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

[J0e Musashi]

People who do not edit their thumbnail on Facebook.

[prinnysquad]

Wanglebots annoy me.

[JP]

I'm trying so hard to not swear in this thread right now. Forget everything else I've put in this thread before including Toblerones as I've replaced them all with Microsoft customer service advisors.

After replacing the 360 a few months back I'd finally built up the courage to face them again, after spending months being messed around with their Neanderthal credit card removal systems I was dreading it.

A couple of months before we'd bought one of the Super Elites we'd previously bought our first 360 for a year or so and it was nice and simple transferring the game licenses to that console as it could be done in a matter of seconds on the website.

I knew there was a limit to doing it this way of once every twelve months and the site advises you to call customer services for them to do it for you if you need to do it again within twelve months.

I've just spent 76 miserable bloody minutes speaking to some crazy woman in whatever country it is.

What is it with that voice activated call steering they use? Surely it's only purpose is for them to play back the recordings at office parties?

"If you you would like to discuss your hardware please say hardware or if you would like to discuss your account please say account."

I say account and it tells me that it's not an option. It tells me again to say account if I want to discuss my account, I say account but it doesn't care what I want to discuss as it just wants to talk to me.

After 10 minutes the machine has got bored and tells me that it's going to connect me to "Some fecker overseas who understands and cares even less than I do". To be honest, my mind was really starting to drift by then so it could have said something else.

I get through quite quickly and who am I speaking to? Some fecker overseas who understands and cares even less than the machine that's just spent 10 minutes wanting to talk to me!!

I very carefully explained to her that I needed to transfer the game licenses from the old console to the new one but as I'd already done it once in the past year the license transfer site on xbox.com advised me to phone up and get it done. This makes no sense at all to her for at least fifteen minutes until she has what appears to be a thought and tells me that the cable costs £15!!

From memory this was the only time that I've ever said "crap on a crutch" during a phone call but crap on a crutch was indeed used as a reply.

I start again with the careful explanation of what I'm wanting to happen and a few minutes into this and she has what I believe was a second thought as she asks me if I'd sold the repaired 360 after it was returned to me!

I stay calm and as I explain again I begin to wonder if I'm still talking to the machine I was speaking to earlier which kept asking me to say "account".

I FINALLY get her through to her and she tells me "I'm going to give you a web address to get onto the license transfer site on xbox.com"!

We start again and after her spending time logging in and out of various Live accounts that the family have she logs into the old one that I'd originally bought all the stuff that I'm now trying to transfer the licenses across to the new console from and she asks me if I can see a list of downloaded games while logged into that tag.

I'm going to spare you all the horrific details of the part where she makes me read out the titles of each and every one of the 440 downloads I had on the old tag as by the time I'd got to the listing for E3 2007 Press Conference part 5 Video (HD) I was beginning to suffer from uncontrollable bouts of laughter due to how mad it all was.

I'll also miss out the section 15 minutes later which contained the four attempts she had at repeating the 12 digit console ID for the old 360 to me and managed to only get 7 of the 12 digits correct but all 7 digits were in the wrong order. I was again suffering from fits of uncontrollable laughter at this point.

I will now receive an email on Tuesday, I don't know what will be in this email as I no longer had the energy to ask by this time!

I really wish I'd just kept quiet and waited until October this year and transferred everything using the website which was my original plan.

[Neon Ignition]

It honestly didn't before but I think what annoys me now is Lady Gaga. I've had so many people praising her (especially the new vid) to me and saying how edgy and progressive she is. Sure, if you find Virgin Mobile product placement progressive. Over the course of this album she's stripped more and more. It's like watching a cut price Madonna and once again it's disappointing to see people buy into a singer more manufactured than an X Factor contestant. Ah well, it'll be someone by years end

[charlesr]

Watch it without sound to show how ridiculous it is. And to save your ears.

[merf]

good shout on Lady Gaga, first sign of old age though getting annoyed by singers for merely being a rehashed version of XXXXXX, do you find her diction bad too, can't hear any of the words (another good old person complaint)

'Brave' Kylie Minogue really irks me, stupid little aussie who always looks like a child dressing up in her mums clothes and makeup, how that is regarded as top crumpet I'll never know.

[Jebus]

She's so brave to survive cancer thanks to her ludicrous amounts of money giving her the best support and health care money could buy, whereas other people without such options die. Such bravery!

How anyone finds her attractive is beyond me as well.

[abigsmurf]

I dislike any disease sufferers being described as 'brave' purely for having a disease. Bravery requires a choice. If you ask any of these brave people if they'd prefer not to have their disease, what do you think their answer would be?

The whole 'Jade Goody saved thousands of lives!' thing was one of the worst examples. She raised awareness of one of the more common (and preventable) forms of cancer by.... having it and..... Nope, that about it.

[Ady]

'Brave' Kylie Minogue really irks me, stupid little aussie who always looks like a child dressing up in her mums clothes and makeup, how that is regarded as top crumpet I'll never know.

QFT. Never understood the appeal.

I'd crawl over her to get to Dannii though.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

RnB singers who all seem to be jumping on the same band wagon of using a Cher style 'Do You Believe In Life After Love' voice distortion technique.

It sounds like Stephen Hawkins doing karaoke

[speedlolita]

You mean auto tune?

[Skull Commander]

Losing an hour if MY time. Should be taken from a Monday afternoon or sometime as equally tedious.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Twats I have to work with.

They tell a quick whitted joke to a customer, & so you add a little to it just for a laugh, then they suddenly see it as a contest & try to rationalise your add on as some kind of impossibilty in the real world, obviously because they think you've stamped on their amazing whit with yours. Its a f**kin JOKE ffs!!

Older ppl in work who when they hear me & a few guys talking about GTA or COD or some other kinda game they tell us to 'get a life', then they end up getting a Wii for Xmas & try to back up their purchase by saying 'its for the kiddies' or 'it keeps me fit'. Really? So you tell me how your purchase of F1 Racing, FIFA, Winter Olympics or Guitar Hero is 'keeping you fit'?
Bloody hypocrites!!

[teddymeow]

QFT. Never understood the appeal.

I'd crawl over her to get to Dannii though.

Find yourself QFT, Sir.

[J0e Musashi]

The people that slashed all four of my tyres last night. I'm looking at about £2k to replace them