Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]

[silverthorn2151]

H22observer said:

Cotty said:

H22observer said:

TV adverts that use songs to flog financial products to the underclass :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU43zpRCwgM&fe...

Underclass? Did you really just say that? Do you really think there is an underclass?

What a monumental knob

I think you overstepped the mark there.

Edited by Cotty on Friday 8th August 20:49

Of course there is. Underclass, Lumpenproletariat, Bogen, call it whatever you like. It still exists.

Which 'mark' have i apparently overstepped and why are you hurling abuse at me in this thread over the use of one simple word? What the hell is your problem?

Well I'm quite glad there is an underclass. Society needs structure or where would we be!

Its when they move into ones neighborhood that the problems start!

The issue is deciding the criteria for the definition of underclass. As a chartered building surveyor, for me it is quantity surveyors. Quite objectionable. Or perhaps litter bugs.

[grumbledoak]

Hooli said:

Then they go 'oh he/she/it is soooooo cute'. No it looks like every other sodding baby, just the size & colour vary a bit.

Oh no, you get some lovely babies and some proper ugly ones.


I don't recommend honesty in these circumstances.

[james_tigerwoods]

Kid's places, farm play areas for example (the one in Thornton for example) that charge you to enter £22 for a family, then charge you for everything else inside, horse rides, "safaris", slides and all that st.

I managed to not rant and give my audible opinion.

[Pothole]

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[read5458]

Willy Nilly said:

When someone (normally a woman) has a baby, people say stuff like "it's a girl!" or "it's a boy!" with a degree of surprise. I have no children, but understand that there are only 2 options. It's not like christmas where it could be a girl, or a boy or a Dr Who boxed set.

Or like the morons that ask you what you'd like. I have 3 children. Each time my partner was pregnant I had large numbers of people that would ps me off.

Female colleague: Do you know what you're having yet?

Me: No, not yet.

Female colleague: What are you hoping for?

Me: A girl

Female colleague: Well so long as it's healthy, who cares?.

Me: Ah, well I was kind of hoping for a baby riddled with disease, so long as it's a girl.

Female colleague: what?/that's a horrible thing to say.

Me: Well don't ask me what I'd like the gender to be and dismiss it with a daft comment. Of course I want a healthy child and I'd prefer a girl.

This little conversation must have occurred up to 100 times during each pregnancy.

I don't know why that response annoyed me so fg much.

You answer a question and they respond to your preference by removing your preference with an answer that removes the point of the question and can make you seem selfish because you didn't get that phrase in before them. Or I'm just stupid. More likely the latter option.

[SilverSixer]

Agree with the baby thing above. It's one of those standard, out of the box, soppy-arsed office small talk crapularities like "Going anywhere nice?" when you say you're on holiday next week. I know I've mentioned that one before, just saying it's the same level of stupidity. No, I'm not going anywhere nice. I thought I'd take a tour of the world's newest country, ISIS, in a mankini. With my boyfriend.

[h0b0]

read5458 said:

Willy Nilly said:

When someone (normally a woman) has a baby, people say stuff like "it's a girl!" or "it's a boy!" with a degree of surprise. I have no children, but understand that there are only 2 options. It's not like christmas where it could be a girl, or a boy or a Dr Who boxed set.

Or like the morons that ask you what you'd like. I have 3 children. Each time my partner was pregnant I had large numbers of people that would ps me off.

Female colleague: Do you know what you're having yet?

Me: No, not yet.

Female colleague: What are you hoping for?

Me: A girl

Female colleague: Well so long as it's healthy, who cares?.

Me: Ah, well I was kind of hoping for a baby riddled with disease, so long as it's a girl.

Female colleague: what?/that's a horrible thing to say.

Me: Well don't ask me what I'd like the gender to be and dismiss it with a daft comment. Of course I want a healthy child and I'd prefer a girl.

This little conversation must have occurred up to 100 times during each pregnancy.

I don't know why that response annoyed me so fg much.

You answer a question and they respond to your preference by removing your preference with an answer that removes the point of the question and can make you seem selfish because you didn't get that phrase in before them. Or I'm just stupid. More likely the latter option.

With our kids the conversation went something like this.....


stranger: Do you know the gender yet?

me: Yes, boy

Stranger: OH FANTASTIC GREAT!!!

This lead me to think what would their response have been if I said "girl"? Was Boy so much better? Well it was answered with my second

Stranger: Do you know the gender yet?

Me: Yes, girl

Stranger: Oh, well you had a boy first so that's OK then.

Apparently, girls are disappointments. (in the US)

[hidetheelephants]

grumbledoak said:

I don't recommend honesty in these circumstances.

Honesty is not rewarded, at least not in this life.

[GTIR]

I annoy me beyond reason.

[bencollins]

A lifetime of reliable, salt of the earth, reliable bomb shaped poo you'd want to show your grandad, has been replaced by floaty poo or rabbit tods or both, for about 3 months now. Every time i look back at the bowl - with increasing apprehension it must be said - i am dismayed to see a shameful bunch of brown ping pong balls wandering around doing an impression of apple bobbing.

[ChemicalChaos]

H22observer said:

TV adverts that use songs to flog financial products to the underclass :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU43zpRCwgM&fe...

Objectionable phraseology or not, and as annoying as that advert is, I still have to hand it to the people who made it - a very very clever play on words by using that Heart song!

[br d]

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[MartG]

br d said:

I signed up to Demon in 93, it was the Internet but unrecognisable by today's standards, no web browsers, no hyper-links and bugger all to look at. It was mostly about Usenet, FTP and BBS. Happy times.

Yes, very limited compared to today - I was on a dialup connection to Compuserve from around 93, usually at 19.2K but occasionally it would connect at 32K

[Rostfritt]

h0b0 said:

With our kids the conversation went something like this.....


stranger: Do you know the gender yet?

me: Yes, boy

Stranger: OH FANTASTIC GREAT!!!

This lead me to think what would their response have been if I said "girl"? Was Boy so much better? Well it was answered with my second

Stranger: Do you know the gender yet?

Me: Yes, girl

Stranger: Oh, well you had a boy first so that's OK then.

Apparently, girls are disappointments. (in the US)

Just makes me think of General Aladeen in the film The Dictator. 'Are you having a boy or an abortion?'

[Stuck In A Lift]

Minecraft walk through videos. Instead of playing the game, people sit and watch some tt waffling on as he plays the game, chatting away in his oh so jolly voice. I really can't see the point.

[SilverSixer]

Stuck In A Lift said:

Minecraft walk through videos. Instead of playing the game, people sit and watch some tt waffling on as he plays the game, chatting away in his oh so jolly voice. I really can't see the point.

My 9 year old boy is getting addicted to these. Got to do something about it.

[leefee]

People who hang magic trees and the like from their rear view mirror. I realise its totally irrational, but I cant help but view it as a dangly sign that the occupier smells! I have also noticed that multiple "trees" seem to be linked to people wearing sports gear with stripes, in fact, the more "trees" the more items of stripy sportswear.

[fatboy18]

RAIN....Took the motorbike to work today, (missus had blocked my van in) Poured down on the way home, no waterproofs and a polished Black and Chrome Harley now looking rather dull

[Pothole]

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[Killer2005]

After visiting my Mrs in Bradford Royal Infirmary, the driving standards of Bradford gets my vote. It's fking awful