Pet Peeves IV

[Jones28]

That ****ing Ronaldo jump spin celebration. Fair enough him doing, just someone doing it after scoring for Gillingham in the FA cup.

[sleeping giant]

When I try to hang up after a call on my mobile , my screen is blank and I have to unlock to get back to the call menu. Drives me nuts.

[lapsedhibee]

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When I try to hang up after a call on my mobile , my screen is blank and I have to unlock to get back to the call menu. Drives me nuts.

Get similar on mine, but if I hold the phone exactly horizontal the screen magically reappears. Not sure if that's a thing generally.

[Hiber-nation]

The BBC weather forecast. Sunny intervals with zero percent chance of rain apparently yet it's been pishing down here for about an hour. How can they get it that wrong?

[WeeRussell]

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Get similar on mine, but if I hold the phone exactly horizontal the screen magically reappears. Not sure if that's a thing generally.

If that’s the case, I wonder if putting ‘portrait orientation lock’ on would stop the issue?

If you and the OP already do this then just ignore me 😁

[Pretty Boy]

When local dialects or slang is used in a patronising or condescending way by people who don't actually talk like that.

I was walking up Leith Walk this morning for the 1st time in ages and past 3 bars. One was proclaiming they sold 'barry peeve', another declared they wanted 'nae bams' and the 3rd was offering 'bevvies and gid times'. Bevvy seems particularly popular for some reason. I'm not even sure it was in widespread usage in Edinburgh, certainly not where I grew up, I always associated it more with the north west of England.

GTF with that. I know the owner of one of those places and he's from Berkshire. It's nothing to do with being embarrassed by Scots or Edinburgh slang and everything to do with the gentrification brigade and a very watered down cultural appropriation.

[lapsedhibee]

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Bevvy seems particularly popular for some reason. I'm not even sure it was in widespread usage in Edinburgh, certainly not where I grew up, I always associated it more with the north west of England.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l5a-dvi9O0

[Scouse Hibee]

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When local dialects or slang is used in a patronising or condescending way by people who don't actually talk like that.

I was walking up Leith Walk this morning for the 1st time in ages and past 3 bars. One was proclaiming they sold 'barry peeve', another declared they wanted 'nae bams' and the 3rd was offering 'bevvies and gid times'. Bevvy seems particularly popular for some reason. I'm not even sure it was in widespread usage in Edinburgh, certainly not where I grew up, I always associated it more with the north west of England.

GTF with that. I know the owner of one of those places and he's from Berkshire. It's nothing to do with being embarrassed by Scots or Edinburgh slang and everything to do with the gentrification brigade and a very watered down cultural appropriation.

We goin for a bevvy lad.

[Bridge hibs]

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We goin for a bevvy lad.

In the day I think Ive used many variances, going for a peeve, going for a pint, going for a bevvy, going for a few beers, going for a few jugs, going on a sesh, no matter what, I nearly always ended up in the same bladdered, rubberised, paralytic, blootered state the following morning 🤮

[CropleyWasGod]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l5a-dvi9O0

Was the required colloquialism when you and I were lads.

Must have gone out of fashion, along with flares and shoulder-pads, before PB and his contemporaries started to wreak their own havoc on fair Edina's purveyors of wines and spirits.

[Keith_M]

This topic has already been mentioned a few times but...


People that are so obsessed with Mobile Phone selfies that they're unaware, or couldn't care, about what's going on around them or the inconvenience/danger they could inflict on themselves or others.

A perfect example of this is the group of Chinese tourists who were repeatedly told to sit down in a Gondola in Venice but were far too occupied with taking Selfies, resulting in the boat capsizing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AxK1A2LKTQ


Fortunately nobody was seriously hurt but the consequences of this kind of behaviour could be tragic.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

The constant use of bigliest on the main forum, file it in the same bin as baller, oh my days and my bad.

[overdrive]

People wearing backpacks but have a lack of spatial awareness. Currently on a tram getting whacked by a backpack on the back of a woman who clearly thinks there’s the entire space between her back and me totally free and not taken up by her backpack!

[Just Alf]

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The constant use of bigliest on the main forum, file it in the same bin as baller, oh my days and my bad.

I often see "bigliest" used as a swipe at our neighbours view of themselves... which is fair enough

Agree with you when used elsewhere though!

[The Modfather]

My wife’s inability to load a dishwasher properly. The amount of times half (maybe a bit of hyperbole) the items need re-washed is infuriating. She doesn’t put any thought into the positions of each item and what might block something else. That and I can only assume she is putting it on the lowest wash setting, which isn’t enough to clean everything.

