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Not enough leg room - Whether it be on planes or buses or any public transport there just isn't enough leg room for tall people like me. (Heck even on buses there's not enough head room) Soon as i sit down i have to move a little sideways so my legs are diagonal and my knees fit into the little joins of the seats infront and it's still pretty uncomfortable. I know why companies build the transport for average people (get more seats per transport = more money) but still it'd be nice if they bothered to start making some for the lanky people like myself, we're people to you know.
Taking me nicely onto my next peeve - People who sit next to you when there's plenty of seats available - Now i love my personal space, i hate when people are up on me (unless it's a beautiful girl) and are invading it. Now it's bad enough i'm already uncomfortable sitting on whatever transport i'm using but then when i get some schmuck plonk themselves down next to me when there's a good 5 or so seats available fully open with no one else sat on them in that row then that really gets on my nerves. I'll also include the pool thing i experienced on Monday in this group as well when me and my mate were playing and then some idiots decide, with about 10 free tables elsewhere, they want to play on the table right next to us, meaning we have to wait to take our shots while they're in the way and all that nonsense.
Political Correctness - Now maybe it's just because i'm from New York where we always speak our minds and don't care who hears or gets offended by it but this really p***es me off. This has done more harm for racial relations then anything the KKK, Black Panthers, BNP etc could ever hope to do. You start telling people that they cannot do things they've done all their lives because some other people will get offended by it (which they don't by the way, it's just some upper class middle aged white people in shiny offices deciding what other groups find offensive) then that will start to breed resentment and create problems where otherwise there wouldn't have been at all.
Then there's also positive discrimination which fits nicely into this category where some people, somewhere, some time ago decided *Hey Racism and Sexism is alright, just as long as it's to white men* Sorry but you can sugarcoat it and give it a fancy name all you want, positive discrimination is just a fancy, non-threatening word for Racism and Sexism. If i'm running a business i want the very best people i can get, the most experienced and the most qualified, now if that means i end up with a workforce full of White men, or Black Women etc then so fudging what? I'm running a business to make money i don't want to hire some incompetent fool just because they're a certain colour and if i didn't my company is seen as racist, screw that.
People who run the light on Amber and then take their sweet time to get across the road and by the time they do the traffic is coming the other way making me wait some more - Had this happen to me twice in two days now, they speed up to avoid the red light and then take their sweet fricking time getting over so when i try to cross the road as they go by i can't because it's all coming the other way. If you're going to cut a light then keep your speed up and move it instead of doddering across the road, twits.
Cyclists on pavements - Or more so those idiots who get in your way and then look at you like it's your fault and you're scum. Yea douchebags you shouldn't even be on the pavement anyway so keep your dirty looks to yourself, muppets.
Council Tax - Now i have no problem paying for this if i actually get value for money and quite frankly you don't. We get our bins emptied once every fortnight, the roads are always filthy, the only police presence we have is one cop car zooming by the area at that crime hot spot of 5 in the morning every month or so and there's always broken things on the streets that are never fixed (unless it's a speed trap in which case that bad boy is fixed the very next day)
Mothers with prams - Anyone else been in town and viciously had their toes run over and their shins rammed by these idiot mothers using their babies as weapons and a ticket for right of way? You virtually have to dive out the way of some of them as they don't even motion to move out the way, they've got a pram, you haven't so they're going to win so you better get out the way or get your toes crunched.
People who wear New York Yankees baseball caps - For some reason this really does annoy me, fair enough if they follow the sport then wear it all you like but i hate those people who wear it and don't even follow the game (and probably call it stupid and rounders, gah) One of these days i'll stop someone wearing it and ask them to name the Yankees rotation or its bullpen or the starting 9, they probably won't even know what the heck i'm on about let alone be able to name the players in it. Pah
Licence Fee - Why the heck you have to pay to have a licence for a tv alone is stupid, do you need one for a DVD player? A games console? A stereo? Nope, so why the heck do you need one for a TV. Oh yes that's right, to pay for a useless, out of date pathetic piece of *bleep* organisation called the BBC. I don't watch it, i haven't watched it for about 5 years so why on earth i should have to pay to subsidise it is beyond me. To make it even worse, they have plenty of adverts and product placement and make plenty of money off other ventures anyway. Either scrap the fee or give people the option of paying it and if they don't then they don't get the BBC channels, my god what a loss that would be.
