Little things that irritate you

[OFT]

Cheers lads.
Gone full runny nose now

Started getting that tickly throat thing Friday night. Taxi for airport due here Sunday 3am.

Cold beers good for throats ain't it

[The Old Man of Storr]

Cheers lads.
Gone full runny nose now

Started getting that tickly throat thing Friday night. Taxi for airport due here Sunday 3am.

Cold beers good for throats ain't it

Do you mean in 5 hours' time or Monday 3 am ?

Best check with the Mrs , eh ?

[OFT]

Do you mean in 5 hours' time or Monday 3 am ?

well its 4.5 hours now mate.

[bubbles1966]

Spoonful of honey straight from the jar for a sore throat. Tumeric is supposed to magical too.

[cambridge hammer]

People taking their children out of school, for holidays. I'm gonna sound a right fun sponge here, but we always holiday early September in the Greek Islands after the kids return to school. It suits us, bit of peace and tranquility. We've
done the hard yards over the years of family hotels, love the kids, adore the grandkids, but now love the small friendly oasis of duffers returning to sleep by the pool and generally do nothing. I understand exactly why parents do it, weighing off the fines by authorities against the spiralling costs of greedy tour companies. I'm looking at you here TUI!. None of these are my fault. Leaving Rhodes last night there were even more family groups arriving for their slice. No doubt this opinion won't make me popular but I need my sanity more than I need peppa pig in the swimming pool. Rant over.

[Colne Dynamo]

I take my child out of school for holidays. Only way I can afford it.

[OFT]

At about 20 to three this morning our taxi driver rang to ask if we minded sharing with another couple who's driver had vehicle issues, I know both drivers so I'm sure it was genuine. Anyway, we agreed and at 3 as arranged taxi arrived and we went a couple of streets away and picked a mum and son, early teens, up. He was sat in the back between his mum and HerOFTness. About 10 miles from the airport he asked " is there a sick bucket in the car?". Which changed the already slightly stained atmosphere. No said the driver, do you want to stop? I think I might he said,. His mum told him to take deep breaths and have a boiled sweet. We did manage to get there without any vomiting or stopping but hell that was a long 10 miles

Irritating things. People who f*** about with their cabin baggage on a plane. Up and down like a brides nightie some if them. Sit the f*** down and stay sat down you fidgeting ****wits

Im still lurgied up.

[kenthammer]

At about 20 to three this morning our taxi driver rang to ask if we minded sharing with another couple who's driver had vehicle issues, I know both drivers so I'm sure it was genuine. Anyway, we agreed and at 3 as arranged taxi arrived and we went a couple of streets away and picked a mum and son, early teens, up. He was sat in the back between his mum and HerOFTness. About 10 miles from the airport he asked " is there a sick bucket in the car?". Which changed the already slightly stained atmosphere. No said the driver, do you want to stop? I think I might he said,. His mum told him to take deep breaths and have a boiled sweet. We did manage to get there without any vomiting or stopping but hell that was a long 10 miles

Irritating things. People who **** about with their cabin baggage on a plane. Up and down like a brides nightie some if them. Sit the **** down and stay sat down you fidgeting ****wits

Im still lurgied up.

Good to see your enjoying yourself ,have a good holiday mate

[vietnammer]

Up and down like a brides nightie

That sounds distinctly old-fashioned, yet I've never heard it!

Anyhow: Deafening motorcycle exhausts. Does it make your cock an inch longer or something?

[Johnny Byrne's Boots]

^^^^or indeed any 'fartenpoppen' exhaust. What do they hope to achieve by paying for one?

[OFT]

That sounds distinctly old-fashioned, yet I've never heard it

It is mate

[Larrakeyah Hammer]

I take my child out of school for holidays. Only way I can afford it.

Here in Australia to tell people they would be fined for taking kids out of school for a holiday during school time would just be absurd

They can’t believe you get fined in the UK

Families going on road trips etc is a way of life here or holidays to fit the season in Europe etc

We know people who’ve taken their kids out of school for a year to travel the whole route around Australia
They took school work with them

[EvilC]

People taking their children out of school, for holidays. I'm gonna sound a right fun sponge here, but we always holiday early September in the Greek Islands after the kids return to school. It suits us, bit of peace and tranquility. We've
done the hard yards over the years of family hotels, love the kids, adore the grandkids, but now love the small friendly oasis of duffers returning to sleep by the pool and generally do nothing. I understand exactly why parents do it, weighing off the fines by authorities against the spiralling costs of greedy tour companies. I'm looking at you here TUI!. None of these are my fault. Leaving Rhodes last night there were even more family groups arriving for their slice. No doubt this opinion won't make me popular but I need my sanity more than I need peppa pig in the swimming pool. Rant over.

