General Things That Annoy You thread - part 2

Afternoon Delight said:

The inevitable love in with the Brazil team at this year's World Cup. Cue people walking the streets wearing Brazil shirts thinking they look cool, every match they play being hyped up to the helt with clips of the 1970 and the 1982 teams scoring wonder goals and the pundits telling us that "You won't want to miss this one". Oh and we will get to see sour faced Richarlison moan his way through yet another tournament.

Granted I remember the 1982 team with great fondness, but they were special.

You forgot Neymar with his theatrical rolling around after being barely touched.

The World Cup being in America!
I’m still not over Diana Ross’s penalty 🫣

Its going to be awful isn’t it? 😭😫🙄

The Red Robin said:

KBslittlesis said:

The World Cup being in America!
I’m still not over Diana Ross’s penalty 🫣

It’s going to be awful isn’t it? 😭😫🙄

The orange man is certainly going to be allowed to insert himself into it whenever he wants. 

I feel sick 🤢 

The fact that the World Cup is also in Mexico and also in Canada but that seems to be overlooked by quite a few including that orange gibbon.

ANOTHER thing Brazil. I was 7 years old when they won the world cup with probably the best football looking team ever but '74 they weren't that good, '78 I remember how dirty they were, '82 looked good and was knocked out, '86 looked good once again but came up against better, '90 not a great looking team, '94 I remember it for the most boring tournament and final ever and they won, '98 we should remember how good were France, '02 we or our manager gifted them a win, '06 France were good but Italy were better, '10, others were better again, '14 I'll never forget Germany giving them a footballing lesson but they managed to score the odd goal in 8, '18 back to not good enough again, '22 ditto. Apart from '58, '62, '70, '94 and  '02 they have been about as good as us.
The 1970s Dutch sides were the best ever in my opinion but sadly never quite did it when it mattered.

Gribbo said:

"We make no apology"

Sorry?

SporadicAddick said:

CharltonManor1966 said:

Gribbo said:

"We make no apology"

Sorry?

He said “we make no apology”.

Ah - sorry!

BBC News and their lack of proof reading. Just a few minutes ago on the radio round up of the sport apparently the Charlton women won on penalties at Valley Parade. 

The trend for companies asking for feedback after every single transaction. I wouldn't mind if I thought they genuinely cared about what I thought and wanted to use that information to improve their service, but it's not about that. It's all about promoting themselves to others. Two particular type of instances that really rile me:
1. When I'm specifically asked for a Google or Trust Pilot review and there's no indication that they ever respond to those reviews. They're like fecking Muttley (not the one here), "Medal, Medal".
2. When they ask for a review and they actually haven't done anything. Yes Admiral Insurance you get five stars for dipping into my bank account and grabbing the cash you fancied with consummate ease. I just hope you're as quick should I ever ask for a payout. And See Entertainments the QR code you sent me looks absolutely fabulous. I haven't used it yet, as well you know, but it sure is as pretty as any Bridget Riley print. I just hope it gets me in to the gig.

MrOneLung said:

Algarveaddick said:

It's been said before, quite possibly by me. Passwords. 

I understand with banking and paypal etc, or Charlton TV at a push (even though the worst that is going to happen is someone else suffers two hours of misery on a Saturday afternoon) but the FA or my energy company? Why? If there's money involved, it's me paying you.

I know apps are useful, quite a few save me money, but every company knows everybody now has myriad passwords but expects them to remember unique passwords, that are not repeated or written down anywhere. 

I have last pass password storage on my laptop, which is a useful tool, but doesn't help me when I am out and about and suddenly my loyalty card decides this time I need to enter my password... 

 

Yep. Or just let me enter my password, not then have to go get my phone, go to some authenticator App or to get an email with a verification code. 

Also if you have to choose a password to include upper case, lower case, capital, special character, a 4 digit prime number, plus a strand of dna , you are more likely to write the thing down putting you more at risk. 

I was going to mention verification too, but I felt I might be chuntering on a bit too much, so thanks for adding that Mr. OL

Algarveaddick said:

Doesn't want to get the car scratched. I do think that spaces in car parks need to be made wider now that so many cars almost fill the space, with no room to open the door. I often have to park with the passenger side as close to the white line as possible, so that I can get back into my car, especially if a massive SUV parks next to me. My replaced knee doesn't bend well, so I need room to get in and out of the car. I think the time has come for me to apply for a blue badge.

ME14addick said:

Algarveaddick said:

Doesn't want to get the car scratched. I do think that spaces in car parks need to be made wider now that so many cars almost fill the space, with no room to open the door. I often have to park with the passenger side as close to the white line as possible, so that I can get back into my car, especially if a massive SUV parks next to me. My replaced knee doesn't bend well, so I need room to get in and out of the car. I think the time has come for me to apply for a blue badge.

Teslas are especially wide and quite difficult to pass down narrow lanes, especially when their drivers seem to have to drive down the middle all the time.

Fanny Fanackapan said:

iaitch said:

Stig said:

The trend for companies asking for feedback after every single transaction. I wouldn't mind if I thought they genuinely cared about what I thought and wanted to use that information to improve their service, but it's not about that. It's all about promoting themselves to others. Two particular type of instances that really rile me:
1. When I'm specifically asked for a Google or Trust Pilot review and there's no indication that they ever respond to those reviews. They're like fecking Muttley (not the one here), "Medal, Medal".
2. When they ask for a review and they actually haven't done anything. Yes Admiral Insurance you get five stars for dipping into my bank account and grabbing the cash you fancied with consummate ease. I just hope you're as quick should I ever ask for a payout. And See Entertainments the QR code you sent me looks absolutely fabulous. I haven't used it yet, as well you know, but it sure is as pretty as any Bridget Riley print. I just hope it gets me in to the gig.

Bought a few things in Sainsburys and got asked to review each one.

I choose to review the cucumber, 'green, firm and versatile' was my opinion. No idea if it was published.


From Fanny :

I bet Dave Mehmet would have chosen slightly different words....

“Like the Hulk’s Hampton”

ME14addick said:

Algarveaddick said:

Doesn't want to get the car scratched. I do think that spaces in car parks need to be made wider now that so many cars almost fill the space, with no room to open the door. I often have to park with the passenger side as close to the white line as possible, so that I can get back into my car, especially if a massive SUV parks next to me. My replaced knee doesn't bend well, so I need room to get in and out of the car. I think the time has come for me to apply for a blue badge.

There were plenty of spaces in the car park Emmy. My Duster - the white one on the left - is wider than the Tesla, and I manage.

I do get what you say about spaces needing to be larger now a lot of cars are bigger. 

SporadicAddick said:

“This isn’t my first rodeo”.

A twattish phrase that I hadn’t heard 6 months ago but which now seems to be a popular alternative to “I’ve done this before”. Just say that.

'I don't have a dog in this fight', seems to be popular too.

Chunes said:

The way Americans call a pizza a 'pie.' 

It’s a flan.