Things that piss you off that shouldn't

[mjmooney]

This sort of thing. Just do what I asked, and define 'vorant'. It's in the dictionary (it means 'violently devouring'). Don't assume that I was really wanting (and mis-spelling) the made-up name of some bloody video game. 

[Davkaus]

Remember the days when Google returned what you wanted and seemed like it could read your mind?

It's been absolute dogshit for years.

[sidcow]

57 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

Remember the days when Google returned what you wanted and seemed like it could read your mind?

It's been absolute dogshit for years.

You used to type in Aston Villa FC and the first hit would be the Villa website. 

Now you've got to scroll past all sorts of shite, try to ignore some jumbled shite and eventually get to the website or wiki entry you just used to see immediately. 

[ender4]

14 minutes ago, sidcow said:

You used to type in Aston Villa FC and the first hit would be the Villa website. 

Now you've got to scroll past all sorts of shite, try to ignore some jumbled shite and eventually get to the website or wiki entry you just used to see immediately. 

Heck not paying the google optimisation bill!

[Anthony]

5 hours ago, rodders0223 said:

The amount of shitty little businesses that will say they're open on the Internet but aren't.

No wonder people go with chains.

Spot on. And they wonder why they struggle. 

We set up a market on our street, and one of these things we did was set up a website with profiles of all the shops on the street, with opening times. I was genuinely flabbergasted at the amount of businesses that were reluctant to give us any info. And when the market was up and running there were a few businesses coming to us to complain that the were stalls in front of their shops. Do you think there was much overlap between the two? Damn right.

There was a lovely bar maybe a 12 minute walk from us that did fantastic cocktails, but weren't so good at the business side. Right from the start you never knew when they were going to be open, but their hours became more and more erratic as time went on. Do I want to walk 12 minutes there, only to find out they're closed, and then walk 12 minutes back? Nah. I'm going elsewhere. They had a great product, but I didn't buy it because they couldn't do the most simple, basic things.

It's business 101: make it easy for people to give you money. Put your opening times on wherever your customers are. If it's Instagram, put it in your profile. If the hours are changing, then stick it in a daily post. It costs nothing, except maybe 5 minutes to post. There is so much competition around, so if you can remove just one reason for a potential customer for choosing your rival, then you should do it.

In this country we're mostly, from a government interference point of view, quite good at allowing businesses to just get on with running their business, but my god, there are some terrible business owners out there.

One thing I did find running the market, was that setting up a business, in addition to people who have a burning desire, or a great business idea, does tend to attract that certain type of person who, frankly, doesn't/can't work with other people, and setting up a market stall seems to attract these people even more. When I talk about people who don't work well with other people, I'm talking about those who will not listen, see compromise as some kind of weakness, think they know everything, have no tolerance to see of anything less than perfection and so on. The kind who put all their effort into creating a market stall, but zero into telling people about it, then complain they have no customers.

There is this idea of, "If I open a shop, they will come.", but f you don't tell them that you exist, they really **** won't mate. And if they turn up and find you're closed, damn right they'll tell everyone that you're useless, and that's more potential customers who won't give you the time of day. Word of mouth goes both ways.

[Davkaus]

There's a great little independent bakery about 10 minutes from me that I used to go to quite often, then a couple of times they just **** off home and locked up an hour early. Haven't bothered going back.

[bickster]

44 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

There's a great little independent bakery about 10 minutes from me that I used to go to quite often, then a couple of times they just **** off home and locked up an hour early. Haven't bothered going back.

The one by us quite regularly does this but they advertise as closing at 4?or sooner if everything’s gone (and it regularly does on a Saturday)

[Genie]

People in busy places on a phone call holding it in front of their face struggling to hear. 

Errr, if only they put an “ear piece” into the phones? Can’t believe nobody thought that yet!

[sharkyvilla]

6 empty visitor parking spaces and some word removed decides to park in my one.

[chrisp65]

18 minutes ago, sharkyvilla said:

6 empty visitor parking spaces and some word removed decides to park in my one.

I find the whole psychology of parking fascinating. It’s a similar game to choosing a urinal, if there are 6 traps, and I’ve gone for trap 5, etiquette presumes the next person in takes their choice from 1,2, or 3. But not everyone appears to be aware of this rule.

I went to the recycling place on Sunday morning, there’s parking for about 30 cars and it was almost deserted, maybe 5 cars in there. I parked a good few spaces away from the others, very next car in decides they want to park right next to me, and on my side so I can’t get out until they’ve finished screaming the guts out of their car on max revs and burning clutch.

My next door neighbour has a car in the garage known locally as ‘the bollard’. They are so hung up about being able to park directly outside their house that they have a second car in the garage that is used to park in the space outside the front of the house when they go out. It’s very special behaviour. Literally they sit in their white car until the black car comes around the block, move out of parking space, park black one, jump in white one and out for the day. On return, one of them jumps out of white car jumps in black car and moves that around to the garage for white car to resume position outside their house.

[bickster]

27 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

I find the whole psychology of parking fascinating. It’s a similar game to choosing a urinal, if there are 6 traps, and I’ve gone for trap 5, etiquette presumes the next person in takes their choice from 1,2, or 3. But not everyone appears to be aware of this rule.