[Pretty Boy]

Trying to get a GP appointment.

Been phoning since Monday, bang on 8am and the line is just constantly engaged for 2+ hours. Finally got to speak to someone yesterday at about 11.30 and before I'd even finished speaking was told 'there's no appointments left, call earlier tomorrow' and the call was ended. Tried again this morning, engaged for an hour then a recorded message saying 'our routine GP appointments are now full for today'.

It's not an emergency so can't/wouldn't go to A&E but it definitely needs a GP and can't just be seen by a pharmacist or similar.

My dad had similar lately with an inability to get an appointment and that did end up being fairly serious and he ended up in hospital.

[McD]

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Trying to get a GP appointment.

Been phoning since Monday, bang on 8am and the line is just constantly engaged for 2+ hours. Finally got to speak to someone yesterday at about 11.30 and before I'd even finished speaking was told 'there's no appointments left, call earlier tomorrow' and the call was ended. Tried again this morning, engaged for an hour then a recorded message saying 'our routine GP appointments are now full for today'.

It's not an emergency so can't/wouldn't go to A&E but it definitely needs a GP and can't just be seen by a pharmacist or similar.

My dad had similar lately with an inability to get an appointment and that did end up being fairly serious and he ended up in hospital.

It’s getting ridiculous. And I don’t blame (most of) the staff


At our surgery, they’ve taken on a new receptionist, who seems to have been told that she must not give out appts, you can be 2nd in the queue, and she will argue the toss with you about not being able to give an appt. I phoned a couple of months ago about my 4 year old daughter not being well for several days, was 3rd in the queue, and after explaining that my daughter was coughing to the point of being sick, was very hot and lethargic, and steadily getting worse, the receptionist said ‘we don’t have a lot of appointments left today, could you phone back tomorrow and we might be able to fit you in’

[Mon Dieu4]

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Trying to get a GP appointment.

Been phoning since Monday, bang on 8am and the line is just constantly engaged for 2+ hours. Finally got to speak to someone yesterday at about 11.30 and before I'd even finished speaking was told 'there's no appointments left, call earlier tomorrow' and the call was ended. Tried again this morning, engaged for an hour then a recorded message saying 'our routine GP appointments are now full for today'.

It's not an emergency so can't/wouldn't go to A&E but it definitely needs a GP and can't just be seen by a pharmacist or similar.

My dad had similar lately with an inability to get an appointment and that did end up being fairly serious and he ended up in hospital.

Some of the rules they impliment are mental, I'm well aware that they are up against it but they really don't help themselves, my dad had a blood test taken a few weeks back, he called for the result on a Friday, he got told they were in but they only give test results between Tuesdays and Thursdays and to call back the following week, now it wasn't anything too important but imagine having extra days of a test result hanging over your head due to that's just the way we do it now

[Pretty Boy]

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Some of the rules they impliment are mental, I'm well aware that they are up against it but they really don't help themselves, my dad had a blood test taken a few weeks back, he called for the result on a Friday, he got told they were in but they only give test results between Tuesdays and Thursdays and to call back the following week, now it wasn't anything too important but imagine having extra days of a test result hanging over your head due to that's just the way we do it now

I just find the whole call first thing in the morning to get an appointment and when they are gone, they are gone policy bizarre.

I get why that is the case for emergency/urgent appointments, it's been that way as long as I can remember, but I would be quite happy to phone this afternoon when the phones are quieter and book an appointment for sometime next week. Instead I could potentially take an appointment on Monday away from someone who needs it more than me or could go on in this indefinite cycle of just being unable to actually ever get an appointment. Neither are ideal.

[speedy_gonzales]

Re GP surgeries, I moved house 2 years ago and and my surgery of 30+ years (and 2 previous house moves) told me I had to register with a "local" practice.
I wasn't particularly keen on doing this, my previous surgery was like many others posted above, a struggle to get an appointment and a fight to get past the receptionist, but, I had been there for an age and it was a case of better the devil you know.
But, I reluctantly moved to another practice, the first thing they did was invite me in for a general health chat and sign me up to their online portal. There, I can book appointments (so far, excellent availability) and even request prescriptions (repeat or otherwise).
I was totally blown away and surprised more practices don't have a similar setup.

Edited to add this is in Edinburgh, I moved from EH12 to EH13.

[Hibby Bairn]

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Trying to get a GP appointment.

