stupid pet hate

[emmelinemay]

london area codes.

The area code for london is 020.

020

Not 0207 or 0208.

the 7 and the 8 are part of the PHONE NUMBER and NOT THE CODE.

If i tell you my phone number is 020 [pause] 7*** [pause] **** do NOT REPEAT IT BACK TO ME AS 0207 *** **** because it's FUCKING ANNOYING. If you then go on to try and explain to me that '7 is part of the code, you need to dial it' i will think you are a fucking idiot. Because you are.

[and breathe]

Do you have any stupid pet hates?

Comments

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Oddly, if someone says 020 and then the number, I cannot take it in. It just refuses to sink in at all!

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

This annoys me too.

I have many pet hates. People who fail to use the English subjunctive, misplaced apostrophes, misuse of to/too, you're/your etc.

People who press the button at pedestrian crossings when they've just seen me do it.

People who repeat my postcode back to me as 'two jay haitch' as opposed to 'two jay aitch'.

Etc, ad infinitum.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

misplaced apostrophes. arrrggh. Those bug me massively. Plurals. Do. Not. Need. Apostrophes.

And their/they're. And its/it's. although i can see why people get its/it's wrong as the rule is slightly different for the possessive there.

[lusercop.livejournal.com]

I'd rather they repeated it as "2 Juliet Hotel", but maybe that's just me. ;-)

[bluekieran.livejournal.com]

Mobile phones are rapidly making area codes irrelevant - they're just a part of the number now, and not something which you cunningly leave out so you can dial local numbers more quickly.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

i know. i did say it was a stupid pet hate.

It may not be rational - but if i say a number to someone, and they repeat it back differently, i don't get it!!

[shewho.livejournal.com]

it's taken me AGES to be able to recognise phone numbers as 020 &c rather than 0207 / 0208 &c.

too chilled right now to think of any pet hates! weird :/

[s0b.livejournal.com]

People who use the word "flu" to describe a bad cold - lying f*ckers the lot of them

oh and the Special Patrol Group - I still loathe and detest them a quarter of a century on, but perhaps that isn't a stupid hate

People who push into queues - hanging's to good for them

The letters editor at The Metro - a special place in the bottom level of Hell is reserved for this one, where a series of increasingly nasal demons will intone "why oh why oh why oh why oh why" for all f*cking eternity.

(that was quite theraputic actually - I enjoyed that, thanks!)

[jimthegoth.livejournal.com]

What about 0203? you OK with that? :)

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

Back in the day London's area code was 01, and numbers were in the form of 01 XXX XXXX. Then there was inner and outer London and 01 was replaced by 0171 and 0181 but the actual number remained the same. Later 0171 became 0207 and 0181 became 0208, but again, the final 7 digits did not change. So which you prefer (I am firmly of the 020X camp) is probably related to the age at which you started phoning London.

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

I remember London being 01 but prefer 020 X.

[jimthegoth.livejournal.com]

As mentioned above there is now 0203 as well

[lusercop.livejournal.com]

This is wrong. If you try dialling the seven digit number, without a prefix, from within "0207" or "0208", then you will find that this doesn't resolve.

If, however, you dial 7xxx xxxx or 8xxx xxxx this will work as expected.

The correct prefix is therefore 020.

Try it.

[smogo.livejournal.com]

No! It split from 01 into 071 and 081, which later became 0171 and 0181, and then they were merged back again to become 020. There have never been such area codes as 0207 and 0208. Never!

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

Yeah, large wheeled suitcases, fine. But the bags that are no larger than an ordinary rucksack or laptop bag, what's the point? It's always those people who stop at the end of escalators, or cluster around maps with their bags not even pulled in but sticking out behind them...

[mazzmatazz.livejournal.com]

That phone thing does annoy me. I remember 0181 (Going LIVE! 0181 811 8181!) but it is now 020!

And also people that don't know the difference between accept/except and likewise combinations.

Saturday TV brilliance

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

Multicolour Swap Shop was 01 811 8055 :)

[lusercop.livejournal.com]

YAY! Someone else who feels the same way that I do. I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one!

[jonnytuna.livejournal.com]

I LOVE my pets!

[kumimonster.livejournal.com]

yeah!
i just posted one
people who see the danish flag and then say switzerland
:-p

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

But the Danish flag doesn't look remotely like the Swiss one. Same colours, that's it. Idiot people.

[jez-alone.livejournal.com]

I am not an idiot. I just have it as a rhythm in my head and therefore say it.

it's like when people read back my mobile with the first three digits, then four, then four again. I don't know if it's right.

I don't think that 7 is part of the code though...does that count?

pet peeves?
many have been mentioned, but over and above those:
1) parents who want to be friends with their children instead of parents
2) people saying aks instead of ask
3) people who wait until the cashier puts everything through and tells them the total and THEN decides to take their wallet/purse out. is it a surprise you were going to have to pay?

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

If you then go on to try and explain to me that '7 is part of the code, you need to dial it' i will think you are a fucking idiot.

is what i said. 7 is NOT part of the area code, it's part of the actual telephone number!

2 - I've noticed this more with american yoof than uk ones - add to this people who say 'pacific' instead of 'specific'.

[jez-alone.livejournal.com]

And people who take their shoes off in public...especially the office and walk around like that.

I want to vomit.

and people (especially women) who walk so heavy that the room shakes. Learn how to carry your weight people? From the stomach please!

and slouching

and sniffling on tubes. get a fucking tissue

and people who think they are so funny when they comment if I wear a colour

or think all americans can be thrown into one stereotype

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

i take my shoes off a lot...

[chromenewt.livejournal.com]

I never knew that. I thought that 0207 and 0208 were area codes for inner and outer London (not sure which way round), and to be honest I never thought about the number you'd have to dial if you didn't want to dial the area code as well.

You learn summink new each day. :)

[jaketherat.livejournal.com]

Yes yes YES!!!!!! Finally a voice of reason. I often tell people my work number is 74381*** (as this is all you have to dial if you are within the 020 area) only to have them repeat back '07438..'. No no NO, fucknuts, it's a landline!

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

I always give our number to the local fast food places as '7XXX XXXX' and they start back with 'So that's 0207 7XX...' ARGH!

[jaketherat.livejournal.com]

Also, are you aware of pet_hate?

[glamgothruthy.livejournal.com]

erh it is part of the code 0207 is central london 0208 is greater london

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

nope - o2o is the code for london.

inner london numbers begin with 7, outer london numbers begin with 8. If you call inside london, you need to dial the 7 or the 8, but not the 020.