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Post by q8 on Aug 15, 2005 10:18:04 GMT
 Everybody has a pet hate that they rave about. Mine is Cellophane and why manufactures insist on using the damn stuff when clingfilm is far better and easier for arthritic hans to remove. Whats your main beef ?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2005 18:46:51 GMT
Ah yes, cellophane. I purchased a box set of DVD's the other day, only to find the box itself was wrapped in this offending material. Imagine my seething anger when I then find that each indivudual DVD [25 in total] was also wrapped in this. Such a waste! And not just of my time neither...
Pet hate - job related - people who hold the doors open for all and sundry
Pet hate - off duty - customers in banks/shops that ask such STUPID questions, holding me and everyone else up
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Post by compsci on Aug 15, 2005 21:56:31 GMT
Yes, people who know nothing at all about the banking system drive me insane. At least you can feed your cheques to the gobbler instead and avoid the queue. Except when someone tries to put cash in the paying in slip slot. Then tries again. And again. Even though there are pictures to guide you. Unfortunately the the staff were too busy willing themselves not to throttle several other customers, so they didn't notice this until the machine had gone mad and displayed an out of order message.
If only EDO doors had become more widespread people would have quickly got the message that leaping through them is likely to have rather dire consequences.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2005 22:19:51 GMT
Work pet hate: people who are in on a Saturday morning, but can't be bothered to answer the door to the postman delivering their eBay auction wins. Click the link below: i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/David5032/miscellaneous/p739a.jpgGeneral pet hate: That plastic stuff that things like memory cards, computer leads and tools come wrapped in. It's sharper than a diamond drill if you cut it and is nearly always ten times the size of the product it's holding. Q8 - Try undoing the cellophane on a mini disc. Scream |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2005 23:41:03 GMT
Work pet hate: people who are in on a Saturday morning, but can't be bothered to answer the door to the postman delivering their eBay auction wins. Click the link below. Bleeding postmen should work dead lates or nights like we do. Then see if you want to get up early on a Saturday morning to open the door. I've often thought of wiring my doorbell up to the mains. Fried postman or Jehovas witness downstairs and me comfy in bed upstairs.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2005 5:48:23 GMT
Done that, five years of permanent nights, six nights a week and done lates on the buses.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2005 7:14:15 GMT
I've often thought of wiring my doorbell up to the mains. Mains? Mains? Three phase surely! (cue compsci to tell me I've been reading too much BOFH recently....) |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2005 11:43:29 GMT
I also like to watch people attempting to use the MFM ticket machines, despite the dot matrix saying NO NOTES, then watch them try and force feed it a tenner.
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Post by rayb on Aug 17, 2005 20:33:28 GMT
People that wait in a bus queue with others for ages, get to the driver and then scramble around for their purse/wallet/ticket etc.
I would vote for anyone that advocated a policy of booting such offenders off buses.
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Post by Chris M on Aug 17, 2005 21:06:39 GMT
People that wait in a bus queue with others for ages, get to the driver and then scramble around for their purse/wallet/ticket etc. I would vote for anyone that advocated a policy of booting such offenders off buses. RayB I'd vote to bring back conductors so that the driver can actually drive the bus and this didn't hold up the busses. Chris |
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Post by Christopher J on Aug 17, 2005 21:08:13 GMT
People who walk slowly up and down stairs, if someone has a reason for walking slowly, for example if they're elderly or have a disability, I can understand that, but Chavvy Gangs who huddle up in a group walking slowly blocking people behind them from getting past really does bite my biscuit...
One day one of them is going to catch me in the wrong mood and is going to get a complementary flying lesson down the stairs on behalf of me! ;D
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2005 20:11:15 GMT
Now now Mr J; Violence is SO unnecessary, especially when on the receiving end...
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Post by compsci on Aug 25, 2005 20:17:17 GMT
After living in a shared house with 15 other people all summer, people abandoning their washing in the washing machine and/or tumble dryer so that I have to remove it to get any of my own done is starting to drive me really mad.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2005 20:29:27 GMT
Ugh, dont talk to me about shared houses. I recently stayed over with a friend for a couple of nights and to say that others treated the place like a pig sty is putting it very mildly. I'm not even going to describe the state of the shared kitchen and bathroom. I'm sure any self respecting rat would have deserted that place. ugh!!!
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Post by compsci on Aug 25, 2005 21:18:16 GMT
Luckily housekeeping sort the bathroom and kitchen up (apart from washing up unless your bedder is a goddess). There are three kitchens in this house, so the people living in the basement (who are reasonably tidy) have commandeered the basement kitchen.
Someone still had the cheek to eat someone elses homemade cakes, despite them being in a sealed box. She debated creating a special batch containing cholera or similar as a means of punishing this behaviour.
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Post by q8 on Aug 26, 2005 6:13:45 GMT
Someone still had the cheek to eat someone elses homemade cakes, despite them being in a sealed box. She debated creating a special batch containing cholera or similar as a means of punishing this behaviour.
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Oh you just brought back a wonderful memory C ;D I'll put it the historical section.
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Post by chris on Aug 26, 2005 8:34:57 GMT
One of my hates is parents who offer their children money for good results at school. Whatever happened to working for your own reward?
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Post by compsci on Aug 26, 2005 8:59:56 GMT
Scholars (usuall defined as people getting firsts in their previous year's exam) round here get some form of prize to award their efforts. It was £150 for me, but far more in the hideously rich colleges, or those with fewer firsts than average.
The money tends to be eclipsed by the invites to the Matriculation (freshers) and Benefactors dinners, where the menu tends to be rather outlandish, and getting totally drunk is pretty much compulsory.
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Post by Tom on Aug 26, 2005 9:50:04 GMT
and getting totally drunk is pretty much compulsory. Why does that sound like the occasions I've had dinner with a hedgehog? And for the record my pet hates are: Cyclists who ride on the pavement and /or through red lights, people who park on double yellow lines, etc etc... |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2005 10:02:48 GMT
and getting totally drunk is pretty much compulsory. Why does that sound like the occasions I've had dinner with a hedgehog? Or perhaps the ones when you've had a hedgehog for dinner?  |
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Everybody has a pet hate that they rave about. Mine is Cellophane and why manufactures insist on using the damn stuff when clingfilm is far better and easier for arthritic hans to remove.
