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Parents. We have one, at school whinging because her daughter has belly ache every weekend. a) "Not my problem." The child doesn't eat all her sandwiches. b) "don't give her more than I would eat then". Please can we, teaching staff, make sure, personally , that shje eats it all and ask dinner staff to do so. . Just how many adults need to personally check a 9 year olds lunch box? Next day comes. **** is complaining because two adults asked her if she had eaten all her lunch and we were hassling the child! c) "didn't we say this to you you daft woman?" Please let her decide. "We said that as well." Oh yeah and while you are being a pain please stop blocking the road junction outside the school twice a day so you can get away 10 seconds earlier.
Being offered an email receipt instead of paper, usually by a fast fashion company. Doing their bit, yeh right.
Being offered an email receipt instead of paper, usually by a fast fashion company.
Why would you not want this?
I can search through my email in seconds to find a receipt for something I bought ten years ago, or I can spend an afternoon rummaging through scraps of paper. It's nuts. Why do you even need a receipt at all?
Going through supermarket checkouts, "would you like a receipt?" - "yes please." You've bought a pint of milk and a bunch of bananas, do you suppose they're going to be faulty?
"Doing their bit" - how many transactions automatically print out a receipt, the staff go "do you want a receipt?", you answer no thanks and it goes straight in the bin. WTF, how wasteful is that?
Airport security.
if you ask us to remove our belts, please provide some means to hold up our trousers whilst were scanned.
Barky trail dogs.
I love dogs, truly. But can all you wannabe influencers **** off somewhere else while I ride?
I'd like to enjoy the sound of my own incompetence and the forest, not your ****ing out of control Vizla whose gob is on full send.
Some people call it inconsequential anarchy.
Being offered an email receipt instead of paper, usually by a fast fashion company.
Why would you not want this?
Because you don’t want to be spammed until the end of time.
Airport security.
if you ask us to remove our belts, please provide some means to hold up our trousers whilst were scanned.
Haha! yes!
I've had this issue at the US passport/border control. I was wearing a pair of shorts that I had bought years ago and subsequently lost a lot of weight. But I like the shorts and they have plenty of life in them so I use a belt.
I had to stand like a bloody huge A-frame to stop them falling down whilst they frisked me lol
Because you don’t want to be spammed until the end of time.
You are legally required to be able to unsubscribe from those emails - you might get a couple more after unsubscribing because the address list had already been selected for them but if it carries on longer than that you can raise it with their data protection officer or the ICO or request that your data is deleted. Or just set up a rule in your email client to move email from their address to a different folder so it's not sat in your inbox.
Basically anyone getting "spammed" by a legit organisation only has themselves to blame.
Rain on a bank holiday weekend.
Going through supermarket checkouts, "would you like a receipt?" - "yes please." You've bought a pint of milk and a bunch of bananas, do you suppose they're going to be faulty?
My annoyance is when you hit the "no receipt" button and then the alarm goes off as you leave the supermarket due to an unannounced security tag on a bit of meat or something. Mr Security Guard then looks at you like you are a total idiot when you say "No" to his question of "Can I see your receipt". If i'm going to be interrogated for lack of a receipt, then don't give me the option not to have one.
You are legally required to be able to unsubscribe from those emails - you might get a couple more after unsubscribing because the address list had already been selected for them but if it carries on longer than that you can raise it with their data protection officer or the ICO or request that your data is deleted. Or just set up a rule in your email client to move email from their address to a different folder so it's not sat in your inbox.
Oh yay, more admin...
Basically anyone getting "spammed" by a legit organisation only has themselves to blame.
Unless that organisation sells your details to a 3rd party
Unless that organisation stores the address you used and they later get hacked
Petty bureaucracy.
- Got a family funeral net Friday.
- Grave plot was not registered in the correct name 30 years ago.
- Person who should be the owner is the one that we are trying to have planted.
- Revised documents for new owner need to be counter signed by a solicitor and returned to the cemetery so that the funeral can go ahead.
- Person handling this at the cemetery has gone on sick and nobody else can touch it because “it is in her email”.
