I think he's currently known as "far easty".
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Fixed hotel showers that seem to be aimed strictly at the "5 foot 7 and under" crowd, leaving any non-pygmies needing to do some tortuous chicken limbo to wash their hair.
My pet hate language wise is the gratuitous use of " you know " especially when I have asked a question. Does the you know mean that I agree with
what the person is saying, or does it mean that I should agree at that point in the conversation because if I say that I do not know/agree with what the person
is saying then I forego the right to question further and undoubted repeated use of you know.
When I have said that I do not know I am given the look of incredulity mixed with menace.
This includes the all conquering " you know what I mean " not posed in a questioning manner but as a fact. No, I don't know -- that is why I asked the question!!
Ah the good old reserved seat feud. I had ways of dealing with that on the day trains. :greengrin
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Costa coffee lids from the dispenser on the coffee machines.
Not matter how I try to take one , two always comes out and you then have to use your fingers to pull them apart rendering one of them useless .
Ditherers. Folk who can't make up their mind or hold up a queue while they chat/fart about/whatever, completely oblivious to the hold up they're causing.
Also, pointless signs. When you join the M90 from Dunfermline (Masterton junction) there's a turn onto the slip road which has a max speed limit of 30mph, and the road joins the M90 at a 40mph hour. The dynamic speed limit sign, positioned about ten yards after the 30mph sign, has a limit of 50mph. At no point on that section of the road can you do 50mph.
Also, on the road from the M90 to Crammond there's a dynamic speed limit, where the electronic sign signals when it's 50mph, just after that there's temporary signs that have been there for months and months to signal that it's the end of the roadworks and that the national speed limit applies - so you'd probably think that signals the end of the dynamic speed limit, but then a mile down the road there's another electronic sign to signal that it's still the dynamic speed limit that applies.
Getting the position of the cup just right in those machines is an art as well. No two machines are the same! Lost count of the times I've thought it was lined up only to have to move the cup to stop a stream of coffee or milk tanning down the side of the cup.
Ditters :agree: 100%
Irrelevant Signage :agree: 100% Especially when they say 'temp traffic lights ahead' and there's none + temp speed limit signs when the roadworks are long done.
And then they complain that motorists don't adhere to their signs. I wonder why, Sherlock. :doh:
The habit of large department stores to always have the perfume + make-up departments right by a main entrance. What's up with that??
Do they think the potent stench of concentrated perfume entices folk in, like it's a Subway branch or something??.
That generic stench of whatever ***** it is that Dior, Armani and Chanel have released most recently gives me a guaranteed headache and yet if I just want to get to the menswear or electrical section I almost always have to walk through acres of orange faced salespeople and rancid smells fighting the urge to dry retch just to get there.
Folk in doctors/hospital waiting rooms who sit about coughing and spluttering without covering their mouth. Ignorant pricks.
Obviously people who do that anywhere are erseholes but in a place frequented by sick people and where the cougher is likely ill as well it seems a bit worse.
What is the general consensus with folk working in an office who are unwell?
We have a team of 6 in a relatively small office and 3 of the 6 are currently coughing and spluttering away. Don't get me wrong, they're all pretty hygienic in that they cover their mouths, use hand sanitizer, etc, but should they be here or should they be off sick?
I'm not particularly fussy either way, but one woman in here is furious and is adamant that they should be off sick to avoid others catching their germs. She said she's happy to take on extra work due to their sickness as she'd rather that than catch the virus they have.
Surely it is totally dependent on what you are sick with?
If you've got an in-grown toe nail or a mild headache - in you go. If you have the flu, the measles, or bubonic plague ... maybe you should just stay home.