What cheeses me off

[Pushka]

Trust me I gave her no attitude whatsoever. If anything I was probably too mannerly given her demeanour. I’ll put it down to her having a stressful day.

Likely in a bit of shock too at the price and wondering if things had changed. Is she the owner or an employee? I had an issue with one pharmacist a few years ago and put my son in a very difficult situation. I could see the pharmacist behind a different counter shake her head at what the other one was saying but clearly was in a lower position and not able to challenge. I expect new pharmacist was a relative of the owner. So I wrote to the owner about what she'd done and received an apology letter and she got some re training. Not that I ever returned there and likely you won't either.

 

[OZDUCK]

I am having 'fun' with our European trip in 3 weeks time. Initially we had booked to fly Oman Air in J using MH to connect with them in KL. Oman cancelled our flight out of Kl and could not come up with a workable replacement itinerary so we had to cancel that ticket. We then booked Vietnam Airlines J out of Singapore using QF Y to leave Perth and an SQ points redemption in J from Singapore to Perth.

Today I was looking at our booking to try and add my FF No. to the Vietnam Airlines flights when I noticed that our connecting flight from Singapore to Hanoi had been cancelled and replaced with one about four hours earlier. We had not received any notification about this change. I had just drafted an e-mail asking if there had really been a change and if so why hadn't we been notified when an e-mail from Vietnam Airlines popped up advising us of the changes. It appears that the flight change had only happened today. However I am still cheesed off as the new flight time means that we will have to spend about 7 hours in the lounge in Hanoi. I had deliberately booked a later flight to avoid this happening. From photos it looks better than the QF lounge in Hobart but is certainly not like the CX lounges in HK. Also we lost our selected seats and the system will not allow me to select them on the new flight.

Luckily I had also already planned for an overnight stop in Singapore before this flight flying up the day before on QF71. But after reading about the troubles PERLHR had with his cancelled flight SIN/PER on QF I am worried anyway. Twenty three hours between flights had seemed an excessive gap before but now I am worried if around 19 hours is long enough.

 

[JohnK]

I've received an email from HSBC that they've found some transactions from 02/Jul/23 that were not included on my account and will add these to my credit card account on 29-30 November 2023 and would like to apologise for the inconvenience caused.

What? How do you miss posting transactions to credit card account? So they mention an amount with no description at all. Sounds like a scam but does not look like a scam. I've not clicked on anything in email. I have sent them a complaint.

 

[dajop]

The general lack of intelligence when it comes to social media.

Someone reposted a video on twitbook about the retirement of a Sesame Street cast member. A few seconds into the video it state she started in 1971 and retired after 44 years. Now, there's all these 1-3 day old comments congratulating her on her retirement .... that happened 8 years ago. People jump onto these things without an ounce of analysis or questioning. Humanity is doomed.

 

[anat0l]

WCMO when viewing Youtube shorts in the app (i.e. you tap on someone's profile then tap Shorts), once you finish viewing a short you go back to the lost where you left off...

...almost all of the time. Sometimes you're trying to view some shorts from ages ago, and you press back and then Youtube takes you to the start of the list, forcing you to scroll down all over again to find your place.

I realise this is all to force certain behaviours but it cheeses me off.

 

[MARTINE]

Since when did going to a concert mean you need to stuff your face every ten minutes or fear dying of starvation

I like aisle seats near the front (I know my fault)
Currently at Toni Child, Natalie Imbruglia and The Corrs concert.

During the show every few minutes someone gets up for icecreams, hot potatoes, burgers, fries
so much food.

Can’t you wait between acts (like now) or when you get home?

 

[VPS]

Just on a little road trip. Why do people that have been travelling under the speed limit for the last 10km speed up when you get to an overtaking lane - FFS

 

[JohnK]

Interesting twist to a story I posted here recently.

Brother did not receive a shipment from eBay and eBay did not want to know. Australia Post showed my brother a photo taken from the driver that package was delivered and it must have been stolen.

I've seen an email sent from the seller to my brother. (eBay account and email address are mine)

The satchel was taken to post office a day after the seller posted it. Apparently the satchel was there for 30 days before being returned to the seller. Apparently the satchel from Australia Post cost $14.10 and my brother paid $13.95 for the goods so the seller is at a loss and reluctant to send a replacement to my brother. (I'm not sure I believe this story)

How does Australia Post tell my brother that package was delivered with proof of delivery. Who took the photo of package if package was sitting in Post office the day after it was despatched by seller? (I'm not sure if my brother took that much notice of the alleged photo but it appears to be clear the driver did not even bother to deliver the package and Australia Post standing by their driver)

Something does not add up.

