SPAM random annoying things

[MYstIC G]

Insurance companies putting up their premiums every year. Cat insurance has gone up from £13 to £28 a month. Quoted £13 from other places. Even got a quote from the same company for £13 as a new policy. Since when was lengthy custom punished?

Apathy = revenue stream

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Yeah they just do it in the hope you auto-renew. My car insurers last year quoted me over £500, a raise of over £200. I looked around, got back to them and got it for under £250.

 

[caLLous]

Honestly why didn't they make USB plugs symmetrical? I long for the day when I can just get one of the fucking things in the right way round first time.

Even worse when you try it and it won't go in so you flip it around and try again and it wont go in so you have to *look* and then you realise you were right the first time. :<

 

[Gwadien]

Honestly why didn't they make USB plugs symmetrical? I long for the day when I can just get one of the fucking things in the right way round first time.

Even worse when you try it and it won't go in so you flip it around and try again and it wont go in so you have to *look* and then you realise you were right the first time. :<

This, a thousand times.

 

[TdC]

because the U in USB only means the inside

 

[rynnor]

Apathy = revenue stream

Actually in pet insurance its not quite that clearcut - since vet chains appeared with a remit to maximise profits over good service vets bills have increased astronomically.

I have experienced it myself having vets try to push a load of non medical products of no scientific worth and more expensively ordering tons of tests once they find out you are well insured.

 

[Syri]

Honestly why didn't they make USB plugs symmetrical? I long for the day when I can just get one of the fucking things in the right way round first time.

Even worse when you try it and it won't go in so you flip it around and try again and it wont go in so you have to *look* and then you realise you were right the first time. :<

If it's a horizontal usb port, just look at the plug you're putting into it. in most cases, the side of the metal shielding without a join down the middle will be facing upwards. if the port's vertically mounted, you just have to settle for looking.

 

[Gwadien]

If it's a horizontal usb port, just look at the plug you're putting into it. in most cases, the side of the metal shielding without a join down the middle will be facing upwards. if the port's vertically mounted, you just have to settle for looking.

You should be able to plug it in either way!

 

[Edmond]

You should be able to plug it in either way!

Yeah, why cant they all be made like the lightning plug on all recent Apple products, that works both ways. People could learn a thing or two from Apple.......


*runs away very fast, puts hands over ears, and hides....*

 

[soze]

The Apple Lightning connector works both ways so it is possible.

 

[Chilly]

The Apple Lightning connector works both ways so it is possible.

no it doesnt. its a trapezoid?

 

[Chilly]

sorry, just looked: truncated rectangle

 

[soze]

no it doesnt. its a trapezoid?

This connector works both ways it is never upside down as the pins are on both sides.

 

[Raven]

It looks awfully camp.

 

[DaGaffer]

It should work both ways, but seems strangely erratic. We have two iPhone 5s in the house and three connectors; two of them will only charge the phones if they're plugged in one way. Turn them around and nothing happens. Which suggests some less than quality manufacturing.

 

[Chilly]

It should work both ways, but seems strangely erratic. We have two iPhone 5s in the house and three connectors; two of them will only charge the phones if they're plugged in one way. Turn them around and nothing happens. Which suggests some less than quality manufacturing.

ah, thats the full size one.

 

[Raven]

Control pads spoiling what could be an amazing moment of gaming.

Last of us. Epic. Control pads. Fucking awful.

 

[Lamp]

People who don't know what to do at mini-roundabouts.
80% of ppl at the one near my house just drive straight through and don't notice the driver indicating to turn right across them.

 

[rynnor]

People who don't know what to do at mini-roundabouts.
80% of ppl at the one near my house just drive straight through and don't notice the driver indicating to turn right across them.

Is it lack of knowledge or did they just not spot it?

In busy traffic in an unfamiliar road they can be hard to spot until you are on them.

 

[DaGaffer]

ah, thats the full size one.

Nope.

 

[BloodOmen]

Cunts in Battlefield that do nothing but sit and wait for Aircraft respawning rather than going out and contributing to their team, fucking joystick warriors do my nut in "OH LOOK I'M AWESOME AT FLYING! *DRIBBLE*" yes, but your contributing absolutely nothing to your team you useless spunge faced cunt badger.

 

[TdC]

A lady in a range rover tried to kill me in my parking garage today. She was trying to get around a person walking to their car because clearly ladies in range rovers aren't required to have to wait for anyone so she decided to drive on the upcoming traffic side of the garage's roadway to get around them. Unfortunately that was where my car happened to be. I had already seen this coming based purely on the look of frustration on her well made up face so I had already stopped my car or there would have been a colision. Luckily she heard my jammed-on "there's a car here" horn and didn't want to scratch her car's paint job so she did actually stop, with her car's front bumper at my eye-level partially blocking my way. I didn't move so she was forced to back up and nearly hit a car behind her who also beeped her and then she shot me a glare of pure this-is-all-YOUR-fault venom and I moved my car past her. All through this the other lady sitting in the pax seat didn't look up once from her phone.

 

[soze]

People who "creep out" at a round about. When you are driving round so they have nowhere to go but they just keep creeping out until someone has to stop to let them out which means everyone else who was doing 15 has to slow down. I am a angry driver and I nearly got in a fight over this. It is stupid how much this pisses me off.

 

[soze]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4979294/BA-pilot-sent-sexual-text-from-cockpit.html

Stories like this piss me off too. Why not just say "Women desperate for fame and a few grand sends in a picture noone needs to care about" are we honestly meant to believe anybody was in any danger? He took a picture while Autopilot was flying the plane! OMFG burn him.

 

[Urgat]

Car insurance companies offing stupidly high renewal premiums, then, after I find a new quote at half the price... saying "Oh no problem Mr Urgat, we can match that"

Fuck you!

If you were willing to do it at that price, why not just offer it to me at that price to start with... why make me go find a cheaper deal elsewhere before you give me a sensible price for my insurance... oh wait... that's why... cos your a set of greedy cnuts hoping to get away with it... that's why!

grrrrr

 

[TdC]

my freshly restarted laptop using 1.85GB of ram. no applications running. I suppose it's all completely nessecary services and stuff. :-/

 

[MYstIC G]

Car insurance ..... grrrrr

We covered this one page back so that's hardly random ffs!

 

[Raven]

O2.

Ordered a new phone yesterday. Advertised as free next day delivery if ordered before 4pm. Order confirmation says Tuesday. Checked order summary says any working day...

Phoned them up again this morning, phone is out of stock...The women I spoke to yesterday to order it could have bloody well just said so.

Pros

 

[DaGaffer]

O2.

Ordered a new phone yesterday. Advertised as free next day delivery if ordered before 4pm. Order confirmation says Tuesday. Checked order summary says any working day...

Phoned them up again this morning, phone is out of stock...The women I spoke to yesterday to order it could have bloody well just said so.

Pros

Welcome to the wonderful world of e-commerce. Although how mobile phone companies fuck it up with only about 200 SKUs to sell boggles my mind; they should try having 60,000.

 

[soze]

I always wondered if they are told to say they have stock. You go through the credit score and order your phone then get told they have no stock. So you either cancel the order and go through another credit score elsewhere or you wait for it.