Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

rjsterry

Equally, I would hope that suitability for deployment isn't based on who got the lowest marks for their GCSEs.

Ben6899

SecretSam wrote:

Spanish youths. Why are they so much noisier than any other group of humans? And why do they onlycome in gangs of 40+?

Train currently full of them, yapping away. Reminds me if when I lived in Oxford, they always swarmed around Macdonald's....

It's not just the youths. Every word at 86fuckingdecibels.

Noisy c***s!

Tashman

Tuition fees in General are extortionate. I did a professional course where each module was charged at £600.I studied 3 modules across the year alongsde those doing a degree in Accounting and finance who paid the £9k for the privilege (although they did 6 modules) and the Universities claim that they're not profiteering?

davesnothere

Capt Slog wrote:

DavesNotHere wrote:

My children who have decided that instead of using a glass to drink from they now need a jam jar with a handle and a straw stuck out of the lid

Knew nothing about this until I read your post. I cherish my ignorance

Apparently they can be called "mug jars". How appropriate.

My hipster children, started with my youngest daughter and i thought oh that's sweet.

Now the whole gang have got them so instead of chucking a few glasses in the dishwasher, you have to remove the straws, unscrew the lids, place all the bits in the dishwasher then after you have to reassemble the bloody things.

The very definition of trivial AND annoying

Matthewfalle

Veronese68 wrote:

Matthewfalle wrote:

I'm looking at starting another degree but this one will be paid for by work: no way at all could I afford to do it by myself.

He looked at signing up to get his degree paid for by the taxpayer. He'd have to stay in the forces for a few years afterwards. The EPO put the kybosh on that, I could see the sense in it. I'd have thought a lad with a masters degree* in mechanical engineering is less likely to be used as cannon fodder.

* Assuming he gets one that is.

He'd have gone in as a Royal Engineer officer, been pulling in £40k a year in 3 years and never gone anywhere near anywhere dangerous except for the Officer's mess bar.

Throughout his entire uni career he would have been pulling in paid work, mixing with cool people, travelling. At Sandhurst he would have had the best man and project management training imaginable.

Golden ticket there.

thestrand

Tashman wrote:

Tuition fees in General are extortionate. I did a professional course where each module was charged at £600.I studied 3 modules across the year alongsde those doing a degree in Accounting and finance who paid the £9k for the privilege (although they did 6 modules) and the Universities claim that they're not profiteering?

I think also the fact that they charge exactly the same amount for every course is daylight robbery. I'm currently doing a degree in Economics (yes I know, not really sure what I was thinking when I applied to study that!). For my 9 grand, I get on average 20 contact hours a week, for lectures and seminars. For those that do an Arts degree at the same university, such as History or English, some get as little as 4 hours per week, plus much lower job prospects afterwards. Also, the predicted lifetime earnings for a course such as those are lower - and yet they still pay the same amount.

I know going to university is about far more than simply gaining increased lifetime earnings, but I definitely think they should be charging less for courses that have fewer staff hours, otherwise I've no idea what it is the money is actually going towards.

(Also, on a side note, it's pretty inexplicable that I'm paying all this money, and yet still have to pay for printing)

Matthewfalle

thestrand wrote:

Tashman wrote:

Tuition fees in General are extortionate. I did a professional course where each module was charged at £600.I studied 3 modules across the year alongsde those doing a degree in Accounting and finance who paid the £9k for the privilege (although they did 6 modules) and the Universities claim that they're not profiteering?

I think also the fact that they charge exactly the same amount for every course is daylight robbery. I'm currently doing a degree in Economics (yes I know, not really sure what I was thinking when I applied to study that!). For my 9 grand, I get on average 20 contact hours a week, for lectures and seminars. For those that do an Arts degree at the same university, such as History or English, some get as little as 4 hours per week, plus much lower job prospects afterwards. Also, the predicted lifetime earnings for a course such as those are lower - and yet they still pay the same amount.

