Menu
What's new
By:
Filters

Room 101

Extending Furie's comment on Dr surgery receptionists...

The thing that gets me the most with health professionals is that the chance of them having to deal with people who are fragile is high. Patience and empathy should be essential to any NHS job.

My current surgery has lovely receptionists though. At the old one, they and the manager were vicious, provoking ****.


As I've just dealt with planes, gate lice get a mention. Gate lice are people who insist on hovering around long before their group is called to board. SIT THE **** DOWN.

Sent from my HTC Wildfire S A510e using Tapatalk 2
 
Joey said:
gate lice
Click to expand...
I've never heard that before, lol!

I hate pretty much everything to do with flying:

- the fact it takes so long (why do I have to get there 2 hours early, have every part of my body and luggage explored, and be interrogated to distraction with pointless questions?) Would you do that on the train? No. I don't have to get to the station two **** hours early so they can process me!
- then I have to sit through a safety video about how I could try and survive a hundred thousand foot fall
- then they try and sell me **** while I'm on trying to sit in peace (duty free, **** scratch cards!!!)
- I can't use my electronics despite putting them in aircraft mode!
- plus no one ever knows what the hell they are doing or where they are going
- the main thing though is that airports are the most soul-destroying, vapid, industrial and heartless places - I don't understand how people can actually work in them

I always train/drive if I can instead. I've always felt this way, but now I actually have to fly quite a lot with my job I've come to detest them.

But the people who get up and wait in a line for like half an hour really get my goat. We all have to get on the same aircraft, just wait your bloody turn like everyone else. Ahhhhhh

Some of the stupid/rude things that have happened to me at airports:

- A guy in America asking me repeated leading questions along the lines of 'no on else has ever used your work laptop have they?' Me saying 'of course they have, it's a WORK laptop'. Him repeating 'no they haven't, just you right?' Me 'ohhh riiggght..no, just me'. Him 'ok, you can go'

- In India 'are you married? Why not, you're not that young?'

- In Dubai - getting almost to the airport door and being called back through security to have my bag checked because it was odd that I was travelling on my own!

- America - waiting 3 hours to be let off the plane and go through customs because customs was 'too busy'

and so on....I HATE flying!
 
I thought of another one today - tv game shows, particularly one's which should be general knowledge, where luck plays too high a part in whether you win or not - particularly in it to win it (where some people don't even get a chance to answer a question) and face the clock on c4 which I saw today.
 
^I **** ing HATE those as well.

I like a decent quiz show, where you need an ounce of intelligence and a modicum of general knowledge, since you can sort of play along with them. When there's absolutely no skill or intelligence involved in them, then I really don't see the point.

Deal or no Deal. Just **** right off!
 
Ooh ooh I have another! My mum does this most often, but when people come up behind you when you're on the laptop, or look over your shoulder when you're on your phone and they see something completely out of context, and then start going 'what's that? why're you looking at that? why're you on that website?' SO irritating, like you won't get it, why are you asking and why were you even looking in the first place?
 
and so on....I HATE flying!
Click to expand...

Flying has become so industrialized which is really sad. Obviously it pretty much needs to be, but the entire experience doesn't have to be so unpleasant. I'm grateful that the people at Detroit Metro are really, really nice people and actually make the experience pretty easy, but it's obviously not that way everywhere. That's why I love flying for my lessons.. It's actually a great time, I don't get all searched and whatnot, and it turns something that has really lost all soul into something fun. That said, I'd still love to fly as a commercial pilot :p

Ugh Jordan yah that's so annoying. Something I hate my mom does also is like when I say "I'm going out with so and so" and she KNOWS like, 90% of my friends are guys, yet she feels the need to be like WELL WHY DON'T YOU DATE HIM BLAH BLAH, even when I have a boyfriend already.
 
Mysterious Sue said:
- the fact it takes so long (why do I have to get there 2 hours early, have every part of my body and luggage explored, and be interrogated to distraction with pointless questions?) Would you do that on the train? No. I don't have to get to the station two **** hours early so they can process me!
Click to expand...

Yeah but the trains you get on don't go to another country. Eurostar is the same process as an airport and that's a train. :p

I still don't get why there has to be so much faff at airports though. Sometimes it's really unnecessary.
 
^Eurostar is mostly an immigration thing though, surely. I haven't been on it, but everyone I know who has has said that the whole process is quicker and easier than an airport.

People just turn into idiots though as soon as they arrive at an airport. In the queue for security there are always signs telling you to take liquids and laptops out of bags, and to take off jackets etc., but I swear everyone waits for a personal **** ing invitation from the security officer when they get to the front of the queue.

