Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    pinarello001 wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    I HATE the Pontipines

    pontipines-rouges_432_320.jpg?w=300&h=171

    Yep, it's all about memememememememememememe...

    My girls go looking for other activities when the Pontipines appear. Can we write to the BBC and have the Pontipines put in room 101? Maka Paka, Iggle Piggle and Upsy daisy however keep them riveted.

    I have been away from this thread for a while, can anyone shortlist the things that annoy them because there is no way I am reading 61 pages?
    I am ignoring the stuff above which I think your kids may like . I have been away for a week sans Internet and it was great. Now I'm back I will be more offensive. politics is a good start. That Jimmy Savile - not a bad guy really, :mrgreen:
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    pinarello001 wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    I HATE the Pontipines

    pontipines-rouges_432_320.jpg?w=300&h=171

    Yep, it's all about memememememememememememe...

    My girls go looking for other activities when the Pontipines appear. Can we write to the BBC and have the Pontipines put in room 101? Maka Paka, Iggle Piggle and Upsy daisy however keep them riveted.

    I have been away from this thread for a while, can anyone shortlist the things that annoy them because there is no way I am reading 61 pages?

    Same here. My little one loves Makka Pakka, but he's only ever got excited once by the Pontipines, and that was when Mr Pontipine's moustache flew off.
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    pinarello001 wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    I HATE the Pontipines

    pontipines-rouges_432_320.jpg?w=300&h=171

    Yep, it's all about memememememememememememe...

    My girls go looking for other activities when the Pontipines appear. Can we write to the BBC and have the Pontipines put in room 101? Maka Paka, Iggle Piggle and Upsy daisy however keep them riveted.

    I have been away from this thread for a while, can anyone shortlist the things that annoy them because there is no way I am reading 61 pages?


    My kids are grown up so I have no idea what you are both on about.
    Since kids programmes were banished to their own channels, I now longer get the chance to enjoy a little gem like a Bugs Bunny or Tom & Gerry cartoon. :cry:
  • Peddle Up!
    Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
    Tw*ts who bid on eBay auctions, usually outbidding everyone else at the very last minute, but who have NO intention of paying. :evil:
    Purveyor of "up" :)
  • florerider
    florerider Posts: 1,112
    people who think the train doors close 30 sec prior to departure is advice rather than a challenge.
  • Paulie W
    Paulie W Posts: 1,492
    markhewitt1978 wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    I HATE the Pontipines

    The pontipines are friends of mine.

    Better than those pr!cks the Wattingers.
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    Ads with stoopid football sequences in ...
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Paulie W wrote:
    markhewitt1978 wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    I HATE the Pontipines

    The pontipines are friends of mine.

    Better than those pr!cks the Wattingers.

    At least the Wattingers have the good grace to keep themselves to themselves most of the time, unlike the Pontipines.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    Changing sizes in 'In the night garden' and Makka Pakka is in the studio by some clever editing, so that means he is...wait a minute...how did they fit in the Pinky ponk?...how come Mr Pontibines's moustache enlarges and shrinks?

    @Bally, I have the box set of Tom and Jerry if you want to borrow it.
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  • RDW
    RDW Posts: 1,900
    Firefox 29, and all other software updates with major random changes made to the interface by fixie-riding 'user experience designers', making it annoyingly different without actually being any better.
  • florerider
    florerider Posts: 1,112
    caffay lattay
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    Javaise oon che en dons la maizon.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    pinarello001 wrote:
    Javaise oon che en dons la maizon.

    Are you a postman who's scared of dogs and works in France?
  • drlodge
    drlodge Posts: 4,826
    Any post by rubez
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  • oblongomaculatus
    oblongomaculatus Posts: 616
    When you're buying alcohol in a supermarket and the person serving you has to call a supervisor to "authorise" the sale, because they're under eighteen. Either ignore this stupid rule or stop employing children.
  • Frank Wilson
    Frank Wilson Posts: 930
    "Quarters" or more to the point the pretentious nonsense of calling parts of a town / city quarters.

