Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Thick Mike wrote:
    Garry H wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Garry H wrote:
    Polystyrene balls, especially those inside beanbags. Today, my soon to be 4 year old son managed to open one of them and distributed it's contents all over his sister's room, while shouting "it's snowing!"

    That's both funny and clever. You posted that in the wrong thread you miserable curmudgeonly old goat.

    You weren't the one who had to clean it all up! I had to tell the missus to do it.

    But you haven't cleaned it all up.

    My parents are still finding polystyrene balls around their house after they gave my three year old son a bag of them to play with. He is 19.

    You're right. They are now strewn all over the house.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,329
    Garry H wrote:
    Thick Mike wrote:
    Garry H wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Garry H wrote:
    Polystyrene balls, especially those inside beanbags. Today, my soon to be 4 year old son managed to open one of them and distributed it's contents all over his sister's room, while shouting "it's snowing!"

    That's both funny and clever. You posted that in the wrong thread you miserable curmudgeonly old goat.

    You weren't the one who had to clean it all up! I had to tell the missus to do it.

    But you haven't cleaned it all up.

    My parents are still finding polystyrene balls around their house after they gave my three year old son a bag of them to play with. He is 19.

    You're right. They are now strewn all over the house.

    I have the solution: Barbara is coming. Open all the windows and doors when she has reached her glorious peak. Then the neighbours will think it's snowing.
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  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    Nissan Jukes. More specifically the lights. Which ones are fog lights? Which ones are just there to look extra stupid? Does anyone know? Do the owners even know? No idea, lets just stick them all on like a bloody Christmas tree. Stupid, ugly, pointless car.
  • my_grandadʹs_bike
    my_grandadʹs_bike Posts: 1,300
    On Bargain Hunt where say the contestants are bartering for a bit of old tat and they say "would you take X pounds for it?" and the tat merchant instantly says " I can't as I paid X for it" - lying toads, as if you can instantly remember how you much you paid for the hundreds of bits of old rubbish on your stall.

    Completely ruins the show for me :lol:
  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,816
    Those hooks on the top of coathangers. I presume they're to allow dresses to be hung from them. Every time I try to pull an item of clothing out of the wardrobe it catches on them.
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    Religious people who assume that people celebrating Christmas has something to do with religion for anyone but their dwindling congregation... *



    *What I really mean is people who remind me that Christmas is a religious holiday when I'm happy getting p1ssed...
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    The way my dog lies asleep in the corner of my office, waking up occasionally to lick is doghood so vigorously he forgets to breathe causing him to make a load of really horrible slurping noises...
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,329
    HaydenM wrote:
    The way my dog lies asleep in the corner of my office, waking up occasionally to lick is doghood so vigorously he forgets to breathe causing him to make a load of really horrible slurping noises...

    Lol. Should have put that in the other thread.

    My dog used to lick his bits and then do this odd facial contortion. Rather like if you had chin cramp whilst simultaneously trying to bear all you teeth by pulling your cheeks back as fas as they'll go and as if you had a very hard rubber ball in your mouth so that the jaw is oscillating a few mm's up and down at the extreme of opening.

    [Pictures or a vid would have been better, wouldn't it?]

    He used to do it when he came across a really strong odour.
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  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    It's the slurping noises which prevent it being in the other thread. This one could probably go in there though, what was the point in that bed I bought him?! Ungrateful mutt

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    HaydenM wrote:
    The way my dog lies asleep in the corner of my office, waking up occasionally to lick is doghood so vigorously he forgets to breathe causing him to make a load of really horrible slurping noises...

    I reckon you meant to put that in Trivial Things That Make Me Jealous.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,329
    I don't mean to state the obvious but that bed is for a frikkin Chihuahua. You tight fisted git.
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  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    If he curled up like usual and didn't stretch out like my bloody GF he'd be fine, the b4stard is deliberately taking the p1ss! :wink:

    If only the GF was as diligent at licking important parts...

    You're right though, I couldn't afford a nice one for the house, car and office at once so he'll have to make do with ruining the carpet
  • Ber Nard
    Ber Nard Posts: 827
    Pross wrote:
    HaydenM wrote:
    The way my dog lies asleep in the corner of my office, waking up occasionally to lick is doghood so vigorously he forgets to breathe causing him to make a load of really horrible slurping noises...

    I reckon you meant to put that in Trivial Things That Make Me Jealous.

    Late contender for post of the year.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,329
    Women.

    Well, it's not so much women but the things they do. HaydenM brought it up, blame him.
    It's the whole bed/sleep thing. They wriggle and they're hot. They snuggle up to warm up and then you suffer. So you edge towards the edge of the bed until you're teetering on the edge.
    Then they roll over the other way on top of the quilt. Now you're left with no quilt and trying to move towards the hot thing but your back is cold. Then you decide that you need to go piddle, When you come back, she's rolled into your space.
    So you gently manipulate her over to the sound of murmuring and complaint. Then the whole cycle starts again.

    I had a gf that was so bad in this department and I decided one night that I would just go sleep on the couch. I was awoken to a tearful woman who thought I was on the verge to ditching her. Sleep got an awful lot better after that.
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  • smoggysteve
    smoggysteve Posts: 2,909
    Pinno wrote:
    Women.

    Well, it's not so much women but the things they do. HaydenM brought it up, blame him.
    It's the whole bed/sleep thing. They wriggle and they're hot. They snuggle up to warm up and then you suffer. So you edge towards the edge of the bed until you're teetering on the edge.
    Then they roll over the other way on top of the quilt. Now you're left with no quilt and trying to move towards the hot thing but your back is cold. Then you decide that you need to go piddle, When you come back, she's rolled into your space.
    So you gently manipulate her over to the sound of murmuring and complaint. Then the whole cycle starts again.

