Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    Yeah but it's extremely easy to pass cyclists if you aren't completely inept, caravans/lorries/tractors are a much longer and more annoying road block. At least they are on fast Scottish roads anyway
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Dinyull wrote:
    What's that all about?

    I can't remember exactly, but I think it was an Orthodox Jew who wrapped himself in plastic either in case the plane flew over a cemetery, or because he was sitting too close to a woman.
  • evil_breakfast
    evil_breakfast Posts: 466
    Main library has Wiggo's "My Time" in Sport>Cycling (796.62) yet Froome's "The Climb" in Autobiography (920.00)
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  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,495
    evil_breakfast wrote:
    Main library has Wiggo's "My Time" in Sport>Cycling (796.62) yet Froome's "The Climb" in Autobiography (920.00)
    Should Wiggo's be in fiction then? ;)
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,327
    evil_breakfast wrote:
    Main library has Wiggo's "My Time" in Sport>Cycling (796.62) yet Froome's "The Climb" in Autobiography (920.00)

    Too far to cycle from 796 to 920 or did you need a ladder?
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  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    Lily Allen.
    Always be yourself, unless you can be Aaron Rodgers....Then always be Aaron Rodgers.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Mr Goo wrote:
    Lily Allen.

    Has she done anything particularly annoying?
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,230
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Mr Goo wrote:
    Lily Allen.

    Has she done anything particularly annoying?
    That cover of Keane's 'Somewhere Only We Know' as used in a John Lewis christmas ad was rather annoying...

    Leave her alone though, she's had some tough times, what with nutter stalker, miscarriage, stillbirth, not good.
  • Only a Ginger
    Only a Ginger Posts: 64
    Mr Goo wrote:
    Lily Allen.

    get out. Lilly is awesome.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    Chapeau cycling clothing. The bike shop by my office stocks it, and they had some cheap stuff. I can't get on with the stupid hat logo, and the name is a bit gauche too. They just give the impression they've been set up by a bunch of cynics to capitalise on the UK cycling boom... Or maybe that's just me being a cynic...
  • figbat
    figbat Posts: 680
    Baked potatoes served at cafes, cut open and filled with stuff, then with a pat of butter for you to somehow add.
    Cube Reaction GTC Pro 29 for the lumpy stuff
    Cannondale Synapse alloy with 'guards for the winter roads
    Fuji Altamira 2.7 for the summer roads
    Trek 830 Mountain Track frame turned into a gravel bike - for anywhere & everywhere
  • figbat
    figbat Posts: 680
    Plugging in a USB device to a different port and having to wait AGAIN whilst it updates the drivers for this new device. Windows, obviously.
    Cube Reaction GTC Pro 29 for the lumpy stuff
    Cannondale Synapse alloy with 'guards for the winter roads
    Fuji Altamira 2.7 for the summer roads
    Trek 830 Mountain Track frame turned into a gravel bike - for anywhere & everywhere
  • Frank Wilson
    Frank Wilson Posts: 930
    People who call Britain, England.
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Mr Goo wrote:
    Lily Allen.

    Has she done anything particularly annoying?

    She 'retired' and then came back. that annoyed the hell out of me

    I don't like the way she came onto some chat shows etc and talked down to presenters as if she is some sort of musical genius. She's a fairly mediocre singer who got lucky, which of course is in no way connected to her father being in 'show business'.


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    My wife being ill. She'll make more fuss in one day about having a cold than I did in 3 months when I had a broken leg. If she ever uses the term "man flu" with me, it's straight down to the divorce courts.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Posters on this forum who complain about topics in Cake Stop not being cycling related.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,821
    Food packaging with a film lid that when you try to peel it back it just breaks off around the edge leaving it sealed as tight as it was before.
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Food packaging.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Food packaging with a film lid that when you try to peel it back it just breaks off around the edge leaving it sealed as tight as it was before.

    And then results in burnt fingers as you try to rip it open.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,327
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Food packaging with a film lid that when you try to peel it back it just breaks off around the edge leaving it sealed as tight as it was before.

    That's 'cos you're a bit feeble VN.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,821
    Pinno wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Food packaging with a film lid that when you try to peel it back it just breaks off around the edge leaving it sealed as tight as it was before.

