Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

shruikan2553 · 04-04-2014 07:07PM

Mr.S wrote: »

PAYG 4G dongle if you've decent coverage. Not ideal, but pretty good speeds, can handle streaming / downloading etc.

Wouldnt that cost a fortune? 4G has some decent speeds that would suit me but the download limits from mobile broadband dont suit anything but light usage.

Boom_Bap · 04-04-2014 07:33PM

What annoys me is that when I plan a night of sexytime with Mrs _Bap, put in the effort of laying out the plastic sheeting, grease myself up, put on my man sized nappy, etc. and Mrs _Bap takes too long in the bathroom doing whatever ladies do in there....while waiting, fire up the PSVita for a quick game of Fifa and then the game crashes just as it was about to autosave. So I have to play the game again to get back to where I was I don't even notice Mrs. _Bap has cleaned up our gear and is fast asleep, and I've been beaten in the final of the FA Cup. Yeah, that annoys me.

Czarcasm · 04-04-2014 08:38PM

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Wouldnt that cost a fortune? 4G has some decent speeds that would suit me but the download limits from mobile broadband dont suit anything but light usage.

If you have a 4G capable phone, depending on your network's terms and conditions in your contract, you could configure a wireless hot spot on your phone and use it the very same as a broadband dongle. I think all the networks aren't charging for 4G at the moment, and depending on your signal reception, your speeds will vary anywhere on average between 10 and 40Mbs, unless you're in the arsehole of nowhere, where I wouldn't normally have great 3G reception, and even now it's pretty spiffy!

PLL · 04-04-2014 08:58PM

People canvassing, trying to get you to change electricity company or selling you something coming to the door. I HATE IT. I either know if someone is coming to my house or I will see a car outside or they will ring. Other than that I won't answer the door. This evening some f****r with a clipboard pressed his face against the sitting room window and shouted hello after I ignored him knocking the door. He ended up wishing I never answered the door the rage I was in. The cheek of him, f**k off!

Voodoomelon · 04-04-2014 09:37PM

Philo Beddoe wrote: »

It bothers me when people misspell my name when it's spelled correctly in front of their eyes. Like I send them an email which will include my name in the title and the signature and they spell it incorrectly anyway. My real name is very common, but can be spelled two different but equally common ways, so I can understand someone picking the incorrect spelling, but not when it's there in front of their eyes, damn it!

You'll get a chuckle out of this.
We had a customer email us from Sweden wondering when his parcel would be arriving.

He opened his email saying "Hello I live in Borås, Sweden..."

I read this as "Hello I'm Borås from Sweden...".

I replied to him with a detailed email answering his questions, but started my email saying "Hello Borås..."

Imagine you were emailing a Swedish company looking for your parcel and some gob****e replies to you saying "Hello Termonfeckin".

shruikan2553 · 04-04-2014 09:45PM

Czarcasm wrote: »

If you have a 4G capable phone, depending on your network's terms and conditions in your contract, you could configure a wireless hot spot on your phone and use it the very same as a broadband dongle. I think all the networks aren't charging for 4G at the moment, and depending on your signal reception, your speeds will vary anywhere on average between 10 and 40Mbs, unless you're in the arsehole of nowhere, where I wouldn't normally have great 3G reception, and even now it's pretty spiffy!

Housemate has a plan that gives him 4G internet on his phone but is limited to something like 4GB. With netflix, game of thrones coming back, online games and girlfriends job we need several hundred GBs. Was using 500-600GB a month with UPC. Magnet are the only company that will give us anything shorter than 12 months and they need a phone line, which we dont have and dont want to fork out 100+ euro plus 40 euro a month along with a 68 euro set up charges for 5 months of broadband. Its ridiculous how difficult it is when we are living in a city.

Czarcasm · 04-04-2014 10:06PM

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Housemate has a plan that gives him 4G internet on his phone but is limited to something like 4GB. With netflix, game of thrones coming back, online games and girlfriends job we need several hundred GBs. Was using 500-600GB a month with UPC. Magnet are the only company that will give us anything shorter than 12 months and they need a phone line, which we dont have and dont want to fork out 100+ euro plus 40 euro a month along with a 68 euro set up charges for 5 months of broadband. Its ridiculous how difficult it is when we are living in a city.

Ahh Jaysus! 4GB is only a pittance! I'm with Three myself and they have a 15GB d/l allowance, UPC for my home/office broadband. I'd be streaming a fair amount of TV with my slingbox, but nothing like the amount you're downloading!

I think it might just be worth considering UPC for the six months, because as far as I remember, their disconnection charge is €100.

shruikan2553 · 04-04-2014 10:18PM

Czarcasm wrote: »

Ahh Jaysus! 4GB is only a pittance! I'm with Three myself and they have a 15GB d/l allowance, UPC for my home/office broadband. I'd be streaming a fair amount of TV with my slingbox, but nothing like the amount you're downloading!

I think it might just be worth considering UPC for the six months, because as far as I remember, their disconnection charge is €100.

