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

[nonsequitur]

Brother D said:

People that take photos on their phone with a dirty greasy lens.

You absolute bast*rds. It take 0.5 secs just to clean it on a bit of clothing.

Greasy lens trumps my tux, frilly shirt and bow tie

[V8mate]

nonsequitur said:

Brother D said:

People that take photos on their phone with a dirty greasy lens.

You absolute bast*rds. It take 0.5 secs just to clean it on a bit of clothing.

Greasy lens trumps my tux, frilly shirt and bow tie

People who wipe lenses, especially glasses, on their clothes, can FRO to the council thread.

[FreeLitres]

popeyewhite said:

Buying a crate of Carling, red light at the self-serve till:

Hello, would you like approval?
No, I'm 53 years old, I don't need approval to buy a crate of beer. It's the machine that wants approval.

Grrrr

It still tickles me that the self-service till requires approval for a single bottle of alcohol free beer.

[Halmyre]

V8mate said:

nonsequitur said:

Brother D said:

People that take photos on their phone with a dirty greasy lens.

You absolute bast*rds. It take 0.5 secs just to clean it on a bit of clothing.

Greasy lens trumps my tux, frilly shirt and bow tie

People who wipe lenses, especially glasses, on their clothes, can FRO to the council thread.

Including George Smiley?

[V8mate]

Halmyre said:

V8mate said:

nonsequitur said:

Brother D said:

People that take photos on their phone with a dirty greasy lens.

You absolute bast*rds. It take 0.5 secs just to clean it on a bit of clothing.

Greasy lens trumps my tux, frilly shirt and bow tie

People who wipe lenses, especially glasses, on their clothes, can FRO to the council thread.

Including George Smiley?

No, not George Smiley. But he's just an odd, socially inadequate, old man who doesn't know any better

[nonsequitur]

Halmyre said:

V8mate said:

nonsequitur said:

Brother D said:

People that take photos on their phone with a dirty greasy lens.

You absolute bast*rds. It take 0.5 secs just to clean it on a bit of clothing.

Greasy lens trumps my tux, frilly shirt and bow tie

People who wipe lenses, especially glasses, on their clothes, can FRO to the council thread.

Including George Smiley?

He would have worn spyglasses and is therefore exempt.

Edited by nonsequitur on Saturday 9th September 18:33

[oceanview]

Recently(reluctantly) joined facebook for groups I am interested in.

Ok, all good but, being suggested "friends" as well, being annoyed with examples of posers/narcissists/idiots posting selfies, desperate for approval/gushing comments???!!!

Please, fk off and deal with your self-esteem issues elsewhere!!

[Hackney]

yellowjack said:

[b]"People" is the answer to that.

Communal arrangements absolve people of personal responsibility. So the recycling bins get "contaminated" by some idiots deliberately and selfishly chucking whatever they please into it, from garden waste to builders' rubble. Then the council refuse to empty them, no-one (especially not the idiots who selfishly contaminated the load) is willing to climb into a large bin to sort the problem and disputes roll on.[/b]

You've only got to talk to people who hire skips for home refurbishment projects to see the problem. A neighbour of mine hired a large skip to get rid of the rubble from an old extension he was replacing. Within hours of him leaving the house one morning, he got back to find it half filled with patio furniture, old kiddies toys and some bikes. All stuff that people either cannot fit into a wheelie bin or won't risk getting caught chucking in their own bin. But no sooner does an opportunity arise to lob the problem in someone else's direction than they're creeping about at night passing the buck.

I disagree with these punitive patrols fining people who lead busy lives, and I think 8pm is far too early to be rounding up householders to face firing squads. But without some sort of threat of action against them, some householders will leave their bins on footways the whole time, causing obstructions on footways for parents with pushchairs, the elderly, and the disabled. It's a fine line to tread between chaos and enforced order, and it's hard to know where to draw the line, but I sympathise with councils at the end of their tether with uncooperative residents. I also sympathise with residents who are inundated with ever more disposal containers in cities where they have no rear access to their gardens, and no front garden in which to keep their bins. The choice there is to keep the bins on the street or drag them through the house to the rear garden when often they are rain-soaked or filthy. I really don't know what the solution is in that case.

This. It's why I hate people in Britain. I hesitate to say British people. It does seem unique to our shores.
Whenever I've holidayed in France (snowboarding resorts) there are huge, sunken recycling tanks which are emptied regularly, but as Yellowjack says, the same thing in the UK would be contaminated by c**ts who do c**tish things.

My other thing that annoys me beyond reason in relation to rubbish is my local Tesco. I drop my kids off at nursery at 8am and often pop in to do some shopping or drop off the bottles at their recycling (despite numerous bins and bags for different things at the house the local council don't collect glass).

There are big notices at Tesco saying that we should respect their neighbours and not use the glass recycling bins before 8:30 or 9am (I forget which) in the morning. I can understand that, in theory and did abide by the request.
Until I saw the bins being emptied, very, very loudly, into the back of a lorry at 8am one morning.

