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General Things That Annoy You thread - part 2
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It's the second worst knee injury to an ACL. To do both legs is surprisingly rare, something the surgeon has only ever seen once. Hopefully the compensation will be worth it! Between £36k to £100k per leg depending on the severity of it, and mine was pretty damn severe.Stig said:
Sounds horrible. Here's wishing you a full and swift recovery.OhMyGodden said:
Completely ruptured the patellar tendon, and broke some kneecap off in both legs on valentines day last year. Getting there but still on crutches most of the time, with somewhat questionable balance probelms without them. Can go up steps, but can only come down them sideways and if they're big enough and I have something to hold on to.MrOneLung said:
hope nothing too serious @OhMyGoddenOhMyGodden said:Being stuck inside for the good part of a year
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Liverpool, Leeds and Birmingham being top of the first three divisions in English football.4
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I wouldn't swap with any of them thoughAlgarveaddick said:Liverpool, Leeds and Birmingham being top of the first three divisions in English football.0 -
Exactly!MrLargo said:
These people sound like idiots. I hope your missus beats the shit out of them.JohnBoyUK said:
As an update to this, they've just booked in for a second viewing.JohnBoyUK said:We've put our house on the market.
A family walked round, told the Estate Agent they absolutely loved in.
Then went in with an offer £170k under.
You cheeky f'ing bastards.
Mrs JB wants to show them around herself. I'll probably come home to find them tied up with her going at them with a baseball bat!
In the highly unlikely event that your house is ridiculously overpriced, they should have politely told the agent that they won't be making an offer as they feel that the current asking price is too high.
Making a derogatory offer, one that is too low to even use as a starting point for negotiations, is only going to cause offence and irritation.
I wouldn't even let them see the place again. An improved, but still offensively low offer forthcoming.
The update on this. They came back. They love the house. They're still in the wrong post code with the price (but its closer!)
(Mrs JB politely agreed with the EA to stay clear of the house!)
As of yesterday, they were very matter of fact saying that was their final offer and they'd 'leave it on the table'.
Otherwise they wouldn't move and they'd buy a detached in a couple of years time.
24hrs later, they've phoned the EA today to say they've agreed a price with another property close by (haha of course you f'ing have you absolute melt!) so could we please make a decision whether we'd sell for their offer.
Haha, over our dead bodies! NO BLOODY DEAL!
OMG, you can just imagine if we agreed the sale with them, they'd probably employ the family surveyor to knock the house down in price and they'd want to renegotiate.
As Jerry Maguire said (or was it Cuba Gooding Jnr) - "Show me the money!"
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Glad you’ve shown them the door. I doubt you’ve heard the last of them yet though. Probably at least one more cheeky offer.JohnBoyUK said:
Exactly!MrLargo said:
These people sound like idiots. I hope your missus beats the shit out of them.JohnBoyUK said:
As an update to this, they've just booked in for a second viewing.JohnBoyUK said:We've put our house on the market.
A family walked round, told the Estate Agent they absolutely loved in.
Then went in with an offer £170k under.
You cheeky f'ing bastards.
Mrs JB wants to show them around herself. I'll probably come home to find them tied up with her going at them with a baseball bat!
In the highly unlikely event that your house is ridiculously overpriced, they should have politely told the agent that they won't be making an offer as they feel that the current asking price is too high.
Making a derogatory offer, one that is too low to even use as a starting point for negotiations, is only going to cause offence and irritation.
I wouldn't even let them see the place again. An improved, but still offensively low offer forthcoming.
The update on this. They came back. They love the house. They're still in the wrong post code with the price (but its closer!)
(Mrs JB politely agreed with the EA to stay clear of the house!)
As of yesterday, they were very matter of fact saying that was their final offer and they'd 'leave it on the table'.
Otherwise they wouldn't move and they'd buy a detached in a couple of years time.
24hrs later, they've phoned the EA today to say they've agreed a price with another property close by (haha of course you f'ing have you absolute melt!) so could we please make a decision whether we'd sell for their offer.
Haha, over our dead bodies! NO BLOODY DEAL!
OMG, you can just imagine if we agreed the sale with them, they'd probably employ the family surveyor to knock the house down in price and they'd want to renegotiate.
