Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

pinno

fat daddy wrote:

being so hungry at work, checking all my pockets, draws, the floor, under the computer and finding 49p in change

the discovering the vending machine cheapest item is 70p

walking to Sainsbury's and discovering the cheapest solid food there is an apple and that's 50p !

Go to Lidl/Aldi an head for the bananas. It may be banana rather than bananas though.

dinyull

People who fart in public.

Even worse, people who openly fart in social situations.

Been out for dinner with my wife, and her friend and husband a couple of times now and he openly lets rip. Better still, he'll ask if you can smell it. I wouldn't care too much if we were all 16 but he's f*cking mid/late 30's.

veronese68

Umbrellas. More specifically selfish morons with huge golf umbrellas in crowded places. I must have been jabbed on the side of the head a dozen times yesterday whilst trying to watch some motor racing. Then when trying to move around in a crowd there are hundreds of huge umbrellas at eye level making the simpleton carrying it the size of 10 people.
Oh for a set of bolt croppers.

Pross

Veronese68 wrote:

Umbrellas. More specifically selfish morons with huge golf umbrellas in crowded places. I must have been jabbed on the side of the head a dozen times yesterday whilst trying to watch some motor racing. Then when trying to move around in a crowd there are hundreds of huge umbrellas at eye level making the simpleton carrying it the size of 10 people.
Oh for a set of bolt croppers.

Yep, I think I did this in the early days of the thread. I hate umbrellas, they should be banned. As for golf umbrellas, the clue is in the name - they are designed to keep a golfer, his bag and a caddy dry but for someone reason service industry companies have decided they ought to plaster their company name and logo over them then hand them to staff and clients to walk around busy streets. If people really have to use an umbrella, get a small pop up job that just about covers you but better still get a waterproof coat with a hood!

ballysmate

The cost of short stay car parking at airports. Not trivial at all.

bobmcstuff

Flybe.

Least reliable airline I've ever come across, and deeply unhelpful customer service. Incompetent.

vimfuego

Pross wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

Umbrellas. More specifically selfish morons with huge golf umbrellas in crowded places. I must have been jabbed on the side of the head a dozen times yesterday whilst trying to watch some motor racing. Then when trying to move around in a crowd there are hundreds of huge umbrellas at eye level making the simpleton carrying it the size of 10 people.
Oh for a set of bolt croppers.

Yep, I think I did this in the early days of the thread. I hate umbrellas, they should be banned. As for golf umbrellas, the clue is in the name - they are designed to keep a golfer, his bag and a caddy dry but for someone reason service industry companies have decided they ought to plaster their company name and logo over them then hand them to staff and clients to walk around busy streets. If people really have to use an umbrella, get a small pop up job that just about covers you but better still get a waterproof coat with a hood!

That and when getting caught in the rain & you're naturally trying & walk under whatever cover you can (shop awnings, overhanging bits of building entrances etc) - only you can't because the space is already full of w@nkers who are clearly worried that their huge golf umbrella might get wet, so they'll happily poke you in the eye with it and force you out into the rain so they can make use of the dry space

evil_breakfast

People who trip themselves up on the pavement, and then instantly look back down at the cause of thier fleeting embarrassment.

pinno

Purging one's nasal passages whilst partaking in Velocipede related activities. Or at least, getting it wrong.

I elected to place the foremost digit of my right hand on my right nostril and this is where it went literally and to use conveniently descriptive popular vernacular - pear shaped. However, a cross wind of a North Easterly direction may have made this manoeuvre correct in it's execution and conception. I then turned my head to the right and exhaled through my left nostril underneath my right arm. Had I correctly estimated both the viscosity of the occluding blockage and the force required to expel it, then perhaps the procedure would have gone to plan.
As my head was at a slight perpendicular and the material was going across the philtrum rather than the more direct route to terra firma being to my left, underneath my right arm, I would have:

A) Not required such a precise calculation of the force required to purge the material.
Had greater assistance from the effects of gravity (Not with standing Manc33's contradictions to this theory) and
C) Not risked the resultant manifestations of an ill conceived method of expulsion given the wind direction, viscosity, adhesive character of the offending organic substance and intended approximate final 'resting place' of the offending organic substance.

Suffice to say, the track mitt had insufficient absorption capacity to deal with the material (now plastered and smeared across the right hand side of my face) and had to be relegated to an unoccupied back pocket, of which there were none. I then had to carefully manage and re-organise the contents of the rear storage compartments so as not to contaminate the edibles that I had taken for perceived sustenance.

Let this be a lesson to you.

