What really grinds your gears?

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Carpathius Jan 2018 10:24pm, 15 Jan 2018 13,375 posts	0 Carpathius People who deliberately snark at you, and then when you call them on it, yell at you for 'having a go at them'.
alpenrose Jan 2018 10:30pm, 15 Jan 2018 31,279 posts	0 alpenrose Too many of those tossers about Carp.
TomahawkMike Jan 2018 7:26am, 16 Jan 2018 1,111 posts	0 TomahawkMike Coming back to work and finding two letters from the Office of National Statistics threatening penalties if I dont fill in their various statistical business questionnaires by 6th Jan and 9th Jan respectively (they didnt arrive until 10th Jan). And also an Attachment of Earnings Order for one of our employees from a local council (You are Ordered to deduct this from their pay and Ordered to do that by such and such a date or subject to penalties etc). Cant they be more polite?? Whinge Whinge. I didnt realise I would be subject to so many threats of penalties when I started this business.
XB Jan 2018 7:45am, 16 Jan 2018 6,497 posts	0 XB The local online paper has this thing that hides the story until you answer a quick question. What's that all about?
Surrey Phil Jan 2018 8:31am, 16 Jan 2018 2,253 posts	0 Surrey Phil For me, the washing machine has packed up. The cycle has jammed and clothes covered in brown sludge.
ChrisHB Jan 2018 9:05am, 16 Jan 2018 15,986 posts	0 ChrisHB Xb, I assume they get 0.00001 for everyone who answers. I almost always don't. I hope they notiice.
ChrisHB Jan 2018 9:06am, 16 Jan 2018 15,987 posts	0 ChrisHB Sorry, there's a p missing. An infinitesimal amount of money.
fetcheveryone Jan 2018 9:12am, 16 Jan 2018 18,880 posts	0 fetcheveryone It might be something to do with artificially improving their 'bounce rate' (the percentage of visitors who arrive at a web page then leave without making any other sort of interaction).
ChrisHB Jan 2018 11:16am, 16 Jan 2018 15,989 posts	0 ChrisHB That's odd - why would you want to increase your bounce rate if you're a newspaper?
fetcheveryone Jan 2018 11:18am, 16 Jan 2018 18,881 posts	0 fetcheveryone Improve = reduce in this case.