GNs what is annoying you most at the moment...Any Rants!!

Knowing that the gas network system will be coming to our street next week to dig up our newly tarmacced road to lay plastic gas pipes, they are also going to dig up our drives and garage floors (that is where they put the Gas pipe when the houses were built). They also want access to our homes to turn the gas on and off and also may change the gas meter which is under the stairs in a cupboard.

We are all stressing out about it in the street as many have paid out thousands for brick laid drives. Mine are just paving stones on my drive but I took photos yesterday so if they don't put things back like they were I have proof.

Perhaps the BBC transmitter has got blown over again with all these gales that are happening, like it did many years ago.

Not being able to edit something I have typed after sending it to the Gransnet forums. I have never known a website where there is no edit button, we all make errors when typing so it would be great to be able to go back in and edit them.

Are you going to start a 2024 rant thread? I can start this off with access to BBC. All terrestrial channels disappeared suddenly. I checked the signal of all three transmitters that I can access, and all are showing OK, so I called. Nice man did the same check and passed me on to another number. They talked me through a manual reset which initially worked. Following day (Saturday) BBC disappeared again. Tried the same, tried all the other local channels I could see. Called -again, got a recorded message telling me to to an auto-search ( I knew this would not work). Called again later, and got a different message repeating the manual reset and to get my aerial checked and to phone LG - the TV manufacturer (but it is happening all over the Anglia Region). Eventually, we tried a factory reset of the TV and this has solved the problem BUT the aerial folks must have done something to have affected a great number of non-internet ready TVs all at once, but they are admitting nothing

Right now it’s the voice-over on Channel 5 (The Inheritance)

The moving Ads on GN, one midway down and when I delete it a small ad pops up bottom right. It usually takes two or three taps for me to get rid of it.

When these intrusive ads first came on GN someone contacted HQ to say how annoying they were and GN said ‘we are dealing with it’ or suchlike. Clearly this was just to just a delaying tactic when GN had no intention of getting rid of them. ☹️

Did you manage to get it fitted, bikergran?

The b!!!! roller blind I am trying to put up in the tiny window of the bathroom...I swear to...!!! I say I will never ever buy one again but yes I did, I've quite lost my temper with it about 30 mins ago.

Hell yes!
I used to really enjoy the games page in this group, but it seems to have been taken over by 'Limerick lovers'. There are, at least, 6 games on the go all to do with limericks, which usually I don't mind, but do we really have to have so many??
And also, if a game has reached the 1,000 I do wish admin would put a line through them, or highlight the 1,000, so we can see straight away that we don't need to click on it unless we just want to see the outcome of the game!!
We are in desperate need of new or other games in Gnet.
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Rant over.

nanna8

A horrible yappy little dog over our back fence that barks and whines from about 7a.m. to around 5.30 pm every Thursday - presumably the owners leave it out all day. I don’t know the people, never clapped eyes on them but I wish they would leave the thing inside.

Can you report it to the Council or to the Dog Pound?
It can drive you crackers, we had one near here, not yappy but it barked all day every day for years as they just threw it out into the garden while they went out to work. Occasionally a neighbour would take it in for a while.
Then they moved, thank goodness!

A horrible yappy little dog over our back fence that barks and whines from about 7a.m. to around 5.30 pm every Thursday - presumably the owners leave it out all day. I don’t know the people, never clapped eyes on them but I wish they would leave the thing inside.

And a separate toaster with a cover and strict instructions

If the boys don't need gf it's worth buying ordinary pasta, bread etc for them as it's cheaper.
Separate butter dishes, of course!

geordiejoy

My rant is the cost of gluten free products.
My son has coeliac disease and has to eat everything glutenfree.
His wife is wheat intolerant so she too eats glutenfree food.
They gave two teenagers who are always hungry.
They are a low income family and still have to somehow find the money for gluten free food.
Surely the government can help in some way.

You used to be able to get a prescription for gluten free flour and bread, staple foods, I think, geordiejoy but nothing which is considered non-essential.
I'm not sure about pasta.

