Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

Garry H

The guy at work that uses the toilet cubicle within the changing/shower room to get changed in.

Garry H

People that save lambs from the ravages of mother nature.

pinno

Garry H wrote:

People that save lambs from the ravages of mother nature.

Mother nature never built kiss gates. It wouldn't have been fair game.

drlodge

People handing out flyers (for what I don't know) dressed is bl**dy Father Christmas!!!

Ben6899

People dawdling.

Fair enough, some people are injured, infirm, ill or elderly. They can dawdle all they want.

But the other 80% of the population, apparently aimlessly meandering between no two particular places... they infuriate me.

And when it's somewhere busy with people trying to be productive with their time - like a London terminal train station... well these dawdling people are selfish bastards.

Bobbinogs

People who either go to big cities or live there and feel the need to rush around like headless feking chickens all the time, eating breakfast biscuits and the like because they just don't have enough hours in the day, apparently, although the majority seem to manage to find at least 4 hours per day to post/read trivial crap on social medja ;-)

Garry H

Pinno wrote:

Garry H wrote:

People that save lambs from the ravages of mother nature.

Mother nature never built kiss gates. It wouldn't have been fair game.

But maybe she intended us to build them in order to assist lazy buzzards.

As an aside, Kiss gates are called Pig Gates in north Wales (Giat Mochyn for you linguists), at least where I was brought (dragged) up anyway

Tashman

Sitting in whilst the sun shines for a delivery, only for it to piss down the moment it arrives. I could been riding in that sunshine, now I'm gonna get all wet

Pross

Ben6899 wrote:

People dawdling.

Fair enough, some people are injured, infirm, ill or elderly. They can dawdle all they want.

But the other 80% of the population, apparently aimlessly meandering between no two particular places... they infuriate me.

And when it's somewhere busy with people trying to be productive with their time - like a London terminal train station... well these dawdling people are selfish bastards.

Oh yes. Usually in groups as well so you can't pass them.

secretsam

Cables. My desk is like electrical spaghetti. Always tripping over, pulling out, and generally getting pi55ed off by s0dding cables.

Giraffoto

SecretSam wrote:

Cables. My desk is like electrical spaghetti. Always tripping over, pulling out, and generally getting pi55ed off by s0dding cables.

We had a whole tidying up event at my work devoted to this issue. Yank them all out, get ones that are the right length, wrap them in one of those clever bits of curly plastic, don't replace the ones that have been hanging around doing nothing. Enough left over cable to re-cable another building! The next trivial annoyance will come when you realize you've been hosting a dozen metres of useless cable that's only ever tripped you up.

veronese68

Pross wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

People dawdling.

Fair enough, some people are injured, infirm, ill or elderly. They can dawdle all they want.

But the other 80% of the population, apparently aimlessly meandering between no two particular places... they infuriate me.

And when it's somewhere busy with people trying to be productive with their time - like a London terminal train station... well these dawdling people are selfish bastards.

Oh yes. Usually in groups as well so you can't pass them.

Yes indeed. People that just stop without any thought as to what's going on around them to have a root through their bag, inevitably right in the middle of a busy footpath.
For the record. I'm not necessarily in a hurry, I just walk fast and don't like to dawdle. I make time to eat breakfast before I leave the house and don't eat breakfast biscuits. Walking back from the cafe with a couple of colleagues just now, two of us were back in the building in less than half the time of the third member of our group. He walks slowly and was faffing about sorting out his vaping contraption and just dawdling. I wasn't in any rush to get back to work, that's just my normal walking speed.

veronese68

And another thing...
People vaping in the bike shelter at work. The sodding thing smells like a sweet factory, it's nasty enough to make me yearn for the good old days of cancer sticks.

drlodge

Other people in general.

joenobody

People with trolley bags who forget they're trailing a mobile trip hazard behind them.

Anonymous

People who ride with two devices to record it. Maybe a Garmin and a phone. Thats fine. But then decide to publish it twice. They actually create 2 profiles on Strava and upload both rides so you get the same person in the leaderboard twice. Why? Are they f*cking schizophrenic? I have deliberately started flagging them as duplicate rides. Useless fuckaroons.

pinno

Maglia Rosa wrote:

...Are they f*cking schizophrenic?

