Humanity Must Be Destroyed!! (Two Minutes' Hate) 20140525 - SEE RULES IN POST #2

D-Generate

This thread is for all you Londoners to air your grievances about London and tell us all of what really grinds your gears.

I am inspired to write this by the underground turmoil caused by the actions of the dirty commies in the RMT and TSSA who decided that they will make my daily commute turn in to a journey to the seventh circle of hell.
Ticket workers: you are not as important to me as the piece of plastic in my wallet. All i need is my Oyster and auto-top up and I will never need to consult you for anything not that I have ever before. Please take your redundancies and stop causing me hassle in the morning.
Drivers: the cabin may be hot and in order to save you from the heat I hope they soon replace you with an automated driving system. You can then enjoy the cooling air as you stand outside the Job Centre waiting to sign on. Just shut up and get on with your job.

Engineers..... yeah you have some use (for now) but please don't allow an engineering train to go out of control through four underground stations.

That is all.

Fysh

Mod edit, 2014-05-25: After some consideration and discussion with other mods, the following rules now apply in this thread:

• This thread is intended to be a place to let off steam about frustrations big and small. It should therefore be expected to contain more abrasive content than the rest of the forum.
• No hate speech.
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Oooooh, contentious. Just you wait 'til bluedolphin sees this :P She'll set all her left-wing fascist friends on you, and then where will you be?

(Personally, given the choice between Bob Crow and That Clown With The Scarecrow Hairdo, I know who I side with, pretty much by default. There again, I still remember Ireland's hilarious notions of what public transport means...)

My current 2 minute hate is...hmm. I dont know actually. Perhaps those retarded Halifax ads where a load of them run the world's most pointless radio station? (Pretty feeble, I know...)

Sinall

Mine is also tube related....

I hate the Jubilee line.

I also hate people who won't let you get off the tube before they try to get on. I actually got wedged in one of the end doors with a woman one day! After much shoving I popped out onto the platform and shrieked at her in annoyance. Cue frightened looks from other commuters.

Fysh

Sinall wrote: »

I hate the Jubilee line.

If the Jubilee line had a face, I would punch it in the nuts. Seriously, how can the newest tube line be the crappest one in terms of weekend maintenance?! (OK, it's not quite as bad as the circle and district line, but it's nowhere near as good as it should be...)

Otacon

1. When pulling into a stop, I make my way to the door so I can get out straight away, avoiding any shuffling and pushing as would otherwise happen. Then, sirs or madams outside decide to stand right in front of the crack in the door. And by God, they won't budge to let you through.

2. People walking down a street in a group who decide to impersonate the Monkees for some reason and travel in a solid horizontal line. Now, I usually walk at a reasonably quick pace so its frustrating when you have a wall of people in front of you that are snailing their way to their destination.

3. People not moving down inside the carriages. How difficult is it. I remember entering a train that was pretty full. However, I saw that there was nobody in the spaces in front of the seats. I manoeuvred my way into the space and was astonished that no-one followed me. Do people enjoy the sensation of being sardines?

bluedolphin

I see I've acquired the leftie (rightie?)-liberal-Marxist role. Huzzah! While I agree with none of the OP, I'd like to add that the sheer flipping RUDENESS of commuters drives me insane. Seriously. Don't fúcking push me you knob, just because you're late for your meeting doesn't mean you get to trample me down. And why doesn't anyone in this city know how to say, "sorry". A woman absolutely attacked me with her handbag today as she trundled passed me and then glaaaaaaaaaared at me because her bag had fallen down from her shoulder as she bludgeoned into me. Fúck off you wench. Where I'm from you'd get a black eye for doing that. Hope your stupid stiletto on your extortionately high shoes breaks and your frappmochalaticcino spills on your probably-not-faux fur jacket. And you're ugly. :mad:

D-Generate

New one from me today and it is the ignorance of shop keepers when making purchases. This nearly always happens in those pokey corner shops rather than a Sainsburys, Tesco or Waitrose (la di dah!).
So I peruse the items on the shelf and select one and walk up to the counter to begin the process of exchanging money for goods since cows and other livestock are no longer legal tender. I hand over the item, the guy scans it (its always a guy in this complaint) and the next thing he does is stick out his hand like he expects some communion bread. Not only does he not say "hello" or anything, he also decides to not tell me the price for the item and since I don't have a barcode scanner myself how the **** am I supposed to know the price! A transaction in these shops can take place without anything other than a grunt coming from the mute manning the till.

It is for this reason that I try to avoid these shops as much as I can and will seek out a small branch of a supermarket. So listen up corner shop owners, you can't compete with supermarkets on price so at least try to compete on service. Here are simple phrases to help you conduct transactions.
"Hello"
"£X.XX please"
"Thank you"
"Have a good day"

silvervixen84

The Tube is very draining, it's so hot and stuffy in the underground parts, some of the trains are smelly and don't talk to me about the strikes, it took me nearly 2 hours to get home from work yesterday, was not a happy camper!

