Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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And when eating something that's not a routine sandwich like a curry or fish n chips from round the corner, others in the office lose their brain cells and act as if it's the weirdest thing in the world to eat at lunchtime, peering at it like it's some alien invasion, making cooing noises, asking if it's nice. Feck off, it's just some dinner, and it's mine.Flanners1 wrote:Garry H wrote:Fat people at work. They always want to know what others are having for lunch.
Always seem to eat salads....weirdly.
Anyway - annoying ba$t4rds today - queuing on the dual c/way into a r/about that goes to single file s/o with a clearly marked left lane to turn left only to the village, and too many selfish muppets believe that driving all the way down on the left and then forcing their way in on the r/about is somehow ok. Sod off - if I've had to queue properly for 7 or 8 minutes, you can too so there's no way I'm going to cede to your selfish git attitude.0 -
CiB wrote:
And when eating something that's not a routine sandwich like a curry or fish n chips from round the corner, others in the office lose their brain cells and act as if it's the weirdest thing in the world to eat at lunchtime, peering at it like it's some alien invasion, making cooing noises, asking if it's nice. Feck off, it's just some dinner, and it's mine.Flanners1 wrote:Garry H wrote:Fat people at work. They always want to know what others are having for lunch.
Always seem to eat salads....weirdly.
Anyway - annoying ba$t4rds today - queuing on the dual c/way into a r/about that goes to single file s/o with a clearly marked left lane to turn left only to the village, and too many selfish muppets believe that driving all the way down on the left and then forcing their way in on the r/about is somehow ok. Sod off - if I've had to queue properly for 7 or 8 minutes, you can too so there's no way I'm going to cede to your selfish git attitude.
There is a junction round here notorious for that. Used to do my nut in patiently waiting in the queue only for Mr. Audi or a Taxi to try and squeeze in.
It's a 3 lane road, all ignorant wollopers coming in from the right lane and most of the time they'd need cross all lanes to turn left in 50m. Cretins!0 -
Sounds like most of the motorway system around Glasgow at the moment, I usually leave a big gap for the first few signs but after that they can b*ugger off down to the next junction0
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I have to admit to on occasion when i used to head into Eastbourne to going down the right hand lane that was empty (right turn at roundabout), then going full circle round the roundabout to exit. What I did was technically correct if not in the spirit of things
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5 Junction roundabout on my way home. Dual carriageway entering the roundabout going into 3 lanes.
Left hand lane clearly signed as left turn only. Middle lane ( which I need is for 2nd & 3rd exits ) 3rd lane is for 3rd/4th/5th exits, so I get in the middle lane with cars either side of me. Invariably the bell end on my left will go straight over ignoring the left hand only markings, leaving me with nowhere to go as I also have a car on my right.
I am sure there will be a major accident here before too long but never mind, cheaper than building a flyover to join the dual carriageway they spent £180 million on which would solve the problem instantly!0 -
Tashman wrote:I have to admit to on occasion when i used to head into Eastbourne to going down the right hand lane that was empty (right turn at roundabout), then going full circle round the roundabout to exit. What I did was technically correct if not in the spirit of things
That's that monster of a roundabout just outside Polegate. Wasn't there when I lived down that way. What a shock I got when I visited a few years later: Polegate was still standing. Did not understand for one bit why they didn't demolish the place and put the road straight through it. I can only guess the inhabitants would have been evenly distributed around Willingdon, Eastbourne, Hailsham, Bexhill etc and the prospect was so horrific, they changed the route and called it a bypass.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Polegate.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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When they made the A72 two lanes and built the Avoid Polegate bypass, I do not understand for one moment why they put roads for this roundabout into Polgate. That was a unique opportunity to completely isolate the bloody place.
