General Things That Annoy You thread - part 2

Gribbo said:

The endless stream of marketing shite you get after making a purchase these days. Always opt out when I see the opportunity, but recently theyve been coming through thick and fast, not just email but text and even WhatsApp ffs. 

Muckboots - Bought a pair for Mrs, was inundated with texts and emails asking if I was happy or if I'm ready to make my next purchase.

Mindful Chef - Emails and texts, and what looks like a hand written note from one of their "chefs" just dropped through the letterbox. 

BT (EE) - Must be 3 or 4 texts or emails every time a bill is ready, and that only for our private contract. We get he same for business contract

DPD - WhatsApping me ffs

Fuck off ffs

I'll tell you exactly where thats come from

Companies have spent a lot of money on AI language models and are desperate to utilise them to justify the investment and rub their hands together at all the humans they can get rid of. 

We, as a collective consumer have got absolutely fed up with shite communication from companies, the larger they get the worse it is. 

The leadership of these companies has looked at the data as opposed to the information and gone "send them emails and texts whenever anything relating to them/their sale/their account, they fucking love it" 

When all we wanted was for human beings to record accurate and relevant records so we aren't having a cold start every time, so we cam get relevant updates (your delivery is 3 stops away and is estimated to be with you at 10.44) not the deluge of irrelevant shit we now receive.  

There is a lesson in there somewhere 

School kids and their disposable income. When I was at school I never had enough money to go out to eat. Had packed lunches or subsidised school dinners. They all seem to go out and invade the high streets to eat takeaway food which nowadays is not cheap and drink expensive to-go coffees. plus how long are their lunch breaks now? Used to only get 50 minutes when I was at school 20 odd years ago.  

Posted either on here or one of the energy theads about Octopus upping their monthly energy DD from my account, and tought I'd give an update.

Originally paying £140 a month which seemed to cover everything over the year, but Octopus decided they wanted to increase it to £320. At the time, my account was £556.45 in debit.

Weren't having that, so I increased my payment to £200.

By beginnig of July, the balance had come down to £466.61 in debit. Octopus then decided that £200 still wasn't enough and wanted to increase it to £260.79 from August. I compromised and put it up to £220.

Fast forward to today, 4 November, and my account is now £128.08 in credit.

So, despite ignoring their recommendations and paying far more less than they wanted, I've gone from £556 in debit to being in credit.

Appreciate energy is expensive. That's one thing, but when energy firms seemingly demand exaggerated monthly payments based on their own (obviously incorrect) forecasts, it's absolute bollocks.

Why should customers have to bankroll these companies by having hundreds (over £700 in my case), potentially thousands, of pounds sitting in credit?

Used to get a punch in the face off the old man for Christmas and, if I'd been a good boy, a punch off my mum, too

ValleyGary said:

DaveMehmet said:

The John Lewis Christmas ad. 2 entitled brats turn up at their Grandmother’s house, ignore her when she tries to talk to them, give her a filthy look when there’s no cash in their cards and instead of ignoring the little shits, she fills a room with loads of stuff for them. 

Mad that Kristin Scott Thomas put her name to it. Posh white Nan hated by her mixed race kids has a big room to do shit in. Utter woke nonsense.

Isn't it phenomenal how many mixed race families there are in TV land 

Always curated by posh white people who are inherently actually racist but they are educated and posh so patronisation and false narratives don't count 

usetobunkin said:

Gribbo said:

Used to get a punch in the face off the old man for Christmas and, if I'd been a good boy, a punch off my mum, too

    Good old fashion Plumstead Christmas . 

I was in Charlton, but dare say Plumstead was no different

The energy & determination on the ball of one rejected Addick tonight.

Step forward George Dobson.

How we miss him....

Carter said:

ValleyGary said:

DaveMehmet said:

The John Lewis Christmas ad. 2 entitled brats turn up at their Grandmother’s house, ignore her when she tries to talk to them, give her a filthy look when there’s no cash in their cards and instead of ignoring the little shits, she fills a room with loads of stuff for them. 

Mad that Kristin Scott Thomas put her name to it. Posh white Nan hated by her mixed race kids has a big room to do shit in. Utter woke nonsense.

Isn't it phenomenal how many mixed race families there are in TV land 

Always curated by posh white people who are inherently actually racist but they are educated and posh so patronisation and false narratives don't count 

There certainly are a lot of mixed raced families in TV land. I think there's a number of drivers to this, but I'm not convinced any of them are particularly woke and none are bad or sinister .

