Teahot

My blog for quibbles, rants, complaints and annoyances!

Top irritations for my life in Great Britain today:

1. Coughs and sneezes on public transport! Why has the handkerchief gone out of fashion?
2. 0870/0845 numbers for customer services! Do they really need to make a profit by charging you for your phone call? Even 0845 numbers make 0.5p to 1p per minute profit for the company you are calling.
3. Bumping up prices in order to give fake discounts! When will the public get tired of supermarkets offering such fake offers as “buy one get on free” where they have so obviously inflated the price of a single item?
4. TV recycling mountain! Why has the government or the broadcasting authorities put no effort in to planning what to do with the mountain of working TVs that will need to be recycled when the terrestrial signal has been switched off? I have 4 TVs that are working but I can’t even give them away on Freecycle as everyone wants digital compatible TVs, am I really supposed to pay to have working televisions thrown into a land-fill?
5. Selling customer data! British government seems strangely toothless when it comes to prosecuting large companies for selling on your personal customer data to other companies without your permission.
6. Stranger danger! Statistically the police have demonstrated that 8/10 solved cases of missing children result in the prosecution of a family member. Why do the tabloid newspapers always assume that strange men driving white vans must be responsible for missing children?
7. Terror alert! How does making me queue for 2 hours for a security search and having my bags opened and spread out for the enjoyment of the rest of the queue help stop terrorism when not a single terrorist has EVER been caught this way? Why has this hysterical reaction spread to such an extent that you can’t take a photograph in a shop without security jumping on you?