Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)

Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)

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Timmy47

12,915 posts

201 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Those stupid bloody cardboard packs now used by a certain lager brand for 4 packs. Which invariably end up with several cans on the floor whenever you pick one up.

Don't ever by one the shop has taped back up, unless you like exploding beer can roulette.....

glenrobbo

35,675 posts

153 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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PH User said:
Can't say that I've ever noticed any issues with our home plumbing, it just seems to work.
Yep, you can't beat lead pipes and big brass taps. cloud9
Installed 150 years ago and still going strong.

PH User

22,154 posts

111 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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glenrobbo said:
PH User said:
Can't say that I've ever noticed any issues with our home plumbing, it just seems to work.
Yep, you can't beat lead pipes and big brass taps. cloud9
Installed 150 years ago and still going strong.
Most of ours are about 15 years old.

glenrobbo

35,675 posts

153 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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PH User said:
Most of ours are about 15 years old.
15 year old lead pipes and big brass taps???

PH User

22,154 posts

111 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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glenrobbo said:
PH User said:
Most of ours are about 15 years old.
15 year old lead pipes and big brass taps???
I never said that we had lead pipes and big brass taps

glenrobbo

35,675 posts

153 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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PH User said:
I never said that we had lead pipes and big brass taps
You didn't say you hadn't. wink

Bobberoo99

39,301 posts

101 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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glenrobbo said:
PH User said:
I never said that we had lead pipes and big brass taps
You didn't say you hadn't. wink
rofl

glenrobbo

35,675 posts

153 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Bobberoo99 said:
rofl
Ah, young Bobbers!
I thought you were banned. nono

shoutSCRUMP!!!

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

119 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Did you faucet out?

Bobberoo99

39,301 posts

101 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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glenrobbo said:
Bobberoo99 said:
rofl
Ah, young Bobbers!
I thought you were banned. nono

shoutSCRUMP!!!
grumpy Tattle tale!!!!

RizzoTheRat

25,482 posts

195 months

Friday 5th March 2021
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The use of login names/IDs that have organisation, department, etc before the persons name.
The majority of the people I had a video conference with this morning had the same name for the first 20 or so characters, and the video conferencing software only shows the first 17!

DRFC1879

3,458 posts

160 months

Friday 5th March 2021
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Amazon.

I want to buy a 3m lightning cable for my son's iPhone. Found a three pack for £15 on Amazon. Great, that'll do.

I don't use Amazon enough to benefit from Prime but I did recently do the month's free trial thing and cancelled it when it ended. Got to delivery options and I can either sign up to Prime for "free" delivery or pay a fiver for next day premium delivery. It's not particularly time sensitive so I would have happily clicked on "standard" delivery to pay £2-3 and get it in a few days' time but that option isn't there.

captain_cynic

12,629 posts

98 months

Friday 5th March 2021
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Error messages like "this task has failed to complete successfully"

Well no st, if it completed successfully it wouldn't have failed. Who writes these things, the department of redundnace department.

V8mate

45,899 posts

192 months

Friday 5th March 2021
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DRFC1879 said:
Amazon.

I want to buy a 3m lightning cable for my son's iPhone. Found a three pack for £15 on Amazon. Great, that'll do.

I don't use Amazon enough to benefit from Prime but I did recently do the month's free trial thing and cancelled it when it ended. Got to delivery options and I can either sign up to Prime for "free" delivery or pay a fiver for next day premium delivery. It's not particularly time sensitive so I would have happily clicked on "standard" delivery to pay £2-3 and get it in a few days' time but that option isn't there.
You went one step too far.
It's not obvious, but it's definitely there. I have Prime on my UK account but just regular user on my German account and I often find I've over-shot and need to move back to get the regular delivery.

RizzoTheRat

25,482 posts

195 months

Friday 5th March 2021
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captain_cynic said:
Error messages like "this task has failed to complete successfully"

Well no st, if it completed successfully it wouldn't have failed. Who writes these things, the department of redundnace department.
I put an "### Out of cheese error ###" message in a VBA macro mainly intended for my own use, caused a bit f confusion when someone else used it hehe

popeyewhite

20,376 posts

123 months

Friday 5th March 2021
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Contractor vehicles that park en masse on the council-owned grass verge outside a private housebuild. House finished vehicles depart (Toyota pickups mostly) and the 20m stretch of verge looks worse than Verdun after an artillery barrage. Why don't they put it right? Why don't the council insist on it?

DRFC1879

3,458 posts

160 months

Friday 5th March 2021
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V8mate said:
DRFC1879 said:
Amazon.

I want to buy a 3m lightning cable for my son's iPhone. Found a three pack for £15 on Amazon. Great, that'll do.

I don't use Amazon enough to benefit from Prime but I did recently do the month's free trial thing and cancelled it when it ended. Got to delivery options and I can either sign up to Prime for "free" delivery or pay a fiver for next day premium delivery. It's not particularly time sensitive so I would have happily clicked on "standard" delivery to pay £2-3 and get it in a few days' time but that option isn't there.
You went one step too far.
It's not obvious, but it's definitely there. I have Prime on my UK account but just regular user on my German account and I often find I've over-shot and need to move back to get the regular delivery.
Buggered if I could find it on the app. Went on the laptop and still couldn't find it. They're making this way too hard (on purpose) these days.

Amazon has gone from being a convenient and reasonably cheap outlet to a begrudging last port of call thanks to this sthousery.

Chicken_Satay

2,301 posts

207 months

Friday 5th March 2021
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Zipcar - I've looked at this company many times over the years and every time I've come to the conclusion that it's a complete load of ste!

£10.50 per hour or £99 per day to hire a car. It's fking cheaper (and not that much more hassle, relative to the cost) to just use a normal car rental company.

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

119 months

Friday 5th March 2021
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popeyewhite said:
Contractor vehicles that park en masse on the council-owned grass verge outside a private housebuild. House finished vehicles depart (Toyota pickups mostly) and the 20m stretch of verge looks worse than Verdun after an artillery barrage. Why don't they put it right? Why don't the council insist on it?
You could always grass them up to management or the council, pw.

carreauchompeur

17,899 posts

207 months

Friday 5th March 2021
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People parking on my road.

Not full stop or anything, but I live down a relatively narrow mews with entrances at each end. People treat it like a dead end- contractors just park so you can’t get past and are exceptionally bloody minded when asked nicely to move.

One resident is otherwise a nice guy, but insists occasionally on parking his XTrail by his house. Negotiable on most days, but on bing days he parks there anyway opposite bins, which means it’s completely impossible to pass. Next time I have to move the bins out of the way I might put them in front of his car to ‘explain’.

I can generally access the road by the other end, but having to do a three point turn simply because a builder doesn’t want to carry a drill 50m down the road is annoying. And also it then means I have a 54 point turn the other end as my driveway is really awkward to get into from the other side.

That’s better, thanks for listening