    When I was young we went to the chippy in Garden Lane, today that same chip shop is in "The Garden Quarter"

    Northgate Street has become "The Northgate Quarter" etc etc

    Just seems complete and utter nonsense to me.
  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    Frank Wilson wrote:
    "Quarters" or more to the point the pretentious nonsense of calling parts of a town / city quarters.

    When I was young we went to the chippy in Garden Lane, today that same chip shop is in "The Garden Quarter"

    Northgate Street has become "The Northgate Quarter" etc etc

    Just seems complete and utter nonsense to me.

    +1.5 trillion
  • smoggysteve
    smoggysteve Posts: 2,909
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    When you're buying alcohol in a supermarket and the person serving you has to call a supervisor to "authorise" the sale, because they're under eighteen. Either ignore this stupid rule or stop employing children.

    Could have been worse. You could have had the checkout assistant refuse to sell it on religious grounds.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    When you're buying alcohol in a supermarket and the person serving you has to call a supervisor to "authorise" the sale, because they're under eighteen. Either ignore this stupid rule or stop employing children.

    Could have been even even even worse - He/she could have refused on the grounds that he though you were giving it to the kids so that they would eat their Brussell Sprouts.
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  • FatTed
    FatTed Posts: 1,205
    Brussell Sprouts
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    When you're buying alcohol in a supermarket and the person serving you has to call a supervisor to "authorise" the sale, because they're under eighteen. Either ignore this stupid rule or stop employing children.

    Yeah, we don't want our kids going out trying to earn a few bob after school do we? Or developing a work ethic whilst studying for the career that they have chosen?
    Much better to let mom and dad provide all their pocket money. :wink:
  • oblongomaculatus
    oblongomaculatus Posts: 616
    It's not the kids on the checkouts I object to, it's the part of the licensing laws that say you have to be over 18 to sell alcohol as well as buy it. Why? And how come supermarkets can get round it by a supervisor entering a code on the till, or sometimes just waving the sale through? If they can do that why not just ignore the rule in the first place? Oh, and while I'm in the area, what about those signs some supermarkets display saying you will be asked to show I.D. when buying booze if you're under 25 (or look it) when you only need to be 18 to buy and drink the stuff?
  • drlodge
    drlodge Posts: 4,826
    People walking slowly right in the middle of the pavement cos they're d1cking with their smart phones. Out of my way!
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    People getting a little too deep for a trivial thread about trivial matters and I am not going to name any names am I Bally?
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    pinarello001 wrote:
    People getting a little too deep for a trivial thread about trivial matters and I am not going to name any names am I Bally?

    :wink:
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    gazeds wrote:
    Do you get dodgy frame's on ebay. There's a brand new Bianchi Sempre frame on ebay, and when the close detail photo's are compared with photo's on the net, some thing's dont match up. For example the cable routing cover's are square cornered, where as on my bianchi's and other's on the net they are round, also the the uci badge is at the front of the frame on the ebay one, where as the other's are at the rear
    Gah. http://www.eng-lang.co.uk/apostrophe_rules.htm
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    It could be worse, hes missed out the apostrophe's on "uci badge i's" and "where a's"
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    johnfinch wrote:
    Same here. My little one loves Makka Pakka, but he's only ever got excited once by the Pontipines, and that was when Mr Pontipine's moustache flew off.

    Our little one was scared when that happened! Although one of the first things she did - before she could really talk, was click along to the Pontipines going to sleep music. - They sleep in their hats!
  • drlodge
    drlodge Posts: 4,826
    Having a new helmet delivered from Wiggle, with no Haribo inside.
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  • southdownswolf
    southdownswolf Posts: 1,525
    drlodge wrote:
    Having a new helmet delivered from Wiggle, with no Haribo inside.

    Send it back and insist on the replacement being correctly packaged.
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