Things I don't like (TIDL) thread

The continual stream of emails from web consultancy/services/SEO gurus are bad enough, but what REALLY grinds my gears are the follow up ones that forward the previous email and say "just checking if you've seen my previous email" and then you get those constantly.

Yes, I did, and I haven't responded because I'm not ******* interested!!

I understand people have to advertise their wares, but I hate any form of pushy sales techniques, leave me the **** alone, I'll call you if I need anything.
 
FerretBoy said:
As I travel a lot I get fast track for free. I get the complaint above, but would add that the majority of very regular travelers are very efficient through security. Also they travel so often that the time spent going through security effects them to a greater proportion.

Anyhow I don't like the people that get to the front of security and seem surprised with they requirements!
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You’d be shocked at the number of seasoned international travellers I’ve worked who move through airports in a daze and are surprised by having to clear security every time. Often the same people I’ve discussed how we all need to pack the extra chargers, logging cables etc. in hold baggage to pass through security quickly with while planning the test trip...

I also used to see the same people regularly approach TfL ticket barriers and then dig around for their Oyster cards.
 
The r/CasualUK subreddit.

I like a lot of the posts there, and the stuff that hits the front page is always good. Also good to poke fun at yourself as a nation regularly.

But the only way to actually survive if you contribute is to play some kind of working class hero. If you don't pretend you grew up on a council estate (I mean.. I did and i still struggle) you'll be mocked and downvoted and your opinion is dirt.

Very annoying.
 
People who are oblivious to other people such as those who step into a shop doorway & then suddenly stop

People who just stand still on my local Tesco's travelator which goes at a snails pace and it's perfectly safe to walk up it

Grossly overweight people chomping burgers as they waddle along the road

People who walk hand in hand on a narrow pavement and expect you to step into the road to let them pass

Drivers who tailgate you even though you are driving at the limit
 
Ticket resale sites, and people who buy gig tickets only to make money by gouging by selling on these sites.
 
Having bought a cheap pair of hiking sticks today, getting them home, and finding a sticker on the back of the packaging warning they contain /are made of "Carcinogenic materials known to cause cancer and damage reproductive health".

They should have been advertised as 'hobble sticks'.
 
JonnyT said:
Ticket resale sites, and people who buy gig tickets only to make money by gouging by selling on these sites.
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Okay, I can understand, and sympathise with your chagrin, and I couldn’t be ****d to do it myself, but if someone gets the chance to buy e.g. a Taylor Swift ticket for £250, knowing that people will fight one another to a standstill to pay £600 or £700 for it, then all they’re doing is taking advantage of a business opportunity.
It’s not much different to Tesco buying 1000 loaves wholesale at 30p each, and retailing them at £1.40 a pop.
 
Jean-F said:
Okay, I can understand, and sympathise with your chagrin, and I couldn’t be ****d to do it myself, but if someone gets the chance to buy e.g. a Taylor Swift ticket for £250, knowing that people will fight one another to a standstill to pay £600 or £700 for it, then all they’re doing is taking advantage of a business opportunity.
It’s not much different to Tesco buying 1000 loaves wholesale at 30p each, and retailing them at £1.40 a pop.
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It is quite different from that. The wholesaler you're referring to isn't a public facing business designed to service a customer, it's a business to business transaction for thousands of loaves at a time.

A guy on the street can't walk into a bread factory and say "yes I'd like some loaves at 30p each", because the answer would be "ok to get that rate you'd need to buy 20,000 loaves". They wouldn't even have a till or the means to transact for 30p.

A more realistic version of your example would be:

A guy walks into every supermarket in the country and buys all the bread, and sells it on the market for 50p more. Nobody else now has access to the bread, so they have to go through him. I imagine the law would become involved.

A ticket site is designed for access by a customer as if it were a high street retailer.
 
  • Slow drivers (I have somewhere to be)
  • Hesitant driver (roundabouts)
  • People who get in the way (walking)
  • Crowded places
  • Lack of time in the day to do everything
  • Small annual leave allocations
 
DampCat said:
It is quite different from that. The wholesaler you're referring to isn't a public facing business designed to service a customer, it's a business to business transaction for thousands of loaves at a time.

A guy on the street can't walk into a bread factory and say "yes I'd like some loaves at 30p each", because the answer would be "ok to get that rate you'd need to buy 20,000 loaves". They wouldn't even have a till or the means to transact for 30p.

