ROOM 101 . (things that have annoyed you)

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ROOM 101 . (things that have annoyed you)

Postby clemo » Tue 05.10.2010, 10:02

Room 101 for all those things that anoy you , have a rant , see if others agree , if they do it goe's into room 101.

Get it of your chest .
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Re: ROOM 101 .

Postby Enright » Tue 05.10.2010, 11:01

Front 'driving lamps'. Oh no they're not - they're FOGlamps.
i.e. If you can see the car in front, you don't need the bloody things on!
It's not big, it's not clever, in fact they're only for Citroen Saxo drivers and chavs.
So if you know you have them on, and you're not one, then you must be the other.
And if you don't know then you're just plain stupid.

How's that for starters Clemo?
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Re: ROOM 101 .

Postby Monty » Tue 05.10.2010, 11:39

Cheryl Cole, last Sunday on X Factor :twisted:

I must get a life :roll:
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Re: ROOM 101 .

Postby Dave Eds » Tue 05.10.2010, 12:20

Enright wrote:Front 'driving lamps'. Oh no they're not - they're FOGlamps.
i.e. If you can see the car in front, you don't need the bloody things on!
It's not big, it's not clever, in fact they're only for Citroen Saxo drivers and chavs.
So if you know you have them on, and you're not one, then you must be the other.
And if you don't know then you're just plain stupid.




Drove round Monaco and the French Riviera in summer 1990 in the works Ford Sapphire with the fogs on.

Far classier than all those cheap yachts, Bentley's, RR's, Lambo's and Furry-are-we's! :-D

D'you think I was spotted by a Saxo designer?

BTW my reg plate was B162 HAV.
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Re: ROOM 101 .

Postby GeoffSmith » Tue 05.10.2010, 12:24

Enright wrote:Front 'driving lamps'. Oh no they're not - they're FOGlamps.

Good one and a pet hate of mine, closely followed by:

Adjustable headlight knobs. They're there so you can adjust your lights so they don't blind people in cars half the height of your 4x4. They are NOT meant to be set on the highest setting (come what may) so you stand a better chance of seeing something out the corner of your eye when you're talking on your phone/turning round to talk to the passenger (or kids in the back)/doing your makeup (while I'm at it, if I'm behind you and all I can see is your bare, flabby tatooed naval in the rear view mirror then it's not adjusted correctly, is it?)/cleaning your shoes or whatever you're doing fiddling about on the floor.
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Re: ROOM 101 .

Postby DaveB » Tue 05.10.2010, 13:14

Agree... 'driving lights' into room 101 please.

Also, people who drive in the middle lane when there is nothing in the inner lane...

... I have trained my wife, who is now under instruction to give a 'Paddington Stare' whenever we pass one of these lane thieves... :twisted:
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Re: ROOM 101 .

Postby Dave Eds » Tue 05.10.2010, 13:23

Rear fog lights on when it's not foggy.

How many times do you see them on when it's raining, you're on the motorway, having to deal with spray,and being blinded by the the fog lights of the oblivious twat up front.

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Re: ROOM 101 .

Postby Enright » Tue 05.10.2010, 13:33

Hey Dave, maybe they've just put them on in retaliation for you dazzling them with your front ones! :lol:
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Re: ROOM 101 .

Postby Ade » Tue 05.10.2010, 13:36

People who lock threads preventing any futher discussion.
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Re: ROOM 101 .

Postby Enright » Tue 05.10.2010, 13:42

Topic locked. :P
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Re: ROOM 101 .

Postby Ade » Tue 05.10.2010, 13:48

:goodposting: :(
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Re: ROOM 101 .

Postby lotusm100elan » Tue 05.10.2010, 14:36

A bit contraversial, this:

The half leather interior on some SEs.

Stock brakes.
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Re: ROOM 101 .

Postby Specky » Tue 05.10.2010, 15:42

Geoffsmith....

For Buggering about with my avatar for the past several years.... :wink:

I think I was the only one that was happy when the facility broke... :lol:

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Re: ROOM 101 .

Postby clemo » Tue 05.10.2010, 19:17

call centers with 0845 / 0870 numbers (direct line this week)
We appologise for the wait we are currently experiencing a high volume of calls , please wait and an assistant will be with you soon.

What , you say that every time ,
can i make a suggestion ,
make it an 0800 free number and i won't be to peed of when it takes 20 mins to get through , i would hang up after 10 but then i have to do the wait in the que all over again .
They will answer soon , no they won't they will just patronise me with some crap music and the annoying message every few minutes.
If they were really sorry they would get more telephone operators ,
Or give me a refund for the 30 minutes the overall call took , i did ask .I was told the computer was unable to do discounts or refunds.

So the bottom line - direct line and everyone else with 0845 / 0870 numbers is you like us being on hold as it earns you money.

(also there is another number that thomas cook.com use is 50p a minute)

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Re: ROOM 101 .

Postby Steve A » Tue 05.10.2010, 20:53

:P Room 101
Is that where Jackonico went? :shock:












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Re: ROOM 101 .

Postby GeoffSmith » Tue 05.10.2010, 21:56

Specky wrote:Geoffsmith....

For Buggering about with my avatar for the past several years.... :wink:

I think I was the only one that was happy when the facility broke... :lol:

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Re: ROOM 101 .

Postby MPx » Tue 05.10.2010, 22:57

GeoffSmith wrote:Adjustable headlight knobs. They're there so you can adjust your lights so they don't blind people in cars half the height of your 4x4.


If only I had such a thing in the Rangey. The car came with those stupidly bright HIDs which are simply too bright for shared roads. On top of that, they are "self levelling" so no sensible adjustments. I got completely hacked off with being flashed by every third car so I adjusted the lamp surrounds under the bonnet so that they pointed at the road just in front of the bumper and the retaliatory flashes reduced significantly. Sadly the Landy main dealer then charged me £18 + VAT to adjust the lamps back in order to pass the MOT - and of course ever since I've blinded everyone else on the road. Arrgghggh!
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Re: ROOM 101 .

Postby GeoffSmith » Wed 06.10.2010, 13:06

Health and safety dictators.

Easy target I know. Don't get me wrong, not the ones who know what they're talking about and actually help people do their jobs safely and without risk to health (which is pretty important when you're building our products) but those whose only solution is to introduce a new procedure which makes it more difficult/less conducive to work, causing people to take shortcuts and workarounds thereby defeating the whole object of H&S.
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Re: ROOM 101 . (things that have annoyed you)

Postby Specky » Wed 06.10.2010, 17:16

Can I put the " Whinging and Moaning" topic in Room 101...

Of course I can, I'm a Mod.... :lol:

Only joking......

Sorry...

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Re: ROOM 101 . (things that have annoyed you)

Postby Steve A » Wed 06.10.2010, 17:35

Specky wrote:Can I put the " Whinging and Moaning" topic in Room 101...

Of course I can, I'm a Mod.... :lol:

Only joking......

Sorry...

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