• In the realm of adverts, producers want to sell their products to people of all races. They don't want their products to be pigeonholed as stuff that only white, or only black, people use. By far the easiest way to stress the multicultural appeal of a particular product is to have mixed-race families in ads.
• Everyone has an equal right to opportunities of employment. If the best person for a role happens to be of different race then so be it.
• For a long time actors only got parts that matched their race, as Grandad Trotter noted Sidney Potter 'always plays the black man'. There weren't too many parts for Othellos or Sonny Fosters, so we didn't see many black actors. Once that wall was broken and black actors were allowed to take on more roles, producers actually found not only that they were often very good, but that audiences are actually very good at suspending any disbelief. It just doesn't matter to most people if there's a mixed race family.

I don't know what you are referring to with your last sentence. 

MrOneLung said:

Fanny Fanackapan said:

The energy & determination on the ball of one rejected Addick tonight.

Step forward George Dobson.

How we miss him....

did we reject him though ?

Certainly some of our fans did.
As a club not sure if we offered him the contract he wanted so then it seemed he rejected us after all that, then there was the Hungarian nonsense before being a free agent then Wrexham swopped in for him. 
Should of held on to him imo if it was just about a better contract 

Karim_myBagheri said:

MrOneLung said:

Fanny Fanackapan said:

The energy & determination on the ball of one rejected Addick tonight.

Step forward George Dobson.

How we miss him....

did we reject him though ?

Certainly some of our fans did.
As a club not sure if we offered him the contract he wanted so then it seemed he rejected us after all that, then there was the Hungarian nonsense before being a free agent then Wrexham swopped in for him. 
Should of held on to him imo if it was just about a better contract 

That's pretty much how I remember it.

Gribbo said:

Posted either on here or one of the energy theads about Octopus upping their monthly energy DD from my account, and tought I'd give an update.

Originally paying £140 a month which seemed to cover everything over the year, but Octopus decided they wanted to increase it to £320. At the time, my account was £556.45 in debit.

Weren't having that, so I increased my payment to £200.

By beginnig of July, the balance had come down to £466.61 in debit. Octopus then decided that £200 still wasn't enough and wanted to increase it to £260.79 from August. I compromised and put it up to £220.

Fast forward to today, 4 November, and my account is now £128.08 in credit.

So, despite ignoring their recommendations and paying far more less than they wanted, I've gone from £556 in debit to being in credit.

Appreciate energy is expensive. That's one thing, but when energy firms seemingly demand exaggerated monthly payments based on their own (obviously incorrect) forecasts, it's absolute bollocks.

Why should customers have to bankroll these companies by having hundreds (over £700 in my case), potentially thousands, of pounds sitting in credit?

I get what you’re saying - but surely they are trying to build up a credit balance during the year so that you don’t fall behind over the winter when you are using more fuel?

SuedeAdidas said:

Gribbo said:

Posted either on here or one of the energy theads about Octopus upping their monthly energy DD from my account, and tought I'd give an update.

Originally paying £140 a month which seemed to cover everything over the year, but Octopus decided they wanted to increase it to £320. At the time, my account was £556.45 in debit.

Weren't having that, so I increased my payment to £200.

By beginnig of July, the balance had come down to £466.61 in debit. Octopus then decided that £200 still wasn't enough and wanted to increase it to £260.79 from August. I compromised and put it up to £220.

Fast forward to today, 4 November, and my account is now £128.08 in credit.

So, despite ignoring their recommendations and paying far more less than they wanted, I've gone from £556 in debit to being in credit.

Appreciate energy is expensive. That's one thing, but when energy firms seemingly demand exaggerated monthly payments based on their own (obviously incorrect) forecasts, it's absolute bollocks.

Why should customers have to bankroll these companies by having hundreds (over £700 in my case), potentially thousands, of pounds sitting in credit?

I get what you’re saying - but surely they are trying to build up a credit balance during the year so that you don’t fall behind over the winter when you are using more fuel?

Assume you could still pay no DD and just pay up when you get the Bill? 

That's how I would look at it, but Octopus's own forecast on our account is £2,200 odd for the entire year's energy consumption, including winter, which is actually only about £185 a month over the year.