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  • LuckyReds
    LuckyReds Posts: 5,866

    LuckyReds said:

    Waking up at 0940.. when you should've left for work 2 hours before.

    On the other hand, I've only really got about 2 hours worth of work left before I knock off for Christmas and have a week off. So happy days there.

    If you're already that late, you might as well do it properly and take the time to crack one off.
    If you're the late, you dedicate the rest of the morning to it..
  • LuckyReds
    LuckyReds Posts: 5,866

    Walked off a job in early November coz the customer 'run out of money', only telling me AFTER I'd lumped out quite a bit of dough for THEIR materials. Got promised at the time that I would be paid the money what is owed (labour and materials) by the 16th of this month. Then on the 16th I was told definitely before Christmas, finally got an email yesterday evening asking if they can pay it off in installments into the new year with a bit more on top??? I think they think I'm the fuckin catalogue!!!!!


    Bet they ain't scrimping over Christmas though the parasites

    Sorry to hear that, mate. That's pretty fecking nasty, and something that scares the shit out of me personally. There's far too many chancers and gamblers out and about.

    Over the summer I spent about 7 weeks working for that kind of chap - he knew the right people and had a fairly decent idea - but he was trying to go it alone in an old-school type of industry. By the end of the work I was beginning to realise that the cheeky bastard definitely didn't have access to the funds he claimed he did, that he was taking a gamble on flogging the work I'd done for him before it was even finished.

    That very nearly ended up with me going under on my first actual bit of business! In a funny turn of events though, I ended up getting paid up in full about 4 weeks later.. and he never even asked for the shit I'd built for him. Fuck going through that hassle and aggro in December and over Christmas though. Pretty shitty.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    LuckyReds said:

    Walked off a job in early November coz the customer 'run out of money', only telling me AFTER I'd lumped out quite a bit of dough for THEIR materials. Got promised at the time that I would be paid the money what is owed (labour and materials) by the 16th of this month. Then on the 16th I was told definitely before Christmas, finally got an email yesterday evening asking if they can pay it off in installments into the new year with a bit more on top??? I think they think I'm the fuckin catalogue!!!!!


    Bet they ain't scrimping over Christmas though the parasites

    Sorry to hear that, mate. That's pretty fecking nasty, and something that scares the shit out of me personally. There's far too many chancers and gamblers out and about.

    Over the summer I spent about 7 weeks working for that kind of chap - he knew the right people and had a fairly decent idea - but he was trying to go it alone in an old-school type of industry. By the end of the work I was beginning to realise that the cheeky bastard definitely didn't have access to the funds he claimed he did, that he was taking a gamble on flogging the work I'd done for him before it was even finished.

    That very nearly ended up with me going under on my first actual bit of business! In a funny turn of events though, I ended up getting paid up in full about 4 weeks later.. and he never even asked for the shit I'd built for him. Fuck going through that hassle and aggro in December and over Christmas though. Pretty shitty.
    I often stump up money to keep things moving on most jobs and my Mrs is always nagging me not to do it because, as she says, there's always people like this couple who take the piss without even realising it. I even got an email from the woman asking when I was gonna drop in to collect my bottle of wine they got me for Christmas!

    Sooner I can get away from contract work the better, I've always hated it. Once my little workshop is up and running, I'll be designing and making bits to sell on and maybe the odd commissioned piece here and there, but it will hopefully be more straightforward transactions...
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998

    Walked off a job in early November coz the customer 'run out of money', only telling me AFTER I'd lumped out quite a bit of dough for THEIR materials. Got promised at the time that I would be paid the money what is owed (labour and materials) by the 16th of this month. Then on the 16th I was told definitely before Christmas, finally got an email yesterday evening asking if they can pay it off in installments into the new year with a bit more on top??? I think they think I'm the fuckin catalogue!!!!!


