Little things that would make difference

[stainese]

Aug 10, 2022 8:50:22 GMT rollingstone said:

The mall centre management and to do as they promised and put up larger signs to inform people that the exit ramp from the rooftop car park is not a pedestrian walkway for gym goers!

You can have as many signs as you like, People never read them

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Aug 10, 2022 18:04:43 GMT stainese said:

Aug 10, 2022 8:50:22 GMT rollingstone said:

The mall centre management and to do as they promised and put up larger signs to inform people that the exit ramp from the rooftop car park is not a pedestrian walkway for gym goers!

You can have as many signs as you like, People never read them

That is a very good point

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What an excellent thread! I can't add any car related moans (except about cars in general), but I'm getting increasingly annoyed by a lot of other things (probably my age...).

For instance, people who say 'haitch' - even on the BBC now!! Entirely unnecessary (and pointless) 'background' YouTube-style 'music' on Radio 4 programmes (once the 'intelligent listeners' network'). Bloody podcasts everywhere!! People who have their phones on speaker and hold them in front of their faces. Why? People who say "could/would/should of". Jesus f**king Christ - it's "HAVE"!!!!!! Complete wankers who drive around with their 'music' on LOUD (usually rap) and their passenger window open. NO you turd-brained moron, I do NOT want to hear your music! And who do you think you are, anyway, one of the Bros in LA? Last time I looked, you were a white wanker in Maidstone.

Then there's ATMs that don't give out fivers. Sainsbury's f**king self-'service' f**king useless f**king machines. And having to wait to prove you're over 25 when you are buying ALCOHOL FREE 'beer'. Not to mention the last train from Ashford to Maidstone being about tea-time. And my bus pass not being valid before 9:30! Are they frightened of being overwhelmed by hoards of pensioners at 9am - that oh-so-busy time of day on busses?! M&S leaving town - where am I supposed to buy bread now???

Anyone (yes that includes you) who says “going forward”. For f**k’s sake, what other way is there to go?? People who say “train station”. Have you ever known anyone think you mean bus station when you just say ‘station’?? Anyway, it’s a bloody “railway station”. Jesus. And that STUPID, REALLY IRRITATING message on trains (every five minutes) that says “See it, say it, sorted”.

I could go on - and on - and on...

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Aug 16, 2022 1:58:29 GMT @johndaubneyslegs said:

What an excellent thread! I can't add any car related moans (except about cars in general), but I'm getting increasingly annoyed by a lot of other things (probably my age...).

For instance, people who say 'haitch' - even on the BBC now!! Entirely unnecessary (and pointless) 'background' YouTube-style 'music' on Radio 4 programmes (once the 'intelligent listeners' network'). Bloody podcasts everywhere!! People who have their phones on speaker and hold them in front of their faces. Why? People who say "could/would/should of". Jesus f**king Christ - it's "HAVE"!!!!!! Complete wankers who drive around with their 'music' on LOUD (usually rap) and their passenger window open. NO you turd-brained moron, I do NOT want to hear your music! And who do you think you are, anyway, one of the Bros in LA? Last time I looked, you were a white wanker in Maidstone.

Then there's ATMs that don't give out fivers. Sainsbury's f**king self-'service' f**king useless f**king machines. And having to wait to prove you're over 25 when you are buying ALCOHOL FREE 'beer'. Not to mention the last train from Ashford to Maidstone being about tea-time. And my bus pass not being valid before 9:30! Are they frightened of being overwhelmed by hoards of pensioners at 9am - that oh-so-busy time of day on busses?! M&S leaving town - where am I supposed to buy bread now???

Anyone (yes that includes you) who says “going forward”. For f**k’s sake, what other way is there to go?? People who say “train station”. Have you ever known anyone think you mean bus station when you just say ‘station’?? Anyway, it’s a bloody “railway station”. Jesus. And that STUPID, REALLY IRRITATING message on trains (every five minutes) that says “See it, say it, sorted”.

