Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

capt_slog

earth wrote:

Online ads that popup to advertise whatever I just bought

Even more annoying if they are cheaper than you bought it for.

haydenm

Outraged people in the comments section of the BBC news facebook page who are completely incapable of telling the difference between the statistically significant findings of a study of 200,000 people and their own anecdotal experience between them and their mate Linda. Could probably go in the 'Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up' thread depending on mood...

On top of that, people who don't understand scientific process of peer review etc, and people who do understand but think they know better than hundreds of scientists who happen to be experts in said field. We've had enough of experts though I guess.

bbrap

Bloody carol singers who only know the 1st line of "we wish you a merry christmas".

Nice, now fuck off.

The grinch

pinno

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.

Can't you just cancel the DD?

Tashman

Pinno wrote:

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.

Can't you just cancel the DD?

Apparently not, as you still have a viable contract, which you are then in breach of! I don't know if there's an option to give notice via letter. would take out the pain of the conversation

dinyull

They are clever robbing bastard$. You can upgrade your account and package till the cows come home online, but try and reduce it and you need to call them where you get the hard sell.

After an hour I told the lass that even if they could better BT's deal I'd still leave so I didn't have to experience their $hite again.

FishFish

You can cancel your contract verbally or in writing. Do the latter and write the cancellation to the company secretary at the group head office.

FishFish

I really despise seeing bins, bins of all hues - blu, brown, tartan, ultraviolet, black (although black is not a hue - it is a lack of any colour), which are painted with huge lettering identifying the house number and street. Only idiots and working class people do this. We have no need for this repulsive activity in Mayfair.

FishFish

earth wrote:

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.

That was me!!!

haydenm

Downton Abbey. GF is rewatching it, two episodes in, not a fan.

secretsam

Many things about one of my antipodean colleagues annoy me, but her failure to understand how to pronounce "data" and "project" after 6 years of living here drives me funking nuts.

It's "data" as in day-tah and "project" with a short "o" as in "proper"

bompington

SecretSam wrote:

Many things about one of my antipodean colleagues annoy me, but her failure to understand how to pronounce "data" and "project" after 6 years of living here drives me funking nuts.

It's "data" as in day-tah and "project" with a short "o" as in "proper"

Let's just go back to proper Latin pronunciation, in which case "datta" or more like "dah-ta" is correct, but it should really be "pro-yect".

fat daddy

single speed cx bikes ..... in 2015 there wee loads in the shops .... now I decide I want one, its all 20 / 22 speed .. what happened to the tricross ss CX or the Arkose from pinnacle ?

has that fad ended, did I miss being at the height of fashion

secretsam

bompington wrote:

SecretSam wrote:

Many things about one of my antipodean colleagues annoy me, but her failure to understand how to pronounce "data" and "project" after 6 years of living here drives me funking nuts.

It's "data" as in day-tah and "project" with a short "o" as in "proper"

Let's just go back to proper Latin pronunciation, in which case "datta" or more like "dah-ta" is correct, but it should really be "pro-yect".

I don't think the Latins had the letter "j"...and not all English is derived from Latin, some of it's from Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and who knows what else.

What IS certain is that antipodean English (sic) is derived from British English. So they should talk proper.

pinno

An Englishman says 'Sex, fish and chips". A Wallaby says "Six, fish and chips" and a Kiwi says "Sux, fush and chups".
Ask a Scots person to say "I'm sitting here wearing furry slippers reading poetry from a poem book". All wrong,

rjsterry

SecretSam wrote:

bompington wrote:

SecretSam wrote:

Many things about one of my antipodean colleagues annoy me, but her failure to understand how to pronounce "data" and "project" after 6 years of living here drives me funking nuts.

It's "data" as in day-tah and "project" with a short "o" as in "proper"

Let's just go back to proper Latin pronunciation, in which case "datta" or more like "dah-ta" is correct, but it should really be "pro-yect".

I don't think the Latins had the letter "j"...and not all English is derived from Latin, some of it's from Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and who knows what else.