The security at airports is just stupid, though. The idea that if they eased up on security then every other plane would be flying into skyscrapers is just such bull ****. If the terrorism threat was as high as they try to make out, then train stations up and down the country would be blowing up at 5:30pm on a regular basis.
 
gavin said:
f the terrorism threat was as high as they try to make out, then train stations up and down the country would be blowing up at 5:30pm on a regular basis.
Click to expand...

I was just about to say something along these lines. I would like to add that, one could argue that, daily, people are found to be carrying something they shouldn't but it 'isn't in the public interest to tell them'. But then I thought, what a ludicrous idea, no one could cover that one up, I see why all this security is done, it's to put people's minds at ease more than anything else but it is tedious. Let's be honest, a bomb going off somewhere like Glastonbury would have a bigger effect than one plane of 200 people.
 
Semi-related, people who fly on Easyjet, RyanAir etc... and don't read any of the requirements and then waste half an hour kicking and screaming that it's a rip off which holds the queue up for everyone.

Had to wait for an absolute eternity coming back from Ibiza because two dopy mares ignored the numerous warnings at both the desk and the gate about only having one carry on bag, then stood and whinged and caused a scene when they were told the shopping bag they had full of god knows what they stocked up on from duty free had to fit inside their hand luggage.

Petty? Perhaps. But rools is rools.

Although maybe I was tetchy at queueing in front of some absolute pricks who were just being arsey for the sake of being arsey, or having to stand and listen to MAHLEENA bitch that the scales were lying about the weight of her suitcase.
 
^ Rools?


gavin said:
^Eurostar is mostly an immigration thing though, surely. I haven't been on it, but everyone I know who has has said that the whole process is quicker and easier than an airport.
Click to expand...

Eurostar is just the same in my opinion. It's only quicker because there are less people than those trying to get through at an airport. Security and passport control is all the same procedure (no rules on liquids though).


Agree about people just being donuts when it comes to packing bags and that and kicking up a fuss because they're too stupid to read signs/emails and listen to staff.

I don't know if it's because I travel so much or if most people are just morons when it comes to security like 'what is this box for?' 'wearing my coat with metal zippers should be fine through a metal detector' I just, don't know how people can be like that?
 
^ Personally, I'm one of those people who's quite anal about "following the rules" and getting to the airport at least two hours before the flight, even though apart from perhaps two or three times out of what must be close to a hundred times by now, I've never realistically needed more than 30 minutes and I'm left sitting around for bloody ages.

That's why the idiots piss me off. It's because I'm so stupidly efficient with the whole thing that I've got hours to be bored **** less, yet they still manage to get on the same plane on time despite their ignorance and ineptitude.
 
An ex of mine posted on Facebook the other day and reminded me of another one (and why she's an ex).

People who say "I'm not an expert, but..."

It's a get clause worse than "I'm not being rude but...", or "I'm not racist/homophobic/whatever but..." - at least with this pair you know that's EXACTLY what they're being.

It's the gross stupidity of the statement that you admit right at the start. It's always used to argue against, or discount, the works of... An expert.

They're an expert, you've just admitted yourself that you're not, stop **** disagreeing with them. The years and years of hard work and research they put in actually DOES have more credence than five minutes on Wikipedia and poor working knowledge of [insert subject here].
 
^I'm not a psychologist, but you have anger issues.
 
Those people who cling on to 'popular' trends for far too long and still think it's funny/relevant.

I.E people still copying spamming horse/beef/food/whatamieating jokes and thinking they're hilarious for doing so.

Worse than that, nubs who still think they're hilarious and entertaining because they still dance Gangnam Style in public. Although the people I know of that do that are a bit 'special'.
 
Facebook victims can go into 101 and die a horrid death.

"Ooooh, eating that was such agony". "I have finally managed to take two steps today". "How dare the government do that to me, I may never have worked a day in my life, but it's disgusting they expect me to live in less than a three bedroom house!".

Etc, etc, ect - though it's usually as cryptic as possible and THEN if you do ask what's up, they will only respond by a message and not openly, so nobody still knows what they're on about.

It's then followed up by days of more enigmatic whining posts with people who are "in the know" offering their sympathies making it a spiralling descent into enigmatic virtual hugs and patheticness.

It's even worse than weather updates!

We don't need to know about every messy bowel movement or hints that you may, or may not, have a 10% increased risk of cancer due to a genetic anomaly that you, may or may not, be being tested for.

Actually, I should probably just stay off Facebook, it may lower my blood pressure :lol:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top