Irritations - dump here thread

[nihilism]

The kids today that all seem to have hearing problems and spend all day with an iphone in their hand.

[metester]

Those frickin' barcode stickers that places like the Big B choose to stick on all their timber sheets, mouldings, bolts....you name it. Very frustrating.

[issatree]

Hi rrser,
Well where does one start.
We have the new ring Road that bypasses Geelong, & on the Ballarat Rd. there are 13 Overhead Lights not working. Went to see them, & it was explained to me they are having trouble getting the right Globes, & would cost in the vicinity of ( Wait for it )" $1,000000 " to replace them.

Same section, we have to sit at the Traffic Lights for over 2 Mins. Now my Gripe is, on early mornings, you've just missed the Go Lights, & you sit & sit & sit. Now there is no Traffic coming N,S,E, or West, & there you sit wasting fuel.
Some people, although breaking the Law, drive through the Red Lights, & still there is nothing in sight.
Don't really blame them.
Regards,
issatree.

[Carry Pine]

People who don't provide feedback on eBay. Come on people participate.

You are so limited in your ability to offer feedback on E Bay.
My experience is with sellers who charge high package and postage charges to make their profit. Try to register that as feedback and you come to a dead end. I purchased a 'sticker' for a bike that cost $6 in packing and postage and was sent with 2 50c stamps in a folded envelope. The result: the seller has banned me for offering negative feedback. Maybe I'm better off not dealing with the guy but i would like others to know what happened. This is not possible under the present system.

Sorry for hijacking the thread but that feedback comment is one that gets me mad.

Graham

[underfoot]

That enormous wall of bread at the supermarket.
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I didn't even know I disliked that till you reminded me
the waste from that wall of dough is criminal.

[corbs]

... I purchased a 'sticker' for a bike that cost $6...

I think I was looking at the same stickers on ebay last night

[tea lady]

the twists and turns that stick way out of your desk lamp. Look like Daleks' guts.

the seller has banned me for offering negative feedback. Maybe I'm better off not dealing with the guy but i would like others to know what happened. This is not possible under the present system.

Sorry for hijacking the thread but that feedback comment is one that gets me mad.

Graham

You can ban someone from leaving negative feedback?

I didn't even know I disliked that till you reminded me
the waste from that wall of dough is criminal.

.... and such badly cooked dough.

I hate people in sports cars that sit on 10 kms below the limit. Jeeeeez! talk about rub it in. ......"I could go fast if I want but I don't feel like it." .........

[artme]

Political ads.

Unecessary administrative procedures tthat cost money, time and confusion.

[Master Splinter]

Picking up a sheet of melamine faced board and getting a huge 'paper cut' across the palm of your hand from the edge that you just cut.

[jimbur]

Three H words:
Hero to denote someone who catches a ball or sells cheap groceries.
Humble especially when politicians use it of themselves.
Honouring when they mean commemorating - I saw something today about a memento honouring the founding of Melbourne.
Lots more but the froth gets in the keyboard,
Jim

[rsser]

Jim, yes, those ring bells.

Emotional as used in broadcasts. What?? Could mean

* angry
* sad
* happy
* anxious
* grieving
* raging
* joyous, and so on.

Sloppy journalese.

[springwater]

Stickers on apples. Suits, women in suits more. Bread ties. Plastic milk bottles. Packaging. "Moving forward" is a positive direction. What did we do without the"Model". Global warming. Who's tried to open the wrong end of thoise plastic bags that come off a roll in supermarkets.

[chambezio]

When talking to most younger people why do they insist on the well over used word......LIKE Like when did it come into service. Like Maynard G Crebbs used it because he was the original beatnik like. But that was, how long ago like?

AND what about those few hairs that get missed being shaved under the middle of the bottom lip or the 3 day growth look on today's celebrities. What is that about?

Then there is is those body pearcings.....you know those people (male or female) who look like they have fallen face first into a tackle box like

As a GOM and proud of it why doesn't Austar replay The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis so we can see Maynard G before he turned into Gilligan?

[bsrlee]

The drips who push & shove to get in front of you, then stop dead once they are there & rubber neck, fly catch & generally faff around. Preferably somewhere you can't get past THEM in turn, say at the top or bottom of an escalator in a busy shopping mall.

Ditto people who do DiY pedestrian traffic jams, again in the narrowest available space. There were a group of mothers (30 or so from one ethnic group) who used to hold a 'mothers club' & let their kids run riot outside a local retailer from about 2.30 on. The shop shut down because it was almost impossible to get in or out while they were there, no one else has leased the space & the 'mothers club' has disappeared.

And then they get in their cars, head up the road & drive through red lights to stop anyone entering from a side street (with the green) getting in front of them.

Just as well they no longer give me a gun & ammo to carry.

[springwater]

Trying to operate the Tele with the heater remote control