Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

pinno

orraloon wrote:

Pinno. The internet is your friend. Online ordering and delivery to your door at your time of choosing. Tesco home delivery has reached Galloway, right?

All I needed was some Broccoli, bread and some milk. I did however succumb to an impulse purchase which was 'Webbox meaty sticks' (Chicken variety) to keep the cat happy.

Matthewfalle

I'm backing up Pinno with the rant about people who park in "with kiddie" spots when they have no kiddies with them.

Around here we have a plague of Evoques and Discovery type vehicles - everyone who owns them seems to think they are unique and important and this gives them the right to do what they want to do ignoring the fact that there are another 5 of them in a 50 meter radius.

Matthewfalle

People in Land Rovers who buy them, never go off road or tow or do anything that Land Rovers are meant to and drive them like bell ends through 20 and 30 mph zones.

fat daddy

loosing innertube valve caps ..... ok they do nothing, the bike doesn't need them .... but I like them, they came with the innertube and I feel compelled to use them .... yet every time I pump the tyre up, I the cap off, place it next to the wheel, or in my mo9uth or in my pocket .... and when I go to get it again .... its gone !

gnnnnnnn

bbrap

Matthewfalle wrote:

People in Land Rovers who buy them, never go off road or tow or do anything that Land Rovers are meant to and drive them like bell ends through 20 and 30 mph zones.

As a Land Rover driver I agree with you, although its the Rangies which tend to have bellends in them.

andcp

bbrap wrote:

Matthewfalle wrote:

People in Land Rovers who buy them, never go off road or tow or do anything that Land Rovers are meant to and drive them like bell ends through 20 and 30 mph zones.

As a Land Rover driver I agree with you, although its the Rangies which tend to have bellends in them.

RR Sport in particular where we are.

haydenm

Webboo wrote:

And to think I nearly agreed with the other halfs plan to move to Scotland.
Maybe that thought should be in trivial things that please you.

Living in Scotland is amazing! Especially if you enjoy shopping in a tiny Co-op filled with old people from a Lochs and Glens coach tour.

Lochs and Glens coach tours shall be added to this list.

keef66

And it's been getting exponentially worse with the increased popularity of 'crossover' cars like the Nissan CashCow. (whatever crossover means...) I find them hideously ugly, and they are everywhere!

I don't really understand the appeal; they appear bloated externally without giving any extra room inside, and being higher must handle like blancmange. Fuel consumption and the cost of tyres must be worse than an equivalent conventional car, no? What are they for?? Surely for the school run or shopping a Focus or an A3 makes more sense?

fat daddy

heavier, more material, bigger squashier tyres, no requirement for performance .... clearly they are designed to drive around the gaping pothole ridden roads .. no ... tracks !! of Bristol with a mediocrity of comfort that has become absent in a regular car.

but other than urban offroading with them, I see no purpose

bompington

Nissan Juke must be the most ridiculous - nothing but a jacked-up Micra.

We did have a far better thing - Skoda Octavia 4x4, it only had an extra inch or so clearance so not really off-road capable but it could (and did) go surprising places, did 50+mpg, and it looked and handled like a car. Had a huge boot too.
Pity the engine blew up.

LukeTC

fat daddy wrote:

heavier, more material, bigger squashier tyres, no requirement for performance .... clearly they are designed to drive around the gaping pothole ridden roads .. no ... tracks !! of Bristol with a mediocrity of comfort that has become absent in a regular car.

but other than urban offroading with them, I see no purpose

Maybe that's my gf's parents just bought a Shogun, you know, what with all those terrible road conditions in Kingswood :roll:

haydenm

bompington wrote:

Nissan Juke must be the most ridiculous - nothing but a jacked-up Micra.

I mentioned that a few pages ago, mainly to do with it's bloody stupid lights though. Horrible car.

Those Octavia 4x4s are good though, a few guys I know have/had them as company cars and swear by them, I'll keep my pickup for now though

pinno

Right Royal Rant No.2 of the new year. [Can I sustain this?] Fooking public holidays:

If there isn't enough bloody upheaval at the end of the year; the school break up, all the bits and pieces that have to come together negotiating the madding crowd and then once you get through Christmas day, you have Boxing day and then a few days before the next preparation for new years. Sunday 1st day of the year, Monday - bank holiday. Tuesday bank holiday... WTF? Isn't Fri night. all day Saturday and all day Sunday enough time to get pi$$ed?!?
Can't we go back to work on the 2nd? All communications are on half duties, the buses, the trains, the building suppliers aren't running or open, the garage wot has my van is shut. So I might get a few things done this week starting tomorrow and then 3 days later, it's the frikkin weekend?

