Room 101

[jjbomber]

, because they think being vegan, makes them better than other people.

As a carnivore, I have no great desire to make beef into the shape of potatoes or carrots!

 

[plastic penguin]

The menus and holding systems that many companies have when you call up - I don't wish to be directed to the website for GDPR purposes, nor do I care how much you tell me my call is important to you*. If it was, someone could answer it. (I ring when things are important for the same reason I sometimes use letters - emails etc don't seem to be treated with the same gravitas or urgency.)

* Had one the other day which said that my call was important, but no-one was free right now so I should call back later - after which it went dead. Can't tell you how important that made me feel!

What really gets up 'ooter is you wait ten minutes while they go through 30 different options:

"Press one for sheep walking. Press two for cat leads" blah blah blah...

At the end they say "press 10 to speak to an operator". You press 10 and a automated voice says, "sorry, no one is available to take your call. Please try again later."

😡

 

[Gray]

What really gets up 'ooter is you wait ten minutes while they go through 30 different options

Infinitely worse for those of us not on call plans, forced into making the odd chargeable call.
What really gets me then, is a speedy pickup of the call .....only to be routed to many minutes of their internal ring tone - that I'm paying for.
I don't care how long before they answer the initial call - just wish they'd do it when they're ready to talk🤬

 

[plastic penguin]

Infinitely worse for those of us not on call plans, forced into making the odd chargeable call.
What really gets me then, is a speedy pickup of the call .....only to be routed to many minutes of their internal ring tone - that I'm paying for.
I don't care how long before they answer the initial call - just wish they'd do it when they're ready to talk🤬

That's the other pain. Paying while no one picks the phone up.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

My village has those speed cameras that are set up just to flag up your speed, and they've been migrating around its different roads for a good few months now. One presently sits outside a children's nursery, on a road with pubs, shops, some very narrow pavements (where very old buildings sit very close to the road). It's also on the crest of a hill, and with curvature, so visibility isn't great. An understandable thirty zone.

Didn't stop some dullard setting it off at 40 in today's snow and slush...

 

[Gray]

Didn't stop some dullard setting it off at 40 in today's snow and slush...

One of those ****s you'd be happy to see wrapped round a tree.

That might sound harsh readers, but you know you think the same.

 

[Friesiansam]

One of those ****s you'd be happy to see wrapped round a tree.

That might sound harsh readers, but you know you think the same.

As long as they don't hit someone else, before the tree stops them...

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Smoke alarms and their batteries. Why do they always start to beep to indicate they need replacing at some unholy hour. Like 4:08 a.m. ...

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Tailgaters - stupid, dangerous and rude. I'm not a religious man, but they deserve their own circle in Hell...

 

[Al ears]

Tailgaters - stupid, dangerous and rude. I'm not a religious man, but they deserve their own circle in Hell...

I just slow down to make their life more enjoyable...

 

[WayneKerr]

I just slow down to make their life more enjoyable...

Me too.

 

[Friesiansam]

Incompetent and/or, careless parking, eg:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-65008705

 

[plastic penguin]

Incompetent and/or, careless parking, eg:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-65008705

Speaking of parking, these supermarkets (and public car parks) should widen the parking bays or have dedicated bays for SUVs. The amount of times I've lugged the shopping back to the car and found some numpty has parked so close I can't open the door.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Speaking of parking, these supermarkets (and public car parks) should widen the parking bays or have dedicated bays for SUVs. The amount of times I've lugged the shopping back to the car and found some numpty has parked so close I can't open the door.

Like this, perhaps? Volvo was the latecomer, so I'm sure the guy in the Vauxhall was thrilled...

 

[plastic penguin]

Like this, perhaps? Volvo was the latecomer, so I'm sure the guy in the Vauxhall was thrilled...

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Yep, exactly like that. On many occasions I've had to go through the passenger door, not easy with a handbrake or gear knob stuck up your archipelago.

 

[plastic penguin]

Like this, perhaps? Volvo was the latecomer, so I'm sure the guy in the Vauxhall was thrilled...

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You can also just make out the faded bay lines. They are both inside their respective bays, yet modern cars swallow up every last inch

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

You can also just make out the faded bay lines. They are both inside their respective bays, yet modern cars swallow up every last inch

Cars have got progressively fatter and bays have stayed the same. People's desire to drive something tall, heavy and with barn door aerodynamics, doesn't help...

 

[WayneKerr]

Cars have got progressively fatter and bays have stayed the same. People's desire to drive something tall, heavy and with barn door aerodynamics, doesn't help...

My next car will be a Kia Picanto, or similar, for this very reason

 

[plastic penguin]

Cars have got progressively fatter and bays have stayed the same. People's desire to drive something tall, heavy and with barn door aerodynamics, doesn't help...

Well, most of these SUVs have the aerodynamics of a house brick regardless of what the brochure says.

And living in a village some SUVs/Chelsea tractors are the width of a Transit van.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

And living in a village some SUVs/Chelsea tractors are the width of a Transit van.

I've always hated them - I appreciate that for some the ease of ingress might make sense, but suspect that's a factor in 0.003% of purchases/leases.

 

[plastic penguin]

I've always hated them - I appreciate that for some the ease of ingress might make sense, but suspect that's a factor in 0.003% of purchases/leases.

This is the road I have to use to get to the shops and (ahem) pub.

So narrow if a bus comes the other way say adios to your door mirror.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

pub.

So narrow if a bus comes the other way say adios to your door mirror.

Can't say I see the point in going to the pub by car!

 

[Gray]

My next car will be a Kia Picanto, or similar, for this very reason

The woman next door to me has got one.
If nothing else it seems very reliable - and will be a lot lighter on road tax than my 2 litre Focus (but then i think most cars are )

 

[plastic penguin]

Can't say I see the point in going to the pub by car!

I don't. I walk. The point I'm making is to get any food or other essentials, we have no choice but to use this road.

What makes it worse is there's an industrial estate and our railway station, so there's a quite a lot of HGVs and buses using the same 'B' road.

It's a nightmare if you're not familiar with the area.

 

[jjbomber]

Can't say I see the point in going to the pub by car!

Sometimes people get too drunk to walk home!