Stuff that makes you disproportionately cross

Modern wine glasses.

My parents had a set of wine glasses as a wedding present 60 years ago which they basically still have except one which landed on a stone hearth.

I think we buy a new set every 2 years! The slightest knock and they fracture. We obviously don’t put them in the dishwasher yet they still last 5 minutes.

And yes, I have just cracked yet another one drying up this morning.

Control your kids? Anyway, they’ll only do it once. Either you’ll give them a thick ear or common sense will kick in.

Listening to the plummy voiced young lady in Costa expressing surprise that her and her friends had been unable to access any of the local pubs by the door staff at 10pm on New Years Eve…..

….before going on to say how working at the Blenheim Palace (?) ice rink in the run up to Christmas had made her realise how stupid and entitled customers can be.

Maybe a bit early but when it’s the middle of Jan and you still get folk saying happy New year

Can’t say I miss the slobbering kiss from oldie relatives growing up as a bairn

And yes, I have just cracked yet another one drying up this morning

Yup, lost one to the exact same thing last night. Wafer thin, it was, with a stem like a straw. Very pretty, but fundamentally flawed.

The proximity of the Saracen banner ad to the links bar with bike, chat etc. links. Which, combined with my fat thumb on a small screen results in me inadvertently spending more time on the Saracen home page than on here.

Well not really, but a lot more more time than I’d like, I’ve no interest in their products atm. I guess it’s deliberate and helps the STW ad revenue coffers, so I bite my lip. But jeez it’s annoying, especially when swiping to go back takes another 30 seconds!

And yes, I have just cracked yet another one drying up this morning

We bought some new crockery when we moved house four years ago. The number of pieces which haven’t either chipped or completely broken is about 50%. Granted my partner washes up with a hammer but both my gran’s old plates and the cheap Tesco ones I bought have a 100% survival rate.

Control your kids? Anyway, they’ll only do it once. Either you’ll give them a thick ear or common sense will kick in.

Yeah because the smell of dog shit is really what makes the countryside special.

The Nigel Farage thread.

Means I keep reading the c**** name all the while.

Getting a letter from a debt collection agency over christmas, for a dead relative, for a balance of £0.00 on an energy debt I paid off months ago…

I think I’ll just ignore it and see if they file at court to reclaim their zero balance…

Has no-one been cross for 3 days?  New Year, New You?

I’m disproportionally cross that this thread has been resurrected…

If we’ve run out of things that make you cross how about things that make you mildly roll your eyes?

An email from an event the wife attended:

Following Saturday evening’s live show, some lost property was located at Elstree which we’d love to reunite with its owner.

This particular item of lost property was reported missing on Saturday 28 September, but for GDPR reasons the contact details of the audience member who lost it have since been deleted, so we’re now hoping to track down the owner and reunite them with this item.

If this sounds like it could be you we are looking for, please get in touch by emailing….

You’ve kept my email and sent out a global email, but can’t keep the email of the person who reported the item lost 🙄

I get disproportionally cross at the way Lurpak butter falls off my knife before it reaches the bread. Anchor butter does not have this problem.

I have a growing rage at media lovee types pretending to give two shits about the plight of women in Afghanistan like the behaviour of the Taliban v2.0 is something new and out of the ordinary.

What did they think we were doing for 12 years? We literally gave those people blood, limbs, mindals and bodies while trying to train their men (and women) to take control of their nation, to facilitate security and stability to enable the people to live a version of freedom in keeping with their culture, but instead the the men just wanted to smoke drugs, rape boys and shackle their women.

They knew this would happen the minute the big stick got taken away, they’d go back to subjugating their women and visiting harm on those just trying to live their lives.

So yeah, now we have to sit back and watch in technicolour the outcomes of abject political and military failure whilst wet blankets feed on the misery with glee, blind to the irony they were part of the problem.

Anchor butter does not have this problem.

I’d rather it stayed on my knife than came anywhere near food.

Mobile phones. I doubt that 1% of you need to make a life or death, work crucial call at all hours of the day. So leave the sodding thing at home or at least switched off .

I’ve heard that “mobile phones” can be used to do other things than make phone calls these days?

I have a growing rage at media lovee types pretending to give two shits about the plight of women in Afghanistan like the behaviour of the Taliban v2.0 is something new and out of the ordinary.