Now, don't get me started on that bloody hole Hampden Park (Sussex).seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
No, not that one, further in by the mini railway/golf course. I know the on you're talking about though. My parents now live in Polegate so have to negotiate that one, the access from Polegate itself is none too special with all the weight of traffic coming along the A27 from Hastings direction. And yes, it's also a hairy roundabout with much poor lane discipline.
Hampden park, I've largely managed to avoid thankfully and my work now takes me into the motoring hell hole that is Brighton, but hey ho!0 -
Minnigaff.
If anyone is in that area, especially if you approach Newton Stewart from the A75 heading East, you'll notice a 3 foot high wall all along the right hand side of the road. That wall acted as a defensive instalment and kept the Minnigaffian's in one place where you could observe them cooking the what they had in their Cauldrons. If they were behaving in a particularly obnoxious and noisy way (especially around the breeding season), one could stand on top of the wall and shoot one or two to maintain at least the tiniest degree of decorum. It was the Scottish equivalent of the Great wall of China. It is only one wall in linear form, as the original, now dispersed inhabitants were too stupid to go around it. So it worked very well.
But and this is a very big but, some tw@t at some point, breached the wall allowing entrance and exit to this 'enclave'. I would love to meet the politically correct, humanitarian moron(s?) who decided it would be a good idea to breach the wall and bash his head/their heads about a little.
It was without doubt, a very stupid act and the main reason Dumfries and Galloway is so impoverished and full of cretins.
At this moment, I must stress that I have not mentioned places like Wishaw, Cumbernauld, East Kilbride and Ecclefechan because these places cannot be described by any stretch of the imagination, as Trivial.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Strange name Ecclefechan. It's Welsh for "Little Eccle". I think that the Welsh must have had enough of the place centuries ago and farked off down the M74.0
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I keep putting cycling kit that Id been happily using for many years, thats still perfectly functionable, adequate, usable, wearable, its decent kit, to the bottom of the pile, because I dont like some of the colour matching with other bits of kit, or it looks a bit outdated, "sooo last season darling" grrr.
its like when did i become such a self inward fashion concious cyclist, Im riding a bike not cycling for a moody magazine photo shoot...this is what getting into Rapha and Assos kit does to you
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It was all 'Welsh' until those nasty Anglo-saxon immigrants turned up.Garry H wrote:Strange name Ecclefechan. It's Welsh for "Little Eccle". I think that the Welsh must have had enough of the place centuries ago and farked off down the M74.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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rjsterry wrote:
It was all 'Welsh' until those nasty Anglo-saxon immigrants turned up.Garry H wrote:Strange name Ecclefechan. It's Welsh for "Little Eccle". I think that the Welsh must have had enough of the place centuries ago and farked off down the M74.
Stuck between the Celts and the Anglo Saxon's in lowland Welshland (as it must have been called then) couldn't have been like being the meat in the sandwich, more like the balls in the vice.
On the long run, as Anglo Saxon's and Celts, things weren't too bad. Never mind Wiggle, I blame the Normans.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
rjsterry wrote:
It was all 'Welsh' until those nasty Anglo-saxon immigrants turned up.Garry H wrote:Strange name Ecclefechan. It's Welsh for "Little Eccle". I think that the Welsh must have had enough of the place centuries ago and farked off down the M74.
It was all fields. If it wasn't for the Anglo-saxons, the Welsh would still be throwing sh1t at each other and hitting each other with animal bones.Ben
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It's called rugby!crumbschief wrote:0 -
Sky's TV bundles. We had the bundle that included kids TV channels and decided to get rid of it as they grown out of them so the wife called to cancel the pack. She was told documentaries were on the same bundle which didn't bother us much as we never really watch them. The cancellation went through and I noticed we'd lost some of the music channels, again these get watched occasionally but it was no real issue. I then sat down to watch Eurosport only to find that had gone which obviously is an issue. I'll probably get Eurosport player now unless I can work out how to add a single channel but in whose world do kids programmes, music channels watched mainly by teens and 20 somethings and documentaries / sports channels watched mainly by men end up in the same bundle? I think it was called the variety pack but that's stretching variety a bit far!0
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You've been to Rhyl?crumbschief wrote:0 -
Garry H wrote:
You've been to Rhyl?crumbschief wrote:
He hasn't been to a caravan site in Burry Port either.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Pinno wrote:Pross wrote:Sky's..bit far!