Well that's me done for now, i'm sure plenty more will come to me, get going with your lists :-D
Not enough leg room - Whether it be on planes or buses or any public transport there just isn't enough leg room for tall people like me. (Heck even on buses there's not enough head room) Soon as i sit down i have to move a little sideways so my legs are diagonal and my knees fit into the little joins of the seats infront and it's still pretty uncomfortable. I know why companies build the transport for average people (get more seats per transport = more money) but still it'd be nice if they bothered to start making some for the lanky people like myself, we're people to you know.
Taking me nicely onto my next peeve - People who sit next to you when there's plenty of seats available - Now i love my personal space, i hate when people are up on me (unless it's a beautiful girl) and are invading it. Now it's bad enough i'm already uncomfortable sitting on whatever transport i'm using but then when i get some schmuck plonk themselves down next to me when there's a good 5 or so seats available fully open with no one else sat on them in that row then that really gets on my nerves. I'll also include the pool thing i experienced on Monday in this group as well when me and my mate were playing and then some idiots decide, with about 10 free tables elsewhere, they want to play on the table right next to us, meaning we have to wait to take our shots while they're in the way and all that nonsense.
Political Correctness - Now maybe it's just because i'm from New York where we always speak our minds and don't care who hears or gets offended by it but this really p***es me off. This has done more harm for racial relations then anything the KKK, Black Panthers, BNP etc could ever hope to do. You start telling people that they cannot do things they've done all their lives because some other people will get offended by it (which they don't by the way, it's just some upper class middle aged white people in shiny offices deciding what other groups find offensive) then that will start to breed resentment and create problems where otherwise there wouldn't have been at all.
Then there's also positive discrimination which fits nicely into this category where some people, somewhere, some time ago decided *Hey Racism and Sexism is alright, just as long as it's to white men* Sorry but you can sugarcoat it and give it a fancy name all you want, positive discrimination is just a fancy, non-threatening word for Racism and Sexism. If i'm running a business i want the very best people i can get, the most experienced and the most qualified, now if that means i end up with a workforce full of White men, or Black Women etc then so fudging what? I'm running a business to make money i don't want to hire some incompetent fool just because they're a certain colour and if i didn't my company is seen as racist, screw that.
People who run the light on Amber and then take their sweet time to get across the road and by the time they do the traffic is coming the other way making me wait some more - Had this happen to me twice in two days now, they speed up to avoid the red light and then take their sweet fricking time getting over so when i try to cross the road as they go by i can't because it's all coming the other way. If you're going to cut a light then keep your speed up and move it instead of doddering across the road, twits.
Cyclists on pavements - Or more so those idiots who get in your way and then look at you like it's your fault and you're scum. Yea douchebags you shouldn't even be on the pavement anyway so keep your dirty looks to yourself, muppets.
Council Tax - Now i have no problem paying for this if i actually get value for money and quite frankly you don't. We get our bins emptied once every fortnight, the roads are always filthy, the only police presence we have is one cop car zooming by the area at that crime hot spot of 5 in the morning every month or so and there's always broken things on the streets that are never fixed (unless it's a speed trap in which case that bad boy is fixed the very next day)
Mothers with prams - Anyone else been in town and viciously had their toes run over and their shins rammed by these idiot mothers using their babies as weapons and a ticket for right of way? You virtually have to dive out the way of some of them as they don't even motion to move out the way, they've got a pram, you haven't so they're going to win so you better get out the way or get your toes crunched.