What IS certain is that antipodean English (sic) is derived from British English. So they should talk proper.

Could be the start of the next Great Vowel Shift
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

bompington

rjsterry wrote:

Could be the start of the next Great Vowel Shift
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

Din't turk ty mi ebote tha grote vile shaft

chris_bass

I turn off segments on my garmin edge 1000, delete all segments etc.
I upload a new course to follow, for some reason my garmin thinks this means i have changed my mind about all the segments uploads them all again and then they pop up as i get near them.

Alain Quay

SecretSam wrote:

Many things about one of my antipodean colleagues annoy me, but her failure to understand how to pronounce "data" and "project" after 6 years of living here drives me funking nuts.

It's "data" as in day-tah and "project" with a short "o" as in "proper"

How do think a Brummy accent sounds on a beautiful sunny day in Sydney?

bompington

Alain Quay wrote:

SecretSam wrote:

Many things about one of my antipodean colleagues annoy me, but her failure to understand how to pronounce "data" and "project" after 6 years of living here drives me funking nuts.

It's "data" as in day-tah and "project" with a short "o" as in "proper"

How do think a Brummy accent sounds on a beautiful sunny day in Sydney?

Much the same as it does on a miserable cold rainy day in Sydney, when it has the advantage of fitting in better.

Garry H

Adults on scooters. The push along ones, not Vespas.

Knobs, just walk.

Pross

Getting a delivery card off the postie saying an item couldn't be delivered as the postage hadn't been paid in full, dragging myself to the sorting office after work, queuing for 20 minutes, paying £2 to collect the mystery package only to find it's a Christmas card off one of the wife's relatives who had forgotten to put a stamp on the envelope.

homers_double

Waitresses that ask if you want the vegan burger with your pulled pork* special.









Food people, food. Nothing rude.

FishFish

People who anti correlate common sense and the possession of tertiary qualifications.

For example. 'He may have a University degree but has no common sense.' ...as if not having a degree confers the sagacity of a delphic oracle together with the crowd charisma of Ghandi (with or sans the paedo bit) and the mental capacity of Stephen Weinberg.

In practice the proposer is a flabby sociopath with flaky skin and an unpleasant mass of hair coming assymetrically out of his ears. Or a roadie if different.

If I EVER pass inference based on educational qualifications then please feel free to kill me.

FishFish

Pross wrote:

Getting a delivery card off the postie saying an item couldn't be delivered as the postage hadn't been paid in full, dragging myself to the sorting office after work, queuing for 20 minutes, paying £2 to collect the mystery package only to find it's a Christmas card off one of the wife's relatives who had forgotten to put a stamp on the envelope.

BTW I've just sent you fifty empty envelopes through the post! :twisted:

FishFish

SecretSam wrote:

bompington wrote:

SecretSam wrote:

What IS certain is that antipodean English (sic) is derived from British English. So they should talk proper.

What REALLY is certain that in the past criminals convicted in the assizes would be, by way of punishment, transported to Australia.

...taking their savage uneducated northern and scotch accents to pollute the quality of English intonation, subject matter and gravitas and substituting a potentially viable gene pool with what has evolved to the current day. Australians.

Garry H

Celeriac

pinno

Garry H wrote:

Celeriac

Now that is odd. If you had a time machine or a stairway to heaven, a 10 week diet of Celeriac soup prior to you're chosen method of travel, would probably get you into Karen Carpenters knickers.

FatTed

Pinno wrote:

Garry H wrote:

Celeriac

Now that is odd. If you had a time machine or a stairway to heaven, a 10 week diet of Celeriac soup prior to you're chosen method of travel, would probably get you into Karen Carpenters knickers.

Probably not out of them

pinno

FatTed wrote:

Pinno wrote:

Garry H wrote:

Celeriac

Now that is odd. If you had a time machine or a stairway to heaven, a 10 week diet of Celeriac soup prior to you're chosen method of travel, would probably get you into Karen Carpenters knickers.

Probably not out of them

It's a fair point. Perhaps he should take a pair of tyre levers with him.