I could go on - and on - and on...

A huge petition was handed to Sainsburys executives to increase the number of manned tills in shops,the net result is Sainsbury's have decided to completely do away with manned tills and make it self service tills only. I wonder why they call it manned tills when it's usually a women sitting there? Anyway I won't be shopping at Sainsburys again.

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Questionable economics re self service tills as they seem to need multiple humans to sort them out.
Bit like automatic paying in machines in banks.
Staff at Santander admit they are unable to read most signatures and can't cope with corporate cheques either.

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Aug 16, 2022 6:40:43 GMT sword65 said:

Aug 16, 2022 1:58:29 GMT @johndaubneyslegs said:

What an excellent thread! I can't add any car related moans (except about cars in general), but I'm getting increasingly annoyed by a lot of other things (probably my age...).

For instance, people who say 'haitch' - even on the BBC now!! Entirely unnecessary (and pointless) 'background' YouTube-style 'music' on Radio 4 programmes (once the 'intelligent listeners' network'). Bloody podcasts everywhere!! People who have their phones on speaker and hold them in front of their faces. Why? People who say "could/would/should of". Jesus f**king Christ - it's "HAVE"!!!!!! Complete wankers who drive around with their 'music' on LOUD (usually rap) and their passenger window open. NO you turd-brained moron, I do NOT want to hear your music! And who do you think you are, anyway, one of the Bros in LA? Last time I looked, you were a white wanker in Maidstone.

Then there's ATMs that don't give out fivers. Sainsbury's f**king self-'service' f**king useless f**king machines. And having to wait to prove you're over 25 when you are buying ALCOHOL FREE 'beer'. Not to mention the last train from Ashford to Maidstone being about tea-time. And my bus pass not being valid before 9:30! Are they frightened of being overwhelmed by hoards of pensioners at 9am - that oh-so-busy time of day on busses?! M&S leaving town - where am I supposed to buy bread now???

Anyone (yes that includes you) who says “going forward”. For f**k’s sake, what other way is there to go?? People who say “train station”. Have you ever known anyone think you mean bus station when you just say ‘station’?? Anyway, it’s a bloody “railway station”. Jesus. And that STUPID, REALLY IRRITATING message on trains (every five minutes) that says “See it, say it, sorted”.

I could go on - and on - and on...

A huge petition was handed to Sainsburys executives to increase the number of manned tills in shops,the net result is Sainsbury's have decided to completely do away with manned tills and make it self service tills only. I wonder why they call it manned tills when it's usually a women sitting there? Anyway I won't be shopping at Sainsburys again.

Sainsbury's has really gone down hill over the last few years - no tills open, gaps in shelves (sometimes for over a week), much less choice, own brands disappearing, bakery, déli, meat and fish counters all gone, staff moral seems to have collapsed. Even odd things like no trolleys left in those shelters, so you can't get your quid back without walking back to the shop. Looks to me like a business that's lost its way.

I only shop there now for the stuff Aldi don't do. A year or two ago, our shopping was roughly two-thirds Sains and one-third Aldi, but it's pretty much switched round. And if this cost of living thing gets bad, we are going to have to give up a lot of stuff we buy in Sainsbury's anyway.

A few months ago I had to go over to Waitrose (Sainsbury's had run out of something the kids like and that was the only place that did it). Lovely shop - reminded me of how Sainsbury's used to be. But the prices! Ye god's...

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Aug 16, 2022 11:46:24 GMT @johndaubneyslegs said:

Aug 16, 2022 6:40:43 GMT sword65 said:

A huge petition was handed to Sainsburys executives to increase the number of manned tills in shops,the net result is Sainsbury's have decided to completely do away with manned tills and make it self service tills only. I wonder why they call it manned tills when it's usually a women sitting there? Anyway I won't be shopping at Sainsburys again.

