Little things that irritate you

[the celestial insect]

Later middle-aged and older people who talk or shout loudly in the street at ungodly hours. Just because you choose to get up at 6.30am and go to buy your paper, don't be an inconsiderate ****.

Grown adults who go around on kid's scooters. I thought that embarrassing trend had died out, but I saw two of them doing it the other day down King Street Hammersmith, one of them a woman in her late-30s.

[Clacton-ammer]

"Fairly" close family members that expect me to travel down and see a few weeks old baby! All they do is moan, cry, **** and eat....meh....

Already sent prezzies! But they want me to see their new beautiful baby!!! meh again.....

meh......

[Clacton-ammer]

meh.....

[Dover KUMB fan]

Later middle-aged and older people who talk or shout loudly in the street at ungodly hours. Just because you choose to get up at 6.30am and go to buy your paper, don't be an inconsiderate ****.

Yes! yes!
There seems to be a spate of people round our way that walk their dogs at 0530 or 2330. They then decide to have a chat outside my house, which at those hours seem to be several decibels higher than normal.

Tosspots!

[Clacton-ammer]

meh....

and another thing this morning, the amount of customers/suppliers that now e-mail me with "Good morning Mr UKIP" even customers/suppliers that have nothing to do with this site that deal with the other two sites I look after!!!! I did not even vote as I don't live in the ****ing area!!!!

My happy Friday feeling is being eroded away...

[Greatest Cockney Rip Off]

meh....

and another thing this morning, the amount of customers/suppliers that now e-mail me with "Good morning Mr UKIP" even customers/suppliers that have nothing to do with this site that deal with the other two sites I look after!!!! I did not even vote as I don't live in the ****ing area!!!!

My happy Friday feeling is being eroded away...

Just reply to them with "Good Morning F@ckface".

They'll soon get the message.

[Clacton-ammer]

Will try and see what happens.

My resume is up to date so if all goes tits up I'm good to go.

[vietnammer]

Just reply to them with "Good Morning F@ckface".

Is that another political party? Vote F@ckface - you know it makes sense. I could go for that

[the celestial insect]

Is that another political party? Vote F@ckface - you know it makes sense. I could go for that

I'd put my X in the box for the Right Honourable F@ckface. A breath of fresh air...on second thoughts, maybe not so fresh.

[Tristan Shout]

Why do 4 cans of beer now have the plastic ring thingy that holds them together halfway down the cans not round the top like it used to be, whats all that about??

[Eggchaser]

Later middle-aged and older people who talk or shout loudly in the street at ungodly hours.

What as opposed to the young people that do it? Are they not irritating?

Grown adults who go around on kid's scooters.

With you on that one.

[Glory Hunter]

The relentless stream of emails, phone calls and aggressive marketing trying to screw just a bit more money out of you than you've got. For example, I renewed by bike insurance the other day, it was just over £200 (I've got two bikes) and then a couple of days later a call from my insurance saying for an extra £15 a month, I can protect my no claims bonus and for a further £10 a month I can reduce my excess should I need to claim. This came after I haggled the initial quote down by over £100 - so they were going to rip me off for £100 straight off the bat.
Then I've got EE ringing me up offering me discounts on tablets and mobiles for the rest of my family. **** off, concentrate on getting decent coverage rather than the piss poor service you offer now.
Then Talk-Talk trying to get me to move to a more expensive package to improve my connection speed
Then the ****ers in the petrol station asking me if I want coffee, sweets or any other ***** that their trying to flog that month
Then the ****ers in WHSmith asking if I want a humungus chocolate bar for £1.50
Then an almost constant barrage of emails with special offers on everything from Viagra to computers
Then the text messages and phone calls offering me everything from house insurance, cheaper electricity, PPI claims, injury lawyers etc etc.

**** OFFFFF !!! IF I WAS INTERESTED I'D RING YOU. I'M NOT SO I HAVEN'T RUNG YOU, SO KINDLY RETURN THE FAVOUR AND DON'T RING ME!!!!! EVER YOU ****ing VULTURES.

