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

[Spatial]

Lazy, stupid, half witted delivery drivers who can't even be bothered to do their job

Guy drops a parcel off to the next door neighbours either side. I'm waiting for something which was out for delivery with them but there's no knock. No card shoved through the door. Nothing.

Go next door and find he's just handed it to one of the neighbours without even bothering to try and see if I was in. Good job my neighbours are decent, reliable people. Unlike this idiothole.

[Brats]

The NME.

I know it's been rubbish for years, but during a clear out of the loft I discovered some old issues. God it was good once. Instead of just being a rag for popular, white, indie guitar bands it used to celebrate a wider variety of music. I have the Public Enemy cover that controversially claimed 'The Greatest Rock 'n Roll Band in the World' in massive letters, plus issues with Orbital, LFO and Aphex Twin on the front cover. Can't see that happeining now.

I bought a recent issue for reading on the train and by God they have a chip on their shoulder regarding sites like Pitchfork, Drowned in Sound and blogs in general. I don't think I've read a mention of Animal Collective in NME without them mentioning 'blog' in the same sentence with some negative remark.

I'm not the biggest fans of those sites as they seem to indulge to much in the minutae surrounding the music rather than the music itself, but their a damn site better than the NME - the News of the World of music journalism (just replace Diana with their favourite indie band of the moment).

[endo]

I always used to read Melody Maker rather than the NME, but I had to stop reading that as most of the writers disappeared further up their own a-holes. People criticise Edge for pretentious writing... they've got nothing on early-to-mid 90s Melody Maker. Jesus, what a pile of ****. Then it became Smash Hits and soon after vanished for good.

[sj33]

I remember I got real stick on another forum for using the word 'indie' for refering to a certain type of music, getting the lecture about how 'indie' simply means they're signed to an independent label. I know that all too well, but there's no hiding the fact that it's become shorthand to describe a specific type of music. When I probed the guy to offer an alternative word that he would prefer me to use, he said 'alternative', which seems equally loose.

He knew damn well what I was refering to, too.

[Adam Stone]

Yer, if you look under 24 or is it 25, you have to provide ID to prove you're over 18.

I refuse to carry ID simply because I can't be bothered to carry my passport around with me, and I don't have any other form. Plus I usually just state my age firmly and they give in anyway.

I can understand their point but meh.

My only form of ID is my passport too. My misses hates it when i carry it around, so I tend not to... What is funny though is that i'm never, never asked for ID. The lady is approaching 30, yet she is always asked bless her. She loves it though.

The worrying thing is im 22 years old (23 on the 23rd December!) yet most people seem to think i'm in my 30s. Here's a recent-ish photo of me... Do i really look in my 30s?



I like to think it's because I come across as a mature gentlemen (ha)!

kernow, if you get asked ID because they think you are younger then 24, surely that's a compliment? On second thoughts, I'd rather look twice my age rather then getting home without my beverage

[Number45]

Yep, I would get asked for ID quite frequently right up until I was pretty much 30. Haven't for a while now, but I've had 8 years of fatherhood so it's bound to have taken its toll.

[kernow]

Yeah its a compliment as the 2nd lady said she doesn't think I look 24, but I would rather have no issues and just get 'served'

God I feel so 16 saying that - heyy I got served!

^_^

Adam you do look older than 22 in that pic for sure. Maybe they are bedazzled by your chiselled dreamy looks and too weak at the knees to ask for ID after.

[Gruce]

When people don't warm plates before serving. Cook a pizza and put it on a cold plate, condensation and the pizza base gets all soggy, nice...

People whos default address are in lower-case, take 5 seconds to make it look presentable.

[Largo]

I think you look older than 22, but thats not really a bad thing? Im 25 and i dont think i look it at all, its annoying, or maybe i just have a complex...however it should help me pick up uni students when im 30 (apparently)

Speaking of uni students, thats whats irking me at the moment, sisters/brothers coming home for xmas hols from their uni with an attitude, whats the first thing that happens too, plug into the net i pay for, then the next day i get a over usage email from isp yay....regular as clockwork

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

Why do you always need to empty your bowels in the middle of a journey?

All day at work? Fine.

