General Things That Annoy You thread - part 2

Macronate · March 2

Arsenetatters said:

People who drive past ‘road closed’ signs and are surprised to find the road closed.

Mr Tatters?

Carter · March 2

Arsenetatters said:

People who drive past ‘road closed’ signs and are surprised to find the road closed.

I have probably had more confrontations with people over them doing this than anything else I can think of. Its never reasonable people that ignore massive red signs telling them the road is shut

ForeverAddickted · March 11

Just had a text from the missus, saying that our Home Insurance has gone down this year.

I joked saying that our Council Tax will no doubt go up meaning we'll probably still be out of pocket, and out of curiosity I decided to go look and see if the Tax Bands for Medway had been released yet... Yup they have.

aaaand... Home Insurance has gone down £79.01 for the year / Council Tax has gone up £82.90 for the year

F**k off thinking you should be allowed a small win with bills going down

Suppose I should be grateful that my Home Insurance has gone down in the slightest and not up as well

cafcnick1992 · March 11

Arsenetatters said:

People who drive past ‘road closed’ signs and are surprised to find the road closed.

Tbf assuming that public sector workers have achieved absolutely nothing is a perfectly human response

IdleHans · March 11

BBC news covering plans mooted by tax dodger Jim for Man U's big top. Who cares?

arny23394 · March 11

cafcnick1992 said:

Arsenetatters said:

People who drive past ‘road closed’ signs and are surprised to find the road closed.

Tbf assuming that public sector workers have achieved absolutely nothing is a perfectly human response

Christ, you are such a fucking gimp.

SporadicAddick · March 12

arny23394 said:

cafcnick1992 said:

Arsenetatters said:

People who drive past ‘road closed’ signs and are surprised to find the road closed.

Tbf assuming that public sector workers have achieved absolutely nothing is a perfectly human response

Christ, you are such a fucking gimp.

Said the public sector worker…

😉

Gribbo · March 12

Gribbo said:

UPS - Don't think they've ever completed a delivery to us on the day specified, let along the time slot. Utter fuckin shambles of a company.

Royal Mail don't seem much better - Any adjustment to your delivery seems to automatically push the delivery back. For example, I just got an email saying I have a parcel out for delivery. I went into the options to ask if they could leave it behind the bin at the back door — and now it’s saying it’s being redelivered tomorrow. FFS.

Something similar happened the other week when I requested to have it dropped at the Post Office half a mile up the road. It wasn’t available until the following day, even though I made the request as soon as I received the email at 7:30 in the morning saying it was out for delivery.

Hopefully our postie shoes a bit of common and drops it off today.

DPD, by comparison, are great — or maybe it’s down to the driver you get. Slavcho, our driver, is fantastic. He’ll deliver our parcels to either our business address or home address, depending on where he thinks we are. If he knows the salon is open and it's likely no one will be at home, he’ll take the parcel there. And if he knows the salon is closed, he’ll try our home address. Nice bottle of Rakia coming his way......

arny23394 · March 12

SporadicAddick said:

arny23394 said:

cafcnick1992 said:

Arsenetatters said:

People who drive past ‘road closed’ signs and are surprised to find the road closed.

Tbf assuming that public sector workers have achieved absolutely nothing is a perfectly human response

Christ, you are such a fucking gimp.

Said the public sector worker…

😉

Hal1x · March 12

Gribbo said:

Gribbo said:

UPS - Don't think they've ever completed a delivery to us on the day specified, let along the time slot. Utter fuckin shambles of a company.

Royal Mail don't seem much better - Any adjustment to your delivery seems to automatically push the delivery back. For example, I just got an email saying I have a parcel out for delivery. I went into the options to ask if they could leave it behind the bin at the back door — and now it’s saying it’s being redelivered tomorrow. FFS.
Something similar happened the other week when I requested to have it dropped at the Post Office half a mile up the road. It wasn’t available until the following day, even though I made the request as soon as I received the email at 7:30 in the morning saying it was out for delivery.
Hopefully our postie shoes a bit of common and drops it off today.
DPD, by comparison, are great — or maybe it’s down to the driver you get. Slavcho, our driver, is fantastic. He’ll deliver our parcels to either our business address or home address, depending on where he thinks we are. If he knows the salon is open and it's likely no one will be at home, he’ll take the parcel there. And if he knows the salon is closed, he’ll try our home address. Nice bottle of Rakia coming his way......

