Pet Peeves IV

[LaMotta]

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Go Compare ads, so ****ing nippy 🤬

I've used other comparison sites instead of go compare since forever as a result of those ****in adverts!

[LaMotta]

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My 4.93 Uber rating.

I've no idea when I got a non-5-star rating or why, but it's unsatisfying to look at.

Ive got a 4.93 rating as well, Im assuming it dropped because of a few rare times I've forgotten to tip. And sometimes when I forget to tip then I might notice next morning and tip, but it could be too late by then as they will have already black marked me

Edit: I've just realised if you go into your privacy settings on the app you can get a breakdown of all your ratings. I've had 111 rated trips: 105 five star; 2 four star; 1 three star; and 1 one star.

Wonder how I got a three star, seems bizaarre.

Not sure what the average rating is for people.

[Bridge hibs]

Monster Munch, about 5 in a bloody bag now, get more in the ****ing bag, esp the beef ones 🤬

[SaulGoodman]

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My 4.93 Uber rating.

I've no idea when I got a non-5-star rating or why, but it's unsatisfying to look at.

Some people have no idea how a rating system works.

I’ve seen people rate things 4 stars out if 5 because “nothings perfect” and it must infuriate the sellers. Likewise on Amazon when I’ve been looking at things there’s 1 star reviews saying “product did not arrive” well that’s fine but it’s not a review of the product.

I remember when I was an apprentice we got 6 monthly reviews through CITB who would come out on site and ask the tradesmen for comments and a score out 5 for certain things, I would never get a 5 because for some reason the Joiners thought they were to score me out of 5 on how good a joiner I was at the time and not as an apprentice, used to do my nut in.

[Mon Dieu4]

The amount of things I'm seeing online about how Satanists are running the world, it's the new flat earth

[Oscar T Grouch]

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Monster Munch, about 5 in a bloody bag now, get more in the ****ing bag, esp the beef ones 🤬

I noticed they have done this with a lot of snacks, their aim is to get the bag down to 100 calories or below then they can sell them as that. Monster Munch are just 20g in a pack and 98 cals, Skips are 13.1g per pack and 100cals. Space Raiders are down to 13g per pack and 100 cals too. The smallest pack I seen was for Ringos, 12g a pack and 100cals. Can see the sense in it to help people on calorie controlled diets but for everyone else its like getting a quarter bag of crisps!!

[DH1875]

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Trying to get my bairn to tell me what she does at school. Honestly it's a nightly ritual that's like pulling teeth. We have a decent idea because the homework book comes home every night but I want her to tell me.

What did you learn?
Can't remember
What did you have for lunch?
Can't remember
Who where you playing with?
Just a girl
Anyone else?
Can't remember

I was worried we had raised a proper little oddball but we had parents night recently and got: 'she's very self assured', 'not the loudest but very popular', 'very bright and confident for her age'. We asked about the 'can't remember' and 'nothing' stuff and were assured it's totally normal but it does leave a nagging doubt. The more I push it the less she gives up tough.

Wait until she is a teenager.

[grunt]

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Wait until she is a teenager.

[SaulGoodman]

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Trying to get my bairn to tell me what she does at school. Honestly it's a nightly ritual that's like pulling teeth. We have a decent idea because the homework book comes home every night but I want her to tell me.

What did you learn?
Can't remember
What did you have for lunch?
Can't remember
Who where you playing with?
Just a girl
Anyone else?
Can't remember

I was worried we had raised a proper little oddball but we had parents night recently and got: 'she's very self assured', 'not the loudest but very popular', 'very bright and confident for her age'. We asked about the 'can't remember' and 'nothing' stuff and were assured it's totally normal but it does leave a nagging doubt. The more I push it the less she gives up tough.

My laddie is exactly the same, always been like that even though he gets good reports.

