Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[ColinJ]

We have one here in Great Harwood and there's one in Clitheroe, across from the Lidl car park, but let's not dwell on that one eh! Anyway, what do you think about the piped TOFS background music when shopping there? I hear music/songs i have never heard before apart from in there.🤔

I didn't actually notice any music. I don't go in there very often, but now you've got me curious...

I don't think that I have ever heard piped music anywhere that I wanted to hear!

 

[classic33]

I didn't actually notice any music. I don't go in there very often, but now you've got me curious...

I don't think that I have ever heard piped music anywhere that I wanted to hear!

What about places you didn't want to hear it?

 

[PaulB]

Holes in the bottom of soft fruit trays....when they're missing!

You know what I mean. You want to chuck some blackberries on your cereal in the morning so pull a tray from the fridge and, as recommended by the shop in which you bought them, you want to wash them. If you bought the fruit from Morrisons or Waitrose, there's no problem but if you bought the tray from M&S, there are no holes! So the water from the tap just rises in the tray until it fills up and berries float out into the sink. This presents you with the problem of pouring out the water while retaining all the berries but they're small and pesky and some of them will be casualties of this brutal morning war littering the battlefield of your sink with their lifeless bodies.

 

[Deleted User]

Websites designed by imbeciles, and the people who sign them off.

A poster on another thread was kind enough to offer a link to Tui's site for checking out overseas travel/restrictions. First thing you have to do is specify your departure point, so you click and guess what, Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria - it's alphabetical, and exhaustive. So you start scrolling down, and down, and down, and finally, after you've gone through Guam and Guinea-Bissau and the bloody Heard & McDonald Islands (the what?)

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....you eventually get to United Kingdom. Which you would have thought might sensibly have been given a special pride of place at the top of the list, given that VIRTUALLY EVERYONE VISITING THE SITE WILL BE UK.

Morons.

Heard & McDonald Islands. Yer 'avin' a laugh aren't you?

And breathe...

Don't think it could be somebody 'having a laaf ' who designed it?

And this annoys you?

 

[Chief Broom]

Back to the problem of communication....My computer dongle died so had to get another and update my deal plan with Three...So im on the phone speaking to a guy in India, i cant understand what the hell hes saying and everything i say is echoed back to me. It was so frustrating i almost threw the phone down in a hissy fit I gritted my teeth as i need my computer,,,said 'yes' to whatever the guy said and didnt even know what kind of deal i was getting. Turned out ok but if i have to endure another call like that would sooner throw myself off a cliff!

 

[bikingdad90]

If you have young children you will get this…

The TV program Bing and the phrase “It’s a Bing thing”. No it bloody well isn’t!!!

 

[swee'pea99]

Don't think it could be somebody 'having a laaf ' who designed it?

And this annoys you?

No. Yes.

 

[ColinJ]

What about places you didn't want to hear it?

I don't want to hear any music when I am out and about, even if it's music that I actually like!

You know what I mean. You want to chuck some blackberries on your cereal in the morning so pull a tray from the fridge and, as recommended by the shop in which you bought them, you want to wash them. If you bought the fruit from Morrisons or Waitrose, there's no problem but if you bought the tray from M&S, there are no holes! So the water from the tap just rises in the tray until it fills up and berries float out into the sink. This presents you with the problem of pouring out the water while retaining all the berries but they're small and pesky and some of them will be casualties of this brutal morning war littering the battlefield of your sink with their lifeless bodies.

Serves you right for shopping posh - get yer self down to Lidl or Aldi and join the rest of us plebs! Their environment-killing plastic containers have loads of holes in the bottom. I really wish that they would switch to cardboard packaging though.

PS The real answer to the problem is to wash the fruit in a sieve, which is what I am about to do with my morning grapes and strawberries.

 

[postman]

This griffin Amazon fire tablet type a word and it puts anything it wants,see griffin I typed friggin,you have to tap the word on the bar above don't buy one they are sheet.

 

[PeteXXX]

Back to the problem of communication....My computer dongle died so had to get another and update my deal plan with Three...So im on the phone speaking to a guy in India, i cant understand what the hell hes saying and everything i say is echoed back to me. It was so frustrating i almost threw the phone down in a hissy fit I gritted my teeth as i need my computer,,,said 'yes' to whatever the guy said and didnt even know what kind of deal i was getting. Turned out ok but if i have to endure another call like that would sooner throw myself off a cliff!

Has 3 'help' line moved from Africa, now? I had great trouble explaining to the lady there that I wasn't cancelling my contract, I just wasn't renewing it.
I think her prompt card was trying to get me to say I was cancelling so I could be charged for it.

 

[Electric_Andy]

I don't think i've ever seen a draining board on the right of a sink!

My parents' draining board is on the right. They are not left handed. I've never even noticed it before. Also my ex-house had a righty draining board. I htink it has more to do with layout of your kitchen than anything else. And maybe those who have it on the wrong side did not really notice or know that they came in both sides from the shop?

 

[oldwheels]

Back to the problem of communication....My computer dongle died so had to get another and update my deal plan with Three...So im on the phone speaking to a guy in India, i cant understand what the hell hes saying and everything i say is echoed back to me. It was so frustrating i almost threw the phone down in a hissy fit I gritted my teeth as i need my computer,,,said 'yes' to whatever the guy said and didnt even know what kind of deal i was getting. Turned out ok but if i have to endure another call like that would sooner throw myself off a cliff!

I had the same problem with my electricity supplier. I could not understand anything said and ended the call. Tried again later and got somebody marginally better but still not satisfactory. I think they do it on purpose to force you to do everything by email.

 

[oldwheels]

People who say our shores here are washed by the Gulf Stream. They are in fact washed by the North Atlantic Drift. Lazy acceptance of southern English statements like so many other statements. Many think we have A levels here. Some private schools probably do but the rest do not.

 

[swee'pea99]

More moronic web design. So I'm browsing holiday options on Tui's site, and there are 600-odd, which you can only check out one 10 holiday page at a time. Well, I don't want a four day holiday, so let's start clearing this clutter.....ah, there's a duration option. Good. Well, we want more than a week, no more than two. So....

Genius. I have to specify an exact number of nights. It hasn't occurred to anyone at this holiday company that quite a lot of people aren't much bothered whether it's eight days or ten - they might want to see all the options within a range. No, you have to specify an exact number of days. Cretinous. And this is one of the UK's largest travel companies.

 

[PeteXXX]

When I look in the washing machine and see my lipsalve spinning around in there... Grrrr