Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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Kids (5-11) travel for free on TfL services, but not on overground trains. Adults can seamlessly combine a TfL journey and an overground service into a single charge. Kids travelling the same route which often doesn't even pass ticket machines need to get one somewhere halfway. This annoys me.
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The people in my household who can't shut a door without slamming it0
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I have a "Lasting Power of Attorney" for my Mums financial and property affairs, she's 98 and in a care home.
The LPA takes a bit of getting hold of, and they send you documents which you can use to prove to banks, utilities etc to show that you have the LPA. Because the documents are a bit 'precious' I don't like sending them anywhere in case they got lost.
However, there is also a Government run website, which displays your LPA online to anyone you give an access code to (lasts seven days I think).
That would be great, but it seems hardly anyone uses it, they want to see the documents, or certified copies of same made by a solicitor! Amongst the stick in the mud wakners who won't use the service are the fcking tax office, which is also run by the same fcking Government
You couldn't make it up.
The older I get, the better I was.0 -
I think you’ll find the tax office are a law unto themselves. Completely devoid of common sense and accuracy.capt_slog said:Amongst the stick in the mud wakners who won't use the service are the fcking tax office, which is also run by the same fcking Government
You couldn't make it up.
I would like to congratulate them for putting me on a K tax code to pay back the money they adjusted my tax code to pay back 5 times last year. Even more irritating is that I’m almost within £10 of exactly the same fucking earnings.0 -
The term "winner, winner, chicken dinner"0
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People who keep on posting their wordle things on FB day after day, when it's clear no-one give a monkey's...0
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Isn't that the appropriate place to post it then?briantrumpet said:People who keep on posting their wordle things on FB day after day, when it's clear no-one give a monkey's...
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Just saw this, sorry.First.Aspect said:
Are the college bars doing okay though?drhaggis said:Empty university lecture theatres after a full year of hearing students how much they miss face-to-face teaching
My campus is far enough to the city centre to miss on all the action & life, but close enough to be entirely surrounded by residential streets. Worst of both worlds. Anyway, the catering/canteen facilities were atrocious pre COVID. Worst of any uni I've ever been to. And now? Student pub is closed. Biology canteen? Closed. Noodle/curry rice shop? Closed. Lecture finishes at 13:00? Sorry, no baked potatos left.
So if students are going to the pub, it certainly isn't any of the facilities around that campus. Which leads me to my favourite pet peeve:
That university's coffee is cheaper in the central campus than in peripheral ones. Open admission they can't compete w/ Starbucks/Costa, but that they're happy to gouge students and employers who cannot get a coffee elsewhere.0 -
I do hope it is trivial or could be seriously aggravating if there's some hidden issue but... Effin' slowcoach, 'we're on it, due imminently' solicitors acting v slowly (or not at all) for my property seller meaning I'm still awaiting formal confirmation of dates. Selling agents and my solicitor on their case, giving them grief but still tick...tock...hello...
D*cks.0 -
A couple for me today.
The over use of "colleague" instead of staff or employee. It's OK with colleague announcements but it is creeping in elsewhere e.g. at Templemeads this morning I saw a sign saying "colleague entrance only" when surely it should have said employee entrance?
Something that's been annoying for a while now, the overpowering smell of weed pretty much everywhere. For some reason it is only something I've noticed being common two years ago just as the original lockdown started. Now I notice it on pretty much a daily basis. It doesn't help that someone is smoking it regularly 2 doors down so I can't go in the garden in the evening without the nauseating smell and most urban runs I do (some rural ones too) I seem to get a lungful.0 -
Oh, and another, people waiting on a train platform who start walking alongside the train as it pulls in as though it only has one entrance.0
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Pross said:
A couple for me today.
Something that's been annoying for a while now, the overpowering smell of weed pretty much everywhere. For some reason it is only something I've noticed being common two years ago just as the original lockdown started. Now I notice it on pretty much a daily basis. It doesn't help that someone is smoking it regularly 2 doors down so I can't go in the garden in the evening without the nauseating smell and most urban runs I do (some rural ones too) I seem to get a lungful.
I still don't know what it smells like, even when people around me are practically swooning and saying how strong the smell is. Maybe I've got a very specific anosmia.0 -
I prefer colleage to "coworker".Pross said:A couple for me today.
The over use of "colleague" instead of staff or employee. It's OK with colleague announcements but it is creeping in elsewhere e.g. at Templemeads this morning I saw a sign saying "colleague entrance only" when surely it should have said employee entrance?
Something that's been annoying for a while now, the overpowering smell of weed pretty much everywhere. For some reason it is only something I've noticed being common two years ago just as the original lockdown started. Now I notice it on pretty much a daily basis. It doesn't help that someone is smoking it regularly 2 doors down so I can't go in the garden in the evening without the nauseating smell and most urban runs I do (some rural ones too) I seem to get a lungful.0 -
My mind wants to read that as “cow worker” it makes it less annoyingFirst.Aspect said:
I prefer colleage to "coworker".Pross said:A couple for me today.
The over use of "colleague" instead of staff or employee. It's OK with colleague announcements but it is creeping in elsewhere e.g. at Templemeads this morning I saw a sign saying "colleague entrance only" when surely it should have said employee entrance?
Something that's been annoying for a while now, the overpowering smell of weed pretty much everywhere. For some reason it is only something I've noticed being common two years ago just as the original lockdown started. Now I notice it on pretty much a daily basis. It doesn't help that someone is smoking it regularly 2 doors down so I can't go in the garden in the evening without the nauseating smell and most urban runs I do (some rural ones too) I seem to get a lungful.0 -
It's not so much the word that bothers me, it is the context in which it is being used. Colleague entrance, colleague parking etc. is just stupid. No doubt some management expert has decided refering to staff or employees is demeaning or something.First.Aspect said:
I prefer colleage to "coworker".Pross said:A couple for me today.