As Jerry Maguire said (or was it Cuba Gooding Jnr) - "Show me the money!"You’re right, they’d be absolute nightmares to sell to and would be trying to knock extra money off left right and centre.0 -
All very annoying, and very predictable. Some people are so weird, I'd love to understand their thought process!JohnBoyUK said:
Exactly!MrLargo said:
These people sound like idiots. I hope your missus beats the shit out of them.JohnBoyUK said:
As an update to this, they've just booked in for a second viewing.JohnBoyUK said:We've put our house on the market.
A family walked round, told the Estate Agent they absolutely loved in.
Then went in with an offer £170k under.
You cheeky f'ing bastards.
Mrs JB wants to show them around herself. I'll probably come home to find them tied up with her going at them with a baseball bat!
In the highly unlikely event that your house is ridiculously overpriced, they should have politely told the agent that they won't be making an offer as they feel that the current asking price is too high.
Making a derogatory offer, one that is too low to even use as a starting point for negotiations, is only going to cause offence and irritation.
I wouldn't even let them see the place again. An improved, but still offensively low offer forthcoming.
The update on this. They came back. They love the house. They're still in the wrong post code with the price (but its closer!)
(Mrs JB politely agreed with the EA to stay clear of the house!)
As of yesterday, they were very matter of fact saying that was their final offer and they'd 'leave it on the table'.
Otherwise they wouldn't move and they'd buy a detached in a couple of years time.
24hrs later, they've phoned the EA today to say they've agreed a price with another property close by (haha of course you f'ing have you absolute melt!) so could we please make a decision whether we'd sell for their offer.
Haha, over our dead bodies! NO BLOODY DEAL!
OMG, you can just imagine if we agreed the sale with them, they'd probably employ the family surveyor to knock the house down in price and they'd want to renegotiate.
As Jerry Maguire said (or was it Cuba Gooding Jnr) - "Show me the money!"
As @arsenetatters says, they'll be back. Most probably with another derisory offer and another fictional ultimatum.
Hope someone relatively normal comes up with a decent offer for you sooner rather than later.3 -
Compulsive takers
I took in a parcel for my next door neighbour, well known as far as two miles away for liking to take advantage. Street whatsapp chat full of 'can i borrow someone's multi-tool, lawnmower, toilet brush for the weekend.
He didn't come and claim it and a week later fed up with having it in the house i tried to drop it off twice when i was sure there was someone in but no answer at the door.
This afternoon he was arriving at the same time as me to the houses. 'Hi X, i have a parcel for you', 'yes i know', 'i tried to drop it off a couple of times but there was no answer.', 'No problem mate, can i have it now?'
Like it was my fault i hadn't delivered it earlier.
Then he wanted some advice on a tradesperson at a cheap rate. Grrrr.2 -
Mrs Idle's filthy cold. It's doing my head in, she has a dreadful resonating cough and is constantly blowing her nose, even though it seems whatever is in there has set like cement. If she blows any harder, the back of her head will fall off. I am currently sleeping in the spare room to avoid it.
And if she sees this, it might become a longer term arrangement.
(I am very sympathetic, and of course it's much worse for her. But still)6 -
wonder if he said it hadn't been delivered so he could get his money back! then get it delivered later on by you. Is that possible though?Alwaysneil said:Compulsive takers
I took in a parcel for my next door neighbour, well known as far as two miles away for liking to take advantage. Street whatsapp chat full of 'can i borrow someone's multi-tool, lawnmower, toilet brush for the weekend.
He didn't come and claim it and a week later fed up with having it in the house i tried to drop it off twice when i was sure there was someone in but no answer at the door.
This afternoon he was arriving at the same time as me to the houses. 'Hi X, i have a parcel for you', 'yes i know', 'i tried to drop it off a couple of times but there was no answer.', 'No problem mate, can i have it now?'
Like it was my fault i hadn't delivered it earlier.
Then he wanted some advice on a tradesperson at a cheap rate. Grrrr.0 - Sponsored links:
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Dunno, i think he expected me to be knocking on his door every 5 mins maybe having gift wrapped it2
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Is your surname Brockman?Alwaysneil said:Dunno, i think he expected me to be knocking on his door every 5 mins maybe having gift wrapped it
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Our next door neighbours use their back door/garden as their front door basically as their parking space is round the back.
I don't know if it's therefore messier by the front door and a pain to open it when parcel delivery people turn up, or they're just lazy, but they hardly open the door to them - usually when I know full well they're in - and then I get lumbered with the parcels as I'm WFH answer the door, and they then wait for them to be delivered by us rather than knocking and collecting.
