Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

cowsham

First Aspect wrote:

Twitter.

The people on twitter -- especially people that run super power nations by twitter.

cowsham

The fact that we give too much attention to bad stuff eg why is there only 34 pages of "seemingly trivial things that cheer you up " and 278 pages of " Seemingly trivial things that annoy you " both threads started Nov 2012.

type:epyt

crispybug2 wrote:

People who eat whilst walking down the street, seriously can you not sit down to eat your food for a mere five minutes like a civilised member of the human race???

People walking down the street eating crisps especially irks me ... Or biting into a chocolate bar ... Either of those foodstuffs could have waited ...

pinno

Cowsham wrote:

The fact that we give too much attention to bad stuff eg why is there only 34 pages of "seemingly trivial things that cheer you up " and 278 pages of " Seemingly trivial things that annoy you " both threads started Nov 2012.

'Cos cyclists are a bunch of miserable, tight fisted Luddites. Didn't you know? :roll:

Matthewfalle

type:epyt wrote:

crispybug2 wrote:

People who eat whilst walking down the street, seriously can you not sit down to eat your food for a mere five minutes like a civilised member of the human race???

People ......... Or biting into a chocolate bar ... Either of those foodstuffs could have waited ...

Bollox. Utter bollox.

Chocolate cannot wait. What - do you want me to buy a Yorkie then walk home and put it on a plate?

Bollox.

Anything could happen to it during that walk - Da'esh kidnapping it, TDSD stealing iot after having distracted me with her loveliness, even - God forbid - one of the Bambini may have asked for a bit and incurred their father's rage at theior temerity at trying to eat my chocolate.

Crazy fool idea.

Garry H

Nowt wrong with eating some foods whilst riding on shanks pony. I draw the line at soup though. Under no circumstances should soup be consumed outdoors

First.Aspect

Cowsham wrote:

The fact that we give too much attention to bad stuff eg why is there only 34 pages of "seemingly trivial things that cheer you up " and 278 pages of " Seemingly trivial things that annoy you " both threads started Nov 2012.

People who are relentlessly optimistic, despite all available evidence.

keef66

Garry H wrote:

Nowt wrong with eating some foods whilst riding on shanks pony. I draw the line at soup though. Under no circumstances should soup be consumed outdoors

Surely you'd make an exception for the Salvation Army dishing out soup to the homeless / rough sleepers?

On the odd occasion we're let out at lunchtime for a walk, we frequently encounter a bloke walking the other way with a massive lunchbox under his arm, and scoffing as he goes. Even stranger is the chap apparently reading a book while walking. More than our fair share of eccentrics working on a science park...

The Runescape lot next door are a pretty diverse bunch. Several girls with blue and green hair, and they were doing fire eating one lunchtime last summer. They also have a tracked armoured personnel carrier they occasionally pile into and take for a blast round the ring road.

(I cannot begin to imagine the risk assessment / insurance / managerial @rse covering blizzard of paperwork that would ensue if I tried to organise that kind of stuff here :shock: )

dinyull

Walking reading a book, how is that strange or eccentric?

Without sounding young and hip, no different than walking and txting and although you get the occasional ignorant n*b not watching where they're going most people seem able to manage it.

haydenm

Pinno wrote:

Cowsham wrote:

The fact that we give too much attention to bad stuff eg why is there only 34 pages of "seemingly trivial things that cheer you up " and 278 pages of " Seemingly trivial things that annoy you " both threads started Nov 2012.

'Cos cyclists are a bunch of miserable, tight fisted Luddites. Didn't you know? :roll:

When trivial things are cheering me up I don't make a mental note to write about them on the internet like I do when trivial things are annoying me. My life is awesome, it's easier to pick out the bits that annoy me as they stand out more...

That's another trivial thing that annoys me, the amount of people I speak to my age (25 so a few years either way) who moan about how much they hate their jobs. I know not everyone loves their job but I wonder how much of it is actual hate and how much of it is the general discomfort of getting up on a Monday, coupled with the typical British attitude where we moan about things that are actually fine...

keef66

Dinyull wrote:

Walking reading a book, how is that strange or eccentric?

Without sounding young and hip, no different than walking and txting and although you get the occasional ignorant n*b not watching where they're going most people seem able to manage it.

Without sounding old and in need of a hip, in nearly 60 years on this planet he's the only one I've spotted doing it, so it's certainly not the norm. Although he might be; I don't know his name. And I know for a fact that I couldn't do it. Maybe something a high functioning multitasking jet fighter pilot would find easy, but monotasking is all I can manage. I'd be forever walking into trees and losing my place.

And as for walking and texting, most of the evidence I've seen suggests a lot of people can't do that safely either. OK, they may not be as dangerous as drivers using mobiles, but they are still a bloody menace when they step into the road without looking, and infuriatingly unapolagetic when they blunder into you.

Tashman

type:epyt wrote:

crispybug2 wrote:

People who eat whilst walking down the street, seriously can you not sit down to eat your food for a mere five minutes like a civilised member of the human race???

People walking down the street eating crisps especially irks me ... Or biting into a chocolate bar ... Either of those foodstuffs could have waited ...

I have to disagree with the chocolate bar specifically. easy to eat on the move. designed to fit in the hand, and when I buy a choccie bar, I generally want it imediately. It is an impuls purchase!

pinno

First Aspect wrote:

Cowsham wrote:

The...2012.

People who are relentlessly optimistic, despite all available evidence.