 

[Pushka]

Just on a little road trip. Why do people that have been travelling under the speed limit for the last 10km speed up when you get to an overtaking lane - FFS

I think I've complained about this multiple times in this thread. I've figured that if I want to get the driver to go a bit faster then all I need to do is flick the right indicator to pass and then they are off. I have no idea what this phenomenon is called. Happened again today driving down to Victor.

 

[anat0l]

#itnerd

WCMO is error messages are becoming useless these days.

Gone are the days when an error occurred and you usually got a reason and a possible fix. It was usually verbose, but you learned something.

Now you are lucky to get "Something went wrong". Sometimes failure never is admitted... you just get a spinning indicator, a quiet crash or the operation appears to be successful when in fact it actually failed and nothing happened (or worse).


To the programmers out there, I'm well aware of the irony when we consider coding: modern languages you get stack traces, cf. with C you just get segfault.

 

[blackcat20]

People who don't understand a zip merge and try to push you off the road even though you had right of way. Then shook his fist at me like I'd done the wrong thing . At least he got stuck behind a super slow car in the roadworks zone

 

[JohnK]

I think I've complained about this multiple times in this thread. I've figured that if I want to get the driver to go a bit faster then all I need to do is flick the right indicator to pass and then they are off. I have no idea what this phenomenon is called. Happened again today driving down to Victor.

Competitiveness?

I don't mind people overtaking me.

I hate people that overtake to pass me and then do same speed. No. Don't be stupid. I will not sit back and take it and I will pass you to be in front of you.

 

[Pushka]

Competitiveness?

I don't mind people overtaking me.

I hate people that overtake to pass me and then do same speed. No. Don't be stupid. I will not sit back and take it and I will pass you to be in front of you.

I have no problems at all with people overtaking me. I slow down a tad, ie take foot off accelerator to get them past quick. I don't want drivers close behind me. I do get cheesed off if they then cut in too quick and sit at the Same speed I was doing before they overtook me. That is pointless.

 

[MARTINE]

I have no problems at all with people overtaking me. I slow down a tad, ie take foot off accelerator to get them past quick. I don't want drivers close behind me. I do get cheesed off if they then cut in too quick and sit at the Same speed I was doing before they overtook me. That is pointless.

… and for extra cheese those morons who constantly change lanes .. never indicate … and then arrive at the lights at the same time as you

 

[ellen10]

… and for extra cheese those morons who constantly change lanes .. never indicate … and then arrive at the lights at the same time as you

Yes I love it when this happens and I pull up behind them at the lights.
Puts a smile on my face

 

[serfty]

… and for extra cheese those morons who constantly change lanes .. never indicate … and then arrive at the lights at the same time as you

Yes I love it when this happens and I pull up behind them at the lights.
Puts a smile on my face

Of course, there are those double WCMO times where the morons make the lights and you don't.

 

[dajop]

and then arrive at the lights at the same time as you

Related, you are cruising (slowly slowing down) into some red traffic lights, there's no one stopped in your lane, you know they'll probably be green by the time you reach them, but the person beside you overtakes you, moves back into your lane, slams on the brake because the lights are still red. You have to stop. They have to stop.

 

[RooFlyer]

Related, you are cruising (slowly slowing down) into some red traffic lights, there's no one stopped in your lane, you know they'll probably be green by the time you reach them, but the person beside you overtakes you, moves back into your lane, slams on the brake because the lights are still red. You have to stop. They have to stop.

Haven’t you installed the JB007 optional extra for your Aston Martin? Very satisfying.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Haven’t you installed the JB007 optional extra for your Aston Martin? Very satisfying.

Only legal in Tasmania! (And maybe NT)

 

[Flashback]

… and for extra cheese those morons who constantly change lanes .. never indicate … and then arrive at the lights at the same time as you

Ah, the British driver! Not indicating seems to be a national sport, here.

Of course, there are those double WCMO times where the morons make the lights and you don't.

But then there is also the times where they get miles ahead of you (can't even see them ahead of you) ....... and you pull up right behind them stopped, with a great big grin on your face.