No, they have split personalities - it' quite different.

Garry H wrote:

Pinno wrote:

Garry H wrote:

... at least where I was brought (dragged) up anyway

That explains a lot.

In days of old, people walking two abreast on the pavement were a hassle to get around. Now, people are getting so large, 1 is enough to take up all the space available.

Garry H

Pinno wrote:

Maglia Rosa wrote:

...Are they f*cking schizophrenic?

No, they have split personalities - it' quite different.

Garry H wrote:

Pinno wrote:

Garry H wrote:

... at least where I was brought (dragged) up anyway

That explains a lot.

In days of old, people walking two abreast on the pavement were a hassle to get around. Now, people are getting so large, 1 is enough to take up all the space available.

I know, it's a pain getting past their mobility scooters.

pinno

The fundamentals of nasal passage excavation whilst indulging in velocipedal activities. Article 2: Ascertaining viscosity.

This is what annoys me. Indoors, the green stuff is far more viscous than outdoors. Initial excavation (as one winds and weaves oneself through the housing estate to reach the urban routes) is reasonably easy.
One hasn't got anything against the housing estate and social housing policy over the past 50 years per say and it's well meaning intention (the management of such places and other social problems is another matter), it's the shopping trolleys, abandoned kiddies bikes and general littering that annoys me. i.e, they would be fine places without most of the residents.
I therefore, feel no guilt about this initial excavation. Then, once you are out in the sticks, the remaining blockages are being diluted with a very runny clear secretion. This over-rides the slightly more viscous original but more manageable substance making further excavation far more difficult.

The lighter stuff is now mixed with the more heavy duty stuff. The lighter stuff expels like a fully functional injector spray pattern in the form of an all engulfing spray mist whilst the heavy duty stuff is much like sticky, elasticated string; adhering to clothing, mitts, passers by, and worse, it gets blown around by the wind usually back towards oneself.

There's no solution and no happy medium.

Ben6899

You're not hydrating properly.

pinno

Ben6899 wrote:

You're not hydrating properly.

I have a suppressed immune system - my piddle is very lightly coloured thank you

secretsam

Minis. Not the Issigonis original, the post millennium ones.

Mini? No. They are not. Some are massive

bobmcstuff

People on club runs who think descending like a lunatic is a good idea.

Personally I have no desire to die on a Saturday morning club run. Funnily enough it's usually the ones who are sh1t slow up the hills trying to make themselves feel better about it.

(nearly got taken out this morning....)

Pross

SecretSam wrote:

Minis. Not the Issigonis original, the post millennium ones.

Mini? No. They are not. Some are massive

Still great cars to drive though. Mine was the best car I've had.

Pross

When there's a big queue in a shop and they open up a new till but instead of serving those near the front of the existing queue everyone at the back jumps in.

veronese68

Just bought an album on vinyl that I had but lost many moons ago. I was asked if I wanted a protective sleeve for it, which I declined. Hoof on the till tried to convince me I needed it, told him I've managed without since before vinyl was trendy. Get home and notice it claims to be superior quality vinyl and is appreciably heavier than most. Put it on the turntable and there is a distinct warp in it. So all the preaching about caring for vinyl and they clearly don't.

BelgianBeerGeek

Veronese68 wrote:

Just bought an album on vinyl that I had but lost many moons ago. I was asked if I wanted a protective sleeve for it, which I declined. Hoof on the till tried to convince me I needed it, told him I've managed without since before vinyl was trendy. Get home and notice it claims to be superior quality vinyl and is appreciably heavier than most. Put it on the turntable and there is a distinct warp in it. So all the preaching about caring for vinyl and they clearly don't.

There is no way that is trivial.

ben@31

Evans Cycles sends me an email... " This is it! This is THE jacket you've all been waiting for! "

...Looks at price....

"HOW MUCH !" :shock:

Errr no its not the jacket Ive been waiting for. I could buy a proper mountaineering GoreTex jacket for less.

orraloon

That on the 1st of October I get the throat and nose symptoms of the 1st cold of the season.

pinno

orraloon wrote:

That on the 1st of October I get the throat and nose symptoms of the 1st cold of the season.

You''ll have to look at the Fundamentals of nasal excavation of nasal passages whilst partaking in velocipedal activity essays.