Edited by Hackney on Sunday 10th September 07:13

[psi310398]

Hackney said:

This. It's why I hate people in Britain. I hesitate to say British people. It does seem unique to our shores.
Whenever I've holidayed in France (snowboarding resorts) there are huge, sunken recycling tanks which are emptied regularly, but as Yellowjack says, the same thing in the UK would be contaminated by c**ts who do c**tish things.

Edited by Hackney on Sunday 10th September 07:13

Interesting.

I live half in the UK and half in Italy and spend a fair amount of time in France. My impression is, recycling and rubbish apart, that people in the UK are generally less selfish and more communally-minded than in the places I frequent on the continent - holding doors, letting pedestrians cross, letting in traffic from side streets etc.

But the fly-tipping/general discourtesy regarding rubbish is worse in the UK. Maybe precisely because many of our councils are so poor at organising it (I use the term loosely)? If there were proper facilities, properly organised at proper volumes on a neighbourhood basis, things might work better.

I now live in the borough of Camden and the arrangements there seem to work well. Prior to Camden, I lived in Islington for twenty years where the communal provision was poor and the work to organise recycling/rubbish pushed onto the individual with no real supporting infrastructure. Yes we were constantly lectured about petty rules (including being regularly doorstepped by some really sanctimonious tw*ts paid for by the Council) for recycling/ rubbish collection.

It was inevitable that we would then discover from a local paper FOI request that they had been mixing it all up again and shipping it undifferentiated to the Third World. In those circumstances, why would anybody take the trouble to do things properly?

[Willy Nilly]

psi310398 said:

Hackney said:

This. It's why I hate people in Britain. I hesitate to say British people. It does seem unique to our shores.
Whenever I've holidayed in France (snowboarding resorts) there are huge, sunken recycling tanks which are emptied regularly, but as Yellowjack says, the same thing in the UK would be contaminated by c**ts who do c**tish things.

Edited by Hackney on Sunday 10th September 07:13

Interesting.

I live half in the UK and half in Italy and spend a fair amount of time in France. My impression is, recycling and rubbish apart, that people in the UK are generally less selfish and more communally-minded than in the places I frequent on the continent - holding doors, letting pedestrians cross, letting in traffic from side streets etc.

But the fly-tipping/general discourtesy regarding rubbish is worse in the UK. Maybe precisely because many of our councils are so poor at organising it (I use the term loosely)? If there were proper facilities, properly organised at proper volumes on a neighbourhood basis, things might work better.

I now live in the borough of Camden and the arrangements there seem to work well. Prior to Camden, I lived in Islington for twenty years where the communal provision was poor and the work to organise recycling/rubbish pushed onto the individual with no real supporting infrastructure. Yes we were constantly lectured about petty rules (including being regularly doorstepped by some really sanctimonious tw*ts paid for by the Council) for recycling/ rubbish collection.

It was inevitable that we would then discover from a local paper FOI request that they had been mixing it all up again and shipping it undifferentiated to the Third World. In those circumstances, why would anybody take the trouble to do things properly?

Loads of fly tipping around here and the locals (who are doing it) are up in arms about it. My boss (farm manager) was invited to the meeting about it and is a quite, thoughtful person, and asked about what he though the solution was. He pointed out to them that when we send a load of rubbish to the tip it costs £110/tonne or waht ever by the time the gate fees and land fill tax has been paid, most of which is tax and that legislation has made it too difficult and expensive to dispose of waste. So being as how central government has made the problem it really should be up to them to use the money raised through land fill tax to clean it up.

[V8mate]

Willy Nilly said:

Loads of fly tipping around here and the locals (who are doing it) are up in arms about it. My boss (farm manager) was invited to the meeting about it and is a quite, thoughtful person, and asked about what he though the solution was. He pointed out to them that when we send a load of rubbish to the tip it costs £110/tonne or waht ever by the time the gate fees and land fill tax has been paid, most of which is tax and that legislation has made it too difficult and expensive to dispose of waste. So being as how central government has made the problem it really should be up to them to use the money raised through land fill tax to clean it up.

Except that if the fly-tipping fraternity know that the landowner will face no costs, they'll increase the amount they dump. And others, who had some kind of social conscience, will join them.

I agree that the current situation is unfair - but government bail-outs isn't the answer.

[lord trumpton]

SlimJim16v said:

s who say "thank you so much" for the most trivial little thing.

Another fking Americanism of course.

Have a nice day now.

Oh yes; this annoys me too!

I was walking to the post office the other day and some council dirt bird asked my for a light (I was having a burn at the time) I gave her a light and got 'Oh thank you so much..' I actually wondered if I had accidentally paid off her credit card debt or something.

I think she fancied a bit of something else too but I may have imagined that.

[V8mate]

lord trumpton said:

SlimJim16v said:

s who say "thank you so much" for the most trivial little thing.

Another fking Americanism of course.

Have a nice day now.

Oh yes; this annoys me too!

I was walking to the post office the other day and some council dirt bird asked my for a light (I was having a burn at the time) I gave her a light and got 'Oh thank you so much..' I actually wondered if I had accidentally paid off her credit card debt or something.

