The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

[Raid]

Thankfully, there only seems to be ads at the beginning and then once or twice throughout, I'm more just perplexed as to why I can only watch it on the playstation's app version and not my browser version.

Maybe it's better on the playstation version of the app, but watching on the Fire TV Cube it was literally 8-10 minutes between ad breaks. It was almost unwatchable.

[Solitaire]

I've unfortunately discovered a website that has, it seems, every show that has ever existed, streaming free. I've spent the last two days binging on Law & Order: Organized Crime - which started out pretty good, second season too (Lolita Davidovich is still a babe, if you ask me), then suddenly *almost* jumped the shark... I'm going to finish the last two episodes just because my brain says I have to, but damn this spinoff went downhill pretty fast. I'm kinda crushed about it, because I just love Det. Stabler's character

[Sly Boots]

So myself, my wife and eldest daughter all have Covid -_-

Youngest would probably have it as well were it not for the fact she already had it a few weeks ago and so is likely immune for the time being.

[Animalmother]

We'll all get it in the end more than likely

My new pet peeve is people who constantly say "like" 20 times in a sentence. It like really gets like on my like fucking tits like...

[Wrathbone]

Was just making a brew and noticed the postman was stood at the door, so I opened the door and saw he'd put my parcel on the floor and was just stood there staring at it. It turned out his device thing had crashed and he couldn't take a photo of it, and of course I couldn't pick my parcel off the floor until he'd got a photo of it. So we both had to stand there awkwardly for a few minutes in silence.

I can't help but feel that society failed at some undetermined point in the past.

[Sly Boots]

[Raid]

Those things can take an age to reboot in my experience. I get it at work too, albeit with more complex systems, but I loathe having to apologise for slow hardware and software that are a key part of my job.

[Wrathbone]

Don't get me wrong, I don't blame the postie - he was clearly as resigned to the situation as I was. It's more that this shouldn't have to be a thing in the first place. I can understand it for high-value items, but this was a couple of films worth £20. Trust between consumers and delivery companies appears to have completely eroded.

[Mantis]

Understandable. I live in an apartment block in the middle of the city and I've had quite a few parcels nicked over the last couple of years. Some of the delivery couriers can't be arsed to even put remotely minimum effort levels in and sometimes just leave my package on the street.

Looking at you, Yodel.

I've had a fair share of dodgy Amazon drivers too who list the package as being "handed to resident" on days where I'm in and nobody ever buzzes the flat or knocks on the door.

[Rusty]

I was waiting for one delivery all day but nothing came so eventually had to go to my girlfriend's (for the weekend) and as we were just sitting down for tea my phone pinged.
"Package handed to resident".

I decided that they'd handed it to a neighbour so didn't worry.

Came back Monday morning and found the package leaning against my outer wall (not visible from the road I might add - slightly in their defence).
No note inside the house.
It was only when I deep dived my order history that I saw the note saying it was left outside the front door.. thank god it hadn't rained that weekend and it wasn't expensive electronics...

[Wrathbone]

I think I must be quite lucky with deliveries round here in general, because aside from the occasional shenanigans with timeslots being completely wrong or leaving a parcel in the bin on bin day (or my farce yesterday), I've not had many problems. There's an Evri (Hermes) delivery guy round here who's the spitting image of Christian Slater and he seems to be completely the wrong fit for the company because he's competent and friendly.

I did get judged by an Amazon driver the other week, though, as I'd bought some whisky which required ID, and as I went to hand him my driver's licence he told me he could see it wasn't necessary.

[Rusty]

Lol. I want to be ID'd by Morrisons for buying energy drinks (have to be over 16 now) but they never do
Still, my grey beard probably helps

[Drarok]

Self checkout UIs:

"Customer is clearly over 25"

[Snowy]

Lol. I want to be ID'd by Morrisons for buying energy drinks (have to be over 16 now) but they never do
Still, my grey beard probably helps

I was ID'd buying booze a few years ago, made my fucking year. It was a spindly spotty little lad who asked me.

"Sorry sir, are you 18?" "No, I am 49".

The lad's supervisor nearly wet herself laughing

[eny]

Arf!