Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • CambsNewbie
    CambsNewbie Posts: 564
    verylonglegs wrote:
    People who insist on wearing cargo shorts and flip-flops up until October. Let's face it, it is a rather unimaginative and generic look even when the sun is out, so don't compound the error by continuing with it when it's 13degC and drizzle. Summer is gone, get over it!

    And on those people who on the first sunny day in March, even when it's not warm, will get the shorts and flip-flops out. And they insist they aren't cold even though their skin has gone purple!
  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    I found it very offputting today when someone I was speaking to prefaced nearly every sentence with "I'm not being funny, but . . .". It suggests that they think everything they're saying could otherwise be mistaken for a joke or some sort of mental aberration - I'm not not being funny, but is that what they want other people to think?
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  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    Giraffoto wrote:
    I found it very offputting today when someone I was speaking to prefaced nearly every sentence with "I'm not being funny, but . . .". It suggests that they think everything they're saying could otherwise be mistaken for a joke or some sort of mental aberration - I'm not not being funny, but is that what they want other people to think?

    Couldn't paste this in here as there would be too many asterisks...

    http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0267189/quotes
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  • Peddle Up!
    Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
    team47b wrote:
    Couldn't paste this in here as there would be too many asterisks...

    http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0267189/quotes

    Brilliant quotes from a brilliant film. :wink:
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  • Peddle Up!
    Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
    “Do you need help packing?” and variants thereupon, in the major supermarkets. As far as I can see, 99+% of people are OK to pack their own stuff so shouldn’t the default be something like a sign that says, “Assistance with packing is available”? Why ask everyone, every time?

    Please don’t tell me it’s down to some litigious cr*p from over the Atlantic. :roll:
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  • CambsNewbie
    CambsNewbie Posts: 564
    Peddle Up! wrote:
    “Do you need help packing?” and variants thereupon, in the major supermarkets. As far as I can see, 99+% of people are OK to pack their own stuff so shouldn’t the default be something like a sign that says, “Assistance with packing is available”? Why ask everyone, every time?

    Please don’t tell me it’s down to some litigious cr*p from over the Atlantic. :roll:

    I was asked this very question a couple of days ago in Tesco. I looked at the girl, looked at my newspaper, bottle of milk and baguette and said "I think I can manage, thank you." What made it worse was that she didn't appreciate the ridiculousness of even asking the question.. Oh well..
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    I bought a 2.4 metre piece of wood in a DIY store and the girl at the till asked me if I wanted a carrier bag :shock:

    I said that even if you had a 2.4 metre carrier bag I would not be tall enough to hold the handles :D
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  • jawooga
    jawooga Posts: 530
    team47b wrote:
    I bought a 2.4 metre piece of wood in a DIY store and the girl at the till asked me if I wanted a carrier bag :shock:

    I said that even if you had a 2.4 metre carrier bag I would not be tall enough to hold the handles :D

    That is genius. My wife, who's trying to read just asked me what was so funny.
  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    team47b wrote:
    I bought a 2.4 metre piece of wood in a DIY store and the girl at the till asked me if I wanted a carrier bag :shock:

    I said that even if you had a 2.4 metre carrier bag I would not be tall enough to hold the handles :D

    ^^^^ Like.
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  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    People who emerge from buildings, premises, shops, etc without looking, nearly crashing into you as you walk by. If they manage to get in front they then insist on dawdling as they shout into their phone glued to their fricking ear.
    Life is like a roll of toilet paper; long and useful, but always ends at the wrong moment. Anon.
    Think how stupid the average person is.......
    half of them are even more stupid than you first thought.
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    Could this be the new ....


    Saw a book with 'could this be the new stieg larsson' .. Yeah right, so he's going to die of a heart attack aged 50 before he's made any money....
  • hmm
    hmm Posts: 39
    "...redoubling our efforts"...

    Redoubling!
    Redoubling, or just plain doubling?
    To redouble would imply it had already been doubled once, so did it lapse back into 'undoubledness' or had it stayed doubled to be doubled again - therefore quadrupled?
    And does is matter specifying the degree to which efforts are increased, or would "increasing our efforts" suffice...

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  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    Peddle Up! wrote:
    “Do you need help packing?” and variants thereupon, in the major supermarkets. As far as I can see, 99+% of people are OK to pack their own stuff so shouldn’t the default be something like a sign that says, “Assistance with packing is available”? Why ask everyone, every time?

