Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

Anonymous

How come every 'couple' featured on a tv advert seem to be of mixed ethnicity?

pinno

Maglia Rosa wrote:

How come every 'couple' featured on a tv advert seem to be of mixed ethnicity?

I think it's awful really - at least one of them should be in a wheelchair too.

team47b

Pinno wrote:

Maglia Rosa wrote:

How come every 'couple' featured on a tv advert seem to be of mixed ethnicity?

I think it's awful really - at least one of them should be in a wheelchair too.

...And at last one of them has to be a lesbian, not necessarily the woman

pinno

team47b wrote:

Pinno wrote:

Maglia Rosa wrote:

How come every 'couple' featured on a tv advert seem to be of mixed ethnicity?

I think it's awful really - at least one of them should be in a wheelchair too.

...And at last one of them has to be a lesbian, not necessarily the woman

Does one of them have to be a highly successful and legal economic migrant as well or is that muddying la Manche?

ballysmate

The bastards digging the street up near the phone cabinet who have hacked through my phone line, cutting off my phone and disrupting the internet connection.

CiB

To the IceBike show at the MK Dons stadium, for what's billed as a decent bike show apparently. It was like an oversized Evans branch, and had too many cyclo & family bikes for my liking. I gave up after 15 minutes / 2 laps and left.

What got me though was the linked offer of a big discount / trade-in of your old Garmin device for a new one. Hey hey - my 800 is ok but a 1000 would be nice, I'm up for that. No. The deal is my 800 is worth £100 off a 1000, which apparently is worth £499 (just the device, not the performance pack), so if I give them my perfect nick 800 and the best part of £400 I can have a 1000. Or I can pop onto Amazon and buy a 1000 for £324, then flog the 800 for a few quid. Duh!!! If anyone from Garmin reads this, can you explain why you find it necessary to take the p!ss like that? Treat your punters like idiots if you must, but don't expect us to retain any residual goodwill toward you & your shoddy little deals.

pinno

CiB wrote:

If anyone from Garmin reads this, can you explain why you find it necessary to take the p!ss like that? Treat your punters like idiots if you must, but don't expect us to retain any residual goodwill toward you & your shoddy little deals.

"That's them told" as we say on Scotland.

Interesting point.

FatTed

When buying in bulk is more expensive. PBK Michelin Latex A1 inner tube £7.49, pack of 5 is £64.96

bbrap

FatTed wrote:

When buying in bulk is more expensive. PBK Michelin Latex A1 inner tube £7.49, pack of 5 is £64.96

This. Packet of biscuits 99p, double pack £2.08.

finchy

Fat people who think they look really hard.
x2 if they've got a skinhead.
x2 again if they've got a load of crap tattoos.

verylonglegs

Steven Finn's bad fortune with injuries.

pinno

verylonglegs wrote:

Steven Finn's bad fortune with injuries.

Who?!

verylonglegs

Pinno wrote:

verylonglegs wrote:

Steven Finn's bad fortune with injuries.

Who?!

The bat and ball game. Had high hopes for him ever since he first appeared but so far he seems cursed with fitness issues.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/35673761

pinno

verylonglegs wrote:

Pinno wrote:

verylonglegs wrote:

Steven Finn's bad fortune with injuries.

Who?!

The bat and ball game. Had high hopes for him ever since he first appeared but so far he seems cursed with fitness issues.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/35673761

Cricket: Wonderful game IF you have SKY. Grumble grumble grumble...

verylonglegs

Indeed. I make do with TMS these days as I would never pay the prices demanded by Sky.

dav1d1

TMS is brilliant I usally watch the cricket with mute and have TMS, but on the mobile app it's a bowl in front which makes it interesting watching it

earth

Chris Bass wrote:

earth wrote:

Abbreviated company names. Why go to the trouble of thinking up three words for your company name if you are only going to abbreviate to 3 letters and make it as non descriptive as every other?

shorter, easier to remember, easier to type in google, people will abbreviate it whether the company wants them to or not!

KPMG or Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler?

Maybe they should have just thought of a different name. As did Google. Easy to remember, easy to type, easy to say, meaningful. So successful that, as you have demonstrated, it is now a verb as well as a noun. Who are KPMG again? Perhaps it's a chemical compound or a medical condition.

chris_bass

earth wrote:

Chris Bass wrote:

earth wrote:

Abbreviated company names. Why go to the trouble of thinking up three words for your company name if you are only going to abbreviate to 3 letters and make it as non descriptive as every other?

shorter, easier to remember, easier to type in google, people will abbreviate it whether the company wants them to or not!

KPMG or Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler?