LadyMayBelle

I stick with the overground, and it is way better, BUT can't get over the huge lack of consideration for the more elderly people; I got on a carriage last week where ten sturdy young men were plonked on seats and none gave theirs up for an elderly woman (who clearly was elderly). I find that sort of thing disgusting, it's like they choose not to see it. I know it happens everywhere but I see it so much here, moreso than back in the motherland.

I do enjoy giggling when someone starts to nod off and their head drops on to their neighbours shoulder, slowly, slowly, bang! Keeps me entertained for my hour commute..

harney

My tube complaint is that the northern line seems to be the only one that refuses to strike, scabs!

I was looking forward to my lie in

Jack B. Badd

Yoovs (youths): namely the little goits that have taken to terrorising our neighbourhood. Noisy, intimidating, disrespectful, uneducated, unemployed, ignorant, foul-mouthed, brash, unkempt, hooded, illiterate, broken-homed, scummy little wastrels. Forget ASBOs, I long for the days of police brutality! :mad:

breadmonkey

14 year old school kids talking like "gangstas".

"Oi blood, don't piss me off...."

Shudder

bob5666

i hate da traffic

LadyMayBelle

"innit"......enough said.

bluedolphin

I would like to complain about how shít RTÉ's Player "service" is. And RTÉ in general. That is all.

Fysh

bluedolphin wrote: »

I would like to complain about how shít RTÉ's Player "service" is. And RTÉ in general. That is all.

Yeah, I'll get behind that. It's hard to believe that the same update which moved it from being based on RealPlayer also moved it to having most of the worthwhile content not available unless you're in Ireland - even though they don't release it on DVD and therefore won't be losing revenue. (Yes, I really miss watching The Panel, goddamnit).

D-Generate

bluedolphin wrote: »

I would like to complain about how shít RTÉ's Player "service" is. And RTÉ in general. That is all.

Too right I says. I pay a license for TV over here and the Beeb is much better. I does be learning how to speak English good too.

Sinall

Tube strikes. In the cold weather. How mean of them!!!

D-Generate

****ing *****

I want to make a fine leather coat using the skin of London underground workers.

Sinall

D-Generate wrote: »

****ing *****

I want to make a fine leather coat using the skin of London underground workers.

It will keep you warm in this cold weather!

djpbarry

Fysh wrote: »

... I still remember Ireland's hilarious notions of what public transport means...

What always frustrated me most about public transport in Ireland (and Dublin in particular) is that a few relatively simple changes would improve the overall service immensely. How hard is it to implement integrated ticketing? How hard is it to fit displays on buses to tell passengers what the next few stops are? That said, I genuinely miss the scenic views I enjoyed when travelling by DART in Dublin.

As for London, what’s this obsession that council’s have for hoovering up leaves? Even in parks. Why is my council tax paying for this nonsense? Just cut down the ****ing trees and be done with it if leaves are such a serious issue.

afatbollix

24 hour supermarkets closing at 16:00 on a Sunday!!!

WTF!!

Scarinae

The damn pollen from the plane trees in London. Walking along the river on the Victoria Embankment during the week it got in my eye and even in my air passages, leaving me with a streaming eye while I spluttered and hacked at the side of the pavement... And I don't even have hayfever! Goodness knows how bad it must be for those poor souls!

LadyMayBelle

afatbollix wrote: »

24 hour supermarkets closing at 16:00 on a Sunday!!!

WTF!!

YES! Our local "24 hour tesco" shuts at 10pm on Saturday and only opens 12-4pm on Sundays..agghh!

r3nu4l

bluedolphin wrote: »

I would like to complain about how shít RTÉ's Player "service" is. And RTÉ in general. That is all.

Fysh wrote: »

Yeah, I'll get behind that. It's hard to believe that the same update which moved it from being based on RealPlayer also moved it to having most of the worthwhile content not available unless you're in Ireland - even though they don't release it on DVD and therefore won't be losing revenue. (Yes, I really miss watching The Panel, goddamnit).

While I agree with what you are saying, at least RTÉ allow us to access something! BBC won't allow access to ANY content if you are abroad (barring the new much vaunted subscription service due to launch this year).

I like the RTÉ player, I'd like to see loads more content available to us but at least we get something (Capital D, Nationwide, the News, Saturday Night Show, LLS etc.)

afatbollix wrote: »

24 hour supermarkets closing at 16:00 on a Sunday!!!

WTF!!

The law only allows shops in England to open for 6 hours on a Sunday. Thankfully most shops where I live make full use of that 6 hours, including the '24 hour supermarkets' like ASDA and Tesco.

