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Mark Mayhew
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:30 pm Post subject: Is There Any One Thing That Really Makes You Fed Up |
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My wife tells me I get overly excited while waiting to get counter service at HSBC.
Answer-Do all banking online or change banks. |
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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Many things, but I find I hate queueing more & more with every passing day. _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:15 pm Post subject: Re: Is There Any One Thing That Really Makes You Fed Up |
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Mark Mayhew wrote: | My wife tells me I get overly excited while waiting to get counter service at HSBC.
Answer-Do all banking online or change banks. |
I think banks are getting very lazy at there cueing system. I was told at HSBC by the woman behind the counter that I shouldn't use this system to put money into my account and use one of the machines, she was so rude and made me feel I shouldn't bank there, so I phoned up and made a complaint.
I hate queuing at the post office as you seem to having to wait for ages. I think shops like Asda have got a good system they open all there tills if the queues get longer than 3 or 4 people, but I always say to my wife you know which one to queue up in as some can be faster than others ( If you are a reguar, which we are )
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Ella Sailyour
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 579 Location: Marbella, Spain
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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Mark - it's "queue", not "cue", and "queuing" not "cueing".
Just thought I'd help you out!
Ella _________________ This week's $64,000 question: Why am I so gorgeous, possums? |
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Natasha Little Miss Lovely Smile
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 790
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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Holding doors open for older people, but being called every name they can think of when I can't do it, because I'm loaded down with bags and the door slips shut <even tho I'm trying to hold it open for them with my foot> _________________ Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it. |
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Shaky Fan
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 628
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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Ella Sailyour wrote: | Mark - it's "queue", not "cue", and "queuing" not "cueing".
Just thought I'd help you out!
Ella |
No Ella - Mark was correct - your local branch obviously hasn't got round to installing a snooker table yet! |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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Just the lack of manners and basic etiquette in general society. _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
(Free to read via Kindle Unlimited) |
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Julia
Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 556 Location: a hillside desolate
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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so many things it would take too long to list |
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:36 am Post subject: |
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People who ( at night).. after you've waited to let them pass a car on their side of the road , flash their lights to main beam, to say thankyou ....there's nothing I like more than to be blinded for 5 minutes while driving at night.......and people who drive too close behind me at night but won't overtake no matter how slowly I go... ... drives me bonkers ... I have to pull in and let them past .... |
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happyKaytee
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 22
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:41 am Post subject: |
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LITTER. How can you change peoples' mindsets? We have a school at the back of our house and despite contacts with the headmaster, we suffer an inordinate amount of litter in the park opposite and the local surroundings despite plenty of litter bins (mostly generated by the school pupils). I feel like the grumpy old woman, but what is the answer?? |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:59 am Post subject: |
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Idiots who drive with their foglights on when there clearly isn't any fog, and no, a rainy day doesn't count! They can look forward to a dose of full beams. |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:35 am Post subject: |
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happyKaytee wrote: | LITTER. I feel like the grumpy old woman, but what is the answer?? |
We live 1/4 mile from a supermarket. The main litter that gets snagged up in our front drive is their plastic bags and receipts.
Let's get back to brown paper bags!
I notice they now use plastic bags in USA. _________________ -
John W |
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:46 am Post subject: |
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John W wrote: | happyKaytee wrote: | LITTER. I feel like the grumpy old woman, but what is the answer?? |
We live 1/4 mile from a supermarket. The main litter that gets snagged up in our front drive is their plastic bags and receipts.
Let's get back to brown paper bags!
I notice they now use plastic bags in USA. |
Reusable bags are the answer. Put a tax on plastic bags like they do in Ireland and elsewhere. In fact packaging is one of the few sensible things to tax. _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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How long have you got?
When I was 18, someone said of me, to my face, that I was cynical for my age. Forty years on, not much has changed!