I'm a buyer mate, if my phone rings at work it's about 90% guaranteed to be someone trying to sell me something. They're always so pally too, like I'm their oldest mate. I really don't understand it as, with nearly 20 years in my profession, I have never once bought something off the back of a cold call!

[Glory Hunter]

This is probably a big thing actually but, builders.

While you can only loosely describe it as a profession, it nevertheless does seem to attract the terminally inept. I have the good fortune not to pay taxes in the UK any more but, there's a part of me that feels that Balfour Beatty asking for another fifty million (and getting 36 million of it) even though they agreed to do the job for £154million is absolutely unacceptable.

I'm pretty sure that the Pharaoh wouldn't have stood for this sort of b*llocks from an Egyptian pyramid builder - if he'd been asked for an extra sack of myrrh or whatever, the builder would have been impaled on a red hot scaffolding pole or thrown in a pit of asps or something.

Is it something to do with the educational system? When I was at college, the civil engineers seemed to spend the first year ****ing around with theodolites and the next three learning to say 'erection' without adding 'fnarr fnarr' or smirking.

They're all ***** I tell you!

What's really annoying about this is that any contract price is made up of a mix of certainty and risk (plus profit): you can be certain that you will need x hundred thousand brick (plus y hours labour to lay them), but you may have to take a risk on certain factors that may impede the job (e.g site conditions, weather, inflation etc.). If they get their risk calculation wrong then the hit should be on the contractor not the client.

The current situation with Balfour's is exacerbated by the fact that they are on their knees and may well go to the wall, without this extra £35m they would most likely abandon the job (or fold while trying to keep on with it) so, effectively, they have the government over a barrel.

In addition, inflation in the construction sector may hit 10% this year and this is putting the cost of jobs up all over the place (with some subbies walking away from jobs to take on another one where they got a better price) and wages are going up hand over fist - a fact that Nigel Farage lied about on the BBC the other day when he stated that the construction sector is suffering from wage deflation. If Balfour's walked away from the OS job, I reckon the actual overrun would be much higher (plus there'd be a huge dely to finishing the job.

The thing is, the client side can do a lot to mitigate risks pre-contract, but there is often a rush to get a contractor on site so this stuff gets brushed aside.

[Philosophical Dan]

Why do 4 cans of beer now have the plastic ring thingy that holds them together halfway down the cans not round the top like it used to be, whats all that about??

Deeply annoying.

['Appy 'Ammer]

Why do 4 cans of beer now have the plastic ring thingy that holds them together halfway down the cans not round the top like it used to be, whats all that about??

You are peter kay and a throw back to the 80s. Plus the cardboard bog roll is still there. The bitch

[Philosophical Dan]

The Great British Sewing Bee, or whatever it's called.

That, and the fact that I've enjoyed watching it.

[the celestial insect]

What as opposed to the young people that do it? Are they not irritating?

They're irritating too, but I'm willing to cut them some slack because they haven't had most of their lives to learn how to be considerate yet. At 35+, there is no excuse...for anything!

[Denbighammer]

This is probably a big thing actually but, builders.

While you can only loosely describe it as a profession, it nevertheless does seem to attract the terminally inept. I have the good fortune not to pay taxes in the UK any more but, there's a part of me that feels that Balfour Beatty asking for another fifty million (and getting 36 million of it) even though they agreed to do the job for £154million is absolutely unacceptable.

They're all ***** I tell you!

Which is why the £50bn bill for HS2 will end up at least doubling. Mark my words.

[Iron Spine v2.0]

Grown adults who go around on kid's scooters. I thought that embarrassing trend had died out, but I saw two of them doing it the other day down King Street Hammersmith, one of them a woman in her late-30s.

I considered this as a means of getting to work without killing my already knackered leg and avoiding spunking a tonne of dosh on something the local Purfleet chavs and p***** would nick the moment I left it unattended.

I agree that I'd have looked like an absolute weapon on it though so didn't follow it through.

[mushy]

and got a skateboard instead?