Sainsbury's has really gone down hill over the last few years - no tills open, gaps in shelves (sometimes for over a week), much less choice, own brands disappearing, bakery, déli, meat and fish counters all gone, staff moral seems to have collapsed. Even odd things like no trolleys left in those shelters, so you can't get your quid back without walking back to the shop. Looks to me like a business that's lost its way.

I only shop there now for the stuff Aldi don't do. A year or two ago, our shopping was roughly two-thirds Sains and one-third Aldi, but it's pretty much switched round. And if this cost of living thing gets bad, we are going to have to give up a lot of stuff we buy in Sainsbury's anyway.

A few months ago I had to go over to Waitrose (Sainsbury's had run out of something the kids like and that was the only place that did it). Lovely shop - reminded me of how Sainsbury's used to be. But the prices! Ye god's...

Sadly I have to agree with this. In Pimlico Sainsbury's which I have been using for the past few weeks you can never find both brocolli and cauliflower on the same day, as you say the shelves are half empty. Is this the same everywhere?

And don't get me started on the self-service checkouts. They do not have facial recognition for alcohol sales (very simple to do) and do not allow me to put my rucksack down to put my shopping into directly.

Also as an ingenue to this system I have no way of telling which checkouts are open and many are closed. Green light, flashing green light, red light?? No explanation anywhere. And what on earth is the logic for closing self-service checkouts as it leads to queues? Surely that defeats the original intent?

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Aug 16, 2022 1:58:29 GMT @johndaubneyslegs said:

What an excellent thread! I can't add any car related moans (except about cars in general), but I'm getting increasingly annoyed by a lot of other things (probably my age...).

For instance, people who say 'haitch' - even on the BBC now!! Entirely unnecessary (and pointless) 'background' YouTube-style 'music' on Radio 4 programmes (once the 'intelligent listeners' network'). Bloody podcasts everywhere!! People who have their phones on speaker and hold them in front of their faces. Why? People who say "could/would/should of". Jesus f**king Christ - it's "HAVE"!!!!!! Complete wankers who drive around with their 'music' on LOUD (usually rap) and their passenger window open. NO you turd-brained moron, I do NOT want to hear your music! And who do you think you are, anyway, one of the Bros in LA? Last time I looked, you were a white wanker in Maidstone.

Then there's ATMs that don't give out fivers. Sainsbury's f**king self-'service' f**king useless f**king machines. And having to wait to prove you're over 25 when you are buying ALCOHOL FREE 'beer'. Not to mention the last train from Ashford to Maidstone being about tea-time. And my bus pass not being valid before 9:30! Are they frightened of being overwhelmed by hoards of pensioners at 9am - that oh-so-busy time of day on busses?! M&S leaving town - where am I supposed to buy bread now???

Anyone (yes that includes you) who says “going forward”. For f**k’s sake, what other way is there to go?? People who say “train station”. Have you ever known anyone think you mean bus station when you just say ‘station’?? Anyway, it’s a bloody “railway station”. Jesus. And that STUPID, REALLY IRRITATING message on trains (every five minutes) that says “See it, say it, sorted”.

I could go on - and on - and on...

People who say haitch are usually the same people who drop their Hs

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Having spent time in New England recently, also Norfolk and Lincolnshire, Kent is an utter rubbish by comparison.
We have a litter problem of huge dimensions. If the likes of Mablethorpe and Cromer can stay litter free at the height of the tourist season, why is the Kent countryside such a shithole?

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Aug 19, 2022 17:17:13 GMT @61666 said:

Having spent time in New England recently, also Norfolk and Lincolnshire, Kent is an utter rubbish by comparison.
We have a litter problem of huge dimensions. If the likes of Mablethorpe and Cromer can stay litter free at the height of the tourist season, why is the Kent countryside such a shithole?

Because the county if full of tossers

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Aug 16, 2022 1:58:29 GMT @johndaubneyslegs said:

What an excellent thread! I can't add any car related moans (except about cars in general), but I'm getting increasingly annoyed by a lot of other things (probably my age...).

