What's Annoying You Today?

Pross
Pross Posts: 43,463
edited November 2010 in The bottom bracket
With the delightful weather here in Cardiff today it's my pet hate - the umbrella! This has to be the worst invention ever, walking to work a saw 3 or 4 people battling with umbrellas that were catching the wind and getting blown into the paths of everyone else before eventually breaking. Then there's the people who use golf umbrellas about 2m in diameter walking along crowded pavements. In general the spokes of the umbrellas always seem to be at my eye level and the user is oblivious to the fact that it is wider than they are. What is wrong with wearing a coat and putting the hood up on it? The umbrella won't keep you much drier as the wind invariably blows rain over your legs in any case. At least I'm not watching any rugby today as there's always numpties on the terraces who put their umbrellas up without bothering about the fact they are blocking the view of people behind :x So, now that's off my chest, what's annoying the rest of you today (other than reading people's rants on a website :oops: )?
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  • Chip \'oyler
    Chip \'oyler Posts: 2,323
    The crap Absolute radio someone has put on at work aaaaaaaaaaaaargh
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  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    The price of free range chicken breasts :cry:
  • Dunkindiver
    Dunkindiver Posts: 143
    Mrs Dunkin :x
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    The Boss, always the Boss... Not Springsteen, the guy I work for
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  • disquieting_museeuws
    disquieting_museeuws Posts: 601
    The kittens on 'Clifford The Big Red Dog' had me annoyed today I'm afraid.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    edited November 2010
    Pross wrote:
    what's annoying the rest of you today

    My job, it's rubbish :(
  • berliner
    berliner Posts: 340
    John Hirst
  • alex16zx
    alex16zx Posts: 153
    What's annoying me is the rise in tuition fees, or more specifically, not the rise itself, but the fact that I can't work out how I feel about it. Everyone I know is discussing it constantly and I don't know what to think, and it's really bugging me!
  • mr_poll
    mr_poll Posts: 1,547
    The fact we get a lunch hour but some people seem to think that a whole hour is not long enough to eat a sandwich. They spend an hour away from their desk and then with one minute to go turn up with a sandwich, crisps, chocolate etc and begin to eat it for the next 20 mins
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    mr_poll wrote:
    The fact we get a lunch hour but some people seem to think that a whole hour is not long enough to eat a sandwich. They spend an hour away from their desk and then with one minute to go turn up with a sandwich, crisps, chocolate etc and begin to eat it for the next 20 mins

    http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/government-urged-to-crackdown-on-the-overly-keen-201010283200
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Pross wrote:
    With the delightful weather here in Cardiff today it's my pet hate - the umbrella! This has to be the worst invention ever, walking to work a saw 3 or 4 people battling with umbrellas that were catching the wind and getting blown into the paths of everyone else before eventually breaking. Then there's the people who use golf umbrellas about 2m in diameter walking along crowded pavements. In general the spokes of the umbrellas always seem to be at my eye level and the user is oblivious to the fact that it is wider than they are. What is wrong with wearing a coat and putting the hood up on it? The umbrella won't keep you much drier as the wind invariably blows rain over your legs in any case. At least I'm not watching any rugby today as there's always numpties on the terraces who put their umbrellas up without bothering about the fact they are blocking the view of people behind :x So, now that's off my chest, what's annoying the rest of you today (other than reading people's rants on a website :oops: )?

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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    mr_poll wrote:
    The fact we get a lunch hour but some people seem to think that a whole hour is not long enough to eat a sandwich. They spend an hour away from their desk and then with one minute to go turn up with a sandwich, crisps, chocolate etc and begin to eat it for the next 20 mins

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  • john-e-big-guns
    john-e-big-guns Posts: 489
    The horizontal rain..having just built a new set of wheels for the winter bike this morning..... I really would like to try them out ...and looks like the rains in for the day
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  • markyboy2005
    markyboy2005 Posts: 465
    armchair generals...... :evil:
  • Ands
    Ands Posts: 1,437
    Tax Credits people. They never answer the phone. They either cut you off after making you listen to 3 minutes' of menus or keep you on hold for 30mins or more and still don't answer. They send you letters - lots of them - confusing letters, which means you don't understand what they want so you have to phone them. I finally got through today and they want money. Lots of it. :(
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Ands wrote:
    Tax Credits people. They never answer the phone. They either cut you off after making you listen to 3 minutes' of menus or keep you on hold for 30mins or more and still don't answer. They send you letters - lots of them - confusing letters, which means you don't understand what they want so you have to phone them. I finally got through today and they want money. Lots of it. :(

    See, I never quite understood the idea of setting up such a complex institution in order to give people an incorrectly calculated amount of their own money back... Why not just let them keep it in the first place?
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

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  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    That Im still at work!
  • northernneil
    northernneil Posts: 1,549
    this aussie who keeps thinking they are going to win the ashes
  • Flasheart
    Flasheart Posts: 1,278
    Spending yet another evening alone :(
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  • u05harrisb
    u05harrisb Posts: 531
    SCHOOL AND NO RIDING BECAUSE OF A COLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    northernneil wrote:
    this aussie who keeps thinking they are going to win the ashes

    Did you just let yourself get wound up by an Allen Key? :lol:
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  • ratsbeyfus
    ratsbeyfus Posts: 2,841
    deptfordmarmoset wrote:
    northernneil wrote:
    this aussie who keeps thinking they are going to win the ashes

    Did you just let yourself get wound up by an Allen Key? :lol:

    Allen Key sounds like a spanner to me.

    I had one of them red bikes but I don't any more. Sad face.

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  • izza
    izza Posts: 1,561
    Some doctors' bedside manner/brains.

    Yesterday, 'er indoors gave birth to our third child.

    - During labour, the doctor advised "the very worst thing that could happen is a caesarian section as you have two older boys running around at home. That will be a complete nightmare". This scared the wife. Made worse when, three minutes later the same doctor advised "I think we ought to go for a C-section."

    - Today our daughter had to have a hearing test. Doctor came round to the maternity ward and said the test had to be held in complete quiet to be useful.

    Even I could work out that the one place you can guarantee a noisy reception is a maternity ward full of screaming newborn children.
  • JesseD
    JesseD Posts: 1,961
    My new boss, making changes without actually knowing what we do!

    32 emails before 9.30am ....................... Jesus woman, you sit 20 feet away from me, just use your fat little legs and walk over to me and talk to me and stop wasting my time!
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  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    That trent 900 engine failure on the quantas flight.
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    This :shock: No doubt the comments are pro cyclicing.
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  • DCowling
    DCowling Posts: 769
    post it notes on my desk in the morning
  • DCowling
    DCowling Posts: 769
    redvee wrote:
    This :shock: No doubt the comments are pro cyclicing.

    doesn't do much good for cyclists, but it may have been some casual peddler going to the shop for a pint of milk.
    But if it had been me hitting a child I would have been mortified, if it had been my child I would have been furious. It says they were just by home and the cyclist came out a cul-de-sac, assuming he lives there, they must know/recognise him
  • hennez
    hennez Posts: 255
    havent got a bike to ride :( ones @ the shop getting fixed and the other ones in the shed with only one wheel. buggered my rim :x
    My bike takes me places that school never could
  • hatbeard
    hatbeard Posts: 1,087
    having had not very much sleep everything is annoying me today. *grumble*
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