People who wear New York Yankees baseball caps - For some reason this really does annoy me, fair enough if they follow the sport then wear it all you like but i hate those people who wear it and don't even follow the game (and probably call it stupid and rounders, gah) One of these days i'll stop someone wearing it and ask them to name the Yankees rotation or its bullpen or the starting 9, they probably won't even know what the heck i'm on about let alone be able to name the players in it. Pah
Licence Fee - Why the heck you have to pay to have a licence for a tv alone is stupid, do you need one for a DVD player? A games console? A stereo? Nope, so why the heck do you need one for a TV. Oh yes that's right, to pay for a useless, out of date pathetic piece of *bleep* organisation called the BBC. I don't watch it, i haven't watched it for about 5 years so why on earth i should have to pay to subsidise it is beyond me. To make it even worse, they have plenty of adverts and product placement and make plenty of money off other ventures anyway. Either scrap the fee or give people the option of paying it and if they don't then they don't get the BBC channels, my god what a loss that would be.
Well that's me done for now, i'm sure plenty more will come to me, get going with your lists :-D
My pet peeves, umm I hate holding the door open for people and then being ignored, not one little "thank you" or nod. Makes me wish I didn't bother.
I don't like to see people littering, I just don't see the need for it when they can easily find a bin and put it in there.
It's basic function is to consume all the money you have and leave in a completely vegetative state waiting for a plane flight (that will no doubt be cramped as there is never enough leg room).
The thing is, they want you there 2 hours before the flight, 3 at some airports. Now, I know that there is a lot of other baggage too but come on. I'd quite happily go there half an hour before, have my bag scanned and then put it on the plane myself. Forget the baggage handlers, they can go on strike all they want to.
Check ins are annoying too. Spending forever in a queue and there are usually loads of empty check ins that could get you through quicker.
I believe you can check in online with most airlines now, so hopefully that can cut the time down before you arrive. My flight to Singapore they allow me to check in 2 days early.
When my girlfriend left last month the check in queue was really long, we were probably waiting about a good 20 minutes just to give them her bags. Luckily she was all ready and done within 2 minutes.
It's really busy at Heathrow airport. I don't know why but they've gradually removed lots of seating around the terminals so it's more difficult to find a spot to sit down.
People that pay for small things with those cash cards - So there i am in Asda with my basket looking for a small queue to jump in to get out quickly and see two other people with baskets with hardly anything in so quickly jump in before some fat lady with a trolley beats me to it (unlucky piggy, few less pounds and you might have made it). Unfortunately my plan is thwarted as the two schmucks infront of me with about 12 goods between them decide they don't have the 10 pounds on them that would easily cover the cost of the goods and decide to pay for their crap with their card. That's annoying in itself however do you think these idiots could get it right the first time? Of course not as they stand there laughing with the checkout lady *Oh i never can get this right the first time ho ho ho* yea learn how to use a fricking number pad you retards or actually bring the little cash needed to pay for your goods.
People that take ages at cashpoints - Had to stand in the queue with about 8 people for the ATM for about 10 minutes. Now you might say *Kawada, 8 people, 10 minutes, that's pretty good actually* to which i reply pah, especially when most of that 10 minutes was taken up by some fat bint spending a good 4-5 minutes with her lard ass infront of it checking her account, receipt and no doubt how many portions of chips to have for the night (hmmm 6 or 7? oh i'm on a diet, just 6)
It's called a cashpoint people, not a check all your crap point, firstly you should already know how much money you have in your account, if you don't you're a twit and deserve someone ripping you off and you can already get that service anyway when drawing out your money, either get a receipt or just put the *cash with on screen balance* option
Gah, i hate people
I've only used my card once in WHSmiths, I always carry cash but I hate it when dont have dont have the exact change. It's not as bad as this one guy I saw buying a newspaper that costs less than a pound using a £20 note :/
Oh and I hate it when I buy things that add up to £5.10 and I give them a £10 note and 10p and they get all confused and wonder why I've done that. It's so you can give me one note instead of 9 coins!!
> That's why people use cards in supermarkets now :) They don't
> want to stand in a queue behind some "fat bint.. checking
> her account." heh
>
> I've only used my card once in WHSmiths, I always carry cash but
> I hate it when dont have dont have the exact change. It's not as
> bad as this one guy I saw buying a newspaper that costs less
> than a pound using a £20 note :/
>
> Oh and I hate it when I buy things that add up to £5.10
> and I give them a £10 note and 10p and they get all
> confused and wonder why I've done that. It's so you can give me
> one note instead of 9 coins!!
5 pound coins