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

[nonsequitur]

bishbosh66 said:

nonsequitur said:

Good band. Still around but I prefer their early stuff. ( The porthole comment is accurate.)

Edited by nonsequitur on Thursday 22 June 11:10

In what navy? is that the one with Capt'n Pugwash !

No. Village People.

[mikal83]

PotatoSalad said:

Moonhawk said:

People talking in theaters/cinemas.

Went to the Royal Albert hall last night to see the space spectaular.

A couple to one side and some women behind talked pretty much all the way through.

What is so important that it cant wait 1 fking hour until the intermission.

This ^

I also despise people eating in the theatre, there's always some "bubbly" ladies dressed like they were heading to the night club and entered the wrong door, who can't survive for an hour without munching on crisps or chocolate treats making noise with wrappings and packets. It's a chain reaction, once somebody starts it the entire audience follows.

It pi****ss me off even on kids shows, just wait for the break if your chubby offspring needs to stuff their face with sugar for god's sake. Teach them some respect for the actors, it's not a bl***y Odeon!



There, I'm better now.

Its not just the yakking and eating, but nowadays some just have to check their "messages" every 5 feckin minutes. How did we manage so easily b4. (ps that's why we don't have a mobile)

[CB2152]

Willy Nilly said:

Electric car mirros that don't fold flush to the doors annoy me beyond reason. More expensive cars seem to me more aflicked with this with a lot of them looking like the mirrors have had some brain seizure and spazzed out in what ever crazy position they fell in.

Mine does this It is a bit silly, my neighbour's Peugeot 307 folds them in pretty much flush, mine barely looks like they've folded! I'll have to measure the width difference it makes one day...

[davhill]

V8mate said:

Bummed by a bramble?

I'd have reciprocated but for its being one prick against many.

[ch108]

Colleagues who eat constantly in the office. There are two types.

The ones who have breakfast at their desk because they never have time before they leave the house. Now I'm not talking about a quick bacon roll from the canteen, but a bowl of cereal which they slurp their way through, after disappearing to the kitchen for 15 minutes to prepare this feast, chopping fruit to put in it and using half the milk in the office, whilst others have to answer their phone because they are absent from their desk. And this happens every day.

The second type are the snackers. Constant rustling of sweets, crisps and biscuit packets from the confines of their desk drawers. Then they claim they aren't going back to their keep fit class/ gym session/ aerobics because it isn't working! Worse still is when they start offering stuff out to those around them. Now that might seem quite generous, but if you dare to decline an offer of a shortbread biscuit or a Werthers Original then it's like an interrogation!

I have a healthy appetite, eat my breakfast before I leave for work, and can generally last until lunchtime without the need to stuff my face all the time I am at my desk. I've always been the same, never been much of a snacker. I'm not saying I've never eaten at my desk, but it just seems that's all some people do. How do they find the time to constantly forage and get their work done?

For some reason it seems to be the women in the office that are guilty of this. You see the odd guy munching on some sandwiches, but they don't seem to go through the same faff and drama of the women with their rustling, slurping and running commentary of what they are eating/ what they are going to have next, and what they should have for their dinner tonight.

[98elise]

nonsequitur said:

mikal83 said:

nonsequitur said:

SilverSixer said:

ClockworkCupcake said:

DRFC1879 said:

2. I have had the air-con blasting in my car throughout the warm spell but also like to drive with the windows down to let in some fresh air. Yeah, fuel consumption related lunacy etc. but I like it so 'nanas to that.

In a car, your aircon is as much a cold air blower as anything, so that's fine if it's what you like. But in a climate-controlled building, opening the windows confuses the whole system and means some people are sat freezing in some places as the system tries to compensate, which it can't as it is no longer a closed system.

And that's the bullseye.

Another: When in the Navy, opening a porthole when the A/C was operating was a punishable offence.

Garbage

Good band. Still around but I prefer their early stuff. ( The porthole comment is accurate.) Blunt dismissal, captain.

Edited by nonsequitur on Thursday 22 June 11:10

Edited by nonsequitur on Thursday 22 June 19:10

Which Navy? Very few portholes on a warship, and I've never heard of it being a punishable offence, especially as doors get left open all the time which pisses the Chief Stoker off, but that's as far as it goes.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Threads that go missing, sit down to see some tit get a kicking and bam thread gone

[grumbledoak]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Threads that go missing, sit down to see some tit get a kicking and bam thread gone

If only you too were well connected, you could get the thread/s reinstated? :snigger:

[Anubis]

People who shout "can you move down please!" whilst hurting others trying to push on a really overcrowded packed train.

People that do not move up to let others on the train because they think it's their space they have a god given right to Monday to Friday - they happily let others try and push past or make others stand behind them.

[Hackney]

Shakermaker said:

The inconsistent email structure for BBC Radio 2 presenters. Been a while since I listened to R2 but it was on the other day

[e-mail]
[e-mail]

Fine. Simple.

but then we have

[e-mail]

wheres the .?

But then..

[e-mail]

Was there another Jeremy Vine when he joined the show that stole his email address?

And I'm pretty sure that it is

[e-mail] for Ms Feltz in the early morning.

Why?

