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Completing surveys that ask you for your age bracket - Clear sign that you're moving on through the various categories2
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I'm going out tonight. The next bus into town from my village is in 50 minutes time. The one after that, just three minutes later. The one after that, tomorrow morning. Are the bus timetables drawn up by the local taxi firm? No wonder people take cars everywhere.6
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Over use of the word "today". I was asked my surname recently and the reply was "and how are we spelling that today". I resisted the Meldrew response of "same as yesterday". Had a few more examples11
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Waiting in the hotel reception for the transfer to the airport at the end of your holiday.8
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Any online form where you have to scroll down to find your year of both. If you have to scroll through list of countries to find United Kingdom, it’s even worse.ForeverAddickted said:Completing surveys that ask you for your age bracket - Clear sign that you're moving on through the various categories
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I like the companies that sensibly put UK and USA at the topthai malaysia addick said:
Any online form where you have to scroll down to find your year of both. If you have to scroll through list of countries to find United Kingdom, it’s even worse.ForeverAddickted said:Completing surveys that ask you for your age bracket - Clear sign that you're moving on through the various categories4 -
At least you know UK is not far up from the bottom of the list...0
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Except when we are annoyingly Great BritainAlgarveaddick said:At least you know UK is not far up from the bottom of the list...4 -
Similarly, when a website asks for your nationality, and the only possible answer is United Kingdom….2
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Living abroad and trying to buy something from a UK website for delivery within the UK and you are unable to put anything other than a UK postcode in the billing address section.1
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Or you just type the letter U and it will take you down there.ForeverAddickted said:
I like the companies that sensibly put UK and USA at the topthai malaysia addick said:
Any online form where you have to scroll down to find your year of both. If you have to scroll through list of countries to find United Kingdom, it’s even worse.ForeverAddickted said:Completing surveys that ask you for your age bracket - Clear sign that you're moving on through the various categories1 -
Also, for some exchange rate websites all currencies are listed in the format : “country - currency” eg: “US - dollar”, “UAE - dirham”, “Hungary - forint” etc.thai malaysia addick said:
Any online form where you have to scroll down to find your year of both. If you have to scroll through list of countries to find United Kingdom, it’s even worse.ForeverAddickted said:Completing surveys that ask you for your age bracket - Clear sign that you're moving on through the various categories
There are just two exceptions:
1) For obvious reasons the euro is just “euro”
2) For reasons unknown, instead of “UK - pound” it is “pound sterling”
Got caught out a couple of times in the past searching for UK or GB to try to find it, before finally stumbling across it. Don’t know why they change the format just for us!1 -
Mistakes like the one below:
Which one did they leave, Kent, Cheshire, Cornwall?0 -
Greenwich Mean Time (sorry folks). I wish the authorities would stop their horrible dark afternoon policy and keep us permanently on BST.13
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Authorities always on BST, bull shit time.1
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A proportion of people who I work with will always irritate me.
People are annoying.
On the flip side, there are plenty of good people. It's just the annoying ones...are the ones who usually stand out.
Unfortunately, annoying always wins and it can blind the light of good
A lot of people are a cross combination of a real life Gareth ....mixed in with a bit of finchy.
They are jobsworths, they are gobby, they don't think before they speak and they are pests. If you enjoy peace and quiet, you ain't gana get it.
I eventually simply told one of them to shut up. He finally walks off...few minutes later I'm in a HR meeting getting questioned about my verbal behaviour.
It may have been the most patronising nonsense to possibly ever experience. They didn't want to know the full story.
I'm the bad guy.
Was the mid 90s genuinely less of a dog eat dog world?
It's a shame how they are the people we have to see and speak to more or less every day. We don't always get a choice!
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I'm defiantly annoyed by the use of defiantly in place of definitely. Just look at the word, dickhead, it's clearly entirely different.
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I defiantly agree with that.3
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The BBC....
