Stupid little things that bug you

That Angus auction bloke from Yorkshire on TV.
Acts like he's doing people a favour flogging off their unwanted crap at auction.
Goes round their house with two or three of his workers, sifts through to find the 'good stuff' and takes all their shite to hus auction rooms for 'assessment'.

It's basically a fucking house clearance. The sellers pay him and his blokes for a full day, plus VAT.

The stuff sells for bext to nowt at auction and he deducts his 18% + VAT from the total sale.

Then he gets the sellers on camera to tell them he's sold their life collection of shite and they're getting £600 or so. They sit there grinning like they've got six numbers up on the lottery, and thank him for 'everything'.

They've probably sold £2k worth of gear and he's taken £1400 in fees.

At least Dick Turpin wore a mask.
 
Lavinda Past said:
That Angus auction bloke from Yorkshire on TV.
Acts like he's doing people a favour flogging off their unwanted crap at auction.
Goes round their house with two or three of his workers, sifts through to find the 'good stuff' and takes all their shite to hus auction rooms for 'assessment'.

It's basically a fucking house clearance. The sellers pay him and his blokes for a full day, plus VAT.

The stuff sells for bext to nowt at auction and he deducts his 18% + VAT from the total sale.

Then he gets the sellers on camera to tell them he's sold their life collection of shite and they're getting £600 or so. They sit there grinning like they've got six numbers up on the lottery, and thank him for 'everything'.

They've probably sold £2k worth of gear and he's taken £1400 in fees.

At least Dick Turpin wore a mask.
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Never seen it but it sounds like the old saying "a fool and his money are soon parted"

Is it like other programmes whereby they keep updating you every 10 minutes with a fucking ultra annoying re-cap?
 
Bill Walker said:
Never seen it but it sounds like the old saying "a fool and his money are soon parted"

Is it like other programmes whereby they keep updating you every 10 minutes with a fucking ultra annoying re-cap?
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Not so bad in relation to recaps, just makes the bloke our to be some sort of great benefactor doing sellers a favour.
He smiles a lot.
 
People who call football teams by their nicknames.
The canaries are playing the cherries.
Why?
 
Modern day usage of the word "staycation" all because of a pandemic and Boris at the time always encouraging people to holiday at home, while the Twitterati were trying to find yet a other compound name for something. I nearly lost my temper when he said the best days of his childhood were holidays at home, before he finished a daily briefing and I wanted to go to Iceland after many years of wanting to go (we finally did it my other half and I).

It's even more pathetic as the word can be used to apply to a holiday to Scotland because the referendum was an "No" result, and wouldn't have been otherwise.

They have their own language and culture unique to the rest of the devolved nations for a start.
 
People who turn up fifty minutes before school pick-up time to drive their kids half a mile home and keep the engine running to keep warm outside our house (which is near a school) and therefore leave their fumes with the residents.
 
Bournemouth Blue said:
People who turn up fifty minutes before school pick-up time to drive their kids half a mile home and keep the engine running to keep warm outside our house (which is near a school) and therefore leave their fumes with the residents.
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Living that close, they should be walking anyway.
 
Paladin said:
People who wear dry robes as a coat. Just buy a raincoat for half the price.
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I've noticed loads of people, especially women, wearing these recently.
They were designed to wear before and after open water and lido swims. To be fair, even for that purpose they are not strictly necessary. When I go for a lido swim, I can cope with being cold for a few seconds when I'm out of the water. Maybe everyone has just gone nesh.
 
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