Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

Tzardine · 07-03-2014 10:26AM

jimgoose wrote: »

Indeed. I love being asked if I'm an Illegal Alien by serious-looking Americans in uniforms at airports. One of these days I'll go, "Silence, Terran! You won't be so haughty when you're labouring in the Tylium mines 14 miles below the surface, being slowly digested by the Sarlaac! <To travelling companion> Come along, Ryvvtr - already these cattle have witnessed more than is prescribed for them!"

Yes but at that point they will bring you to a private room and stick a finger in your bum !

jimgoose · 07-03-2014 10:27AM

Tzardine wrote: »

Yes but at that point they will bring you to a private room and stick a finger in your bum !

Only because the fools have no idea what that signifies on Sirius IX!

OldNotWIse · 07-03-2014 10:28AM

jimgoose wrote: »

Indeed. I love being asked if I'm an Illegal Alien by serious-looking Americans in uniforms at airports. One of these days I'll go, "Silence, Terran! You won't be so haughty when you're labouring in the Tylium mines 14 miles below the surface, being slowly digested by the Sarlaac! <To travelling companion> Come along, Ryvvtr - already these cattle have witnessed more than is prescribed for them!"

They'd be too stupid to understand what that means and probably just resort to the trigger as usual.;)

SpaceCowb0y · 07-03-2014 11:19AM

This is probably not considered "trivial" but I need to vent!

I ordered online from a UK site yesterday, when I initially placed the order the delivery charge to Ireland was quoted at €15 i then changed my shipping address to Parcel Motel and the delivery charge was amended to €6, happy days! After being debited from my acc for the stuff I bought I later received an email saying they would not be able to deliver to the freight forwarder?? Fair enough, I then gave them my Irish home address hoping that would be it sorted, I then received an email saying

Thank you for these details, we have changed your shipping address however there is an additional charge of 34.54 EUR involved in sending
your order to Ireland. We will now arrange for your order to be dispatched as soon as possible.

I wrote back saying there was no way i was paying an extra €35 for deliver on top of what i had already paid but was happy to pay the extra €9 to make up the €15 i was originally quoted for delivery. No response...

This morning i woke to an email from said company saying:

Thank you for your email.

Please contact your credit card provider to accept the pre authorization charge. They have declined the charge.

Too right they have declined the charge, the sneaky bastards were obviously trying to sting me for the full whack without me agreeing to it!!

I have sent back a wordy email stating my dissatisfaction with the whole thing and have yet to get a reply but I am already looking forward to my lunch break as i can sense an extremely pissed off phone call being made and God help the poor customer service person dealing with it, nobody gets paid enough to deal with severely worked up and pissed off customers but i guess that's part and parcel of what they sign up for and this has already fúcked up my Friday and it's not even lunch time and I can't take it out on my own clients so somebody is getting an earful! :mad::mad::mad::mad:

MagicIRL · 07-03-2014 12:26PM

Everything Dublin Bus.

From that stupid football named Noel to the idiots that stand at the bottom of the stairs blocking up those trying to get off the two-tiered disease bucket, I hate everything about it and I'm forced to use it daily! :mad:

SpaceCowb0y · 07-03-2014 12:39PM

MagicIRL wrote: »

Everything Dublin Bus.

From that stupid football named Noel to the idiots that stand at the bottom of the stairs blocking up those trying to get off the two-tiered disease bucket, I hate everything about it and I'm forced to use it daily! :mad:

Bus wanker!! :pac:

sorry ha!

OldNotWIse · 07-03-2014 12:39PM

MagicIRL wrote: »

Everything Dublin Bus.

From that stupid football named Noel to the idiots that stand at the bottom of the stairs blocking up those trying to get off the two-tiered disease bucket, I hate everything about it and I'm forced to use it daily! :mad:

Will you be my friend?

jimgoose · 07-03-2014 12:45PM

MagicIRL wrote: »

Everything Dublin Bus.