I think she fancied a bit of something else too but I may have imagined that.

Blimey. We truly in changing times when people are annoyed beyond reason at people being *too* polite.

[Wiccan of Darkness]

This ones been brewing since friday and if I don't vent my spleen I'll either have an aneurysm or cack my trolleys.

Heading home on friday I was listening to Tony Blackburn on Radio 2. This used to be one of my fave weekly slots with Desmond Carrington, but to be fair, Blackburn was playing some decent music.

But what was really roasting my pelican was his constant game of chicken with the songs.

As soon as the intro started, he'd keep waffling, the music would start, and I'd go oh yeah but he'd waffle more 'big shout out to liinda in Stoke, on her way to meet friends for a hen do... yes tony, the lyrics are about to start.... shut up, shut up SHUT THE fk UP you fking fker. It got worse and worse, it's as if he's trying to say 'look how good a DJ I am, I can talk over the music right up to the split second the lyrics start' Well, you ain't. You're a pretentious, annoying prick of a human being who has managed to wreck every single song played.

But it got worse. Yep, he played Thriller. I love the intro to thriller, makes me boogie. But not only did he waffle over the intro, as soon as it got to #'It's close to miiiid-night...' he was STILL talking. #...and something evils creepin' in the dark'.... FINALLY he shuts the fk up.

I wouldn't care too much if it was occasionally, life's too short to suffer the anguish of a bladder of boiling piss as a result of the chirpy little st. But it is every song, on every show.

That, my friends, really roasts my pelican.

Yes.

It boils my piss
It gets my goat, it really roasts my pelican
His presenting style boils my bile, it's nothing quite as elegant.
The cocky will snort and grunt his way through a show that's vague
I hope that dick will call in sick, preferably with bubonic plague.

Someone reincarnate Desmond Carrington.
Tony Blackburn is a dinosaur that should be put out to pasture.

[davhill]

lord trumpton said:

Oh yes; this annoys me too!

I was walking to the post office the other day and some council dirt bird asked my for a light (I was having a burn at the time) I gave her a light and got 'Oh thank you so much..' I actually wondered if I had accidentally paid off her credit card debt or something.

I think she fancied a bit of something else too but I may have imagined that.

Can't find the first post but I didn't know, 'Thank you so much' was a Yankism . I think of it as being super sarcismo from Fawlty Towers.

[nonsequitur]

lord trumpton said:

SlimJim16v said:

s who say "thank you so much" for the most trivial little thing.

Another fking Americanism of course.

Have a nice day now.

Oh yes; this annoys me too!

I was walking to the post office the other day and some council dirt bird asked my for a light (I was having a burn at the time) I gave her a light and got 'Oh thank you so much..' I actually wondered if I had accidentally paid off her credit card debt or something.

I think she fancied a bit of something else too but I may have imagined that.

Two so's and your'e in.

[nonsequitur]

Wiccan of Darkness said:

This ones been brewing since friday and if I don't vent my spleen I'll either have an aneurysm or cack my trolleys.

Heading home on friday I was listening to Tony Blackburn on Radio 2. This used to be one of my fave weekly slots with Desmond Carrington, but to be fair, Blackburn was playing some decent music.

But what was really roasting my pelican was his constant game of chicken with the songs.

As soon as the intro started, he'd keep waffling, the music would start, and I'd go oh yeah but he'd waffle more 'big shout out to liinda in Stoke, on her way to meet friends for a hen do... yes tony, the lyrics are about to start.... shut up, shut up SHUT THE fk UP you fking fker. It got worse and worse, it's as if he's trying to say 'look how good a DJ I am, I can talk over the music right up to the split second the lyrics start' Well, you ain't. You're a pretentious, annoying prick of a human being who has managed to wreck every single song played.

But it got worse. Yep, he played Thriller. I love the intro to thriller, makes me boogie. But not only did he waffle over the intro, as soon as it got to #'It's close to miiiid-night...' he was STILL talking. #...and something evils creepin' in the dark'.... FINALLY he shuts the fk up.

I wouldn't care too much if it was occasionally, life's too short to suffer the anguish of a bladder of boiling piss as a result of the chirpy little st. But it is every song, on every show.

That, my friends, really roasts my pelican.

Yes.

It boils my piss
It gets my goat, it really roasts my pelican
His presenting style boils my bile, it's nothing quite as elegant.
The cocky will snort and grunt his way through a show that's vague
I hope that dick will call in sick, preferably with bubonic plague.

Someone reincarnate Desmond Carrington.
Tony Blackburn is a dinosaur that should be put out to pasture.

Wait until the 50th anniversary of Radio One, he'll be everywhere, he won't be moved.

'Im just sitting watching flowers in the rain, see the power of the rain keeping me cool'

[ClockworkCupcake]

V8mate said:

Blimey. We truly in changing times when people are annoyed beyond reason at people being *too* polite.

[deltashad]

People who jump queues.
Am I fking invisible?

[Evanivitch]

deltashad said:

People who jump queues.
Am I fking invisible?

Not invisible, just irrelevant.