I hate

Previous motorbike tinkers bodges and rounding of bolts, nuts and Allen bolts. Also replacing lost screws with twice as long wood screws.

I work from home, and my business is listed on google. I don’t advertise elsewhere because I’d be inundated with work and it’s time for me to reign it in a bit.
When I moved 3 years ago google made a total pigs ear of updating my info, choosing instead to assume I was a dishonest trader and block me altogether for 6 months (previously mentioned in this thread).
They are at it again. I’m suspended again because my listing info was changed 40 days ago, so they say.
Well, not by me, Mr Google and because I’m completely blocked you won’t tell me what the infringement is and I can do nothing to remedy this. Oh, and BTW, your resolution system is a total shit show of dead-ends and ‘no you can’t do that’s’ and I haven’t a clue if anything I have tried so far is going to elicit a response from you.
Cheers

London tradies asking/worrying/complaining about parking.

Just put a tenner on the bill and STFU.

Made even worse that it’s our drive that I’ve told them to block - no one is going to raise it, and I’ve never seen a warden on our road.

Ludicrously sized cars/SUVs that, despite the owners saying how safe they are because of all the sensors/cameras, park a foot out from the kerb so they don't scratch their precious alloys. They're already too big to fit in parking spots but they don't have to make it even worse.

Ludicrously sized cars/SUVs

FTFY

3 tonne single occupancy car is the new 1 tonne single occupancy car.

when you're having lunch at work all minding your business doomscrolling on your phone then someone comes over and sits down and tries to have a conversation.

FUCK OFF THIS IS THE 20 MINUTES OF THE DAY WHERE I DO MY OWN THING PISS OFF RIGHT NOW

This is precisely why I always went out for lunch when was at the office.

Is that chair taken? Whatcha having for lunch? Ooh, looks nice

'what are you having for your lunch' is the single worst question

Big headphones are a great defence to this

Electric cattle prods are a great defence to this

I used to sit with iPhone headphones in, whenever someone came near I'd start talking as if I was on a call, they'd soon go away.

The receptionist used to do this to me all bloody time in my old job, She would actually hunt me down to the comon room, and we would have the same conversation over and over:

"Someone is looking for you to do something"

"...And what would you do if you knew I had left the building?"

"I guess they would have to wait..."

"...well Im on my lunch so Im effectivly not here..."

"...but you are, they said its urgent..."

"I'm going out"

This is the worst! Leave me alone!

Ballards Wok, for the pun mainly.
(It's on Ballards Walk next the plough and tractor, a pub I only drank in when I was bunking off school as a 14yo)

During lockdown we ordered to collect, turned up and had to wait for a delivery driver to bring it from the one at Laindon Station, very odd.

Especially if eating a german sausage.

I think I saw that movie on the Internet. Accidentally.

Ja fick

The off-licence there was the one we'd frequent as mid-teens despite them claiming to only serve over-21. we'd stroll down from Noak Bridge (which is where I grew up) on the way to the town centre, I'd buy as much cheap lager as I could afford that was on special offer and a bottle of md-2020 orange. I'd then down the whole bottle of md-2020 as soon as we got round the corner to get a buzz going and then drink the lager sat outside basildon bowl or on top of the car park behind by the police station.

the laindon station chinese was going to be my second choice for ridiculous service, always seemed like a coin flip of whether they'd actually make your order or make you wait for 2 hours and then pretend you never placed an order.

my family were always huge fans of "wing soon" in pitsea on corner of clay hill road and timberlog lane by the (long gone) powerhouse. it was pretty mid tbh but you always got what you ordered.

fucking tubeless tyres and rims. Some utter bellend who thought the 2w rolling resistance saving and very occasional puncture protection was worth making all modern wheels and tyres impossible to seat and fit needs to be spoken with. GP4000s and Open pros take all of 3 seconds with no levers whereas whatever tubeless rims and tyres need the tyre to be put in the oven, the rim at the north pole then arms of steel and metal tyre levers to get the two even in the same room. then you puncture anyhow and are left with a tyre you can't remove, full of sealant and a valve you can't get out at the side of the road to put a tube in that should have fucking been there in the first fucking place. fuck that shit. I blame mountainbikers.

fucking tubeless tyres and rims.

I think fucking them is your issue.

I am surprised we didn't know each other BITD, police station car park was a regular Friday night hang out.
Roundacre roundabout, get stoned with the grungers, hang out in the car park with some beers.
Always went to the off license in Kingswood by the Owl and Cat as I could always get served as a 15yo spotty kid.
Stupidly would go in my lunch break, school uniform on, for crisps.
Used to blag it that was my little brother when I went in on a Friday night for booze and Camel lights.

Halcyon days!

I blame mountainbikers.

I only have tubeless on my mountain bike, and it is shit.
Insert won't sit right and rides like the wheel is buckled.

I have 7 wheelsets set up tubeless over 5 bikes

Must have been 3 years since my last catastrophic failure (riding home on the rim)

Maybe I've been lucky, but done right tubeless is a dream.

Don't use Muc-off sealant. I mean don't use any muc off product. They're all shit.
I hate muc off

Agreed Muc off is s piss poor

Never had a tubeless issue either.
Twice in about 8 years have I had to put a tube in compared to a puncture every 6 weeks with tubes