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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gfloyd wrote: |
Reusable bags are the answer. Put a tax on plastic bags like they do in Ireland and elsewhere. In fact packaging is one of the few sensible things to tax. |
We do use our Tesco/Asda/Somerfield plastic bags again, in the swingy bin thing under the kitchen sink, it's only little (~10 ltr) and our house gets through 2 or 3 a day. Nice big council wheelie bin out the back. _________________ -
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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We use the heavier re-usable bags for the milk (when I con remember) and the normal bags for the other groceries. the thin bags, like John, get used for household waste into the wheelie bin, usually 1 per day _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
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AndyAndy2 RAJARed Member
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 548 Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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People answering mobile phones in the street. It suddenly makes them stop walking in a strainght line and they bloody bob around in circles on the pavement in front of me. It's generally men also, putting some truth to the myth that men can only do one thing at a time!
Whilst we're on mobiles, why do young pillocks insist on going through every ringtone in my works canteen!! If I wanted a high whining noise in my ear I'd talk to jade Goody!!.......On second thoughts, no i wouldn't!!! _________________ Some say he once threw a microwave oven at a tramp and that all his potted plants are called 'Steve'.....all we know is, he's called 'The Stig!'. |
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admin
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | Holding doors open for older people, |
And having them walk through without saying thankyou, like you are there to be their own personal doorman. |
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Natasha Little Miss Lovely Smile
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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Freshly chewed chewing gum, left stuck under tables _________________ Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it. |
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admin
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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People smoking right next to me in public when I'm waiting for a bus. |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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I'm waiting for someone to reply on this thread saying
'Oh, I do that'. _________________ -
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childprufe
Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 212 Location: lincolnshire
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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Women who already have all the jobshare benefits and limited hours and job-sharing who still expect me to work unpaid overtime so that they can take time off to care for their kids because their husband can't because he has got an important job that he can't get away from............
AND withn their combined income of £50,000 they are still entitled to tax credits, while I pay 40 per cent to keep them in the style to which they have become accustomed ........GRRRRRRRRR _________________ Standing on Ray Moore's shoulders |
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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Natasha wrote: | Freshly chewed chewing gum, left stuck under tables |
there's a great story about chewing gum in last week's Northumberland Gazzete... ( My mum sends it to me) I'll type it out tomorrow at work...... |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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Rachel wrote: | Natasha wrote: | Freshly chewed chewing gum, left stuck under tables |
there's a great story about chewing gum in last week's Northumberland Gazzete... ( My mum sends it to me) I'll type it out tomorrow at work...... |
Was this the story, Rachel? I read the on-line version of the Gazette each week.... and buy it occasionally.
http://www.northumberlandtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1117&ArticleID=2012302 _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 8:42 am Post subject: |
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That's the very one Cherskiy..
the line "Now it is also looking to put bins up next to known chewing gum blackspots" had me in stitches.................
I'd not thought of looking on line for local rags, this could save my mum 56p a week. |
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Minx
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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admin wrote: | People smoking right next to me in public when I'm waiting for a bus. |
A couple of times recently I have been in restaurants where people at the next table have (very thoughtfully) hooked their arm over the back of their chair to make sure that their filthy habit does not impair the enjoyment of their table companions, but just about ruins the evening for the occupants of the neighbouring table. Cue large bottle of water (sin or con gas) for the offending item and item holder. |
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childprufe
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 3:59 am Post subject: |
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I hate the dirty b@st@rd "new man" who thinks it acceptable to change his baby's nappy in a pub when I'm trying to get pleasantly pi$$ed.
He's bound to be moaning about people smoking near his little darling as well. The answer is simple - KIDS DON'T BELONG IN PUBS _________________ Standing on Ray Moore's shoulders |
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Mark Mayhew
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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Contimanated petrol does not do it for me. |
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iknewdavidjacobsmum
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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The current Government. They have managed to bore most people into having no interest in current affairs (apart from MP's) |
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Ella Sailyour
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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I'm as interested in current affairs as I've always been. It's the tabloid press who've managed (with great success) to turn people's attention away from the important stuff in favour of this whole "celebrity" thing. I refuse to let them - and so does Mr. S.
People who have no interest in how their society is run are either lazy or stupid!
What makes me fed up? "Stupid people" - and boy are there lots of them about!
Ella _________________ This week's $64,000 question: Why am I so gorgeous, possums? |
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iknewdavidjacobsmum
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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Agree E.S. It's that I remember my parents and thier friends actually talking about the Government and social issues of the day. How often do you hear that as chit chat now? |
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