Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • southdownswolf
    southdownswolf Posts: 1,525
    ...and no Haribo is not a trivial thing.
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  • drlodge
    drlodge Posts: 4,826
    well I certainly blame wiggle for this one! I won't be ordering from them in future :wink:
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    markhewitt1978 wrote:
    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!

    I blame Iggle Piggle.
  • oblongomaculatus
    oblongomaculatus Posts: 616
    johnfinch wrote:
    markhewitt1978 wrote:
    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!

    I blame Iggle Piggle.

    I don't have kids so I've never seen In The Night Garden, and I've no idea what you're all talking about, but I have to say it sounds rather good. I must watch it soon. Possibly while drunk...
  • declan1
    declan1 Posts: 2,470
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    markhewitt1978 wrote:
    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!

    I blame Iggle Piggle.

    I don't have kids so I've never seen In The Night Garden, and I've no idea what you're all talking about, but I have to say it sounds rather good. I must watch it soon. Possibly while drunk...

    It's one of the weirdest programs I've ever seen.

    Road - Dolan Preffisio
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    I have no idea what's going on here.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    markhewitt1978 wrote:
    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!

    I blame Iggle Piggle.

    I don't have kids so I've never seen In The Night Garden, and I've no idea what you're all talking about, but I have to say it sounds rather good. I must watch it soon. Possibly while drunk...

    It's definitely Derek Jacobi's best role to date. Having wasted his time on stuff like I, Claudius earlier in his career, he's moved his way up to the Makka Pakka song:

    Makka Pakka,
    Akka Wakka,
    Mikka Makka moo!

    Makka Pakka,
    Appa yakka,
    Ikka akka, ooo

    Hum dum,
    Agga pang,
    Ing, ang, ooo

    Makka Pakka,
    Akka wakka,
    Mikka Makka moo
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,511
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    markhewitt1978 wrote:
    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!

    I blame Iggle Piggle.

    I don't have kids so I've never seen In The Night Garden, and I've no idea what you're all talking about, but I have to say it sounds rather good. I must watch it soon. Possibly while drunk...

    Do that. It would be like an hallucinogenic experience. When the Ninky nonk turns up it's knee height to Makka pakka but when the ramps come down, it's suddenly huge and Makka pakka shrinks. Keeping up?
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  • oblongomaculatus
    oblongomaculatus Posts: 616
    Keeping up?

    Mmm... no. I don't think I've drunk enough beer yet. But I have found it on CBeebies and set my box thing to record it...

    Anyone remember The Magic Roundabout? Thinking back, that was pretty strange.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,511
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    Keeping up?

    Mmm... no. I don't think I've drunk enough beer yet. But I have found it on CBeebies and set my box thing to record it...

    Anyone remember The Magic Roundabout? Thinking back, that was pretty strange.

    Yep, written by a French man on LSD and whilst we are at it, Lewis Carol wrote Alice in Wonderland whilst smoking Opium - more common in the Victorian era than you would imagine.
    There's a thread here (no pun intended)...
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  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    Sports commentators mispronouncing 'coup de grâce'. It has got literally nothing to do with fat.
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Caramel chocolates. They're just the chocolates that people eat cos all the nice ones have gone.
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,996
    johnfinch wrote:
    Caramel chocolates. They're just the chocolates that people eat cos all the nice ones have gone.


    The demise of the lime barrel in Milk Tray.
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,996
    The demise of the RIP threads. What happened to them? :wink:
  • fatsmoker
    fatsmoker Posts: 585
    People writing 'me thinks' at the end of any opinion. No need, we know it's your worthless opinion.
  • VTech
    VTech Posts: 4,736
    Ballysmate wrote:
    The demise of the RIP threads. What happened to them? :wink:


    You could start a "the rest in peace of the RIP" thread to get it back on track.
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  • oblongomaculatus
    oblongomaculatus Posts: 616
    This situation.

    You're enjoying a lovely relaxed ride in the sunshine on a quiet country road. You haven't seen a car in miles. You feel a bit hungry, so you reach in your back pocket for an energy bar. As you prepare to tear the wrapper open with your teeth, simultaneously three things happen:

    1] From nowhere there appears a stream of cars in both directions.

    2] The road, which up to that point has been smooth, is suddenly dotted with potholes.

    3] A gusty crosswind gets up on what has up to now been a calm day.

    Hastily you put the bar back in your pocket, because now you need both hands on the handlebars and all your concentration. The traffic thins out and disappears. The wind dies down again. The road is once again smooth. You wait a couple of minutes, but all is calm, so you reach in your pocket again. As you prepare to tear the wrapper open with your teeth, simultaneously three things happen...

    Something along those lines seems to happen on nearly every ride.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,511
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    This situation.

