Gloster
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Only a mild irritation, but something that long ago ceased to be amusing. Those shops that have on their windows a pretend list of their branches: ‘London, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Little Bumbling.’
Only a mild irritation, but something that long ago ceased to be amusing. Those shops that have on their windows a pretend list of their branches: ‘London, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Little Bumbling.’
There's your problem, you're attempting to do it on a phone. Which leads me onto my next annoyance:Renewing your car insurance (or basically anything these days) when you’ve got limited time in the evenings and well, just please make it actually work before I throw the phone across the room.
There's your problem, you're attempting to do it on a phone. Which leads me onto my next annoyance:
Mobile websites or apps which have less functionality that the same company's desktop website, which IME is most of them.
My missus refuses to eat them, i am happy to take one for the teamDon't start me on the Philadelphia ads about using end slices of bread either. Who on Earth doesn't use them?!
My missus refuses to eat them, i am happy to take one for the team
No idea, i think its the best part of the loaf!Why does she refuse to eat them? It makes no sense to me, I've eaten my end slices for longer than I care to remember, certainly a long time before I became committed to being the most environmentally friendly person I can possibly be.
Call centres which, from when they open in the morning until they close in the evening, are always "experiencing an unusually high volume of calls". NOOO! If it's happening all day and every day, it's not unusual! Upgrade your systems or take on more staff if you want my business.Renewing your car insurance (or basically anything these days) when you’ve got limited time in the evenings and well, just please make it actually work before I throw the phone across the room.
Yes but don't forget your call is important to themCall centres which, from when they open in the morning until they close in the evening, are always "experiencing an unusually high volume of calls". NOOO! If it's happening all day and every day, it's not unusual! Upgrade your systems or take on more staff if you want my business.
Call centres which, from when they open in the morning until they close in the evening, are always "experiencing an unusually high volume of calls". NOOO! If it's happening all day and every day, it's not unusual! Upgrade your systems or take on more staff if you want my business.
I ditched an insurer (years ago, in pre internet days) because they'd only allow me to renew by phone, "for my convenience". It took at least half an hour to get through to them, whereas I could have filled in a payment slip and written a cheque in under five minutes.
I would add Eastenders, Casualty, Neighbours, Home & Away and all the other soaps to that list.Adele, Jimmy Carr, Jonathan Ross, Franky Boyle, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Dogs and Richard Stilgo.
How about folding the first sheet on the toilet roll to make a point.Why do hotel room staff feel a need to tuck the top sheet tightly under the mattress when making the bed? It's maddening. How can anyone sleep without the top sheet being free at the sides and end?
There's the ultimate British compromise between White and dark chocolate: Caramac.Cadburys Dairy Milk should be banned, or at least returned to something vaguely edible. Kraft claimed not to have changed the ingredients but something is definitely different from the CDM I remember from even just a decade ago. Unpleasant claggy sludge. Give me Lindt, Milka or Tony's Chocolonely any day of the week.
Isn’t that supposed to be a way of showing that your toilet or bathroom has been cleaned and ‘valeted’?How about folding the first sheet on the toilet roll to make a point.
I thought that the band of polythene across the toilet seat did that.Isn’t that supposed to be a way of showing that your toilet or bathroom has been cleaned and ‘valeted’?
Sorry, but that makes me wince. Apart from the fact that the Trotters had a Reliant Regal, it irritates me intensely when people say "Robin Reliant". Fiesta Ford, Corsa Vauxhall and Clio Renault would all sound a bit daft if said that way round, so I don't know why people constantly get the poor Robin's name round the wrong way!Rather like that battered old Robin Reliant in Only Fools and Horses with New York, Paris, Peckham on the side.
Don't get me started. I'm starting to find that many companies are now closing their call centres at 6pm (temporarily because of Covid, of course) but since things started to get back to some sort of normality, the opening hours haven't been extended again. "Please use our live chat, it's quick and convenient" - oh no, it bloody well isn't. I was trying to talk to my electricity supplier and it took 15 minutes between replies from them. I assume they're dealing with more than one case at a time.Call centres which, from when they open in the morning until they close in the evening, are always "experiencing an unusually high volume of calls". NOOO! If it's happening all day and every day, it's not unusual! Upgrade your systems or take on more staff if you want my business.
I ditched an insurer (years ago, in pre internet days) because they'd only allow me to renew by phone, "for my convenience". It took at least half an hour to get through to them, whereas I could have filled in a payment slip and written a cheque in under five minutes.
There's the ultimate British compromise between White and dark chocolate: Caramac
I've never come across that in a hotel. Though admittedly the poshest hotel I've stayed in is a Holiday Inn, so I may have not yet been to an establishment where such a practice is common!I thought that the band of polythene across the toilet seat did that.
That's not what Caramac is though. The clue is in the name, it's basically caramel-flavoured, barely-chocolate.There's the ultimate British compromise between White and dark chocolate: Caramac.
Yes! I wish for all people to be permitted to slap anyone who says "Robin Reliant" with a wet rubber glove!Sorry, but that makes me wince. Apart from the fact that the Trotters had a Reliant Regal, it irritates me intensely when people say "Robin Reliant". Fiesta Ford, Corsa Vauxhall and Clio Renault would all sound a bit daft if said that way round, so I don't know why people constantly get the poor Robin's name round the wrong way!
Yes! I wish for all people to be permitted to slap anyone who says "Robin Reliant" with a wet rubber glove!
It's a rather defunct example, but the former Associated Equipment Company (AEC), probably more well-known for the "RT" London bus and its "RM - Routemaster" successor, had a model called the Reliance which was in production for several years until the late 1970s.So it's the other way round? -- I never knew that. Incidentally: does anyone ever use the word "reliant" in any other context, than this of the car type name? I find that the Shorter Oxford Dictionary defines it as "having reliance (on)" -- so, not the same as "reliable": for which, in the little thought I'd ever given the matter, I'd imagined it to be a seldom-used synonym.
We do it on the caravan site I work at and have done for a good few years, even had ones for the beds at one point but that was an ultimate faff.I've never come across that in a hotel. Though admittedly the poshest hotel I've stayed in is a Holiday Inn, so I may have not yet been to an establishment where such a practice is common!
Yes, I know somebody who moaned about the hotels on Hong Kong doing that. So we used to wind him up by doing it when visiting his home.I like to fold the bog roll to a point when i visit people's houses.
We do it on the caravan site I work at and have done for a good few years, even had ones for the beds at one point but that was an ultimate faff.