Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

team47b

Pinno wrote:

^ That's really lovely. :roll: Is it a visual metaphor for Stoke or the innards of Pross's mind?

You build a house, fill it with concrete, then remove the house, to reveal the space...she once made a concrete cast of the space underneath a bed, and her cast concrete of the space occupied within a fireplace was sublime.

I've been to stoke and it's way uglier, I've not met Pross

Pross

team47b wrote:

Pinno wrote:

^ That's really lovely. :roll: Is it a visual metaphor for Stoke or the innards of Pross's mind?

You build a house, fill it with concrete, then remove the house, to reveal the space...she once made a concrete cast of the space underneath a bed, and her cast concrete of the space occupied within a fireplace was sublime.

I've been to stoke and it's way uglier, I've not met Pross

I make Stoke appear attractive and the innards of my mind are the equivalent of Corby.

Alain Quay

Cycle commuters who draft other cyclists. Grrrr.

capt_slog

Printer software that keeps the default setting of 'double sided' printing even though you've asked for two copies.

finchy

Our fat lass neighbour's sh1t tattoos. Truly, astoundingly awful.

Matthewfalle

finchy wrote:

Our fat lass neighbour's sh1t tattoos. Truly, astoundingly awful.

Have you got a fat lass? Do you really wanting to be telling everyone that? Can't you just lie and say she's big boned like all fat people do?

Pross

Davina McCall. Very trivial and extremely annoying.

Garry H

Pross wrote:

Davina McCall. Very trivial and extremely annoying.

Same for David Walliams

earth

One the office workers might be familiar with. People in the office wearing headphones and talking to themselves.

Pross

I've certainly seen a few with headphones in not picking up their phone when it rings. I'm not a fan of it, you call across the desk to ask them to do something and get no response forcing you to get up and walk around.

bompington

When I tell pupils in class to take their headphones off, a lot of them will remove one. Although less so since they all know by now that it results in immediate confiscation.

Perhaps you could try it in the office.

Tashman

I tend to sit with 1 earpiece in to try and balance the silence in my little office. Also works in our busier office to down out the "buzz" I can still keep an ear out for the phone though and usually only wear the earpiece on the side away from everyonme so I can still here if I'm spoken to

pinno

Pross wrote:

I've certainly seen a few with headphones in not picking up their phone when it rings. I'm not a fan of it, you call across the desk to ask them to do something and get no response forcing you to get up and walk around.

Just keep a few things in your desk to chuck at them when the need arises.

veronese68

Pinno wrote:

Pross wrote:

I've certainly seen a few with headphones in not picking up their phone when it rings. I'm not a fan of it, you call across the desk to ask them to do something and get no response forcing you to get up and walk around.

Just keep a few things in your desk to chuck at them when the need arises.

Bricks?

Matthewfalle

People going out of their way to drag you into their in work politics even though they know that you have no desire to do anything that may cause trouble to your ridiculously easy life. (Such as get involved in in work politics).

verylonglegs

I switched to Radio 3 a few years ago for my drive to work and I've come to the conclusion I hate harpsichord music. All of it..it is terrible.

pinno

verylonglegs wrote:

I switched to Radio 3 a few years ago for my drive to work and I've come to the conclusion I hate harpsichord music. All of it..it is terrible.

'Baroque', yep - it's pants. Switch to classic FM if you can put up with the ads.

TheBigBean

People trying to talk to me when I'm wearing headphones at work.

awavey

earth wrote:

One the office workers might be familiar with. People in the office wearing headphones and talking to themselves.

get people talking to themselves without the headphones in our office :? more often than not anyone that does wear headphones is just trying to noise cancel that kind of rubbish out, and no-one ever needs to worry about getting no response forcing you to get up and walk around to talk to them,as theyll just email or message you instead.

this is so like my job sometimes :roll:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToHP5gBawA4

bbrap

When there is nothing worth watching on the box (quite often), my other half will put headphones on and then attempt to sing without realising that
1, she can't sing,
2, the volume control appears to be broken
3, its terrifying to listen to

Cats fighting in a sack are more melodious

chris_bass

bbrap wrote:

When there is nothing worth watching on the box (quite often), my other half will put headphones on and then attempt to sing without realising that
1, she can't sing,
2, the volume control appears to be broken
3, its terrifying to listen to

Cats fighting in a sack are more melodious

record her doing it and play it back to her later! sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind!

