Sunday 12 March 2023

Things That Piss Me Off

 I have to get this off my chest:


  1. Amazon adverts that say delivery will be Friday (tomorrow) and, when you click 'Buy' you get an email to say the estimated delivery day is Monday.
  2. E-Bay adverts that say whatever you're buying is being sent from the UK, only to end up coming from China and taking several weeks.
  3. Facebook Market advertisers who never respond to offers to buy an item.
  4. Facebook Market sellers who have forgotten to delete their advert.
  5. Shrink-wrapped cheese.
  6. Sell-by dates on cheese.
  7. Adverts in general.
  8. Tools that purposely hide themselves specifically when I'm looking for them, but are in plain sight at all other times.
  9. Things that obstinately refuse to materialise out of the space-time continuum in the place where I know I left them.
  10. Anything or anyone incapable of anticipating my needs.
  11. Old people who waste time at the checkout chatting to the checkout assistant.
  12. Chatty checkout assistants.
  13. Old people who spend ages rummaging through their purses at the checkout for the exact amount of coinage for a purchase, despite me demonstrably showing my impatience.
  14. Electricity, especially the kind that can kill me if I switch off the incorrect fuse at the consumer unit.
  15. Replacement toilet seats that don't fit properly and slide all over the place when sat on.
  16. Cold water.
  17. Cold rooms.
  18. Hot rooms.
  19. Printers that keep losing their Wi-Fi connection.
  20. Women who insist they told you something, even when they know you weren't paying the slightest attention to what they were saying.
  21. Brexiteers who defy observed reality and believe Brexit is going well.
  22. Brexiteers who acknowledge Brexit isn't going well, but only because of a fictitious Remainer plot.
  23. Intellectually challenged Brexiteers who want to damage the country even more than it has already been damaged.
  24. Anti-woke idiots who are constantly fighting an imaginary Culture War and believe they can't say anything these days, just after having said something incredibly offensive and proving themselves wrong.
  25. American recipes that have temperatures in Fahrenheit and volumes in cups.
  26. American recipes which give you a 4 page history of how the writer's granny came to the USA from 'the old country' and other unrelated guff before giving you the recipe you were looking for (in Fahrenheit and cups).
  27. Cordless tools that don't come with a battery.
  28. Cordless tool batteries that don't have enough oomph to complete a job without several recharges.
  29. Conservative MPs on Twitter who make us out to be mugs by hailing policies which have utterly failed and, despite obtaining funds from millionaires, castigate unions for wanting wage increases that at least match inflation.
  30. Short term planning by government - in fact, a total lack of any planning whatsoever.
  31. Spice and herb shelves in supermarkets that are devoid of the very spice or herb I want.
  32. People who blindly share memes without checking the facts.
  33. People who make long lists (and, by implication, me).
  34. People who read long lists (and, by implication, you - if you got this far)....

1 comment:

David Boffey said...


Why use Amazon in the first place?
Similarly G00gle. Use Ecosia.