I don't know about the state of the industry but being a tour operator was very high risk and low margin, with lots of fixed costs. They've probably done alright since COVID but everyone always feels they are being ripped off. The fact is that school holidays in the summer is peak season, capacity is set to meet that demand. Outside of that time prices are way cheaper. If you want lower prices in the summer then you will need to be happy to have higher prices in June/September to subsidise those (and it would never work as this is a free market with lots of ways to substitute), which you probably won't be keen on as someone that holidays in September (and neither would I if I was you).

[Hampshire Hammer]

All my time taken up with having to attend progress meetings for numerous projects where I'm the technical lead, and where I end up reporting that no progress is currently being made because I'm permanently stuck in meetings reporting that fact along with listening to a load of other unimportant b*llocks. Is being left alone to do the work I'm employed to do too much to ask?

My pet hate when I worked, I reported that the lack of progress was partly due to too much time spent in meetings and their response was to schedule another meeting to "help you manage your time better". I then pointed out that out of a 40 hour week, 22 were scheduled as meetings!

[Eggs'n'nuts]

Here in Australia to tell people they would be fined for taking kids out of school for a holiday during school time would just be absurd

They can’t believe you get fined in the UK

Families going on road trips etc is a way of life here or holidays to fit the season in Europe etc

We know people who’ve taken their kids out of school for a year to travel the whole route around Australia
They took school work with them

It might be down to the fact that you're not dealing with a government system that wants to extract as much money out of their people that's humanly possible LH.

[Denzil]

People taking their children out of school, for holidays. I'm gonna sound a right fun sponge here, but we always holiday early September in the Greek Islands after the kids return to school. It suits us, bit of peace and tranquility. We've
done the hard yards over the years of family hotels, love the kids, adore the grandkids, but now love the small friendly oasis of duffers returning to sleep by the pool and generally do nothing. I understand exactly why parents do it, weighing off the fines by authorities against the spiralling costs of greedy tour companies. I'm looking at you here TUI!. None of these are my fault. Leaving Rhodes last night there were even more family groups arriving for their slice. No doubt this opinion won't make me popular but I need my sanity more than I need peppa pig in the swimming pool. Rant over.

Our kids are not at school age yet but I can absolutely understand why people do it. The price for our holiday we took in early June would have been at the very least 2x, perhaps 3x the cost in July.

I guess the way to go in future would to be just book an adults only hotel to guarantee yourself a child-free holiday. Not ideal given you may holiday at a specific hotel you like but if no-kids is a dealbreaker going forward its probably your best option.

[Whitters]

I don't know about the state of the industry but being a tour operator was very high risk and low margin, with lots of fixed costs. They've probably done alright since COVID but everyone always feels they are being ripped off. The fact is that school holidays in the summer is peak season, capacity is set to meet that demand. Outside of that time prices are way cheaper. If you want lower prices in the summer then you will need to be happy to have higher prices in June/September to subsidise those (and it would never work as this is a free market with lots of ways to substitute), which you probably won't be keen on as someone that holidays in September (and neither would I if I was you).

Pretty much spot on. I used to work for one of the large Tour Operators putting together the costs for each holiday combination and then helping the pricing team to understand the margins once they set the prices. Overall for the season the profits were very small (and this is before the days when the internet made it easy to DIY your own holidays) as hotels would want an upfront commitment for a set number of beds for the whole season 1st May to 31st October (and sometimes the six 'winter season' months too in certain destinations), not just in peak months, and airplane costs were also mostly fixed for the season. Therefore the peak summer holiday times were the only times when enough profit was made to cover the losses on holidays throughout most of the rest of the season.

As a parent myself of schooI-age kids I feel the pain too, but I fully appreciate the reasons for it

[smuts]

People taking their children out of school, for holidays. I'm gonna sound a right fun sponge here, but we always holiday early September in the Greek Islands after the kids return to school. It suits us, bit of peace and tranquility. We've
done the hard yards over the years of family hotels, love the kids, adore the grandkids, but now love the small friendly oasis of duffers returning to sleep by the pool and generally do nothing. I understand exactly why parents do it, weighing off the fines by authorities against the spiralling costs of greedy tour companies. I'm looking at you here TUI!. None of these are my fault. Leaving Rhodes last night there were even more family groups arriving for their slice. No doubt this opinion won't make me popular but I need my sanity more than I need peppa pig in the swimming pool. Rant over.

Go to an adults only hotel. When tour companies bump the price up 300% in August then you can't blame people for doing it.

We don't but can see why others do.

[chelmsfordhammer91]

Despite an otherwise flawless 18 months with Virgin fibre, yesterday morning the WiFi was down.

Tried everything to fix it, had an engineer comes today, turns out an animal (I think fox) has chewed through the wire at the front of the house.

As it's a mid terrace, the cable goes to the loft, runs through to the back then drops down before going to the lounge.

He only had a 20m cable in the van so have to rebook for Thursday so he can get a 40m cable.

All the time, I'm having to WFH with my phone data as a WiFi hotspot.

[old fart]

Assembly instructions, why do they use a different language, why can't they get a lay person to write them

All day putting a shed, half of the time spent working out what the instructions meant