Minor things that really piss you off !

[OwlHoot]

A rusty brillo pad at your age is something to be proud of my friend

I meant those steel wire bundles you're supposed to leave in the kettle to prevent it furring up.

[gingerjedi]

D'ya naa wha' a mean?

Safe, blood. Init.

Rrrrespec.

'Bruv'

[OwlHoot]

The fact that you can't for love or money get an answerphone with a simple mute button, so you can be in the middle of a nice nap when the phone rings right by your ear.

I believe the mongs at BT still stick doggedly to some archaic cold war policy of discouraging mute facilities on answerphones, in case civil defence messages need mass broadcasting over the phone network.

But what is the point, when you can easily disconnect the phone while having a nap (unless like me you forgot!), which means you are even less likely to get some futile warning from BT that a 100 foot tsunami or a few dozen ICBMs are on the way?!

Also, texting and emailing on mobile phones mean the policy is now even more cargo cultish than ever!

[caspercat1]

Armpits on the Tube and trolley dolleys and plugged in to oblivious world events

Not much really!

[Sysman]

The fact that you can't for love or money get an answerphone with a simple mute button, so you can be in the middle of a nice nap when the phone rings right by your ear.

I believe the mongs at BT still stick doggedly to some archaic cold war policy of discouraging mute facilities on answerphones, in case civil defence messages need mass broadcasting over the phone network.

But what is the point, when you can easily disconnect the phone while having a nap (unless like me you forgot!), which means you are even less likely to get some futile warning from BT that a 100 foot tsunami or a few dozen ICBMs are on the way?!

Also, texting and emailing on mobile phones mean the policy is now even more cargo cultish than ever!

Aye, it's all BT's fault.

I bought a Panasonic answerphone years ago and it was excellent. When it got nicked I found that BT had priced Panasonic out of the market with cheap and nasty affairs. I would have been quite happy to fork out a couple of hundred quid for a Panasonic replacement, but all I could find were BT models for about 60 quid.

[Spacecadet]

lazy ***** who leave their super market trolley in the parking space instead of taking back to the trolley collection area.

[CheeseSlice]

lazy ***** who leave their super market trolley in the parking space instead of taking back to the trolley collection area.

Somebody had the cheek to leave their empty trolley directly behind my car, after I had just got into the car after loading the boot. I was fuming!

[MaryPoppins]

lazy ***** who leave their super market trolley in the parking space instead of taking back to the trolley collection area.

I felt v guilty reading that. I did just that earlier, trolley area was too far away; didn't want to leave The Child alone in the car for that long. So I dumped it in the empty space next to the car.

Sorry.

[Sysman]

Last week a couple in front of me simply abandoned their trolley after the checkout.

I took it back to the docking station a whole 5 yards away myself, and by plugging it in could retrieve their 2 Swiss Franc deposit.

Every little helps

[NickFitz]

Last week a couple in front of me simply abandoned their trolley after the checkout.

I once did that

In my defence, I normally use a basket and completely forgot that I had a trolley that time. I only remembered it when I was halfway across the car park and realising how heavy the shopping was.