The Inaugural Opening Meeting.....

[Mike Vogel]

I could add computer-programmers who think they are building in software convenient to the user when they haven't the faintest idea what the ordinary user wants.

mike

[Di]

Bath overflows... I's an adult, allowed to drive a car, vote or go to war (not very likely admittedly) But bath designers don't believe I am capable of turning a B***** tap off, so I can't have nice deep water and being tall I need that to be able to submerge as the little people do.

Am I allowed to complain of little people in general, i mean you keep tripping over them

[Geoff]

Seeing as it's Monday and I'm doing the washing, the interlocks that stop you opening the washer door for ages after the cycle has finished.

[Granny]

And people with teenage kids who park in mother and baby parking spots. My daughter has a baby and a toddler and has resorted to going somewhere quiet and parking over the white line, giving herself 2 places.
And drivers who sit right up my back in an outside lane when we're in a massive queue waiting for a slow lorry to overtake another - as if I could go anywhere else.
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Granny

[Compo]

Being normal and an average middle aged white guy I cannot get:
(Tongue in cheek most of these!!)
A parking space
A winter fuel allowance
Time off work
Maternity leave
Anything translated into another language
(Yet no one seems to understand me!!)
etc....

Compo

[richard p]

what planet do computer programmers live on, it seems every new version is more idiot proof than the last, one program i have to use to print out a book order, every time i click to close the print window to move to the next order it opens a new window just to ask if im sure i want to close the previous one, when theres 20 despatch notes to print it gets a trifle annoying

[retropants]

I agree with the spitting, and the teenagers, especially if they swagger across the road in front of your car, really slowly as if they own the road, and expect you to stop and not run them over, there is usually a zebra crossing about 10 meters away too. Allotment vandals and thieves, van thieves, EU legislators, people who walk through a door you've held open for them, and say nothing, shops who refuse to offer refunds for faulty goods (its the Law)..there's plenty more where that came from, and I'm not even that old, but definitely grumpy!

[lizzie]

Bad manners is another gripe. What is so hard in saying thank you.

Plus, some bloody pedestrians. You let them cross the road and they don't give an acknowleding wave of thanks, thumb up etc. Personally, if they don't say thank you I believe it gives me the right to run the bugger over

How about taxi drivers? nuff said on that one

[Primrose]

Have you got two hours to spare?

Call Centres, (especially Indian ones)
Political Correctness in all its forms.
Vandals who write graffiti on clean walls.
Drunken yobs (of both sexes).
Sleaze in political parties.
Smug politicans who think they know it all and never listen to what their constituents tell them.
Dog Walkers who don't clear up dog poo
Middle lane hoggers on motorways at 40 mph
Dinner guests who don't switch off their mobiles & even text friends during meals,
Customer Service Departments who have no concept of what 'Customer Service' means.
Drivers who park so badly they use two parking spaces.
Microsoft Office which suddenly changes my fonts & settings for no reason.
People who never write "thank you" letters.

Oh I'd better stop. Everybody's going to think I'm a moaning old cow and I'm not even halfway through my list yet.......

[lizzie]

go for it Primrose.....enjoy yourself. Just think how happy you'll feel when you've got it off your chest

[Chantal]

TV presenters, especially on the BBC, who can't string a sentence together. They split infinitives with impunity and some of the words they use, they just seem to make them up as they go along! Arrrgghhh

"Uptrend" was one beauty I heard last week, on the 10 o'clock news, I could scream.

And, morons such as Jade Goody and Katie Price/Peter Andre who make millions out of equally brain dead people wanting to watch them. WHY?

[oldherbaceous]

Do women really moan more than blokes or is it that they are just more honest.

[Compo]

A bit of both OH

However, how about this for an irritating pet hate.

Gave up the allotment committee last year, and it was takne over by a bunch of five well meaning individuals, as my parting task I agreed to get the site lawnmower serviced locally. No worries one of the five said 'I am a qualified lawnmower engineer' Here we are in April, he has had it four months and now tells the plot holders that it needs serious maintenance and needs to go to a service outlet to be fixed. The same muppet serviced someone's rotavator and it failed to start when returned costing the owner £25 at the local shop to get it going.

The watchword for me is 'qualified'.....Qualified for what I ask?

Compo

[donedigging]

The British winter lasting 365 days a year!!

[peter]

And people with teenage kids who park in mother and baby parking spots...........Granny

Bloody supermarket/council carpark designers who ensure that the only spaces where a normal person can get in and out of a family sized car without bashing the end of the door on the neighbouring car(s) are reserved for disabled or mum-n-kids.

I have a back problem and am slightly above average size.