Been phoning since Monday, bang on 8am and the line is just constantly engaged for 2+ hours. Finally got to speak to someone yesterday at about 11.30 and before I'd even finished speaking was told 'there's no appointments left, call earlier tomorrow' and the call was ended. Tried again this morning, engaged for an hour then a recorded message saying 'our routine GP appointments are now full for today'.

It's not an emergency so can't/wouldn't go to A&E but it definitely needs a GP and can't just be seen by a pharmacist or similar.

My dad had similar lately with an inability to get an appointment and that did end up being fairly serious and he ended up in hospital.

My experience with my local surgery (been with them for 40 years) is good. Trying to change patient behaviour, I guess.

The front team seem to be trained to triage (or maybe use IT of some kind) so if you are an urgent case you get seen quickly and if not them they fit you in when available.

I had been experiencing headaches last year for 2 weeks (never usually get them) and I was seen within 2 hours, had bloods taken and results same day. Turned out it was nothing serious.

Having pain in my foot after breaking a toe earlier this year. Scheduled for 3 weeks after phoning. Which seems fine.

[lapsedhibee]

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Re GP surgeries, I moved house 2 years ago and and my surgery of 30+ years (and 2 previous house moves) told me I had to register with a "local" practice.
I wasn't particularly keen on doing this, my previous surgery was like many others posted above, a struggle to get an appointment and a fight to get past the receptionist, but, I had been there for an age and it was a case of better the devil you know.
But, I reluctantly moved to another practice, the first thing they did was invite me in for a general health chat and sign me up to their online portal. There, I can book appointments (so far, excellent availability) and even request prescriptions (repeat or otherwise).
I was totally blown away and surprised more practices don't have a similar setup.

Edited to add this is in Edinburgh, I moved from EH12 to EH13.

I have similar. Book a telephone appointment online (usually for the next day), GP phones at the appointed time, then if a face-to-face is deemed necessary the GP schedules that very soon or not so soon as appropriate.

The fight-to-get-through-on-a-phone-at-8am approach is completely mental in 2023.

[Jay]

Our GP practice is amazing in the circumstances. We have a building that's no longer fit for purpose, when it rains you dodge round the buckets collecting the dripping water, it only has 6 GP rooms and its now covering our village, 2 neighbouring villages and a whole new village which was built beside us as well as the hundreds of new houses in our village. (Effectively we are just one big town now)Their patient numbers cant be far off doubling in the last 10 years The funding for a new surgery currently isn't happening although there's plans and drawings.
They are struggling to recruit Drs- who blames them? That's not a workplace I'd choose. But they recruited prescribing nurses and mental health nurses. The front team triage you, if you need seen then you'll be seen by the right person. You won't get through on a monday morning, and you have to be patient waiting to get through other times but you'll get there. Prescriptions can be ordered online and go straight to the chemist for collection or delivery.

We could help ourselves though - our surgery posted that 94 appointments were unattended in October. Even though we get text reminders . However there's regular moans on the local FB page about how crap it is

[c31]

Yeah I got a txt from our practice that 154 appointments were unattended in November, which is just so selfish...

[The_Exile]

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Yeah I got a txt from our practice that 154 appointments were unattended in November, which is just so selfish...

I've been saying this for years, that you should have to pay a £5 or £10 deposit when you make an appointment. You get it back after you turn up. As long as the money went back into the practice or something to make patients/staffs lives a bit easier.

[Wilson]

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I've been saying this for years, that you should have to pay a £5 or £10 deposit when you make an appointment. You get it back after you turn up. As long as the money went back into the practice or something to make patients/staffs lives a bit easier.

A fiver or a tenner doesn't sound like a lot. However, it still sounds like a policy that might adversely affect the poorest in our society.

[Jay]

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I've been saying this for years, that you should have to pay a £5 or £10 deposit when you make an appointment. You get it back after you turn up. As long as the money went back into the practice or something to make patients/staffs lives a bit easier.

It goes against everything the NHS stands for . We just need people to do the right thing and cancel rather than not bother turning up.

[Stairway 2 7]

Tories approve of this policy 👏

[ErinGoBraghHFC]

I understand that sometimes a lorry needs to overtake another lorry, but if it could avoid attempting that at 5.30pm on the M8 westbound on a Friday night that’d be great. Was stuck behind it from Bathgate until Harthill, irritating.


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[Danderhall Hibs]

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A fiver or a tenner doesn't sound like a lot. However, it still sounds like a policy that might adversely affect the poorest in our society.

Could take the card details and only charge if they don’t turn up?