The over use of "colleague" instead of staff or employee. It's OK with colleague announcements but it is creeping in elsewhere e.g. at Templemeads this morning I saw a sign saying "colleague entrance only" when surely it should have said employee entrance?
Something that's been annoying for a while now, the overpowering smell of weed pretty much everywhere. For some reason it is only something I've noticed being common two years ago just as the original lockdown started. Now I notice it on pretty much a daily basis. It doesn't help that someone is smoking it regularly 2 doors down so I can't go in the garden in the evening without the nauseating smell and most urban runs I do (some rural ones too) I seem to get a lungful.0 -
I was much the same until 2 years ago. Vague memories of smelling it around a few heavy metal gigs I went to in my teens and putting down to the smell of most of those around me. If it's around you definitely can't miss it though.briantrumpet said:Pross said:A couple for me today.
Something that's been annoying for a while now, the overpowering smell of weed pretty much everywhere. For some reason it is only something I've noticed being common two years ago just as the original lockdown started. Now I notice it on pretty much a daily basis. It doesn't help that someone is smoking it regularly 2 doors down so I can't go in the garden in the evening without the nauseating smell and most urban runs I do (some rural ones too) I seem to get a lungful.
I still don't know what it smells like, even when people around me are practically swooning and saying how strong the smell is. Maybe I've got a very specific anosmia.0 -
Pross said:
I was much the same until 2 years ago. Vague memories of smelling it around a few heavy metal gigs I went to in my teens and putting down to the smell of most of those around me. If it's around you definitely can't miss it though.briantrumpet said:Pross said:A couple for me today.
Something that's been annoying for a while now, the overpowering smell of weed pretty much everywhere. For some reason it is only something I've noticed being common two years ago just as the original lockdown started. Now I notice it on pretty much a daily basis. It doesn't help that someone is smoking it regularly 2 doors down so I can't go in the garden in the evening without the nauseating smell and most urban runs I do (some rural ones too) I seem to get a lungful.
I still don't know what it smells like, even when people around me are practically swooning and saying how strong the smell is. Maybe I've got a very specific anosmia.
I once spent a day in the apartment in Germany one of Frank Sinatra's favourite trumpeters. Reckon he filled his pipe 20 times during the day, and I'm sure it wasn't just tobacco. Didn't smell anything but tobacco smoke.
The aside: it was Al Porcino, and he also played for Buddy Rich. On this. Phenomenal player.
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Quite possibly hash instead of weed. A friend says.briantrumpet said:
I once spent a day in the apartment in Germany one of Frank Sinatra's favourite trumpeters. Reckon he filled his pipe 20 times during the day, and I'm sure it wasn't just tobacco. Didn't smell anything but tobacco smoke.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
pblakeney said:
Quite possibly hash instead of weed. A friend says.briantrumpet said:
I once spent a day in the apartment in Germany one of Frank Sinatra's favourite trumpeters. Reckon he filled his pipe 20 times during the day, and I'm sure it wasn't just tobacco. Didn't smell anything but tobacco smoke.
I'm so naïf that I'll need a dictionary now...0 -
Waking up at 4am for absolutely no reason. Even the dog has given me a look as if to say WTF?!?0
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Good news. Will be 5 am on Sunday.JimD666 said:Waking up at 4am for absolutely no reason. Even the dog has given me a look as if to say WTF?!?
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Pross said:
A couple for me today.
The over use of "colleague" instead of staff or employee. It's OK with colleague announcements but it is creeping in elsewhere e.g. at Templemeads this morning I saw a sign saying "colleague entrance only" when surely it should have said employee entrance?
Something that's been annoying for a while now, the overpowering smell of weed pretty much everywhere. For some reason it is only something I've noticed being common two years ago just as the original lockdown started. Now I notice it on pretty much a daily basis. It doesn't help that someone is smoking it regularly 2 doors down so I can't go in the garden in the evening without the nauseating smell and most urban runs I do (some rural ones too) I seem to get a lungful.
"Colleague Entrance Only" says to me that if I worked there I wouldn't be allowed to enter, but the person who works with me would.
Weed... the choice of the absolute loser, IMO. I hate it and all of its associations.Ben
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Jargon bingo.rick_chasey said:I always refer to the PAs or EAs as colleagues. Just think it sounds a bit less d!ckish.
What are pa's and ea's? Are you referring to Peggy again?0 -
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Milk no sugar please.rick_chasey said:Executive or Personal Assistant.
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If they are working with you then yes. Having a sign on your office door saying 'colleague entrance' would make no real sense though would it as the sign is there to tell people who don't work there they shouldn't use that door and therefore staff or employee is the sensible term to use.rick_chasey said:I always refer to the PAs or EAs as colleagues. Just think it sounds a bit less d!ckish.
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In that case, people who work there who aren't staff or employees wouldn't be allowed through. Or maybe anyone who is an employee of any company would be allowed through.Pross said:
If they are working with you then yes. Having a sign on your office door saying 'colleague entrance' would make no real sense though would it as the sign is there to tell people who don't work there they shouldn't use that door and therefore staff or employee is the sensible term to use.rick_chasey said:I always refer to the PAs or EAs as colleagues. Just think it sounds a bit less d!ckish.
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What's the alternative? I assume the world has moved on from "girls".rick_chasey said:I always refer to the PAs or EAs as colleagues. Just think it sounds a bit less d!ckish.
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"My PA" as opposed to "My colleague x"TheBigBean said:
What's the alternative? I assume the world has moved on from "girls".rick_chasey said:I always refer to the PAs or EAs as colleagues. Just think it sounds a bit less d!ckish.
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