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  • CountZero
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    My new car doesn’t have a handbrake
    Whoah, what now?

    What car is this?

    I thought handbrake was tested as part of MOT?

    There’s all sorts of variations on the theme of electronic brake these days, and I hate all of them! Especially when you’re driving a very wide range of cars built across about five or six years. Some wouldn’t release when trying to pull away on a slope, some would let the car start to roll back… 😖🤯

    Mine is a semi-automatic, with a real handbrake, but pulling to a stop on a slope, and taking your foot off the brake, the car will happily sit there until you accelerate.

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    CountZero
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    What instead of which

    Which Tyler led the Pedants Revolt… 😏

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    GlennQuagmire
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    People who replace zero with “oh” when giving telephone numbers. In fact I do it at times so I annoy myself 🤣

    north of the border
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    The misuse of it’s to denote possession, especially by people paid to write for a living –

    https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/hutchinson-claims-its-new-blackbird-tyres/

    Eh? “Its” rather than “it’s” is correct in this context. Unless I’m missing something?

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    Mister-P
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    They’ve removed the rogue apostrophe since my post on here. That’s the power of STW.

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    north of the border
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    Result 🙂 I’ll add “its” and “it’s” and general apostrophe misuse to the list too.

    reeksy
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    The woman in the meeting that i’m in right now that keeps referring to a “thought bubble.”

    It’s a thought. Why the bubble?

    greatbeardedone
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    Online companies that offer “three months free”, but then auto-renew the contract without notifying you in advance.

    there should be a law, making it mandatory for such contracts to be annulled at their end date, unless explicitly agreed by the consumer.

    funkmasterp
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    Just sign up for the free trial and then immediately cancel it

    People who replace zero with “oh” when giving telephone numbers. In fact I do it at times so I annoy myself 🤣

    This got many of us screamed at by a stereotypical Platoon Sergeant when in training whilst our regimental numbers were still new and not stamped on our brains.

    “Oh!? It’s ZERO! Oh is the noise you make when you’re having sex. And we’re not having sex right now are we?”

    There were far more expletives, but the swear filter would make a mess of that quote.

    Good times.

    jonm81
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    there should be a law, making it mandatory for such contracts to be annulled at their end date, unless explicitly agreed by the consumer.

    You have explicitly agreed for it to continue after the free period. It’s not the company’s fault if you didn’t read the terms and conditions.

    Edit: People whinging about T&Cs they willingly signed up to but couldn’t be bothered to read properly makes me disproportionately cross

    StirlingCrispin
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    Online companies that offer “three months free”, but then auto-renew the contract without notifying you in advance.

    My 15-yr old has just been caught by this. £60 annual subscription for the Berlingo language app. Bastards.

    Now in debt to the bank FFS !

    I’ve worked with him to cancel & get a refund  but aaaagh.

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    greatbeardedone
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    If you cancel your free three months of Amazon prime, immediately after, you’ll lose three months of free.

    yes, the minutiae of the contract may stipulate a rolling contract, but we humans are intrinsically too busy/ lazy to mark these things in our diaries.

    The contract should terminate automatically, after x months.

    doesnt matter a fig if it’s worded into a contract, there’s no corresponding legal precedent for this in the not-online world.

    Or is there?

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    binman
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    My family ‘loading’ the dishwasher ! Why ????? I could load it better by throwing it from the other side of the room.

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    pisco
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    The trend on social media short videos claiming to be POV, but aren’t.

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    onewheelgood
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    franksinatra
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    Being stopped on the village high street by a former colleague asking me to vote for her at the general election.  She is a Reform candidate. We had a robust discussion with a particular focus on their Deputy Leaders interview this week where he said people should be allowed to drown in the channel to “face the consequences of their own actions”. I may have sworn.

    sirromj
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    I “bought” Dune on Prime because it cost 50p more than renting it, amounting to £4. Watched it in two sittings this weekend as a refresher in preparation for Dune 2.. However to bloody well rent Dune 2 (with a mere 48 hours to watch it once I start) bloody sixteen quid farrrrk. Or I could wait 2.5 weeks and watch it in the cinema for half the price. Pish.

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    ossify
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    IMG_20240414_164712_967

    *twitch*

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    nickc
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    Edit: People whinging about T&Cs they willingly signed up to but couldn’t be bothered to read properly makes me disproportionately cross

    I’m pretty sure that most T&C that we come across (but especially on-line) are written like that to make sure we don’t read them.

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    Cougar
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    “twitch” indeed.

    They’ve recently – like, a couple of years ago – redone the main road near me, including nice patterned stonework on the pavement.  They’ve painstakingly continued the pattern across access panels, except someone’s had one up and replaced it back-to-front so the pattern no longer aligns.  It disproportionately pisses me the **** off every time I walk past it.

