The small things in life that annoy you

[Sheaf Saint]

41 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Tennis players apologising when they win a point with the ball clipping the net

That's just the expected etiquette though, same as a snooker player fluking a pot. To not do it is seen as disrespectful to your opponent.

[benjii]

People who think there should be equal pay for women's tennis.

[badgerx16]

22 minutes ago, benjii said:

People who think there should be equal pay for women's tennis.

If they play 5 set matches then fair enough.

[benjii]

17 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

If they play 5 set matches then fair enough.

That's like saying football women should get equal money if they play 90 minutes.

[Hamilton Saint]

On 07/07/2025 at 08:28, leesaint88 said:

'Literally' being shoehorned into every argument or statement. This morning I heard some young chaps having a chat about the middle east (very on trend) and a number of times I heard 'they are literally dropping bombs' or they are 'like literally killing kids'. 

It took over from the use of "basically". The words I overuse are "actually" and "apparently".

[whelk]

On 07/07/2025 at 13:07, Turkish said:

yep, in about 1 year Leeds Bradford aiport have increased their drop off prices from 1 pound to 7, it takes the piss

Rip off Britain 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyg0ly2ld8o

 

[AlexLaw76]

People who wear, what is probably their PJs, to the shop or any other social setting.

[rallyboy]

People who claim to have a really broad musical taste, oh yeah, I like all kinds of music, everything from Coldplay to Dire Straits, and I love all the Brit Pop bands...

They don't realise how large the spectrum is from Gregorian chant music to Death Metal, they've only ever listened to commercial radio with a playlist of a dozen songs and because they enjoyed six of them they think they've experienced every musical genre.

 

[badgerx16]

2 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

People who wear, what is probably their PJs, to the shop or any other social setting.

Queueing in their dressing gowns and slippers at the cashpoint on benefit payment day.

[leesaint88]

One that has been bothering me for a while, but modern Mercedes G Wagons. There seems to be an influx of them to where I live and they are rather ghastly looking things aren't they? 

[Coerezza]

Not sure if anyone else has had this but...people who return to their cars and won't leave the parking space. What are they doing there - filling in their tax returns, reading 'A Brief History of Time'? Despise these people!!!

[whelk]

8 hours ago, leesaint88 said:

One that has been bothering me for a while, but modern Mercedes G Wagons. There seems to be an influx of them to where I live and they are rather ghastly looking things aren't they? 

I imagine you live amongst a few drug dealers

[Turkish]

12 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

Queueing in their dressing gowns and slippers at the cashpoint on benefit payment day.

 

15 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

People who wear, what is probably their PJs, to the shop or any other social setting.

Amen to that. Cannot stand it, walking around in slippers, dressing gowns and/or pyjamas really is just incredibly lazy 

[Lee On Solent Saint]

Airport parking. Why is it necessary to move every mirror and every seat to park a car? Got back into Heathrow yesterday, all I wanted to do was get in the car and drive back, instead had to waste time getting everything sorted with the mirrors and seat. Surely its not that difficult to park a car without having to move evrything?

[Behind Enemy Lines]

9 hours ago, Lee On Solent Saint said:

Airport parking. Why is it necessary to move every mirror and every seat to park a car? Got back into Heathrow yesterday, all I wanted to do was get in the car and drive back, instead had to waste time getting everything sorted with the mirrors and seat. Surely its not that difficult to park a car without having to move evrything?

Just get a car with memory seats. Press one button and the seats and mirrors go back to the way you want them. Expensive solution though 😂 

[rallyboy]

It's much better to use off site parking companies, some get a bad rap but they put the mirrors and seats back how you want - and you also get to see your car on the British Rally Championship highlights.

[Whitey Grandad]

8 minutes ago, rallyboy said:

It's much better to use off site parking companies, some get a bad rap but they put the mirrors and seats back how you want - and you also get to see your car on the British Rally Championship highlights.

Used a parking company when we went on a cruise several years ago. The driver had a hi-viz jacket with a big plastic zip. When I collected my car there was a big zip-sized scar across my steering wheel where he had got out in a hurry. I only used their service because it was included in the price of the cruise. 

[leesaint88]

15 hours ago, whelk said:

I imagine you live amongst a few drug dealers

I did think that, I spoke with one of the owners of a said G Wagon the other day and he has a shot blasting business...now he may be very busy, but he must be doing incredibly well to afford a £1.2 million new build and a top of the range Merc.

