Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

kingstongraham

What I meant was that this is unexpectedly useful emails - handover is different.

I never file any emails beyond having a very small "useful" folder. The additional time it takes on the rare occasion I need to find something is much less than the aggregate time of organising them each day.

TheBigBean

David Allen Green

N0bodyOfTheGoat

After being stuck indoors since Monday lunch due to Covid or flu, all I wanted to do was go around the flat bock in easiest gears for 5-10mins before sunset. Pumped latex tubes up to usual pressures, start walking to front door and the flippin front tube goes pop. fml.

N0bodyOfTheGoat

And to top it off, I've just spent ~20mins wrestling a replacement 25mm GP5000 on to the front (the 23mm has a sidewall gash where Friday's punture happened) while still feeling rough, to find a double snakebite puncture on the replacement butyl tube I thought was good to go as I approached 80PSI... Crying inside!

Edit: Decided to look in the big box of used tubes that my better half collated at least two years ago while "tidying up" the mancave for me, my god, there's so many tubes in there of all sorts of sizes! In among all the tubes with punctures that need repairing, by some miracle I found an apparent intact Conti Race Wide, with a thumb blister war wound I now have a working road bike to pootle around the block and see shockingly low power numbers thanks to this flu/covid.

pblakeney

Look on the bright side.
Better to be breaking the tyre in while indoors instead of roadside in the rain.

rick_chasey

Read that the women’s England team don’t get a reception at Downing Street?


Wtf?!

kingstongraham

rick_chasey said:

Read that the women’s England team don’t get a reception at Downing Street?


Wtf?!

Big man's gone on holiday.

rick_chasey

Haha he’s gone on holiday? From what?

Whatacunt.

I guess it goes in trivial things that cheer you up but I’m glad I followed my instincts and called him a c unt to his face when I had the chance.

Pross

rick_chasey said:

Read that the women’s England team don’t get a reception at Downing Street?


Wtf?!

They probably asked not to.

kingstongraham

rick_chasey said:

Haha he’s gone on holiday? From what?

Got a busy time coming up in September onwards when he gets to earn some proper money from giving that same speech over and over again with all the same adlibs, this time as ex-PM.

briantrumpet

kingstongraham said:

rick_chasey said:

Haha he’s gone on holiday? From what?

Got a busy time coming up in September onwards when he gets to earn some proper money from giving that same speech over and over again with all the same adlibs, this time as ex-PM.

I can't remember who wrote the piece, but it was excoriating, and basically said he does absolutely no preparation for speeches, hence the rambling ad-libbing. Much like his Prime Ministership. Lazy, and not a big enough brain to pull it off convincingly.

pblakeney

Sat in a sun baked remote country pub enjoying multiple ciders following a superb 24 hour slow cooked Sunday roast.
So what’s annoying me? Clearly drink driving is still prevalent in west Devon.

rjsterry

Shoddy application of sunblock leading to two ridiculous sunburnt 'ankle bracelets' and a weird pink stripe up one calf.

orraloon

Having to do a (belated) address change for an online account via post; Equiniti, it is you. Activation code issued by them by post to an address I haven't been at for 2+ years. Contact customer services? Either by phone or by post (post!), no email option let alone message chat.

Are they sucking up to the Grease-Smugs of this world.

Pross

The way people sometimes seem to be waiting for the green 'available' tick to show on my MS Teams status to start calling me rather than just thinking for themselves / doing a bit of research.

Pross

The old chestnut of parking. I took the dog to the local park about 8am today and there was a car sounding its horn trying to get into the small parking area at a community hall as another car was parked partially blocking the gates. Eventually the owner came back having been walking their dogs in the park and been totally unaware of the situation they'd caused. It was ridiculous as there is proper car park within 100m of where they'd pulled in that was virtually empty and they were also on the access road to a school that is having building work done so large vehicles would also have had to struggle past. The driver of the vehicle that had been trying to get in, who was very old and having to use a walking frame, had to sit there for at least 10 minutes waiting for the selfish tw@t to come and move.

pangolin

I'd list people beeping their horns at empty cars and expecting anything to happen as annoying.

Or people who pull up in the road and beep to tell someone to come out. Knock on the door you lazy f****r.

briantrumpet

Not being able to remember the thing that I thought of earlier that annoys me.

briantrumpet

Oh, got it. Toilet seats that won't stay up without you holding it with a knee or a hand. Basic centre of mass failure in design or execution.

rick_chasey

Cars/drivers that don't use the sliproad to get up to speed.