    Bet they ain't scrimping over Christmas though the parasites

    Wait till they are all asleep on Christmas Eve and burn their house down while they sleep
    I'd need to build it for em first, they're living in the garden in a caravan. Probably burn better
    Surely the fact that they live in a caravan would have tipped you off that they were gonna fleece you?
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Fiiish said:

    Walked off a job in early November coz the customer 'run out of money', only telling me AFTER I'd lumped out quite a bit of dough for THEIR materials. Got promised at the time that I would be paid the money what is owed (labour and materials) by the 16th of this month. Then on the 16th I was told definitely before Christmas, finally got an email yesterday evening asking if they can pay it off in installments into the new year with a bit more on top??? I think they think I'm the fuckin catalogue!!!!!


    Bet they ain't scrimping over Christmas though the parasites

    Wait till they are all asleep on Christmas Eve and burn their house down while they sleep
    I'd need to build it for em first, they're living in the garden in a caravan. Probably burn better
    Surely the fact that they live in a caravan would have tipped you off that they were gonna fleece you?
    Initially you'd think that, but when I see the gaff they were having built, you'd think they'd be good for the dough
  • LuckyReds
    LuckyReds Posts: 5,866
    Just nipped out to do the last of my Christmas shopping, cards and stocking fillers mainly. F*ck me, it's awful out there.

    - Buses. The amount of these utter tossers who jump red lights is astonishing; regularly outside Bromley South (Yeah, by the poxy Police Station.) and even up by Market Square. Normally I don't particularly mind, but come on.. on one of the busiest shopping days of the year on a road that goes through a pedestrianised town center?

    - Wanky parents. I've had to squeeze and contort myself around so many kids that I'm fairly certain I could get a job at the BBC. Icing on the cake was one nearly getting knocked around the head with my shopping bag. It's not his fault, but when I have kids I'd like to think I'd be pretty protective over them.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Computers and the hassle that goes with the resulting security requirements and restrictions.

    I've been locked out of an online account this evening which will be a real inconvenience until I can get back in next year.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    LenGlover said:

    Computers and the hassle that goes with the resulting security requirements and restrictions.

    I've been locked out of an online account this evening which will be a real inconvenience until I can get back in next year.

    You can get free porn online mate, allegedly
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    My local pub being infested with the once-a-year drinkers. Looks like the combined cast of Made In Chelsea, Geordie Shore, The Only Way Is Essex and everyone who was rejected from these shows for being too much of a Knut is in here. Can't wait til they piss off back to the University of Upper East Durham (formerly Pennis Polytechnic).
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    Wrapping - if you want to see an absolute abomination of someone trying to attempt to wrap presents, get yourself over to forest hill in the next hour or so
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  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    To walk invisible - just seen the advert for the BBC's latest period drama. More shit on it's way that middle England will lap up
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    Tablecloths. The ultimate in unnecessary junk.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    Non-standard battery sizes.
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,964
    The phrase "they don't make films like this anymore" for the film La La Land. Well they just have you twonk.
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,966
    The stupid strip of fabric that hotels insist on putting across the bottom of the bed for absolutely no purpose at all other than to fall off in the night.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    The amount of cable ties, screws and wire twists holding a toy in a box. Not only did my daughter get a new toy, she also got an enhanced vocabulary of about 300 swear words
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    The absolute pile of donkey shit TV served up yesterday and today. Why is nearly everything on the BBC a "Christmas special" of the crap they churn out through the year? Just stick a pissing film on ffs
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Our telephone / Internet provider not being able to supply a consistent service for any longer than 6 month over the last nearly 5 years. We're now resigned to only being connect for 9 - 10 month a year, but paying for 12..
  • clb74
    clb74 Posts: 10,824

    The absolute pile of donkey shit TV served up yesterday and today. Why is nearly everything on the BBC a "Christmas special" of the crap they churn out through the year? Just stick a pissing film on ffs

    Make you right mate not worth the licence money is it?
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    clb74 said:

    The absolute pile of donkey shit TV served up yesterday and today. Why is nearly everything on the BBC a "Christmas special" of the crap they churn out through the year? Just stick a pissing film on ffs

