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

[blindswelledrat]

rambo19 said:

Drivers who cut me up and then flash the hazards as if to say, 'thanks for letting me cut you up'.

F**king w*ankers!

Or to say "sorry" when they realise they cocked up?

For me it's people who pretend they have never made a driving error in their life and feign utter astonishment and fury when someone else does, which is made all the worse if they dare apologise.

[Cobnapint]

Question of Sport.....makes me squirm.

[nicanary]

Cobnapint said:

Question of Sport.....makes me squirm.

Sue Barker looks more and more like Ann Widdicombe.

[5potTurbo]

Squawk1066 said:

The term 'The Wife'. WFT can't you call her 'My Wife'!

A mate of mine refers to his wife as "the wife" and to his son, who's now 6 as, "the boy". Only his 2 y.o daughter is referred to by her given name. Oddity.

[anonymous-user]

That's a strange name.

[Hooli]

People who call their kids daft names like 'Oddity'.

[Galsia]

People who talk about family members at work with the presumption that you know them as well as they do.

"So then Paul said..."
"Hold on, who the fk is Paul?"

[colonel c]

Campaigners.
Haven't they got anything better to do. I hate the bloody lot of them. Especially those campaigning against things I enjoy doing.

[rohrl]

colonel c said:

Campaigners.
Haven't they got anything better to do. I hate the bloody lot of them. Especially those campaigning against things I enjoy doing.

Maybe you could make up some banners and go on a march to protest against them.

[nicanary]

colonel c said:

Campaigners.
Haven't they got anything better to do. I hate the bloody lot of them. Especially those campaigning against things I enjoy doing.

Ditto "activists". Activists as in - 20 year-old with dreadlocks and stinking unwashed clothes, mangy dog on string, mouthing cliched phrases they read in a book. How do they live? Spongers, that's how.

Bring back conscription. Birch 'em! Nurse!!!.......

[Cotty]

5potTurbo said:

Squawk1066 said:

The term 'The Wife'. WFT can't you call her 'My Wife'!

A mate of mine refers to his wife as "the wife" and to his son, who's now 6 as, "the boy". Only his 2 y.o daughter is referred to by her given name. Oddity.

I know someone who calls his son "boy". I know his son went though university a few years back so he must be in his 20's

[colonel c]

A work mate often refer to his wife as 'er indoors'.

'My other half' is really cringe-worthy.

Edited by colonel c on Thursday 5th February 17:20

[knitware]

Galsia said:

People who talk about family members at work with the presumption that you know them as well as they do.

"So then Paul said..."
"Hold on, who the fk is Paul?"

My sister in law who incessantly talks about people I don’t know, something along the lines of;

’ Well Patricia, who I went travelling with, saw Nancy and she had her baby and they named her Armani Kumquat…’

There’s nothing worst when she sets off on a tale.

And she often talks about when she went ’travelling’ AND when she says foreign names, cities, people or countries she says the name in the style of a local speaker, so ‘Paris’ in a French accent, ‘Madrid’ Spanish style…

Edited by knitware on Thursday 5th February 14:04

[anonymous-user]

colonel c said:

A work ate often refer to his wife as 'er indoors'.

'My other half' is really cringe-worthy.

I almost exclusively say "Other half" or "my mrs". I would feel like a right ponce if I become one of the "my partner" lot. fk off. She's not my partner. I'm not a lezza. We're an Essex couple. She's my mrs. I'm her bloke.

[JonRB]

knitware said:

My sister in law who incessantly talks about people I don’t know, something along the lines of;

’Well Patricia, who I went travelling with, saw Nancy and she had her baby and they named her Armani Kumquat…’

My mum does this too.

Sometimes I interrupt her and ask if establishing this person's identity and backstory is pivotal, or would merely stating it was a person she knows shave a good 10 mins off the story.

[McAndy]

Squawk1066 said:

The term 'The Wife'. WFT can't you call her 'My Wife'!

My guess would be that it stems from a first line of defence against overly aggressive singletons. I have actually seen somebody flip out when they were talking to someone who said "my wife". They got up on their horse and berated the poor chap for "...saying "my" to rub in that you have one and I don't!" Removing the possessive nature of the word "my" lessens the blow. Perhaps. Just a theory.

[SilverSixer]

OpulentBob said:

I almost exclusively say "Other half"

But you are a whole Bob, I presume. Don't denigrate yourself. We are all individuals, as the Great Man once said (follow the shoe).

[Einion Yrth]

SilverSixer said:

But you are a whole Bob, I presume. Don't denigrate yourself. We are all individuals, as the Great Man once said (follow the shoe gourd).

FTFY

[SilverSixer]

Einion Yrth said:

SilverSixer said:

But you are a whole Bob, I presume. Don't denigrate yourself. We are all individuals, as the Great Man once said (follow the shoe gourd).

FTFY

Death to the gourd heretics.

[Squawk1066]

McAndy said:

Squawk1066 said:

The term 'The Wife'. WFT can't you call her 'My Wife'!

My guess would be that it stems from a first line of defence against overly aggressive singletons. I have actually seen somebody flip out when they were talking to someone who said "my wife". They got up on their horse and berated the poor chap for "...saying "my" to rub in that you have one and I don't!" Removing the possessive nature of the word "my" lessens the blow. Perhaps. Just a theory.

they wouldn't want to be stuck in a room with both of us then