Things you hate III

I don't actually know anything about GDPR - I'm just in charge of people working on it.

 

Its a combo of how you signed up to their services, if you're still a customer and how long ago you signed up. Plus certain organisations fret about it more than others.

 

The @ didn't notify me?!

Anyway really depends on how the company have approached it.

Some companies have gone down the "opt in" route of asking you to opt in to keep receiving them where others will just tell you they are updating their policy and its up to you to opt out if you want.

For the former I'm not 100% sure, there may be a residual cooling off period to cover any emails already in the pipeline or your data may be deleted but you can remain on a basic email register for another set period of time, 12 months maybe - I'll ask at work as I only deal with the all the web pages that all had to be updated. The CRM team manage the sends.

For the latter and a route that we took, it's all about just stating they are now abiding by the new laws but it's up to you if you decide that you want to opt out and apathy will mean most people won't.

So I guess check if the ones you're still recieving were opt in or opt out.

We'd lose about 90% of our traffic if we went through the opt in option!

 

Ha - and as Hornpete says above, probably also depends how much companies are fretting about it!

Some are carping themselves so much that they're abiding 100% fully by the law whereas others probably know there are grey areas so will do the bare minimum and a slap on the wrist and a warning to change will be the worst they get.

 

Pubs pretending they are serving Michelin starred gastro grub, namely:

- Serving meals on a bit of slate or a breadboard
- Stacking things on top of each other
- Serving chips in a f**king minature bucket! (my pet hate)

Just use a plate with things placed next to each other ffs!

 

http://wewantplates.com/

 

What has happened to the round bobbly ones in Liquorice Allsorts?
I was bought a 500g bag by my Mother ( best by Match 2016!) and there is ONE in there!
Shame on you 'Tangerine Confectionery' of Blackpool.

 

Legoland.

It's a nice enough place when you have children below the age of 10. I had Merlin card the past two years, we didn't renew this year but I felt my oldest son outgrew the place and unless you have an inset day that other schools don't then it's just too busy for my liking.

 

This is why I hate it. I work in marketing dw

 

That doesn’t sound like “hate”, tbf. More mild irritation.

 

My son and I have Legoland passes (courtesy of Tesco vouchers and a small bit of cash) and because of his disabilities we get a "Ride Access Pass" (basically a free Q-Bot). So with a bit of planning we can get in 5/6 rides a visit. A mate of mine was in charge of the catering/hospitality there and he always maintained that according to the figures, it was one of the "best" parks in Europe as quests would be "guaranteed" 4 (four) rides - seeing that day entrance for a family is something "well" the other side of a ton (£100): a pony (£25) for their pony (crap) rides seems very apt. You know those polythene ponchos for sale at ONE of the "wet" rides (Viking Falls) pulls in ten grand a week?

 

Low fat stuff that looks similar to the ‘normal’ stuff. Every so often I inadvertently buy something low fat and it’s always horrible. Today it’s houmous from M+S.

I don’t know whether to eat it or just use it to fill in a few cracks in the plastering.

 

It takes all sorts!

 

Legoland and me fell out when the qbot queues started growing out of all proportion to the main queue. They seemed one day to realise how much money selling too many qbots would raise, and bo12@cks to the Joe public.

There was a definite shift and like Otter, we didn't renew the merlin passes after that.

 

There are three levels of Q-Bot now, from the standard, to "wait a bit" until to "go on in an instant" (£80 each).

As I mentioned my mate used to be pretty senior there (when it first opened). One of his perks were a number of free passes which he kindly passed onto myself, my missus and our first two kids. We soon learnt the best time to visit the park when it was ******* down (I'm a firm believer in the adage that there's no such thing as bad weather only bad clothing choices) - this was before Qbot was introduced. Also for a "free day out" it was bloody expensive when you add in the (discounted) food and drinks. Their latest wheeze, which really winds me up, is charging for parking. I *think* when the passes run out in August we won't be renewing.

I have enjoyed staying in the on-site hotel - which is eye-wateringly expensive for what it actually is and I haven't dared suggest we look at the new one for the price I'm assuming all the rooms have hot and cold running prostitutes and cocaine on demand.

