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

[abigsmurf]

Your bosses should phone them up and threaten to prosecute for fraud.

[dazzling_bubble]

Lol I read that wrong....

[Herbalizer]

The nobend who head butted my team mate during our 5 a side footie match tonight.

However, we beat them and one of our team gave him a pasting after the game. Justice delivered.

[Spatial]

Pipex. What a bunch of useless fu...

So my Dads been getting a load of nuisance calls from scammers, and we've brought him into the modern age and got him a house phone with caller display so he doesn't have to pick up for unknown numbers. Except the service doesn't come as standard with Pipex so I ring them to activate it.

After 10 minutes on hold (at my expense) the totally disinterested Indian gentleman tells me it's done. A week later and it still doesn't work. Phone them up again and the slightly more enthusiastic Indian lady says it will now be activated with 24 - 48 hours.

Then my Dad gets a phonecall saying he now has to ring another number to activate it on the line. Seriously WTF!?

I wasn't there when he took the call and I'm inclined to believe it was another scammer trying it on. Or that Pipex themselves are scammers by trying to get you to pay through the nose in expensive phonecalls.

[Dogg Thang]

Leave Blade Runner alone!!!!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/48712

[Brad]

Just receive THREE tickets from Oxford council for driving in a bus lane!

THE RAGE!!!

[Decider-VT]

Housing authority sent me a letter saying we're over ?200 in rent arrears as our rate of rent went up. Oh, and they didn't tell us but it's OK because we can pay it back over the course of a few months. So yeah, thanks for that!

[Ady]

Women that expect you to be a mind-reader.

You all know what I'm talking about.

I was having a discussion about this with my girlfriend the other night, where she claimed she "dropped several hints" to me about something she wanted to address, and was criticising me because I'd failed to pick up on those hints.

In response, I simply told her that I am not a mind-reader, and if she has something to tell me, she should just come straight out with it.

Her excuse, as with most women, is "You should know" or "You should be able to pick up on the hints..."

Bollocks. If I want to tell you something, I tell you. I don't tiptoe around the issue and expect you to guess exactly what's on my mind; and that's the other thing that irks me about this as well. The fact that what you're supposed to know is usually so way out there, that when you do learn you're thinking "How the f**k was I supposed to know that!?".

What is it women find so difficult about just saying what they mean!? Why are we expected to play stupid guessing games all the time?

OK rant over...

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Women that expect you to be a mind-reader.

You all know what I'm talking about.

I was having a discussion about this with my girlfriend the other night, where she claimed she "dropped several hints" to me about something she wanted to address, and was criticising me because I'd failed to pick up on those hints.

In response, I simply told her that I am not a mind-reader, and if she has something to tell me, she should just come straight out with it.

Her excuse, as with most women, is "You should know" or "You should be able to pick up on the hints..."

Bollocks. If I want to tell you something, I tell you.

Oh dont get me started on this mate. Sometimes even when I get that its a little hint or a snide comment & ask what its all about I still get nowhere, so how the hell am I supposed to know when you dont even tell me when I do pick up on a hint?

Bloody women!!

[cutmymilk]

Man plan.

[Rep]

Virgin Media's On-line payment system. My phone bill was £25.20. The payment system will ony let you pay in pre-listed increments of exactly £5, naturally I wasn't going to pay £30. Today they disconnected me and then asked for a card payment of 20p.

[kryss]

Women that expect you to be a mind-reader.

You all know what I'm talking about.

I was having a discussion about this with my girlfriend the other night, where she claimed she "dropped several hints" to me about something she wanted to address, and was criticising me because I'd failed to pick up on those hints.

In response, I simply told her that I am not a mind-reader, and if she has something to tell me, she should just come straight out with it.

Her excuse, as with most women, is "You should know" or "You should be able to pick up on the hints..."

Bollocks. If I want to tell you something, I tell you. I don't tiptoe around the issue and expect you to guess exactly what's on my mind; and that's the other thing that irks me about this as well. The fact that what you're supposed to know is usually so way out there, that when you do learn you're thinking "How the f**k was I supposed to know that!?".

What is it women find so difficult about just saying what they mean!? Why are we expected to play stupid guessing games all the time?

OK rant over...

You are expected to know what she's thinking all the time! What kind of boyfriend are you??

Irk of yesterday: changing my address with the post office = $42 and takes 5 business days. Meh, would just leave it and not pay any bills that arrive but I have a game coming so I can't. Gah.

[capcom_suicide]

A company calling my mother pretending to be Microsoft. Telling her she has loads of viruses, and getting her to click on a "Remote Assistance" link, afterwhich they:

- Install a hidden remote control tool, that uses an unpatched windows print spool security weakness to gain admin priv.

- Install a trojan horse key logger

- Install a Bit Torrent client

- Install 4-5 useless AV/AntiSpyware applications

- Remove her legitmate AV software (Installed by Me)

- Get my mother to pay them ?65 for the effort.

Poor woman, (Well into pension age) she said she knew she was done for when her mouse started moving, but let them do it & paid as she was frightended they would delete her files....

Trading standards know all about it, but are powerless to help as the company is based in India and uses a VOIP UK number to call.

Here is more about it:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/nov/15/consumers-anti-virus-software-scam

And here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/18/phone-scam-india-call-centres

I feel so sorry for her, so was duped and knew it, but just fell for it due to fear and the way they said they were appointed by Microsoft.

[vanpeebles]

Gah, I have heard of this a fair bit. BT should be doing more to protect people from scam callers and automated calls. Can you get it all fixed?

[capcom_suicide]

Gah, I have heard of this a fair bit. BT should be doing more to protect people from scam callers and automated calls. Can you get it all fixed?

Did my best, but it is almost certainly root kitted so will have to clear it up proper when next in UK. (Re-format)

Here is a video in action of how they do it:

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/pc-help/1908340/exposed-cold-pc-service-company-tried-mislead