Stuff that makes you disproportionately cross

The odd pronunciation of SRAM as ‘Shram’
It triggers my misophonia worse than my girlfriends loud chewing.

Also people whose wardrobe is designed to display their god awful tattoos.

Also, people who are so narrow-minded that they get bent out of shape over people doing something that’s been a part of human existence for at least 5000 years. The word ‘petty’ springs lightly to mind here. And they have to tell everyone else just how petty-minded they are.

I have tattoos, nearly thirty so far, and most are on my arms, and the majority have a meaning. I’ve also been complimented on them by quite a few people. I’m not stopping wearing tee shirts in warm weather just to make people like you feel better about themselves. Not gonna happen, sunshine!

I genuinely don’t understand the negative reaction to tattoos these days.  Once of a time it was edgy and shocking, often a show of rebellion, the sort of thing you’d have to consciously try not to stare at.  Today teenage girls routinely get them, it’s normal.

I understand not liking them, that’s just personal taste like not liking hats or pink and that’s fair enough.  But pearl-clutching about them is odd behaviour.

Also people whose wardrobe is designed to display their god awful tattoos.

Do you buy pictures to hang on walls in your house and then cover them all up with towels in case anyone sees them?

Random long eyebrow hairs that stick up and make me look a bit like Denis Healey.  I can cope with wrinkles.  I can cope with going grey and balding,  But this is one step too far.

Pringles are far less structurally stable for scooping salsa than Doritos.

Random long eyebrow hairs that stick up and make me look a bit like Denis Healey.  I can cope with wrinkles.

On the other hand, it’s considerably harder to pluck out wrinkles.

Got refused using a photo on my phone of my friend’s club card that I’ve been merrily using for God knows how long, so.

I had to abandon my trolly at the checkout. Cue ‘shocked Pikachu face’ from the cashier.

Friend has just orded me a key fob card though.

They should just be forced to lower their prices for everyone rather blackmailing customers into agreeing to thier data harvesting.

Getting bombarded with emails to rate companies I have shopped with online. Isn’t it enough I am spending my money with you without you nagging me to massage your online ego.

Amazon asks me to review my upcoming deliveries.

Slight flaw in your plan here, guys…

Waitrose asking to review the carrots and spuds that were in my last shop with them. I didn’t bring them back, ergo they must be ok.

Have confidence in your wares and stop being so needy.

Most online reviews of items make me angry as they are either written 30 seconds after receiving the item in question or are actually a negative review of the courier.

Most online reviews of items make me angry as they are either written 30 seconds after receiving the item in question or are actually a negative review of the courier.

Yeah that does make me question the collective sanity of the human race… Item arrived late…one star, or the the ultimate… “looks ok but have not had cance to use it yet, so 1 star”

The chuff???

I think the problem with tattoos is that the designs are so cliched.

the idea behind people being administered DMT (legally mandated, under clinical supervision), was to bring back from these higher dimensions, some kind of art.

But so far I’ve seen no inspiring tattoos, no revelatory duvet cover designs at ikea. Not so much as a trippy cushion cover.

come on people. It’s only the shackles of cultural convention and the law that’s holding you back. (Don’t try this at home):)

Well, if and when I get one it’ll be a unique design rather than flash.

That said, any problem with flash is down to the beholder.

Still waiting on the big supermarkets, etc to allow us to scan our loyalty cards by using our smartwatches.

Doesnt need to be the entire suite of IT permutations. Just transfer the unique barcode and discount options.

Simples.

Im fed up turning up at Morrisons, clutching a fistful of discounts and special offers. Or forgetting to take them in the first place.

And paying with my mobile is nice, but it’s starting to feel like a house brick.

How did you get from tattoos to a lack of DMT inspired duvet covers in IKEA ?

Just saying there’s a similar lack of design flair. Are people running out of ideas?

Still waiting on the big supermarkets, etc to allow us to scan our loyalty cards by using our smartwatches.

My watch does this, and it’s obsolete.

Why am I only just discovering this thread?!

Supermarkets during the school holidays. Not sure why, but they’re absolutely rammed here for some reason, I’m in Congleton….hardly a tourist hot spot FFS.

Shit drivers that tailgate and have absolutely no awareness of the traffic.  As a motorcyclist this makes me cross, maybe more cross than it should?  But at times I feel like slowing to a halt and asking the driver behind what they’re trying to achieve but I reckon that’s a punitive exercise.

The guy who was in such a rush he drove through against priority but not in such a rush that he didn’t stop to debate my exaggerated shrugging gesture and whether it was a judgement on him as a person.

Amazon asks me to review my upcoming deliveries.

Slight flaw in your plan here, guys…

I got this today and thought it was weird at first.

Is it a recurring/regular/subscription thingy purchase? I think they mean review as in “check it’s all ok before we ship it out soon” rather than “leave a review saying how awesome it is before you get it”.

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That said, mentioning Amazon reminds me…

Amazon Seller Support. Customer service for sellers.

Trying to deal with them is the most infuriating thing ever. I swear their internal policy must be something like this:

1 – Only ever hire utter morons.

2 – When answering support cases, only ever read the first sentence.

3 – If you can get away with a boilerplate template response, touching vaguely on the subject matter but ignoring the specific question, do it!!

4 – Every response to a case must be answered by a different agent. Under no circumstances must anyone ever read back over the full case, only look at the (first sentence of) the most recent response.

5 – If the seller has managed to clearly state the problem in the first sentence, be as obtuse as possible.

