This, Recently at asda looked for ages for peas pudding (it's apparently not known everywhere but bare with me) As it is used as sandwich filler i looked there.

Had to ask staff in the end, they said it is with pies as it is made by same company, Would never have looked there. Staff know the shop so it makes sense to ask them even if it seems daft/obvious

The random and inappropriate pluralisation (I know this may not be a word) of shop names. People talking of "Tescos" and "Asdas" and "Lidls" (as in "I went shopping at Tescos"). It only seems to happen with supermarkets for some reason (but i haven't heard "Aldis" yet)

^ whenever a big supermarket rejigs things, they should send round one of those google-map people with there mini 360 cameras, enabling you to "wander" around the newly-arranged store in the comfort of your home to see just where they've relocated your fav. items.

oh yeah - that's like the "people don't like me, because I tell it lise it is" you could still use some tact sunshine!

People driving slow especially in a car park.
People walking in supermarkets with a trolly without taking note of others around them. Cutting you up, suddenly stopping or walking too slow.

Heston Blumenthal's glasses.

Stop ******** arranging your shit, ******** w******.

I'm here for a short time to take some shit off your shelves, not for a long time, you douches.

They've just relocated most of the sections in my local Morrisons and I agree - it is an absolute nightmare trying to locate everything you need, especially when you have just got used to where everything is. I'm only glad I am not visually impaired, I dread to think how the people who are manage to cope.

(visually impaired = restricted sight rather than total blindness, right ?!, if so then ....)

I find myself walking up and down aisles trying to find something they've moved from "it used to be right there for years " to "god knows where " and I don't like to ask cos maybe I haven't given it a good enough look and if it turns out I'm standing right by it but didn't see it, well I'd feel a right dink.

Fooey.... I didn't want a tin of Sausages and Spagetti anyway.

This is our third xmas in our house after moving in during the summer months. We bought the house from a relation and are still getting mail for them! The worst part is we have just got the third xmas card from the same person for them. Obviously we feel obliged to give them the card before xmas which usually means a 2-3 hour exchange which for reasons i wont go into isnt very pleasant.

It frustates me that they havent in three years told the person their new address! Surely they send a card back so presumably they could write their address in the card?

Most of their junk mail gets thrown and they have to wait before getting what looks like important stuff, hoping they will get the message. I tell my partner i will chuck the lot but he wont agree. Yet the person whos mail it is makes no attempt to change the address or get it themselves, its up to us to take it to them. The most frustrating thing is if they had sold the house to a stranger surely they wouldnt expect them to keep hand delivering all their mail, so why should we?

People on threads who, when they know they're losing an argument, start resorting to personal remarks and rude offensive posts to keep the upper hand and convince themselves they're 100 per cent in the right.

Even written as a theoretical dialogue this has filled me with rage and hate.

How much pity do I have to engender in computer literate friends before one of them will come round and fix my multiple viruses?



I can't for the life of me see why anyone would be angry about the advertisements in shop windows. If they are only in Polish, clearly they are not aimed at you, and would be of no interest to you. Someone wants a Polish speaking carer, perhaps, for her grandma, or has a lot of Polish language books to offload.

Absolutely. We inherited our phone number from a dental surgery, and for about 5 years (some people obviously have big gaps between appointments) were bombarded with calls. One of them, when I said it was no longer a dental surgery, said, "Well do you think you could just LOOK at my teeth?" So tempting...


I am that old lady. All I really need is 'on', 'channel' and a little corner for setting up recordings. It doesn't help that we have four remote controls, which offer damnfool things like changing the ratio or - I dunno - putting a Bedlington Terrier's head on Peter Andre every time he appears. Who uses this stuff?




A few years ago, the Revenue and Customs had the worst one ever. You would wait for about an hour to be answered, listening continuously to a message where a bright, perky voice said, "Why not ring in the afternoon, when we are quieter?" - and no amount of bellowing, "IT IS THE F***ING AFTERNOON!!!" would stop it.
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Yes, my recent pet hate is people who, realizing they have utterly lost an argument and have nothing else to offer, say things like "don't you think you are getting a bit obsessed with this? " - with the implication that they are debating in a spirit of sophisticated bonhomie, but you are a drooling obsessive who pees into a bottle rather than leave the forum for an instant.

