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Really minor annoyances


Another trip to Newcastle Central Station early this morning to drop the missus off and without fail once again a daft shite stops to drop someone off just inside the short stay entrance. Worse still it was a taxi driver and there was acres of space ahead he could’ve gone to, you’d think they of all people would know better. Me and a couple of others then stuck behind with one car close to blocking one lane of Neville Street. People are thick as fuck.
 
Sgt Pepper said:
Another trip to Newcastle Central Station early this morning to drop the missus off and without fail once again a daft shite stops to drop someone off just inside the short stay entrance. Worse still it was a taxi driver and there was acres of space ahead he could’ve gone to, you’d think they of all people would know better. Me and a couple of others then stuck behind with one car close to blocking one lane of Neville Street. People are thick as fuck.
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A version of this happens every time I venture into M&S. Usually slightly elderly couple in front on the escalator who stop dead as they step off at the top, usually to orientate themselves as to the whereabouts of the grandad jerkins. "MOVE FFS, I can't stop the magic stairs!"
 
c032745y said:
A version of this happens every time I venture into M&S. Usually slightly elderly couple in front on the escalator who stop dead as they step off at the top, usually to orientate themselves as to the whereabouts of the grandad jerkins. "MOVE FFS, I can't stop the magic stairs!"
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Aye or bang in the middle of the exit doors as they leave to check their bill.
I remember a woman doing that as i came out of Lidl , i nearly walked up the back of her and i muttered " ffs man ! "
As luck would ( or wouldnt ) have it she heard me and more to the point her husband who was picking her up saw me . He wound the window down and being obviously obliged said "what did you say to our lass" . Not wanting to get into a barney on works time i said " nowt mate " .
He says "you did , you said ffs man " .
I couldnt deny it so i said " oh aye soz mate , i meant to say that in my head ". He just looked at us and drove off like " i knar, completely understandable, the dizzy cow " 😆
 
c032745y said:
A version of this happens every time I venture into M&S. Usually slightly elderly couple in front on the escalator who stop dead as they step off at the top, usually to orientate themselves as to the whereabouts of the grandad jerkins. "MOVE FFS, I can't stop the magic stairs!"
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Very similar to emerging from the jet bridge thingy after disembarking an aeroplane and the elderly couple ahead of you are compelled to stop dead in their tracks to stare wide eyed and open mouthed and take in the absolutely stratospheric wonder of … Terminal C concourse at Newark Airport.
 
Mousehold Mackem said:
And tell you what's coming up next in the programme after the adverts. Pure padding
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Or something the BBC started doing. This weeks episode finishes and a trailer/general overview of the next episode comes on after 3 seconds of the closing titles. Usually it contains spoilers. I try make sure I'm poised with a remote ready to press stop or turn the telly off.
 
Sgt Pepper said:
Another trip to Newcastle Central Station early this morning to drop the missus off and without fail once again a daft shite stops to drop someone off just inside the short stay entrance. Worse still it was a taxi driver and there was acres of space ahead he could’ve gone to, you’d think they of all people would know better. Me and a couple of others then stuck behind with one car close to blocking one lane of Neville Street. People are thick as fuck.
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I find a long blast of the horn tends to resolve that issue
 
People who moan about problems at work but avoid stating what the actual problem is.

I'm dealing with someone at the minute, and after a half hour meeting and 3 long emails (copied to lots of people including my boss), all I can get out of them is "some people can not access something and they are unhappy about it, so you must fix it ASAP". While also complaining about a few other things that have no relation to the problem in hand. I've tried asking a few people if they have any idea and nobody does.

Half my day used up on one person fretting about a massive issue, but can not name one person it is causing a problem for.

So tempting to reply "as you are giving me completely useless information that prevents me even beginning to investigate the problem but demanding solutions, I need to take a scattergun approach and try random solutions until something works. I have changed my screensaver, has this fixed the problem?".
 
Netflix documentaries that have 6 episodes when the issue could easily be addressed in one episode. They show the same bits of footage over and over again.
 