[AlexLaw76]

4 minutes ago, leesaint88 said:

I did think that, I spoke with one of the owners of a said G Wagon the other day and he has a shot blasting business...now he may be very busy, but he must be doing incredibly well to afford a £1.2 million new build and a top of the range Merc.

I bet others are consultants in waste management and syrup clubs 

[trousers]

BBC news presenters handing over to a live press conference and then talking over it with an unnecessarily long protracted introduction. Just shut the f**k up and let us listen to what they're saying you f**king imbeciles. 

Twats.

[benjii]

That every new TV series starts by showing a moment of high-drama / pivotal concept and then cuts to.... "three weeks earlier".

 

[Turkish]

Holiday companies - absolute rip off merchants 

 

I’ve already spent a not insignificant sum on our summer holiday with TUI, inflated already as it’s during summer holidays. Gone to check in and unless I pay to sit together we get allocated random seats. Cost for both ways is over £400. When I rang them about what a rip of this is they said once a child is 12 they get allocated a random seat so basically cough up or tough shit and my just turned 12 year old will have to sit on his own with people he doesn’t know.

you expect that with Ryanair but not when you’re spending a good amount of money and the flight is 10 hours with a supposedly decent company 

[Weston Super Saint]

6 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Holiday companies - absolute rip off merchants 

 

I’ve already spent a not insignificant sum on our summer holiday with TUI, inflated already as it’s during summer holidays. Gone to check in and unless I pay to sit together we get allocated random seats. Cost for both ways is over £400. When I rang them about what a rip of this is they said once a child is 12 they get allocated a random seat so basically cough up or tough shit and my just turned 12 year old will have to sit on his own with people he doesn’t know.

you expect that with Ryanair but not when you’re spending a good amount of money and the flight is 10 hours with a supposedly decent company 

Meh. Sitting with family is overrated anyway.

You never know you may get sat next to two twenty something young women embarking on their first holiday without their parents who you can give your wordly wisdom to.

[whelk]

12 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Holiday companies - absolute rip off merchants 

 

I’ve already spent a not insignificant sum on our summer holiday with TUI, inflated already as it’s during summer holidays. Gone to check in and unless I pay to sit together we get allocated random seats. Cost for both ways is over £400. When I rang them about what a rip of this is they said once a child is 12 they get allocated a random seat so basically cough up or tough shit and my just turned 12 year old will have to sit on his own with people he doesn’t know.

you expect that with Ryanair but not when you’re spending a good amount of money and the flight is 10 hours with a supposedly decent company 

If you check in the family at the same time you will almost certainly be sitting together. Out of principle I won’t pay to select a seat and can’t recall last time wasn’t with fellow passenger/s

[whelk]

TUI are one of the more reasonable one as at least include hold and transfers in the headline price

[Turkish]

21 minutes ago, whelk said:

If you check in the family at the same time you will almost certainly be sitting together. Out of principle I won’t pay to select a seat and can’t recall last time wasn’t with fellow passenger/s

I did that and we aren’t. I’m in row 34, son 29, missus 25. I rang them to complain about having 12 year old on his own for a 10 hour flight and they said from 12 upwards no guarantee to sit with a parent. 
 

I am with you and usually refuse to pay hidden extras which is my point to them, you expect it with Ryanair for short flights, not long haul travelling as family on what is already an expensive holiday 

[Turkish]

31 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Meh. Sitting with family is overrated anyway.

You never know you may get sat next to two twenty something young women embarking on their first holiday without their parents who you can give your wordly wisdom to.

Guess it means I can get smashed in peace 

[Sergei Gotsmanov]

8 minutes ago, Turkish said:

I did that and we aren’t. I’m in row 34, son 29, missus 25. I rang them to complain about having 12 year old on his own for a 10 hour flight and they said from 12 upwards no guarantee to sit with a parent. 
 

I am with you and usually refuse to pay hidden extras which is my point to them, you expect it with Ryanair for short flights, not long haul travelling as family on what is already an expensive holiday 

When I did a lot of travel I would always use the self check in machine to change my seat. If you wait to the last minute you can usually find a seat which has empty seats around it to give you more room. I expect this loophole has now changed..... 

[The Kraken]

2 hours ago, Turkish said:

I did that and we aren’t. I’m in row 34, son 29, missus 25. I rang them to complain about having 12 year old on his own for a 10 hour flight and they said from 12 upwards no guarantee to sit with a parent. 
 

