Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Tashman wrote:
    bompington wrote:
    You have to remember Swedish culture - no-one is going to stop you from walking in whichever direction you choose, it's just that you become increasingly aware of the subtle social pressure to conform, caused by the knowledge that although no-one will say a word, they all think you're an ar5ehole.
    That has a very British angle to it too
    The main difference is that the Swedes don't even need the dirty looks that would be compulsory round here.
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    Pinno wrote:
    Tashman wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    HaydenM wrote:
    ...-People who walk the wrong was around Ikea...

    Fight. fight, fight...

    Who gonna win - Tashman or HaydenM?
    ...My size...

    My money's on Tashman.

    So is mine, I'm 5'5" and weigh 63kg...
    Tashman wrote:
    HaydenM wrote:
    Tashman wrote:
    HaydenM wrote:
    To add to the list:
    -People who walk the wrong was around Ikea
    -Ikea
    -People
    Being told which way to walk around IKEA! I'm an adult FFS get out of my way sheeples

    You have made me aware that people may walk the wrong way to stick it to the IKEA 'man' rather than just being dithering morons, in which case I approve

    Apparently I 'had' to go there twice this weekend, I'm busy trying to power walk to the things we actually went there to buy in an effort to stop the GF fannying about for three hours and then there are people dawdling around in my way! Every slight hold up and we spend 20 minutes looking at stupid glass jars or p1ss scented candles. My frustration was very real as I had a very lovely new toy from a different shop in the back of the car which I was desperate to get home...
    I feel your pain, it's a guaranteed £100 shop every time I get taken there and we always end up with firkin tea-lights!

    £300 on garden furniture which I wanted to be fair, I'd just spent double that somewhere else (part of the bargain to let me go to the guitar shop was that we stopped at Ikea on the way home) but by the time we got home and built the furniture it was way too late to be annoying the neighbours...
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,332
    bompington wrote:
    Tashman wrote:
    bompington wrote:
    You have to remember Swedish culture - no-one is going to stop you from walking in whichever direction you choose, it's just that you become increasingly aware of the subtle social pressure to conform, caused by the knowledge that although no-one will say a word, they all think you're an ar5ehole.
    That has a very British angle to it too
    The main difference is that the Swedes don't even need the dirty looks that would be compulsory round here.

    Precisely. I was on a bus going from universitet to Centrum in Stockholm. With my barn Svenska, I was talking to and mucking around with a little girl in the seat in front of me. We had a laugh and mum didn't seem to mind but probably too reserved and too Swedish to say anything if she did. However, boy didn't I get short shrift from the then GF when we got home. 'Kin 'ell. :roll:
    I have never known a women to quietly brew so much (I don't think it was necessarily being Swedish but if you're out in public, it ain't going to happen, so it will have to wait).

    That's a thing about women that annoys me. Why do they beat around the bush? Why can't they ask you something straight? Why have I got to read their minds and between the lines?
    Especially when it comes to sex. Why don't they just whisper quietly in the ear if she's up for it? Surely she doesn't have to get me in the mood and if I was severely mutilated in a car accident, 'George' would still be up for it.
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  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    That reminds me Pinno - just how good are women at arguing?

    My wife is a grand master. It doesn't matter what been done she has a razor sharp response to everything which will often turn the argument into a whole other direction. She spins me up into such argumentative circles that I barely recognise who I am anymore. I always end up being wrong as well, and end up feeling guilty about it haha.

    Not that we argue much tbf..........simply because I don't want my ar$e handed to me on a plate again.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,332
    It's not just their ability to argue, I mean, even when i'm right I am wrong, it's their memory: They'll trawl up some misdemeanour from eons ago that I have long forgotten about and use it against you.
    My Swedish gf was a solicitor. I had no chance.
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  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    My missus is wasted as a nurse, would be her perfect job.

    Minutes after a argument I've completely forgotten about it, they no doubt file them in the back of the mind knowing full well it'll be of some use in the future.
  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    Pinno wrote:
    bompington wrote:
    Tashman wrote:
    bompington wrote:
    You have to remember Swedish culture - no-one is going to stop you from walking in whichever direction you choose, it's just that you become increasingly aware of the subtle social pressure to conform, caused by the knowledge that although no-one will say a word, they all think you're an ar5ehole.
    That has a very British angle to it too
    The main difference is that the Swedes don't even need the dirty looks that would be compulsory round here.