Royal Mail only deliver every two days around here, makes a mockery of first class post especially at £1.70 for a stamp now.

Arsenetatters · March 12

Gribbo said:

Gribbo said:

UPS - Don't think they've ever completed a delivery to us on the day specified, let along the time slot. Utter fuckin shambles of a company.

Royal Mail don't seem much better - Any adjustment to your delivery seems to automatically push the delivery back. For example, I just got an email saying I have a parcel out for delivery. I went into the options to ask if they could leave it behind the bin at the back door — and now it’s saying it’s being redelivered tomorrow. FFS.
Something similar happened the other week when I requested to have it dropped at the Post Office half a mile up the road. It wasn’t available until the following day, even though I made the request as soon as I received the email at 7:30 in the morning saying it was out for delivery.
Hopefully our postie shoes a bit of common and drops it off today.
DPD, by comparison, are great — or maybe it’s down to the driver you get. Slavcho, our driver, is fantastic. He’ll deliver our parcels to either our business address or home address, depending on where he thinks we are. If he knows the salon is open and it's likely no one will be at home, he’ll take the parcel there. And if he knows the salon is closed, he’ll try our home address. Nice bottle of Rakia coming his way......

Another vote for DPD. He’s a miserable old bugger but knows where we live and leaves stuff in a safe place if he knows we’re in the garden.

Also knows we’re happy to take parcels for neighbours- he always moans if they’re out.

Alwaysneil · March 12

Arsenetatters said:

Gribbo said:

Gribbo said:

UPS - Don't think they've ever completed a delivery to us on the day specified, let along the time slot. Utter fuckin shambles of a company.

Royal Mail don't seem much better - Any adjustment to your delivery seems to automatically push the delivery back. For example, I just got an email saying I have a parcel out for delivery. I went into the options to ask if they could leave it behind the bin at the back door — and now it’s saying it’s being redelivered tomorrow. FFS.
Something similar happened the other week when I requested to have it dropped at the Post Office half a mile up the road. It wasn’t available until the following day, even though I made the request as soon as I received the email at 7:30 in the morning saying it was out for delivery.
Hopefully our postie shoes a bit of common and drops it off today.
DPD, by comparison, are great — or maybe it’s down to the driver you get. Slavcho, our driver, is fantastic. He’ll deliver our parcels to either our business address or home address, depending on where he thinks we are. If he knows the salon is open and it's likely no one will be at home, he’ll take the parcel there. And if he knows the salon is closed, he’ll try our home address. Nice bottle of Rakia coming his way......

Another vote for DPD. He’s a miserable old bugger but knows where we live and leaves stuff in a safe place if he knows we’re in the garden.
Also knows we’re happy to take parcels for neighbours- he always moans if they’re out.

Can i ask my ungrateful next door neighbour to leave your address as a drop off point please A?

thickandthin63 · March 12

I never learn,buying chinese imports on Amazon can be traumatic due to the wierdly worded instructions without diagrams.
I bought a paint sprayer which requires an un supplied wrench to remove a brass nipple in order to insert the correct one.I have a a mole grip which i have tried,the bastard nipple will not move,anybody else experienced this problem.

DaveMehmet · March 12

thickandthin63 said:

I never learn,buying chinese imports on Amazon can be traumatic due to the wierdly worded instructions without diagrams.
I bought a paint sprayer which requires an un supplied wrench to remove a brass nipple in order to insert the correct one.I have a a mole grip which i have tried,the bastard nipple will not move,anybody else experienced this problem.

The quality of classic car spares from the far east has been a big issue for some time. Basically, they’re crap. Will help to have the correct size spanner but you could try tightening it slightly before undoing as that can sometime crack the seal.

guinnessaddick · March 12

thickandthin63 said:

I never learn,buying chinese imports on Amazon can be traumatic due to the wierdly worded instructions without diagrams.
I bought a paint sprayer which requires an un supplied wrench to remove a brass nipple in order to insert the correct one.I have a a mole grip which i have tried,the bastard nipple will not move,anybody else experienced this problem.