From that stupid football named Noel to the idiots that stand at the bottom of the stairs blocking up those trying to get off the two-tiered disease bucket, I hate everything about it and I'm forced to use it daily! :mad:

That is rather beautiful. :cool:

OldNotWIse · 07-03-2014 12:47PM

People making unacceptable mistakes about something and when you try to correct them, the fuucking thread is closed. Yes you might have got the last word in, but you're still wrong!

OldNotWIse · 07-03-2014 12:47PM

jimgoose wrote: »

That is rather beautiful. :cool:

Am I about to be overthrown? Say it isn't so Jimgoose...

jimgoose · 07-03-2014 12:51PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Am I about to be overthrown? Say it isn't so Jimgoose...

I wouldn't say that, but there is always a young Jedi on the way up!

RollieFingers · 07-03-2014 12:53PM

MagicIRL wrote: »

Everything Dublin Bus.

From that stupid football named Noel to the idiots that stand at the bottom of the stairs blocking up those trying to get off the two-tiered disease bucket, I hate everything about it and I'm forced to use it daily! :mad:

Ah leave Network Noel on, he's a good lad!

Tzardine · 07-03-2014 12:54PM

RollieFingers wrote: »

Ah leave Network Noel on, he's a good lad!

He is a football on a stick. FFS they did not even paint the stick !

SpaceCowb0y · 07-03-2014 12:54PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

People making unacceptable mistakes about something and when you try to correct them, the fuucking thread is closed. Yes you might have got the last word in, but you're still wrong!

There is nothing worse then not getting the last word in, in ANY situation!

jimgoose · 07-03-2014 12:56PM

Tzardine wrote: »

He is a football on a stick. FFS they did not even paint the stick !

Would someone care to explain to me what the meaning of this football-on-a-stick is? I have a feeling I could get very trivially annoyed about it indeed!

eisenberg1 · 07-03-2014 01:03PM

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

There is nothing worse then not getting the last word in, in ANY situation!

I agree, nothing worse...................

MagicIRL · 07-03-2014 01:03PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Would someone care to explain to me what the meaning of this football-on-a-stick is? I have a feeling I could get very trivially annoyed about it indeed!

The new overlord of Dublin Bus is, literally, a GAA ball with a wooden stick rammed up into it. And he's named Noel too, for good measure.

jimgoose · 07-03-2014 01:07PM

MagicIRL wrote: »

The new overlord of Dublin Bus is, literally, a GAA ball with a wooden stick rammed up into it. And he's named Noel too, for good measure.

I see. The same basic automotive platform as an IndaKinny() then. I was right, that is quite irritating. :pac:

eisenberg1 · 07-03-2014 01:12PM

Earlier, I was trying to trace a parcel with UPS, website not worth a fuuck, all it says is "In Transit". I call the UPS depot, "Oh that's not us, you need the parcel service, call 1800........", (by the way, guess what UPS stands for? yep, that's right), I call 1800.... somewhere foreign, automated machine tells me to recite the tracking number one digit at a time, (is there any other way?), I do this twice and then the asshole picks up the phone and tells me, "oh yes, it is in transit, and at the moment, I am awaiting more info", I ask "could this be lost, as it is a couple of days late?" he says, with what I assume was some sort of gallic shrug "em maybe"

Aaaaaagh

Pumpkinseeds · 07-03-2014 04:03PM

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

This is probably not considered "trivial" but I need to vent!

I ordered online from a UK site yesterday, when I initially placed the order the delivery charge to Ireland was quoted at €15 i then changed my shipping address to Parcel Motel and the delivery charge was amended to €6, happy days! After being debited from my acc for the stuff I bought I later received an email saying they would not be able to deliver to the freight forwarder?? Fair enough, I then gave them my Irish home address hoping that would be it sorted, I then received an email saying

I wrote back saying there was no way i was paying an extra €35 for deliver on top of what i had already paid but was happy to pay the extra €9 to make up the €15 i was originally quoted for delivery. No response...

This morning i woke to an email from said company saying:

Too right they have declined the charge, the sneaky bastards were obviously trying to sting me for the full whack without me agreeing to it!!