I know going to university is about far more than simply gaining increased lifetime earnings, but I definitely think they should be charging less for courses that have fewer staff hours, otherwise I've no idea what it is the money is actually going towards.

(Also, on a side note, it's pretty inexplicable that I'm paying all this money, and yet still have to pay for printing)

They used to charge us for photocopying so we worked out that if you pressed the copy button at the same time as you pressed the eject button for your photocopier credit card thing you'd get your copy and not get charged.

We also used to steal all the toilet paper from the lecturers' toilets.

Pross

Matthewfalle wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

Matthewfalle wrote:

I'm looking at starting another degree but this one will be paid for by work: no way at all could I afford to do it by myself.

He looked at signing up to get his degree paid for by the taxpayer. He'd have to stay in the forces for a few years afterwards. The EPO put the kybosh on that, I could see the sense in it. I'd have thought a lad with a masters degree* in mechanical engineering is less likely to be used as cannon fodder.

* Assuming he gets one that is.

He'd have gone in as a Royal Engineer officer, been pulling in £40k a year in 3 years and never gone anywhere near anywhere dangerous except for the Officer's mess bar.

Throughout his entire uni career he would have been pulling in paid work, mixing with cool people, travelling. At Sandhurst he would have had the best man and project management training imaginable.

Golden ticket there.

My daughter almost went down that route but left it too late. She has been intent on joining the police after her degree but in a big city force with more options but then realised she could join the RMP and get paid far more from day one plus she'd have had all the degree costs paid. I think she's still thinking of joining when she finishes and possibly joining the reserves while studying.

Matthewfalle

She can still do UOTC through the Reserves, get paid for weekends, etc and Commission while in the Reserves.

Also look brilliant on her cv for when she goes Regular.

Matthewfalle

Tell her to give some recruiting bods a bell and they can give her the low down.

awavey

DavesNotHere wrote:

Capt Slog wrote:

DavesNotHere wrote:

My children who have decided that instead of using a glass to drink from they now need a jam jar with a handle and a straw stuck out of the lid

Knew nothing about this until I read your post. I cherish my ignorance

Apparently they can be called "mug jars". How appropriate.

My hipster children, started with my youngest daughter and i thought oh that's sweet.

Now the whole gang have got them so instead of chucking a few glasses in the dishwasher, you have to remove the straws, unscrew the lids, place all the bits in the dishwasher then after you have to reassemble the bloody things.

The very definition of trivial AND annoying

just make them watch Finding Nemo...and then the sea turtle with the straw stuck up its nose, theyll never want to drink through a straw again

awavey

Dinyull wrote:

Similar to those little fryer baskets and wooden boards you can buy if you want to copy the pretentious c*nty bar in town when having sliders, sweet potato fries and slaw.

Or is it burger and chips?

the last load of McCains oven chips they had "families" serving little mini buckets of chips, and you do watch stuff like and think, really ? do people actually buy those things and use them at home :shock:

not averse to abit of chintz with my food, theres a chip van on the Gower peninsula I think, or around there anyway, that serves chips in a little plastic bucket with a miniature spade, instead of a paper cone and wooden spork, which I thought looked cute, but Im not about to be rushing out to buy one and dishing up food in it at home.

I know some of those american craft breweries go a bit weird on glasses, Ive definitely drunk some beer out of a jam jar lookalike pint glass.

Pross

Matthewfalle wrote:

She can still do UOTC through the Reserves, get paid for weekends, etc and Commission while in the Reserves.

Also look brilliant on her cv for when she goes Regular.

She was going to join UOTC but felt they didn't do enough so I think she's looking at the normal reserves now after speaking to the recruiting office cheers.

haydenm

thestrand wrote:

Tashman wrote:

Tuition fees in General are extortionate. I did a professional course where each module was charged at £600.I studied 3 modules across the year alongsde those doing a degree in Accounting and finance who paid the £9k for the privilege (although they did 6 modules) and the Universities claim that they're not profiteering?