I don't live or work in London anymore but what really, really annoyed me when I did work there was the crappiness of mainline rail service information when there was a problem. 'Delayed' was the only information I could ever get at Liverpool Street Station, the information desk was always closed when there was a major problem on the lines. :mad:

Fysh

r3nu4l wrote: »

While I agree with what you are saying, at least RTÉ allow us to access something! BBC won't allow access to ANY content if you are abroad (barring the new much vaunted subscription service due to launch this year).

I like the RTÉ player, I'd like to see loads more content available to us but at least we get something (Capital D, Nationwide, the News, Saturday Night Show, LLS etc.)

Oh, don't get me started on the morons in charge of developing the iPlayer & related licensing. I wrote to them a while back asking whether they would implement some method for licence-holders to at least access the UK versions of news & weather services from abroad, but the response I got was somewhere between "I don't understand your question" and "go away little person, we're busy".

I love the BBC as a project, and they've achieved some great stuff on a technical level, but I can only assume that at least some of the numpties who run it are only there through Old Boys Network connections...

r3nu4l

Fysh wrote: »

Old Boys Network connections...

Well you only have to look at some of the stuff that gets commissioned on BBC Radio 4 (my favourite station btw) to see this in action. Most of the Comedy and Drama by 'new' faces tends to have been written by OxBridge grads, either from Cambridge Footlights or the Oxford equivalent. Look at the panel shows on TV and you'll see the same. Some of these people and their writing are hilarious but there's some monumentally unfunny stuff that when you dig into it you find OxBridge behind it :mad:

Anyway, I suppose this is National rather than London so I'll stop being off-topic now

RandolphEsq

Reading this thread; if RTE player, the Council hoovering up leaves and the Tube are the main gripes then I think London sounds like an alright place!

Marcusm

Sinall wrote: »

Mine is also tube related....

I hate the Jubilee line.

I also hate people who won't let you get off the tube before they try to get on. I actually got wedged in one of the end doors with a woman one day! After much shoving I popped out onto the platform and shrieked at her in annoyance. Cue frightened looks from other commuters.

Just shout at them that they are committing an offence punishable by a large fine and potentially a custodial sentence. You'll get bemused looks but at least you'll have vented....

Marcusm

afatbollix wrote: »

24 hour supermarkets closing at 16:00 on a Sunday!!!

WTF!!

Don't blame them, it's the law! No shop greater than a certain square footage is allowed to open for more than 6 hours on a Sunday. They say Irelad is priest ridden.

growler

I'm getting fed up with having to listen to the noise from peoples' headphones on the tube / bus. Half the time its women with ipod headsets that are too big for their ears and end up facing outwards, or just ignorant ****s who must be 3/4 deaf already. If your music can be heard by someone 2 feet away I hate you.

Hope they don't bring wifi on the tubes like they were talking about some time back.

Fysh

growler wrote: »

I'm getting fed up with having to listen to the noise from peoples' headphones on the tube / bus. Half the time its women with ipod headsets that are too big for their ears and end up facing outwards, or just ignorant ****s who must be 3/4 deaf already. If your music can be heard by someone 2 feet away I hate you.

Hope they don't bring wifi on the tubes like they were talking about some time back.

I know what you mean! A couple of years ago the other half got me using ear-canal headphones and I haven't looked back since - they're great, better sound quality even at lower volumes. Unfortunately a lot of manufacturers cheap out and go for crappy headphones instead.

I dearly hope wifi/mobile coverage never comes to the tube, there are enough obnoxious gits on public transport without adding the incessant mobile talker to the collection.

LadyMayBelle

That really grates my nerves..people with crappy earphones..I really hate being forced to listen to other people's rubbish music, and worse when they play tinny tunes on their phone using it as a speaker.

London Transport is bad enough without wifi

Today I am mostly hating the rain and gale force winds.

Prop Joe

Shut it paddies !!! If ya dont like landan, jog on back to potato land

Fysh

Prop Joe wrote: »

Shut it paddies !!! If ya dont like landan, jog on back to potato land

*blink*

Excuse me?

If that was an attempt at a joke (eg "My 2 minutes hate is those people who go on the internet to complain about stuff, the bastards!") I think your delivery needs work.

djpbarry

growler wrote: »

If your music can be heard by someone 2 feet away I hate you.

Sorry dude - I thought people appreciated my death metal/free jazz/nokia ring tone fusion.

growler

djpbarry wrote: »

Sorry dude - I thought people appreciated my death metal/free jazz/nokia ring tone fusion.

I'm sure some " people" do , just not most ! :-)

someone suggested a "clap" on the head , perforating / damaging both ears of the offenders in a fairly painful way , but i think thats a bit extreme myself. A few annoyed looks from fellow travellers will usually sort out all but the most anti-social.

My very reasonable solution would be for bristish transport police to seize the earphones of these morons (followed by a few hours in the stocks perhaps).