SKY: Murdoch > Overpriced > sh1t.
Cancel the whole thing. Get Eurosport on your smart TV, PC or laptop for £4.99 per month. Cancel it after the WC's and then re-subscribe just before La Prima Vera. Simples.
Cancel it in the winter? Are you mad - I watch it far more in the winter months, I love winter sports!0 -
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Pross wrote:Pinno wrote:Pross wrote:Sky's..bit far!
SKY: Murdoch > Overpriced > sh1t.
Cancel the whole thing. Get Eurosport on your smart TV, PC or laptop for £4.99 per month. Cancel it after the WC's and then re-subscribe just before La Prima Vera. Simples.
Cancel it in the winter? Are you mad - I watch it far more in the winter months, I love winter sports!
Eh eh, calm down, calm down. Either way, £4.99 per month is a pinch and far cheaper than SKY.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
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The nobhed who tried to wheely up the hill on the way to work today but found the gradient was too much for them so they had to get off half way up.0
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Online ads that popup to advertise whatever I just bought0
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Pross wrote:Sky's TV bundles. We had the bundle that included kids TV channels and decided to get rid of it as they grown out of them so the wife called to cancel the pack. She was told documentaries were on the same bundle which didn't bother us much as we never really watch them. The cancellation went through and I noticed we'd lost some of the music channels, again these get watched occasionally but it was no real issue. I then sat down to watch Eurosport only to find that had gone which obviously is an issue. I'll probably get Eurosport player now unless I can work out how to add a single channel but in whose world do kids programmes, music channels watched mainly by teens and 20 somethings and documentaries / sports channels watched mainly by men end up in the same bundle? I think it was called the variety pack but that's stretching variety a bit far!
This isn't trivial, but any dealings with Sky are a complete nightmare. We left them a couple of months back and the call to ask to cancel the contract lasted an hour and a half.
I got through straight away and pointed out at the start of the call that if they couldn't match BT's offer of £35 a month including broadband and equivalent channels I wasn't interested. Best they could do was an extra £15 a month only guaranteed for 6 months compared to BT's 12. But it took 90 mins of my life to get them to accept I was leaving.
And then they pestered me for the next month with different offers.0 -
I'm about to go down the same route with Virgin Meeja, not looking forward to it in spite of the financial incentive. Just trying to work out which bundles include the channels we watch so I can do a comparison is bad enough.Dinyull wrote:Pross wrote:Sky's TV bundles. We had the bundle that included kids TV channels and decided to get rid of it as they grown out of them so the wife called to cancel the pack. She was told documentaries were on the same bundle which didn't bother us much as we never really watch them. The cancellation went through and I noticed we'd lost some of the music channels, again these get watched occasionally but it was no real issue. I then sat down to watch Eurosport only to find that had gone which obviously is an issue. I'll probably get Eurosport player now unless I can work out how to add a single channel but in whose world do kids programmes, music channels watched mainly by teens and 20 somethings and documentaries / sports channels watched mainly by men end up in the same bundle? I think it was called the variety pack but that's stretching variety a bit far!
This isn't trivial, but any dealings with Sky are a complete nightmare. We left them a couple of months back and the call to ask to cancel the contract lasted an hour and a half.
I got through straight away and pointed out at the start of the call that if they couldn't match BT's offer of £35 a month including broadband and equivalent channels I wasn't interested. Best they could do was an extra £15 a month only guaranteed for 6 months compared to BT's 12. But it took 90 mins of my life to get them to accept I was leaving.
And then they pestered me for the next month with different offers.0
