Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

Fairly sure most train lines ditched automatic delay-repay.

The *all London Terminals* season ticket I buy in Cambridge station is through Greater Anglia but the train I often get is the Great Northern line (which my ticket allows me to get on).

Alas that causes a whole myriad of problems when it comes to delay repay.

The only silver lining is I know that all the hours of dealing with my complaints is costing them *even more*.

rjsterry said:

TheBlueBean said:

Pross said:

TheBlueBean said:

Police motorcades. Can't think of anyone or anything that requires one.

Moving high security prisoners? Taking nuclear materials from site to site? Professional bike races, anything that needs junctions cleared to avoid stopping basically.

They seem like reasonable excuses, but not in central London.

You don't think a senior cabinet minister crawling through umpteen sets of traffic lights might be a bit of a target?

I don't think senior cabinet ministers get police motorcades.

TheBlueBean said:

rjsterry said:

TheBlueBean said:

Pross said:

TheBlueBean said:

Police motorcades. Can't think of anyone or anything that requires one.

Moving high security prisoners? Taking nuclear materials from site to site? Professional bike races, anything that needs junctions cleared to avoid stopping basically.

They seem like reasonable excuses, but not in central London.

You don't think a senior cabinet minister crawling through umpteen sets of traffic lights might be a bit of a target?

I don't think senior cabinet ministers get police motorcades.

Dunno. Wikipedia seems to think it's senior ministers + royals who get them. Almost got deafened by them in Streatham this morning (no minister or royal, just the bikes + sirens).

Managed to get 2 delay repay for the same journey last year. The original train was cancelled and then the next available one that was from another operator was running half an hour late so claimed off both operators.

Yes, they're the shouty ones I can't stand.

Proles need to know their place, innit.

rjsterry said:

"Excuse me. Sorry to bother you, but would you mind awfully if you pulled over to the side for just a minute so that we can get this ministerial car through? Thank you so much; much obliged." 😂

No. Just follow the same road rules as everyone else including the rich, famous and poor. It's a pointless exercise in ego massaging.

It could be argued that "they" paid to financially support the team and therefore make it strong enough to win the game.
Tenuous, but possible.

haydenm said:

dennisn said:

VERY trivial but still. Why do sports fans watch "their" team win a game then go around seemingly bragging about how "WE" won, when they had nothing to do with it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN1WN0YMWZU

That would be me.

I sometimes think there are quite a lot of threads onBR (maybe that should be the whole internet) that could be amalgamated with the title "Everyone is a morally bankrupt fool with poor artistic taste who is wrong about everything. Except me."

This 'kin font enlargement on quotes. Wtf? Got no geeks to sort out this sh1t Immediate Meejah? Or is it/she/he prioritised on swear filtering?

And answered immediately with s h 1 t getting blocked. Sheesh.

And now uncensored on edit. 😳

rick_chasey said:

bompington said:

I sometimes think there are quite a lot of threads onBR (maybe that should be the whole internet) that could be amalgamated with the title "Everyone is a morally bankrupt fool with poor artistic taste who is wrong about everything. Except me."

Yeah but the alternative that no one is unique and we’re all basically the same is a fairly grim way of seeing the world.

Grim? It's sorting the world into us and them that is the root of many of the world's problems.

Being told by the accountant that does our company payroll that he can't email me my P11D due to GDPR rules but can either post it or I can get my MD to access it and print or for me. Neither of those options seem to protect my data more than him emailing it and if I ask for my data to be emailed surely GDPR would allow it to be sent in the way I've requested?

I'm surprised it hasn't been posted to me as a matter of course as it has at all the previous places I've worked.

I also add the regular emails from HMRC that my tax assessment is due and offering me help to complete it. It's not due until 31 January, I've been getting emails for at least a month already.

Pross said:

Being told by the accountant that does our company payroll that he can't email me my P11D due to GDPR rules but can either post it or I can get my MD to access it and print or for me. Neither of those options seem to protect my data more than him emailing it and if I ask for my data to be emailed surely GDPR would allow it to be sent in the way I've requested?

It won't be GDPR exactly - but more a privacy concern - the form is probably in unprotected PDF.
GDPR doesn't prevent you from receiving your P11D via email - but company policy may.

bompington said:

Pross said:

GDPR

FTFY

Or to be a little more accurate, GDPR is annoying, but what is a real pain is over-cautious interpretation due to people having abysmally poor knowledge of what the rules actually are.

Legitimate interest ftw

webboo said:

That f*cking advert that pops up in the bottom right hand corner every time I click on a thread.

When I view certain websites on other computers that don't have the handy little 'decluttering' add-ons I use on my own devices, I have a bit of a shock...