For instance, people who say 'haitch' - even on the BBC now!! Entirely unnecessary (and pointless) 'background' YouTube-style 'music' on Radio 4 programmes (once the 'intelligent listeners' network'). Bloody podcasts everywhere!! People who have their phones on speaker and hold them in front of their faces. Why? People who say "could/would/should of". Jesus f**king Christ - it's "HAVE"!!!!!! Complete wankers who drive around with their 'music' on LOUD (usually rap) and their passenger window open. NO you turd-brained moron, I do NOT want to hear your music! And who do you think you are, anyway, one of the Bros in LA? Last time I looked, you were a white wanker in Maidstone.

Then there's ATMs that don't give out fivers. Sainsbury's f**king self-'service' f**king useless f**king machines. And having to wait to prove you're over 25 when you are buying ALCOHOL FREE 'beer'. Not to mention the last train from Ashford to Maidstone being about tea-time. And my bus pass not being valid before 9:30! Are they frightened of being overwhelmed by hoards of pensioners at 9am - that oh-so-busy time of day on busses?! M&S leaving town - where am I supposed to buy bread now???

Anyone (yes that includes you) who says “going forward”. For f**k’s sake, what other way is there to go?? People who say “train station”. Have you ever known anyone think you mean bus station when you just say ‘station’?? Anyway, it’s a bloody “railway station”. Jesus. And that STUPID, REALLY IRRITATING message on trains (every five minutes) that says “See it, say it, sorted”.

I could go on - and on - and on...

One of mine is people who say 'didn't the rain come down!'

Well yes actually! when it rains it bloody well falls from the sky!!!! Grrr

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I can never understand why some people reverse their car into supermarket parking spaces. Shopping goes in the boot and this becomes very difficult to access if you park that way.
However, if such carparks were designed so everyone could reverse into a space that had a pavement walkway between two lines of cars, then we could all access and load out vehicles more safely.
Whether folk could be arsed to put their trolley away afterwards is another matter of course.

[jdh80]

Some more stupid petty things that irritate the hell out of me.

Football clubs who do not issue a printed programme
People who have voice mails but they are always full as they NEVER check them
Clothes sizes how can in one shop I be one size and in another I be a completely different size - 4 inches difference usually
Traffic lights at 02:00-05:00 in the morning surely these could be set to auto sensing if a vehicle is at the lights when nothing is coming the other way they can change quickly, they have cameras that flash people who go through red lights why make people sit there when there is NOTHING else on the road at that time in the morning.
Petrol stations - why is it the ones where you can't pay at the pump and have to go in the shop, I always get stuck in a queue behind someone doing their weekly chuffing shop

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BBC's news of the Queen's ill health this lunchtime reminded me of how pathetic the rush to be first with such things has become over the last few years.
Suddenly, in the middle of Bargain Hunt (yes, I know, sad bastard) we were suddenly switched to a flustered and totally unprepared newsreader, who first announced that Queenie wasn't well, then went to a royal correspondent, who also told us she wasn't well and then back to the newsreader, who repeated it all again, getting ever more panic stricken.
Now, it was 12.40, the main news programme was 20 minutes away and the Queen was ill but certainly not dead. If they really wanted to give a heads up to this, why not just put a scrolling text to say as much, promising a full report at 1pm?
I don't give a toss about missing Bargain Hunt, but I despair at such incoherant, bumbling, repetitive reporting. What was wrong with waiting 20 minutes, gathering all the salient facts and then presenting them properly?
Come on BBC, you can do better than this. Oh and my while I'm at it, do they then need to fill the rest of the afternoon (and for all we know, the rest of the day), wittering on about events? Turned on the TV this afternoon to see film of a private jet which, quote "might contain members of the royal family" land at Aberdeen airport.
Get a grip FFS!

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Agree. This is shambolic coverage like our and Liverpool's defence.