The opening credits of the Rugby League world cup match this afternoon, and one of their nonsense "poems" that they think are so special...I quote:-
This is a tale of two Islands
Two rocks stood tall in the ocean
Both home to a proud people
Both sharing a passion that transcends their lands
But not all islands are the same
Some have tried to rule the world (it's not that they lost, it's how close they came)
Whilst some were overruled
Some spread their language across the four corners
Whilst some speak with a passion born of the land
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Apart from the fact that England isn't an Island, why do they have to come out with so much self loathing crap?
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Why do batsmen,try to hit sixes,when all is needed is a run a ball,England turned a doddle into a arse pinching struggle winning with 3 balls left,when a little bit of sense would have completed the job easily.2
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A thing I do that annoys me and Mrs Idle, but I can't help it. Every time BBC London news starts with 'Good evening, I'm Assad Ahmed' my instant pavlovian response is 'Cheer up, Ahmed!'8
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Whenever Gary Gibbon is introduced on Channel Four News, I can't help but shout "Come on funky", at which point Mrs Stig joins in with a quick round of "ooh, ooh, ooh, the funky Gibbon". On our BBC Regional News 'Look East' there's an amusingly named reporter called Debbie Tubby who is always greeted in our house by calls for "Tubby Custard". Childish, I know, but it somehow makes the news seem more bearable.IdleHans said:A thing I do that annoys me and Mrs Idle, but I can't help it. Every time BBC London news starts with 'Good evening, I'm Assad Ahmed' my instant pavlovian response is 'Cheer up, Ahmed!'2 -
Why do 'safe' houses in police thrillers always have glass front doors, no motion sensor lighting and those inside NEVER draw the curtains?
Just asking for trouble.0 -
Does Eric Idle know you’re watching the news with his wife?IdleHans said:A thing I do that annoys me and Mrs Idle, but I can't help it. Every time BBC London news starts with 'Good evening, I'm Assad Ahmed' my instant pavlovian response is 'Cheer up, Ahmed!'
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Mark Pougatch. Used to like him long ago when he was on radio five but he went all Elton Welsby when he got on the telly1
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I've got a feeling he lives in Woolwich, so you'll need to cut him some slack.IdleHans said:A thing I do that annoys me and Mrs Idle, but I can't help it. Every time BBC London news starts with 'Good evening, I'm Assad Ahmed' my instant pavlovian response is 'Cheer up, Ahmed!'
He went to John Roan School as did I.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asad_Ahmad
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Dealing with the Probate Office;
6 and a half months down the road from beginning of application. Was told all be sorted in the next 7 to 10 days, 6 weeks ago, now not getting any reply to emails and phone calls time out after 1 hour of being on hold.
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I think it's getting worse. BBC news just switched to the weather, presented by Nick Miller.Stig said:
Whenever Gary Gibbon is introduced on Channel Four News, I can't help but shout "Come on funky", at which point Mrs Stig joins in with a quick round of "ooh, ooh, ooh, the funky Gibbon". On our BBC Regional News 'Look East' there's an amusingly named reporter called Debbie Tubby who is always greeted in our house by calls for "Tubby Custard". Childish, I know, but it somehow makes the news seem more bearable.IdleHans said:A thing I do that annoys me and Mrs Idle, but I can't help it. Every time BBC London news starts with 'Good evening, I'm Assad Ahmed' my instant pavlovian response is 'Cheer up, Ahmed!'
I detest queen, but my immediate sung response was "We will not let you go!"1 -
I've had an on going problem with BT. They have even opened a complaint for me (although I didn't ask for it) and now they've closed it (although the problem still exists one month later).
It seems they are missing a trick though. My D-I-L ordered tickets for the Polar Express, Tonbridge Wells, but they came through for Devon. After she complained she received this message:
Hi,
No you don't need to drive to Devon! The Tech Elf is currently hitting the server with a very big candy cane to tell it off.
Kind Regards,
Sparkle McSnowflake
Head Ticket Elf
At this stage I've got nothing to lose. Next time I call BT I may ask if their Tech has tried hitting the server with a candy cane. It seems to get results.1 -
Fireworks dragging on for weeks. Yet another bunch tonight, no warning so I can't prepare for the dog's panic.
I'm ordering a catapult and a bucket of ball bearings. Any more and your car is going to look like you parked it in Mariupol.5
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