Things you hate III

Utterly unobtrusive in my case. Much better than having a ruddy great dish on your roof. No problem with weather conditions either.

Agree about the advertising though.

 

Anything to do with Banksy & that idiotic shredding stunt.

 

Entirely disagree. A good gag and a deserved two fingers stuck up at the pompous, money-grabbing art establishment.

 

Think you fell for it or maybe you can explain what you mean?

That so called art piece in question will be worth even more & he designed it to be that way & so that people keep talking about him. The auction house knew that was going to happen. The guy is a multi millionaire himself so he is part of the same establishment you talk of. If he was so anti he would stop with the stunts,maybe even quit or go into a different format.

It's not even art, unless you call spray painted Stencil images art.

 

Well, both those things (being worth more and the auction house being in on it) are plausible, but not definite, according to the BBC ‘s report.

I don’t see that being rich himself necessarily precludes him from being anti-establishment. You can mock the pretensions of something while still making money from it, that’s what all satirists do.

What you see as “stunts”, others might see as conceptual or performance art. I’m no enormous fan of his graffiti stuff but he gets people talking about art and that’s a good thing in my book.

And I still think it was a good gag.

 

BT are a fine example of a company which is too big to function. I also have experienced their incompetence from ground level to management level. Not getting phone lines in on time, putting the number you’ve had for years back into the pool of available numbers. Sending the wrong engineer for the job and trying to sell you more **** when your phoning to complain. Now that Open Reach are a separate company, it’s just given BT another company to blame. Unfortunately, all internet providers, apart from Virgin, use Open Reach to install the service.

Sorry for the long boring rant. I’m sure that you’re experience is similar. I feel better now!

 

That's the whole point of this thread. Good post.

 

"Everything happens for a reason".

Who is predetermining these reasons? How far does this go - the shop has no bread left, is this part of some great cosmic plan?

People seem to use this crap to cover up their own mistakes:

"I missed my flight"
"Oh no, well everything happens for a reason"

Yes, the reason is you didn't give yourself enough time to get to the airport.

 

Well, there you go then. You just agreed everything does indeed happen for a reason. Pointless post.

 

Dear god, do not get me started on the complete and utter incompetence of BT! I thought Virgin were utterly awful but thy are the pinnacle of great service compared to BT.

So we moved up here. Called BT, wanted to get them set up. Took 2 weeks for the engineer to be booked in and arrive. Then he turns up and says that they've routed it through to the wrong postcode by mistake.

Then it's another 2 weeks for it to go through 3 different departments to get it re-routed back to our address. So we call them near the time it was supposed to be done. "sorry, it's been delayed for another week-10 days.". So we had no internet from them at all after 5-6 weeks of waiting.

So we called and cancel after receiving literally no service at all. "Ok, all cancelled. Everything should be cancelled now and no charges. Throw the equipment we sent you in the bin"!

Next we get a bill through for the whole year as we cancelled early while still in contract!!!!! Called them. "don't worry. IT was already in the system. Ignore it".

Then we get another bill for the full year plus an additional amount for god knows what!!!!!

Call back! "ok will be sorted . Sorry for this. We will cancel it but can't for 2 weeks as that's when the next bill is due".

Get another message that payment is overdue!!!!!

Call back after the next bill to check it's all been cancelled. "Sorry, something wen't wrong and we couldn't cancel it yet. Will be in the next few days".

Still not sorted after ordering in early August. And after having to buy extra data from our mobile providers to cover us for zero internet for 6 weeks.

We have internet now. Went with someone else who seemed a lot more capable.

Internet is still pretty sh!te but that's because I live in the arse end of nowhere.

 

Yep, similar to my experience. How do companies end up like this?

 

Let it all out brother!

 

Not getting Glastonbury tickets.

 

Lucky escape, I would suggest.

 

Glastonbury is a whole overrated hoo ha that should be listed on this thread on its own merits

 

I do like a good festival and Glastonbury about 25 years ago in my younger days was pretty fun.

Don't think it's anywhere near as good as it used to be.

 

#METOO

 

That ITV News reader Tom Bradbury. What a complete ****

 

The change you get from supermarket self service tills when you pay in cash.

If it's a pound change you'll get 50p, 20p and 3 10ps.

If it's 20p change you'll get a 10p and 2 5ps.

If it's 5p change you'll get coppers.

Always happens. Always gives you the most annoying change instead of the most suitable.

 

Anybody who is happy before 11 o’clock in the morning (especially if they don’t drink coffee)

 

Those bulky letters you get through the post from banks and such like companies containing a thick booklet printed in miniscule 8 point type and headlined 'Our Terms & Conditions Are Changing'.

You read the first sentence or so on Page 1 of 87 which is usually something impenetrable like "Whereas the bank for the first part, relying on the relevant terms and conditions for the APR of the revenue and credit as described in the Finance Act (1986) except Scotland...." before chucking it in the recycling.

Has anyone ever sat down and read one of those cover to cover?

I suppose they've got their legal considerations to cover, but couldn't they just email it through and we could not read it that way?

It'd be much better for the environment.

 

When you misplace that lottery ticket for a few days after the draw. You just KNOW it's the winning ticket and it really bothers you. Then you find it and have zero numbers.

 

Halloween, I don’t actually dislike it but I dislike how basically any fancy dress constume is now deemed as counting as being a Halloween costume. Particularly movie characters who aren’t scary at all.

 

Which outfits do you find scary?

 

this one is pretty horrific

 

The whole idea of terms and conditions proves to me that we've gone down the wrong path.

Why can't we just have the governing law and that be an end to it? Why do car adverts, which offer 0% finance on the radio need to be 10 seconds of advert and then 20 seconds of rapid reading of essential terms and conditions? Why do I need to here this before I have even set foot on a car lot?

Why do Mortgage adverts have to tell me my home may be repossessed if I don't pay for it?

Can't we just have overarching law and then underneath that, common sense?

If I take out a credit card I can choose to read their 40 pages of Ts and Cs if it matters to me, but quite why they need to be so exhaustive is an issue in itself.

 

That was really hard to masturbate over but I persevered.

 

A total shambles of a town for traffic planning. They happily throw up thousands of houses but neglect to think about where the extra traffic will go. Instead they make things worse but adding more traffic lights, filter lanes etc. It's been over 20 years since I lived there and even back then people were calling for a bypass. I think at some point the Western Link road is supposed to join up with a new Eastern Link road but there will thousands more houses on those roads.

 

The sing/talk, wet, monotone, flaccid acoustic **** my other half listens to. I can hear it bleeding down the stairs now. The dulcet, bedwetting tones of James TW if I’m not mistaken.

She turned LCD Soundsystem off in the car yesterday because the sound of a cowbell was annoying her yet she can tolerate this ****.

 

MORE COWBELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Two adverts at the moment which are loosely connected to this point:

One is for BT open reach. Surely you choose a broadband provider and they are using open reach infrastructure unless they are virgin. That's it. No need to advertise. Then the end of the advert " go to www.btopenreach.co.uk for the facts". Who the **** needs more facts?

Another one, quite sensible about not tailgating people. Then at the end, "go to www.blahblahblah for more info." Who is going to this website? Who wants more info about tailgating? Just don't do it because it's stupid as trhe advert points out. Why do you have to reference a moribund website?

 

Just to think that we could have been arriving at the exact same moment.

 

That’s right, it’s even worse than most Ska music. Well over my head most of that too, though it was before my time.

We agreed on a good first dance song the other day though so she’s not totally hopeless musically.