Things that piss you off!

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Rolling news channels that all show the news on the hour, except when they all show an alternative programme AT THE SAME TIME!

This Means that if I pick the wrong hour to watch NONE OF THEM ARE BROADCASTING THE NEWS.

Pillocks.

[bobAlike]

People who try to make themselves look good at the expense of others. I love it when it backfires though.

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People who try to make themselves look good at the expense of others. I love it when it backfires though.

I had a meeting with a very pompus bloke today. His job title? Head of equality.

I doubt he saw the irony.

[KarmaDope]

I might have moaned about this before but honestly I find buying cigarettes such a mission these days. I stop at BP for petrol this morning and when I reach the counter I ask for my usual pack of Marlboro. We all know that cigarettes are hidden behind the secret screen these days so the rather elderly assistant rattles it across...chicka-chicka-chicka. Now yesterday my Marlboro were easily distinguished by the red and white packet and I could readily point them out to any sluggish operative but today I'm confronted by a sea of black, every single pack and every single brand is in a jet black packet. What's more every packet is emblazoned with some hideous picture, a man with huge throat tumour, charcoal black lungs, gaping whole in some essential part of the body. I mean when the chicka-chicka-chicka happened it was like exposing some kinda ghouls gallery at a fairground and I found myself recoiling in horror at the shock of it all.

It get's worse because there was no way of identifying the brand so my mature server had to take each packet off the shelf, hold it at arms length under the light and squint profusely. This went on for a lifetime, people behind shuffling their weight from foot to foot, before I was presented with a plain black pack of Marlboro with a picture of a sad baby smoking a cigarette. With all respect can I ask what the fuck is all this about? I mean I know the bearded environmentalist loonies will jump up and down screaming about NHS costs but back in the real world when I exited BP, walking past all the commuters filling up with diesel and re-joined the traffic jam pumping poison into the innocent lungs of passing schoolkids I thought, what the absolute fuck was that all about??

Originally it was to stop advertising to kids/younger people to reduce the numbers of people that smoke.

I find from experience of walking past counters though that people just walk up and say "Gimme the cheapest packet of 20 please luv", and the poor assistant has to flick through all the prices.

[bobAlike]

People who try to make themselves look good at the expense of others. I love it when it backfires though.

I had a meeting with a very pompus bloke today. His job title? Head of equality.

I doubt he saw the irony.

It does amuse me.

I'm currently travelling to and from Berlin every week and during my flight back this morning someone tried to call me 3 times. This person then proceeded to tell some very senior people that they tried to get hold of me and I was being very unresponsive and not at all very helpful. Once landed I soon reminded them all who was listening that not 12 hours earlier I told him that was travelling back to the UK and would not be contactable until 14:00. All because his company (huge telecommunications company that rhymes with Shitish Smellicom) have made some very serious errors an he was trying to take the heat away from himself.

[MANTIS01]

Out of all the low rent companies in the world I have always found BT to be the shining beacon of spine tingling incompetence

[Cf]

No-one can beat the student loan company for incompetence.

[maldini32]

Garages giving you a time when your car will be fixed only to be delayed

[bobAlike]

Garages giving you a time when your car will be fixed only to be delayed

And when you're buying a car and they tell you the deal won't be available when you walk out the door. This happened to me recently so I told them I wouldn't be buying the car then. Funnily enough the same deal was on the table the following week.

[bobAlike]

Out of all the low rent companies in the world I have always found BT to be the shining beacon of spine tingling incompetence

I am astounded at how incompetent they truely are. They  fuck it up every time without fail.

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Diets/exercise regemes  etc that advise you to consult your doctor before starting.

Have they tried to get a doctors  appointment lately? You have to be at death's door before mine will even consider seeing you.

[The Wycher]

Water companies that come to dig up your road, proceed to dig one hole on Monday another on Tuesday and then disappear for the rest of the week. Obviously shutting the road for two weeks is so they can carefully plan how to fill the two holes back in.

The other irony being they turned up in three vans to dig the first hole (three for one hole!) during school drop off and proceeded to park in the most stupid place not actually on the road they were closing!. When challenged they said they would move the vans shortly, what after school run when no one else needed access and therefore much less issue with them parking there, thanks for that most helpful.

[MintTrav]

Poker players who nod their head in time to their music.

[bobAlike]

Poker players who nod their head in time to their music.

I think I'd be more annoyed if they didn't nod their head in time.

[nirvana]

Poker players who nod their head in time to their music.

I think I'd be more annoyed if they didn't nod their head in time.

Read while playing and nodding to Break Some Off. Table really wants to know what I'm listening to so bad.