Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

crumbschief

Sure is,Hare today gone tomorrow

pinno

...and remember: Few heads they made perfect. The rest - they covered them in hair.

crumbschief

I'm off out to stare at the moon,Happy Eastra,
Welcome Astarte

mfin

National pride.

What a stupid, stupid irrational concept.

capt_slog

Getting to my seat in the plane and finding (yet again) that I have no window. :evil:

shortfall

Everything to do with air travel. Check in queues, security queues, boarding queues, people who wedge massive bags into overhead luggage compartments and take an age to do it, noisy kids, parents who allow their kids to be noisy, sh1t food, no legroom, immigration control and passport check queues, baggage carousel wars and transfers that are late.

FishFish

Quantum mechanics is the same. The electron is sort of there until the wave function sort of collapses

capt_slog

Shortfall wrote:

Everything to do with air travel. Check in queues, security queues, boarding queues, people who wedge massive bags into overhead luggage compartments and take an age to do it, noisy kids, parents who allow their kids to be noisy, sh1t food, no legroom, immigration control and passport check queues, baggage carousel wars and transfers that are late.

On the flight out whilst waiting for the engines to start, there were all these wierd noises I thought were being played in the speaker system. It turned out there was a little girl sitting behind us, and she had some sort of game on an iPad (or similar) being played at full volume.

The stewardess came along and asked her to turn it down, or actually asked the man with her to do it. This took ages of explaining, and we then realised that he was deaf! Oh shit! it's going to be a long flight.

Ben6899

People who take kids in the Quiet Coach on trains.

F*** off and get in the f***ing sea. You t***s.

diplodicus

Ben6899 wrote:

People who take kids in the Quiet Coach on trains.

F*** off and get in the f***ing sea. You t***s.

Even if the children are quiet?

Ben6899

diplodicus wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

People who take kids in the Quiet Coach on trains.

F*** off and get in the f***ing sea. You t***s.

Even if the children are quiet?

On the extreme chance that the kids are quiet (Quiet Coach means not a fucking peep), then the sea is optional.

Otherwise, they better have towels.

kingstonian

The idiot that I bought a cup of tea from today, who insisted on pouring the milk in and proceeded to turn it into a cup of milky water with zero trace of tea. It isn't difficult to pour the right amount of milk into tea, you moron.

veronese68

Kingstonian wrote:

The idiot that I bought a cup of tea from today, who insisted on pouring the milk in and proceeded to turn it into a cup of milky water with zero trace of tea. It isn't difficult to pour the right amount of milk into tea, you moron.

Nothing trivial about that. Name and shame so I know where to avoid.

pinno

...but that's my cup of tea; feek and weeble.

veronese68

That's worse than people that add loads of milk, froth, chocolate and other tut to a shot of coffee. :roll:

pinno

Veronese68 wrote:

That's worse than people that add loads of milk, froth, chocolate and other tut to a shot of coffee. :roll:

Just milk.

Anyway, Mr VN 'Champion Biscuit Dunker' 68, have you tasted the water in Scotland?!? It's diluted. The council dilute it. It's cutbacks you see.
When I go down to Eaaaaaaaaastbawn, I can't get enough of tea; that lovely chalky water makes a great cuppa.

kingstonian

Veronese68 wrote:

Kingstonian wrote:

The idiot that I bought a cup of tea from today, who insisted on pouring the milk in and proceeded to turn it into a cup of milky water with zero trace of tea. It isn't difficult to pour the right amount of milk into tea, you moron.

Nothing trivial about that. Name and shame so I know where to avoid.

Costa Coffee at Kingston train station

She got pretty uppity when I insisted she made it for me again AND THIS TIME LET ME POUR THE BLOODY MILK IN......

TheBigBean

Ben6899 wrote:

diplodicus wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

People who take kids in the Quiet Coach on trains.

F*** off and get in the f***ing sea. You t***s.

Even if the children are quiet?

On the extreme chance that the kids are quiet (Quiet Coach means not a ******* peep), then the sea is optional.

Otherwise, they better have towels.