If you have taken trap 5 the next person should always take trap 1, the third person should take trap 3

If someone takes trap 2 they are utterly selfish

If someone takes 4 or 6, they are clearly wrong 'uns

Trap 3 is almost acceptable as a second choice but still leaves lingering doubts

[bickster]

31 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

My next door neighbour has a car in the garage known locally as ‘the bollard’. They are so hung up about being able to park directly outside their house that they have a second car in the garage that is used to park in the space outside the front of the house when they go out. It’s very special behaviour. Literally they sit in their white car until the black car comes around the block, move out of parking space, park black one, jump in white one and out for the day. On return, one of them jumps out of white car jumps in black car and moves that around to the garage for white car to resume position outside their house.

Is that second car actually road taxed?

[chrisp65]

3 minutes ago, bickster said:

Is that second car actually road taxed?

Yep, road legal, and genuinely never ever gets used to go further than around the block garage to door to garage. I suspect it can only turn left.

Now, you may ask, if they have a garage, why are they street parking? If they garage parked they’d have no need of the black car and would thus have space in the garage. I’ve lived here 25 years, this arrangement pre dates my newbie arrival on the scene, I have no idea.

 

[bickster]

Just now, chrisp65 said:

Yep, road legal, and genuinely never ever gets used to go further than around the block garage to door to garage. I suspect it can only turn left.

Now, you may ask, if they have a garage, why are they street parking? If they garage parked they’d have no need of the black car and would thus have space in the garage. I’ve lived here 25 years, this arrangement pre dates my newbie arrival on the scene, I have no idea.

 

How old is the bollard car?

To buy a car, tax it and insure it, get it MOTed etc to just be able to park your main car outside the house is special enough but then to point out that the one car they do use could actually be garaged over night if they didn't have the bollard car really is a tin of glace cherries

[The Fun Factory]

15 minutes ago, bickster said:

If you have taken trap 5 the next person should always take trap 1, the third person should take trap 3

If someone takes trap 2 they are utterly selfish

If someone takes 4 or 6, they are clearly wrong 'uns

Trap 3 is almost acceptable as a second choice but still leaves lingering doubts

What's Giovanni Trapattoni got to do with parking?

[chrisp65]

3 minutes ago, bickster said:

How old is the bollard car?

To buy a car, tax it and insure it, get it MOTed etc to just be able to park your main car outside the house is special enough but then to point out that the one car they do use could actually be garaged over night if they didn't have the bollard car really is a tin of glace cherries

It’s about a 64 plate from memory, it’s not a golf but it’s a hard top convertible VW of about that size, so google is telling me it’s an Eos.

I don’t think money is an issue for them. About a decade ago they built a summerhouse down the end of the garden larger than most people’s houses, wood burner, jacuzzi, roof lights, feature lighting inside and out, full on Essex experience. Around about 2021 I saw one of them in it, but I didn’t get a photo so none of the other neighbours believe me.

 

[foreveryoung]

37 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

It’s about a 64 plate from memory, it’s not a golf but it’s a hard top convertible VW of about that size, so google is telling me it’s an Eos.

I don’t think money is an issue for them. About a decade ago they built a summerhouse down the end of the garden larger than most people’s houses, wood burner, jacuzzi, roof lights, feature lighting inside and out, full on Essex experience. Around about 2021 I saw one of them in it, but I didn’t get a photo so none of the other neighbours believe me.

 

I know a few people have cars just to take there dogs down the park, not to get there regular car dirty.

[fightoffyour]

5 minutes ago, foreveryoung said:

I know a few people have cars just to take there dogs down the park, not to get there regular car dirty.

So that's why it's called dogging

[Stevo985]

On 18/10/2024 at 17:44, Davkaus said:

There's a great little independent bakery about 10 minutes from me that I used to go to quite often, then a couple of times they just **** off home and locked up an hour early. Haven't bothered going back.

Been taking my son to a kids’ hairdressers to get his hair cut. Good place to be fair, he still screams the place down when he gets his hair cut so they cater for that sort of shit. So you don’t feel bad, it’s par for the course. 
 

Anyway they’re quite hard to get an appointment at. So few weeks ago I got one at 3:30. Finished work early, picked him up early from nursery, got down there nice and early at 3:15 and they were closed. Nothing on their website or social media (which they update constantly). No note on the door. Nothing. Hung around for 20 minutes to make sure they hadn’t just popped out, rang their number a few times. Nothing. 
 

I messaged them on Instagram and Facebook, not complaining but obviously asking what happened and why they didn’t tell us. 
 

Got no response for a week and then they finally replied and said “sorry about that. Would you like to rebook?”

 

no I **** wouldn’t. 

Edited Monday at 21:10 by Stevo985

[Brumstopdogs]

8 hours ago, chrisp65 said:

I find the whole psychology of parking fascinating. It’s a similar game to choosing a urinal, if there are 6 traps, and I’ve gone for trap 5, etiquette presumes the next person in takes their choice from 1,2, or 3. But not everyone appears to be aware of this rule.