Garry H

Chris Bass wrote:

bbrap wrote:

When there is nothing worth watching on the box (quite often), my other half will put headphones on and then attempt to sing without realising that
1, she can't sing,
2, the volume control appears to be broken
3, its terrifying to listen to

Cats fighting in a sack are more melodious

record her doing it and play it back to her later! sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind!

And throw that sack full of cats into the nearest river.

rjsterry

Pinno wrote:

Pross wrote:

I've certainly seen a few with headphones in not picking up their phone when it rings. I'm not a fan of it, you call across the desk to ask them to do something and get no response forcing you to get up and walk around.

Just keep a few things in your desk to chuck at them when the need arises.

A well aimed, high velocity rubber band to the back of the neck or ear lobe should suffice. Difficult to pull off if you have to pretend to be a grown-up, though.

earth

Pinno wrote:

verylonglegs wrote:

I switched to Radio 3 a few years ago for my drive to work and I've come to the conclusion I hate harpsichord music. All of it..it is terrible.

'Baroque', yep - it's pants. Switch to classic FM if you can put up with the ads.

I've almost given up on Classic FM. It's just film scores and the same few pieces repeated. Given that all the composers are long gone,who is it that pushes for the same music to be played over and over?

pinno

earth wrote:

Pinno wrote:

verylonglegs wrote:

I switched to Radio 3 a few years ago for my drive to work and I've come to the conclusion I hate harpsichord music. All of it..it is terrible.

'Baroque', yep - it's pants. Switch to classic FM if you can put up with the ads.

I've almost given up on Classic FM. It's just film scores and the same few pieces repeated. Given that all the composers are long gone,who is it that pushes for the same music to be played over and over?

Some people you just can't please :roll:

http://www.europadisc.co.uk/welcome?gcl ... 0wodt0YFJw

secretsam

rjsterry wrote:

Pinno wrote:

Yeah right pross:

Bristol:

Ah, the shell of the old sorting office; not sure that qualifies as town planning, but I'm surprised that they still haven't redeveloped it. Mind you, just round the corner is this



Old photo, but only the colour of the paint has changed.

Depends which way you are looking.

Where to in Bristol's that, then?

secretsam

Youtube adverts for that s0dding Pixel Google whatever phone. The song is utterly, utterly, utterly shit. fuck off, right now, and take your poxy phone with you.

capt_slog

The amount of effort some English put into celebrating St Patrick's day.

secretsam

Capt Slog wrote:

The amount of effort some English put into celebrating St Patrick's day.

...and then forget when St George's day actually comes around. Mind you, Paddy's day is pushed pretty hard.

Plus St George's day is still tainted by a whiff of hard-right, xenophobic, knuckle-dragging idiocy.

fat daddy

changing a rear wheel over

some people make it look so easy ... change to smallest cog, flip the QR, drop the wheel, put new one inplace whilst holding the bike, move derailleur slide in to dropsput bike on floor, tighten qr

this is how I do it

change to smallest cog, flip qr, lift bike, drop wheel get it stuck on the chain, hato use fingers to move the ghain so get covered in oil, put wheel down, get new wheel, hook it in the chain, try to push the derailleur down at the sma e time as positioning wheel and holding bike, realise I need 3 hands as I keep dropping the bike, wedge bike under armk, wheel is now stuck somewhere, its not touching the frame, why wont the QR align with the dropouts, back the wheel off, try again, still not lining up push harder, nothing, move derailleur more, still not budging ... FFS sake wheel out, open up qr more, put back in again, get more oil on fingers when I am trying to line the chain up in a futile attept that this might make it easier try again ................ add a minute of faff ............ eventually it slots in, mysteriously taking a slice of flesh off my finger .... do up QR, job done.

it should be simple ....... and it is on the hybrid, but every other bike I own I fook it up !