Little things that irritate you
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Re: Little things that irritate you
Doesn't Paddy the Pirate fly Venice out of East Mids?...might be an option..
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Re: Little things that irritate you
]just getting an email from BA cancelling our flights to venice a day before their scheduled pilot strike :shock:[/quote]
I got one of those as well, at least I managed to change my flights to a few days earlier for no extra charge.
Looks like I'll be spending a little longer in Blighty this time.[/quote]
we do get refunded , but we still have to get out to venice on the 8th , we managed to book with ryan air from standted which was a result to be honest
I got one of those as well, at least I managed to change my flights to a few days earlier for no extra charge.
Looks like I'll be spending a little longer in Blighty this time.[/quote]
we do get refunded , but we still have to get out to venice on the 8th , we managed to book with ryan air from standted which was a result to be honest
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Re: Little things that irritate you
All a mistake apparentlychigwells finest wrote:just getting an email from BA cancelling our flights to venice a day before their scheduled pilot strike :shock:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49460958
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Well what can I say about my 2-3 hours before I got home from football. Ended up in the Hamilton Hall at Liverpool Street got a beer with a few friends. Ended up chatting with some Chelsea supporters. My friends went off for their trains and I ended up chatting with the Chelsea boys alone.
It was all going well, was finishing up my beer about to make a move to Fenchurch Street. Out of nowhere a bloke I weren’t even talking to shouts “D’you just call me a Spurs?!”
I said no, because I hadn’t. He kept asking more and more then was right against the table between us. “What are you a Spurs then?” He asks. “Nah I’m West Ham been chatting with your mates for a while now”. “No you’re a Spurs”
The people around him calm him down, I swiftly see off my pint and take the glass. Quick trot around Tesco to get a few drinks and ballast if worst comes to worst. Start making my way to fenchurch and see some people kinda following me so I walk through the side roads and alleys. Get to fenchurch Street, my worries are over life is good once again. Until...
Went for a piss in the train toilets, all as it should be then push the flush button. Next thing I know, the pits of hell have erupted in this confined space. I try opening the door, no luck. I try knocking on the door, no luck. I start banging the f*** out the door, no luck still. The smell is overwhelming now, I didn’t want but I ended up pressing the button that gets you in touch with the driver or a member of staff. Yeah, didn’t really work that way. I’m now having a bit of a panic attack. I am not in a good place. I have one last option to try and pull the door open. Floor is now filling with what appears to be someone’s vomit. I pull on the door hard as I can.
Then there goes my footing, I’m slipping arse over tit. Grabbing way anything to stay off the deck, in my desperate struggle I’ve damn near knocked myself out on the door controls. Someone hears the commotion and finally opens the door. That was an error on their part. Had to get a lift from my old man at the next station. Stripping off near bollock naked in a station car park with a possible concussion, yeah how was your Saturday?!
It was all going well, was finishing up my beer about to make a move to Fenchurch Street. Out of nowhere a bloke I weren’t even talking to shouts “D’you just call me a Spurs?!”
I said no, because I hadn’t. He kept asking more and more then was right against the table between us. “What are you a Spurs then?” He asks. “Nah I’m West Ham been chatting with your mates for a while now”. “No you’re a Spurs”
The people around him calm him down, I swiftly see off my pint and take the glass. Quick trot around Tesco to get a few drinks and ballast if worst comes to worst. Start making my way to fenchurch and see some people kinda following me so I walk through the side roads and alleys. Get to fenchurch Street, my worries are over life is good once again. Until...
Went for a piss in the train toilets, all as it should be then push the flush button. Next thing I know, the pits of hell have erupted in this confined space. I try opening the door, no luck. I try knocking on the door, no luck. I start banging the f*** out the door, no luck still. The smell is overwhelming now, I didn’t want but I ended up pressing the button that gets you in touch with the driver or a member of staff. Yeah, didn’t really work that way. I’m now having a bit of a panic attack. I am not in a good place. I have one last option to try and pull the door open. Floor is now filling with what appears to be someone’s vomit. I pull on the door hard as I can.
Then there goes my footing, I’m slipping arse over tit. Grabbing way anything to stay off the deck, in my desperate struggle I’ve damn near knocked myself out on the door controls. Someone hears the commotion and finally opens the door. That was an error on their part. Had to get a lift from my old man at the next station. Stripping off near bollock naked in a station car park with a possible concussion, yeah how was your Saturday?!
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Re: Little things that irritate you
Seeing someone in a supermarket having a long chat with them saying bye then bumping into them down the next aisle for the witty 1 liner.
- Whitters
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Re: Little things that irritate you
Greatest Cockney Rip Off wrote:
Sileage or rapeseed does it for me... absolute nightmare. Constant sneezing and running nose. Eyes stinging too sometimes. Funny thing is, I never had hay fever until I moved to Kent.
I've had hayfever every summer since the age of 5 (lived in Kent too but I don't think it's linked!), and I'm in my late forties now.
A couple of years ago I went for an allergy test where they put 30 or so pricks of different allergens in the skin of your inside forearms and leave you there for 15 minutes and see what reacts and swells up. It must have been the longest 15 minutes of my life as I couldn't scratch the itches.
Turns out it was a strong reaction to grass pollen as I suspected, moderately to cats, and very slightly to dogs - luckily our dog is a breed that is good for allergy sufferers. Everything else was fine.