So I've started just saying no to taking them in - feel bad for the delivery guys, especially when they've already started selecting 'left with neighbour' etc on their tablets, but ah well. Their look of confusion at me saying "nah, don't like next door" can be quite funny too.
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Always very tempted to chuck parcels in the fence the way Hugh Dennis did! They're often fragile/expensive camera equipment too as next door works in filming.Algarveaddick said:
Is your surname Brockman?Alwaysneil said:Dunno, i think he expected me to be knocking on his door every 5 mins maybe having gift wrapped it
Well, occasionally. Normally he sits on his arse in the house all day being noisy.1 -
I live in the first house in my road, Evri seem to think thats the drop off point for incorrectly addressed parcel. Last year I had a back and forth argument with that companies chat computer, I came second and gave up. They just left a parcel on the bench on my driveway. It was from Holland and Barrett so obviously some health junk/vitamins/supplement crap, I left it outside for a week and a half before the chap next door said the postman knows the house number it should go to, I think he was telling me to do the right thing with it. So I cracked and delivered it myself. A couple of months later exactly the same company with the same size parcel from the same charlatan company to the same person up my road. Again I waited a while before walking it up the road, I was going to bin it but the better part of me got the better of my bad side. Amazing peoples attitudes when you ask them politely to check their mailing address as they are at fault and not me. Next time it is going in the bin, I'm not a delivery man. (I didn't say that last bit to anyone, just thought it out loud to myself)Alwaysneil said:Compulsive takers
I took in a parcel for my next door neighbour, well known as far as two miles away for liking to take advantage. Street whatsapp chat full of 'can i borrow someone's multi-tool, lawnmower, toilet brush for the weekend.
He didn't come and claim it and a week later fed up with having it in the house i tried to drop it off twice when i was sure there was someone in but no answer at the door.
This afternoon he was arriving at the same time as me to the houses. 'Hi X, i have a parcel for you', 'yes i know', 'i tried to drop it off a couple of times but there was no answer.', 'No problem mate, can i have it now?'
Like it was my fault i hadn't delivered it earlier.
Then he wanted some advice on a tradesperson at a cheap rate. Grrrr.
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Dont take in parcels for neighbours.
I had enough of it when lockdown happened and a delivery driver came round with my address on but with someone else's name. Said I don't know who that is so he took it back.
A few days later a neighbour comes round asking me if I had their package. Said no. Lockdown had just started so had other things on my mind.
She came back a bit later to say that it had my address but her name on it and the delivery firm says that it was delivered. I said oh yeah someone did come round but I didn't take it and the driver went. So off she went.
She came back a couple of hours later to show me what the delivery company had given them with a delivery drivers note stating "DOA" (all I could think of is dead on arrival) she came across very accusatorial towards me and I told her as far as I'm concerned this has nothing to do with me.
Never spoken to her since.
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You dont happen to live in Petts Wood do you? lolNorth Lower Neil said:
They're often fragile/expensive camera equipment too as next door works in filming.Algarveaddick said:
Is your surname Brockman?Alwaysneil said:Dunno, i think he expected me to be knocking on his door every 5 mins maybe having gift wrapped it0 -
People getting compensation for seemingly trivial matters,there was a woman reported to have got £41.000 because someone she worked with left her out of the tea round.I believe she worked in the NHS,so who pays this money,does it come out of the NHS funds ,in which case this a years salary for a senior nurse,and shouldnt be going to someone who cant make their own tea.1
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I don't think you have the full story here, I did a search on Grok, the AI section of 'X ' and this is what it came up with:thickandthin63 said:People getting compensation for seemingly trivial matters,there was a woman reported to have got £41.000 because someone she worked with left her out of the tea round.I believe she worked in the NHS,so who pays this money,does it come out of the NHS funds ,in which case this a years salary for a senior nurse,and shouldnt be going to someone who cant make their own tea.Yes, a woman in the UK, Susan Hamilton, an NHS nurse, was awarded £41,000 in compensation following an employment tribunal case against Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. The case, which concluded with a judgment published on February 25, 2025, stemmed from a series of workplace disputes, including an incident where she was deliberately excluded from a morning tea round by her colleague, Abdool Nayeck, a dietitian. This exclusion was part of broader allegations of bullying behavior, such as ignoring her greetings and turning away during meetings, which began after a disagreement over patient care in 2018.Hamilton, a diabetes specialist nurse who had worked at St Helier Hospital in Sutton, south London since 2012, resigned in January 2022, citing a "breach of contract" due to a "total breakdown of trust and confidence" in the Trust’s handling of her complaints. The tribunal found that the Trust failed to adequately address Nayeck’s behavior over several years, contributing to her stress and eventual resignation. The £41,000 award was for unfair constructive dismissal, with the tea round exclusion highlighted as one of the symptomatic issues in the ongoing conflict, rather than the sole reason for the payout. The situation escalated despite mediation attempts in 2019, where Nayeck reportedly said, "I don’t like you," and later stopped making tea for the entire team rather than resolving the issue with Hamilton.3 -
Tbh I've never had a decent cup of tea when made by someone working for the NHS so to be excluded would be a fine instead of having to feign gratitude for the dishwater they usually serve up.5
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People on public transport listening to music or video on their phone WITHOUT headphones/earbuds.
