Little things that irk you.. (no swearing please)

[Brad]

TalkTalk phoning because I entered my phone number on there website just to see if they could supply in my area. Before I can even finish saying No thanks I don't want to *click*

Ignorant pig.

[burntoutbanger]

More quality journalism from the Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1259612/Atkins-bites-You-shed-stone-weeks-new-version-worlds-famous-diet.html#addComment

A stone in 2 weeks that sounds amazing! Wait... a stone is 14 pounds, that's a pound of weight loss a day... a daily calorie deficit of 3500 ie 1000 calories more that an active, non-dieting person burns in a day?

Maybe if you ate nothing in a day and spent 3 hours in the gym you could manage that. For a single day. After which point you crash and start fainting at a drop of a hat.

Don't want to be pedantic but I was under the impression 3500 calories equated to 1kg (approx 2.2lbs).

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

Job agencies, phone you up saying can you start in an hour, pay you minimum wage for 3 weeks but you lump it because its money and work, and then phone you up monday morning saying we don't need you anymore, byeee'

c*nts

Yeah agencies are tossers. Last time I worked for one before Christmas, they'd ring me up asking if I could work the next day as the place was 'Really busy' then about 15 minutes after I finished that first day, we'd all be laid off because of a lack of work.

[prinnysquad]

TalkTalk phoning because I entered my phone number on there website just to see if they could supply in my area. Before I can even finish saying No thanks I don't want to *click*

Ignorant pig.

Hate that. I always fire off a volley of abuse, even though the line's gone dead, in the vain hope that it might kickstart some karma. Daft really but it does boil my piss.

[Mr_Pie]

Work, in general.

[Dirty Sanchez]

Don't want to be pedantic but I was under the impression 3500 calories equated to 1kg (approx 2.2lbs).

3500 kcal = 1lb of fat

Many of these fad type diets show a huge intial drop - a stone in two weeks does sound like some kind of starvation diet with limited fluids. You don't get fat in two weeks, you certainly don't get thin in two weeks either, both take ages.

[Decider-VT]

Yeah agencies are tossers. Last time I worked for one before Christmas, they'd ring me up asking if I could work the next day as the place was 'Really busy' then about 15 minutes after I finished that first day, we'd all be laid off because of a lack of work.

I worked for one in Australia. I phoned my agency contact and told her that I wasn't going to be available for work for two weeks of the next month as my mum was visiting. All seemed well.

A week later she phoned me and asked me to start somewhere at 10AM. I told her I wasn't available and that I'd informed her of that in advance. She got really nasty on the phone and started saying I was unreliable, etc. She asked me why I couldn't start and I told her that I was getting married in a few hours so I was getting ready for the ceremony. She backpedalled a bit before quickly ending our conversation and didn't give me any work for the next two months, so I had to spend all of my meagre savings on rent.

Bitch.

[spagmasterswift]

People who walk down the carriage of a train instead of getting off at their stop and walking down the platform need to relax.

[Brad]

People who go to the til in a shop before they've finished shopping and then wander off to grab extra stuff whilst the person at the til waits there doing nothing and all the other customers have to wait as well.

[EJG1980]

3500 kcal = 1lb of fat

Many of these fad type diets show a huge intial drop - a stone in two weeks does sound like some kind of starvation diet with limited fluids. You don't get fat in two weeks, you certainly don't get thin in two weeks either, both take ages.

Indeed. I've been doing an hour of exercise a day (no starvation diet though, normal meals, just cutting out unhealthy snacks and junk food) since the start of the year and it took me just over two months to shift a stone in weight.

I can't imagine what kind of crap you'd have to subject your body to to drop a stone in a couple of weeks!

People who go to the til in a shop before they've finished shopping and then wander off to grab extra stuff whilst the person at the til waits there doing nothing and all the other customers have to wait as well.

I hate that. I wish I had the nerve to push their shopping out of the way and get myself served while they were gone!

[NW2013]

Unidentified item in the bagging area!!!!!!!!!

it may as well start flashing a red light and bringing the shop shutters down. Some of them are so sensitive that just opening a plastic bag to put your shopping in is enough to set it off grrr.

Yes, self service tills suck balls. I was using the one in Tesco on the way home and it stopped three times because it claimed I hadn't put a scanned item in the bagging area (I had!). The thing about it is I don't even see why that's a problem; I've scanned the item, I'm going to pay for it, I could put it up my arse for all the difference it makes to the shop.

Then it also stopped because it thought I had an item with a security tag, again I didn't! It was a good thing there were no bat shaped implements around.

I think the ones at the store I used were just particularly crap as they were going wrong every two seconds for lots of people.

[Dirty Sanchez]

Most of the problems with self service tills is the dim wits who use them and don't ahve a clue how to work them. Seems to be every other person has never used one before and dithers and buggers around while trying to work out what to do.

[NW2013]

Ha ha, you cheeky bast....

It wasn't operator error in my case.

[Spatial]

Sideline commentators who think they know it all.

This has probably been an age old problem but thanks to the power of the Internet ever slack jawed knob jockey from all over the shop can suddenly profess themselves to be an expert on every little thing, even technical matters they couldn't even being to comprehend, all off the back of a couple of 30 seconds soundbites and misinformed bias.

And then they can go and blog about it, mixing in opinion with the skeletal facts to produce something which is borderline slanderous. Muppets.

[charlesr]

Reminder goes out to everyone via email to complete a mandatory course. everyone is probably 3000 people. There's always some muppet that presses "reply to all" with "I've done it".

a) Press the right button foo.
b) I don't think the person who sent it is wanting a reply. If everyone replied he'd immediately die from inbox overload.