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

['Press Start']

Eddie. I meant if you have heating on really high its not healthy to then go out into the freezing cold, then back into the baking hot.

Also, because the cold winter air lacks humidity, it can dry the nasal passages and throat meaning virus's get into the body more/deeper.

[koopatroopa90]

HSBC. Every month my card ends up getting blocked by their fraud prevention team. No particular reason why, it just does.

And every now and then they phone up and say my card is on some list of HSBC card details that have been stolen (or something) and it is stopped and a new one issued.

Now this second event must have been overdue as it has just happened, leaving me without my primary bit of plastic for a few days. Brilliant.

[speedlolita]

You can go into the bank and request to withdraw some money..

I've had that happen to me before though, after I withdrew some money in Waterloo Station. Pretty annoying tbh.

[Flabio]

It's a lot *less* annoying than discovering someone has spent 2 grand out your account and it's going to take 6 months before the bank will give you it back...

I use my credit card for everything now. The fraud team on those are far more on the ball.

[speedlolita]

What irks me is when my postman doesn't come AT ALL. Not to mention stuff not having arrived when it should have. I paid for next day postage on Aion from Amazon, and nothing. Supposed to have recieved an IMP v2 also on Thursday/Friday and still nothing.

I anticipate this might be because of Christmas buying and whatnot, and the mass of Modern Warfare 3 titles being posted probably.

Ugh.

[koopatroopa90]

I realise the alternative is worse and tbh if my card details are on some "stolen list" then fair enough, it's more the constant blocking that pees me off, which is what I first assumed this was. I'm on my internet banking daily and have never lost my card (even if I did I'd cancel it straight away) so if there was any fraud I'd know. The only fraud I have ever had is a ?50 vodafone top up, and guess who notified who about that

Fortunately I have a lloyds account w/ credit card so not a huge issue, just I normally use HSBC for everything as it's where the bulk of my money is....


Oh and speedy - I hear you and raise you couriers in general.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Can they please stop those Direct Line adverts now PLEASE, cos they are not funny anymore. Actually they stopped being funny after about the 1st 2.

[speedlolita]

My 8800GTX just died.

[Fader209]

Eddie - regarding the colds thing, are you sure you don't have hayfever? There has been a rise in sufferers these past couple years, myself recently getting it too. I found it was always worse when I slept at night with the window open.

[randombs]

I have the same issue with HSBC - super-fast and really paranoid with the credit card but completely oblivious as far as the bank account is concerned.

[Silvergun X]

Facebook has made copies of Wikipedia pages, so now 2 copies of the same stuff appears at the top of searches on google. Useless.
Try "guru logic champ review" for example.

I can't see them getting away with this if it's done on a widespread basis. Content duplication + content farming = Prime candidate for panda rape once a new iteration launches.

Other biggies have been penalised/sandbox'd before, I can't imagine Facebook being immune to this.

[eastyy]

little thing that irks me is when in a music video have to wait a minute or two before the song even starts

[Dogg Thang]

I was followed on twitter by the guy who did the visual effects on Moon. Boasted that I was followed on twitter by the guy who did the visual effects on Moon and... he had unfollowed me, like less than half a day later. That cuts deep. One of those things that haunts you in those quiet moments late at night.

[Fader209]

Made me laugh so I added you.

I haven't done any special effects on any movies so you don't have to boast about anything

Current irk - the awful categorising on the Amazon site regarding books. I specifically search for only sci-fi and the list it comes up with has the likes of Game of Thrones and Terry Pratchett in there.

[randombs]

Talk about easy come easy go

We'll just pretend it was a case of mistaken identity. You should follow him and see what happens.

little thing that irks me is when in a music video have to wait a minute or two before the song even starts

Assuming you're talking about when they have nonsense before the music rather than just your internet buffering, the only music video I don't mind that with is Aphex Twin's Windowlicker(nsfw). The intro to that is FIVE MINUTES!