As long as you have gf flour you can make a range of recipes. I use cornflour anyway (usually gf in this country) for sauces etc.

My rant is the cost of gluten free products.
My son has coeliac disease and has to eat everything glutenfree.
His wife is wheat intolerant so she too eats glutenfree food.
They gave two teenagers who are always hungry.
They are a low income family and still have to somehow find the money for gluten free food.
Surely the government can help in some way.

Rosie51, at a hotel in Cuba, years ago, there was actually a pictorial sign forbidding food going into bags! The only place I’ve ever seen such a thing.

They could have done with one of those in a Prague hotel we once stayed it - dh and I watched, metaphorically open mouthed, as four very smartly dressed middle aged people* at a nearby table transferred a mass of food from table to their bags - rolls, ham, cheese, pastries, yogurts, fruit - you name it. They did keep glancing round to make sure no waiter was watching.
*not Brits, thank goodness - I’d have died of shame!

As someone who rented for a number of years my rant is about people (usually neighbours) who are paying a mortgage and think they are a cut above renters.

No you are not a cut above renters. Unless you are mortgage free you have a huge debt which you are paying off to the bank/building society and that doesnt make you any better than me. I dont hesitate to tell them this.

Neighbours who go whingeing and snitching to the LL about matters which are not actually a breach of the tenancy are likely to get ignored by the LL. Anti social behaviour - unless you have lots of hard evidence - is very difficult to prove.

UPS have sent me an invoice for £5 for printing an invoice. How do they expect to get paid if they don’t send me an invoice? Will they now invoice me for printing the invoice for the printing of the invoice?

Oh I agree Grantanow and would add the totally inept opposition.
I am so thoroughly disenchanted with the lot of them that I shall not bother voting in the next election - and that from the granddaughter of a suffragette! Oh, don't get me started!

The overwhelming incompetence of this Tory government and Sunak's predecessors as PM.

Oh, that angers me too, eazybee. How hard can it be to keep a diary and stick to your commitments?

I run a couple of social/activity groups, and one works smoothly. We agree the date of next meeting at the end of each one, and if someone has something on we just move the date. It's always something that can't be changed, as people know the meeting date and don't agree to random social engagements, so it's wedding anniversaries, holidays, daughter's 21st - that sort of thing.

The other group is also monthly, but the date is always being changed, often at the last minute because one of the members has accepted another invitation knowing that it clashes. It's so disrespectful, as the host of the meeting has often gone to a lot of trouble, and the rest of the members may have refused other offers to keep the night free. I would just say 'sorry you'll miss it, see you next time' but the other members are more conciliatory than I am and prefer to rearrange then moan later.

Oh eazybee that's disgraceful! How they can say that to you beggars belief. Everyone bar those two could make the original date, it should have stayed there. I can understand your anger, you must feel very frustrated!

My rant is a conversation with a Dr on the phone last Monday, when he said I need a gtn spray for angina, and if it didn't help with my chest pain after 10 minutes, to call an ambulance.
When no prescription was passed to the pharmacy, I enquired with the surgery. It seems the Dr had forgotten the conversation with me and did not fill out the prescription!!
Of course, no apologies!!!

Doodledog

I remember a buffet-style restaurant in Malaysia which charged for food left on the plate. I think there was a flat rate for the food, and you could go back for more if you wanted, but if you left any you had to pay extra.

Oh I approve of that! Except they'll have to excuse me cutting any fat off if it's not crispy It's the one aspect of buffet type restaurants I dislike, too may people pile their plates as high as they can and then don't eat it. Not keen on those people who take 'extras' from the breakfast buffet to be squirrelled into bags to provide lunch either, but at least that's not wasteful.

Eazybee, I understand your frustration. I remember ranting on here a few years ago about my book group cancelling the day before, and bumping the meeting back by a week. I was hosting that time, and had already baked and booked the evening off since I was working a night shift. I was pretty ticked off...

We've come to an agreement since, that we do our best to stick to the set schedule. If we have very low numbers available, then we will just have a longer meeting the next month.