    Precisely. I was on a bus going from universitet to Centrum in Stockholm. With my barn Svenska, I was talking to and mucking around with a little girl in the seat in front of me. We had a laugh and mum didn't seem to mind but probably too reserved and too Swedish to say anything if she did. However, boy didn't I get short shrift from the then GF when we got home. 'Kin 'ell. :roll:
    I have never known a women to quietly brew so much (I don't think it was necessarily being Swedish but if you're out in public, it ain't going to happen, so it will have to wait).

    That's a thing about women that annoys me. Why do they beat around the bush? Why can't they ask you something straight? Why have I got to read their minds and between the lines?
    Especially when it comes to sex. Why don't they just whisper quietly in the ear if she's up for it? Surely she doesn't have to get me in the mood and if I was severely mutilated in a car accident, 'George' would still be up for it.


    Ah the "Guess why I'm upset" game. Yes they're good at that. Why don't they just tell you? And why does every argument with a woman immediately drift away from the point and back to something irrelevant that happened years ago that has absolutely fcuk all to do with the subject? And why does logic and reason have to be trumped by whatever emotional bullshit they're trying to introduce into the argument that they just lost........again. And yes, why do men have to get them in the mood for a sh@g by buying them things or remembering to do some trivial thing that somehow demonstrates their love?

    Think that's enough to be going on with.
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    Shortfall wrote:
    And yes, why do men have to get them in the mood for a sh@g by buying them things or remembering to do some trivial thing that somehow demonstrates their love?

    Like flowers. 'Please accept this gift of dying plants as a symbol of my love for you. Looks quite nice but really it's clinging on to the last breaths of life until it inevitably dies and shrivels into nothing' or would she prefer "I killed something nice to show you I love you PS. please lick my willy"
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,332
    HaydenM wrote:
    Shortfall wrote:
    And...love?

    ...please lick my willy"

    That occurrence becomes more seldom the longer you are together. At some point in the future, the only way that will happen is if I have an affair (before i'm grey and wrinkly and still have some teef please) What's the website called again, discreet something or other...

    Back OT:

    Leaving a tissue in a pocket of some garment you put in the washing machine.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,574
    HaydenM wrote:
    Shortfall wrote:
    And yes, why do men have to get them in the mood for a sh@g by buying them things or remembering to do some trivial thing that somehow demonstrates their love?

    Like flowers. 'Please accept this gift of dying plants as a symbol of my love for you. Looks quite nice but really it's clinging on to the last breaths of life until it inevitably dies and shrivels into nothing' or would she prefer "I killed something nice to show you I love you PS. please lick my willy"
    Two thoughts: the flowers will die anyway and were grown solely for the purpose of looking nice in a vase. Your not saving the flowers by not buying them. Secondly, flowers contain a plant's sex organs, so maybe handing over a hopeful bunch is kind of appropriate.
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  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    Paying for dying flowers?! Who do you think I am? Stealing is the only option. I wonder whether she would be as happy with a bunch of sex organs from other areas of nature?
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,574
    HaydenM wrote:
    Paying for dying flowers?! Who do you think I am? Stealing is the only option. I wonder whether she would be as happy with a bunch of sex organs from other areas of nature?
    A bouquet of assorted roadkill testicles? :shock:
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    HantsTooFLat wrote:
    The latest trend on social media for taking photos of your newish baby with little cards announcing how old they are (months and/or weeks) or a particular first (e.g. I slept through the night for the first time).

    I saw my fiancee's friend had posted a picture with a card of theirs saying "Today I am 3 weeks old"! Three weeks? Is this a significant age now that needs announcing? The baby couldn't even hold the little card.

    I've said it before, new parents who seem to think they've achieved something no human has done before. On the other side of the coin, nosey strangers who approach new parents and ask all sorts of details about their baby 'is it a boy or a girl?', 'what's its name?', 'how old is he / she ?' etc. etc.
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    rjsterry wrote:
    HaydenM wrote:
    Paying for dying flowers?! Who do you think I am? Stealing is the only option. I wonder whether she would be as happy with a bunch of sex organs from other areas of nature?
    A bouquet of assorted roadkill testicles? :shock:

    She'll be 'frothing at the gash' as they say...

