Things you hate

[FarmerPug]

- Aggressive drunk people (worse when combined with football - was driving through Glasgow yesterday and some bell-ends in a taxi were getting properly sloshed and were basically offering to fight me because my car was red and not green)

This.

Going to Glasgow, with an NI accent, and getting quizzed "blue or green?" or the ones wanting to know what school you went to (ie. did it begin 'St.' ?) or your name.

In fact, the whole Old Firm. 2 companies which masquarade as football clubs, raking a fortune out of bigotry, helping to stoke the flames of hatred.

Ban it, combine the teams to make Glasgow United FC, and possibly make them play in the English premiership if the
combined team is too powerful.

i hate the quiz here whats your surname, where do you live, what school did you go to, what football team do you support. especially since ive been born after the troubles i dont really see any need to know what someone does on a sunday.

[Welly]

Having just returned from banking a cheque; the line........"is there anything else I can help you with today?"

Err, well we've finished what I came here to do but.......err.......f*ck it yes I'll have two Mortgage applications, a new current account and an appointment with one of your nump...idio....'advisors' please

[rwb]

I hate builders' tea -- the really caustic stuff.
And I really hate the layer of scum that forms on the top of tea when you make it with horrid southern water.
In fact, I hate southern water altogether.
Come to think of it the south isn't all it's cracked up to be.


I hate the current trend for call centre people to ask "how are you?"
Besides being over-familiar and a waste of time on an 0845 call, given that I've just heard multiple times a recorded message telling me how wonderful the customer service is -- and that I'm a grumpy git (see above) -- do you really think it is a good idea to make enquiries about my mood?

[plod]

Some good stuff there Highlander

[Doggy]

... and I thought all English loved tea more than their mothers.

Perhaps they do - I wouldn't know.

[OdinEidolon]

... and I thought all English loved tea more than their mothers.

Perhaps they do - I wouldn't know.

I was expecting an answer like that

[steve_earwig]

I used to love a good cuppa tea, it just doesn't agree with me any more (perhaps it's my Scottish blood...) These days I'm completely addicted to the Balkan's version of Turkish coffee, even more so the kava s'mljekom (coffee with milk) you get in the caffees (sic) here, the best of which I could happily sit there drinking (ok, stand ) until I'm sick.

And I really hate the layer of scum that forms on the top of tea when you make it with horrid southern water.

"Grandma's freckles"

I remember the garbage that comes out of the taps there - sometimes you can even smell it's been through half the population before it's got to you

Come to think of it the south isn't all it's cracked up to be.

I'd agree although I've only been to Scotland once, I got a migraine and threw up, and never (an even worse confession this one ) ever been to The Emerald Isle

I hate the current trend for call centre people to ask "how are you?"

I think "aroused" might shorten your call there, similarly:

"is there anything else I can help you with today?"

"I was thinking of having a quick one off the wrist when I get in..."

Anyway, what on earth is Earl Grey tea about? I mean, which idiot decided that tea might taste good if you used the pot-pourri that's been sitting on an old lady's night stand for 30 years instead of tea leaves?

[FarmerPug]

ive tried them twinings teas the ones with millions of different flavours, but as far as i can tell you would get the same effect by boiling hot water and mixing it with some robinsons dilute juice.

[sirwiggum]

Yes those fancy Twinings teas are like drinking flavoured hot lemsips.

- Call centres on the other side of the planet, where because either you don't have a perfect Southern English accent, or their VOIP lines are crap, or both, they hang up on you pretending to transfer your call, or just blatantly admit "I cannot make out the conversation so I will hang up now . Thank you, bye." and because they're 0845 numbers, the bloody companies are making money on this!!
Lloyds TSB are particularly bad, get shot of them, horrible bank. "For the journey" my arse.

- Doing your messages down the supermarket you have to practically beg to get a carrier bag these days.
Farmerpug - remember when Crazy Prices had the big trolley bag yer parents would take out and put in the boot of the car? The should bring them back!

[FarmerPug]

Farmerpug - remember when Crazy Prices had the big trolley bag yer parents would take out and put in the boot of the car? The should bring them back!

how long ago was this, i dont quite remember bags that big, i do remember the time when you got a free bag with your shopping.

I have a hate of modern shopping, have you got a clubcard/nectar/matalan card/loyalty card. You say no, do you want one sir, you say no, why not sir, you say im in a rush, but sir it only takes a few minuites. This is very annoying.

Argos, you pay for the ticket, and they tell you to go to A, B, or C, and what your number is. I go to where im told and look at the tv, but the tv is usually there to give people something to look at because ive never had the item arrive at the same time as the number on the tv, or at the proper place.

How amazon displays the postage cost, you see a great price for an item, click on it, go through a long process of typing to find out that the packet of 10 solder sponges at £2.49 now has postage of £15, it would be better if amazon displayed the cost of postage as well as ebay.

[sirwiggum]

It was Stewarts / Crazy Prices before Tesco took them over.

It was a big bag, looked a bit like a car boot liner, it fitted into the trolley, you filled it up in the supermarket with yer messages, and you didn't bother with carrier bags, just lifted it in and out of the car boot, then into the house.

Sometimes shopping is like playing the yes/no game. "Do you need your bags packed? Have you a nectar/clubcard? Do you collect vouchers for schools? Are you paying by card or cash? Would you like cashback?"

In Lidl the throw the messages at you and you have to pack over at the side like a lepor.

[FarmerPug]

Speaking of lidl i hate that eerie silence you get in there, all you hear is a slow bleep......................bleep.....................................bleep from the till and the squeak of trolley wheels, and they have 4 tills there but no matter how big the queue is they only use 2 at any time.

[sirwiggum]

Speaking of lidl i hate that eerie silence you get in there, all you hear is a slow bleep......................bleep.....................................bleep from the till and the squeak of trolley wheels, and they have 4 tills there but no matter how big the queue is they only use 2 at any time.

Good point, the tills always seem to be mad in Lidl. Mind you, I think there is only ever 2 or 3 people on shift, which is why there is only 2 open.

[steve_earwig]

That's a point, why do these stores have all these tills if they only ever use a few of them? What are the rest for? Are they just dummies or something?

We were in Pevec a couple of years back (huge - for HR - srore that does everything) waiting in the usual queue. One from the front and the guy in front of us has committed the sin of picking something up without a bar code. 15 minutes later they still didn't find a code for it but they finally opened up another till - hooray! So, we started pushing our overladen trolley towards the new till only to be quite rudely told not us, everyone from behind us. I hope they had fun putting all our stuff back on the shelves, tossers. Oh how we coughed and spluttered with mirth when they went bankrupt last year.

[STALLED]

My headcold.

It's 30 degrees here and my head feels like it's about to explode. ARRRRRRGH.