I think that in the 3rd week in December, we should get a bank holiday to go out and do all the things that you could do in between the shopping, the nativity plays and general malaise that is the festive season. Take the 2nd of January and shift it to December at a time that you actually need a 'free' day rather than prolonging the start of getting things back to normal and on track.

mrfpb

How about making the first Monday in December a Bank Holiday - call it the Advent Holiday, and incorporate in law that no businesses or broadcasters are allowed to play Christmas songs to the public before that date (or after 31st December).

Bobbinogs

I used the BH yesterday to do a lovely ride around the hills over Exmoor in the glorious winter sunshine. Sounds like a certain Mr Grumpy Drawers should have done similar.

pinno

Bobbinogs wrote:

I used the BH yesterday to do a lovely ride around the hills over Exmoor in the glorious winter sunshine. Sounds like a certain Mr Grumpy Drawers should have done similar.

Oi! I had a great ride yesterday. (Did I say how good Christmas cake is for a pre ride fuel?). I have been planning today for the last 3 weeks as I got delivery of some internal French Doors this morning. Went online last night just to check if the builders yard was going to be open and although it was supposed to be, it was shut. So today was a disaster and a U turn wasn't possible as it's pi$$ing down intermittently and blowing a hooley.
I'm only grumpy because factors out of my control scuppered good intention.

pinno

Mysterious disappearing posts!

I'm in Jockland Kingstongraham, hence the extra hangover recovery day. It's potentially endless and eternal methinks; add a day for hangover recovery and then use that day to drink so you need another hangover recovery day.
Work is putting a house back together.

kingstongraham

Pinno wrote:

Mysterious disappearing posts!

I'm in Jockland Kingstongraham, hence the extra hangover recovery day. It's potentially endless and eternal methinks; add a day for hangover recovery and then use that day to drink so you need another hangover recovery day.
Work is putting a house back together.

Yeah, realised that and deleted (but not quick enough). I remember working up in Edinburgh and our team flying up to return to work a day before everyone else in the building. The heating hadn't been switched back on, and we lasted till about 2:30 wearing every item of clothing from our suitcases before calling it a day.

It's a bit much to take another day today and then miss out on Easter Monday when you could properly enjoy it.

On topic, I decided to take public transport instead of riding in today, and it took 90 minutes to cover 7 miles. Not going to make that mistake again.

haydenm

To be honest, I could have done with another day off today but seeing as I lump all my holiday and bank holidays together and take them when I want it seemed like a waste (head office in a different part of Jockland where a lot of the bank holidays are different so we would rarely coordinate)

Pross

New Year Resolutioners who decide to commute to work by bike or running and clog up the changing rooms with their crap then leave all their shower gels in the cubicle so you can put your own anywhere while washing. Luckily they'll all stop again in a couple of weeks other than for a few days when we first get nice weather in the summer.

rjsterry

People - university educated people - who seemingly cannot operate a central heating system.

ballysmate

People who regard the work changing rooms and showers as their own private space and try to exclude others.

Pross

Ballysmate wrote:

People who regard the work changing rooms and showers as their own private space and try to exclude others.

Yep, that would be the ones I mention above. All the regulars clear their stuff out and keep it in their bags. Annoying aren't they?

davesnothere

People who piss on the floor in the office toilet and then just leave it there.

davesnothere

People who eat bacon sandwiches in the office when I'm on a diet

davesnothere

11 year old daughters who decide they're going to do Veganuary (yes, it's a thing) which means i have to eat chickpea curry for dinner tonight :?

Tashman

People driving with a headlight out, compensating with their blinding foglights. I wouldn't mind but that light has been out since at least November! Just change the Farking thing!!!

FishFish

'Event' pings.

When there is a cold weather EVENT my car goes ping and a stupid yellow light comes on. When it is a freezing EVENT it goes ping and a friggn red light goes on and then goes yellow when freezing becomes a cold EVENT. So you get about 40,000 pings every 100m as the car samples the microclimate.

The ghetto fix is to pour petrol all over the car and set fire to it then it does not sense the cold weather EVENT.

FishFish

HaydenM wrote:

Webboo wrote:

Living in Scotland is amazing! Especially if you enjoy shopping in a tiny Co-op filled with old people from a Lochs and Glens coach tour.

What really wonks me off is when I'm on a Lochs and Glens coach tour and we stop at the local co-op so you can get some overpriced haggis and deep fried mars bar for lunch. Full of people talking weird and most of the men wearing skirts.

FishFish

rjsterry wrote:

People - university educated people - who seemingly cannot operate a central heating system.

If you went to a proper University then you would have servants to do that for you. Or spend winter in the Maldives.