Big Jeff said:
Netflix documentaries that have 6 episodes when the issue could easily be addressed in one episode. They show the same bits of footage over and over again.
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Part of this may be due to the endless recording and summarizing to pad out the episodes as mentioned above.

I recently watched a dramatization of the Profumo business. Made about five years ago IIRC
This was handled very well in ‘Scandal’ which lasts the usual time for a fillum about 100 minutes.
This series was stretched into six hour long episodes and went on and on and on and on and on. Totally un-necessary. Made an interesting topic excruciatingly boring by the end.
 
Big Jeff said:
Netflix documentaries that have 6 episodes when the issue could easily be addressed in one episode. They show the same bits of footage over and over again.
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Have you seen the American wildlife documentaries? I have seen a few on Netflix and it shows the BBC are way ahead.

It annoys me that every animal must be named and constantly making human personality and lifestyle references to them. "And Betty can kick back and relax, knowing her cub, Bob, is happy at the all you can eat buffet".

There was something I watched with my daughter, I think it was a 3 parter about wildlife around the coast in Canada or Alaska. Every animal they followed had to be a story. Some amazing photography and they captured some excellent moments. But while the BBC know when to just shut up and leave what is on the screen to do the talking, the commentator just kept prattling on throwing in phrases like "home after a hard days work". Because of that they carry less scientific information about how the animals evolved, behave in general or facts about the species in general.

A few times I was getting so annoyed I would have turned it off if she had not been watching too.
Tex said:
Part of this may be due to the endless recording and summarizing to pad out the episodes as mentioned above.

I recently watched a dramatization of the Profumo business. Made about five years ago IIRC
This was handled very well in ‘Scandal’ which lasts the usual time for a fillum about 100 minutes.
This series was stretched into six hour long episodes and went on and on and on and on and on. Totally un-necessary. Made an interesting topic excruciatingly boring by the end.
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There was something channel 4 did, called Hunted. That was a really good concept. Get a bunch of people, put them on the run and have a police force with simulated powers of the real police try to find them. The message was, with all the CCTV and surveillance we have, could someone go on the run in the UK and stay hidden for long.

It was a great idea, and appealed to me as a security techy. But it was implemented in an awful way.

Start of the show they show some recap highlights of the previous episode(s), then say they will be catching up with them as they continue (showing flashes of activity, like someone of them saying "oh my god run"). Then you get a bit of footage of things progressing and we approach the first break. They show what is coming up, including the OMG clip again. Back from the break, you have the same OMG clip again. Do that before and after the next two advert breaks and you finally get that moment in the last few minutes. By that time, the same clip has been shown 7 times in advance, and often turned out to be something dull anyway. It is supposed to build suspense, but just pissed me off.

Add to that, the tracking of the police force was unbelievable anyway. One episode two girls decided to visit this youth hostel a friend ran. At exactly the same time, the police chief said he had been looking through their data and thought this youth hostel must be important to them, they might go there. He called one of the half dozen hunters he had, covering the whole UK, only to find that for some unknown reason the person happened to be driving through the neighbouring village and could be there in 10 minutes. High drama as the girls were nearly caught, hiding in a room. You had 5 coincidences like that every episode and the hunters were never more than 10 minutes away. Clearly all staged.
 
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DaveH said:
People who moan about problems at work but avoid stating what the actual problem is.

I'm dealing with someone at the minute, and after a half hour meeting and 3 long emails (copied to lots of people including my boss), all I can get out of them is "some people can not access something and they are unhappy about it, so you must fix it ASAP". While also complaining about a few other things that have no relation to the problem in hand. I've tried asking a few people if they have any idea and nobody does.

Half my day used up on one person fretting about a massive issue, but can not name one person it is causing a problem for.

So tempting to reply "as you are giving me completely useless information that prevents me even beginning to investigate the problem but demanding solutions, I need to take a scattergun approach and try random solutions until something works. I have changed my screensaver, has this fixed the problem?".
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You have two options:

1) Tell them to switch it off and back on - usually works.
2) Complete the online IT portal - make sure it`s full of incomprehensible questions that will put them off ever completing it - problem goes away.
 
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