bearhugger
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I'm an ex bus driver, don't get me started - it's supposed to be a light-hearted thread
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Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you
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trainophile
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People who chat to the check-out operator in a supermarket after they have finished their shopping and loaded their bags to leave. Never mind the half dozen people waiting behind, some of whom may be in a bit of a hurry.
People who unilaterally decide to close train carriage Windows when I don't want them to.
Particularly the loonies who, just because the train's going through a tunnel, suddenly decide they must shut every window in the carriage !
Particularly the loonies who, just because the train's going through a tunnel, suddenly decide they must shut every window in the carriage !
nlogax
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People in cars who casually stop in crowded suburban streets to have a chat with a neighbour in their front garden, not fussed about the slow build up of traffic behind them. On a similar note when two drivers from the same company stop for a quick chat before passing other on a main road..which amazingly does happen.
The half-wit's only gone and got the guard to shut them all completely now.
Now stuck in a muggy hell hole.
trainophile
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Where are you? There's not that many trains left that have opening windows and a guard!
py_megapixel
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If only that were true! Maybe come to Northern-land sometime...
Well at least the opening windows bit. Having a guard is, admittedly, nice (and for some passengers, essential)
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I've particularly found this in Switzerland (where they particularly seem to like a fug) and Germany. In Switzerland I will likely want the window down to take photos and in Germany it's likely because there is a "real" rabbit on the front.
You have as much right to have the window open as someone else does to have it closed.
Yes, that's the way I see it. I'm not a confrontational person though.
jonty14
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Definitely.
People forcing their opinions on to me e.g veganism.. Nothing against them just don't try to convert me. I li,e my meat.
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Gloster
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Companies that claim they are ‘proud’ to be associated with a charity, sports groups or good cause. No, you are doing it to get some good publicity and any money you actually spend comes out of the PR or advertising budget. If you can get people to donate as well, you can increase the total amount that the charity, etc., receives (and so the extent of the good publicity for you) at no extra cost (to you).
GusB
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This has been bugging me for years now, but it's probably the first time I've really said anything about it. One thing that really annoys me is when you have TV programmes that are sponsored by a particular product rather than the brand; something along the lines of "Documentaries on 4, sponsored by the Mitsubishi L200". Why not just say "sponsored by Mitsubishi"? Another one I remember was "sponsored by Cadbury's Dairy Milk"; again, why not just say "sponsored by Cadbury's"? How on earth is it possible for a chocolate bar to sponsor something?!
61653 HTAFC
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People who are easily irritated...
They really irritate me!
They really irritate me!
75A
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Obviously been to Hinckley!
Tracked
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Having just been in town for Breakfast, I'd ban drinking Strongbow Dark Fruits before 12:00 (it's the St Leger weekend here, so it's apparently the law that any men in suits/women in too high heels must consume alcohol with their 'spoons breakfast 
In fact, I know it brings a lot of money into the town and that's a good thing, but I'd ban horse racing (although that's probably not a comedic ban) ...
In fact, I know it brings a lot of money into the town and that's a good thing, but I'd ban horse racing (although that's probably not a comedic ban) ...
On this subject, can't resist mentioning the following (which I have recounted before on these Forums). It concerns the late William Rees-Mogg (Jacob's dad). It appears that when travelling by train en famille, R-M invariably leapt up and performed this action whenever a tunnel was entered. His wife always told him, "It's all right, William, you don't need to do that -- they stopped using steam engines years ago"; but that message never got through to him. I like the thought prompted here -- that even fiercely dogmatic Press demagogues, totally convinced of their own rightness and righteousness in all things, can be nitwits over small matters.
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I would never have had the late Lord Rees Mog down as a window slammer from reading his columns in The Times
The connection with steam hadn't occurred to me, although the people I see doing it tend to be far too young to have experienced steam in main line service !
I would never have had the late Lord Rees Mog down as a window slammer from reading his columns in The Times
The connection with steam hadn't occurred to me, although the people I see doing it tend to be far too young to have experienced steam in main line service !
Maybe "just because" their parents / grandparents did it?
Amen ! (except that I lack the necessary skill to disable the thing). When what you're typing needs an "a", you can so eASILY ACCIDENTALLY TOUCH SAID KEY, AND THIS HAPPENS, AND IT DRIVES YOU MAD.
py_megapixel
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It's even more annoying if you are working at a command line rather than a graphical interface, as you don't usually get the "You have Caps Lock enabled" warning when typing passwords.
Gloster
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My local bus company has started sending out warnings that specific bus trips are cancelled today using the words ‘...because of the driver sadly being absent at short notice.’ Unless it is a case of the absence being due to the driver’s death, this is is all totally unnecessary. Everyone is trying to be empathetic and appear so sympathetic that the whole thing gets blurred with too much information. Oh, for simple clarity. ‘The buses at XX.10 from P and XX.55 from Q will not run’, tells the passenger all that he or she needs to know.
krus_aragon
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That only works if they know which way you're facing. That might be possible on a phone with a built-in compass, but otherwise there's no way of knowing whether you start off facing toward or away from your destination.
Even worse are newer laptops that still have Caps Lock keys, but got rid of the light that tells you whether it's enabled or not.
gg1
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There are a few circumstances it's useful, two I use regularly are:
Typing postcodes and acronyms where all letters should be capitalised.
Editing excel formulas, the formulas aren't case sensitive but general convention is to capitalise them, it does make them easier to read, especially with complex nested formulas.
Gloster
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I don’t use it often, but it does prove useful occasionally, such as when sending instructions to solicitors. I have never used the yen sign, but I put up with it: unless you have a bespoke keyboard, you are going to have keys you rarely, if ever, use. And then what do you do when you have to use another keyboard..?
I use Caps Lock rather than Shift because I learned to type on a typewriter that was my Dad's.
gg1
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When I first started using Excel around 20 years ago (never used any other spreadsheet package), I was taught to capitalise all elements of a formula with the exception of text strings referenced by an IF statement. It definitely helps with legibility when editing, also help sites/forums such as Stackoverflow and Excelhub consistently use the same rule.