I have sent back a wordy email stating my dissatisfaction with the whole thing and have yet to get a reply but I am already looking forward to my lunch break as i can sense an extremely pissed off phone call being made and God help the poor customer service person dealing with it, nobody gets paid enough to deal with severely worked up and pissed off customers but i guess that's part and parcel of what they sign up for and this has already fúcked up my Friday and it's not even lunch time and I can't take it out on my own clients so somebody is getting an earful! :mad::mad::mad::mad:

Parcel Motel got me recently too. I had ordered something from UK that doesn't normally ship to Ireland so I had it sent through them. It was over sized so they said it would be 10.50, I said fine. The other day I checked my account to see if my latest parcel had arrived, low and behold on the same day that the 10.50 had been deducted and additional 20.50 had been deducted for the same order on the same day, but hadn't been updated on my account at that time.

The moral of the story is don't put much additional credit in your parcel motel account. They didn't notify me of any additional charges, so if I hadn't checked on the recent parcel I wouldn't have known.

Fred Swanson · 07-03-2014 04:08PM

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RollieFingers · 07-03-2014 04:15PM

Buying a paper today for the DART and your one behind the counter just starts casually reading the front page and then discusses the story with the other cashier before scanning it through! Get a move on there like!

stickybookmark · 07-03-2014 04:25PM

Ok this is really starting to get on my wick, and it's becoming almost endemic at this stage - people using both military time and am/pm together e.g.

15:00pm

IT'S ONE OR THE OTHER PEOPLE!!!

Sorry just needed to get that out

eisenberg1 · 07-03-2014 04:35PM

stickybookmark wrote: »

Ok this is really starting to get on my wick, and it's becoming almost endemic at this stage - people using both military time and am/pm together e.g.

15:00pm

IT'S ONE OR THE OTHER PEOPLE!!!

Sorry just needed to get that out

I never really noticed that one, but what gets to me is when someone says

"7.30am, in the morning"

stickybookmark · 07-03-2014 04:39PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I never really noticed that one, but what gets to me is when someone says

"7.30am, in the morning"

Can't believe you haven't seen 15:00pm and the like though....I've seen it in business emails, on booking facilities on websites.....unreal.
Military time is relatively new to Ireland and someone forgot to tell everyone it replaces am/pm, not to be used with it !! :eek:

Wise Old Elf · 07-03-2014 04:42PM

stickybookmark wrote: »

Can't believe you haven't seen 15:00pm and the like though....I've seen it in business emails, on booking facilities on websites.....unreal.
Military time is relatively new to Ireland and someone forgot to tell everyone it replaces am/pm, not to be used with it !! :eek:

I sent an e-mail out for a social night out in work a while ago, and someone (a grown man) came back to me and asked did 21:00 mean 7pm :eek:!
Double facepalm wasn't enough to cover it.

SpaceCowb0y · 07-03-2014 04:42PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Parcel Motel got me recently too. I had ordered something from UK that doesn't normally ship to Ireland so I had it sent through them. It was over sized so they said it would be 10.50, I said fine. The other day I checked my account to see if my latest parcel had arrived, low and behold on the same day that the 10.50 had been deducted and additional 20.50 had been deducted for the same order on the same day, but hadn't been updated on my account at that time.

The moral of the story is don't put much additional credit in your parcel motel account. They didn't notify me of any additional charges, so if I hadn't checked on the recent parcel I wouldn't have known.

Bastards! I had a very similar issue with Vodafone recently but i won't get in to that again as I have already kicked off over it and have been credited since.

DeanAustin · 07-03-2014 04:48PM

Disco Stuart wrote: »

I sent an e-mail out for a social night out in work a while ago, and someone (a grown man) came back to me and asked did 21:00 mean 7pm :eek:!
Double facepalm wasn't enough to cover it.

I hope you said yes and let the idiot sit around on his own for a couple of hours.

Wise Old Elf · 07-03-2014 04:52PM

DeanAustin wrote: »

I hope you said yes and let the idiot sit around on his own for a couple of hours.

Probably should've done exactly that, I was so flabbergasted I just gave him a flat toned NO!:pac:

OldNotWIse · 07-03-2014 04:58PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I agree, nothing worse...................

Indeed....

Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

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