up late to a meeting and expect a recap. Today's example, 20 minutes late to a 30 minute meeting. No, I won't go over the last 20 minutes again just for you.
People - and it's the usual suspects every time - who come into the office for the fortnightly 10am meeting, sit around nattering till 9.45 , **** off out to go and get a frothy coffee and then stroll into the meeting at 10.05.
While another colleague who struggles with childcare issues will run through the door at around the same time having bust a gut to try not to miss it.
who come into the office for the fortnightly 10am meeting, sit around nattering till 9.45 , **** off out to go and get a frothy coffee and then stroll into the meeting at 10.05.
Reminds me of a scary network upgrade we did for the Economist many years ago. The level of entitlement was eye opening. The project sponsor was entirely uninterested in any part of the project other than making himself look good. Our PM was a feisty Irish lady who didn't take cr@p off anyone and was brilliant at managing a pretty complex project.
This fella turned up late for EVERY meeting. Sometimes there'd be 20+ people in there and we had to make time sensitive decisions. Eventually the PM called him out, made it very clear what his role in the meeting was and he needed to be on time, present, read up on the briefs and ready to make decisions. He looked down at her over his prince-nez (really) glasses and drawled "Young Lady, the meeting starts when I ARRIVE"
It all kind of went downhill after that 😉
When the person at the desk next to you on an office day sniffs incessantly...oh, and then coughs everywhere without covering their mouth.
Edit: in fact, on reflection, this isn't disproportionate...it's grounds for a murder defence. 🤬
Right now Hits Radio is making me cross.
Cheap masking tape that leaves a sticky mess rather than peeling off cleanly. Trashed a project last night. grrr.
The Crystal Maze-level of complexity that is changing platforms at Birmingham New Street station
I hate that when I press enter, it creates an extra line space, so whenever I write a list or an address etc, I then have to **** around finding the formatting to remove the extra line space. If I want a line space I can hit enter twice far easier than removing the unwanted automatic formatting after it has been applied.
Banks.
All I want to do is transfer an expiring fixed term ISA into a new one with the same bank, but I don't have the option
Ring the bank, "You should be able to..." "I see what you mean..." "You'll have to apply for the ISA, then email us and then we'll do what the system should have done and won't"
30 minutes wasted
Cleaner at work powers off the coffee machine, at the wall, to clean it on an evening.
I power it on in the morning, fill it with coffee grounds, press start, nothing happens.
Coffee machine refuses to work until the clock has been set... WHY?!?!?!
Banks.
All I want to do is transfer an expiring fixed term ISA into a new one with the same bank, but I don't have the option
Ring the bank, "You should be able to..." "I see what you mean..." "You'll have to apply for the ISA, then email us and then we'll do what the system should have done and won't"
30 minutes wasted
All dealt with in 5 minutes when I did this on my Natwest app a month or so back?
That a species that can land people on the moon can't create a method of fitting a seat to a toilet that does not inevitably come loose.
PCN parking fine despite me registering the car and having permission to be there. Have appealed complete with evidence inviting me to be there at the time and date of the "offence".
Hopefully it will be redacted, but I sense a load of faff that I could do without.
That a species that can land people on the moon can't create a method of fitting a seat to a toilet that does not inevitably come loose.
And then when you try and tighten up the wing nuts underneath, you find they are jammed solid, how the **** did they come lose and be jammed solid at the same time?
When you try and get the toaster going (because of cheese toastie desire) and the damned thing will not stay down, despite repeated attempts.
And then finding out that I'd unplugged it so I could plug in the charger for my GoPro.
That a species that can land people on the moon can't create a method of fitting a seat to a toilet that does not inevitably come loose.
our toilets have a great lid system that doesn’t loosen. They click into place and there’s nothing to tighten.
The "stuck" in a thread title. I just winds me up even though I know it's a turn of phrase every time I see it I want to reply. "Just don't ****ing go then".
'Peelable' film on food packaging that is never ****ing peelable and requires the use of a sharp knife to get to the food. 😡
'Peelable' film on food packaging that is never ****ing peelable and requires the use of a sharp knife to get to the food. 😡
I endore this message. The dogs food is a ****ing bastard to open.
What is it with people holding lapel mics in their hands and talking into them. They're designed specifically so they don't need to be held! It makes them look like they don't know how things work. As if they're old grandmas that can't handle technology. But it's young people.
Autoglass have just been out to repair a small windscreen chip. You have to sign a waiver of "there's a risk the chip could turn in to a crack during the repair process". 5 mins later, knock on the door.... "I'm afraid it's cracked. I've never had that happen before".
So now, not only can I not drive the car until it is replaced, I'm also liable for the extra excess payment involved in replacing it!
Only positive is that because there's no fancy sensors involved they can do it on my drive instead of me having to go to them.
Trying to do some work at a verylarge shopping centre today.
I have a half hour to unload my tools in the service yard, then go and park in another dimension, locate the job and gain access from front of house. (Mission in itself),
Leave expensive equipment in service yard and retrieve vehicle from the next postcode, drive around one way system for about half an hour.
Attempt to access loading bay, ‘ah you’re not booked in’
Yes I am, I have the reference number here.
‘Thats for this morning not for now.’
I need to retrieve my tools.
All whilst standing on the door sill of the vehicle shouting into the high level intercom, in the rain as the low one is broken.
There was a chance at that point of an evening news appearance, due to an overwhelming urge to drive full tilt at the barriers.
What is it with people holding lapel mics in their hands and talking into them. They're designed specifically so they don't need to be held! It makes them look like they don't know how things work. As if they're old grandmas that can't handle technology. But it's young people.
I'm sure we'll have done this before under the guise of 'people holding mobile phones out horizontally in front of them', as seen sometimes in The Apprentice. Essentially the same ****wits.
Also people shouting into mobile phones. It's not 2 yoghurt pots connected by string, technology is there to amplify your voice and transmit it. And turn your bloody speaker phone also, I don't want to hear your conversation.
for some reason it makes me disproportionately cross when i hear geordies pronounce plaster as plarster and master bedroom as marster bedroom. (im looking at you george clark and my geordie workmates).
youre not cockneys, youre northerners, its PLASTER and MASTER!
oh and whilst we're on the intricacies of the English language, the over-use of 'yourself' and 'myself' as though its more polite. (im thinking of you 'traitors'). "tonight i'm voting for yourself johnny". no, its "im voting for you".
i realise theres a certain irony oin my language pedantry when im typing in txt-type, but hey, its a forum so thats acceptable 😉
Gogglebox.
I quite like the programme but I get cross on behalf of the participants. If anyone sat on my sofa tried talking during a programme as much as they do, I will walk out in a huff and turn on the tele in spare room instead.
youre not cockneys, youre northerners, its PLASTER and MASTER!
If northern then it's PLASTA' and MASTA' 🙂
im looking at you george clark
Not a Geordie...
Edit: then again, neither, technically, am I...despite living here for 50 of my 52 years 🤣
Humans riding with their coats open 😂
I sold a bike this week as I decided that I had too many. Yesterday I was given a set of nice wheels but don't have a bike to put them on. So now I need to build a new bike.
^^ That would make me disproportionately happy.
The youth think that when I "sang" Flash, aaah he saved everyone of us. I just had the words to an advert wrong.
Just been triggered into saying all those ****ing Flash adverts - ESPECIALLY the ones with a fluffy white poncy dog. Fetch my shotgun please.