Scarinae

I was walking along the street today, as you do, and as I stepped on one of the paving slabs it kinda sank at one end and there was a pool of water there that flooded my shoe Fecking rain...

Stargal

Fishie wrote: »

I was walking along the street today, as you do, and as I stepped on one of the paving slabs it kinda sank at one end and there was a pool of water there that flooded my shoe Fecking rain...

Ugh, so annoying. Massive generalisation alert: paths here are generally far worse than in Dublin. Yes, roads, water, transport, etc is all far superior, but the paths are crap.

Anyway, my brief moment of hatred: A friend of a friend spent five minutes slagging me for saying the word 'grand' to mean 'fine'. I don't have the words to describe how much I hate anyone teasing me for the way I speak, so needless to say, that was not the most fun thing ever. *hulk smash*

djpbarry

Stargal wrote: »

Massive generalisation alert: paths here are generally far worse than in Dublin. Yes, roads, water, transport, etc is all far superior...

I don't know about that. There are some roads near my place that look like they've not been resurfaced since the war.

And yes, the transport is good, but jaysus, you pay for it.

afatbollix

Stargal wrote: »

Anyway, my brief moment of hatred: A friend of a friend spent five minutes slagging me for saying the word 'grand' to mean 'fine'. I don't have the words to describe how much I hate anyone teasing me for the way I speak, so needless to say, that was not the most fun thing ever. *hulk smash*

And they don't get the word press! My housemate started to take the ironing board out when I said it was in the press by the fridge..

Wasent helped by me shouting

'No in the press by the fridge! NO the press! NO NO the press by the fridge'

At this point I was saved by my other housemate 'He means the cupboard'

upmeath

afatbollix wrote: »

And they don't get the word press! My housemate started to take the ironing board out when I said it was in the press by the fridge..

Wasent helped by me shouting

'No in the press by the fridge! NO the press! NO NO the press by the fridge'

At this point I was saved by my other housemate 'He means the cupboard'

If someone asked me to get something out of the press I wouldn't have a bull's notion either, and I've been living between Meath and Dublin my entire life. I'd really have to think about what it was they were talking about. My house has always had cupboards, and anyone I lived with during college always called them cupboards too.

Fysh

upmeath wrote: »

If someone asked me to get something out of the press I wouldn't have a bull's notion either, and I've been living between Meath and Dublin my entire life. I'd really have to think about what it was they were talking about. My house has always had cupboards, and anyone I lived with during college always called them cupboards too.

I don't think it's that weird or unused a term - I grew up in Spain but still picked it up from family back home.

bluedolphin

I've managed to get my office to call it the press when speaking to me now. :cool:

upmeath

We've a hot press alright, but that hasn't made every storage volume contained by a door and side walls into a press.

Staying with linguistics, most of the Irish people I know living in London complain of a widespread misinterpretation of and inability to pronounce Irish first names. The English think we've something caught in our throats too when we pronounce the letters "h" and "r".

Jack B. Badd

upmeath wrote: »

Staying with linguistics, most of the Irish people I know living in London complain of a widespread misinterpretation of and inability to pronounce Irish first names. The English think we've something caught in our throats too when we pronounce the letters "h" and "r".

I think that's the same for Scots and Welsh too, each of us is working from a language that has quite different prononciations than English.

Speaking of which, was watching True Blood the other night and almost popped a vein when they repeatedly mis-pronounced Samhain as Sam-a-hain. Gah!

LadyMayBelle

I am pretty sure i call the 'cupboard' in work the 'press'...gonna big it up today and see what people say. I think they generally think I am a bit mad with my 'grand', but half my office throw about Yiddish the way I throw about Irish, so it all gets a bi t lost in translation..

djpbarry

upmeath wrote: »

Staying with linguistics, most of the Irish people I know living in London complain of a widespread misinterpretation of and inability to pronounce Irish first names.

I've not actually noticed that too much, although I have a friend called Caoimhe who gets called all sorts of things. But given that I encounter all sorts of names in London that I wouldn't be sure how to pronounce, I'd find it difficult to criticise others for making mistakes.

Unless of course they do it repeatedly, in which case they should be stabbed in the face.

who the fug

upmeath wrote: »

We've a hot press alright, but that hasn't made every storage volume contained by a door and side walls into a press.

Staying with linguistics, most of the Irish people I know living in London complain of a widespread misinterpretation of and inability to pronounce Irish first names. The English think we've something caught in our throats too when we pronounce the letters "h" and "r".

The news use to be fun watching them get stuck on Charlie Haughey and Donegal is another one

LadyMayBelle

They think I am officially mad. I said 'I put that book in the press'... and got the oddest looks ever.

Teasey

Apparently I say "for the craic" a lot (which I never noticed before but am now completely paranoid about!)

The people I work with think it's hilarious because I'm "so Irish" so now I feel like Darby O'Gill when I hear myself say it!