Random Irritations

[williamalex1]

I'm pulling my hair out trying to get my new smart printer to print, scan and copy files/pictures from my laptop, the wife's iPad, and both our mobiles . I'll get there eventually, quite pleased with the progress so far, considering computers weren't even invented when I was at school.
We printed/copied using pencils, pens with nibs, ink wells, and used blotting paper, deleted with an eraser/rubber

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Political posts yet again
Just stop it please

Infractions and bans will follow if you can’t control yourselves

 

[Billysboots]

People who sit in the aisle seat on a crowded train, leaving the window seat vacant, whilst other passengers are standing.

 

[pendodave]

People who sit in the aisle seat on a crowded train, leaving the window seat vacant, whilst other passengers are standing.

Same with bags on seats.
TBH though, I don't understand why anyone would stand in these circumstances. I take a perverse pleasure in asking very loudly for the offender to move themselves/their bag to allow me to sit down.

 

[PJ87]

HMRC, writing to my wife saying she owes £1100 tax from 2018-19

ive checked her payslips .. she earned under the personal allowance that year.. so how does she owe her a penny?

10 mins on hold so far ..

 

[Jimaroid]

Condiments with HOT ??? on the label that are NOT

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

HMRC, writing to my wife saying she owes £1100 tax from 2018-19

ive checked her payslips .. she earned under the personal allowance that year.. so how does she owe her a penny?

10 mins on hold so far ..

Carrried over from previous years? My Mrs claimed for some allowances last tax year that she hasn’t previously claimed tax relief on. HMRC have written to her and they seem to have gone back 5yrs to check her tax…then with the allowances taxes into a count accumulated to the present day - and part of that accumulation seemed to include some tax underpaid for some years that they had not previously spotted. So has your Mrs recently claimed for something against tax if she is normally PAYE?

 

[PJ87]

Carrried over from previous years? My Mrs claimed for some allowances last tax year that she hasn’t previously claimed tax relief on. HMRC have written to her and they seem to have gone back 5yrs to check her tax…then with the allowances taxes into a count accumulated to the present day - and part of that accumulation seemed to include some tax underpaid for some years that they had not previously spotted. So has your Mrs recently claimed for something against tax if she is normally PAYE?

finally got through to them.. her school basically submitted 5000 as a p45 when she worked 2 jobs for them even though it was included in the normal payslips as she was unpaid most of the year due to last stages of mat leave

so their admin department

 

[Imurg]

As I was in the vicinity and needed to check prices, I went to the local Halfords today to peruse their selection of replacement windscwipers.
In the past they've had a little flip-over booklet with all the info in..find your car, find the code, find the wipers - Simples....
Nowadays it's all gone modern..a touchscreen, ipad size, that gives you the same info...
Until you walk up to it and a message on the screen says the site is undergoing maintenance - please come back later. Great.
And none of the staff knew which wipers I needed or when the system would be back up and running.
Bloody useless
Oh how I love it when technology works....and I miss the little flip-over booklet.
It's called Progress...apparently

 

[Mudball]

As I was in the vicinity and needed to check prices, I went to the local Halfords today to peruse their selection of replacement windscwipers.
In the past they've had a little flip-over booklet with all the info in..find your car, find the code, find the wipers - Simples....
Nowadays it's all gone modern..a touchscreen, ipad size, that gives you the same info...
Until you walk up to it and a message on the screen says the site is undergoing maintenance - please come back later. Great.
And none of the staff knew which wipers I needed or when the system would be back up and running.
Bloody useless
Oh how I love it when technology works....and I miss the little flip-over booklet.
It's called Progress...apparently

They expect you to use the backup system.... Go online on ur phone, go to theri website and get the data... simples. Come on grandad.
This info is available on tiktok but u wont know it..

 

[Dando]

People who sit in the aisle seat on a crowded train, leaving the window seat vacant, whilst other passengers are standing.

I nearly always sit in the aisle seat otherwise you get squashed against the side.

 

[Imurg]

They expect you to use the backup system.... Go online on ur phone, go to theri website and get the data... simples. Come on grandad.
This info is available on tiktok but u wont know it..

Yeah...but the system...the whole system...was undergoing maintenance......Halfords Online wasn't...
Had there been a flip-over booklet I'd possibly be the proud owner of a new pair of wipers....but, looking now, as the system is back on..they don't stock them anyway....

 

[IanM]

Athletico Madrid. Very irritating.

 

[fundy]

Forgetting the car was due at the garage for service and MOT first thing this morning

 

[Foxholer]

Narrow minded football fans!
Or should that be... Football fans narrow mindedness!
Plenty of examples on this forum.
Oh! And, unfortunately, it's not really a 'random' irritation either. Rather a 'consistent' irritation, if randomly triggered!

 

[Pathetic Shark]

TV presenters and guests who do not know the difference between true refugees, asylum seekers, economic migrants and illegal immigrants.

 

[Mudball]

TV presenters and guests who do not know the difference between true refugees, asylum seekers, economic migrants and illegal immigrants.

I am no TV presenter.. but aren't they the same?

 

[PNWokingham]

Dental hygienist. Just spent a very uncomfortable 30 mins in the chair cleaning 3 years f plaque build up and with receding gums. I am so traumatised I am walking round the corner for a steak and pint!

 

[Neilds]

I am no TV presenter.. but aren't they the same?

I thought the same so I googles it.

According to Amnesty International:
A refugee is a person who has fled their own country because they are at risk of serious human rights violations and persecution there.
An asylum-seeker is a person who has left their country and is seeking protection from persecution and serious human rights violations in another country, but who hasn’t yet been legally recognized as a refugee and is waiting to receive a decision on their asylum claim.
There is no internationally accepted legal definition of a migrant.

So I think they are very much interchangeable in normal conversation and most people would know what you are talking about.

 

[GB72]

Easter, in fact public holidays in general. I am not a religious perosn but can we not have at least one public holiday that is not cheapened by wave after wave of worthless tat being pushed down your throat. Not eveything has to be 'celebrated' by buying cards and presents.