Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

[Rockburner]

Forgot to pick up the 'free for 2 hours' ticket this morning and now have to pay £25 for the poor obs.

D'oh!

[DefTrap]

My own name. It's slightly unusual, not mad or nuffink, just a slight variation on a fairly common surname.

Doesn't cause me so many problems except that literally everybody assumes they can spell it better than I can. Over the years I've had bank accounts, V5s, credit cards etc essentially in someone else's name, because they know fecking best, and I CBA to correct them. In most scenarios it doesn't really matter, except these days you need an account for fecking everything....

Best one recently. Bought some electrical goods insurance back in May, I give them my email address (which is my own name) - they assume I'm retarded and input it wrongly. So when my debit card expires they vainly spam some poor other bloke (they don't use the -correct- mobile # or -correct- physical address, that they also have as part of my account details, to contact me, that would be too easy) wanting me to update it. So first I know of a problem s when a debt collection agency contacts me by snail mail. And of course they impose a 'fine'.

And of course to fix it all takes at least two (so far) visits of an hour each talking to confused customer services people back at the original point of sale.

[MrLongbeard]

I know that feeling, 3 ways to spell my forename and I've got the least popular, and a surname with an apostrophe is guaranteed to F over every online form anywhere ever.

I've even had teachers tell my daughter off / mark her down for spelling her own surname wrong when they thought they knew better, twats, that was a rather one sided conversation when I took her to school the next day.

[KungFooBob]

People automatically assume I'm posh because of my first name (and it's really quite the opposite) and I think my mum was pissed when she filled out the birth certificate because she spelt my middle name with only one T, Mathew.

[Mr. Dazzle]

People automatically assume I'm 64 because of my first name. I've never met someone younger than me with it

[KungFooBob]

People automatically assume I'm 64 because of my first name. I've never met someone younger than me with it

Royston or Kenneth?

[Demannu]

Fuel pumps that refuse to stop at .00
96.....97......98............99..................01. Fucksticks

[Count Steer]

I know that feeling, 3 ways to spell my forename and I've got the least popular, and a surname with an apostrophe is guaranteed to F over every online form anywhere ever.

I've even had teachers tell my daughter off / mark her down for spelling her own surname wrong when they thought they knew better, twats, that was a rather one sided conversation when I took her to school the next day.

Dang! Now I'm annoyed I can't remember your names.

[Skub]

I know that feeling, 3 ways to spell my forename and I've got the least popular, and a surname with an apostrophe is guaranteed to F over every online form anywhere ever.

I've even had teachers tell my daughter off / mark her down for spelling her own surname wrong when they thought they knew better, twats, that was a rather one sided conversation when I took her to school the next day.

Mr.Longbear'd right?

[Mr. Dazzle]

At least 97% of the reason Mrs D married me was to get rid of the apostrophe in her name.

[Noggin]

No one can ever spell my surname if I just say it, have to say each letter to have a hope of it being correct!

But I always thought my original first name was simple, but, when you read your work email address to a Bristolian over the phone, it turns out that when the first name actually ends with an A, the emails don't arrive when said Bristolian spells it win an ER

[KungFooBob]

No one can ever spell my surname if I just say it, have to say each letter to have a hope of it being correct!

But I always thought my original first name was simple, but, when you read your work email address to a Bristolian over the phone, it turns out that when the first name actually ends with an A, the emails don't arrive when said Bristolian spells it win an ER

They don't have email in Bristol.

They still point at aeroplanes and think camera's steal your soul.

[Noggin]

No one can ever spell my surname if I just say it, have to say each letter to have a hope of it being correct!

But I always thought my original first name was simple, but, when you read your work email address to a Bristolian over the phone, it turns out that when the first name actually ends with an A, the emails don't arrive when said Bristolian spells it win an ER

They don't have email in Bristol.

They still point at aeroplanes and think camera's steel your soul.

I think that was one of the issues - probably the first time she'd input an email address and so she didn't realise that the words didn't work if spelt phonetically:lol: (or at least, phonetically to her as I definitely didn't/don't pronounce that name with an ER at the end!! )

[Demannu]

P&P charges that have no relation to the item being dispatched!
Am repairing my mate's Innova dahhhnnn in sunny Spain. It needs a new float chamber seal.
Found said item on a well known Dutch website, €8, very reasonable.
Get to the checkout, €18 p&p
Ferkoff!
Wemoto.es, you have to buy a repair kit, €13, but €3 post.

[MrLongbeard]

40 MPHer's just get out of my bloody way

[David]

My own name. It's slightly unusual, not mad or nuffink, just a slight variation on a fairly common surname.

Doesn't cause me so many problems except that literally everybody assumes they can spell it better than I can. Over the years I've had bank accounts, V5s, credit cards etc essentially in someone else's name, because they know fecking best, and I CBA to correct them. In most scenarios it doesn't really matter, except these days you need an account for fecking everything....

Best one recently. Bought some electrical goods insurance back in May, I give them my email address (which is my own name) - they assume I'm retarded and input it wrongly. So when my debit card expires they vainly spam some poor other bloke (they don't use the -correct- mobile # or -correct- physical address, that they also have as part of my account details, to contact me, that would be too easy) wanting me to update it. So first I know of a problem s when a debt collection agency contacts me by snail mail. And of course they impose a 'fine'.

And of course to fix it all takes at least two (so far) visits of an hour each talking to confused customer services people back at the original point of sale.

Oi loike moi name...but it never gets splet or pronounced correctly....it's very Cornish, and sounds like a golfer......

[DefTrap]

Printers, technology in general.

Bought a new printer a while back. It uses 'Ink on demand' which should be a super whizzy idea. The printer knows how much ink you're using, auto-ships new ink to you when you're running low, in good time. Deep joy.

Except when I put their replacement cartridges in obviously it throws a wobbly and sends you through pages and pages of 'try this!' fixes before finally telling you to try a different cartridge. If I had a fecking spare cartridge I'm pretty sure that would have been the first thing I tried. And it probably wouldn't work anyway because I strongly suspect you have to use cartridges that are part of the Instant-Ink contract, and the printer will know and emit a keening scream like a baby with your foot on its neck.

And now of course I have to call the feared Support helpdesk, where some over-familiar furriners will put me on hold. The minor inconveniences of having to source and fetch my own own ink have by this point been completely wiped out by a few hours of pissing about.

I feel like Victor Meldrew.

[Bigjawa]

Broken Metacarpal in my right hand, the classic boxers injury, only I did it tripping over one of the hounds, off work for 5 or 6 weeks, been less than a week and I'm climbing the bloody walls.

Luckily I can only walk one dog at a time so at least that's a couple of hours of activity.

Motor is due for MOT on Saturday so have to get a mate to take it through.

Fuck it.

[cheb]

Pathetic behaviour by huge companies.

Amazon being a repeat offender. Click a link from a search engine to look at a what Amazon is selling. To decline their cookies it takes you to a different page. Once the cookies are declined Amazon takes you to their home page, not the page you wanted to look at. That'll be me closing the Amazon page then. Granted I probably wouldn't have bought anything from them even if they'd not mucked me about but the redirect thing is a definite no sale.

[ZRX61]

Scott brand blue paper shop towels.
Original:
60 towels per roll, 11x11in per towel = 55ft per roll

Now:
55 towels per roll, 11x9.5in per towel = 43.54ft per roll

Difference: 11.54ft per roll.
11.54x10 = 115.4ft
115.4/60 = 1.92

Same price for a 10pack, but now you get 8.08 rolls of the old size... so that works out to about a 20% price increase