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Really minor annoyances

Zimba said:
Loud music, I don't want to go to the pub / restaurant / shop or whatever and can't think because there's music blasting in the background, which is usually crap.
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I hate it when you can’t talk to each other. I remember a friends birthday. He had this downstairs area of a pub/hotel booked, so any noise filled the room anyway, then a DJ absolutely blasted it out. We were all sat around a big table blankly looking at each other because you could only really talk to the person next to you if you leaned over and screamed at them. Bit it was not the sort of music anyone wanted to dance to. We were all thinking how long can we politely leave it until we go.
 

Songs, particularly rock songs, that fade out instead of having a proper ending. You’ve taken the time and effort to write the song, take and extra couple of minutes to work out how to end it properly.
 
Drifter said:
Songs, particularly rock songs, that fade out instead of having a proper ending. You’ve taken the time and effort to write the song, take and extra couple of minutes to work out how to end it properly.
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I quite like a fade out but obviously live they have to do exactly as you say.

Simple - just play the last bit 4 times. Boom crash done. Big gong!
 
DaveH said:
I hate it when you can’t talk to each other. I remember a friends birthday. He had this downstairs area of a pub/hotel booked, so any noise filled the room anyway, then a DJ absolutely blasted it out. We were all sat around a big table blankly looking at each other because you could only really talk to the person next to you if you leaned over and screamed at them. Bit it was not the sort of music anyone wanted to dance to. We were all thinking how long can we politely leave it until we go.
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Awful ain't it? Like the worst thing for anything, I don't understand why anyone think it's a good idea unless it's a nightclub where you expect music or live music.

I'd be leaving straight away tbh. No point wasting your night really.
 
DaveH said:
I hate it when you can’t talk to each other. I remember a friends birthday. He had this downstairs area of a pub/hotel booked, so any noise filled the room anyway, then a DJ absolutely blasted it out. We were all sat around a big table blankly looking at each other because you could only really talk to the person next to you if you leaned over and screamed at them. Bit it was not the sort of music anyone wanted to dance to. We were all thinking how long can we politely leave it until we go.
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quite a few local pubs seem to do this nowadays, dare i say the more hipster type places.

baffles me, in a small pub on a saturday afternoon having a DJ on 'dropping beats' but its basically some tatey in knitted jumper and bum fluff on his top lip pressing play on a machine to blast out some obscure deep house whilst the bar staff look all wistful and cool , apart from the fact they can't hear what people are trying to order. and none of the punters can actually have a conversation

but i think the photos look git cool social media so its probably worth it
 
tunstallhill said:
quite a few local pubs seem to do this nowadays, dare i say the more hipster type places.

baffles me, in a small pub on a saturday afternoon having a DJ on 'dropping beats' but its basically some tatey in knitted jumper and bum fluff on his top lip pressing play on a machine to blast out some obscure deep house whilst the bar staff look all wistful and cool , apart from the fact they can't hear what people are trying to order. and none of the punters can actually have a conversation

but i think the photos look git cool social media so its probably worth it
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I remember being threatened with a barring from the pub next to the uni I went to back when I was a student.

The place was quite busy one night, we were all sat around a table having a few drinks and a nice time, with music giving a bit of low background noise. But for some reason they started cranking it up at 8pm. This was very much a sit and chat pub, didn't have a dance area etc, and we were right below a large speaker. While nobody was looking, I stretched up and pulled the cable out the back. Most of the rest of the pub cleared. The only reason I got caught was that I'm a decent person and was putting the cables back before I left.

It was a daft way to run a business, because everytime they whacked the music up, most people would head to the pub down the road.
 
DaveH said:
I remember being threatened with a barring from the pub next to the uni I went to back when I was a student.

The place was quite busy one night, we were all sat around a table having a few drinks and a nice time, with music giving a bit of low background noise. But for some reason they started cranking it up at 8pm. This was very much a sit and chat pub, didn't have a dance area etc, and we were right below a large speaker. While nobody was looking, I stretched up and pulled the cable out the back. Most of the rest of the pub cleared. The only reason I got caught was that I'm a decent person and was putting the cables back before I left.