The Virgin booking system that doesn't allow you to select the noisy coach. No preference or quiet means that the noisy will end up in the quiet coach.

Ben6899

I book with Virgin on a regular basis. You can choose your seat, facing preference and whether or not you want a table.

You can also choose Quiet Coach. If you don't, then you don't get put in it.

First.Aspect

Ben6899 wrote:

I book with Virgin on a regular basis. You can choose your seat, facing preference and whether or not you want a table.

You can also choose Quiet Coach. If you don't, then you don't get put in it.

Is the quiet coach the one without live music?

TheBigBean

Ben6899 wrote:

I book with Virgin on a regular basis. You can choose your seat, facing preference and whether or not you want a table.

You can also choose Quiet Coach. If you don't, then you don't get put in it.

Sadly not always the case. The other choice is "no preference" (or at least used to be). It's particularly annoying when you need to work and make phone calls, so I have ended up searching the train for a new seat.

Ben6899

First Aspect wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

I book with Virgin on a regular basis. You can choose your seat, facing preference and whether or not you want a table.

You can also choose Quiet Coach. If you don't, then you don't get put in it.

Is the quiet coach the one without live music?

In an ideal world, old lad.

Ben6899

TheBigBean wrote:

Sadly not always the case. The other choice is "no preference" (or at least used to be). It's particularly annoying when you need to work and make phone calls, so I have ended up searching the train for a new seat.

If the train is chocker, then I have sympathy. In non-fully reserved trains, the Quiet Coaches (B or First Class K) always have space. Which tells me that Virgin don't put you there unless it's full or you request it.

Anyway, this isn't really going anywhere... people smoking weed in public. Ignorant tossers.

veronese68

Kingstonian wrote:

Costa Coffee at Kingston train station

Their teabags are rubbish as well, need two bags to get a proper cuppa.

cowsham

Ball point pens that stop writing half way through filling in something important but haven't run out of ink. Or paper that on certain parts no pen accept a felt tip will write on.

Giraffoto

Cowsham wrote:

Ball point pens that stop writing half way through filling in something important but haven't run out of ink. Or paper that on certain parts no pen accept a felt tip will write on.

A ball point pen that won't write but has ink in it can often be revived by dropping it about 10cm or 4" onto a hard surface, point down. I don't know if this shocks the ink down to the end or breaks up dry ink on the ball, but it's quite effective. If anyone has any other ideas as to how and why it works, I'll be mildly interested.

pinno

Take the inner out and blow as hard as you can. It's just an air bubble which can be caused by the heat if your hand or having been in a warm/very cool place or left upside down.
When you blow down that fine tube, it doesn't feel like there is any movement or 'give' but it does work.

burnthesheep

I've got someone I know that I've ridden with twice. Friend from years back. Once a good ride with 3 others the whole route. Kept up fine in the middle. No drop. Second time my old bike lost the chain and I had to make it home.

They took off for the winter and I rode through winter.

Now that it is spring, I get the kudos/comments, but never ride with them. They even ride through my back yard sometimes (the bike trail).

I hinted at them letting me know when they'll roll to join, but nothing.

Not sure if it's just a very subtle hint to me or if we're just creatures of habit.

There's one person at work who may be interested. Also, the weekly Crankarm has had some nice folks so it breaks up the monotony of always riding solo.

I'm not sure I want to try a week night group ride out of the one local store, they list their only pace at something I can hold for a couple hours, but not comfortably. And likely will be some "Cat 6" riders. In other words, I'd be outgunned and not in the mood to compete with personalities.

I've had bad luck getting anything the past year non-solo.

Matthewfalle

Pinno wrote:

Take the inner out and blow as hard as you can. It's just an air bubble which can be caused by the heat if your hand or having been in a warm/very cool place or left upside down.
When you blow down that fine tube, it doesn't feel like there is any movement or 'give' but it does work.

Bollox. Utter bollox.

Take the middle out, smash it with a hammer and chuck it into next door's garden.

Then use the outer to fire small balls of paper at people.

Pross

People annexing huge sections of beach with numerous wind breakers, even more so when they pitch camp in the main route onto the beach.