Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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MrB123 wrote:Pross wrote:Perri Shakes-Drayton being interviewed and ending each sentence with 'and stuff', it made want to reach through the TV screen and grab her by the throat and stuff!
She's is shocking. Hasn't said anything insightful during the entire Olympics.
There was however an amusing incident on 5 Live this morning when - due to her stupid voice- the presenter (and probably everyone else listening) thought she was talking about Usain Bolt having "grass on his towel", when she was trying to say "De Grasse on his tail".0 -
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Mr Goo wrote:Fuffing tourists in the New Forest who suddenly stop their car to wind down window or get out and take photos of the NF ponies.
'It's a fuffing horse!, have you never seen one before?'
We'll be in the Forest in a couple of weeks. You have my word that we have never done this and never will. Because, as you rightly point out, they're just "fuffing horses" and it's also irresponsible to pet them.
I have some lovely routes planned, btw.
Sorry... erm, trivially annoying things? Poor Tube etiquette.Ben
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MrB123 wrote:Pross wrote:Perri Shakes-Drayton being interviewed and ending each sentence with 'and stuff', it made want to reach through the TV screen and grab her by the throat and stuff!
She's is shocking. Hasn't said anything insightful during the entire Olympics.
I had to Google her.Ben
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True Story: Mate worked in a (self) service petrol station many years ago. Woman came in to pay for the fuel, "oh, and I used 6 bottles of oil like this one..." she announced.Alain Quay wrote:crispybug2 wrote:Filling your diesel van with petrol !!
Not trivial and bloody expensive!
Ouch! I dread the prospect of ever doing that - especially after a late night.
He asked: "Used, or buying some?"
"Used to fill the engine."
She'd taken the oil filler cap off the rocker box cover, and poured in bottle after bottle till it was..... full.
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Disclaimer: I know that just having a shower and changing facilities at work is way better than most people get, so any complaints I might have are petty and unjustified...
... therefore entirely fitting for this thread.
Why, oh why, does anybody make a shower so pathetic that it takes 5 minutes just to get properly wet?0 -
That's not that unusual, a customer got called out to drain the oil out after someone did that.Wheelspinner wrote:
True Story: Mate worked in a (self) service petrol station many years ago. Woman came in to pay for the fuel, "oh, and I used 6 bottles of oil like this one..." she announced.Alain Quay wrote:crispybug2 wrote:Filling your diesel van with petrol !!
Not trivial and bloody expensive!
Ouch! I dread the prospect of ever doing that - especially after a late night.
He asked: "Used, or buying some?"
"Used to fill the engine."
She'd taken the oil filler cap off the rocker box cover, and poured in bottle after bottle till it was..... full.
Talking of putting petrol in the wrong place, the Porsche 911 used to have a dry sump and the oil filler was under a flap in the rear wing for a short while. They moved the filler under the engine cover as people were filling the sump with petrol.0 -
There is a shower here, it's so feeble I wash in the disabled loo at the sink using a flannel.bompington wrote:Disclaimer: I know that just having a shower and changing facilities at work is way better than most people get, so any complaints I might have are petty and unjustified...
... therefore entirely fitting for this thread.
Why, oh why, does anybody make a shower so pathetic that it takes 5 minutes just to get properly wet?0 -
Guests who come to your house and don't take their shoes off. :evil: :evil: :evil:0
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People who invite you to their house and expect you to remove your shoes.0
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Guests who come to your house.0
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Expecting shoes to be taken off is a bit common no?
To paraphrase the robustness principle, I'll do so / offer automatically in other people's houses but don't want other's having to do so in my house.0 -
Why is the taking off of shoes such an issue for some people?0
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Mr Goo wrote:Fuffing tourists in the New Forest who suddenly stop their car to wind down window or get out and take photos of the NF ponies.
'It's a fuffing horse!, have you never seen one before?'
It's always best when the horse has put its head completely in the window and it's obvious they have no clue how to get rid of it.
I would also add: people who can't drive across cattle grids at a speed more than 5 mph. And I encountered some people on bikes this afternoon who felt they had to dismount and push across a cattle grid.0 -
Garry H wrote:Why is the taking off of shoes such an issue for some people?
Some people are just soleless.0 -
Well don't bother coming to my house for a cuppa if you're not willing to take your shoes off.
It's actually a habit I picked up when living in Sweden, I had an interview with Svenska Posten at their head office in 1997 in Stockholm. I had to take my shoes off for it. Quite odd but very civilised in a way.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Not trivial:
Just seen the BBC news clip with that little boy sat in the back of what I presume to be an ambulance covered in dust and blood in Syria.
What a heart wrenching image.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Pheasants. Thick as pig sh1t.0
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While we're mentioning foot habits in houses. People who wear slippers, jesus christ it's not the 1950s.
Other footwear gripes... people who wear sandals, ffs get some selfrecockingspect.0 -
Any woman that is carrying a handbag with a gold chain.0
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Dust.
(Not as a cleaning issue, just dust, it is sh1t).0 -
People who can't abide any swearing at all. They need cullling.0
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Cyclists who wear cycle-type clothing as casual wear, like jackets and t-shirts with cycling things on. My god, of all the clothes you can wear you choose to look like a style-less prat.0
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mfin wrote:Pheasants. Thick as pig sh1t.
Oh, you mean the one's that cross the road and then try to cross it back over again?
It works like this: They are bred and hand fed for the purpose of being shot at with a wide spread cartridge (so wide that you could hit a peanut pointing it on the wrong direction) by a fat overweight and over paid city bloke who takes to wearing his tweed with a hip flask in his back pocket once or twice a year who thinks shooting a fat over weight, half tame bird makes him feel big, manly and clever when it's anything but.
If it weren't for the dogs flushing them out, the bloody things would probably peck at their ankles.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
The common perception of Americans, it makes it seem like they are so annoying. When you get there, of course they're not. (2% of them are alright ) 0
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Anyone who listens to music in a car with the windows open in town at any volume you can hear as a pedestrian.0
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Packing tape and sellotape. Shite. Take a lesson from masking tape and duct tape.0