Try a bit of heat or a freeze spray.

KBslittlesis · March 12

ME14addick said:

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 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.

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.

I get this when I’m sat on the sofa & himself is behind me at the worktop (open plan kitchen/diner/living room). Certain time of the day it's beer o'clock & we'll open a bag of crisps & share them in a couple of bowls. I sit down on said sofa yet he decides to stay at the worktop directly behind me.
His mascinations drive me fecking demented. The noise, the crunching with his mouth open! I want to fecking scream. I've told him a thousand times it does my head in but no he still does it. I've given up and now join him at the counter.
Why don't you sit down, says he.
Ffs!!!!!!

Hal1x · March 12

ME14addick said:

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 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.

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.

I like documentaries on planes, ships etc. Some of the "background" music on US made shows is so intrusive that it often makes the programmes unwatchable.

I have just remembered that the noise of the Magnum Ice Cream cracking sets my teeth on edge.

Super_Eddie_Youds · March 12

KBslittlesis said:

ME14addick said:

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 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.

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.

I get this when I’m sat on the sofa & himself is behind me at the worktop (open plan kitchen/diner/living room). Certain time of the day it's beer o'clock & we'll open a bag of crisps & share them in a couple of bowls. I sit down on said sofa yet he decides to stay at the worktop directly behind me.
His mascinations drive me fecking demented. The noise, the crunching with his mouth open! I want to fecking scream. I've told him a thousand times it does my head in but no he still does it. I've given up and now join him at the counter.
Why don't you sit down, says he.
Ffs!!!!!!

This is me, no doubt. The energy it takes to ignore sometimes is debilitating.

It now also makes me sad/feel guilty for how long I spent staring daggers at my dad. Poor fuckers don’t even know.

Alwaysneil · March 12

KBslittlesis said:

ME14addick said:

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 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.

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.

I get this when I’m sat on the sofa & himself is behind me at the worktop (open plan kitchen/diner/living room). Certain time of the day it's beer o'clock & we'll open a bag of crisps & share them in a couple of bowls. I sit down on said sofa yet he decides to stay at the worktop directly behind me.
His mascinations drive me fecking demented. The noise, the crunching with his mouth open! I want to fecking scream. I've told him a thousand times it does my head in but no he still does it. I've given up and now join him at the counter.
Why don't you sit down, says he.
Ffs!!!!!!

Buy a really small bowl for him that only will take 6 crisps and a bigger bowl for you that you take to the sofa, he'll run out of crisps and have to come join you on the sofa after a really short pain period.

Job done.

cafcdave123 · March 13

thickandthin63 said:

I never learn,buying chinese imports on Amazon can be traumatic due to the wierdly worded instructions without diagrams.
I bought a paint sprayer which requires an un supplied wrench to remove a brass nipple in order to insert the correct one.I have a a mole grip which i have tried,the bastard nipple will not move,anybody else experienced this problem.

Throw it against the wall.

it won’t help but will make you feel better

Raith_C_Chattonell · March 13

Celebs who flog off goodwill messages.

“Hi, it’s Ross Kemp here. I’d just like to remind you that, in three weeks’ time, it’s mother’s day. Now chocolates are nice but they come at a price and flowers only last a week but a personalised video message lasts a lifetime.”

The former BBC soap star charges £60 for a personalised message via his website, rising to £85 if it needs to be delivered within 48 hours. He will also provide a “business shout-out” with prices starting from £1,000.

It just seems so insincere - the very opposite of what it's meant to represent.

North Lower Neil · March 13

Don't have an issue tbh, pretty inoffensive way to make money compared to a lot of things out there, and easy to ignore if (like me) you're not interested.

iaitch · March 13

Raith_C_Chattonell said:

Celebs who flog off goodwill messages.

“Hi, it’s Ross Kemp here. I’d just like to remind you that, in three weeks’ time, it’s mother’s day. Now chocolates are nice but they come at a price and flowers only last a week but a personalised video message lasts a lifetime.”

