Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)

[SpeckledJim]

DRFC1879 said:

Regarding the RNLI, it's one of the charities that I'll always support with a handful of spare change every time I pass one of their collection boxes.

As they're totally funded by donations, I don't see anything wrong with keeping enough funding to keep them going for c. 5 years invested just in case those donations take a plunge.

No question their work is amazing. They are the best of us.

But if it was public knowledge that they were hard-up, then donations would spike. The public would respond.

I'm surprised they have so much money (probably because they work hard to keep it quiet, as the reverse is true - that donations would fall if people knew there was such a buffer in place).

[Shakermaker]

Something which has annoyed me over the last week or so:

One of the car park spaces at our office has some yellow hatching next to it to provide a walkway to access some part of the building that I assume is to do with the heating. As such, there are 2 spaces where you can benefit from having some extra door width to open into, if you reverse into one and forwards into the other.

But someone has been arriving earlier than me every day recently and has been forward parking into the wrong space, meaning they do not benefit from the extra width, although they arrive early enough that this isn't a problem, they consequently leave early enough that they have to squeeze in between the cars (And I mean squeeze... they're not slim) and faff around trying to get in when there is loads of space next to them the other side.

Doesn't really affect me but I feel a bit like they are the kind of person who would book an extra legroom seat on a flight even though they're only 5ft tall..

[cuprabob]

Shakermaker said:

Something which has annoyed me over the last week or so:

One of the car park spaces at our office has some yellow hatching next to it to provide a walkway to access some part of the building that I assume is to do with the heating. As such, there are 2 spaces where you can benefit from having some extra door width to open into, if you reverse into one and forwards into the other.

But someone has been arriving earlier than me every day recently and has been forward parking into the wrong space, meaning they do not benefit from the extra width, although they arrive early enough that this isn't a problem, they consequently leave early enough that they have to squeeze in between the cars (And I mean squeeze... they're not slim) and faff around trying to get in when there is loads of space next to them the other side.

Doesn't really affect me but I feel a bit like they are the kind of person who would book an extra legroom seat on a flight even though they're only 5ft tall..

Probably unable to reverse into a parking space

Point them to the other space where they can drive straight and benefit from the extra space....

Edited by cuprabob on Monday 4th December 16:00

[read5458]

The lack of traffic on any road I'm next to, right up until I decide to cross the road on foot or enter it in a vehicle.

That's when the volume of traffic is catapulted from a few cars per minute to an M25 tribute.

[nonsequitur]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Cotty said:

To be honest its a limit not a target. If I was on a German road/motorway that was unlimited I would probably not drive at 125mph (maximum of my car).

I was expecting someone to say something like that. But are you honestly saying you'd be happy stuck behind someone on a well sighted NSL rural B-Road in dry conditions, with the car in front doing 35-40mph and dabbing their brakes for every corner?

Besides, this is the "Things that annoy you" thread and it annoys me.

On the local 'rural B roads' on my patch, with blind bends, unexpected farm traffic, heavy foliage, narrow lanes and the odd flock of sheep, and you are following behind, it's a big 40 from me.

[nonsequitur]

SlimJim16v said:

Cotty said:

To be honest its a limit not a target.

People who say this.

The truth hurts sometimes.

[nonsequitur]

RemyMartin81D said:

One of my number one pet hates in general is a driving trait, basically stop, indicator on after they have stopped for around 1 second then turn. fking.....HELL, IN-DIC-ATE, the point is to indicate your action, only putting it on whilst you are actually turning is stupid. Jesus fking Christ .

Sorry Remy, clarity required.

[talksthetorque]

SpeckledJim said:

No question their work is amazing. They are the best of us.

But if it was public knowledge that they were hard-up, then donations would spike. The public would respond.

I'm surprised they have so much money (probably because they work hard to keep it quiet, as the reverse is true - that donations would fall if people knew there was such a buffer in place).

How much of this £1bn of assets are tied up in coastal property(expensive) other offices ( not cheap)etc, and Lifeboats( I've never heard anyone use the phrase "Cheap Seaworthy Boat" in my life. ( Although I do live in Nottinghamshire )


You can't run a fleet of boats to cover the 11000+ miles of coastline unless they are also on the coastline.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

nonsequitur said:

On the local 'rural B roads' on my patch, with blind bends, unexpected farm traffic, heavy foliage, narrow lanes and the odd flock of sheep, and you are following behind, it's a big 40 from me.

Fine. But I specifically mentioned that the circumstances I was describing were when the road and conditions didn't justify such a slow speed. You are describing a road and conditions that do.

[Hugo a Gogo]

people who clap really loudly, it pierces right through my brain, and I don't even know how they do it

I can't stand it

[bristolracer]

The tt who reversed into my wifes car today and then drove off.

Thanks for that, but dont worry her workplace has pretty good CCTV so we will be tracking you down.

I will of course be posting in here next October, to say how insurance companies screw people over,despite their claim being not their fault.
There may also be other annoyances to come,incompetent insurance assessors, crap bodyshops etc.

[glenrobbo]

Hugo a Gogo said:

people who clap really loudly, it pierces right through my brain, and I don't even know how they do it

I can't stand it

Aye, there's a lot of people that don't like it.

[yellowjack]

Hugo a Gogo said:

people who clap really loudly, it pierces right through my brain, and I don't even know how they do it

I can't stand it

I'm happy to broadly agree with Hugo a Gogo. And add to that people who clap loudly and then give you a disparaging look because you value the feeling in the palms of your hands and clap noticeably less vigorously than they do.

But loud applause is kind of OK if it's expected, and I can turn my hearing aid down (or off).

What's more annoying is people who whoop, cheer, and applaud when it's entirely inappropriate. And as such, unexpected too.