It’s not as if a delay in the paperwork will mean that we have to postpone the funeral or anything…
My employer cocked up the March pension payment so it arrived very late and in the new financial year
They're American and do not GAF. I can't report them to the Pensions Ombudsman as my company does not have an official complaints process which is a prerequisite for the PO to sort my claim of non-compliance
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Because you don’t want to be spammed until the end of time.
There are many ways around this, not least of which is GDPR UK.
My annoyance is when you hit the "no receipt" button and then the alarm goes off as you leave the supermarket due to an unannounced security tag on a bit of meat or something. Mr Security Guard then looks at you like you are a total idiot when you say "No" to his question of "Can I see your receipt". If i'm going to be interrogated for lack of a receipt, then don't give me the option not to have one.
I kind of take the opposite stance here. I shouldn't need a receipt to prove to some twerp in a hat that I'm not trying to steal a bottle of Gaviscon. Doubly so when half my salary has gone to Tesco and they have a record of every purchase I've ever made going back years thanks to Clubcard.
At work I have a Tassimo coffee machine. It's great, just pop a pod in and hit the button. Come back in a minute for a nice cup of coffee.
Why does this make me cross?
Because I've just retrieved my stone cold coffee from it, having pushed the button an hour and a half ago and promptly forgotten all about it.
Again 😡
Don't you have a microwave?
Pro tip here BTW. If you go direct to Tassimo's website they have a far larger selection than you'll find in a supermarket, and also a recycling programme for the pods.
The term 'banger' to refer to run of the mill generic pop music.
I feel like Colin and Edith did that a lot. I blame them.
My annoyance is when you hit the "no receipt" button and then the alarm goes off as you leave the supermarket due to an unannounced security tag on a bit of meat or something. Mr Security Guard then looks at you like you are a total idiot when you say "No" to his question of "Can I see your receipt". If i'm going to be interrogated for lack of a receipt, then don't give me the option not to have one.Going through supermarket checkouts, "would you like a receipt?" - "yes please." You've bought a pint of milk and a bunch of bananas, do you suppose they're going to be faulty?
While we're on self-checkouts; that monitor showing that they've filmed you. OK, so while I stand here for five minutes waiting for someone to age-verify my beers, why not employ a bit of AI to look at my aged mug and bypass the verification?
France, too busy, too expensive, too abrupt, too arrogant, too intolerant.Btw I live in Spain and love it being the opposite of the above.
France, too busy, too expensive, too abrupt, too arrogant, too intolerant.Btw I live in Spain and love it being the opposite of the above.
Where were you?
I went there, motorcycle trip, last year and found it to be the exact opposite! The people were awesome! The scenery was fantastic, roads were tremendous, food was ace, and didn't think it was expensive at all, and everyone we interacted with was really nice!
I suppose it's a comparison of what we've become used to living in rural Spain where everyone says hello , roads are not battle zones and you don't fear for your life on a bike ride. We've been on a road trip, stopping of here and there around the through Province and the Alps. Once you're off the motorway with a campervan, the road furniture seems to have a morbid dislike for anything bigger than a Clio.
France, too busy, too expensive, too abrupt, too arrogant, too intolerant.Btw I live in Spain and love it being the opposite of the above.
I found Paris and Nice to be like that, but spent a week in Nantes/Clisson last year and it was the polar opposite. Although everyone we spoke to seemed to consider themselves Bretons first and French second.
but spent a week in Nantes/Clisson last year and it was the polar opposite. Although everyone we spoke to seemed to consider themselves Bretons first and French second.
Lol they must have been on holiday then! I used to live in Nantes and its definitely not in Brittany.....I also used to live in Perros Guirec - now that is Breton, I couldn't understand a word of the language but my mate who spoke Welsh was treated as a native!
I used to live in Nantes and its definitely not in Brittany.....
When we arrived the "Les Jeux de Bretagne" was underway near the hotel, and Brittany flags were everywhere, which implies some connection to Brittany.