The former BBC soap star charges £60 for a personalised message via his website, rising to £85 if it needs to be delivered within 48 hours. He will also provide a “business shout-out” with prices starting from £1,000.

It just seems so insincere - the very opposite of what it's meant to represent.

You could have just stoped at celebs.

thickandthin63 · March 13

cafcdave123 said:

thickandthin63 said:

I never learn,buying chinese imports on Amazon can be traumatic due to the wierdly worded instructions without diagrams.
I bought a paint sprayer which requires an un supplied wrench to remove a brass nipple in order to insert the correct one.I have a a mole grip which i have tried,the bastard nipple will not move,anybody else experienced this problem.

Throw it against the wall.

it won’t help but will make you feel better

Getting pretty close to this,might just be worth losing the £35.00 cost to see this bastard useless piece of crap in bits.

ross1 · March 13

thickandthin63 said:

cafcdave123 said:

thickandthin63 said:

I never learn,buying chinese imports on Amazon can be traumatic due to the wierdly worded instructions without diagrams.
I bought a paint sprayer which requires an un supplied wrench to remove a brass nipple in order to insert the correct one.I have a a mole grip which i have tried,the bastard nipple will not move,anybody else experienced this problem.

Throw it against the wall.

it won’t help but will make you feel better

Getting pretty close to this,might just be worth losing the £35.00 cost to see this bastard useless piece of crap in bits.

I bet you'll be able to undo the brass nipple easy when it is broken on the floor 🥴
Seriously, just try tapping it with a metal tool all round the edges, but not to hard to damage it. Good luck

Alwaysneil · March 13

thickandthin63 said:

I never learn,buying chinese imports on Amazon can be traumatic due to the wierdly worded instructions without diagrams.
I bought a paint sprayer which requires an un supplied wrench to remove a brass nipple in order to insert the correct one.I have a a mole grip which i have tried,the bastard nipple will not move,anybody else experienced this problem.

If the brass nipple is tightened onto a different metal, they will likely have different coefficients of thermal expansion. Could try heating the brass gently to make it expand. Or chilling the metal its screwed onto to make it contract.

Of course this could break the whole thing.

Stuart_the_Red · March 14

Raith_C_Chattonell said:

Celebs who flog off goodwill messages.

“Hi, it’s Ross Kemp here. I’d just like to remind you that, in three weeks’ time, it’s mother’s day. Now chocolates are nice but they come at a price and flowers only last a week but a personalised video message lasts a lifetime.”

The former BBC soap star charges £60 for a personalised message via his website, rising to £85 if it needs to be delivered within 48 hours. He will also provide a “business shout-out” with prices starting from £1,000.

It just seems so insincere - the very opposite of what it's meant to represent.

Yeah, but if this “income” didn’t exist for “celebs” you wouldn’t get to see Nigel Farrige wishing Hugh Janus a happy birthday!

https://youtu.be/KuAXoQ0luR4?si=dYkHlyflXDMuv-Ab

IdleHans · March 14

Chocolates are cheaper than a clip of Ross reading off a card and will last a lifetime if you don't eat them. Idiot.

thickandthin63 · March 15

What is an "influencer",I watch Federer hit a tennis ball,and that "influences" me to try and get somewhere near it,I watch Woods swing a golf club,again that influences me to somehow get somewhere near it ( of course you dont get anywhere near it),watching great guitar players,I think I am going to practise that.Then we have this dopy pratt in Australia,an influencer,who somehow though it was funny to seperate a young animal from its mother and broadcast it to her devoted,fawning,tug your forelock followers.
So how do you become an influencer,so that millions of gullible,sod all else to do people,follow your every move,waiting for you to have your first crap of the day,desperate to know how many sheets ,and what brand of paper you use to wipe your arse.
And then the unbearable tension of what breakfast consists of,and what washing up liquid is used to clean your plate.Obviously all this excitement would be too much for the average follower,so a break would be in order,so that blood pressure levels could be lowered before we get on to the rest of the day.

Hal1x · March 15

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