    Make you right mate not worth the licence money is it?
    ....so then I go on BBC news to read the match report and check out the news and I gotta endure ADVERTS. Obviously the Licence moneystealth tax weren't enough to cover that DR Who and what a load of shit that was.....
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  • clb74
    clb74 Posts: 10,824

    clb74 said:

    The absolute pile of donkey shit TV served up yesterday and today. Why is nearly everything on the BBC a "Christmas special" of the crap they churn out through the year? Just stick a pissing film on ffs

    Make you right mate not worth the licence money is it?
    ....so then I go on BBC news to read the match report and check out the news and I gotta endure ADVERTS. Obviously the Licence moneystealth tax weren't enough to cover that DR Who and what a load of shit that was.....
    At this present time with no English Tele would love a bit of bbc
    Think we are on our 50th film in the past 7 days
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    clb74 said:

    clb74 said:

    The absolute pile of donkey shit TV served up yesterday and today. Why is nearly everything on the BBC a "Christmas special" of the crap they churn out through the year? Just stick a pissing film on ffs

    Make you right mate not worth the licence money is it?
    ....so then I go on BBC news to read the match report and check out the news and I gotta endure ADVERTS. Obviously the Licence moneystealth tax weren't enough to cover that DR Who and what a load of shit that was.....
    At this present time with no English Tele would love a bit of bbc
    Think we are on our 50th film in the past 7 days
    I went 6 years without a telly, 6 years of bliss, only ended up with one coz my Mrs was given it. ffs
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Hold on National Lampoon Christmas Vacation on now, ITV 2 I think..
  • clb74
    clb74 Posts: 10,824

    Hold on National Lampoon Christmas Vacation on now, ITV 2 I think..

    You joking my favourite Christmas film
  • rina
    rina Posts: 2,334
    motorway service stations. how the hell are they allowed to get away with what they charge? 128.9p for a litre of unleaded today at clacket lane. I just put in enough to get me home where it only costs 111.9
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,853
    Because they know there are people who run low of petrol on the motorway....?
  • IdleHans said:

    The stupid strip of fabric that hotels insist on putting across the bottom of the bed for absolutely no purpose at all other than to fall off in the night.

    This but hotel duvets in general that are spread so tightly across the bed it is nearly impossible to get underneath it. Once under, it literally pins you to the mattress!


  • NorthStandUltra
    NorthStandUltra Posts: 2,538
    edited December 2016

    clb74 said:

    clb74 said:

    The absolute pile of donkey shit TV served up yesterday and today. Why is nearly everything on the BBC a "Christmas special" of the crap they churn out through the year? Just stick a pissing film on ffs

    Make you right mate not worth the licence money is it?
    ....so then I go on BBC news to read the match report and check out the news and I gotta endure ADVERTS. Obviously the Licence moneystealth tax weren't enough to cover that DR Who and what a load of shit that was.....
    At this present time with no English Tele would love a bit of bbc
    Think we are on our 50th film in the past 7 days
    I went 6 years without a telly, 6 years of bliss, only ended up with one coz my Mrs was given it. ffs
    Out on parole now or did you serve the full 6 year sentence?
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Adverts where the public school Oxbridge cocaine sniffing twunts who created it obviously thought "I know what will appeal to working class people... Whistling in the background"
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    I started following this Barry o'mahonney on twitter because he was quite empathetic to our plight re: the protests last season. Now I can't stand his tweets. He's a Leeds fan and all of a sudden the tweets against their owner have disappeared as they are 5th in the Champ. Now we're getting tweets about how Reading only bring 150 to Elland Road whereas Leeds sell out the Madejski away end. What a twat. Sorry we can't all be as big a club as Leeds and fake champions of Europe.

    Also seems like there's nothing else to do up there if the whole of the male population deem it necessary to leave every weekend they are away from home and follow the team. Well done for being the only team in the city.

    What a Pratt, he's really riled me with this 'look at our support' shit
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