We would love to get UPC as a friend has an account they arent using until September but its not available where we are for some strange reason, has to be phone line or mobile. Can get their digital TV though. Magnet have said they will set up everything for us but waiting until monday to find out what the damage is. This could be a very long summer.

Laphroaig52 · 05-04-2014 01:20AM

mickrock wrote: »

"Not uncommon" isn't necessarily the same as "common".

If the frequency of something lies between common and uncommon then calling it not uncommon is reasonable and calling it common would be incorrect.

Bloody hell.:eek:
I'd love to be stuck beside you on a long haul flight...:)

Ihatecuddles · 05-04-2014 01:31AM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

What annoys me is that when I plan a night of sexytime with Mrs _Bap, put in the effort of laying out the plastic sheeting, grease myself up, put on my man sized nappy, etc. and Mrs _Bap takes too long in the bathroom doing whatever ladies do in there....while waiting, fire up the PSVita for a quick game of Fifa and then the game crashes just as it was about to autosave. So I have to play the game again to get back to where I was I don't even notice Mrs. _Bap has cleaned up our gear and is fast asleep, and I've been beaten in the final of the FA Cup. Yeah, that annoys me.

I want to be married to you.

Just throwin' it out there...

Toots · 05-04-2014 01:49AM

When someone puts my markers back in the case in the wrong order. Like this
case of markers I like them to be in the box the way they were when I bought them. There's even a little guide on the label so you can keep your colours in order!

Ihatecuddles · 05-04-2014 01:51AM

Toots* wrote: »

When someone puts my markers back in the case in the wrong order. Like this
case of markers I like them to be in the box the way they were when I bought them. There's even a little guide on the label so you can keep your colours in order!

2nd class is pretty tough...

Call Me Jimmy · 05-04-2014 01:53AM

Ah it doesn't really matter does it?

Czarcasm · 05-04-2014 02:13AM

Toots* wrote: »

When someone puts my markers back in the case in the wrong order. Like this
case of markers I like them to be in the box the way they were when I bought them. There's even a little guide on the label so you can keep your colours in order!

Holy shìt! $20 for a pack of markers?

Pumpkinseeds · 05-04-2014 11:56AM

Sporty people. So there I am at 10ish this morning, just out of bed, in my dressing gown, my hair looking like I'd been dragged through a hedge backwards and I open the door to see if the cat's there. Then 2 neighbours passed on their way for a run, discussing which route they were going to do. The 12k one apparently, bloody people making me feel lazy and old:mad::(

Aphex · 05-04-2014 04:08PM

Sadderday wrote: »

big ar'seholes... and people that dont cover their nose and mouth when they sneeze they just face a different direction to you and blurt it all out... its all in the air now... that i need to breathe.

People who try hold in a sneeze and nearly make their head explode while doing so.
Just sneeze ffs!!

Editing text on a phone.
No matter where I press I never get the cursor? at the right place.

Czarcasm · 05-04-2014 04:26PM

Aphex wrote: »

Editing text on a phone.
No matter where I press I never get the cursor? at the right place.

When the cursor lands in the wrong position and I haven't figured out yet how to move it one letter to the left or right!

Also, when someone greets you and you've no idea who they are, turns out they're your next door neighbour all grown up - thirteen years ago she was eight years old and up to my waist; now she's 21 and half a foot taller than me!

That was weird! :pac:

Daveysil15 · 05-04-2014 04:53PM

Aphex wrote: »

People who try hold in a sneeze and nearly make their head explode while doing so. Just sneeze ffs!!

This made me laugh. :pac: I must admit I'm guilty of doing this myself, usually when I'm in work or somewhere quite like a library and I don't want to draw too much attention. Unfortunately it doesn't always work and I end up sneezing twice as loud as I normally would.

Czarcasm wrote: »

Also, when someone greets you and you've no idea who they are, turns out they're your next door neighbour all grown up - thirteen years ago she was eight years old and up to my waist; now she's 21 and half a foot taller than me!

That was weird! :pac:

And probably a roide too.

That happened to me recently. I met a total babe in a bar who turned out to be a girl my mum used to babysit years ago. Once I found out I realised I was far too old for her.

jimgoose · 05-04-2014 05:07PM

mauzo! wrote: »

2nd class is pretty tough...

You've never met a programmer, have you!

Toots · 05-04-2014 05:08PM

mauzo! wrote: »

2nd class is pretty tough...

2nd class?? I never brought my markers in to school. All those other little feckers wanting to use them and messing them up and using the yellow one to colour near black and then the yellow gets all stained. HELL NO!!

Czarcasm wrote: »

Holy shìt! $20 for a pack of markers?

They are bloody awesome markers

my hubby bought them to cheer me up when I was in the hospital a lot last year.

Oooh, I've just thought of another one. I've got my bookcase and my DVD cabinet organised so that the books/dvds are all facing the one way so when you're looking at it you can very easily read the titles ie: all text going the same direction from top to bottom. It drives me NUTS if someone puts one in the wrong way. Ruins my whole system.

