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General Things That Annoy You thread - part 2

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  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,977
    edited October 20
    Macronate said:
    10:29pm as I type this, f******* fireworks still going off, scaring the shit out of our dog.
    What works for our trembling mutt is to put his bed by the tumble dryer and dry the laundry. He seems to find the white noise soothing.

    I hate fireworks mainly because they drag on for about three effing weeks. 
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,688
    Just had three days up in the Lake District. 

    Got back to my car, parked along from Rydal Water around midday today, and find someone had hit my car with a nasty bit of damage, and no note left!! 
    I don't know that area, but are there any cameras available?
    Car park, Ring door bells etc?
    Doesnt look like it, as was parked up in a Woodland Car Park, I've submitted a Crime Report with the police to see if that gets me anywhere.

    Imagine as well with the area so sparsely populated, that CCTV isnt potentially as common as other areas of the country. 
    I recall a cocky young copper back in the late 70s telling me, "We (The Metropolitan Police) no longer consider car damage as a police matter.  We issue a crime number and it is for you to sort out with the insurance company". 

    It seems to me the police are now using the same policy for burglary.   
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,994
    edited 7:21AM
    Just had three days up in the Lake District. 

    Got back to my car, parked along from Rydal Water around midday today, and find someone had hit my car with a nasty bit of damage, and no note left!! 
    I don't know that area, but are there any cameras available?
    Car park, Ring door bells etc?
    Doesnt look like it, as was parked up in a Woodland Car Park, I've submitted a Crime Report with the police to see if that gets me anywhere.

    Imagine as well with the area so sparsely populated, that CCTV isnt potentially as common as other areas of the country. 
    I recall a cocky young copper back in the late 70s telling me, "We (The Metropolitan Police) no longer consider car damage as a police matter.  We issue a crime number and it is for you to sort out with the insurance company". 

    It seems to me the police are now using the same policy for burglary.   
    Don't think that's quite fair. We had an attempted burglary a little while back. At 8pm when we were out. Our neighbour confronted him so he didn't get in despite having managed to open the front window. Nothing taken but the police were very thorough. Came and took CCTV footage from multiple neighbours, he had dropped a rucksack on our drive when scared off and they kept that as evidence and took a victim impact statement from us. They never found the guy but they certainly investigated. And that was with nothing stolen.
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,878
    edited 7:40AM
    Macronate said:
    10:29pm as I type this, f******* fireworks still going off, scaring the shit out of our dog.

    Happy Diwali.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,260
    Just had three days up in the Lake District. 

    Got back to my car, parked along from Rydal Water around midday today, and find someone had hit my car with a nasty bit of damage, and no note left!! 
    I don't know that area, but are there any cameras available?
    Car park, Ring door bells etc?
    Doesnt look like it, as was parked up in a Woodland Car Park, I've submitted a Crime Report with the police to see if that gets me anywhere.

    Imagine as well with the area so sparsely populated, that CCTV isnt potentially as common as other areas of the country. 
    I recall a cocky young copper back in the late 70s telling me, "We (The Metropolitan Police) no longer consider car damage as a police matter.  We issue a crime number and it is for you to sort out with the insurance company". 

    It seems to me the police are now using the same policy for burglary.   
    Which is exactly what they should do for people reporting tweets. 

    Police should issue a reference number and everyone get on with their lives but the crime has been reported 
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,260
    Just had three days up in the Lake District. 

    Got back to my car, parked along from Rydal Water around midday today, and find someone had hit my car with a nasty bit of damage, and no note left!! 
    I don't know that area, but are there any cameras available?
    Car park, Ring door bells etc?
    Doesnt look like it, as was parked up in a Woodland Car Park, I've submitted a Crime Report with the police to see if that gets me anywhere.

    Imagine as well with the area so sparsely populated, that CCTV isnt potentially as common as other areas of the country. 
    I recall a cocky young copper back in the late 70s telling me, "We (The Metropolitan Police) no longer consider car damage as a police matter.  We issue a crime number and it is for you to sort out with the insurance company". 

    It seems to me the police are now using the same policy for burglary.   
    Don't think that's quite fair. We had an attempted burglary a little while back. At 8pm when we were out. Our neighbour confronted him so he didn't get in despite having managed to open the front window. Nothing taken but the police were very thorough. Came and took CCTV footage from multiple neighbours, he had dropped a rucksack on our drive when scared off and they kept that as evidence and took a victim impact statement from us. They never found the guy but they certainly investigated. And that was with nothing stolen.
    Circumstantial, the police will have attended as the neighbour could help identify the burglar in the future and his bag will guve them evidence for future burglaries. If you had come back to find your house had been burgled and called them I promise they woild have just issued a crime number. 

    Unless the burglar had a tragic accident of misadventure where he had slipped, fallen and landed on a set of Japanese kitchen knives stabbing himself several times in the process and dying in the hallway
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,042
    edited 12:26PM
    Phone calls from large organisations (sadly often our public services) where the call is often later than scheduled, not left ringing for long enough to pick the phone up and from a 'private number' so you can't call back the second you've missed it. Then have to wait for it to be rescheduled.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,042
    People who accept a lift from you and then... 1. Initiate a discussion about your chosen route; feel free to impart any latest traffic info, but the driver decides the route - always. 2. Unilaterally opens the window, especially when they are then oblivious to the resulting airflow judder. 3. Talks over the radio, somehow deliberately doing so over the most interesting bits. 
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,685
    Stig said:
    Phone calls from large organisations (sadly often our public services) where the call is often later than scheduled, not left ringing for long enough to pick the phone up and from a 'private number' so you can't call back the second you've missed it. Then have to wait for it to be rescheduled.
    Often it registered at their end as the call being made. So they’ve done their job and the person making the call doesn’t want to have a conversation.
  • gringo
    gringo Posts: 596
    Stig said:
    People who accept a lift from you and then... 1. Initiate a discussion about your chosen route; feel free to impart any latest traffic info, but the driver decides the route - always. 2. Unilaterally opens the window, especially when they are then oblivious to the resulting airflow judder. 3. Talks over the radio, somehow deliberately doing so over the most interesting bits. 


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  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,899
    Stig said:
    People who accept a lift from you and then... 1. Initiate a discussion about your chosen route; feel free to impart any latest traffic info, but the driver decides the route - always. 2. Unilaterally opens the window, especially when they are then oblivious to the resulting airflow judder. 3. Talks over the radio, somehow deliberately doing so over the most interesting bits. 
    Yes, prostitutes can be like that.
  • MrWalker
    MrWalker Posts: 4,118
    Dirty scumbags who leave their fag ends on the beach.
  • MrWalker
    MrWalker Posts: 4,118
    edited 1:58PM
    Stig said:
    People who accept a lift from you and then... 1. Initiate a discussion about your chosen route; feel free to impart any latest traffic info, but the driver decides the route - always. 2. Unilaterally opens the window, especially when they are then oblivious to the resulting airflow judder. 3. Talks over the radio, somehow deliberately doing so over the most interesting bits. 
    I went up to Preston with a lorry driver right up my arse. 
    Still. It was nice of him to give me a lift 
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,771
    I don't know where to put this but being told I can not be registered on housing registry in my local council due to them not accepting people who just can't afford to live. I don't understand. If it's not for affordability then what is it for?