A more realistic version of your example would be:

A guy walks into every supermarket in the country and buys all the bread, and sells it on the market for 50p more. Nobody else now has access to the bread, so they have to go through him. I imagine the law would become involved.

A ticket site is designed for access by a customer as if it were a high street retailer.
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Okay, agreed, and your point is well made, perhaps I worded it clumsily.
My point was, that anyone buying a ticket for X, and selling it on for X plus, is just seeing an opportunity, and profiting from it, it’s hardly usury.
 
Jean-F said:
Okay, agreed, and your point is well made, perhaps I worded it clumsily.
My point was, that anyone buying a ticket for X, and selling it on for X plus, is just seeing an opportunity, and profiting from it, it’s hardly usury.
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What about those making an obvious business out of it, possibly even referred to as a scam? It's unfair when there are people who would have bought a ticket at face value ahead of time, but were beaten to it by touts.

Only tangential but ticket touts threatened to knife me outside a gig once. Because they overheard me saying I'd give my spare ticket away!
 
This is horrifically "snobby" I know but here goes - airport "business" class lounges should not allow "families" and especially not ones with 6 screaming kids making my life a living hell for 3hrs making it almost impossible to actually do any business :mad:

Give anyone with kids somewhere else to go with equivalent facilities but keep the business and family sections separate.
 
ianh said:
This is horrifically "snobby" I know but here goes - airport "business" class lounges should not allow "families" and especially not ones with 6 screaming kids making my life a living hell for 3hrs making it almost impossible to actually do any business :mad:

Give anyone with kids somewhere else to go with equivalent facilities but keep the business and family sections separate.
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I can see where you’re coming from, but if the “families” you speak of have purchased
Business Class seats, then you have little option other than to bite the bullet.
 
Jean-F said:
I can see where you’re coming from, but if the “families” you speak of have purchased
Business Class seats, then you have little option other than to bite the bullet.
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Which is why I said "Give anyone with kids somewhere else to go with equivalent facilities but keep the business and family sections separate." so that 'families' who have bought a business class ticket still have a nice lounge to sit in (which is the same the business lounge) but keeps the two very different types of passengers away from each other and allows 'business' people to actually carry-out business rather than having screaming kids running around.

Like I said, I know it sounds bad but it's my TIDL.
 
ianh said:
Like I said, I know it sounds bad but it's my TIDL.
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It doesn't sound bad at all except you're made to think it sounds bad as for some reason certain people have deemed any criticism of children, no matter how odious they may be, is bad and makes you a bad person.

Saw it in a restaurant a little while back. Older couple (amongst many others including myself) trying to enjoy a nice meal and this family came in. Two kids who ran around the place, running in to people including guests and serving staff carrying food, bumping in to people's chairs etc. The gent from the couple very politely asked the family to control their offspring.
Long and short of it the older couple were asked by the restaurant to leave as "it's just kids being kids".
 
ianh said:
Which is why I said "Give anyone with kids somewhere else to go with equivalent facilities but keep the business and family sections separate." so that 'families' who have bought a business class ticket still have a nice lounge to sit in (which is the same the business lounge) but keeps the two very different types of passengers away from each other and allows 'business' people to actually carry-out business rather than having screaming kids running around.

Like I said, I know it sounds bad but it's my TIDL.
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It doesn’t sound bad, and I sympathise with your feelings, and can understand your desire to work quietly, or just relax in a Business Class lounge, but a separate Business Class lounge for families just ain’t gonna fly, (no pun intended), I don’t think enough families with children in tow fly Business Class, so I can’t see airlines like BA, Air France, Iberia or Lufthansa going to the expense of installing another Business Class lounge.
 
snips86x said:
  • Slow drivers (I have somewhere to be)
  • Hesitant driver (roundabouts)
  • People who get in the way (walking)
  • Crowded places
  • Lack of time in the day to do everything
  • Small annual leave allocations
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I agree with you with drivers, when they show a complete lack of confidence and intelligence it makes me wonder how they're still on the road.
I wont even get started on the ones that try to out accelerate you when overtaking.
 
I really dont like welsh "rugby fans", having been testing my nerves all day.

Nearly smacked the one that called me a English c word any missus a whore for being with a English c word.

I hate living in wales so frickin much.
 
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