I am with you and usually refuse to pay hidden extras which is my point to them, you expect it with Ryanair for short flights, not long haul travelling as family on what is already an expensive holiday 

Even with Ryanair on short haul you can pay as low as £2 or £3 per person for a seat. The most expensive I’ve seen from them is £19 and that’s for front row seats. I fly with Ryanair a lot as they go from Bournemouth and always pay for a seat, usually no more than £5 or £6. The prices you’re being asked to stump up are absolute daylight robbery, scandalous.

[sadoldgit]

When did young people (Gen z) saying “perfect” after every transaction become a thing?

😤

[trousers]

3 hours ago, Turkish said:

I’ve already spent a not insignificant sum on our summer holiday with TUI, inflated already as it’s during summer holidays. Gone to check in and unless I pay to sit together we get allocated random seats. Cost for both ways is over £400

Aren't they in breach of some kind of retail code of conduct there, if not the law? In other words, surely they had an obligation to highlight any additional costs at the point of sale? Ok, so they might argue these are purely optional additional costs, but it's still bad business practice to willfully choose not to disclose such additional costs to prospective clients. Thanks for the heads up though, as I'll be sure to steer clear of TUI in the future given their apparent reluctance to operate as an ethical and customer centric travel business. Feel free to let them know they'll be losing much more than £400 in future business due to you highlighting this to people such as myself. (Although, of course, their shop-floor employees won't care a jot as its "nothing to do with them"...)

Edited Saturday at 14:52 by trousers

[Turkish]

Just now, trousers said:

Aren't they in breach of some kind of retail code of conduct there, if not the law? In other words, surely they had an obligation to highlight any additional costs at the point of sale? Ok, so they might argue these are purely optional additional costs, but it's still bad business practice to willfully choose not to disclose such additional costs to prospective clients. Thanks for the heads up as I'll be sure to steer clear of TUI in the future given their apparent reluctance to operate as an ethical and customer centric travel business (feel free to let them know they'll be losing much more than £400 in future business due to you highlighting this to people such as myself) 

It’s down as additional costs but they don’t really leave you with any choice but to do it. Especially if you’re traveling with children. They said 12+ unless you pay to select a seat everyone gets allocated a random one. 
 

the thing that pissed me off even more was that it gave you cost per seat then when you went to pay there was a message at the bottom to say the price had gone up by £90, so it was the sweet costs plus an additional £90. Ive called them and since been into our local branch to complain and no could explain what the £90 additional increase was for

[Weston Super Saint]

2 minutes ago, Turkish said:

It’s down as additional costs but they don’t really leave you with any choice but to do it. Especially if you’re traveling with children. They said 12+ unless you pay to select a seat everyone gets allocated a random one. 
 

the thing that pissed me off even more was that it gave you cost per seat then when you went to pay there was a message at the bottom to say the price had gone up by £90, so it was the sweet costs plus an additional £90. Ive called them and since been into our local branch to complain and no could explain what the £90 additional increase was for

Xmas party  

[Whitey Grandad]

2 hours ago, Turkish said:

It’s down as additional costs but they don’t really leave you with any choice but to do it. Especially if you’re traveling with children. They said 12+ unless you pay to select a seat everyone gets allocated a random one. 
 

the thing that pissed me off even more was that it gave you cost per seat then when you went to pay there was a message at the bottom to say the price had gone up by £90, so it was the sweet costs plus an additional £90. Ive called them and since been into our local branch to complain and no could explain what the £90 additional increase was for

Just because it was you. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

3 hours ago, Turkish said:

.Ive called them and since been into our local branch to complain and no could explain what the £90 additional increase was for

"Pet surcharge? Ma'am, when I said I was the Forum Lion, I didn't mean I was actually a lion...no, I do not want to travel in a crate in the hold.!" 🙂

[leesaint88]

People who treat dogs (or animals in general) like humans.....you're not it's mum nor does the fucker need an Instagram page. 

[Sheaf Saint]

The fact that basic competence appears to be an unreasonable expectation from any kind of customer service organisation these days. 

 

[ecuk268]

11 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

The fact that basic competence appears to be an unreasonable expectation from any kind of customer service organisation these days. 

 

There are exceptions.

Needed a new passport in a hurry so used the same-day service. Most of it can be done online, including uploading a photo.

You're then given an appointment time. So traveled up to London on Friday. Seen on time and showed old passport and proof of ID, Given a ticket with a return time 4 hours later.

Went back at appointed time and picked up passport.

Very efficient operation. No waiting and friendly and helpful staff.