I think also the fact that they charge exactly the same amount for every course is daylight robbery. I'm currently doing a degree in Economics (yes I know, not really sure what I was thinking when I applied to study that!). For my 9 grand, I get on average 20 contact hours a week, for lectures and seminars. For those that do an Arts degree at the same university, such as History or English, some get as little as 4 hours per week, plus much lower job prospects afterwards. Also, the predicted lifetime earnings for a course such as those are lower - and yet they still pay the same amount.

I know going to university is about far more than simply gaining increased lifetime earnings, but I definitely think they should be charging less for courses that have fewer staff hours, otherwise I've no idea what it is the money is actually going towards.

(Also, on a side note, it's pretty inexplicable that I'm paying all this money, and yet still have to pay for printing)

Agreed, I think their argument is that courses like chemistry are exceptionally expensive so everyone else has to subsidise them. The way our uni wasted money on huge building projects which went wrong and came in 3 years late I don't think they are especially efficient and made us pay...

haydenm

Oh, those stupid bloody resealable tabs for ground coffee which work once then never work again. There must be a better way?!

Also, my 3 week old fitbit has decided not to vibrate for my alarm. Good.

First.Aspect

This

http://www.bikeradar.com/commuting/gear ... nes-49956/

The next article should be "six reasons to skip right past BikeRadar's main site".

joncomelately

HaydenM wrote:

Oh, those stupid bloody resealable tabs for ground coffee which work once then never work again. There must be a better way?!

Also, my 3 week old fitbit has decided not to vibrate for my alarm. Good.

Can't sort out a fit bit, but this will sort out your coffee annoyance...

pinno

Oh you bunch of agricultural heathens. This is what you need:



Simples innit.

joncomelately

Pinno wrote:

Oh you bunch of agricultural heathens

Unfortunately my tractor doesn't come equipped with jar holders and the glass would be a bit fragile in my folded neckerchief

And you'd still need a spoon, and somewhere to store your spoon...

P.S. various of my orifices are not appropriate for spoon storage so please don't suggest it

Giraffoto

Pinno wrote:

Oh you bunch of agricultural heathens. This is what you need:



Simples innit.

Is this a suggestion for storing ground coffee, or the next big thing for serving drinks at hipster establishments? On the latter subject, I'm told that one my relatives once served tea in a jam jar. She wasn't being ironic, quirky or post-modern, she'd had her house bombed flat by the Luftwaffe.

pinno

^ lol.

Just storage Meerkat bloke.

team47b

HaydenM wrote:

Oh, those stupid bloody resealable tabs for ground coffee which work once then never work again. There must be a better way?!

Drink wine.

Cut slot in cork.

Seal bag.

Matthewfalle

You have the same tray things as we do. Your coffee isn't as nice as ours though - it looks like it's from the local Julian's.

pinno

Yay! Pongy Ditchy.

TheBigBean

The media making random references to experts without actually naming any.

First.Aspect

Plastic bags. Since the 5p levy, they've gone from being gossamer thin to capable of carrying the weight of a house brick. Probably at least 4 times the amount of plastic.

The whole point was to reduce plastic use, not reduce the number of bags.

rjsterry

First Aspect wrote:

Plastic bags. Since the 5p levy, they've gone from being gossamer thin to capable of carrying the weight of a house brick. Probably at least 4 times the amount of plastic.

The whole point was to reduce plastic use, not reduce the number of bags.

If one bag uses 400% of the plastic, but you use only 10% of the number of bags, that is still a lot less plastic.

haydenm

The spoon clip and the cork are excellent ideas. They would work at home but my colleagues don't feel it's an issue to leave a recently opened bag of ground coffee on the side wide open, there is no hope

FocusZing

Happy people. Statistically there is no way a person can be happy all the time. The default is melancholy or damn right p1ssed off. Consequently have the bloody decency to hide your happiness, so others don't feel worse for feeling "a bit sh1t".

Selfish fecal sacs!

haydenm

People who oversee your work but get too involved and cause confusion between me and the people working for me