    That's 'cos you're a bit feeble VN.
    I don't dispute that, but strength wouldn't help in this case. The problem is the glue is much stronger than the film, so the film gives way before the glue.
    But Bomp is right food packaging generally, in fact most packaging. Rare to see well thought out recycled and recyclable packaging that isn't vastly over the top. I argue this at work, we have brake hoses shipped to us individually packed in cardboard boxes. There is no need for them to be in a box, utterly wasteful. But now we are on to the amount of rubbish we generate and that is far from trivial...
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  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    Chapeau cycling clothing. The bike shop by my office stocks it, and they had some cheap stuff. I can't get on with the stupid hat logo, and the name is a bit gauche too. They just give the impression they've been set up by a bunch of cynics to capitalise on the UK cycling boom... Or maybe that's just me being a cynic...

    It is quite silly but I get the feeling they have a sense of humour about it, reminds me of the willy finder stuff just less outrageous. I bought the GF two of their jerseys because they were selling them off for £17 each, seems good enough but she never rides so it was pointless
  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    Maybe not trivial, but....

    Yoofs throwing f*cking fireworks about the place. Walking down the high street on sat night some little f*cker in a gang of little f*ckers threw a banger at a group of lasses walking 100m behind us. All balaclava'd/hoodied up to the max.

    Luckily no one hurt but so completely out of order, deserve to be strung up by the balls.
  • Alain Quay
    Alain Quay Posts: 534
    Classic FM, which I can only stand for about 2 minutes anyway, but in the morning they assume
    every adult in the country is driving their little Hector Henry to public school i.e. no one
    walks or goes to state school.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,327
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Food packaging with a film lid that when you try to peel it back it just breaks off around the edge leaving it sealed as tight as it was before.

    That's 'cos you're a bit feeble VN.
    I don't dispute that, but strength wouldn't help in this case. The problem is the glue is much stronger than the film, so the film gives way before the glue.

    My OH has mastered the bloody things :roll: I just take one look at it and get a knife out. F*ck em.
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  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    thought id give talk radio a listen - there's 20 minutes i'll never get back!
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  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    Alain Quay wrote:
    Classic FM, which I can only stand for about 2 minutes anyway, but in the morning they assume
    every adult in the country is driving their little Hector Henry to public school i.e. no one
    walks or goes to state school.

    Heart is worse, they seemingly have a playlist of about seven songs!! But still my wife and daughter insist on listening to it when I'm driving the car.
  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,696
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Food packaging with a film lid that when you try to peel it back it just breaks off around the edge leaving it sealed as tight as it was before.

    That's 'cos you're a bit feeble VN.
    I don't dispute that, but strength wouldn't help in this case. The problem is the glue is much stronger than the film, so the film gives way before the glue.
    But Bomp is right food packaging generally, in fact most packaging. Rare to see well thought out recycled and recyclable packaging that isn't vastly over the top. I argue this at work, we have brake hoses shipped to us individually packed in cardboard boxes. There is no need for them to be in a box, utterly wasteful. But now we are on to the amount of rubbish we generate and that is far from trivial...
    On a similar note.. whenever I go to a boozique for a bottle of wine, they insist on using not one, but *two* bags. First it goes into a plain brown paper bag, as if that's the stylish accessory you must have to turn up at someone's place for a soiree or something, then put that in a plastic bag to you can safely carry it the 20 yards to the car. :roll:

    If the bags were all branded with logos advertising the store I'd at least assume they were taking it as a marketing opportunity, but they always use unmarked ones. Yes the bags are recyclable, but why use them in the first place? When you say "no bags thanks", they give you that look that says "oh right, you want to drink it before you get back to the car, eh?"
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,327
    Wheelspinner wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Food...before.

    That's...VN.
    I don't dispute that, but strength wouldn't help in this case. The problem is the glue is much stronger than the film, so the film gives way before the glue.
    But...trivial...
    When you say "no bags thanks", they give you that look that says "oh right, you want to drink it before you get back to the car, eh?"

    They know you well then.
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Pinno wrote:
    Wheelspinner wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Food...before.

    That's...VN.
    I don't dispute that, but strength wouldn't help in this case. The problem is the glue is much stronger than the film, so the film gives way before the glue.
    But...trivial...
    When you say "no bags thanks", they give you that look that says "oh right, you want to drink it before you get back to the car, eh?"

    They know you well then.

    They give Matt a straw. :lol:

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