Things you hate III

Discussion in 'Taylor's Tittle-Tattle - General Banter' started by Otter, Dec 11, 2015.

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  1. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    It’s wrong for anyone to speak with received pronounciation. Just be your ******* self.
     
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  2. Cassetti's Beard

    Cassetti's Beard First Team

    £5.99 a ticket in Harrow.

    2 for 1 on Tuesday and Wednesday with a meerkat code so effectively £3 a ticket.
     
  3. PhilippineOrn

    PhilippineOrn First Team

    Virgin cinemas used to do an unlimited monthy pass for dirt cheap. Dunno if UGC or Cineworld or whatever its current incarnation do the same.
     
  4. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    It does mean you need to go to harrow though. Worth £12 to avoid it.
     
  5. Cassetti's Beard

    Cassetti's Beard First Team

    Yeah, there is that downside, although with the Royal Oak, Cinema and car park/train station so close to each other you can avoid the locals and stabby folk.
     
  6. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    Do they still do the Wednesday W@nk where once a month they show soft porn for trench coated old men to go an knock one out?
     
  7. Cassetti's Beard

    Cassetti's Beard First Team

    Don't pretend you've stopped going.
     
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  8. Yes.
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  9. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    The surge of temporary traffic lights over the last few years for even the most minor of roadworks. I assume it’s some sort of health and safety thing, but they are always popping up round my way and some of them are utterly needless.
     
  10. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    Just remember, everything on the roads is setup for the utterly stupid among us. For normal people there are little requirements for temporary lights, (such as the ones on the Chorleywood Road at the moment). However a thick tw*t driving a range rover with low profile tyres, (another tw*t spotting technique is front foglights always on), will undoubtedly drive with no concern about those coming in the opposite direction, even on an obviously thinner piece of road.

    Since Christmas there do appear to be a lot more bad drivers on the roads, who's teaching these idiots?
     
  11. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    They do this every year just before the end of the financial year, if the council departments responsible for roads don't use up their budgets they get less next year. Hence they put up traffic lights, dig a hole and leave it for weeks/months. repeat across the country. They will all be gone in a few months but until then Enjoy!
     
  12. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    It’s an anti car conspiracy Trying to force users off of the roads.
     
  13. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    No. The Government wants to maximize road use because of all the tax collected on fuel.
     
  14. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    Machines to enter your cash/cheques in banks instead of people.
    They always break or mangle your cash.
    That requires someone to open the machine,remove the cash or cheques and re enter it.
    It would be much quicker to keep the cashier employed.
    The machine stops.
     
  15. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    We had to use Lloyds in the Intu center recently. Whilst queuing to see one of the counter staff there was a lady going up to each person in the queue to see if she could assist. "Yes" I said, "get back behind the counter and the queue will go down quicker".
     
  16. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    Just so!
    It is pitiful the amount of time and money banks waste NOT serving their customers.
    Today,as some poor sap of a boy tried to mend the machine,I asked him to report some feedback.
    Diligently he found a note pad and pen and I told him to ask his superiors to read 'The Machine Stops' by Forster.
    He looked slightly confused.
     
  17. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    I feel much the same way about self-service tills in supermarkets.
     
  18. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    for a better reaction you might have suggested Howards End - try that next time.
     
  19. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Disagree.
    If I'm just buying a meal deal for lunch it's great. Where it goes wrong is if the person in-front doesn't grasp the fact that it weighs what your buying to make sure you're not on the nick or they're buying something which has a sale restriction. Wouldn't use them for a weekly shop though.

    The technology is fine it's the people that use it that are the issue.
     
  20. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Yeah, well I am one of those people...
     
  21. Hornpete

    Hornpete Squad Player

    Prosecco.

    Or more specifically, women who go all giddy over the thought of fridays prosecco night, etc.

    And even more specifically prosecco flavoured food. Prosecco chocolate, prosecco sausages and prosecco cheddar. **** off. What does it even taste of?

    Same goes for salted caramel. I like salted caramel but I dont really want it on crisps or shampoo or in vodka.
     
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  22. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    Now I know they are two different things, but I love doing the self scanning as you go round. The gun things were broken at my local Tesco recently so I had to do a weeks shop normally. It dawned on me how ridiculous it was to be filling a trolley with stuff, only to have to take every item out again one by one at the till, to then put them all into bags again one by one, and then take it all out again when you got home. When you self scan you load your bags up once and empty them once, makes much more sense to me.
     
  23. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    If I have any more disruption I will suggest A Passage to India,using slightly different words!
     
  24. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Every time I've self scanned I've been selected for checking where the attendant has had to scan everything again anyway - never any discrepancy. Needless to say I've given up self scanning.
     
  25. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    They normally only have to scan 4 or 5 items, once you’ve done it a few times and you’ve not nicked anything you very rarely have to get scanned that often. Probably at least only one every 10 trips I’d say.
     
  26. Robert Peel

    Robert Peel Squad Player

    Definitely. I've noticed that these types tend to talk about it far more than they actually drink it. Usually they sit there quietly at social events, despite telling everyone all week how "mad" they are.
     
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  27. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    People who like, need to like, put the world like in after every other like, word in like, every sentence they like speak like.
     
  28. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    Liked!
     
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  29. Smudger

    Smudger Messi's Mad Coach Staff Member

    The continual expansion of the number of flavours basic food items come in. Why ? Do we need forty different flavours of crisps etc etc ? It's been highlighted this week. The amount of waste packaging that is not recyclable. I brought this up with former clown Claire Ward at one of her surgeries. Flippant replies and yes we will work on it. Successive governments have failed to improve recycling rates or introduce legislation ensuring companies use a certain amount of recyclable material or limit the amount of packaging that goes around products.

    The Earth only has a finite amount of resources yet the modern world seems to waste these at a profligate rate. Most people seem fixated on always getting the next newest thing seeing as they have been brainwashed by advertising.
     
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  30. Smudger

    Smudger Messi's Mad Coach Staff Member

    Not to mention cos like. Or and like. You know. Well. Please don't just utter random words. Collect your thoughts and then speak coherently. The lack of basic conversational skills and indeed knowledge from many is a damning indictment on education and the current world we live in. Even the BBC seem content to have let standards slip. Just listen to their current crop of continuity announcers. Not to mention the number of spelling mistakes or grammatical errors on their website.
     
  31. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    It’s almost as if like every pause or silence in a conversation has to be filled with something. Are the comma and full stop obsolete?
     
  32. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    I must say, I don’t normally eat breakfast cereal, I normally have something like scrambled eggs in the morning. So the other day I thought I’d pick up a box for whenever I’m running late, the selection was truly bewelidering, little did I know there are now about a million types of weetabix. I found the choice so totally bewildering that I didn’t bother.
     
  33. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    Illiteracy on supposedly professional websites.

    I think they mean 'fewer than....'
     
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  34. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    Those bloody meerkat adverts.
     
  35. Cassetti's Beard

    Cassetti's Beard First Team

    That annoying little hipster ***** from the ipad pro avert 'What's a computer?'
     
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