    Cougar
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    I’m pretty sure that most T&C that we come across (but especially on-line) are written like that to make sure we don’t read them.

    Almost certainly.

    I don’t see the point, unless it’s intentionally meant to catch you out.  Absolutely no-one in the history of ever has read a 16-page EULA for a ****ing printer driver.

    See also, corporate email signatures.  “This message is intended for the recipient…” – well who the **** else would it be intended for?  Half a screenful of boilerplate corpspeak gibberish which is the same as every other goddamn corporate email signature (and holds precisely zero legal currency anyway), with the email body text reading “Yes.  Kind Regards.”

    Cougar
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    On hold.

    I’ve worked in a call centre.  I know what being picked off the queue and slammed straight back into it because you can’t be arsed to talk to me and it looks good on your “calls answered” stats sounds like, you shower of bastards.

    mrmonkfinger
    Free Member

    Local shops that buy five star trustpilot reviews from shysters, to make it look like they’re any good at anything, when they are in fact, crap.

    On second thoughts, maybe I’m not disproportionately angry, just correctly angry.

    thelawman
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    someone’s had one up and replaced it back-to-front so the pattern no longer aligns.

    Yep, saw one of those in Wolverhampton only last week, and it irritated me more than you’d think reasonable. That slap-dash approach gets my goat. Will get a pic next time I go past it; I can’t keep it to myself.

    Cougar
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    I genuinely wonder whether it’s malicious or just lackadaisical.

    onehundredthidiot
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    The mindfulness training we had today. A bizarre fascination with feeling my buttocks on the seat and breathing. Live in the moment and think about your next breath.
    Still your mind like Karen’s snow globe….erm… Brownian motion and kinetic energy those molecules ain’t still you Muppet.

    funkmasterp
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    The utter **** who attach phones and sat navs in the middle of the windscreen. Bottom right where it isn’t obstructing your view of the road you absolute dicks!

    keefezza
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    Slow moving people.

    I realised this last week whilst getting to my car at work. Guy a few cars down was already getting into his whilst I was 10m away from mine. I managed to walk that short distance, get in my car, bag in footwell, hi-vis off and in door card, start engine, put Spotify on, seatbelt on and finally set off by the time the slowest man on earth was sitting down. It had no impact on me other than annoyed me to the point of audibly uttering “how can somebody be that ******* slow”

    Quite unreasonable of me.

    Scapegoat
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    @keefezza

    Try shopping in Morrisons……

    Cougar
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    Slow moving people.

    I don’t mind slow-moving people per se.  It’s the ones who do so with no spatial or social awareness, like a sodded shopping trolley.  If you’re going to be shit, at least have the grace to be predictably shit so that I can circumnavigate you.  Like the bastards with soluble children who get to the doorway before deciding that they need to batten down the hatches because it looks like it might rain next Thursday.  Fine, whatever, just take two steps to your left first, you throbber.

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    keefezza
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    I refuse to go to supermarkets on weekends because of slow people

    funkmasterp
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    I rarely go to supermarkets at all because of them.

    theotherjonv
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    Guy a few cars down was already getting into his whilst I was 10m away from mine. I managed to walk that short distance, get in my car, bag in footwell, hi-vis off and in door card, start engine, put Spotify on, seatbelt on and finally set off by the time the slowest man on earth was sitting down.

    I went to the retail park this weekend, it wasn’t particularly busy but enough that I had to wait briefly while someone reversed back into a space (badly). After they’d pulled back out and tried again they beckoned me past.

    I parked, went into the car supermarket place for the 5ltrs of screenwash I needed (picked up as walked in the door, up to counter, no queue, tap and go, need a receipt?/no thanks, I won’t be returning screenwash) and back out to the car.

    They were still straightening up.

    I can’t say it made me disproportionately cross other than we share roads with this skill level.

    nickc
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    just take two steps to your left first, you throbber.

    cf: stopping at the top of escalators, taking two steps out of the lift and stopping…Pretend you live in a city, people…

    Murray
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    People who get annoyed with wheelchair users or infirm people in supermarkets. Show some compassion.

    Any people in pickups who block the pavement with there overhanging rear bed. Especially in the Maidstone hospital carpark.

    desperatebicycle
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    The Eurovision Song contest being on the news. It is not news.

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    flicker
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    cf: stopping at the top of escalators, taking two steps out of the lift and stopping…Pretend you live in a city, people…

    Add to the list people trying to push there way onto a train the second the doors open rather than standing back and letting folk get off first, clowns, you should be allowed to thump them the second the doors open 😁

    Mister-P
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    My colleague has just left the office and on the way out said “sees yous later”.  Hopefully not if you murder the English language in that way.

    johndoh
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    Butter falling off the knife before reaching the bread. It makes me unreasonably mad.

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