Things you hate IV

Discussion in 'Taylor's Tittle-Tattle - General Banter' started by hornmeister, Jun 25, 2019.

  1. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    I’ll watch it for a bit and then probably lose interest. I really wish one year they’d just do one where they pick genuinely clever people. I’m certain that would be more entertaining.
     
  2. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    I think that was the case in the earlier series - but yes, it’s now mainly people who just want to become famous for being famous.

    There is entertainment in seeing how awful they are, though.
     
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  3. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Middle aged people rapping in a way that’s corny and cringey.
     
  4. K9 Hornet

    K9 Hornet Border Collie Dog

    But are they bouji, that's the question. :)
     
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  5. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    You need to keep watching Succession.
     
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  6. Hornpete

    Hornpete Squad Player

  7. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

  8. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    At least their logo wasn’t a green and brown turd.

    3 of them sat there, 3 grown adults, and thought there is nothing wrong with our logo for a cruise line being a brown and green literal piece of ****
     
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  9. CarlosKickaballs

    CarlosKickaballs Forum Picarso


    Wrong.
     
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  10. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    and this week they’ve made a green and brown plastic turd showing enormous learning from last week
     
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  11. K9 Hornet

    K9 Hornet Border Collie Dog

    I thought it looked like a carrot doing a press-up. It was extraordinary
     
  12. K9 Hornet

    K9 Hornet Border Collie Dog

    Yes, quite bizarre.
     
  13. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    And called it Whiffy.

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  14. domthehornet

    domthehornet Moderator Staff Member

    I thought it was a good design until they coloured it in.
     
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  15. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    You can rationalise it all you like, but if it was so easy, why has no other woman done it for GB or as a qualifier? She also did pretty decently in Wimbledon.

    Ok, she's probably not gonna get Serena's haul of career slams, but let people enjoy thinks.

    Plus she's a nice, humble seeming girl who is setting a positive example for other young british girls who want to achieve in sport.

    Frankly, she should be given the freedom of the land.
     
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  16. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    *appears fit and Well

    These same people will then blame MMR or school when issues start to emerge later in life
     
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  17. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    She also beat the recent Olympic Gold medalist, the world number 12, the 17th seed and the player that beat the world number 1 on her run to winning the whole thing as a qualifier without losing a set. An achievement that can never be bettered in the game, mens or womens, only equalled. But it was a ‘fluke’.

    She's not played well since and it could quite possibly be a flash in the pan but to write it off as a fluke is quite laughable. If she never wins another match, she’s in the history books forever.
     
  18. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Not to mention she doesn't need to ever play or work a serious day in her life again if she doesn't want to. Especially considering her commercial potential given her Chinese and Romania heritage in addition to UK interest and dual nationality with Canada.
    I fully expect a film covering her life story at some point not to mention a media career if she so wishes. Probably the most bankable female tennis star since Sharapova.
     
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  19. Davy Crockett

    Davy Crockett Reservist

    Jack Grealish wannabe no.10s who wear their socks down their shins presumably because they think it makes them look like a player.
     
  20. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    ….like a ‘baller’, surely?
     
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  21. wfcSinatra

    wfcSinatra Predictor Choker 14/15

    "Is there anything else I can help you with today sir"

    I hate it, it's irrational but I hate it.

    After I just spent 45 minutes on the phone sorting something that shouldn't be an issue in the first place, sorry Sky TV lady but no that's all for today.
     
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  22. miked2006

    miked2006 Premiership Prediction League Proprietor

    I’d argue you’re both putting words into my mouth.

    I didn’t say it was easy or that it was a fluke.

    I said hold the MBEs etc until she proves it wasn’t a fluke.

    Which personally, I think she will do fairly soon, both because she’s a great talent and I don’t see anyone genuinely dominant in the woman’s game right now.
     
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  23. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    How many grand slams do you think she should win in order to qualify for “MBEs etc”? How can you win a grand slam as a fluke ? It could well be a one-off but she didn’t win the honour for being “the #1 in the world” and may never reach that height or win a GS again.
     