As I finish? Fine.

Half way into town? A turtle decides it wants to play peek-a-boo.

On the bus home I was having a midloaf crisis!

It's as if my body is deciding it wants to pay me back for the ardous torture of the last 9 hours!

[prinnysquad]

More delivery woes.

City Link, useless tossers. They tried to deliver on the 15th. The little card thing had a tick next to 'We'll deliver again this evening up until 21:00.' I presumed that would mean they'd try to do that automatically, not that I'd have to ring them up and ask them too, which I guess I had to do, since they didn't attempt a re-delivery.

So I rang up the automated bollocksfest and typed in my ref number. 'I'm sorry we can't arrange for a redelivery without the permission of the sender. You must contact the sender to arrange this.'

Yeah, superb, because I know who that is, when there's about 10 parcels on route during the Christmas internet shop-fest.

So now I have to travel 10 miles, through city traffic at 4pm tomorrow night, to pick up this parcel from their tawdry cesspit depot.

They seem to make it as difficult as they can for you to get your stuff, while they put in as little effort as possible. Viva competition. Twunts.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

More ebay buyer woes. Like I said it seems to be on an almost weekly basis.
Got a Paypal echeque last wk for £60 which wasnt gonna clear until the 22nd Dec, so I informed the buyer when it would clear & would send after it had cleared (just incase he got arsey - "wheres my item?" blah blah).

In the back of my mind I knew it didnt seem good as I got no answer, & I thought the worst i.e close to Xmas, prob wont clear, buyer wont item until after xmas so will be pissed.

Got an email today from Paypal - echeque didnt clear. Explained to buyer the situation & asked very politely for him to pay via another method, but I knew this wasnt gonna end good.

Got an email from the buyer:

"Hi there
I am really sorry about this. I am having a lot of bother with my bank at the moment which is why paypal cancelled. I don't think I will be able to pay until I sort it out so is it ok to cancel the item please.
Sorry if this messes you about"

Just sent him another email asking why he cant pay via another method?
I can guess what the excuse, sorry, 'answer' will be.

Its time ebay allowed sellers to leave negs again.

[kernow]

ebay is just infuriating sometimes, or more selling on ebay is.

[Decider-VT]

Our central heating went haywire a couple of months ago- no heating in the evenings but it worked during the day. Called an engineer out, who confirmed my suspicions about the thermostat being the culprit and takes it apart with all of the requisite tutting about the workmanship of his predecessor. Tells me that it was incorrectly installed all along and that he'll order a new part and install it the following week. We live under a housing authority so the cost doesn't bother us but we put up with the cold in the meantime.

Got a garbled answering machine message in estuary English confirming that an engineer will be sent out the following Thursday, so all was well. We watched TV in the evenings from the relative warmth of a duvet. I spent all of Thursday indoors, doing coursework. No engineer. No surprise. We live with it for a little while.

Called them again this afternoon as the central heating stopped working entirely, although we thankfully still have hot water. Chavvy-sounding girl answers my call after an age on hold, then asks me what the problem is. I tell her. She says it's our fault as the engineer logged his follow-up call and said that we refused access to our property, despite me being at home all day, waiting. Consequently they used the part elsewhere. Cue my spluttering indignance. Useless bint says that I have to phone back in the morning as she can't handle that type of query. I contemplate possible prison term incurred by arson of their head office and compare the prospect of life in a cell versus righteous, burning fury and justice.

Crawl back under my duvet. Watch Frasier.

[gunrock]

I feel your pain.

Wake up this morning at 5:45am, 4 inches or so of snow. Yay!
Wonder why the house is so cold. Check the thermometer in the bedroom, 21 degrees, so a little colder than usual. Check the radiators; like ice.
Go downstairs, thermometer reads 17 degrees. Once again, cold radiators.
Check boiler, pilot light is out. I relight it (takes about 5 minutes of fiddling and faffing), whoosh! boiler reignites. I walk away and it goes out.
The light on the fishtank heater comes on....

It takes me one hour and half to get the pilot to stay on and reignite the boiler! But at least it's on, for now. I get to the station at 9:20am, the display sign says the next train is the 8:11am... arrrrrgggghh!