Your very petty pet hates

[Sly]

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The chords are short for a reason apparently, in that using the the item while it is charging can affect the performance or damage it somehow. Having the short chord makes it harder to use whilst plugged in so you have to unplug to use, therefore not damaging your equipment.

I have no idea if there's any basis to this, although I do think that it depends on how the device operates while it's plugged in. I think damage might occur when the device using battery power all the time instead of resorting to drawing power from the mains.

PC66 probably could explain it better or say if it's absolute bunk, might be that they just want to save a few quid on making their cables go further.

[victorbrunswick]

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Oh yes, I have heard about these "screamer" videos. Isn't the main one where the Exorcist girl suddenly appears, amid an ear-splitting shriek, when you place your face closer to the screen?

That is a horrible trick to play on anybody.

Yes, that's the one alright. Some people have too much time on their hands.

[PC66]

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And then on top of that they employ the predatory private parking companies to try and enforce the conditions with their fake "fines" etc.

[xmark1234]

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silly car parking tickets prices hospital are the ones that get right up my nose 2 pound for 4 hours and visiting times 2hours so when you com back for tea time visitng your 1st ticket just runs out and you have to buy another 4 hour ticket why dont they let you choose your hours waist of 4 hours if you visit 2 times per day

[Trickyvee]

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Charging cords for iPhone/i pad being so short. Come on apple what are you playing at? I'm pig sick of having to yank entire 4 plug adapters up onto things to get some charge

On shows when the audience starts clapping along to music and a) starts clapping out of time or b) keeps clapping when the music or requirement has ended. The former drives me insane!

[PC66]

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id rather not use any again that it for me now ill suffer lol

So long as you have internet access, there are alternatives anyway. When setting up PBX systems for my business clients, I generally recommend that all calls to 118xxx numbers are blocked (along with 09 premium rate and 070 "personal" numbers) unless they have some compelling reason to want access, and even then they normally go with just allowing access to specific services (typically the 118707 I mentioned above). It's all too easy for employees to rack up huge amounts with casual DQ calling otherwise.

[Wirral Writer]

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Screamer vids on YouTube.

Oh yes, I have heard about these "screamer" videos. Isn't the main one where the Exorcist girl suddenly appears, amid an ear-splitting shriek, when you place your face closer to the screen?

That is a horrible trick to play on anybody.

[victorbrunswick]

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Screamer vids on YouTube.

[Richard1978]

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Cigarettes the smell is awful best thing they did was ban them from work places pubs and restaurants disgusting habit

Yes it's great to be able to go out & not have to spray my clothes down with fabreeze afterwards.

[amethyst]

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Cigarettes the smell is awful best thing they did was ban them from work places pubs and restaurants disgusting habit

[xmark1234]

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id rather not use any again that it for me now ill suffer lol

Phone Pay Plus (the supposed regulator of premium-rate and other "special" rate calls) was poised to start an investigation of DQ services earlier in the year:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22659453

What you might like to note for future reference is that while BT heavily promotes its 118500 service, it keeps pretty quiet (at least as far as advertising to residential customers is concerned) about its alternate service on 118707.

118500 is currently over £2 per minute, plus an initial connection charge. 118707 is a flat 75p. per call, regardless of duration. The only restrictions (if you want to consider them as such) is that you're limited to getting one number per call and it doesn't offer the extra facilitites such as onward completion of the call. But even if you need two numbers, calling 118707 twice will be cheaper than using 118500 (or many of the other non-BT services), and you never want to use the onward completion option from any of the providers anyway, since you'll pay through the nose for it (many people assume that after getting the number the rest of the call will then be at their normal call rate - that's not so).

118707 is pretty much where the old BT 192 service went after the EU bureaucrats foisted the whole 118xxx debacle upon us (for comparison, calling 192 in 1998 cost 35p.).

[PC66]

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118500 i wuna use them again 5.90 it cost to get a number rip off gits

Phone Pay Plus (the supposed regulator of premium-rate and other "special" rate calls) was poised to start an investigation of DQ services earlier in the year:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22659453

What you might like to note for future reference is that while BT heavily promotes its 118500 service, it keeps pretty quiet (at least as far as advertising to residential customers is concerned) about its alternate service on 118707.

118500 is currently over £2 per minute, plus an initial connection charge. 118707 is a flat 75p. per call, regardless of duration. The only restrictions (if you want to consider them as such) is that you're limited to getting one number per call and it doesn't offer the extra facilitites such as onward completion of the call. But even if you need two numbers, calling 118707 twice will be cheaper than using 118500 (or many of the other non-BT services), and you never want to use the onward completion option from any of the providers anyway, since you'll pay through the nose for it (many people assume that after getting the number the rest of the call will then be at their normal call rate - that's not so).

118707 is pretty much where the old BT 192 service went after the EU bureaucrats foisted the whole 118xxx debacle upon us (for comparison, calling 192 in 1998 cost 35p.).

[amethyst]

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these 118 118 ads.

ad breaks that are too long some ive seen are like 7 mins long.

its good tho if u wanna make a cup of tea.

The men in the moustaches

[amethyst]

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yea ive noticed every where u go shops full looks like there goin be some children putting so pounds on after trick or treating lol
it all big con day after all be on sale for half the price think ill stock up again for next year wuna hurt the kids if bit out of date sweets

Thats what I thought

[xmark1234]

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118500 i wuna use them again 5.90 it cost to get a number rip off gits

Make that the whole three-ring circus that directory enquiries has become. It was orders from the EU that started the whole mess.