My latest squeeze suggested we went away for a surprise break to celetbrate a year's anniversary. She was very excited as we drove towards Heathrow, less excited when we drove to Windsor and a wee bit miffed when we pulled into the Lego hotel and was not amused that I had gone to the trouble of booking us the highest standard "Pirate Room". But we ended up having a really great time (and she paid for the super-duper QBot passes) although I was "advised" to never, ever , ever do anything like that again.

 

It's pretty horrible how these attractions charge the earth to get in, but do it to so many people that you spend the whole time queuing. Basically, people need to vote with their feet. Paying 100 quid to queue for 3 rides with your children and then spend the same again for lunch is ********.

I went to a waterpark in Thailand recently and then more recently Grona Land in Stockholm. Both refreshingly short of queues prices were still up there, but at least for your money you got to spend your time choosing and going on rides/slides, rather than being herded about like a farm animal

 

In late April my company treated us to a corporate day out at Thorpe Park. It was a stinking hot Thursday, just after the schools went back after Easter. After a morning of PowerPoint, (one of senior management managed to jump on a major ride before proceedings even started), we were let loose with 3 fast track passes each. We didn't need them. It was a beautiful day and the place was almost empty. If there's such a thing it was the best day out I've ever had at a theme park.

However:
The new walking dead ride is absolutely sh*te, (I could do it better in my back garden).
The free evening meal was awful due to the fact they only serve really bad fast food.
Fifteen fat blokes on Tidal Wave really does create a tidal wave. Kids were swept away.

 

I wasn't in the office today as I needed to be with Mrs Diamond as she had a little Op. Today the office decided to hold the World Cup Sweepstake. So I arranged for my office pal "Annie" to draw 2 teams for me.

Annie drew Peru and Saudi Arabia.

I told Annie to pay the f***ing money out of her own pocket.

 

You know she really picked Germany and Brazil and kept them for herself.

 

I hate all Bassett items with the possible exception of IBB

 

I also hate Haribo. Where have they come from to corner the gelatin sweets market? They are ubiquitous. I remember last Hallowe'en, going trick or treating locally (only houses who had "opted in") and nearly all of them provided little bags of about, assorted gelatin sweets by this company.

They aren't nice and they cost too much. When I were a lad, we could go into Luxtons with 20p and fill a paper bag with cola bottles, foam prawns, fizzy snakes etc. Haribo are ****.

 

Luxton's was a brilliant newsagents.

It even had a fag machine outside, so was ideal for schoolboys wanting to illicitly purchase oily rags.

Were you a Croxley boy growing up then Moog? Yorke Road school? Harvey Road?

 

I was a Croxley youth Clive, but I went to St Mary's in Ricky, as a result of my brother having already just started there before we moved from Ricky.

 

Do you remember George, the owner. Had more hair in his nostrils than Rapunzel on her head.

Also remember the ample selection of Jazz on the top shelfs, like any good local Newsie.

 

Walking to work

 

Yes indeed! It was a cave in there and we must be of a similar era, because I certainly recall George. I just had a look on Google maps and I see that Luxton's is now 'Croxley Alarm Systems'.

This was also the same sort of time when they made Scott's Hill into a dual carriageway. The 'new' road they built alongside the original was superb for getting tremendous speeds out of bicycles, go carts, roller skates and anything else we kids could find with wheels on and which we could ride down it.

Then they spoilt it by opening it to cars....

 

...and I thought it was just me. Well said.

 

At least once a week I follow a bike down there that's going away from me rapidly, as I stick to the 30mph speed limit, (nothing to do with the camera whatsoever).

 

There was a rival just past the Sportsman called Sweet Fayre for a time. I used to love walking down to the parade with £1. Spend 50p on sweets and then use the rest on the arcade games in the Video shop.

 

Putting the word "man" in front of things;

Man crush, man cave, Man wich, man bag, man drawer.

They're just things. Not Man things.

 

Man chester

 

It's just the Booker Prize.

 

Man City.

Just call it a gay bar FFS!

 

When you’re looking at cars on Autotrader in price ascending order. Every now and again you get really excited when a lovely looking car pops up seemingly in your budget, then you realise it’s actually 10x your budget.

I mean has this ever worked on anybody? Has anybody ever been searching for a £5k car and ended up accidentally paying £30k instead?