Pumpkinseeds · 05-04-2014 05:11PM

Disappointing new series. I was looking forward to the new one Believe. Billed as a supernatural thing. No It Is Not. It's basically a guy and a kid running from people, then running from some more people and oh, here we go again with some more running from people:rolleyes: We watched 2 episodes last night and have now cancelled recording the rest of the series.

Czarcasm · 05-04-2014 05:24PM

Daveysil15 wrote: »

And probably a roide too. That happened to me recently. I met a total babe in a bar who turned out to be a girl my mum used to babysit years ago. Once I found out I realised I was far too old for her.

That was the mental mind fcuk that just added to the weirdness - smokin' hot, and I was thinking "People usually prefer to forget having met me, I usually forget people I've met!" (I'm used to having full blown conversations at this stage with people and I haven't a clue who they are! :pac:), but when she told me who she was I was just like "Ohh man, that's fcuked up!"

I still find it hard to think of my wife's sister as the 27 year old she is now and not the ten year old that came strolling down the estate when she first met me -

"D'ya wanna play pogs?" :pac:

She hates it when I slag her about it

Dramatik · 05-04-2014 05:28PM

When you're trying to log onto a website or your email or something and if you get the password wrong, the site make you re-type in your e-mail address or username again as well as the password. I just typed my e-mail/username FFS now I have to type it in again :mad:

Gamayun · 05-04-2014 05:47PM

Toots* wrote: »

Oooh, I've just thought of another one. I've got my bookcase and my DVD cabinet organised so that the books/dvds are all facing the one way so when you're looking at it you can very easily read the titles ie: all text going the same direction from top to bottom. It drives me NUTS if someone puts one in the wrong way. Ruins my whole system.

Artificial Eye DVDs/Blu Rays have the title on the spine in the opposite direction to all other cases; when you flip them 180° the text will match the other cases but the rating sticker will now be on the opposite side!

This person has opted to keep the ratings aligned at the expense of his We Need To Talk About Kevin title text, the fool! :P
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MhQM_bSvEww/T2ZQgUkcSqI/AAAAAAAAFGw/7DadLLZ9l9Q/s1600/kevin+bd.jpg

Czarcasm · 05-04-2014 05:54PM

Dramatik wrote: »

When you're trying to log onto a website or your email or something and if you get the password wrong, the site make you re-type in your e-mail address or username again as well as the password. I just typed my e-mail/username FFS now I have to type it in again :mad:

Or having to fill out the whole bloody registration form again when the re-typed passwords you can't see, don't match!

Also, when you have no way of uploading photos from your phone any more without signing up for a social networking or photo sharing service. That won't be happening. I'd sooner stick to email.

Massive oversight on Microsoft's part too to have a security "feature" like "Kid's Corner" on the phone, and then the child still has access to my photo gallery. It didn't take him ten minutes to discover this particular security flaw!

Paddy Cow · 05-04-2014 06:29PM

Dramatik wrote: »

When you're trying to log onto a website or your email or something and if you get the password wrong, the site make you re-type in your e-mail address or username again as well as the password. I just typed my e-mail/username FFS now I have to type it in again :mad:

Happened to me with my online banking. I had a brain fart and entered the login details incorrectly twice. As you only have three attempts before it locks your account, I looked up the details to make sure they were right the third time. Turns out you only get two attempts

I had to ring online banking and get them to send me out a new pin and then ring them again to activate it. Pain in the arse.

eisenberg1 · 05-04-2014 06:57PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Disappointing new series. I was looking forward to the new one Believe. Billed as a supernatural thing. No It Is Not. It's basically a guy and a kid running from people, then running from some more people and oh, here we go again with some more running from people:rolleyes: We watched 2 episodes last night and have now cancelled recording the rest of the series.

Buy the box set of Breaking Bad, everything else, with the exception of the Sopranos, pales in comparison.

FullblownRose · 05-04-2014 07:19PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Buy the box set of Breaking Bad, everything else, with the exception of the Sopranos, pales in comparison.

Seconded! Although it might be chayper to watch it on Netfflix

eisenberg1 · 05-04-2014 09:09PM

Not an annoyance , but I needed to share with someone. I was thinking of a buying a bike for the OH as a pressie, and went online to see whats about. I went to the site of a nationwide chain and saw a review which went like this. " I wanted to buy a bike for my college going daughter, she wanted a BLOKE to ride at weekends and sometimes during the week, lightweight if possible, that she could bring home from time to time, this one was perfect for the price". My folks never did that for me.

05-04-2014 10:32PM

Toots* wrote: »

2nd class?? I never brought my markers in to school. All those other little feckers wanting to use them and messing them up and using the yellow one to colour near black and then the yellow gets all stained. HELL NO!!

They are bloody awesome markers my hubby bought them to cheer me up when I was in the hospital a lot last year.

Oooh, I've just thought of another one. I've got my bookcase and my DVD cabinet organised so that the books/dvds are all facing the one way so when you're looking at it you can very easily read the titles ie: all text going the same direction from top to bottom. It drives me NUTS if someone puts one in the wrong way. Ruins my whole system.

I bet if people peeled the paper off crayons ...it would irritate you too:)

Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

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