He scored a goal direct from a corner during his match on Sunday, was totally buzzing about it all the way home, wouldn’t stop talking about it. Get in the door and I say “Tell mum about the goal you scored” and he goes “Aww I can’t remember. You tell her.” 🤯

[danhibees1875]

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Ive got a 4.93 rating as well, Im assuming it dropped because of a few rare times I've forgotten to tip. And sometimes when I forget to tip then I might notice next morning and tip, but it could be too late by then as they will have already black marked me

Edit: I've just realised if you go into your privacy settings on the app you can get a breakdown of all your ratings. I've had 111 rated trips: 105 five star; 2 four star; 1 three star; and 1 one star.

Wonder how I got a three star, seems bizaarre.

Not sure what the average rating is for people.

My favourite part of that is that you're not wondering about the 1 star review you listed, clearly content that there was an occasion where that was merited.

I can't see that within settings though...

I didn't realise they'd see the tip before rating. Might be that, I don't always tip.

[Keith_M]

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The amount of things I'm seeing online about how Satanists are running the world, it's the new flat earth

TBF, it's hard to argue with that.

[overdrive]

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Some people have no idea how a rating system works.

I’ve seen people rate things 4 stars out if 5 because “nothings perfect” and it must infuriate the sellers. Likewise on Amazon when I’ve been looking at things there’s 1 star reviews saying “product did not arrive” well that’s fine but it’s not a review of the product.

I remember when I was an apprentice we got 6 monthly reviews through CITB who would come out on site and ask the tradesmen for comments and a score out 5 for certain things, I would never get a 5 because for some reason the Joiners thought they were to score me out of 5 on how good a joiner I was at the time and not as an apprentice, used to do my nut in.

I was the class rep on the course for my professional exams years ago. Everyone was complaining to me about a particular lecturer and said they were scoring him 1 out 10 on the regular feedback sheets. At the meeting with the Course Director and all the class reps, other reps mentioned the same thing about this lecturer and the Course Director said he wish he’d known there was an issue sooner.

I piped up that folk had told me they had been scoring him 1 out of 10, he replied “oh I discard any rating at 1 or 2 as I just assume they’ve got the scale the wrong way round”

[lyonhibs]

Work team meetings. Almost all of them, especially when mass participation affairs. Window dressing, could've been an email pish

[Wilson]

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Work team meetings. Almost all of them, especially when mass participation affairs. Window dressing, could've been an email pish

An email push?

[nonshinyfinish]

Speaking of email pish, my boss starts virtually every email with "Just a brief note to say…"

Leaving aside that lot of them are far from brief, every single one would be at least a little briefer if that empty phrase were left out.

[overdrive]

Another bin related one that could perhaps be on the driving pet peeves thread.

For some reason in my street, the food waste bin men just seem chuck the caddies any old place after they’ve emptied them into the truck, including behind them on the road. You then have to get out of your car to move them to get past.

[Pretty Boy]

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Work team meetings. Almost all of them, especially when mass participation affairs. Window dressing, could've been an email pish

Work meetings period.

I can count on one hand how many of the hundreds of meetings I have been to over the years have actually been worthwhile. I'm convinced it's just a vehicle for the most senior attendee to display their self proclaimed importance and power they have to make people waste their time. It's just an excuse not to do real work.

So many of the decisions or whatever could have been reached with conversations involving about a quarter of the number of people involved in a meeting or by sending a couple of emails.

[Jones28]

The change in actress playing Jennifer Parker in Back to The Future films.

[matty_f]

Forgetting what the great pet peeve you were about to post about was.

[McD]

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The change in actress playing Jennifer Parker in Back to The Future films.

think the original actress’s mother took seriously ill and she gave up acting to care for her

[Pretty Boy]

Men who absolutely douse themselves in after shave. Met a guy first thing this morning and it was like he had covered himself in toilet cleaner.

Is there not a saying that fragrances 'should be discovered and not announced'? I can understand it when you see young lads about 16 smelling like an explosion at the Lacoste factory but by your 40s you surely know less is more and that scents smell stronger to others than they do to yourself.

