Things that annoy me

[john i am]

:soapbox: Royal Mail (prices) stops me from buying online now as I now find it cheaper to go to my local model shop and pricing will soon increase again but this will give me an excuse to build my stash

[rickoshea52]

Royal Mail really irritated me today. A parcel sent to my office wasn't delivered yesterday but they did take the generous time an effort to put a "something for you" note through the door. After scrutinising this leaflet in meticulous detail I learned that a parcel is "waiting for you at your local Delivery Office". How quaint. No reason is given for this delay, it doesn't need a signature, it's not too big (it's a 1/72 Orion P-3 by the way) and if the Postie rang the bell a colleague would answer and accept the parcel.

So I phoned them up to arrange re-delivery and took great delight in reciting the address of my office to the person who answered the phone in the Delivery Office....the Delivery Office I can see from my desk 200 yards away you lazy git! I don't care if it's just up the road, you've been paid £8 to deliver it and that's exactly what they will bloody well do.

[mossiepilot]

Can't say I've had any problems with E-bay sellers, don't know if it's just luck or what, but I always read the blurb and find out the postage before buying, cos whats the point of getting a "cheap" kit if the postage makes it an "expensive" kit.

So no rant from me apart from my own thumb fingerness and lack of experience, which is being overcome slowly.:fool:

Tony.

[takeslousyphotos]

Cold calls from computers telling me what a great deal it can offer me ......... Like I'm going to take any notice of a damn robot voice ????????

Peter

[PaulTRose]

when you are in the supermarket and go to buy a paper, and you find someone standing there reading the top one in the pile...........and when they see you want one they close it and step back.......no!, i dont want the one you were reading cos its already second hand!!.................and if you want to read a paper then buy one!!!!!:censored2:

[Guest]

As laid back as I normally am ....... Things that annoy me..

False advertising

Underhanded personal information sharing (ie loyalty card info being shared with affiliates and your shopping information used for targeted emails, texts and phone calls)

Cold calling .... If I want it I'll ask for it thank you.

Films advertised as true stories and glorified beyond belief

Internet warriors that know everything, well they think they look good on the net when they've checked out Wikipedia and used that info, which in my areas of interest (herpetology, arachnology, archaeology etc) is often incorrect.

Companies that take a bulk buy product, repackage it as a specialist product and charge ten times the amount for it ... And the people that swear by it and argue the fact even when you prove its the same stuff (again mainly in the other hobbies i have)

Television soap operas ... Just how long can they stretch a 10 minute story out?

Television documentaries that repeat the same video clip and voice over 30 times throughout a single interview

Television in general actually

Groups/singers that claim they've written a new song and its the same as another written years ago (for example .. Natalie umbruglia who said on a chat show she wrote "torn" yet it was exactly the same as the song written and performed years back by Ednaswap, in her next interview she back-peddled a fair bit when confronted with the fact)

People who put "first to see will buy" in their adverts, I'd like to turn up and say I don't want it then sue them for false advertising

Companies that advertise products as "new and improved" ... If its new, then there's never been anything like it before ... If its improved then there has been something like it before ... Which is it?

I'd better leave the rest until another time

[Guest]

Might need a whole web site all on its own, to answer this ......

Ignorance, impoliteness (lack of manners), staff in shops who'd rather chat about next doors cat than serve you, song that you hear once, only for it to enter your head months later; stupidity, ie sorry but the idea that someone can leave school, yet doesn't know the alphabet or cant spell (or attempt to spell) even the simplest of words, I find quite shocking.

I left school with NO qualifications, yet still managed to attain a Hons Degree, several diplomas/certs from various colleges and Universities - why (and not because my parents worked in a university - they don't) because i got off my rear end and tried to better myself, I feel Ive learned more since I left school than I ever did while attending it and I would consider my self as being reasonably intelligent; well very intelligent but modesty prevents me from broadcasting this :cheesygrin:

As for ebay, so far I have had no problems with any seller and I have 100% good feedback as a buyer. I dont buy if I cant pay, simple as that.

Regarding model building: I try. Still learning. My general attitude is the day I stop learning, is the day I died ..... but not going to happen (at least for a while), have had a word with the bosses up and down stairs, and have informed them, just how "difficult" I can be

People who dont understand the words, NO I do not have PPI, havent had an accident, or do not wish to participate in a survey over the phone; today I got a phone call (I was addressed as my wife's surname), asked if i had life insurance - No was the reply, then asked what age I was - "Old enough", I replied ............ Oh ok thank you goodbye .........

Sorry folks the "Angry Young-ish Man" Switch was left on by mistake.

[takeslousyphotos]

Might need a whole web site all on its own, to answer this ......Ignorance, impoliteness (lack of manners), staff in shops who'd rather chat about next doors cat than serve you, song that you hear once, only for it to enter your head months later; stupidity, ie sorry but the idea that someone can leave school, yet doesn't know the alphabet or cant spell (or attempt to spell) even the simplest of words, I find quite shocking.