I think your ire is misdirected. It wasn’t “media lovee types” who thought it was a great idea to go charging into Afghanistan with guns blazing in the aftermath of 9/11, without regard for the inevitable consequences once the testosterone rush had cooled off a bit.

Please don’t reply to this email

Why not? Will something bad happen? Will all the emails sent to an email address that nobody monitors clog it up? Oooh, that sounds fun!

To whom it may concern,

I understand nobody monitors this email address, and that my expectations for a response should be lowered, but I’m sure that someone, or something, MUST monitor this account in some way. This is for you, lowly non existent monitor of unmonitored email accounts, I hope you have a fantastic day and escape the drudgery.

^^

It’s trivial to send an email with a FROM: address which simply doesn’t exist. It’s not that accounts allegedly aren’t monitored or that they’re given to the kid on Work Experience, rather there is nothing to monitor.

I think your ire is misdirected. It wasn’t “media lovee types” who thought it was a great idea to go charging into Afghanistan with guns blazing in the aftermath of 9/11, without regard for the inevitable consequences once the testosterone rush had cooled off a bit.

Instead blame Dyson for the power vacuum.

The taxi driver this morning who, on a narrow terraced street, decided to to stop in the middle of the road next to a space rather than pull into said space.  Yes I know taxi drivers can’t drive for toffee but a bit of consideration for other road users would be appreciated.

The obnoxious tw*t who, without fail, walks into the (quite small) work gym, and without ever asking, proceeds to set the other radio at the cardio end of the gym to (a) capital dance and (b) maximum volume. This is when one, two or many of us are already quite happily listening to literally anything else, on the first radio in the weights end, which we can no longer do because yours has drowned it out. Dick.

Then he walks into the half I’m/we’re in and uses the weights for half an hour. Dick.

I think I’ll just ignore it and see if they file at court to reclaim their zero balance…

Send them a cheque to cover the balance, and charge them for your time.

I found (during a small claims court claim against a debt collection agency) that small claims would happily consider your time to be equally as valuable as the debt collection agency’s time.

The particular debt collectors involved charged £20 every time they wrote a letter to you – I simply did the same to them.

(in my case, there was a distinct lack of evidence regarding any supposed debt – given there wasn’t actually any debt, they were shysters trying it on – so I ended up with a small cheque for my invoice and they paid the court fees).

Now that everyone in the world seems to have at least one mobile phone, why,  when I call someone, do they not **** well answer! That thing that’s making a ringing noise will be the phone – pick it up FFS! If it’s not important I’ll text or email or send a carrier pigeon or use some other mode of communication you can just ignore.  If I’m ringing, it’s because I want an answer NOW, not at your leisure. Aaaaaarrrggh!!!!

IT support folks often say that printers create 99% of their work (other percentages are available). That’s just because graphics tablets are not very common. Why can’t the manufacturer (and I guess I’m really just talking about Wacom) make a driver that works without complaining, and a Bluetooth tablet that doesn’t skip and lag like a kangaroo with a wonky leg?

why, when I call someone, do they not **** well answer! That thing that’s making a ringing noise will be the phone – pick it up FFS! If it’s not important I’ll text or email or send a carrier pigeon or use some other mode of communication you can just ignore. If I’m ringing, it’s because I want an answer now, not at your leisure. Aaaaaarrrggh!!!!

Because whilst that moment might be convenient for you, it isn’t for whomever you’re calling.

If I’m ringing, it’s because I want an answer NOW, not at your leisure.

Sucks to be you, unless you’re volunteering to pay for my phone and contract.

Now that everyone in the world seems to have at least one mobile phone, why,  when I call someone, do they not **** well answer! That thing that’s making a ringing noise will be the phone – pick it up FFS! If it’s not important I’ll text or email or send a carrier pigeon or use some other mode of communication you can just ignore.  If I’m ringing, it’s because I want an answer NOW, not at your leisure. Aaaaaarrrggh!!!

My phone rings so rarely this days, unless it’s OH or family, I regard it with dread. What bag of bastards is this? I’ll give it a hard stare, in the hope it’ll ring off quickly. If it’s an unknown number it’s frankly 50/50 on the whole answering thing.

If it’s my work phone, it’s a minute past contracted hours and I’ve forgotten to leave it in the van, I’ll carefully ignore it.

Smokers/vapers. Sorry but you’re unintelligent scum that need to reflect on what you have in life before you destroy your own health, and others around you.