Absolute selfish pricks of the highest order.
No doubt several hundred have you have posted this previously so apologies
(Currently on the 07:12 Petts Wood to Charing X with my airpods in on sound cancelling mode but can still hear some chavs phone and my BP is increasing as a result!)
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JohnBoyUK said:People on public transport listening to music or video on their phone WITHOUT headphones/earbuds.
Absolute selfish pricks of the highest order.
No doubt several hundred have you have posted this previously so apologies
(Currently on the 07:12 Petts Wood to Charing X with my airpods in on sound cancelling mode but can still hear some chavs phone and my BP is increasing as a result!)
They are the same people that don’t put their trays away at airport security.
(currently at Heathrow T5)6 -
Haha no!JohnBoyUK said:
You dont happen to live in Petts Wood do you? lolNorth Lower Neil said:
They're often fragile/expensive camera equipment too as next door works in filming.Algarveaddick said:
Is your surname Brockman?Alwaysneil said:Dunno, i think he expected me to be knocking on his door every 5 mins maybe having gift wrapped it
He's more cameraman than photography.
And you're far less annoying!! 😆0 -
I feel your pain, I suffer from a little known condition called Misophonia, where certain sounds trigger a fight/flight reaction, making you want to scream and flee the source of the noise. Eating sounds such as chewing, slurping and crunching are triggers for many sufferers, but other sounds like bass music also cause a reaction.JohnBoyUK said:People on public transport listening to music or video on their phone WITHOUT headphones/earbuds.
Absolute selfish pricks of the highest order.
No doubt several hundred have you have posted this previously so apologies
(Currently on the 07:12 Petts Wood to Charing X with my airpods in on sound cancelling mode but can still hear some chavs phone and my BP is increasing as a result!)
I can't pinpoint an exact date this started, but as a teenager I couldn't bear the sound of crisp crunching and the rustling of packets, and it hasn't eased with time. I had never heard of the condition until my niece said she also suffers from it, so I wonder if it is genetic. I joined a Facebook group for sufferers and was surprised just how many people do suffer and there are people who suffer far more than I do.
One of my big hates now, is the increasing use of music or repetitive notes in television programmes, particularly documentaries and programmes like Countryfile, where the playing of music is totally unnecessary and drowns out the person talking.
It sounds irrational to anyone who doesn't suffer from the condition and is difficult to explain exactly how it makes you feel.
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as well as being selfish this is actually a crime on a train (as it is breaching railway bylaws) and a strict liability offence at that so intent/ignorance is irrelevant. feel free to report to staff though that can be difficult on an unguarded trainJohnBoyUK said:People on public transport listening to music or video on their phone WITHOUT headphones/earbuds.
Absolute selfish pricks of the highest order.
No doubt several hundred have you have posted this previously so apologies
(Currently on the 07:12 Petts Wood to Charing X with my airpods in on sound cancelling mode but can still hear some chavs phone and my BP is increasing as a result!)
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Not having an easy search function on Charlton Life! 🥴🤔😂2
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Switching on the radio while cooking lunch, and it's palace Vs millwall0
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Someone turned up and put a ‘road closed’ sign outside our house (we’re the end of one lane that leads into another).Today various workmen arrive to dig holes etc and park their vehicles across mine and our neighbours drives. There’s only two houses and a huge amount of space as the road is closed. Neighbour asks them to move as they are going out. Grudgingly they move. Then back across the drive when they’ve gone. Mr Tatters has to get them to move as he wants to go to the shop. He’s gone 5 mins and comes back and they have to move again. FFS1
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People who drive past ‘road closed’ signs and are surprised to find the road closed.6
