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Things that frustrate us all

Kor said:
I really don't care if somebody is playing loud music in their car. But I find it absolutely irritating if their BASS is turned up so much that it causes the ground and all surrounding vehicles to violently shake. :wtf:

Kor
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Imagine the deafness of these people. It's a wonder they can still hear anything.
 
MacLeod said:
I can think of worse professions, Politicians.
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It’s true that career politicians are scum, and just entertaining the thought of these vermin brings sick to my mouth. And that career politicians will cost me far more in hard cash, lost opportunities and peace of mind. But unlike a career politician, I will never be forced to recruit one, to enter a contract with them, and to be lulled in believing that they are a person, and approaching the transaction as if dealing with a person, with all the feats and failings shared by the human race. They are not people, they are fuckwits.
 
Butters said:
It’s true that career politicians are scum, and just entertaining the thought of these vermin brings sick to my mouth. And that career politicians will cost me far more in hard cash, lost opportunities and peace of mind. But unlike a career politician, I will never be forced to recruit one, to enter a contract with them, and to be lulled in believing that they are a person, and approaching the transaction as if dealing with a person, with all the feats and failings shared by the human race. They are not people, they are fuckwits.
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I am sure they resent the comparison, the fuckwits I mean.
 
When you stumble across a geocache container in the middle of the woods, but it's sealed so tight that it's absolutely impossible to open and find what's inside! :scream:

Kor
 
Butters said:
Estate Agents.
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What do they actually contribute to a house sale? Writing up a nice rightmove.com page?

Every step of moving house is dreadful, really. This whole "chain" thing needs to fuck off for a start. Should be more like america (and scotland, I believe?). Decide on a completion date when you make an offer.
 
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Stoo said:
What do they actually contribute to a house sale? Writing up a nice rightmove.com page?

Every step of moving house is dreadful, really. This whole chain thing needs to fuck off for a start. Should be more like america (and scotland, I believe?). Decide on a completion date when you make an offer.
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Estate agents serve three genuine purposes. To draw attention to the house being for sale, to show interested parties around it, and to pass on any offer. Anything beyond that is bullshit, and they tend to fuck up the basics.

In the latest fuckup. We wanted a low price for a quick sale, they marketed a higher price non negotiable. Not surprisingly we had no viewings, never mind offers. It’s a doer upper! We just want rid.

That’s a minor inconvenience compared to previous experiences though. Wankers.
 
Real estate agents have to do a lot of lawyer type work too, like they know how to check for liens on properties and making sure deeds are cleared. If you don't do all your background work most people don't know how to do, you could buy a house and then like years later learn who you bought from wasn't legally entitled to sell to you and you're basically out of luck.
 
The UK is different. While the Agent does do some checks, we have to use a solicitor for the sale of the house and if buying one. Usually the same one for both, but not always.

Search as conducted for legal, planning, environmental, social issues connected to the property, plus structural surveys. These are insisted upon by bank, unless you’re a cash buyer.

The agent is just a middleman.
 
ouch! that's really one of the worst things that can happen, particularly if you don't have a paper handkerchief.

My argh-moment: the car I was assigned today was not filled up, dirty all over, had too little air in both front tyres and the previous used had left 2 water bottles on the floor. It cost me half an hour this morning to get the car into decent condition.
The silver lining: a 50 ct refund on the bottles which I'll propably invest in ice cream tonight :D
 
This maybe a proper first world problem, but Baileys white chocolate strawberry flavour. It tastes like cheap milkshake, with cheap whiskey. I thought it might taste like baileys, with strawberry. Ugh.
 
Butters said:
This maybe a proper first world problem, but Baileys white chocolate strawberry flavour. It tastes like cheap milkshake, with cheap whiskey. I thought it might taste like baileys, with strawberry. Ugh.
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I think the best chocolate makers are the Swiss and the Belgians, the Belgians are the best of the two. Their chocolate products in any form whatsoever including Icecream are unbelievable.
 
I find some Belgian chocolate a little sickly, but in very small quantities, delicious. I have a pedestrian taste in chocolate myself. Chocolate coated Brazil nuts are nice, or peanuts. Liqueurs at Christmas. I’m happy though with the off cuts from the factory.

Today’s moan. Light aircraft, flying low, or climbing, with their low droning hair drier engine. Don’t know if it’s the same one or lots, but it’s been pretty constant for two hours now, up there, destroying the peace.
 
Butters said:
I find some Belgian chocolate a little sickly, but in very small quantities, delicious. I have a pedestrian taste in chocolate myself. Chocolate coated Brazil nuts are nice, or peanuts. Liqueurs at Christmas. I’m happy though with the off cuts from the factory.

Today’s moan. Light aircraft, flying low, or climbing, with their low droning hair drier engine. Don’t know if it’s the same one or lots, but it’s been pretty constant for two hours now, up there, destroying the peace.
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Would you prefer fighter jets? ;)

But sure I can understand after a few hours of it you might get sick of the noise.
 
MacLeod said:
Would you prefer fighter jets? ;)

But sure I can understand after a few hours of it you might get sick of the noise.
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We get those too on occasion, the RAF doing their exercises. Twisting and turning at low velocities directly above us. Hanging there as if they’re about to stop dead in the air and fall on us. It’s quite unnerving. And noisy. Don’t mind that though.
 
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