Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    Jack93 wrote:
    Is charging people 5p the way to do it though? Is it really going to change the way people think? Don't get me wrong, anything to help, but I really wish we didn't need to do this to get people to use less plastic bags...

    I work in the recycling bizness and believe me, trying to educate the f l i c k e r s is impossible. So the way forward is coercion. I would beat the living daylights out of some people who use our bring banks. You would not believe the stuff they throw in bins that cleary state:

    CAN RECYCLING POINT

    Yes Please.............................No thanks
    Food cans..............................Plasic bags
    Drinks cans............................Rubbish
    Aerosols...............................Glass
    Tin Foil.................................Plastic bottles

    The stuff they put in them is not listed above.
    Like:

    Dog sh1t
    Nappies - and we discovered a bin liner sack of adult size incontinence pads (used) in one once.
    Food waste
    Bottles of p1ss
    Half eaten take aways.

    Caught a guy 3 weeks ago for the first time in 10 years trying to put dog sh1t in a can bank. My two paid employees were there at the time and the 3 of us tore into him. "It was an honest mistake" he pleaded as I pointed out the fact that I never seen a dog waste bin that big after employee No.1 asked him if he could read.
    When I pulled him aside with threats of prosecution, in front of his gang of inbreds and in laws, I said that the contents were sorted by hand by people with learning difficulties and special needs and asked him if he had any idea what they thought when given these tasks. He was lucky not to be recycled.

    The problem is that 40% of the population are just too thick to understand the merits of recycling.

    Plastic bags kill 2m seabirds in Britain alone.
    The shreds of pastic in the Pacific is mistaken for fry and eaten/fed by Albatrosses to their young. Plastic bags are the number one threat to their existence.
    We produce 10 million tons of plastic each year (think how light plastic is).

    So yes, charge the feckers 25p a bag but also charge the supermarket 15p for each bag they sell.

    BTW, having done lots of school visits, the kids are more clued up and enthusiastic than their parents, so there is hope.

    Rant over (sorry).
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  • homers_double
    homers_double Posts: 8,279
    I have no problem with the bag charge/tax, we recycle and reuse old bags and have the big shopping bags for the trip to the supermarket.

    However..,

    Asda online deliver every now and again and I shit you not, have put a single pack of Chewits in one plastic bag! Sometimes it is THEY who need educating.
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  • Peddle Up!
    Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
    pinarello001 wrote:
    The problem is that 40% of the population are just too thick to understand the merits of recycling.
    Rant over (sorry).

    Fair comments pinarello. I hadn't considered the moron angle.
    Purveyor of "up" :)
  • arran77
    arran77 Posts: 9,260
    Jack93 wrote:
    Is charging people 5p the way to do it though? Is it really going to change the way people think? Don't get me wrong, anything to help, but I really wish we didn't need to do this to get people to use less plastic bags...

    We use the carrier bags instead of bin bags.

    Bin bags cost £1.80 for 20 so at 5p per carrier bag it's still 4p cheaper per bag than proper bin bags :lol:
    "Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity" :lol:

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  • Peddle Up!
    Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
    arran77 wrote:
    Jack93 wrote:
    Is charging people 5p the way to do it though? Is it really going to change the way people think? Don't get me wrong, anything to help, but I really wish we didn't need to do this to get people to use less plastic bags...

    We use the carrier bags instead of bin bags.

    Bin bags cost £1.80 for 20 so at 5p per carrier bag it's still 4p cheaper per bag than proper bin bags :lol:

    Snap. And since the carrier bags appear to be biodegradable, unlike the bin bags sold by the roll, counted it as an environmental plus.
    Purveyor of "up" :)
  • Rod11
    Rod11 Posts: 293
    pinarello001 wrote:
    The problem is that 40% of the population are just too thick to understand the merits of recycling.
    I'm completely with you. I was trying to make the point that I wish we didn't have to coerce people, the consequences of not recycling etc should be coercion in itself. But yes, clearly some people just can't wake up and smell the coffee.
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    arran77 wrote:
    Jack93 wrote:
    Is charging people 5p the way to do it though? Is it really going to change the way people think? Don't get me wrong, anything to help, but I really wish we didn't need to do this to get people to use less plastic bags...

    We use the carrier bags instead of bin bags.

    Bin bags cost £1.80 for 20 so at 5p per carrier bag it's still 4p cheaper per bag than proper bin bags :lol:

    which is frankly all they are good for as they are about as reusable as a chocolate teapot thesedays, being so eco friendly degradable they cant even cope with carrying the weight of a loaf of bread home :evil: I wouldnt even dare risk carrying a bottle in them anymore.

    fortunately I get so many junk pseudo charity style collection bags, I put them to good bin lining re-use instead
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    I mowstly shop at LIDL and ask for a cardboard box. The kids have fun in the box afterwards.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    Another rant coming...

