Irrational things that annoy you (and non irrational things too come to think of it)

[semi-pro waster]

The inability of train companies in London to deal with the snow in a vaguely sensible manner. As I think I've mentioned before I don't particularly mind if the train is late or cancelled or whatever provided I'm kept informed - it may be an inconvenience but at least the information means that I can make other plans if necessary. What that doesn't mean is that with less than 3 minutes to go to the next train do you cancel it - I can accept that on very rare occasions it won't be foreseeable in advance that there will be problems with that service and it can't run but I can't accept that it should be so beyond the operators ken that it happens to multiple services. If they're unable to even give a good guess about whether the train will run until 3 minutes before then frankly they don't deserve to be running a train service - especially when the weather conditions aren't changing, there's no new snow, the temperature hasn't dropped by any significant amount so why can they not work something out?

Oh and my other bugbear of the day is train drivers and station staff treating commuters as if they're the cause of the problems here. I appreciate there's lots of selfish and inconsiderate commuters who don't move down in the carriage etc but even then it's not their fault that there's an inadequate amount of carriages on the train. It's obviously not helped by cancelling trains and late running trains so the remaining services are under more pressure than ever but blaming commuters for that isn't the way forwards. For instance the service that was cancelled this evening meant that I got on another train which takes me on a bit of a diversion but gets vaguely near where I live - for reasons best known to themselves Southeastern decided that instead of the normal 6-8 carriages that this service was best provided for by 2 carriages...

[jmc41]

Last Friday, 7:30am there was a grand total of about 0.5mm of snow settled here.
Yet the council decided that collecting the recycling was far too taxing - despite driving past them quarter a mile from home. So all recycling in the road now better known as an ice-rink is now covered by about a foot of the stuff.

There were zero problems with snow here until late morning Friday. At which point everyone started going home which took them several hours. I left shortly before 6pm, wiped off the car (including the roof and all windows) and was home before 6:30.

[volospian]

I tell you what annoyed me... the fact that last Friday the BBC decided to pull "a question of sport" (not that I minded that, per se) to replace it with a "special news report" on the snow. FFS, it was a decent snowfall, sure, but to cobble together a montage of the continued reporting from the day and call it a "special"?

It snowed, there's snow. Schools will close. Motorists will probably prang a few motors. Some people will probably get stuck. Some people will slip on the ice and hurt themselves and some people may even die from the cold.

This all happens if we get even 1" of snow, which we do pretty much every year. I don't see the need to add an extra half hour of reporters stood in the snow pointing at cars and telling us "Well, it's been snowing here for a few hours now and the police are telling drivers to stay indoors and only go out in an emergency, and we can see why, when we tried getting our car down this narrow country road we got stuck and had to be rescued". FFS... what did the police just tell you?

And then Fiona Bruce tells us that the government is urging people to stay indoors, and we're going now to Peter O'Hanra Hanrahan who is reporting from the top of Ben Nevis...

What a waste of everyone's time and money!

[vix]

Since when has 'are' and it's abbreviated form 'r' meant the same as 'our'? Seeing it more and more on Facebook.

[BBx]

Adverts... namely Max Beasley on Jobsite and Kevin 'moble' Bacon on EE.

1) I cannot imagine Max Beasley has ever been through the job search process as we know it.

2) Why oh why could they not teach Kevin Bacon to say the word 'mobile' properly for the purpose of the UK ad?!

Grrrr!

BB x

[Knipples]

I always laugh at stuff Max Beesley does, the man who is only where he is now because he started off as Take That's drummer

[Belmit]

Philadelphia being advertised as a pasta sauce/marinade/all-purpose insta-meal improvement paste. No idea why this annoys me so much. I think maybe because it reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Mr. Burns makes slurry out of marine animals.

Originally Posted by Mr. Burns

I call our product Little Lisa's Patented Animal Slurry. It's a high-protein feed for animals, insulation for low-income housing, a powerful explosive, and a top-notch engine coolant. And best of all it's made from 100% recycled animals.

[Kitten]

Repeat whine:

Recruitment Consultants who consistently ignore the 'Not willing to relocate/North West region only' on your CV and spam you with London based jobs. I've had 6 this week alone from different agencies for different roles.

FFS: READ THE INFO, I DON'T WANT A LONDON/SOUTHERN BASED ROLE!

[volospian]

People who include the words "L@@K" on their eby ads... Grrrr....

[Dymetrie]

To start with, people who walk through a door/gate/tube barrier and just stop.


Then the ones who ignore your initial polite request for them to move so that when you have to raise your voice and repeat your request they can be indignant, like you're the one being rude.


****ers