Now that everyone in the world seems to have at least one mobile phone, why,  when I call someone, do they not **** well answer! That thing that’s making a ringing noise will be the phone – pick it up FFS! If it’s not important I’ll text or email or send a carrier pigeon or use some other mode of communication you can just ignore.  If I’m ringing, it’s because I want an answer NOW, not at your leisure. Aaaaaarrrggh!!!

It’s called being busy. AKA, having responsibilities and a job that requires actual work and not staring at instatok all day. Unless it’s between 7am and 7:45am or after 8:30pm I probably can’t answer the phone.

Humblebrags about being able to afford Lurpak. 😉

I think some of the responses to my rant about people not answering phones have forgotten the topic of the thread. The thing that triggered me was trying to get through to my pharmacy to ascertain whether my prescription had arrived. It’s a local pharmacy, not a mega-Boots. I tried ringing them in excess of 20 times and each time getting a message saying that no one was available to take my call. In the end, I took a punt and walked there, only to find that there were SIX staff milling around and ONE other customer that was just waiting for their meds. Maybe I posted on the wrong thread but I couldn’t find one about being proportionately cross  ?

The fact that we don’t have a proportionately cross thread.

Back OT, the pharmacy in the local surgery.

13 years of using it, at least once a month for ongoing conditions in the family, less than 10 occasions has there been (a) all the stuff ordered (b) it turn up when promised and (c) the promised text message arrive.

Brewery, up, piss, organise, could they not.

I also note, things have become around twice as good since they replaced several staff with a miniature robot warehouse. However, twice as good as flaming awful is still not very good.

I think some of the responses to my rant about people not answering phones have forgotten the topic of the thread. The thing that triggered me was trying to get through to my pharmacy to ascertain whether my prescription had arrived. It’s a local pharmacy, not a mega-Boots. I tried ringing them in excess of 20 times and each time getting a message saying that no one was available to take my call. In the end, I took a punt and walked there, only to find that there were SIX staff milling around and ONE other customer that was just waiting for their meds. Maybe I posted on the wrong thread but I couldn’t find one about being proportionately cross  ?

😀

Not at all, I shall be equally disproportionately cross about the fact that you* have disturbed me, no matter when it is, who you are, or what it’s about. How dare you!

* Not you specially.

Mrs F suffered similar problems with our local pharmacy. No answer on the phone, consistently late (the only thing they were consistent with) regularly out of if stock, missing items, and on one occasion some one else’s order. Gave up with them late last year and now uses an online pharmacist, perfect record so far.

Over dependence on mobiles – got caught by a technical issue which prevented me from sticking money on mine recently. This was in a country where to access accommodation, get on a bus, pay for certain things requires one.  Fortunately being one of the most pleasant places that I have visited, there was always willing help on hand.

More trivially – those wretched QR code menus. They are an utter pain.

I think some of the responses to my rant about people not answering phones have forgotten the topic of the thread. The thing that triggered me was trying to get through to my pharmacy to ascertain whether my prescription had arrived. It’s a local pharmacy, not a mega-Boots. I tried ringing them in excess of 20 times and each time getting a message saying that no one was available to take my call

Your rant was about people not answering mobile phones, not businesses failing to answer landlines.

Over dependence on mobiles – got caught by a technical issue which prevented me from sticking money on mine recently.

You have to “put money” on a phone?

You have to “put money” on a phone?

On some contracts, yes. For example, I am with GiffGaff and have a monthly plan, but some things (such as international calls and texts outside the EU). To access such things, you manually top-up your account and get charged accordingly. I believe you can set it to automatically top-up if you wish.

Although my reaction in this situation was disproportionate, I think it could be considered fairly understandable.

Walking home from work the other evening, as I got to the corner of a street a Deliveroo rider rode around the corner on the narrow path just as I got there and barely missed me.  He startled the life out of me and without thinking I reacted with “**** Hell!  Get on the **** road!  You **** ****!” as he rode away (I’m hoping the swear filter does it job properly with that!).

It dawned on me later that as I had my headphones in, what I thought was said at a spoken level was probably shouted pretty loudly.

Although it’s bloody annoying when people ride inconsiderately, that reaction is totally out of character for me.

BBC news app sending me notifications that are actually just adverts for their own programs or some irrelevant royal/celebrity update. News app notifications should be saved for proper news. BBC really need to get personalised notification categories switched on.