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31 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:

I'm not saying you should definitely smash any machines that mistreat you, but if its happening this often you may need to make an example of at least one or two

I'll try but I usually just slink off trying not to make eye contact with the symathetic/pitying/amused/angry queue it has engineered to join in.

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On 28/01/2020 at 22:30, Utter Roaster said:

Guilty as charged, m'lud. Couple of my mates had them, and I got one free at an event as part of a goodie bag. 

I suppose I can see the point about making it easier to hold (maybe if the Mrs had had one she wouldn't have dropped hers down the bog; I believe there's another thread for such tales of fuckwittery?). But my mates only ever use theirs as wee stands - pull out the back bit and it allows you to prop the phone up so you can watch stuff while you're having your tea. Or anything else where you need at least one free hand... 

Could easily live without it for all the times I use it, and the biggest downside so far is now it doesn't fit in my dashboard mount. 

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50 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

I have suspected so for some time. Yesterday an ATM gave the cash fine, then waited to the cusp of the point I was beginning  to panic before it contemptuously spat  out the card. 

I'd have panicked right away tbh, ATMs give you your card back first.

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38 minutes ago, The Moonster said:

I'd have panicked right away tbh, ATMs give you your card back first.

I'm abroad and it asked for all the instructions before it !atterly asked for the card. It was a nerve wracking experience on the whole.

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1 hour ago, Bairnardo said:

I'm not saying you should definitely smash any machines that mistreat you, but if its happening this often you may need to make an example of at least one or two

I once read that the Japanese treat a malfunctioning machine as a sick person and show sympathy towards it as they try to cure it (although the mountains of Japan are littered with elderly photocopiers left up there to die).

In this country we just boot a machine in the pi until it works.

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2 hours ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

I have suspected so for some time. Yesterday an ATM gave the cash fine, then waited to the cusp of the point I was beginning  to panic before it contemptuously spat  out the card. 

Gave you a greenie purely for not calling it 'an ATM machine'.

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I had my credit card details nicked last month, with the culprits maxing it out with junk food and Netflix subscriptions. The provider cancelled the card and issued me with a new one, which has sat in a drawer unused, as I wanted to wait until the erroneous transactions had been wiped.

The transactions were cleared a few days ago, and immediately more fraudulent transactions started appearing on the account. The old card details have been cancelled, and nobody knows the new ones. Nobody else has even physically seen it.

WTF is going on?

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1 hour ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

I had my credit card details nicked last month, with the culprits maxing it out with junk food and Netflix subscriptions. The provider cancelled the card and issued me with a new one, which has sat in a drawer unused, as I wanted to wait until the erroneous transactions had been wiped.

The transactions were cleared a few days ago, and immediately more fraudulent transactions started appearing on the account. The old card details have been cancelled, and nobody knows the new ones. Nobody else has even physically seen it.

WTF is going on?

Somebody is fiddling about in your drawers.

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2 hours ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

I had my credit card details nicked last month, with the culprits maxing it out with junk food and Netflix subscriptions. The provider cancelled the card and issued me with a new one, which has sat in a drawer unused, as I wanted to wait until the erroneous transactions had been wiped.

The transactions were cleared a few days ago, and immediately more fraudulent transactions started appearing on the account. The old card details have been cancelled, and nobody knows the new ones. Nobody else has even physically seen it.

WTF is going on?

Is a subscription like Netflix on the new card or actual purchases? Normally if it's a subscription they'll move on to the new card even if it's canceled so you don't have to fanny about telling everyone your new details. If it's not that then someone is defInitely in your drawers.

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1 hour ago, Bert Raccoon said:

Is a subscription like Netflix on the new card or actual purchases? Normally if it's a subscription they'll move on to the new card even if it's canceled so you don't have to fanny about telling everyone your new details. If it's not that then someone is defInitely in your drawers.

Yep, it's all subscriptions - all sorted out now (hopefully).

Thanks Bert, I won't have to resort to sending my card details to Dindeleux now.

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Herbalife freaks describing themselves as "helping people smash their dreams" or "changing people's lives for the better". No. You are ripping people off and trying to brainwash them into thinking that drinking protein shakes will help you lose weight. Again, no. You can eat healthy without all that shite.

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22 minutes ago, philpy said:

Herbalife freaks describing themselves as "helping people smash their dreams" or "changing people's lives for the better". No. You are ripping people off and trying to brainwash them into thinking that drinking protein shakes will help you lose weight. Again, no. You can eat healthy without all that shite.

^^^Tried herbalife after a kebab and never lost weight type post. 

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19 hours ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

I had my credit card details nicked last month, with the culprits maxing it out with junk food and Netflix subscriptions. The provider cancelled the card and issued me with a new one, which has sat in a drawer unused, as I wanted to wait until the erroneous transactions had been wiped.

The transactions were cleared a few days ago, and immediately more fraudulent transactions started appearing on the account. The old card details have been cancelled, and nobody knows the new ones. Nobody else has even physically seen it.

WTF is going on?

Buying pizzas and onto Babestation while jellied.

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The BBC's inconsistency in the use of the words City / Rovers / Athletic etc in their fixture lists.  See todays example below where they have Athletic for Annan, but not for Forfar or Dunfermline.  Rovers for Raith, but not for Albion (especially when a Google of "Albion football club" returns Stirling Albion as the top result who of course are in the same league).  Rangers for Cove but no Albion for Stirling when there are two senior clubs that have the word 'Stirling' in the name,  etc etc

I can understand why you make a point of having the City for Edinburgh, but sometimes they go as far as writing 'Elgin City' and 'Brechin' (or vice versa) in the same list.  I think heads should roll for this IMHO.

 

Albion 15:00 Cove Rangers

Annan Athletic 15:00 Stenhousemuir

Brechin 15:00 Elgin

Edinburgh City 15:00 Stirling

Airdrieonians 15:00 Raith Rovers

Forfar 15:00 Clyde

Inverness CT 15:00 Alloa

Queen of Sth 15:00 Dunfermline

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