Random Irritations

I must have one of those faces 🤣

Security at Cologne airport.
Do you have any liquids in the bag…just hair cream really…can I have a look please…it’s too big you need to throw it away…this deodorant can is also too big, you need to throw it away as well as your toothpaste which is also too big…ok no problem.

Go through scanner, get patted down despite nothing beeping.

Putting my belt back on and gathering my things I notice my laptop is missing.
Look over and a guy beckons me over…is this your laptop and passport… yes it is… do you have a boarding pass, can I see it…where are you flying to, London? (boarding pass clearly says Edinburgh 🤣)…no Edinburgh I reply.
Two policemen with machine guns come behind me…can you turn on your laptop please…ok…5 seconds into it booting…ok that’s enough you can go through now.

Pretty certain they were just taking the pass out of me 😧🤣
 
Trying to get a refund from a utility company, talk about banging your head against a wall!

I requested a refund of the overpayment sum and adjusted my DD, the alteration to the DD was accepted by the system, but the refund which I was advised would be in my bank account later this week has been added to the utility statement credit, so now showing that I have double the credit, I've half a mind to re do the refund request and have some of their money in my bank account - see how they like it! :LOL:
 
Beezerk said:
I must have one of those faces 🤣

Security at Cologne airport.
Do you have any liquids in the bag…just hair cream really…can I have a look please…it’s too big you need to throw it away…this deodorant can is also too big, you need to throw it away as well as your toothpaste which is also too big…ok no problem.

Go through scanner, get patted down despite nothing beeping.

Putting my belt back on and gathering my things I notice my laptop is missing.
Look over and a guy beckons me over…is this your laptop and passport… yes it is… do you have a boarding pass, can I see it…where are you flying to, London? (boarding pass clearly says Edinburgh 🤣)…no Edinburgh I reply.
Two policemen with machine guns come behind me…can you turn on your laptop please…ok…5 seconds into it booting…ok that’s enough you can go through now.

Pretty certain they were just taking the pass out of me 😧🤣
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They'd run out of gloves....
 
The totally over-the-top hype on the BBC website about the women's Ashes. I just tried to watch some of it - it's appalling standard, no better than low club cricket. Yet just like the women's Premier League football, it is being rammed down our throats under the whole equality thing. Perhaps other people like it but this is more than just a random irritation to me.
 
Asian Dawn said:
The totally over-the-top hype on the BBC website about the women's Ashes. I just tried to watch some of it - it's appalling standard, no better than low club cricket. Yet just like the women's Premier League football, it is being rammed down our throats under the whole equality thing. Perhaps other people like it but this is more than just a random irritation to me.
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If I were you I would be more irritated with the people who tied you up and forced you to read all it 😄
 
Asian Dawn said:
The totally over-the-top hype on the BBC website about the women's Ashes. I just tried to watch some of it - it's appalling standard, no better than low club cricket. Yet just like the women's Premier League football, it is being rammed down our throats under the whole equality thing. Perhaps other people like it but this is more than just a random irritation to me.
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I do understand this. I'm all for equality and growth of women's sport but when I click a news article saying "west ham sign new striker" I expect to read about the men's team

By all mean say west ham ladies sign a new striker

And by same standard refer to the men's as west ham men's team

Anything to stop me reading things I'm not interested in reading
 
Asian Dawn said:
The totally over-the-top hype on the BBC website about the women's Ashes. I just tried to watch some of it - it's appalling standard, no better than low club cricket. Yet just like the women's Premier League football, it is being rammed down our throats under the whole equality thing. Perhaps other people like it but this is more than just a random irritation to me.
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I watched a bit of it yesterday. Player missed a straight one, clean bowled. The commentator was talking as if it was Shane Warne's ball of the century.

These girls work and train hard. Many are much better than they get credit for. But they deserve not to be patronised like that.

Talk about the improvement. Talk about the good play. They don't need the nonsense.

That's what I find irritating. 😁
 
Recently having to fix my lad’s gaming PC due to a failed motherboard, only for my own system to start it’s nonsense today.

Think my mobo is also on its way out. Oddly though this seems to be following a BIOS update. Surely not linked 🤔🤔.
 
Daily news stories about the extreme heat/heatwaves, when it's barely mid 20s.

I remember vaguely when it'd just be called summer.
 
pauljames87 said:
I do understand this. I'm all for equality and growth of women's sport but when I click a news article saying "west ham sign new striker" I expect to read about the men's team

By all mean say west ham ladies sign a new striker

And by same standard refer to the men's as west ham men's team

Anything to stop me reading things I'm not interested in reading
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That's the bit that annoys me, just clickbait to get more clicks on the women's articles. "Liverpool sack manager" is obviously going to get more clicks if you don't say it's the ladies team. If anything it just annoys people into biasing them against the women's sports.
 
adam6177 said:
Daily news stories about the extreme heat/heatwaves, when it's barely mid 20s.

I remember vaguely when it'd just be called summer.
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You say that but amount of track side fires we had the past week. God help when it gets roasting
 
My wife bought her dad tickets for the Durham v Yorkshire 20 20 tonight. Off we set, sailed through the usual traffic hotspots with ease. 1.2m from the ground, basically coming off the A1, we grind to a halt. It takes us 50 minutes to get to the ground. We are there 20 minutes after the start at this point.

We park, start the walk from the car park to the ground. It's a 5 minute walk, halfway there the rain begins. It gets heavier, very quickly. By the time we arrive the players have come off, covers are on. We walk around the ground, getting pretty wet but unfortunately there is minimal cover. Hey who thought it might rain in the UK and factor that in to the design of the ground 🤷‍♂️. We join a queue for food, the rain gets heavier. 10 minutes waiting we look around, the rain looks set, no sign of anything but deep grey sky.

We look at each other, stuff it. We walk back to the car, thoroughly soaked, no cricket seen ☹. Ah well.

The upsides, the rain didn't stop, game called off, we made the right decision. Whilst driving back we booked a table at a pub near to home, had a lovely bite to eat there. Redemption in the end, shame about the first bit.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
My wife bought her dad tickets for the Durham v Yorkshire 20 20 tonight. Off we set, sailed through the usual traffic hotspots with ease. 1.2m from the ground, basically coming off the A1, we grind to a halt. It takes us 50 minutes to get to the ground. We are there 20 minutes after the start at this point.

We park, start the walk from the car park to the ground. It's a 5 minute walk, halfway there the rain begins. It gets heavier, very quickly. By the time we arrive the players have come off, covers are on. We walk around the ground, getting pretty wet but unfortunately there is minimal cover. Hey who thought it might rain in the UK and factor that in to the design of the ground 🤷‍♂️. We join a queue for food, the rain gets heavier. 10 minutes waiting we look around, the rain looks set, no sign of anything but deep grey sky.

We look at each other, stuff it. We walk back to the car, thoroughly soaked, no cricket seen ☹. Ah well.

The upsides, the rain didn't stop, game called off, we made the right decision. Whilst driving back we booked a table at a pub near to home, had a lovely bite to eat there. Redemption in the end, shame about the first bit.
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When we went up to just Alnwick the other week, we couldn't belive how they drive the roadworks on the A1M, both going up and down. It seems create a 2 mile queue 1 mile before the roadworks and keep the outside lane empty for no good reason.
I just didn't get it......but not everyone seems that good at blocking a lane;)
 
People who just believe their modern-day attitudes are right irrespective of what anyone else thinks. The sort of people who believe the Emperor's new clothes are amazing.
 
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