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

[PurpleTurtle]

King Herald said:

One thing that really pisses my boil: tardiness! Ignorant people always being late, making people wait. What the juddering fk is so hard about planning a little to make sure you are ready when you are supposed to be???????

Told the wife this morning we are going to meet some friends, at 12:30 at a local swimming resort, for lunch, swim, gasbag etc.

"We leave at 12 o'clock" I told her, "exactly, on the dot". "Okay" said she, "no problem".

So, I'm playing PS4, 11:45 I shut my game down, pack my stuff, get ready, lock all the doors and windows, 12 o'clock I'm looking for the wife and daughter. Daughter is in the shower, wife is outside playing with the dogs, still dressed in her scruffs.....

I flew in from the USA last Thursday, after four weeks offshore, Wife knew for a week when I'd arrive, so I'm at the airport, phoned her, told her when the plane hit tarmac, and by the time I cleared immigration, collected bag, customs, walked outside, annnnnnndddddddd stood in the burning sun for a half hour until she finally arrived.

My missus has had lifelong timekeeping problems, I am always on time. I took a tip from my brother (married 10yrs before me, 9yr old daughter) ... "just tell 'em you need to leave 45 mins before you actually need to leave, you'll leave just about on time"

2.5yrs into a relatively stress-free marriage I have to say this was the best pre-nup advice anyone could've given me!

[R8VXF]

PurpleTurtle said:

My missus has had lifelong timekeeping problems, I am always on time. I took a tip from my brother (married 10yrs before me, 9yr old daughter) ... "just tell 'em you need to leave 45 mins before you actually need to leave, you'll leave just about on time"

2.5yrs into a relatively stress-free marriage I have to say this was the best pre-nup advice anyone could've given me!

I generally budget 15-30 minutes. Learned that the hard way

[RobinBanks]

Impasse said:

I'm going to disagree with you about this. I very much require someone as a trusted and loved partner to function correctly in life. Without another person in my life I am incomplete and can never be considered a whole.

But what annoys me is those who can't appreciate that type of thinking. (just to keep things on track )

I think I'd quite like to feel like that.

However that really is the opposite of the way I think. It's not a view I can relate to, but it intrigues me.

[JonRB]

R8VXF said:

PurpleTurtle said:

My missus has had lifelong timekeeping problems, I am always on time. I took a tip from my brother (married 10yrs before me, 9yr old daughter) ... "just tell 'em you need to leave 45 mins before you actually need to leave, you'll leave just about on time"

2.5yrs into a relatively stress-free marriage I have to say this was the best pre-nup advice anyone could've given me!

I generally budget 15-30 minutes. Learned that the hard way

The trouble is, once they get wind of that then they add 15-30 mins onto the time, and next thing you know you have a temporal arms race / deadline creep.

[R8VXF]

JonRB said:

R8VXF said:

PurpleTurtle said:

My missus has had lifelong timekeeping problems, I am always on time. I took a tip from my brother (married 10yrs before me, 9yr old daughter) ... "just tell 'em you need to leave 45 mins before you actually need to leave, you'll leave just about on time"

2.5yrs into a relatively stress-free marriage I have to say this was the best pre-nup advice anyone could've given me!

I generally budget 15-30 minutes. Learned that the hard way

The trouble is, once they get wind of that then they add 15-30 mins onto the time, and next thing you know you have a temporal arms race / deadline creep.

On the whole it has been working for nearly 6 years now, so long may it continue

[JonRB]

People who have non-work chats with each other whilst stood right next to my desk. fk off to the chillout / recreation room. That's what it's there for.

Noise-cancelling headphones: activate!

(Obviously I'm far too British and spineless to actually say anything to them - I'd rather moan about them on an internet forum )

[james_tigerwoods]

JonRB said:

temporal arms race

That. I'm keeping that

[robinessex]

My wife, who slams EVERY door, no matter what. Poor dog has had numerous shocks when she shuts the back door, and now won't sleep in the kitchen. The car nearly disintegrates with every door closure. I've just fixed the tumble drier door for the 3rd time, the washing machine is on it's 2nd repair. The oven has been repaired once. I now have a collection of door bits in the house for repairs. I'm thinking of putting gas struts on things to prevent the slam.

[RobinOakapple]

robinessex said:

My wife, who slams EVERY door, no matter what.

Classic passive aggression.

[Hooli]

robinessex said:

My wife, who slams EVERY door, no matter what. Poor dog has had numerous shocks when she shuts the back door, and now won't sleep in the kitchen. The car nearly disintegrates with every door closure. I've just fixed the tumble drier door for the 3rd time, the washing machine is on it's 2nd repair. The oven has been repaired once. I now have a collection of door bits in the house for repairs. I'm thinking of putting gas struts on things to prevent the slam.