    Having to spend my time recycling stuff that I didn't want in the first place but the supermarkets decide that I must have ... And they are charging me a wodge of money for it on top of my grocery bill. Why do they need to shrink wrap a swede for goodness sake?
  • Frank Wilson
    Frank Wilson Posts: 930
    homers double wrote:

    However..,

    Asda online deliver every now and again and I shoot you not, have put a single pack of Chewits in one plastic bag! Sometimes it is THEY who need educating.

    That's extremely interesting, I didn't know you could still get Chewits!
  • oblongomaculatus
    oblongomaculatus Posts: 616
    When someone uses the word "laxadaisical" when they mean either lax or lackadaisical - which mean similar but subtly distinct things. Lax means not sufficiently strict or severe; lackadaisical means careless or lacking in enthusiasm and determination. There is no such word as "laxadaisical", but you hear it frequently on TV, particularly from football pundits like Alan Shearer.
  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    When someone uses the word "laxadaisical" when they mean either lax or lackadaisical - which mean similar but subtly distinct things. Lax means not sufficiently strict or severe; lackadaisical means careless or lacking in enthusiasm and determination. There is no such word as "laxadaisical", but you hear it frequently on TV, particularly from football pundits like Alan Shearer.

    You're expecting the Queen's English from people who still wear chalkstripe?
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  • oblongomaculatus
    oblongomaculatus Posts: 616
    Giraffoto wrote:
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    When someone uses the word "laxadaisical" when they mean either lax or lackadaisical - which mean similar but subtly distinct things. Lax means not sufficiently strict or severe; lackadaisical means careless or lacking in enthusiasm and determination. There is no such word as "laxadaisical", but you hear it frequently on TV, particularly from football pundits like Alan Shearer.

    You're expecting the Queen's English from people who still wear chalkstripe?

    The Queen's English? Technically, I think by descent she's predominantly German... :wink:
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    When a video or photograph has been shot on a format that doesn't fit the screen and they then fill the bits that would otherwise be black with extra halves of the same video/picture slightly out of focus. I always find it very distracting for some reason.

    Like this.....video-undefined-1E7D404700000578-240_636x358.jpg


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    It's the whole pillboxing thing which was a big deal during the switch to 16:9. For whatever reason people freak out if there is black bars down the side of the screen, so all sorts of whacky ways are dreamt up to deal with it.
  • graham.
    graham. Posts: 862
    Capt Slog wrote:
    When a video or photograph has been shot on a format that doesn't fit the screen and they then fill the bits that would otherwise be black with extra halves of the same video/picture slightly out of focus. I always find it very distracting for some reason.

    Like this.....video-undefined-1E7D404700000578-240_636x358.jpg
    So that's what that effect is.
    Yes. Stupid and annoying!
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  • gingaman
    gingaman Posts: 576
    Peddle Up! wrote:
    Pulling a lace on one of your trainers when instead of undoing the bow, it produces a hideously tight knot that has to be picked undone. :evil:
    Its because you have been tying your shoelaces incorrectly!
    http://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    Got an email today from a friend who is 'gutted' that the footie season has ended FFS :roll:
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    team47b wrote:
    Got an email today from a friend who is 'gutted' that the footie season has ended FFS :roll:

    He may be referring to the Ladies Premier League.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    team47b wrote:
    Got an email today from a friend who is 'gutted' that the footie season has ended FFS :roll:

    Is he Scottish?
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    Having to have different leads for every flipping mobile device.

    Usb to usb
    Usb to micro usb
    Usb to mini usb
    Old style apple connector
    Apple lightning connector
    Soundlink mini charger
    Camera battery charger
    Garmin 405 charger
    Garmin 110 charger

    To name but several...
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    It was supposed to all be standard with microUSB but that's just become yet another standard, and even microUSB is being superceded by a new version of microUSB, argh!

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  • fatsmoker
    fatsmoker Posts: 585
    People at work who don't fully remove the paper cover on new jars of instant coffee . Tear the whole thing off.
  • tuneskyline
    tuneskyline Posts: 370
    People who moan at me because I have not taken off all the paper cover when I open a new jar of instant coffee
  • tuneskyline
    tuneskyline Posts: 370
    The coffee snobs who are to good to drink instant coffee ,,,,coming at ya like a kestrel
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    People who go to work and claim to be too busy to make a decent cup of coffee!
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  • smoggysteve
    smoggysteve Posts: 2,909
    People at work
  • smoggysteve
    smoggysteve Posts: 2,909
    Actually, just people
  • tuneskyline
    tuneskyline Posts: 370
    The specks of sadness that infiltrate my mind when life feels awesome.
  • jawooga
    jawooga Posts: 530
    Coffee again - how I can order a large americano, large latte, large cappuccino etc. But when I order a large espresso I get corrected, "a double?"

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