Just checked Wikipedia which says this, but obvs that's the extent of my knowledge/experience 😀
It is the administrative seat of the Loire-Atlantique department and the Pays de la Loire region, one of 18 regions of France. Nantes belongs historically and culturally to Brittany, a former duchy and province, and its omission from the modern administrative region of Brittany is controversial.
I suppose it's a comparison of what we've become used to living in rural Spain where everyone says hello , roads are not battle zones and you don't fear for your life on a bike ride. We've been on a road trip, stopping of here and there around the through Province and the Alps. Once you're off the motorway with a campervan, the road furniture seems to have a morbid dislike for anything bigger than a Clio.
Haha! yes I can imagine taking a camper down some of the roads we went could be a bit tricky.
The term 'banger' to refer to run of the mill generic pop music. It was probably banged out of something, probably someone's ass, and it was more of a dull plop. A more accurate term would be 'plopper'.
I once heard an album described as "all killer no filler."
Because you don’t want to be spammed until the end of time.
There are many ways around this, not least of which is GDPR UK.
Are any of them less hassle than just saying "no" when asked to fill in your email address for an email receipt?
Fopp is the main place I get asked about this and I don't think I need a digital record of my purchases of CDs.
Are any of them less hassle than just saying "no" when asked to fill in your email address for an email receipt?
Perhaps not. But under GDPR UK they're not allowed to pre-tick "please sign me up to your shit" boxes. Of course, whether they abide by that is another matter.
For sites I'm only ever going to visit once and have a "we'll email you the download link" policy, I have a throwaway email address. I only ever log into it for this reason and it's got tens of thousands of spam emails.
For sites which require an email address for no valid reason, I pity the fool who really owns a@a.com.
Dangerous stuff, my mate died from an overdose. His headstone had the prescription "Gav is Gone"
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I did wonder why Gaviscon was security tagged at all. I couldn't see that there'd be a black market, some random bloke in a pub sidling up to you going "psst, want to buy some antacid?" Turns out it's popular with the druggies, it has something to do with the uptake of drugs, increases the potency of heroin or coke or something.
The term 'banger' to refer to run of the mill generic pop music
See also DJs referring to bands as "the mighty x", where x might as well be the local primary school violin class.
See also DJs referring to bands as "the mighty x", where x might as well be the local primary school violin class.
Yes, absolutely Sinful, unless of course they're telling The Story Of The Blues.
Why do all gardening books and TV programs show little old ladies or celebrities pottering around with snips deadheading the odd daff or gently repotting a geranium whilst stroking a cat and drinking a coffee....why do they not show the reality which is lugging 100 wheelbarrows of earth, fighting with brambles inches thick, balancing on a wobbly ladder to trim stupid massive hedges, removing stubborn bindweed, getting cut to ribbons by rose bushes, trying to force way too much foliage into a laughably small wheely bin which you pay extra for and stands empty most of the year but use about 3 times in spring.....
I am using this laptop pottering in the front bedroom "office". When I came into the room I put the window on the latch as there was too much breeze coming through with it open.
MrsMC has just wandered in to ask me to do a job for her later, opened the window, and then went downstairs again. I asked her to come back up and put the window back how I had positioned it for my comfort while I am the sole occupant of the room and apparently I am the bad guy.
Messy wasps.
Wasps.
Actually, I'll expand on that.
The Girl is scared to death of wasps. So when one appears somewhere in the same time zone she'll start panicking and flailing her arms about at it, at which point the wasp gives out the "send reinforcements, I'm under attack" signal and then suddenly there's a dozen of the stripy bastards buzzing angrily about.
Grazed my leg and it's got a bit manky. Not a problem, sluiced it out in the bath and I know for a fact that there's two boxes of hydrocolloid dressings in the first aid crate. And there is... both of which are empty boxes. 🤷♂️
Cue a mad dash to Tesco with a weeping leg before they shut for bank holiday (Tesco, not my legs).
You know the routine. Wire brush and Dettol....
Just get it ahead of those other dirty bastards.
Because it's such a good username, especially in comparison to my dull as ditch water .. .. 😖