Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

finchy

My wife calling celebrity chefs by their first name only. So instead of saying "It's a Jamie Oliver recipe", she says "It's a Jamie recipe". I can forgive cos she's foreign and she's just copying what English people do, but if English were her first language I'd have divorced her by now.

AchillesLeftKnee

The word "Glasto".

The sheer faux-hippy, alternative-to-pinot-grigiot-on-the-bloody-decking-on-Sunday-evening, ooh-aren't-we-daring-we've-got-wellies-on, this-air-cooled-heap-of-pollution-belching-crap-will-be-so-cool-to-live-in, babies-in-ear-defenders, Mumford-and-Sons-with-their-one-sodding-song-that-they-retitle-and-rerelease-every-time-strum-a-strum-a-strum-a-[expletive]-off..... ARGH, I BLOODY HATE EVERY MENTION OF IT! GET IT OFF THE SODDING RADIO! PASS THE CO-ORDINATES TO CORSHAM COMPUTER CENTRE, TARGET TRIDENT AT THE PLACE, AND FIRE!

*cough*

Ah, I feel so much better now.

graham.

AchillesLeftKnee wrote:

The word "Glasto".

The sheer faux-hippy, alternative-to-pinot-grigiot-on-the-bloody-decking-on-Sunday-evening, ooh-aren't-we-daring-we've-got-wellies-on, this-air-cooled-heap-of-pollution-belching-crap-will-be-so-cool-to-live-in, babies-in-ear-defenders, Mumford-and-Sons-with-their-one-sodding-song-that-they-retitle-and-rerelease-every-time-strum-a-strum-a-strum-a-[expletive]-off..... ARGH, I BLOODY HATE EVERY MENTION OF IT! GET IT OFF THE SODDING RADIO! PASS THE CO-ORDINATES TO CORSHAM COMPUTER CENTRE, TARGET TRIDENT AT THE PLACE, AND FIRE!

*cough*

Ah, I feel so much better now.

So. You going or not?

AchillesLeftKnee

Graham. wrote:

So. You going or not?

Having just had to listen to Lauren Bloody Laverne read out a dedication to the cutely nicknamed crew of the Water Aid Toilets and She-Pees in the Children's Field, I think the sheer tweeness of the whole thing would probably cause me to detonate in shower of internal organs and partly digested curry. I think I'll give it a miss.

RiderUk

Peat wrote:

I don't think there is enough bandwidth for me to list everything that razzes me off.

Great post, that made me laugh :-)

simonhead

Toilets where the seat wont stay up of its own accord. Not sure why this happens but i generally believe the man of the house is not ....well a man.

Pross

oblongomaculatus wrote:

Jimmy Savile had a sniff? I don't remember that.

He must have drugged you then, everyone else he had a sniff of is remembering and going for compensation!

markhewitt1978

My own stupidity annoys me the most.

So I'm doing the weekly tyre pump up, pump up the front with my track pump, all fine.

Back wheel, won't pump up, the air just comes straight out of the pump. Argh, must be a broken valve. So the wheel comes off, and I change the tube and it still won't pump up - what?! I'd been turning the connecting lever the wrong way, considering I'd turned it the correct way all of 30 second earlier that's rather daft.

andy9964

Toilet rolls.
Not the usual "facing the wrong way" thing

But, slightly squashed, so when unwinding they rotate like a cam lobe. I can easily spend far more time than necessary on the toilet, trying to restore roundness for a nice smooth rotation

ballysmate

Andy9964 wrote:

Toilet rolls.
Not the usual "facing the wrong way" thing

But, slightly squashed, so when unwinding they rotate like a cam lobe. I can easily spend far more time than necessary on the toilet, trying to restore roundness for a nice smooth rotation

Get a bidet then, mate.

noiseboyfeetman

Peddle Up! wrote:

Opening a pack of painkillers to find that the leaflet is ALWAYS folded over the blister packs. Not 50% of the time as chance would dictate, but ALWAYS. :twisted:

This used to annoy me until I was told by someone to open the packet at the end that doesn't have the best before date stamped on it, since doing this i've not come across the leaflet staring me in the face laughing at me.

shortcuts

noiseboyfeetman wrote:

Peddle Up! wrote:

Opening a pack of painkillers

This used to annoy me until I was told by someone to open the packet at the end that doesn't have the best before date stamped on it, since doing this i've not come across the leaflet staring me in the face laughing at me.

Which reminds me. Arthritis med's in blister packs. Now that is just a pi$$ take :roll:

langtounboy

Self Service Tills at Supermarkets:

You put in the money to get a single coin back and the little w@nkers give you a pocket load of shrapnel!!!!!

:evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

finchy

Football/rugby/tennis fans who say that nobody dopes in their sport because there is no advantage to be gained. :roll:

ballysmate

johnfinch wrote:

Football/rugby/tennis fans who say that nobody dopes in their sport because there is no advantage to be gained. :roll:

I'm a Wolves fan and I can assure you that whatever the players are on, it is not performance enhancing.

finchy

Ballysmate wrote:

johnfinch wrote:

Football/rugby/tennis fans who say that nobody dopes in their sport because there is no advantage to be gained. :roll:

I'm a Wolves fan and I can assure you that whatever the players are on, it is not performance enhancing.