Aaargh

Why are you using Amazon?  You say the customer service is shite, they are unethical at best.  why use them?

Work, not my choice. I just get to deal with them…

Anyway, they are so huge that if you are a company selling stuff online it’s hard to ignore that marketplace even if you hate them. I know, I know…

Why are you using Amazon?

Two reasons, the online book sellers have pretty much migrated to Amazon, they use it’s front, but I’m dealing with ‘a company’ Amazon take a cut fo’shure, but it’s one of the best ways to keep small indy. booksellers (especially niche stuff like academic books on history, literature etc etc) going. Secondly for the sorts of stuff that it’s difficult (if not impossible) to buy from traditional sources. I use small dripper pipettes for a hobby, I can buy half a years supply in one go delivered to my door for pennies.

“The guy who was in such a rush he drove through against priority but not in such a rush that he didn’t stop to debate my exaggerated shrugging gesture and whether it was a judgement on him as a person.”

If he didn’t stop then he may well have been in a rush.

Politicians do this fake thing of pretending to see someone in the crowd they know, pointing at them and pretending to greet them. It really triggers me it, so obviously fake and cringe worthy, and they all do it now.

Politicians do this fake thing of pretending to see someone in the crowd they know, pointing at them and pretending to greet them. It really triggers me it, so obviously fake and cringe worthy, and they all do it now.

You could’ve just stopped after the first word.

Actually, in the ‘why can’t I use my smartwatch to scan my loyalty card at the supermarket?”

Tescos. Yes.

Waitrose. Yes.

Similairly, my easyJet boarding pass materialised  on the wallet on my phone and my smartwatch. Top marks, there.

It would be convenient if I could use the smartwatch to identify myself at the gp’s surgery as well.

As for Morrisons, the staff at the self checkout area must waste so much time, trying to help customers to scan their vouchers.

If he didn’t stop then he may well have been in a rush.

If he didn’t he would. He wasn’t.

Dual price fining – Leave it on the shelf.

Minimum card payments.

Now I get it makes sense for a small business as each card payment incurs a fixed cost.

Popped into a bakery/cafe today. Coffee and a pie came to £6, very reasonable. Minimum card payment was £7. I had cash on me but only a £20. Person working there asked if I had anything smaller or a spare pound coin. They seemed a pit peeved off when I said, sorry no, that’s all I have.

I don’t carry shrapnel any more. It’s either card/phone or the emergency note.

If you can only accept cash payment below a certain amount, make sure you have a reasonable size float.

Minimum card payments.

Now I get it makes sense for a small business as each card payment incurs a fixed cost.

I’m becoming increasingly intolerant of this nonsense.

“It costs us 10p to process transactions under £5.”  Fine, add 10p onto the price of a bag of chips then, you’re quids in when someone pays cash.  I’d rather pay more than **** about with coins.

@cougar that photo of the recycling, have my family started living with you, if so good luck

People that park right next to junctions that then make pulling out a game of Russian roulette, but with cars.

**** arseholes.

Self-service tills. I generally avoid using them, I prefer to have a human serve me, just for the interaction with staff, although sometimes the wait time means using self-service for quickness.

Except when the poor design means it takes far longer to pay for shopping than queuing, as happened a week or so ago. The Tesco supermarket in town has six, and only one manned till was operating, so I put my bag on the bagging area and tried scanning my goods. Deary, deary me, how anyone could design something that’s so hopelessly inefficient is quite beyond me. I think it took over twenty minutes to scan ten items, it would randomly make mistakes, ask for an assistant, say I’d removed items that I’d just scanned and put in my bag, and the assistant was having to deal with other customers, including another member of staff who seemed to be having more issues than I was!

The really annoying thing is that Tesco is closing that store, I think partly because the whole precinct is likely to be redesigned and redeveloped, so they’re moving into part of the old Wilco store as a Tesco Express, with only self-service checkout; I think it’s going to end in tears, some of them mine!

The thing is, it really doesn’t have to be this difficult, Wilco’s had self-service which I used all the time, it consisted of a screen, a hand-scanner on a cable, and an area to put your bag. All you had to do was take each item from the basket, scan the barcode, put the item in the bag. How much simpler can it get? No nagging by a stupid machine that there’s an unidentified item in the bagging area, or failure to recognise that items have been scanned and an assistant is needed. K.I.S.S – Keep It Simple Stupid should be an absolute requirement for any public facing electronic system, the Wilco’s system exemplified that, over the years I used it, I never had a problem with it, and I shopped there every week.

I’m not looking forward to the new store opening, although hopefully if the system causes as much chaos as the existing ones, and customers bitch about it to management, they might pay attention. I’ll certainly be communicating my disappointment and frustration to their management via social media.

Got a view blocker on my exit to a main road – high sided van.  I now go a long way round to avoid using the junction.

The trend for bloaters has not helped – it is not just vans anymore but Hyundai type cars that have the metal right up high.

And as for those *****s that pull up beside you at a junction and block your vision so you miss the gaps, especially when you are turning left.  Hope your next flat is on a sleety night.

And as for those *****s that pull up beside you at a junction and block your vision so you miss the gaps, especially when you are turning left. Hope your next flat is on a sleety night.

And miles from a street light

People on OS Maps who are logging rides as off-road when they are almost entirely on road, albeit smaller lanes.

I’m looking for nice little mtb rides to do in unfamiliar areas and all I keep getting is road rides that are listed as off road.

Blummin gravelists innit
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