Mate, it's gonna be a lot harder if you join doing 40mph.

briantrumpet

rick_chasey said:

Cars/drivers that don't use the sliproad to get up to speed.

Mate, it's gonna be a lot harder if you join doing 40mph.

Gotta bag their place in the lane!

At least UK sliproads are vaguely sensible lengths, unlike too many of the French ones, which are too short and end abruptly.

Pross

pangolin said:

I'd list people beeping their horns at empty cars and expecting anything to happen as annoying.

Or people who pull up in the road and beep to tell someone to come out. Knock on the door you lazy f****r.

I'd generally agree but to be fair to this woman she didn't have a clue where the car owner was and she needed to get access to the hall. She certainly wasn't physically able to go walking around trying to find them or using the public car park and walking the rest of the way. I'm still genuinely puzzled why anyone felt it was a reasonable place to leave a car and then go off walking their dogs.

rick_chasey

Particular bugbear for me as I need the sliproad to get up to 60/70 as it takes me bloody ages.

Stevo_666

Often having to brake to join the main carriageway at the end of a slip road annoys me.

rjsterry

Pross said:

The old chestnut of parking. I took the dog to the local park about 8am today and there was a car sounding its horn trying to get into the small parking area at a community hall as another car was parked partially blocking the gates. Eventually the owner came back having been walking their dogs in the park and been totally unaware of the situation they'd caused. It was ridiculous as there is proper car park within 100m of where they'd pulled in that was virtually empty and they were also on the access road to a school that is having building work done so large vehicles would also have had to struggle past. The driver of the vehicle that had been trying to get in, who was very old and having to use a walking frame, had to sit there for at least 10 minutes waiting for the selfish tw@t to come and move.

There is an area of Forestry Commission over the road from our campsite. A large no parking sign on the gate and two or three dog walkers' cars parked in front of the sign every morning. Also, that perennial favourite, bagged up dogshit left at the side of the path in the middle of a nature reserve. Would be better if they just left the turd where it fell.

Pross

Yeah, that's a pet hate (no pun intended!) of mine too. Some people will argue there should be bins in the car parks but why should the likes of a National Park or Forestry Commission need to get rid of waste of any kind for people visiting their land?

morstar

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briantrumpet said:

Oh, got it. Toilet seats that won't stay up without you holding it with a knee or a hand. Basic centre of mass failure in design or execution.

I consider it a female influenced design feature.

The whole toilet seat thing annoys me though.

50% of the population generally want it up whilst the other 50% want it down.

And yet the retort is it’s lazy to leave it up. No, it’s sensible. A womans needs do not trump a mans. Quite the opposite infact, given I know many women who can last days without seeming to go.

surrey_commuter

rjsterry said:

Pross said:

The old chestnut of parking. I took the dog to the local park about 8am today and there was a car sounding its horn trying to get into the small parking area at a community hall as another car was parked partially blocking the gates. Eventually the owner came back having been walking their dogs in the park and been totally unaware of the situation they'd caused. It was ridiculous as there is proper car park within 100m of where they'd pulled in that was virtually empty and they were also on the access road to a school that is having building work done so large vehicles would also have had to struggle past. The driver of the vehicle that had been trying to get in, who was very old and having to use a walking frame, had to sit there for at least 10 minutes waiting for the selfish tw@t to come and move.

There is an area of Forestry Commission over the road from our campsite. A large no parking sign on the gate and two or three dog walkers' cars parked in front of the sign every morning. Also, that perennial favourite, bagged up dogshit left at the side of the path in the middle of a nature reserve. Would be better if they just left the censored where it fell.

I am torn between whether watching people pick up dog poo is more disgusting than leaving it but if you know Saville Gardens then the car park there smells of shite from where every hound unloads upon being released from the car.

First.Aspect

morstar said:

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briantrumpet said:

Oh, got it. Toilet seats that won't stay up without you holding it with a knee or a hand. Basic centre of mass failure in design or execution.

I consider it a female influenced design feature.

The whole toilet seat thing annoys me though.

50% of the population generally want it up whilst the other 50% want it down.

And yet the retort is it’s lazy to leave it up. No, it’s sensible. A womans needs do not trump a mans. Quite the opposite infact, given I know many women who can last days without seeming to go.

Er, so how often HAVE you been married now?

orraloon

Or a bloke could just sit down?