  24. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    Adobe. Utter shower of bas***ds. Try cancelling an account with them. I feel like I'm in a hall of mirrors.
    They won't cancel a monthly charge for a now unused product even though I provided a name, account number, card number, debit amount and date, login details etc etc. I want to reach into the screen and strangle the ****ers.

    EDIT: and now I'm getting Ads for Adobe across the forum. Just **** off!

    [/rant]
     
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  25. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Email them and tell them you're cancelling forthwith and then cancel the payment with your card supplier.

    Adobe were a big fish in a small pond for a long time. Now there's better and cheaper out there and they need to play catchup with their offerings and services.

    I'm still using Photoshop 6.0 with no issues though.
     
  26. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    I'm pretty sure if it's a recurring card payment your bank can't stop it.
     
  27. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    If I were to "lose" my card and get a new one then they couldn't take a payment using the old card details, (I think).

    Anyway, after posting a scathing message on their Adobe UK Facebook page I'm getting some real help which they could have done in the first place. It appears the issue is that my own bank mis-spelled my name on the debit card, (how ****ing incompetent is that anyway), so me giving them my name with a single wrong character, (despite everything else matching perfectly), is enough for the ****s to reject the cancellation request.

    So I'd like to add my bank to this thread as another thing I currently hate.
     
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  28. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Banks will ask you to contact the recipient first but will cancel if there are difficulties doin this, however it will mean finding an actual telephone number, connected to a real human being that isn't a complete and utter moron and that seems to be a task in itself these days. some banks do secure calls from their mobile apps now.
     
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  29. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Apple are on my reserve things I might hate list. Maybe I bump them down to "Things that mildly irk me".

    Probably over an hour of support and 5 or 6 telephone calls in total as well as multiple emails and a complaint to their privacy department and they now accept they should reset the apple ID set-up for my email address in error so that I can create a new one. This was a process that started last year.

    Promotion back to the big league may happen if this doesn't work.

    Can't remember what I wanted the ID for now.
     
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  30. HappyHornet24

    HappyHornet24 Crapster Staff Member

    Yes this happened to me when I tried to cancel an online subscription (I made the mistake of signing up to a month’s free trial for a newspaper so that I could read a specific article and then forgot to unsubscribe before it started to charge me). I had tried to cancel via the paper’s cancellation telephone number and online with no success - you were just sent round in circles because online they directed you to the phone number and the phone number said they weren’t accepting calls. Anyway, after I explained this to my bank, they blocked the recipient’s details so they couldn’t take any further payments. I then kept getting emails from the newspaper saying my payments weren’t going through and finally I got one saying the subscription had been cancelled.
     
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  31. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    I've cancelled bank DDs before and just received a message telling me to make sure to let the recipient know but maybe it's more difficult to block a credit card payment ?
     
  32. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    If it’s a recurring payment not a DD you need to cancel your card so the card number changes.
     
  33. Hornpete

    Hornpete Squad Player

    As a19tgg mentions there are different types of recurring payment. Standing orders are different to Direct Debits and have different terms. You can cancel a Direct debit yourself but a company may take you to court if you cancel a standing order outsdie the terms and conditions.

    Brings me onto a hate of mine and everyone else's. small print... Every game I download on PlayStation, scroll through 25 pages of terms. Must be 1 in 1,000,000 who read any of it.
     
  34. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    All banks. Just awful.

    I had 4 credit cards, all on 0% which I had been gradually paying off, but some had flipped onto interest without me noticing, so I decided it was easier to get a personal loan and pay that off. The small interest amount more than worth the risk of flipping onto more high credit card interest in the future.

    Anyway, calling them up to try and pay them off and close them is an absolute ballache. Firstly there's minimum 5 minutes of recorded messages and diversionary tactics 'you can do this on the app' etc. and key pad mazes that lead you nowhere. The strategy is clearly to try and get you to give up so that they don't have to pay staff to answer the calls.

    Finally you get through and they have varying levels of obfuscation as to why they can't just take a payment right now and close your account 'we need to wait for a final zero balance statement that is issued on the 23rd of each month before we can do it, you have to call back then,' etc.

    It's just utterly despicable.
     
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  35. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Defrost settings on the Michaelwave. What’s the point?
     

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