    Weirdly I get the nosey strangers thing with the dog too but it's either posh shooting people because he's a Lab in good condition or fit girls because he's cute, I know which I prefer
  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    HaydenM wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    HaydenM wrote:
    Paying for dying flowers?! Who do you think I am? Stealing is the only option. I wonder whether she would be as happy with a bunch of sex organs from other areas of nature?
    A bouquet of assorted roadkill testicles? :shock:

    She'll be 'frothing at the gash' as they say...

    Weirdly I get the nosey strangers thing with the dog too but it's either posh shooting people because he's a Lab in good condition or fit girls because he's cute, I know which I prefer

    Had a cracking walk through Durham city centre with our miniature daschund. Was stopped every minute by posh student totty......which only ever happens when I'm with the wife.
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    Pross wrote:

    I've said it before, new parents who seem to think they've achieved something no human has done before. On the other side of the coin, nosey strangers who approach new parents and ask all sorts of details about their baby 'is it a boy or a girl?', 'what's its name?', 'how old is he / she ?' etc. etc.

    Or the worst, "When is he going to have a little brother then?"

    I sometime felt like answering "Do you mean when are we next having sex without using any contraception?"


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    There is a community owned woodland near me, no one knows what they are doing but everybody has a say, typical community politics type rubbish. They employed someone to do the forestry management work and still seem to be making very obvious mistakes that anyone with a bit of relevant experience wouldn't. There are lots of ways of doing things, and a few very very wrong ways. 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing'
  • voodooman
    voodooman Posts: 183
    Teaching - everyone else has been through education so everyone has a right to tell me what's right and wrong with education today. Have to mentally add (or verbally sometimes) "in your opinion".
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    Shortfall wrote:
    Ah the "Guess why I'm upset" game. Yes they're good at that. Why don't they just tell you? And why does every argument with a woman immediately drift away from the point and back to something irrelevant that happened years ago that has absolutely fcuk all to do with the subject? And why does logic and reason have to be trumped by whatever emotional bullshit they're trying to introduce into the argument that they just lost........again. And yes, why do men have to get them in the mood for a sh@g by buying them things or remembering to do some trivial thing that somehow demonstrates their love?

    aka why are men just emotional husks and need a laminated self help cheat sheet of instructions every day to talk to women :wink:
  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    HaydenM wrote:
    There is a community owned woodland near me, no one knows what they are doing but everybody has a say, typical community politics type rubbish. They employed someone to do the forestry management work and still seem to be making very obvious mistakes that anyone with a bit of relevant experience wouldn't. There are lots of ways of doing things, and a few very very wrong ways. 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing'

    One of my colleagues is working for a community owned park we helped restore. You wouldn't believe the amount of phone calls from different members of the group each putting in their two-penneth.

    The problem is:
    If she does it as it should be done they get pi$$ed off as it's not how they would do it, they then do it their own way behind her back and complain it's not right (because they've done it wrong).
    If she does it as they want, the correct sequencing is all out, a lot of money is wasted and they then complain that it's not right.

    Quite often, the people with the worst ideas are the loudest/most confident so they'll take the lead. And then when all our fee's have been spent on extra meetings needed to fix all of the faults (they created) they complain that we aren't doing our job properly and taking all their money.

    She can't win.
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Mark Ronson
  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    Garry H wrote:
    Mark Ronson

    On that note....any fecker that talks with a put on "nonchalant, not really bothered or trying" voice.
  • drlodge
    drlodge Posts: 4,826
    On the train this morning and there were like these two like teenage boys who must have been like about 18 years old and like every other like word was like bl**dy like.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    People who call May 4th 'Star Wars day'. Sad *****, yes it's mildly amusing when you are 8 and someone says may the fourth be with you but it soon gets tired. When some DJ then dedicates an entire 3 hour show to the subject it turns me homicidal.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Unimpressed you are?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    drlodge wrote:
    On the train this morning and there were like these two like teenage boys who must have been like about 18 years old and like every other like word was like bl**dy like.

    If it makes you feel better, that same generation will be looking after you when you're too decrepit to do anything.
    _
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,921
    Pies that are soup with pastry floating on top.
  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    People who delight in letting more than one person know what they are listening too. Car, windows down, volume 11, accompanied by a military assault of drivel n bass.
  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,548
    Not trivial but: Big companies that do everything they can to delay payment to little companies.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,921
    laurentian wrote:
    Not trivial but: Big companies that do everything they can to delay payment to little companies.

    Two things my old boss did: (i) Sit in reception of the big company telling everyone that comes in that they don't pay their bills (ii) Issue a winding-up notice of the big company. Neither were popular.

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