Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

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Jameshow

Veteran
Inspired by last night's Martin Lewis Money program, Mrs Poacher decided to follow his advice and check her state pension entitlement. (She's relied on my income for many years!)
We sat at the PC, laboriously working our way through all the steps needed to register for government gateway only to be told on what I presume was the last page that the system was overloaded and try again later!
Actually, I think this is far from trivial - it's a major thing.:cursing:

Annoying that everyone else had the same idea!!!
 
You can backdate your pension top ups for several years (not sure how many) so it is possible to leave it until you are 1 year before then fix all the missing years
Mustn't leave it too long though
also you can't do it after you become entitled to claim it - I think

Weird thing is that, when I sorted out a few years, I had to get a quote and arrange it through one government department - then pay a totally different department who had no information about anything to do with pensions.
It was totally up to me to make sure I paid the right amount and I got no confirmation that it had all be done OK

Not the best system in the world
 

Mike_P

Guru
Location
Harrogate
Think there is a bit of logic these days in referring to train station rather than railway station as in the main these days they are used to get on and off a train and the rest of the services that use to be available are no more. As for the actual Flying Scotsman train that is 99 years old having previously been known as the Special Scotch express.
 

Jameshow

Veteran
The wife who goes us all to tidy the house for the cleaner...I thought that's her job!
I might employ a tidier to tidy before the cleaner!!
 
"Train" as in " Flying Scotsman, the famous train,100 years old this year...." It's NOT a TRAIN it's a LOCOMOTIVE, Loco, or Steam Engine, if you must.
- and as for "train station" .......

And as has been said elsewhere little if any of the loco is 100 years old.
 

Alex321

Guru
Location
South Wales
The wife who goes us all to tidy the house for the cleaner...I thought that's her job!
I might employ a tidier to tidy before the cleaner!!

There is a big difference between tidying and cleaning. Your wife would rather pay the cleaner to actually clean, rather than having to tidy first before they can clean.
 

youngoldbloke

The older I get, the faster I used to be ...
Think there is a bit of logic these days in referring to train station rather than railway station as in the main these days they are used to get on and off a train and the rest of the services that use to be available are no more. As for the actual Flying Scotsman train that is 99 years old having previously been known as the Special Scotch express.

However, "Train Station" still grates whenever I hear it. The named TRAIN service 'Special Scotch Express', then 'Flying Scotsman' (1924) will be 161years old in 2023 (or at least it's title will be!). There were and still are lots of named trains, so yet more confusion possible if you refer to named locomotives as 'trains'.
 

Alex321

Guru
Location
South Wales
However, "Train Station" still grates whenever I hear it.

I don't have any issue with "train station". It actually seems more correct to me, logically.

It is a station for trains, just like a bus station is a station for buses. You wouldn't think of calling that a "road station", so why would the other be a "railway station". The railway is the means by which the trains get to and from the train station IMO.
 

Electric_Andy

Heavy Metal Fan
Location
Plymouth
"Train" as in " Flying Scotsman, the famous train,100 years old this year...." It's NOT a TRAIN it's a LOCOMOTIVE, Loco, or Steam Engine, if you must.
- and as for "train station" .......

I've always called it a train station, because it's a station where the train stops/departs. What's wrong with that? Is it only the carriages that are the train i.e. the hauliage unit is not a train but a locomotive? Is it like calling the trailers of a lorry "a lorry", when in fact the only part of it that's a lorry is the cab and engine?

Whatever the case, it seems to me that you can't have carriages that tow themsleves, so it's entirely sensible to call the whole thing a train.
 

youngoldbloke

The older I get, the faster I used to be ...
I've always called it a train station, because it's a station where the train stops/departs. What's wrong with that? Is it only the carriages that are the train i.e. the hauliage unit is not a train but a locomotive? Is it like calling the trailers of a lorry "a lorry", when in fact the only part of it that's a lorry is the cab and engine?

Whatever the case, it seems to me that you can't have carriages that tow themsleves, so it's entirely sensible to call the whole thing a train.

- it's probably an age thing :okay:. A train is formed by the coaches or wagons following the locomotive. I admit things become a little more confused when we have permanently coupled 'trainsets' with power cars at each end ('carriages that tow themselves'?),
but when we have an independent locomotive pulling or pushing that's just what it is, not a 'train' !
 

mustang1

Legendary Member
Location
London, UK
When a YouTube video is about to finish, it hasn't finished yet as there are still some important/good things to watch, but they get obscured by the rectangles for "what shall I view next". Highly annoying.

The content creator has to get you to watch another video before the current one has finished. Short attention spans or what!
 
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