Idiots who stand up to "lead" a standing ovation, especially. It's a fking workaday show at a provincial theatre. It's the cast's job to entertain me for a couple of hours. They just about earned their wages, but no-one was going to win an Olivier Award for tonight's effort, so sit the fk down and applaud politely as the cast make their final curtain call, like the rest of us. Clue, numbnuts: You are the only two people in an entire theatre auditorium full of punters that thought it appropriate to whistle, whoop, and stand to applaud the effort. Does that make the other three hundred or so souls wrong in their assessment of the play? Quite probably not.

Same at gigs. Especially when members of the band are addressing the audience between tracks. Thanks entirely to wksocks whooping and whistling while Phil addressed the audience, I now have no idea what he was saying. But it was a tenth anniversary gig, playing their first album in full, in chronological order, for the first time. So I'm guessing he said something nice about support from fans like me who've been parting with money to see them live since the very beginning. Perhaps you ignorant fkwits could have kept your great ugly traps shut for the thirty second or so that it would have taken for the rest of us to listen to what Phil had to say. Keep your whistling and whooping for choruses and solos. Ideally at the end of 'Cloudy Room', please. Yours, the grumpy fker stood in a booth at the back of the venue near the bar having a whale of a time except for your inane whooping and hollering at inappropriate moments...

[talksthetorque]

yellowjack said:

<8/10 rant - nice work>

Also annoying is when there's thousands of the bds on the "live album" you are listening to.
I have stopped buying "live" albums because of all the noise just makes me more annoyed than the music in between makes me happy/sad/melancholic/want to dance.

ETA
when you are in a traffic jam in the pissing rain in Coventry listening to Chumba Wumba in the Philip Morris Death Stick Stadium in Sao Paolo, or whatever, it is not "like being there"

Edited by talksthetorque on Tuesday 5th December 08:22

[Halmyre]

yellowjack said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

people who clap really loudly, it pierces right through my brain, and I don't even know how they do it

I can't stand it

I'm happy to broadly agree with Hugo a Gogo. And add to that people who clap loudly and then give you a disparaging look because you value the feeling in the palms of your hands and clap noticeably less vigorously than they do.

But loud applause is kind of OK if it's expected, and I can turn my hearing aid down (or off).

What's more annoying is people who whoop, cheer, and applaud when it's entirely inappropriate. And as such, unexpected too.

Idiots who stand up to "lead" a standing ovation, especially. It's a fking workaday show at a provincial theatre. It's the cast's job to entertain me for a couple of hours. They just about earned their wages, but no-one was going to win an Olivier Award for tonight's effort, so sit the fk down and applaud politely as the cast make their final curtain call, like the rest of us. Clue, numbnuts: You are the only two people in an entire theatre auditorium full of punters that thought it appropriate to whistle, whoop, and stand to applaud the effort. Does that make the other three hundred or so souls wrong in their assessment of the play? Quite probably not.

Same at gigs. Especially when members of the band are addressing the audience between tracks. Thanks entirely to wksocks whooping and whistling while Phil addressed the audience, I now have no idea what he was saying. But it was a tenth anniversary gig, playing their first album in full, in chronological order, for the first time. So I'm guessing he said something nice about support from fans like me who've been parting with money to see them live since the very beginning. Perhaps you ignorant fkwits could have kept your great ugly traps shut for the thirty second or so that it would have taken for the rest of us to listen to what Phil had to say. Keep your whistling and whooping for choruses and solos. Ideally at the end of 'Cloudy Room', please. Yours, the grumpy fker stood in a booth at the back of the venue near the bar having a whale of a time except for your inane whooping and hollering at inappropriate moments...

Even worse when it's preserved for eternity on live recordings. I think there's a prime example on Neil Young's 'Unplugged' when some bellend whoops during the intro to 'Needle and the Damage Done' (and whooping and cheering at any and every drug reference is another bugbear of mine - I get it, you're hip, now STFU). I've also got a live version of Traffic's 'Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys' which has another bellend whistling long and loud over the intro.

[thetapeworm]

People who screenshot their phone screen but have very little battery life left, have loads of unread notifications, have every possible option for things like Bluetooth, NFC etc enabled and have changed the system font to Comic Sans.

Totally their business but it it annoys me beyond reason, plus they should crop the image to just show the bit they need to share.

[RizzoTheRat]

Fake news.

People who post fake news on social media.

People who get in a strop when you point out their facebook post is a lie.

[Shakermaker]

I still quite like a live album for some things.

I put Rush - Live in Rio on when I was decorating a couple of weeks ago. The best bit is, every 5-6 minutes, you get a round of applause for how well you have done at cutting in, or masking up the skirting board.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

thetapeworm said:

People who screenshot their phone screen but have very little battery life left, have loads of unread notifications, have every possible option for things like Bluetooth, NFC etc enabled and have changed the system font to Comic Sans.

Totally their business but it it annoys me beyond reason, plus they should crop the image to just show the bit they need to share.

[DRFC1879]

yellowjack said:

Idiots who stand up to "lead" a standing ovation, especially. It's a fking workaday show at a provincial theatre. It's the cast's job to entertain me for a couple of hours. They just about earned their wages, but no-one was going to win an Olivier Award for tonight's effort, so sit the fk down and applaud politely as the cast make their final curtain call, like the rest of us.

I do a bit of amateur theatre (generally one show week per year in a provincial theatre). The show is the culmination of months of hard work, getting grief from the missus for the amount of time spent rehearsing etc. and even more grief in the week of the show for being out of the house pretty much permanently from the Sunday morning to the following Saturday night. I might not be a particularly great actor and won't be winning any awards any time soon but the feeling of the audience showing their appreciation at the end of a show is unbeatable.

TL/DR: Mardy tt.