'Tis true.

type:epyt

It's not the eating a bit of chocolate that's annoying, it's the stuffing/biting/tearing motion and subsequent gurning as they try and chew their way through about half the f'ing bar ... Break a sensible piece off and eat it with some decorum ...

awavey

Cowsham wrote:

The fact that we give too much attention to bad stuff eg why is there only 34 pages of "seemingly trivial things that cheer you up " and 278 pages of " Seemingly trivial things that annoy you " both threads started Nov 2012.

because the trivial stuff that cheers me up, like cows moo'ing, isnt half as amusing as the trivial stuff that grinds my gears, its cathartic also to gripe, less so for being cheerful.

secretsam

People who use the word "poorly" all the time. A child with a temperature, yes - that's "poorly". A child in Critical Care is flipping SERIOUSLY ILL.

First.Aspect

Carol Kirkwood.

"Chilly' is cold Carol. "With height" means nothing to normal people. Refer to hills FFS. In fact get someone on who is willing to use some meteorological terms, or indeed who has some training, rather than talking like a primary school teacher in a finger painting lesson.

seanoconn

The scary effect beetroot has on your bodily functions. "What the f@ck!?.... oh yeah."

mrb123

First Aspect wrote:

Carol Kirkwood.

"Chilly' is cold Carol. "With height" means nothing to normal people. Refer to hills FFS. In fact get someone on who is willing to use some meteorological terms, or indeed who has some training, rather than talking like a primary school teacher in a finger painting lesson.

Lovely big knockers though.

Garry H

First Aspect wrote:

Carol Kirkwood.

"Chilly' is cold Carol. "With height" means nothing to normal people. Refer to hills FFS. In fact get someone on who is willing to use some meteorological terms, or indeed who has some training, rather than talking like a primary school teacher in a finger painting lesson.

Thick folk can just look at the pictures. It's what they're for. For anybody that needs detailed information, eg (Hello!) sailors and mountaineers, there are better sources.

Simple weather for simple folk, that's all it is.

bbrap

Why whenever I go into my local post office do I end up behind someone who seems to have just sold the entire contents of their house on eBay and is now posting it all. The specimen today had 2 (yes 2) black dustbin liners full of packets and was pulling them out one at a time to get weighed, requested a proof of postage etc etc. Grrrrrr

Pross

First Aspect wrote:

Carol Kirkwood.

"Chilly' is cold Carol. "With height" means nothing to normal people. Refer to hills FFS. In fact get someone on who is willing to use some meteorological terms, or indeed who has some training, rather than talking like a primary school teacher in a finger painting lesson.

She had training with the Met Office but a completely unrelated degree. I'm surprised as I thought the BBC weather people usually started their careers at the Met Office.

First.Aspect

Pross wrote:

First Aspect wrote:

Carol Kirkwood.

"Chilly' is cold Carol. "With height" means nothing to normal people. Refer to hills FFS. In fact get someone on who is willing to use some meteorological terms, or indeed who has some training, rather than talking like a primary school teacher in a finger painting lesson.

She had training with the Met Office but a completely unrelated degree. I'm surprised as I thought the BBC weather people usually started their careers at the Met Office.

No, I think for the BBC its largely based on whether or not you have a sing songy voice, large knockers, a pretty face and/or whether your parents were famous.

pinno

First Aspect wrote:

Pross wrote:

First Aspect wrote:

Carol Kirkwood.

"Chilly' is cold Carol. "With height" means nothing to normal people. Refer to hills FFS. In fact get someone on who is willing to use some meteorological terms, or indeed who has some training, rather than talking like a primary school teacher in a finger painting lesson.

She had training with the Met Office but a completely unrelated degree. I'm surprised as I thought the BBC weather people usually started their careers at the Met Office.

No, I think for the BBC its largely based on whether or not you have a sing songy voice, large knockers, a pretty face and/or whether your parents were famous.

What??! You haven't seen 'our' Judith Ralston. There's no way she was selected based on your criteria. She's a cross between Barry White, Miss Whiplash, a headmistress and a funeral director. She takes her weather very seriously, it's a very sombre affair when she gives the weather forecast.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvaf3vbGmPY

First.Aspect

Pinno wrote:

First Aspect wrote:

Pross wrote:

First Aspect wrote:

Carol Kirkwood.

"Chilly' is cold Carol. "With height" means nothing to normal people. Refer to hills FFS. In fact get someone on who is willing to use some meteorological terms, or indeed who has some training, rather than talking like a primary school teacher in a finger painting lesson.

She had training with the Met Office but a completely unrelated degree. I'm surprised as I thought the BBC weather people usually started their careers at the Met Office.

No, I think for the BBC its largely based on whether or not you have a sing songy voice, large knockers, a pretty face and/or whether your parents were famous.

What??! You haven't seen 'our' Judith Ralston. There's no way she was selected based on your criteria. She's a cross between Barry White, Miss Whiplash, a headmistress and a funeral director. She takes her weather very seriously, it's a very sombre affair when she gives the weather forecast.

pinno

That's ^ her at the weekend.

Garry H

Well i would.

pinno

Lat's face it - you 'would' anything.

Garry H

Fat folk. Can't abide them.

pinno

There was a documentary the other night about fat folk wanting more surgery and the 'prejudiced NHS'. They are full of bollox. I'm not saying that there isn't prejudice in the NHS, it's just that they are determined to blame their obesity on other factors than too many calories in and not enough going out. I bet less than a few percent actually need stomach reducing surgery because of a genuine medical complaint. We never saw the amount of overweight people in the 70's and 80's that we do now.
Personally, I have had to overcome all sorts of obstacles to get out on my bike including under active thyroid. What's their excuse?

I don't know what other people thought of the programme:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... is-the-nhs