I started a 3 year programme of desensitization injections, one injection a week for the first 2-3 months, then one per month for the next 3 years. This summer, so about half way through the programme, I've not had to take a single antihistamine tablet, when it is normally one or two per day. I wish I'd done it years ago as May to July used to be miserable.
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Re: Little things that irritate you
Never had any allergies thank goodness but when I lived down West Cornwall, even in Penzance the pollen at soilidge (aaaarrr) cuttin' toime was so severe I couldn't wear contact lenses cos it'd stick to the lenses and itch like crazy. I wore a hole in a soft lens one day from rubbing my eye.
My Mum had it terrible and it's a real affliction.
My Mum had it terrible and it's a real affliction.
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Re: Little things that irritate you
That's interesting. I've heard of these tests so may well have to try one.Whitters wrote:I've had hayfever every summer since the age of 5 (lived in Kent too but I don't think it's linked!), and I'm in my late forties now.
A couple of years ago I went for an allergy test where they put 30 or so pricks of different allergens in the skin of your inside forearms and leave you there for 15 minutes and see what reacts and swells up. It must have been the longest 15 minutes of my life as I couldn't scratch the itches.
Turns out it was a strong reaction to grass pollen as I suspected, moderately to cats, and very slightly to dogs - luckily our dog is a breed that is good for allergy sufferers. Everything else was fine.
I started a 3 year programme of desensitization injections, one injection a week for the first 2-3 months, then one per month for the next 3 years. This summer, so about half way through the programme, I've not had to take a single antihistamine tablet, when it is normally one or two per day. I wish I'd done it years ago as May to July used to be miserable.
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It's well worth it. My 8 year old daughter was sneezing a lot and for a long time and so we did this for her too (actually on reflection that was the longest 15 minutes of my life - trying to get her to sit still and not scratch the itches). Thankfully everything turned up negative for her and so it was just a persistent cold.Greatest Cockney Rip Off wrote:
That's interesting. I've heard of these tests so may well have to try one.
They test for lots of different things, including grass, tree and rapeseed pollen, house dust and mites, fungal air spores, different animals, some food types, etc. It's very thorough.
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Re: Little things that irritate you
Doing a job that I enjoy and have done for 20yrs, but working for a company that is absolutely dogshit.
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Working in what must be London's crappest, most decrepit and badly maintained office, with no aircon and shockingly bad toilets.
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Virgin sodding media - they have to be the worse company in the UK
Firstly their now annual £3.50 increase
More - for reasons unknown to me my £18 a month loyalty discount has been removed (I've been a customer since 2003) this is not the first time they have done this.
More so my £32 a month Broadband only service has risen to £74! (yes £32+£18 =£74)
There is more, I have spent the best part of 12 hours today trying to get in touch with them. Two phone lines (my own mobile and work line). Online chat on my work PC and mobile and later my home PC.
Nothing. Most of the time you cannot get through, if you do the automated number system disconnects and on the one occasion I got beyond that I was told all the lines are busy please phone tomorrow.
I've left them a snotty message on twitter and will try again tomorrow, if it is the same then the ombudsman will get an email. It is 2019 we should have 24/7 online service.
Firstly their now annual £3.50 increase
More - for reasons unknown to me my £18 a month loyalty discount has been removed (I've been a customer since 2003) this is not the first time they have done this.
More so my £32 a month Broadband only service has risen to £74! (yes £32+£18 =£74)
There is more, I have spent the best part of 12 hours today trying to get in touch with them. Two phone lines (my own mobile and work line). Online chat on my work PC and mobile and later my home PC.
Nothing. Most of the time you cannot get through, if you do the automated number system disconnects and on the one occasion I got beyond that I was told all the lines are busy please phone tomorrow.
I've left them a snotty message on twitter and will try again tomorrow, if it is the same then the ombudsman will get an email. It is 2019 we should have 24/7 online service.
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Yes, yes they are.wolf359 wrote:Virgin sodding media - they have to be the worse company in the UK
When I was with them paying £88 p/m, I phoned to cancel. One of their phoneline twunts offered me half price for 3 months to stay on. I asked him if this meant I would be under contract. Twunt assured me no contract. Roll on 3 months, price goes back up, I phone to cancel, Virgin tell me I'm under contract and have to buy said contract out.
In the end I bought myself out, and will never ever go back. Terrible, terrible company.
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Re: Little things that irritate you
The vet.
"I have no idea what is wrong with your cat's eye but she does seem to be in a lot of distress. Give me £350 and go away now".
"I have no idea what is wrong with your cat's eye but she does seem to be in a lot of distress. Give me £350 and go away now".
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£350 is a lot of money for a cat scan.Monkeybubbles wrote:The vet.
"I have no idea what is wrong with your cat's eye but she does seem to be in a lot of distress. Give me £350 and go away now".
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*APPLAUSE AND HOOTING*Sauce! wrote: £350 is a lot of money for a cat scan.
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I’d just come back from Watford away couldn’t be further from Spurs if I tried really. Mild concussion in this weather has not been great.jastons wrote:^ That is funny as f*ck and what you deserve for being Spurs :lol:
In other annoying things, patio furniture. We’ve got a decent bit of decking in the garden and decided to get some furniture for it. Since the day it arrived I’ve not been able to walk near it without smashing my toe on one of the poxy chairs.