Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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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*.0 -
The Virgin train I took wasn't on their system to claim for despite the trains either side appearing. It's almost like it's deliberate to stop people claiming...
Obviously the money I reclaim will go back to the company as they paid my tickets through expenses0 -
I don't think senior cabinet ministers get police motorcades.rjsterry said:
You don't think a senior cabinet minister crawling through umpteen sets of traffic lights might be a bit of a target?TheBlueBean said:
They seem like reasonable excuses, but not in central London.Pross said:
Moving high security prisoners? Taking nuclear materials from site to site? Professional bike races, anything that needs junctions cleared to avoid stopping basically.TheBlueBean said:Police motorcades. Can't think of anyone or anything that requires one.
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Meanwhile: Mrs Bomp, on the train Glasgow - Manchester last might, sent me a pic of passengers wrapped in the foil blankets the staff were handing out.0
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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).TheBlueBean said:
I don't think senior cabinet ministers get police motorcades.rjsterry said:
You don't think a senior cabinet minister crawling through umpteen sets of traffic lights might be a bit of a target?TheBlueBean said:
They seem like reasonable excuses, but not in central London.Pross said:
Moving high security prisoners? Taking nuclear materials from site to site? Professional bike races, anything that needs junctions cleared to avoid stopping basically.TheBlueBean said:Police motorcades. Can't think of anyone or anything that requires one.
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The outriders on the motorcades could be less aggressive, but then I have authority issues.
I sort of object to being screamed at by a rozzer for no reason in particular other than the guy being in a hurry.
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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.0
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The SEG who do the royal escorts don't have sirens on their bikes, just blue lights, whistles and shouting.rjsterry said:
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).TheBlueBean said:
I don't think senior cabinet ministers get police motorcades.rjsterry said:
You don't think a senior cabinet minister crawling through umpteen sets of traffic lights might be a bit of a target?TheBlueBean said:
They seem like reasonable excuses, but not in central London.Pross said:
Moving high security prisoners? Taking nuclear materials from site to site? Professional bike races, anything that needs junctions cleared to avoid stopping basically.TheBlueBean said:Police motorcades. Can't think of anyone or anything that requires one.
I used to see the a fair bit when I worked around the south bank. It's pretty impressive the way they use 2 or 3 bikes leapfrogging ahead to ensure that the escorted vehicle just keeps on going at a steady pace but without needing to stop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5TkSE_5GsE0 -
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"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." 😂1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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No. Just follow the same road rules as everyone else including the rich, famous and poor. It's a pointless exercise in ego massaging.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." 😂
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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?0
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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.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 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN1WN0YMWZUdennisn 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?
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That would be me.haydenm said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN1WN0YMWZUdennisn 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?
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Tom Jones - a voice with all the subtlety and dynamics of an air horn and the emotional delivery of a foghorn. He's famous for just a small handful of bellowed out completely shít songs and yet people mistakenly buy into him being some kind of music royalty.
That's what it should say on Wikipedia.0 -
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."0
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You could not possibly be more wrong!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."
How do I know so? Because I say so. 😉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 -
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. 😳0 -
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.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."
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Grim? It's sorting the world into us and them that is the root of many of the world's problems.rick_chasey said:
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.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."
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I quite agree. At least Englebert H could sing.mfin said:Tom Jones - a voice with all the subtlety and dynamics of an air horn and the emotional delivery of a foghorn. He's famous for just a small handful of bellowed out completely shít songs and yet people mistakenly buy into him being some kind of music royalty.
That's what it should say on Wikipedia.
@orraloon: looky: shyte, shite...
You see?!
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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.0 -
FTFYPross said:GDPR
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.
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It won't be GDPR exactly - but more a privacy concern - the form is probably in unprotected PDF.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?
GDPR doesn't prevent you from receiving your P11D via email - but company policy may.
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GDPR was the reason they gave. Oddly, they sent it by email last year (it was password protected).0
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Legitimate interest ftwbompington said:
FTFYPross said:GDPR
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.0 -
That f*cking advert that pops up in the bottom right hand corner every time I click on a thread.0
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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...webboo said:That f*cking advert that pops up in the bottom right hand corner every time I click on a thread.
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This site is digital hell without the 'decluttering' software.
I was reminded of that when I bought a new laptop.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0