    Please don’t tell me it’s down to some litigious cr*p from over the Atlantic. :roll:

    I'd take them up on the offer. Not at the supermarket, but if you move house any time in the near future, and see if they keep to their word then. ;)

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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Why yes, how offensive it is to be offered help by someone :roll:

    Can I suggest, with the minimum possible socially acceptable level of politeness, that some of you are grumpy old gits who maybe need to go out and ride their bikes a bit more?

    I know I am.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    ...and when I am out and about, I am getting more and more wound up by the prevalence of
  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,671
    verylonglegs wrote:
    People who insist on wearing cargo shorts and flip-flops up until October. Let's face it, it is a rather unimaginative and generic look even when the sun is out, so don't compound the error by continuing with it when it's 13degC and drizzle. Summer is gone, get over it!
    I live in an area densely populated by South Africans and excusing snow, this seems to be their preferred attire all year!
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  • graham.
    graham. Posts: 862
    What annoys me is that on "Mock The Week" they all wear tie mikes and we can here them perfectly, yet when they go to the "performance area", they have to do that comedian thing where they grab the microphone and move the stand out of the way!
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  • cruiser33
    cruiser33 Posts: 464
    Usually twenty something Sales Assistants in out-of-town superstores who come up and ask if you want any help, and if you say no; then go on to say, "my names Wayne (or Tom, or whatever) if you do need any further assistance": I assume they think if you are unable to find what you are looking for you will just stand in the middle of the shop dribbling with no idea what to do; amazingly, I think probably 100% of the population would be able to realise that if they can`t find what they want; to go and get any sales person would be a step in the right direction.
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    cruiser33 wrote:
    who come up and ask if you want any help, and if you say no; then go on to say, "my names Wayne (or Tom, or whatever) if you do need any further assistance"

    I think it's funny that they always say "any further assistance" as if they had already been of some help :D
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  • jawooga
    jawooga Posts: 530
    I quite like being asked if i need help if i am in an out of town currys or similar, where the one thing i am after could be anywhere.
  • jawooga
    jawooga Posts: 530
    Graham. wrote:
    What annoys me is that on "Mock The Week" they all wear tie mikes and we can here them perfectly, yet when they go to the "performance area", they have to do that comedian thing where they grab the microphone and move the stand out of the way!

    That bald fella on Mock The Week isn't funny at all...

    " Tony Blair has come out this week and said we need to concentrate on the middle east piece process. I say, Tony Blair can't concentrate on his shoe laces"<\funny face>
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    jawooga wrote:
    Graham. wrote:
    What annoys me is that on "Mock The Week" they all wear tie mikes and we can here them perfectly, yet when they go to the "performance area", they have to do that comedian thing where they grab the microphone and move the stand out of the way!

    That bald fella on Mock The Week isn't funny at all...

    " Tony Blair has come out this week and said we need to concentrate on the middle east piece process. I say, Tony Blair can't concentrate on his shoe laces"<\funny face>

    which bit of the peace process would you like to concentrate on? :wink:
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  • jawooga
    jawooga Posts: 530
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    jawooga wrote:
    Graham. wrote:
    What annoys me is that on "Mock The Week" they all wear tie mikes and we can here them perfectly, yet when they go to the "performance area", they have to do that comedian thing where they grab the microphone and move the stand out of the way!

    That bald fella on Mock The Week isn't funny at all...

    " Tony Blair has come out this week and said we need to concentrate on the middle east piece process. I say, Tony Blair can't concentrate on his shoe laces"<\funny face>

    which bit of the peace process would you like to concentrate on? :wink:

    Fair doose :D
  • cruiser33
    cruiser33 Posts: 464
    ...........opening a Paper or magazine and seeing another bl..dy picture of Harry `f...ing` Styles...........; I mean who gives a toss!!??
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    Any post in the buying advice section containing the word 'bombproof'. Oh how I wish these people were peppered with mortars or encounter landmines on the next club run so that they might post a bit more intelligently after considering a more appropriate definition.
  • simonhead
    simonhead Posts: 1,399
    When crackling doesn't go crispy.
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Going around a supermarket and seeing products that people have 'dumped' anywhere, because they changed their minds. Particularly annoying with frozen and chilled food, that consequently has to be thrown away. Food being wasted because of idleness of either mind or body.
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    Aussies who start every flipping sentence with 'now look'....
  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    mate ~^^^^
  • Peddle Up!
    Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
    The whole feck-ing panda thing. :roll:
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