Are you lot still sulking about John McGinlay?

ballysmate

johnfinch wrote:

Ballysmate wrote:

johnfinch wrote:

Football/rugby/tennis fans who say that nobody dopes in their sport because there is no advantage to be gained. :roll:

I'm a Wolves fan and I can assure you that whatever the players are on, it is not performance enhancing.

Are you lot still sulking about John McGinlay?

Most fans reserve all their anger for Jez Moxey.
He has become the villain at Molineux. Before this, he was reviled at Stoke City.

verylonglegs

Being able to taste eyedrops at the back of your throat shortly after administering them. Urgh.

Frank Wilson

Booby Crush

capt_slog

When people start to clap in time to music, it can be a band concert in the park or the floor events in gymnastics, but it really grates with me because it's so distracting. And once they've started doing it, they look for every opportunity to do it again. If you're that bored, why don't you just go home?

graham.

Capt Slog wrote:

When people start to clap in time to music, it can be a band concert in the park or the floor events in gymnastics, but it really grates with me because it's so distracting. And once they've started doing it, they look for every opportunity to do it again. If you're that bored, why don't you just go home?

I remember seeing Fairport Convention a few years ago, Simon Nicol had a solo spot, when the crowd started to clap along he stopped the song and told them to pack it in!

graham.

What annoys me? That weather bird on BBC news in the morning with her "Guude Morrrning"!

dmclite-3.0

When doing the school run, seeing 2 mums in cars stopping to chat.

Mums stopping to chat right in the gate to the school.

Women being taken by surprise that they have to pay at checkouts and then take forever faffing with purses.

Tescos moving aisle contents around.

The price of grapes also annoy me.

Micheal Gove.

Kirstie Allsop.

Reality show like Towie, Mic etc.

Bruce Forsyth.

Yoghurt pots that dont have smooth sides and complicated shapes on the bottom that make getting the yoghurt out really hard.

Baby Trek

jonomc4 wrote:

People who struggle into work with a cold - because they are F*cking heros - only to pass the cold on to everyone else in the office and ruin their week and god knows how many people on public transport.

Stay the f*ck home - you job isn't really that important - if it was, the company would have given you remote access, so you could work from home is unwell!

And the worse thing is, these people think they deserve a medal for struggling in and making everyone else ill. I hate having to sit here and listen to them sniff, cough and sneeze all over the place - f*cking w4ank to$$ers - hate them!

Yep, with you on this one all the way...drives me mad!

ballysmate

Baby Trek wrote:

jonomc4 wrote:

People who struggle into work with a cold - because they are F*cking heros - only to pass the cold on to everyone else in the office and ruin their week and god knows how many people on public transport.

Stay the f*ck home - you job isn't really that important - if it was, the company would have given you remote access, so you could work from home is unwell!

And the worse thing is, these people think they deserve a medal for struggling in and making everyone else ill. I hate having to sit here and listen to them sniff, cough and sneeze all over the place - f*cking w4ank to$$ers - hate them!

Yep, with you on this one all the way...drives me mad!

Disagree. FFS It's only a cold.
If you were self employed you would drag your @rse into work, wouldn't you? You would have to because otherwise you would not get paid.

oblongomaculatus

Disagree. FFS It's only a cold.

True. A cold is a trivial thing. I'll happily go out cycling with one, in fact I come back feeling better for it, and if you can do that you're fit enough for work. I suppose it comes down to how much you like (or dislike) your job as to whether or not you'll call in sick with a cold.

Hearing someone coughing and sniffing and sneezing all day is quite annoying, though.

desweller

Ballysmate wrote:

Baby Trek wrote:

jonomc4 wrote:

People who struggle into work with a cold - because they are F*cking heros - only to pass the cold on to everyone else in the office and ruin their week and god knows how many people on public transport.

Stay the f*ck home - you job isn't really that important - if it was, the company would have given you remote access, so you could work from home is unwell!

And the worse thing is, these people think they deserve a medal for struggling in and making everyone else ill. I hate having to sit here and listen to them sniff, cough and sneeze all over the place - f*cking w4ank to$$ers - hate them!

Yep, with you on this one all the way...drives me mad!

Disagree. FFS It's only a cold.
If you were self employed you would drag your @rse into work, wouldn't you? You would have to because otherwise you would not get paid.

People who forget the topic of a thread, e.g. 'trivial things that annoy you'.

ballysmate

Well Des, back on track then.

W@nkers who phone in sick for 2 days with 'The Flu'. You don't get the flu for 2 days. The lazy tw@ts have a cold FFS.

How's that Des?

desweller

Ballysmate wrote:

Well Des, back on track then.

W@nkers who phone in sick for 2 days with 'The Flu'. You don't get the flu for 2 days. The lazy tw@ts have a cold FFS.

How's that Des?

Yeah that'll do.

Or people who phone in with, 'Oh, I can't come in, my car's broken, I have to spend a WHOLE DAY fiddling about with the garage'. You live 7 miles away FFS. You're not gonna evaporate without a car. Get a cab or catch the bus or, god help me, ride your bike in or something.

hulla the hulla

people who can't say ask or specific

"he axed me"...

... "and I told her, that pacific gold hoop earing"