Maybe they should have just thought of a different name. As did Google. Easy to remember, easy to type, easy to say, meaningful. So successful that, as you have demonstrated, it is now a verb as well as a noun. Who are KPMG again? Perhaps it's a chemical compound or a medical condition.

yeah, you are right, KPMG is really hard to say, remember and type! Whatever happened to KPMG anyway? don't think they make much money, must have been the name that held them back!

surely almost anything could be a chemical compound or medical condition if you dont know who they are?

pinno

Google - Asking again and again to read their privacy policy and then they force you to when you have declined for the umpteenth time. Not long after that, it starts all over again. Think i'll change my default browser - a sort of minuscule shoot themselves in the foot moment.

...and who said the age of protest was dead eh?

Bobbinogs

Pinno wrote:

Google - Asking again and again to read their privacy policy and then they force you to when you have declined for the umpteenth time. Not long after that, it starts all over again. Think i'll change my default browser - a sort of minuscule shoot themselves in the foot moment.

...and who said the age of protest was dead eh?

yeah but you don't have to actually read it. Just click on it, accept it and the whole thing goes away until they change the policy again. It is like the annoying "Accept Cookies" (see earlier in the thread). I wonder if the bloke who brought that in as law realised just how much of a PITA it is when every blinking website asks it and hitting the X on a mobile is nigh on impossible. I hope it inconveniences him as much as everyone else, including the companies who have to include it.

earth

Chris Bass wrote:

earth wrote:

Chris Bass wrote:

earth wrote:

Abbreviated company names. Why go to the trouble of thinking up three words for your company name if you are only going to abbreviate to 3 letters and make it as non descriptive as every other?

shorter, easier to remember, easier to type in google, people will abbreviate it whether the company wants them to or not!

KPMG or Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler?

Maybe they should have just thought of a different name. As did Google. Easy to remember, easy to type, easy to say, meaningful. So successful that, as you have demonstrated, it is now a verb as well as a noun. Who are KPMG again? Perhaps it's a chemical compound or a medical condition.

yeah, you are right, KPMG is really hard to say, remember and type! Whatever happened to KPMG anyway? don't think they make much money, must have been the name that held them back!

surely almost anything could be a chemical compound or medical condition if you dont know who they are?

Just looked them up. Drones, military hardware, financial services - lovely. The part that has really raised my pulse is the photo of someone holding their phone up to a debit card reader. Once cash is phased out you will be locked into some form of phone deal in order to spend money. Not only this but the same phone conveniently has a GPS receiver so your location can be tracked as well as what you spend your money on.

pinno

Farq me, what a Polava.

Ordered some new cycling shoes when the OH wasn't looking. UPS couldn't deliver yesterday because there was no one to sign for it so re-scheduled the delivery for today. As I wasn't sure as I was going to be in to receive it, I tried to get then to deliver tomorrow, knowing it would be late afternoon when they would attempt a delivery.
First, I had to register with UPS to track my parcel. After filling out some forms and creating an account etc etc, I still couldn't re-schedule the parcel delivery through 'My account', so I elected to call them...
I was faced with a myriad of options and there was no option for 'Re-schedule delivery' using the voice recognition system. After going around in circles, I shouted 'Customer services' and a few expletives. Funny, as it's a computer program but I suddenly got a message saying 'Re-directing you to Customer services sir' in a far Eastern voice with an American twang.
The fun still wasn't over. The woman on the end of the phone didn't understand my use of the conventional phonetics when giving details of my address so I resorted to "A as in Apple", "R as in Ronaldo" etc. She said she would 'Pass the message on'...

This is modern life: you have to find the time to do bollox and the technology is an obstruction, not an enhancement. 35 minutes of my life wasted, chasing up a parcel.

There is a god though, the UPS bloke knocked on my door today on the chance that I would be in, which I was just by luck.

Frank Wilson

People who are being interviewed on TV who answer every question with "so"

Anonymous

Frank Wilson wrote:

People who are being interviewed on TV who answer every question with "so"

Also, when people end their reply with "so, yeah" - As in I have ran out of anything else intersting to say.

Usually uttered by football players or other equally dull people.

crispybug2

Met a 9/11 'truther' today.

Bloody hell, I thought that that particular tent had been packed up and f*cked off a long time ago.....but apparently no!

I shouldn't complain as I do find them amusing, dismantling their pathetic little theories and then watching them press their mental 're-set' button and return to the start of their argument their beliefs apparently undiminished.

But really, seriously! Even the guy from 'Loose Change' has turned his back on the truth movement, surely they need a new theory to rant about!

byke68

Not something that annoys but puzzles me: Why would someone wear a green camouflage jacket paired with grey/white camouflage trousers? Seen said person at least twice recently on the way to work and just wondering why.

Frank Wilson

BT adverts

pinno

byke68 wrote:

Not something that annoys but puzzles me: Why would someone wear a green camouflage jacket paired with grey/white camouflage trousers? Seen said person at least twice recently on the way to work and just wondering why.

Your stalker is trying to blend in?

chris_bass

Frank Wilson wrote:

BT adverts

would you care to elaborate? It's good to talk.

chris_bass

People who email you when they are sat opposite you and act as if nothing has happened.