    You're enjoying a lovely relaxed ride in the sunshine on a quiet country road. You haven't seen a car in miles. You feel a bit hungry, so you reach in your back pocket for an energy bar. As you prepare to tear the wrapper open with your teeth, you drop the bar in a f*cking puddle.

    FTFY
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  • oblongomaculatus
    oblongomaculatus Posts: 616
    pinarello001 wrote:
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    This situation.

    You're enjoying a lovely relaxed ride in the sunshine on a quiet country road. You haven't seen a car in miles. You feel a bit hungry, so you reach in your back pocket for an energy bar. As you prepare to tear the wrapper open with your teeth, you drop the bar in a f*cking puddle.

    FTFY

    Oddly enough, that has never happened to me, whereas the sequence I describe... where do these cars come from, are they waiting in a layby like a posse for me to reach for food? One time there were over a hundred of them, all vintage vehicles from the 50's 60's and 70's, most with extravagant custom paint jobs, on their way to a rally. I swear ZZ Top were in one of them...

    Your experience may differ, of course.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,511
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    pinarello001 wrote:
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    This situation.

    You're enjoying a lovely relaxed ride in the sunshine on a quiet country road. You haven't seen a car in miles. You feel a bit hungry, so you reach in your back pocket for an energy bar. As you prepare to tear the wrapper open with your teeth, you drop the bar in a f*cking puddle.

    FTFY

    Oddly enough, that has never happened to me, whereas the sequence I describe... where do these cars come from, are they waiting in a layby like a posse for me to reach for food? One time there were over a hundred of them, all vintage vehicles from the 50's 60's and 70's, most with extravagant custom paint jobs, on their way to a rally. I swear ZZ Top were in one of them...

    Your experience may differ, of course.

    I have more trouble with sheep than cars.
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  • oblongomaculatus
    oblongomaculatus Posts: 616
    Horrible things, sheep. From a distance, picturesque and scenic. Up close, all manky and grey with mad eyes. Seldom found behind the wheel of a car, though.
  • FatTed
    FatTed Posts: 1,205
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    Horrible things, sheep. From a distance, picturesque and scenic. Up close, all manky and grey with mad eyes. Seldom found behind the wheel of a car, though.

    Unless you live in New Zealand
  • florerider
    florerider Posts: 1,112
    pinarello001 wrote:

    I have more trouble with sheep than cars.

    pictures - it didn't happen without pictures
  • drlodge
    drlodge Posts: 4,826
    drlodge wrote:
    Having a new helmet delivered from Wiggle, with no Haribo inside.

    And then, having moaned about it on here, find it burried inside the helmet box and have to fess up being as blind as a bat.
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  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    That targeted advertising thingy where they try to encourage you to buy things by giving you ads for things you have just purchased...
  • drlodge
    drlodge Posts: 4,826
    Mikey23 wrote:
    That targeted advertising thingy where they try to encourage you to buy things by giving you ads for things your girlfriend has just purchased...

    FTFY :lol:
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  • jawooga
    jawooga Posts: 530
    I'm thinking of buying a wood burner, but I can't find a website of a local retailer who will tell me up front how much each of their stoves cost. It can't be that difficult and/or they can't have that high a turn over of different models that they can't keep the information updated on a website.

    Instead they just say "phone or email to get further details and prices". Do they really want me to phone or email and ask for the price of every wood burner that is listed?! <grrrr> I understand it's to get the dialogue going, but really it doesn't do anybody any favours.

    Anyway, that's what's irritating me this evening.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,511
    jawooga wrote:
    I'm thinking of buying a wood burner, but I can't find a website of a local retailer who will tell me up front how much each of their stoves cost. It can't be that difficult and/or they can't have that high a turn over of different models that they can't keep the information updated on a website.

    Instead they just say "phone or email to get further details and prices". Do they really want me to phone or email and ask for the price of every wood burner that is listed?! <grrrr> I understand it's to get the dialogue going, but really it doesn't do anybody any favours.

    Anyway, that's what's irritating me this evening.

    PM me about woodburners if you like.
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  • jawooga
    jawooga Posts: 530
    When people say

    "I'm a little bit OCD" or "I've got a touch of autism".

    It's normally to point out a part of their character that they think is quirky, perhaps even lovable, while completely trivialising mental illness. I'd suggest that a. they're likely to be pretty unremarkable in their range of personality traits and b. if they do think they might have a condition, they should think about speaking to a professional.
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    Plus one for this... Working with those who have these conditions. Not to be trivialised IMO
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    Wives who say... 'If you're looking for a job tomorrow you could just mend the...'

    Do you think I've got some magical flipping powers that means I can fix things you can't, and why the heck didn't you tell the plumber while he was actually in the house...

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