AAAAAAAAAnd... people who, if you post a cheery photograph of something like a 20-person hike on facebook get very angry that you have shown their children without permission, where any paedophile could see them, because everyone knows that paedophiles comb the internet looking for half inch high photographs of children in cagoules.

Waste bins with very high centers of gravity so the slightest contact will upend them spilling their contents all over the place - darn it.

Cross out the address and write "unknown at this address" on the envelope and put it back in the post box. It will then be returned to sender. I live in a rented house and used to get all sorts of post for previous tenants - both junk mail and what looked like legitimate mail. Companies will stop sending it if you keep sending it back.

Most of them are for accommodation, offers of work etc. It just sounds all very insular to me.

This is the UK, not Poland. Speak English if you want to communicate with the majority of the local population.

It's as simple as that. But as you say, there is no point in getting too worked up about it and they are the ones losing out, not me.

If I want to advertise a room for example, I put up an advert written in English, not in Urdu, Hindi, Gujarati, Polish, Spanish, Romanian, Bulgarian, French, German etc., as that way I can reach the largest target market.

If people want to speak in a foreign language to their friends and family etc. (not involving me) then that's fine, but don't expect me to jump through hoops to understand them if they want to talk to me in a non English language.

Made me smile. If someone you don't know sends a card to someone who they see so little of that they're still unaware of a change of address 3 years down the line, it's hardly your job to waste 3 hours passing it on. Be honest, who really cares about Christmas cards?

And then when you decide to leave the thread because you can't be bothered with their childishness, they assume they've achieved a victory of some kind.

I like it personally, it's a throwback to a more community-based time and it shows resistance to modern aggressive branding.

Back in the day you'd have most of the shops in a town owned by local people and they'd be called something like 'A.D.Harrison & Sons - Family Butcher' and everyone would say "I'm going to Harrison's to get a leg of lamb for Sunday dinner." So when Tesco first turned up in town and people read 'Tesco' on the sign it was natural for them to say 'Tesco's'. The name on the shop is the name of the owner(s) and the shop itself belongs to the owner; Harrison's the butcher, Brown's the fishmonger, Tesco's the supermarket.

Do you call it 'W.H.Smith' or 'Smith's'? 'J.D.Wetherspoon' or 'Wetherspoon's' (or 'Spoons')?

Also, I bet Tesco hate being called Tesco's so that's all the more reason to do it. (And yes, we have Aldi's and Lidl's around here too).

Indeed, and the same goes for the makers of shampoo and other bathroom bottles. They make their bottles, cans etc so tall and narrow that the slightest nudge makes them fall over, usually taking half-a-dozen others with them. Grrr, Johnson's baby shampoo....

Most of the people I know refer to "Wilkinsons" as "Wilkies"

Same!! Sooo annoying

They don't seem to understand that I can get free wifi from my home router or using 'The Cloud' when out and about.

www.thecloud.net
http://www.thecloud.net/free-wifi
http://www.thecloud.net/free-wifi/why-wifi

You know why they all do this, right? It's in the hope that while hopelessly lost, you find some other stuff to buy as well as what you're actually looking for. It doesn't work on me

My iPhone constantly trying to change my best friend's name (Rhiannon) to a Bajan singer (Rihanna).

I really have no idea why youtube keeps suggesting these video's for me (maybe that's another annoyance?) but still....

It really bugs me how many complete chancers there are involved in the "alternative energy" scene.

Just watched one video where a guy shows you how to make an old washing machine into a water-powered generator.
All seems fairly reasonable until he gets down to the facts and figures.
He claims that it's producing 800w of leccy which is "enough to power ten light bulbs or a freezer or microwave.

Erm, no. It's producing 800w at 12v. at 240v (20 times the voltage) it'd be producing 20 times less wattage, therefore it'd actually only power one pokey bedside lamp.

And he casually mentions how the water is fed into the machine at "a head pressure of 45m" and a flow of "2 litres per second".
He also says this doesn't cost anything because he pulls the water "straight out of a stream" to power it.

With 45m (or 150ft) head pressure? Where does this guy live? Right underneath Niagara Falls?
And 2 litres per second?
That's 120l per minute or more than 7 tonnes of water per hour.
All to power one bedside light.

Oh, and you need to buy a fancy Pelton Wheel to complete the project.

He sells those BTW. For $200 a pop.

Sometimes I wonder if the entire "alternative energy" market is populated by snake-oil salesmen and the only people who see an improvement to their cost of living are the shisters selling all this junk.