Things We Hate

[Veggie Legs]

Power cuts.

I always wonder how people lived teenage life without a mobile phone. It must have been a difficult time.

You just talked to people, made plans and then followed them through. It's not that challenging.

 

[SUTSS]

Trying to get on at the right time to get tickets for the Olympics was painful. I did finally manage to get some tickets to watch Australia v Germany in the Men's Hockey semis after many days of refreshing and hoping to get something.

 

[Oaf]

I'll always regret that I never went for anything for the Olympics.

Then when you get tickets in the basket and know you only have half an hour til you are kicked out of the site to the back of a bigger queue than before, you wonder if it's worth trying to get better tickets where people may have been timed out or didn't purchase before being kicked out themselves!

Or the night before you realise stubhub and ticketmaster have the events already online with only 200 tickets for the event, click on it and find it's the majority of the front fucking blocks.

Or, OR, when ticketmaster decides that you've been refreshing too much and must OBVIOUSLY be some kind of computer, so it fucking blocks you for 24 hours. BASTARDS.

 

[mnb089mnb]

I went to loads of stuff in the Olympics. Opening ceremony, 100m final, canoeing, BMX, handball, waterpolo, cycling. It was amazing. Best sporting experience of my life. Still really sad that it'll never happen again. London 2012 was probably the best summer I've ever had.

 

[SUTSS]

I was in the same boat having to buy only the cheapest tickets which made it much harder. Luckily, my dad worked for Greater Anglia at the time so I got free train travel from Norwich to London otherwise I'd never have managed to get to anything. Went to the anniversary games as well the year after. Went to the athletics at the paralympics and got tickets in the half of the press area that wasn't taken up by foreign press so had great seats complete with a desk.

 

[Aberstone]

I got a winning number with the numerous prizes coca-cola were offering at the time. Women's wrestling at the Excel with £75 on a Visa card to use for travel/food purposes. Great day out, beaming sunshine all day and several beers in the pub afterwards.

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Back to the purpose of the thread - people on their phone when driving.

 

[G.B]

Virgin Media.

 

[Alty]

I hate it when people say shoulder charge instead of shoulder barge.

 

[IanH]

I get pissed on when people mix down their phrasal verbs.

 

[Pliny Harris]

Whatever school of ethics it is when people only do good deeds if they can whore about it non-stop on Twitter and Facebook and are otherwise useless.

 

[SeasideKurt]

Having to wake up, walk to work. Get into work via four flights of stairs, trust me, strenuous. Open an office. Go to other offices. Realise that there is NO fucker in. Lock up office. And do the reverse roughly 30 minutes later. Waste. Of. My. Life.

 

[Bilo]

I was with you at waking up.

 

[Bobbin']

Having to wake up, walk to work. Get into work via four flights of stairs, trust me, strenuous. Open an office. Go to other offices. Realise that there is NO fucker in. Lock up office. And do the reverse roughly 30 minutes later. Waste. Of. My. Life.

So if it was the complete reverse, you were back in bed roughly within the hour?

I'll swap jobs.

 

[mowgli]

The BBC with it's endless cookery/antiques programmes and most of their schedule taken up with f*cking repeats of repeats for which we pay £145 a year for.

 

[Whitechapel]

The BBC with it's endless cookery/antiques programmes and most of their schedule taken up with f*cking repeats of repeats for which we pay £145 a year for.

I hope you don't include Bargain Hunt in this grumble?

Tim Wonnacott makes every weekday lunch break a joy.

 

[Red]

I was with you at waking up.

You're sharing his bed?

 

[SamScfc]

Something that really pisses me off is when you give way to someone and they don't do that wave thing (say thanks is basically what I'm saying)

I've only been driving 6 months and never understood why my Dad got pissed off when it happened to him, bellends

 

[Red]

It's such a small gesture of thanks to give as well, not like it's costing them anything. When I was driving I used to put my hand up and give the wave that they should have given to who didn't initially wave. Sometimes they'd instinctively wave back. Other times I'd give them the wanker sign. They're probably the same dickheads who can't be fucked to indicate when they're on a roundabout. Everyone else on the road is just an inconvenience for them

 

[Dazza]

As annoying as dickheads who drive in the middle lane on the motorway when the left hand lane is clear.

 

[SALTIRE]

Thats something thats never bothered me I have to say. I'm a weaver, ducking and diving across all the lanes

 

[Dazza]

Thats something thats never bothered me I have to say. I'm a weaver, ducking and diving across all the lanes

So it was you who cut me up on the M40 when i drove back from Wolverhampton on Saturday.

 

[SALTIRE]

So it was you who cut me up on the M40 when i drove back from Wolverhampton on Saturday.

Not me this week - I was getting pished in Bonny Dundee!

 

[Bobbin']

Yeah, you should always acknowledge the fact they have said thank you.

A little wave or smile and nod of the head.

 

[lordofthepies]

I hate when people don't wave back to acknowledge that I waved to acknowledge their wave to say thank you. Those people are wankers.

 

[Dazza]

The bastard drilling a hole in the pavement by my house when i have a headache

 

[G.B]

Do you do the thank you acknowledgement wave back when they do it? I've always done it as I thought that was the rule, apparently I'm in the minority?

Yeah, has to be done.

A flash of the headlights in the dark. Or if they're behind you a couple of flashes from the hazards. Both technically violations but them's the rules of the road.

You know who are mega polite and courteous drivers? Truckers. Odd that, you'd think they'd be raging maniacs given the amount of time they spend on the road dealing with knob headed drivers.

 

[mowgli]

I hope you don't include Bargain Hunt in this grumble?

Tim Wonnacott makes every weekday lunch break a joy.

Including Bargain Hunt, sorry but he's a dick!

 

[RavenBish]

Those reasoning tests for grad jobs and that. Most use completely different companies to carry out the tests but I've just done a verbal test which was frankly utterly impossible at some points.The time you had to read the passage wasn't enough to then answer the question, which was generally 'which 2 or 3 conclusions can be drawn from this' but then if you just tried to skim through it, you had no chance successfully picking out the 3 correct answers. The only ones I think I got right were stuff like 'which word in paragraph 2 could replace the term 'inexorable''

It was a Talent Q one and fuck me, I pray to God I never apply to another company ever again that uses them. Generally, reasoning tests are quite simple work.

 

[SamScfc]

Do you do the thank you acknowledgement wave back when they do it? I've always done it as I thought that was the rule, apparently I'm in the minority?

I don't wave I just give a slight nod of the head, if they don't do it I give them the V

 

[Aberstone]

As annoying as dickheads who drive in the middle lane on the motorway when the left hand lane is clear.

That winds me up to no end, especially when they're going at 60-65 too.

On the subject of manners on the road, Lutonian taxi drivers are normally terrible at acknowledging another drivers giving way and other kind gestures however one did flash their hazards last night after I slowed down to let them pull out.