    I had a gf that was so bad in this department and I decided one night that I would just go sleep on the couch. I was awoken to a tearful woman who thought I was on the verge to ditching her. Sleep got an awful lot better after that.

    My wife and I have separate duvets ( German thing apparently ) so I can always be sure I am not going to be robbed of mine. There has been occasions when she has woken up in the night and tried to steal mine cos hers has fallen on the floor. My retaliation has been to push her off the bed onto a nice soft landing on top of her discarded duvet.

    I may have ended up on the sofa bed later but I'm sure I made my point.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    People using frickin coupons in the supermarket. The stupid woman in front of me tonight had a pile of them and hadn't checked if they were valid meaning everyone had to hang around while the cashier checked through them all just to save 10p on a few things.
  • FishFish
    FishFish Posts: 2,152
    People who cannot spell 'drawer' but instead substitute 'draw'.

    I did a statistical survey on them - it had an r**2 of 0.96 which concluded that these people have gaps between their teeth, prematurely thinning hair and a wife whose only contribution to the marriage is to be fatter than a brontosaurus. (Well maybe not fatter - after all difficult to assess the bmi of extinct reptiles - but certainly the same size and weight). (and smell, and ugliness and intellect..)
    ...take your pickelf on your holibobs.... :D

    jeez :roll:
  • FishFish
    FishFish Posts: 2,152
    People who abbreviate...

    Ignorant, uneducated, brain addled, unhygienic, foul breathed, puss oozing, working class genetic failures who abbreviate what is certainly one of the most emphatic and perfect words in the English language - 'definitely' as '...deffo'.
    ...take your pickelf on your holibobs.... :D

    jeez :roll:
  • earth
    earth Posts: 934
    Smoke alarms that can't tell the difference between a fire and nicely browned toast. If they can tell the difference between a fire and cigarette smoke then is toast or sausages such cause for concern?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,329
    earth wrote:
    Smoke alarms that can't tell the difference between a fire and nicely browned toast. If they can tell the difference between a fire and cigarette smoke then is toast or sausages such cause for concern?

    Have you tested it with burnt Goat?
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,172
    Why do some people wear a complete ignorance of Star Wars as a badge of pride?

    Are they the same people who think the Archers is good because its on Radio 4?
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,172
    earth wrote:
    Smoke alarms that can't tell the difference between a fire and nicely browned toast. If they can tell the difference between a fire and cigarette smoke then is toast or sausages such cause for concern?
    I can't stand people of remedial intelligence who set the smoke alarm off each day in my office doing the exact same thing and expecting it somehow not to have the same consequences.
  • k-dog
    k-dog Posts: 1,652
    It's not Christmas without [insert something nothing to do with Christmas here] on billboards etc.

    Do people actually buy that worthless tat because they're told it's the thing to do or because they always have?

    They're muppets and the advertising company are scum.
    I'm left handed, if that matters.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,329
    k-dog wrote:
    It's not Christmas without [insert something nothing to do with Christmas here] on billboards etc.

    Do people actually buy that worthless tat because they're told it's the thing to do or because they always have?

    They're muppets and the advertising company are scum.

    Well, the advertisers rely on the fact that they are muppets.

    I would ban Christmas. Lets have some good food and plenty of grog on the the shortest day.
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  • FishFish
    FishFish Posts: 2,152
    k-dog wrote:
    It's not Christmas without [insert something nothing to do with Christmas here] on billboards etc.


    Well give us an example then. And billboards don't exist in this country. FACT!!!!!
    ...take your pickelf on your holibobs.... :D

    jeez :roll:
  • FishFish
    FishFish Posts: 2,152
    All this blx about people who die. Singers, actors, professors of darning needle semantics, polar bears bleedin cosmonaughts - even some old people. Who cares. If its a problem then be immortal.
    ...take your pickelf on your holibobs.... :D

    jeez :roll:
  • FishFish
    FishFish Posts: 2,152
    Pinno wrote:
    k-dog wrote:
    Lets have some good food and plenty of grog on the the shortest day.


    ....which would discriminate against people who live in the S Hemisphere - mind you any day spent with some of them would be better off short.
    ...take your pickelf on your holibobs.... :D

    jeez :roll:
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    Pinno wrote:
    k-dog wrote:
    It's not Christmas without [insert something nothing to do with Christmas here] on billboards etc.

    Do people actually buy that worthless tat because they're told it's the thing to do or because they always have?

    They're muppets and the advertising company are scum.

    Lets have some good food and plenty of grog on the the shortest day.

    Or every day of the week with the word 'day' in it - or innit :D
    my isetta is a 300cc bike
  • k-dog
    k-dog Posts: 1,652
    FishFish wrote:
    k-dog wrote:
    It's not Christmas without [insert something nothing to do with Christmas here] on billboards etc.


    Well give us an example then. And billboards don't exist in this country. FACT!!!!!

    It was a billboard which triggered this - but I don't know what the brand is. It just had a large logo in the middle of the vertical ad and in the corner it looked like a bottle - so I'm assuming the manufacturer of some alcoholic beverage.

    Similarly I was in the airport recently and I think it was a perfume manufacturer which is at least equally stupid - but probably more so.
    I'm left handed, if that matters.
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    FishFish wrote:
    All this blx about people who die. Singers, actors, professors of darning needle semantics, polar bears bleedin cosmonaughts - even some old people. Who cares. If its a problem then be immortal.
    I agree. All things must pass, and those gone are (possibly) better of than those who remain. For those who were poorly, at least they are free from pain.
    Enough musing on the transient nature of humanity...people who drive with their left hand on the gear lever. Hands on the wheel, people! Unless you are picking your nose. Or looking for sweets in a bag. Or texting. The gear lever is not a hand rest! And don't start me on people who do this in an automatic transmission car.
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