Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)
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GroundEffect said:
nonsequitur said:
lucido grigio said:
We've had plenty of posts about Americans abusing the English language.
How about Australians ?
Watching the Highway patrol programmes ,they have "Towees" and "Firees".
Tow truck driver and Fire brigade.
There are others I've forgotten.
The letter ' E' is pronounced as ' I ' For example Yes=Yis.How about Australians ?
Watching the Highway patrol programmes ,they have "Towees" and "Firees".
Tow truck driver and Fire brigade.
There are others I've forgotten.
ch108 said:
I bought a slim fit shirt by mistake, picking it up instead of a regular fit. I could hardly breathe when I buttoned it up, and I'm of a relatively slim build.
Sorry to break it to you, but if you can't breathe when wearing slim fit shirts you're not of a "relatively slim build". I have a normal BMI (23-24) and slim fit shirts fit just fine, slightly loose if anything. Fitted shirts on the other hand are too tight.Shaoxter said:
Sorry to break it to you, but if you can't breathe when wearing slim fit shirts you're not of a "relatively slim build". I have a normal BMI (23-24) and slim fit shirts fit just fine, slightly loose if anything. Fitted shirts on the other hand are too tight.
Hell even slim fit ones seem to taper out at the waist in next... Although they do skinny fit ones which fit a lot better (BMI of 21) with 15.5" neckch108 said:
Maybe I'm of an age I should just start shopping at M&S! (That would annoy me even more I think).
I went to M&S the other day, as I've been buying their black jeans which I quite like, and fit me well. Except before, I could just pick the waist / leg combination and all would be fine. Now they all say either "Slim", "Regular" or "Relaxed" as well as the sizes, so I'm stuck with having to try them on. Except I wasn't, because the only line where they had my size were all slim, which by coincidence describes the chances of them fitting me. I wanted regular, but the only ones in regular or relaxed fit all started at 40" waist. NoIP said:
People still buy black jeans? 
Yup. I bought a pair a couple of months ago. They're still swinging from a hanger in my wardrobe with the tags attached though. It would seem that people do buy black jeans, but I can't think why I did. I now see no occasion where I'd be likely to wear them in the near future. Perhaps I ought to pop 'em back to the shop and plead stupidity. Then ask for an exchange?I had the old sizing issue in River Island on Sunday. All my t-shirts are either M so I picked up one of each to take to the fitting rooms.
I'm an average build, 34" waist 5'9" but I couldn't even get my arms through the Medium. The Large was skin tight but down to my knees. Looks like I'm well out of their target demographic now!
I'm an average build, 34" waist 5'9" but I couldn't even get my arms through the Medium. The Large was skin tight but down to my knees. Looks like I'm well out of their target demographic now!
The constant use of the word literally by my nephew.
e.g. "I was literally just leaving the house, when my phone rang, it was X, she said, 'How long are you going to be?', I said that I was literally just getting in the car."
"I'd literally just got to the corner, when I remembered her gift, it took me literally 5 minutes to turn around, go back and get it, then I literally flew to her place."
I said to him, "Danny, you're literally driving me nuts."
e.g. "I was literally just leaving the house, when my phone rang, it was X, she said, 'How long are you going to be?', I said that I was literally just getting in the car."
"I'd literally just got to the corner, when I remembered her gift, it took me literally 5 minutes to turn around, go back and get it, then I literally flew to her place."
I said to him, "Danny, you're literally driving me nuts."
chesby said:
The concrete road surface on the M25. I assume there are patches of it around its entire length. I'm referring to the bit south of the M4 and through the A3 area. It's sounds crap - it increases the road noise massively and the joins on it make you wonder if you've got a flat tyre.
Yes, and it continues around to J9 as well, where I usually exit to go home. very annoying indeed. Shakermaker said:
chesby said:
The concrete road surface on the M25. I assume there are patches of it around its entire length. I'm referring to the bit south of the M4 and through the A3 area. It's sounds crap - it increases the road noise massively and the joins on it make you wonder if you've got a flat tyre.
Yes, and it continues around to J9 as well, where I usually exit to go home. very annoying indeed. 
I struggle to make them out from sat 8ft off the ground in a truck when I'm down that way so must be terrible for people in cars.
wst said:
otally lost where I'd posted my rant. Finally getting around to replying. I don't have the foggiest where their bin is, and I don't give a flying frozen sausage. Their problem, they shouldn't just go taking another random bin.
I was applying numbers to my bins (even the disputed one) yesterday and there is the very faded outline of my house number already on it. Still, my labels make it much clearer and may even survive a few weeks!
Bins... The developer supplied 1 black bin. The council had green for garden waste as well. So I contact them, and they say they'll drop one off. Which of course was instantly taken by somebody else in the street before I returned from work, and I'm none the wiser. 3 attempts later I eventually got a green bin.I was applying numbers to my bins (even the disputed one) yesterday and there is the very faded outline of my house number already on it. Still, my labels make it much clearer and may even survive a few weeks!
Then my black bin went missing...because if your scum, rather than accept you forgot to put your bin out, and it being full is your fault. What you do is just take another one when they are emptied. Then when I'm told by the council to just put the bags out, and foxes rip them open, I get an ear full from neighbours for apparently being too thick to use a bin...which I don't have.
Took 2 or 3 go's to actually get my hands on that replacement as well. But a number of houses do now have 2 black bins....f
kers.
Shaoxter said:
Sorry to break it to you, but if you can't breathe when wearing slim fit shirts you're not of a "relatively slim build". I have a normal BMI (23-24) and slim fit shirts fit just fine, slightly loose if anything. Fitted shirts on the other hand are too tight.
My bmi is fine too. 5'9 and 11 stone. BMI of 23. But i find slim fit shirts extremely uncomfortable. I suppose it can also depend on the make of shirt too going by the wildly varying sizes. Admittedly I only bought one slim fit shirt. Perhaps other makes are different, but I wasn't going to end up with a wardrobe full of the damned things. Give me a regular fit any day.
ch108 said:
Shaoxter said:
Sorry to break it to you, but if you can't breathe when wearing slim fit shirts you're not of a "relatively slim build". I have a normal BMI (23-24) and slim fit shirts fit just fine, slightly loose if anything. Fitted shirts on the other hand are too tight.
My bmi is fine too. 5'9 and 11 stone. BMI of 23. But i find slim fit shirts extremely uncomfortable. I suppose it can also depend on the make of shirt too going by the wildly varying sizes. Admittedly I only bought one slim fit shirt. Perhaps other makes are different, but I wasn't going to end up with a wardrobe full of the damned things. Give me a regular fit any day.
Edited by JustinF on Wednesday 19th July 00:32
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