Shorten her chain so she can't get out the kitchen.

HTH.

[Dyl]

That Kia advert on tv. Two words: "Business Class"

I probably don't need to say much more.

[Scousefella]

Things that annoy me beyond reason...................

Horses, a pair of the buggers being ridden in a brilliant section of NSL, sweeping bend and then f**k f**k f**k on the anchors.

A pair of fat growlers looking back and waving like the have just farted and blown out a tampon - slow down they are shouting - get your f**king walking lawnmowers in the field I am thinking.

I get the right hump with the rules about horses being allowed on roads................

Home now, going to watch some Breaking Bad.

[Cotty]

JonRB said:

People who have non-work chats with each other whilst stood right next to my desk. fk off to the chillout / recreation room. That's what it's there for.

Noise-cancelling headphones: activate!

(Obviously I'm far too British and spineless to actually say anything to them - I'd rather moan about them on an internet forum )

Try working next to a bunch of Italians. Does everything have to be said in a raised voice. Shut the fk up.

[Tyre Tread]

Cotty said:

JonRB said:

People who have non-work chats with each other whilst stood right next to my desk. fk off to the chillout / recreation room. That's what it's there for.

Noise-cancelling headphones: activate!

(Obviously I'm far too British and spineless to actually say anything to them - I'd rather moan about them on an internet forum )

Try working next to a bunch of Italians. Does everything have to be said in a raised voice. Shut the fk up.

I'll see your Italians and raise you Indian shwo seem to think that even on the telephone they need to shout to each other. The conversation varies between Ehnligh and (I believe) Hindi and goes on and on and on and on............................................................................

I can hear them clearly through a closed door and when I say them, I mean the party on the other end of the phone sometimes as well.

[Pothole]

fatboy18 said:

The Wind. Gives me headaches with it blowing round your earholes, not having much hair left you get a cold head so you constantly have to wear a hat, its a pain in the arse when you have just washed the car and the wind kicks up a load of dust all over it, Hate Airfields for this reason, Silverstone comes to mind too, bleak old place.

Because airfield, originally, also one of the highest points between there and the Ural mountains.

[fatboy18]

Pothole said:

fatboy18 said:

The Wind. Gives me headaches with it blowing round your earholes, not having much hair left you get a cold head so you constantly have to wear a hat, its a pain in the arse when you have just washed the car and the wind kicks up a load of dust all over it, Hate Airfields for this reason, Silverstone comes to mind too, bleak old place.

Because airfield, originally, also one of the highest points between there and the Ural mountains.

Knew it used to be an airfield but did not realise it was that high! thanks for the info

[Hugo a Gogo]

it's a common claim across much of England, church towers etc

basically, you could draw a line across East Anglia, skim Northern Germany and Poland, over the Baltic, then North of Moscow towards St Petersburg, and it would all be very low lying flat land until the Urals

[Issi]

'Coming next!'

On every fecking show at the minute, I want to watch the entire show, I don't really need to see the highlights of the show in the first two fecking minutes!

I don't really understand the logic behind this at all, I've made the commitment to watch the programme, do they think I'm going to wander off and do some gardening if they don't wet my whistle by letting me know what's going to happen later on in the programme?

It drives me nuts, watching The Island at the minute and it seems like the last five minutes of the show are taken up with glimpses of what's going to happen next week.

Are the producers so paranoid that folks will not watch the next show unless they know exactly what's coming?

[King Herald]

Issi said:

'Coming next!'

On every fecking show at the minute, I want to watch the entire show, I don't really need to see the highlights of the show in the first two fecking minutes!

It is because the episodes are only 12 minutes long, and much like all other TV drivel they need to spread it out over an hour.

Just like 'Reality TV', which is nothing to do with reality, they tell you before the commercials what will happen after the commercials, then they have five minutes of brain numbingly stupid commercials, then they spend two minutes relating what happened before the commercials, then they show four minutes of the program, then they start again "After the break......."

And as the program progresses and you get a little bit interested they slowly increase the time spent on commercials so you are only seeing abut 25% of your program of choice.

Aghh, I HATE TV for this very reason.

Thus why I download all my series and movies from a nice, er, website, for free, with no commercials or drivel inserted.

[JonRB]

Issi said:

I don't really understand the logic behind this at all, I've made the commitment to watch the programme, do they think I'm going to wander off and do some gardening if they don't wet my whistle by letting me know what's going to happen later on in the programme?

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Are the producers so paranoid that folks will not watch the next show unless they know exactly what's coming?

Essentially, yes to both questions. The current ADHD generation, used as they are to 100's of channels and surfing between them, are very inclined to flick away unless their attention is held. But I agree that it is very annoying to those of us who have tuned in specifically to see the show.