Ben6899

Wipe the mitt on your bibs.

davis

People saying "mute point" when they mean "moot point"

capt_slog

Fiat 500s

Partly because they always seems to be driven as if the occupant has to prove that they haven't bought a little car for a vastly inflated price just because it's trendy.

bompington

When the forecast says there'll be a tailwind but it's a headwind.
Last night really took the mickey - I could see a turbine up on the hill two miles away with the wind blowing from behind me, but on the road it was literally 180º off.

bompington

Scotch mist that makes your brake levers and shifters wet when you're wearing fingerless gloves.

bompington

Work showers that are such a trickle that it takes over 5 minutes just to rinse off.

bompington

People who whinge about trivial commuting issues when actually their job, facilities, location, route and weather would be the envy of many.

ballysmate

bompington wrote:

People who whinge about trivial commuting issues when actually their job, facilities, location, route and weather would be the envy of many.

Especially when there place of residence, place of work and mode of transport is entirely their choice.

veronese68

bompington wrote:

People who whinge about trivial commuting issues when actually their job, facilities, location, route and weather would be the envy of many.

Our work shower is so bad I don't bother and wash at the sink in the disabled khazi using a flannel. They've now revamped said facility so the tap on the sink is no more than a trickle. That's progress for you.

pinno

davis wrote:

People saying "mute point" when they mean "moot point"

That could just be dialect. I had a friend called P Moore. When I heard him say "My name is xxxx Meuyar", I said later "How do you spell "Meuyar" ". He said 'M O O R E' but then he was from Naarden Eyerlan and there all a bit funny over there.

drlodge

Parents with kids riding their bikes to school on the pavement.

Tashman

drlodge wrote:

Parents with kids riding their bikes to school on the pavement.

I'd rather the kids were on the pavement (being careful) than running the gauntlet of the 4x4's rushing the 150yds up the road to drop off their precious load without regard for everyone else

dinyull

drlodge wrote:

Parents with kids riding their bikes to school on the pavement.

:shock:

drlodge

Tashman wrote:

drlodge wrote:

Parents with kids riding their bikes to school on the pavement.

I'd rather the kids were on the pavement (being careful) than running the gauntlet of the 4x4's rushing the 150yds up the road to drop off their precious load without regard for everyone else

That's what the mum retorted when I mentioned it was illegal to ride bikes on the pavement. I understand why they do it, and I might even do the same, but it is still annoying! Especially when they expect pedestrians to move out of the way for them.

Tashman

drlodge wrote:

Tashman wrote:

drlodge wrote:

Parents with kids riding their bikes to school on the pavement.

I'd rather the kids were on the pavement (being careful) than running the gauntlet of the 4x4's rushing the 150yds up the road to drop off their precious load without regard for everyone else

That's what the mum retorted when I mentioned it was illegal to ride bikes on the pavement. I understand why they do it, and I might even do the same, but it is still annoying! Especially when they expect pedestrians to move out of the way for them.

I understand the frustration, and yes they should be the ones avoiding the peds. My 2 tend to scoot rather than ride as we're lucky enough to be only 200m from the school. Same applies there though, they work around anybody walking

simplythebez

VTech wrote:

People who won't accept something yet never offer an alternative.
Like a work colleague that says "that won't work" yet never offers a reason as to why, or never gives an opinion of what they think will actually work.

People who say "work colleague". What other kind of colleague is there? This is spreading really quickly too.

People who say "To be fair..." or "To be honest..." SHUT UP! Just say what you have to say!

The use of the word 'robber' by serious people on the news for grown ups.

People who start every sentence with OBVIOUSLY...Obviously, I was upset. Obviously, you're a moron.

Ahhhh....that was therapeutic.

haydenm

A boss who micro manages everything so you have no responsibility, you can't get more responsibility without a promotion and you can't get a promotion without more experience from said responsibility. That would be frustrating.

hamish_mctavish

You do not "tow the line"; just think about it, what could that possibly mean?
Also: "cue" not "queue" in phrases such as "cue a deranged pedant beating me to a pulp".

crispybug2

My son referring to a friend not as a friend or a mate or something similar but as "A brother from another mother"........ I mean! What the actual f*ck!


Having said that of course, I think that you could have an entire thread on things youngsters say that make absolutely no sense!

team47b

crispybug2 wrote:

My son referring to a friend not as a friend or a mate or something similar but as "A brother from another mother"........ I mean! What the actual f*ck!

What do you think that he's saying about you?

pinno

Freezer bags. Cleaning and drying them. What a cluster f*ck of a job that is.