Danny Baker's email address is [e-mail]

[Hackney]

jmorgan said:

Frank7 said:

baristas

This name in use in the UK. It is basically a canteen with better formica tops and a posh hot water dispenser.

Barista is the person making the drink, not the building its being made in. Or maybe you knew that and I'm due a parrot.

[Hackney]

ClockworkCupcake said:

DRFC1879 said:

2. I have had the air-con blasting in my car throughout the warm spell but also like to drive with the windows down to let in some fresh air. Yeah, fuel consumption related lunacy etc. but I like it so 'nanas to that.

In a car, your aircon is as much a cold air blower as anything, so that's fine if it's what you like. But in a climate-controlled building, opening the windows confuses the whole system and means some people are sat freezing in some places as the system tries to compensate, which it can't as it is no longer a closed system.

This! Women just don't get this. At all.

Scenario A) woman is cold so brings unauthorised fan heater to put under her desk. Office air con sensor detects it's 27 deg so blows out cold air. Woman gets colder, turns up heater... and so on, and so forth

Scenario B) on a fairly normal to warm day woman decides she's cold so turns up thermostat. All the men in the office start to frazzle. On suggesting that the woman brings a cardigan if she's cold there are accusations of sexism or some such. WHAT ARE MEN SUPPOSED TO DO? We are already wearing only a shirt, and you wouldn't like it if we took our shirts off in the office would you?

And don't get me started on the women who wear what's essentially beach wear to the office when it's 30 degrees outside while the blokes have to wear a shirt and trousers, maybe the tie rule gets relaxed. Brilliant, I'll die happy from heat stroke knowing that I could relax tie-less as Brenda from accounts wore her best New Look vest, mini skirt and flip flops

Edited by Hackney on Thursday 22 June 23:57

[ClockworkCupcake]

Hackney said:

This! Women just don't get this. At all.

Scenario A) woman is cold so brings unauthorised fan heater to put under her desk. Office air con sensor detects it's 27 deg so blows out cold air. Woman gets colder, turns up heater... and so on, and so forth

Scenario B) on a fairly normal to warm day woman decides she's cold so turns up thermostat. All the men in the office start to frazzle. On suggesting that the woman brings a cardigan if she's cold there are accusations of sexism or some such. WHAT ARE MEN SUPPOSED TO DO? We are already wearing only a shirt, and you wouldn't like it if we took our shirts off in the office would you?

Scenario C - everyone else in the office likes it much colder than me, I'm sat there shivering in a cardi or fleece in the middle of summer. People give me a hard time for being a wuss. FFS.

Edited by ClockworkCupcake on Friday 23 June 00:08

[Munter]

ch108 said:

but if you dare to decline an offer of a shortbread biscuit or a Werthers Original then it's like an interrogation!

Oh god that. Then on another day, if you happen to grab something from the birthday cake pile in the kitchen area while making a cuppa, you get it all in reverse.

It seems to surprise people that as an adult I can make decisions as I see fit and not involve them. Nutters.

[SilverSixer]

Munter said:

ch108 said:

but if you dare to decline an offer of a shortbread biscuit or a Werthers Original then it's like an interrogation!

Oh god that. Then on another day, if you happen to grab something from the birthday cake pile in the kitchen area while making a cuppa, you get it all in reverse.

It seems to surprise people that as an adult I can make decisions as I see fit and not involve them. Nutters.

Also, when having selected a salad for lunch in the canteen, to be greeted with a round of "OOOOOOO - that looks healthy!!" from the crowd with the pie and chips. Mind your own fking business, snot gobblers.

[Robbo 27]

Windsceen wipers on full speed.

[droopsnoot]

Random outpourings of "thoughts are with the family" whenever anything bad happens. Fine, if you know them. But as a response to a Facebook local area news posting about an accident on the motorway that caused hours of chaos when those involved are probably from miles away?

[bristolracer]

Wide loads

Ok i appreciate big stuff needs to be moved,however at 7.30 on a weekday evening?
So last night I had to endure a rolling queue of traffic for some 50 miles at 38mph on the M4 all to get past some big digger on a trailer taking up two lanes.
If they had moved it at 10 at night it would not have been any problem to anyone,but no they decide it will be moved when it is still a busy time on the motorway.
So myself and 1000s of other vehicles are all held up,i felt a bit sorry for the Irish plated National express who was probably heading for an Irish ferry and is going to have to make up 30 minutes somewhere.

[V8mate]

bristolracer said:

Wide loads

Ok i appreciate big stuff needs to be moved,however at 7.30 on a weekday evening?
So last night I had to endure a rolling queue of traffic for some 50 miles at 38mph on the M4 all to get past some big digger on a trailer taking up two lanes.
If they had moved it at 10 at night it would not have been any problem to anyone,but no they decide it will be moved when it is still a busy time on the motorway.
So myself and 1000s of other vehicles are all held up,i felt a bit sorry for the Irish plated National express who was probably heading for an Irish ferry and is going to have to make up 30 minutes somewhere.

Better than at 07:30 though, right?

[anonymous-user]

Some of the replies in the Computer, gadgets and stuff section. Bloke will ask a question he will receive correct reply then some knobjockey will wade in without reading the question anyway.
It can be funny as to read