It was a daft way to run a business, because everytime they whacked the music up, most people would head to the pub down the road.
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You get a lot of bar staff who run the pub based on their own preferences, not those of the clientele.

Last year, had a mate up for the weekend so we headed to my local on a Sat afternoon to have a few pints and watch the scores come in. Walked into the pub and it was near empty, and every TV was turned off. I asked the barmaid if we could get SSN put on a couple of the TVs - she feigned ignorance, claimed not to know what I was talking about and just kept saying "what?" to every question.

When I simplified it that I "wanted-the-television-turned on" she grudgingly agreed, then disappeared for 20 mins without turning them on. We supped up and left - she clearly had no interest in football, but wanted to ensure that her shift wasn't spoiled by people enjoying themselves at her expense. Bizarre
 
VenisonsMullet said:
You get a lot of bar staff who run the pub based on their own preferences, not those of the clientele.

Last year, had a mate up for the weekend so we headed to my local on a Sat afternoon to have a few pints and watch the scores come in. Walked into the pub and it was near empty, and every TV was turned off. I asked the barmaid if we could get SSN put on a couple of the TVs - she feigned ignorance, claimed not to know what I was talking about and just kept saying "what?" to every question.

When I simplified it that I "wanted-the-television-turned on" she grudgingly agreed, then disappeared for 20 mins without turning them on. We supped up and left - she clearly had no interest in football, but wanted to ensure that her shift wasn't spoiled by people enjoying themselves at her expense. Bizarre
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Some of it is awareness or rather lack of it.

I worked at a pub in York at the late end of the Micklegate Run, back in the 1990s. People would generally start drinking at one end of the street and work their way up. We would be quiet until around 9pm then would be heaving, and we would have a DJ on playing 90s party music.

A bit after 10 each night, after having the place thumping and partying, he would play a club mix of the X-files theme and something else that was very slow and dull compared to everything that had people going, and the place would clear as everyone left to continue the party. Neither the DJ or landlady noticed it was always connected to the music. When the DJ was sick and they brought someone else in for a week, the place stayed busy and she commented about taking so much more money, but still would not make the connection.
 
Minor but can be a major annoyance, the wife buying shite things because 'it doesn't really matter'. Well it does and I'm sick of hoying stuff away. Latest example, get a sieve for our baking. Comes back with some poundship plastic thing that looked like a children's toy and did if fuck do the job, bin and bought a proper metal thing that works. Bin bags, you only put rubbish in don't you and throw them away? Aye but the cheap shite ones split easily and you need to double up. Batteries, aye 10 for £1 might be alright for clocks and TV remotes but last about 2 seconds in something else. I blame b and m really as they have something for everything but it's mostly shite
 
League Wan said:
Minor but can be a major annoyance, the wife buying shite things because 'it doesn't really matter'. Well it does and I'm sick of hoying stuff away. Latest example, get a sieve for our baking. Comes back with some poundship plastic thing that looked like a children's toy and did if fuck do the job, bin and bought a proper metal thing that works. Bin bags, you only put rubbish in don't you and throw them away? Aye but the cheap shite ones split easily and you need to double up. Batteries, aye 10 for £1 might be alright for clocks and TV remotes but last about 2 seconds in something else. I blame b and m really as they have something for everything but it's mostly shite
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Our draw for big cutlery is full of stuff. Her mam was having a clear out and I think was getting rid of anything plastic. So we got all these big black plastic things that have never once been used. There is a spoon which is an odd shape, like a rectangular block of plastic with an indent in the middle, and it just doesn't work well. Not sure how you can get a spoon wrong, but it is crap. This floppy plastic spatula that does nowt and a tatie masher that is good, but we already had one, and now have two. Why?

The draw jams half the time you try to open it, it is so full now. A few years ago I emptied it and put everything back in long ways so it fit. But someone in the family doesn't get that and you have this mess of stuff piled up in all directions in the middle.

I'm tempted to round up stuff we don't use, put it in a box somewhere and if nobody asks about it in 6 months time, chuck the lot.
 
The soft plastic wrapper on an eight pack of soft drinks is harder to tear than the side of a battleship. See also the cardboard wrapper on a 4 pack of Lucozade sport
 
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