I left school with NO qualifications, yet still managed to attain a Hons Degree, several diplomas/certs from various colleges and Universities - why (and not because my parents worked in a university - they don't) because i got off my rear end and tried to better myself, I feel Ive learned more since I left school than I ever did while attending it and I would consider my self as being reasonably intelligent; well very intelligent but modesty prevents me from broadcasting this :cheesygrin:

As for ebay, so far I have had no problems with any seller and I have 100% good feedback as a buyer. I dont buy if I cant pay, simple as that.

Regarding model building: I try. Still learning. My general attitude is the day I stop learning, is the day I died ..... but not going to happen (at least for a while), have had a word with the bosses up and down stairs, and have informed them, just how "difficult" I can be

People who dont understand the words, NO I do not have PPI, havent had an accident, or do not wish to participate in a survey over the phone; today I got a phone call (I was addressed as my wife's surname), asked if i had life insurance - No was the reply, then asked what age I was - "Old enough", I replied ............ Oh ok thank you goodbye .........

Sorry folks the "Angry Young-ish Man" Switch was left on by mistake.

......... I totalled up all the emails I've had about mis-sold PPI and claiming for accidents (I may or may not have had) ......... and....... I reckon I'm owed 17.5 million pounds...... Now if that isn't a result, I don't know what is :dancing2:

Peter

[eddiesolo]

Me...I get annoyed with my disability...it means that modelling can be a pain...literally. Gotta smile though :cheeseygrin:

Si

[spanner570]

Why is it that when I inform the relevent department that I don't have a T.V. licence and I don't need or want one, the licence people still send a man to my address to make sure that (A, I'm not lying and B, I'm one of those alien people who can actually live without the tele.......

It seems people like me - and the bride - are some kind of weirdo's who can find other things to do, rather than sit in front of a T.V.

[Guest]

Whilst you can get away without paying for a TV licence good luck to you Ron

Technically, anyone who has a computer, mobile phone etc is required to pay for a tv licence as they "can" receive BBC broadcasts through iPlayer, this is what the licence mainly covers (including radio stations), all other advertising orientated channels are paid for by these advertising commercials and are not within the realms of the licence.

Source, the letter I got from tv licencing when I tried to avoid paying as I didn't have a TV.

And yes... I was regarded as a weirdo too

[Guest]

Work colleagues who stop me and say "I have sent you an email about...." Most often from the next office, and then find in the time they stopped to tell me they could have verbally used the dying art of coversation face to face to do the same thing....needless to say my out if office is nowadays set on all the time to say im not reading emails and if urgent come speak to me....it bloody works, oh how I love the delete button!

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

People with prams who think they have a God given right to barge through people in shopping centres, unruly kids that cause havoc whilst their parents look and say "aww aren't they cute" Having any bank note I hand over only to have it checked and then given a dodgy £1 coin in my change! Emailing or texting someone and either getting no reply or days later to be told oh sorry I was very busy, it's 2013 people, send a reply even if its a quick I'll get back to you. Area managers that think they are Gods gift at selling or use the power handshake to try to stamp their authority on you. People that have a little responsibility and grow egos the size of the Shard.

Adrian

[Guest]

And another thing ......

Why call it a Bus service when 1. there is no bus, therefore 2. there is no service.

Why spend loads of money on a smart tv to watch repeated tv, or go on the internet, when normal tv or a Computer does it just as well.

The Virus. Did you guys know that 28 days later was true? Well in Walsall virtually everyday seems like it. Go to the town centre, sure enough people turn into Zombies; stop for no reason, congregate in (usually) small shops and stop in the aisle and prevent you from getting to where you want to go

Shops - believe it or not, Men wear clothes as well, not just women and children.

"Large" people who think we wish to see the flab, either as a overhang or worse in bikinis ....pleeze

School holidays. I worked out that out of 365 days, approx 190 of them, ie over half of the year is spent on school holidays

Do I wish to hear your telephone conversation on a bus, NO so why shout out for everyone to hear

People who take more than 1 Metro on the bus, "But its for my friend", tell them to get a bus or buy a newspaper ...... tight ass

People who still use the phone while driving, its illegal and dangerous .........BAN THEM 4 LIFE

Drivers (particularly those who bought cars after 2010) who think indicators are an optional extra

Young People .............. Just Why?????

Last year, just before Christmas a small alien, I mean child, was telling its mother (I presume) that she wanted a pram for Christmas. The mother said no, you've already asked Santa for a iPad, and that's what you are getting .........the child was less than ten

[PaulTRose]

at a check out, or in a shop in general, and the assistant (always male) calls you 'mate'.........im not your mate....im a customer, try calling me sir instead!

in supermarkets when people seem to stop at some junction to talk and cause a obsticle to get round.......move out of the way and let the rest of us thro

also hate people using the phone whislt driving....swambo laughs when i shout 'get off the phone!' at them

the fashion that guys have for wearing jeans/trousers at half mast.....always get the urge to shout 'oi! scruffy ****, pull your ******* trousers up!'

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