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

[MarkRSi]

People who chew their nails then chew them like gum as loudly as possible

[ReaperCushions]

fatboy18 said:

English Weather

Why the hell immigrants want to come here Ive no idea

I bloody hate rain, Just got back in from walking the Dogs and I'm soaked again

Damascus looks like it's basking! Why not swap with them and you could live there?

http://www.accuweather.com/en/sy/damascus/314446/w...

[torqueofthedevil]

Reporters on BBC Breakfast this morning saying a migrant had been found, "hidden in a car engine". Half asleep I was thinking wow I wonder how he managed that! Turns out he was curled up in the engine bay behind the engine

[fatboy18]

ReaperCushions said:

fatboy18 said:

English Weather

Why the hell immigrants want to come here Ive no idea

I bloody hate rain, Just got back in from walking the Dogs and I'm soaked again

Damascus looks like it's basking! Why not swap with them and you could live there?

http://www.accuweather.com/en/sy/damascus/314446/w...

Ile suggest it to the missus, trouble is the Government might stop us from getting there

Are the roads any good? Any good indian restaurants?

[V8mate]

Home-ripening peaches. Home-ripening plums. Home-ripening nectarines. Home-ripening apricots. Home-ripening...

Just fk off! How about some fruit I can actually fking buy and eat? Now. Today.

[Stickyfinger]

Croat Plumbers who do not check the pipe work can be moved BEFORE ORDERING the fking Radiators !

[Einion Yrth]

Kiltie said:

The jack of diamonds.

I'd have thought the nine of diamonds would be a bigger issue.

[thetapeworm]

V8mate said:

Home-ripening peaches. Home-ripening plums. Home-ripening nectarines. Home-ripening apricots. Home-ripening...

Just fk off! How about some fruit I can actually fking buy and eat? Now. Today.

To add to this when they do eventually ripen you often only have 20 minutes before they rot.

[Issi]

Stupid people in general.

TV quiz on last week, asked this question to 4 adults on a team.

What is the longest canal?

a. Suez
b. Panama
c. Grand canal in Venice.

They all put their heads together and had a discussion and then with their combined wisdom stated

" Well, the Grand canal sounds big, so yeah, our answer is grand canal."

'Wanted -Down Under' , a show where disgruntled Brits with a budget of £400k get shown properties worth £600k, before suddenly deciding (with depressing frequency), that actually it's a little bit far so they probably won't bother.

Anyway, a family of four were being shown around a property, when a Kookaburra started cackling from a nearby tree.

"whassat" said the Mum "Monkeys?"

Jeez!

Edited by Issi on Thursday 3rd September 09:52

[whoami]

[redacted]

[hidetheelephants]

Vapid TV and radio presenters/reporters, due to having no original thoughts nor the inability to resist the instruction of equally vapid directors, being unable to resist the temptation to ask people in obvious physical and/or emotional distress 'how they feel?'. The effect is invariably mawkish and uninformative.

[Ste1987]

Classic tailbacks on motorway, then just ends and traffic runs as normal! Hate that!

[Dr Murdoch]

Ste1987 said:

Classic tailbacks on motorway, then just ends and traffic runs as normal! Hate that!

http://trafficwaves.org/

[leigh1050]

The blokes I work with.

[rohrl]

Dr Murdoch said:

Ste1987 said:

Classic tailbacks on motorway, then just ends and traffic runs as normal! Hate that!

http://trafficwaves.org/

I often do this "amateur traffic dynamicist" thing in stop-start traffic. I try to keep to a constant speed while the gap in front of my car expands and contracts with the hope that my efforts will help to clear the congestion. I don't know how effective it is but it also gives me something to concentrate on and helps to stop me getting annoyed at being stuck in traffic.

[colonel c]

Issi said:

Stupid people in general.

TV quiz on last week, asked this question to 4 adults on a team.

What is the longest canal?

a. Suez
b. Panama
c. Grand canal in Venice.

They all put their heads together and had a discussion and then with their combined wisdom stated

" Well, the Grand canal sounds big, so yeah, our answer is grand canal."

'Wanted -Down Under' , a show where disgruntled Brits with a budget of £400k get shown properties worth £600k, before suddenly deciding (with depressing frequency), that actually it's a little bit far so they probably won't bother.

Anyway, a family of four were being shown around a property, when a Kookaburra started cackling from a nearby tree.

"whassat" said the Mum "Monkeys?"

Jeez!

Edited by Issi on Thursday 3rd September 09:52

How about that program about buying and selling antiques. The contestants are expected to buy from antique fairs where professional dealers sell. Then sell at auction where the professionals buy. All the while being fawned over by some spiv type character.

[JonRB]

colonel c said:

How about that program about buying and selling antiques. The contestants are expected to buy from antique fairs where professional dealers sell. Then sell at auction where the professionals buy. All the while being fawned over by some spiv type character.

Worse than that, they often have to buy retail and then try to make a profit at a trade auction, which is even worse for trying to achieve a profit.

Sometimes they get a massive discount off retail, then the auctioneer sucks their teeth when they found out how much they paid and then the item then goes on to bomb at auction. Makes you wonder just how much markup there is on retail.

[JMGS4]

JonRB said:

colonel c said:

How about that program about buying and selling antiques. The contestants are expected to buy from antique fairs where professional dealers sell. Then sell at auction where the professionals buy. All the while being fawned over by some spiv type character.

Worse than that, they often have to buy retail and then try to make a profit at a trade auction, which is even worse for trying to achieve a profit.
Sometimes they get a massive discount off retail, then the auctioneer sucks their teeth when they found out how much they paid and then the item then goes on to bomb at auction. Makes you wonder just how much markup there is on retail.

Even worse, the orange spiv with his loud suits, and in another antiques show, the idiot who says "klekshun" instead of collection and porcelain (stressing lain) instead of the correct "porcelin" pronunciation (twit loves cats and probaly lives with his mother)

One must wonder where schooling has gone!!! Elocution used to be a normal lesson at good schools, now it seems to be that any working class slang or local ununderstandable accent is accepted over the Queens English.....

[thismonkeyhere]

rohrl said:

I often do this "amateur traffic dynamicist" thing in stop-start traffic. I try to keep to a constant speed while the gap in front of my car expands and contracts with the hope that my efforts will help to clear the congestion. I don't know how effective it is but it also gives me something to concentrate on and helps to stop me getting annoyed at being stuck in traffic.

Me too.

It's something to do, and much less frustrating than constant stop/start.

[robinessex]

thismonkeyhere said:

rohrl said:

I often do this "amateur traffic dynamicist" thing in stop-start traffic. I try to keep to a constant speed while the gap in front of my car expands and contracts with the hope that my efforts will help to clear the congestion. I don't know how effective it is but it also gives me something to concentrate on and helps to stop me getting annoyed at being stuck in traffic.

Me too.

It's something to do, and much less frustrating than constant stop/start.

I followed someone like that on the M25 recently. The trouble was, he wanted a half mile gap in front of himself all the time. If we all did that, the arse end of the que would be in Edinburgh.