[J-C]

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Men who absolutely douse themselves in after shave. Met a guy first thing this morning and it was like he had covered himself in toilet cleaner.

Is there not a saying that fragrances 'should be discovered and not announced'? I can understand it when you see young lads about 16 smelling like an explosion at the Lacoste factory but by your 40s you surely know less is more and that scents smell stronger to others than they do to yourself.

I rarely wear after shave but instead prefer a nice body spray, subtle without the real pong.

[overdrive]

Taking the day off after the Super Bowl and getting woken up early. Every bloody year!

Last year there was a knock at the door at 7.30 from workmen saying they’d be digging up the pavement in front of our driveway at 8am so could we shift the cars which I did. Got back in bed and started drifting off when a delivery came to the door. Drifted off again for the digging to start.

This year, the people across the road are getting work done today so there’s electric saws, drills and hammers being used outside their house. This started at 7.45. They also have one of those obnoxious sensors at their front door which makes a very loud noise whenever anyway goes in/out their front door so it is going off every couple of minutes or so as workmen go in and out.

[matty_f]

The new Twitter. It was fine as it was, now it's just loads of tweets from accounts I don't follow with a seemingly endless right-wing/ conspiracy theory/ transphobic / anti-SNP tweets.
I know these things are meant to be based on an algorithm that serves up things it thinks you'll like but I don't want to see any of that pish, it genuinely feels like every time I open up Twitter there's an attempt at converting my thinking to align with those views. It's horrible.


That and every other video that comes up on Facebook is from Jordan f***ing Peterson.

[OldEast]

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The new Twitter. It was fine as it was, now it's just loads of tweets from accounts I don't follow with a seemingly endless right-wing/ conspiracy theory/ transphobic / anti-SNP tweets.
I know these things are meant to be based on an algorithm that serves up things it thinks you'll like but I don't want to see any of that pish, it genuinely feels like every time I open up Twitter there's an attempt at converting my thinking to align with those views. It's horrible.


That and every other video that comes up on Facebook is from Jordan f***ing Peterson.

Aye it's annoying. They're showing you what they think you want to see. It's called "for you" you can see the heading at the top of the page. Just remember to click on "following" and you'll get your content.

[matty_f]

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Aye it's annoying. They're showing you what they think you want to see. It's called "for you" you can see the heading at the top of the page. Just remember to click on "following" and you'll get your content.

Yeah, I usually remember just after I've got wound up at the amount of crap it's serving up

[Alfiembra]

Food shopping is really grinding my gears at the moment, I don’t actually mind doing the shopping but the price hikes are getting ridiculous, and seem more like blatant profiteering. Especially when the item is not only a lot more expensive but the size and quantity has also been reduced. Double Whammy

[Bridge hibs]

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The new Twitter. It was fine as it was, now it's just loads of tweets from accounts I don't follow with a seemingly endless right-wing/ conspiracy theory/ transphobic / anti-SNP tweets.
I know these things are meant to be based on an algorithm that serves up things it thinks you'll like but I don't want to see any of that pish, it genuinely feels like every time I open up Twitter there's an attempt at converting my thinking to align with those views. It's horrible.


That and every other video that comes up on Facebook is from Jordan f***ing Peterson.

Facebook is just full of utter trash, glad I got rid. Constant whingers wanting likes, constant ‘tell us your favourite number’ yeah just ****ing have my card details 🤬

[Hiber-nation]

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Facebook is just full of utter trash, glad I got rid. Constant whingers wanting likes, constant ‘tell us your favourite number’ yeah just ****ing have my card details ��

Or "Bet you can't name a city beginning with E" and some daftie FB friend goes to the bother of actually posting "Edinburgh".

[Pretty Boy]

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Or "Bet you can't name a city beginning with E" and some daftie FB friend goes to the bother of actually posting "Edinburgh".

Some of those are good for outing utter morons though.

'Name a country that can be typed using only the letters from one row on a keyboard'

Then you get an American (it's always, always an American) answering 'Europe'.