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

[phazed]

I find the whole Photobucket thing quite annoying.

Photobucket. After letting everyone have it as a freebie for so long, a £10 per year upgrade would've been fair. Very annoying!

[MartG]

I think it is rather telling that the Parliamentary Oath of Allegiance, which every MP and Lord must make, makes no mention of telling the truth.

So unlike in a court of law, those who make the laws are under no formal compulsion to be truthful, nor does there appear to be much in the way of punishment for MPs who lie

[Moonhawk]

V8mate said:

Bloody timewasters

I totally agree - why he wasted his own time (and ours) like that is beyond me.

Had he left us alone, he could have spent time with customers who perhaps actually needed help - and we would have been out of the shop in less than half the time.

[Cotty]

I sit in an office with multiple PC’s, personal and office mobile phones. Is it normal to have a constant cacophony of dings and bing-bing sounds all fking day long?

[Shakermaker]

Cotty said:

I sit in an office with multiple PC’s, personal and office mobile phones. Is it normal to have a constant cacophony of dings and bing-bing sounds all fking day long?

It would seem so. Or are you sat in the same office as I am?

[glenrobbo]

MartG said:

I think it is rather telling that the Parliamentary Oath of Allegiance, which every MP and Lord must make, makes no mention of telling the truth.

So unlike in a court of law, those who make the laws are under no formal compulsion to be truthful, nor does there appear to be much in the way of punishment for MPs who lie

WHAT? Are you inferring that MP's should tell the truth?

That would undermine all those hundreds of years of our fine parliamentary system's evolution and leave every single member of the Great British Public totally bewildered and confused.

Go and have a word with yourself you silly boy.

Sometimes I despair of the youth of today...

[ClockworkCupcake]

Cotty said:

I sit in an office with multiple PC’s, personal and office mobile phones. Is it normal to have a constant cacophony of dings and bing-bing sounds all fking day long?

Totally agree - very annoying indeed.

Also people to take calls on speakerphone in an open plan office when it is just them on their end of the call. Get a headset if you want to be handsfree, you lazy twunt.

Also people whose headphones leak sound.

Also people with nervous tics like Restless Leg Syndrome, or habitual throat clearing, or coughing, or giving a running commentary of their work as if anyone else gives a fk.

Really, I ought not to be working in an office environment as I'm rather poorly suited to it.

[SpeckledJim]

glenrobbo said:

MartG said:

I think it is rather telling that the Parliamentary Oath of Allegiance, which every MP and Lord must make, makes no mention of telling the truth.

So unlike in a court of law, those who make the laws are under no formal compulsion to be truthful, nor does there appear to be much in the way of punishment for MPs who lie

WHAT? Are you inferring that MP's should tell the truth?

That would undermine all those hundreds of years of our fine parliamentary system's evolution and leave every single member of the Great British Public totally bewildered and confused.

Go and have a word with yourself you silly boy.

Sometimes I despair of the youth of today...

I don't think the principles of following the whip and cabinet responsibility function at all if people are compelled not to lie.

[ClockworkCupcake]

Also, people who have their phone configured for both sound and vibration on notifications, and who have notifications turned on for bloody everything, and who receive a lot of IMs.

BZZZT BZZZZT *ping* .....
BZZZT BZZZZT *ping* .....
BZZZT BZZZZT *ping* .....
BZZZT BZZZZT *ping* .....
BZZZT BZZZZT *ping* .....
BZZZT BZZZZT *ping* .....
BZZZT BZZZZT *ping* .....
BZZZT BZZZZT *ping* .....
BZZZT BZZZZT *ping* .....

[Cotty]

ClockworkCupcake said:

Really, I ought not to be working in an office environment as I'm rather poorly suited to it.

Its just people not giving a flying fk about the people around them. People always seem to be the problem, I think the idea of working from home is growing on me .

[phazed]

Cotty said:

ClockworkCupcake said:

Really, I ought not to be working in an office environment as I'm rather poorly suited to it.

Its just people not giving a flying fk about the people around them. People always seem to be the problem, I think the idea of working from home is growing on me .

I run my small business from home and absolutely love it. I have a dedicated office, everything I could need in there and absolutely no distractions or interference at all, (apart from PH).

Do I miss the banter, the general hubbub, the interruptions, or mixing with general feck wits, I certainly do not.

[anonymous-user]

ClockworkCupcake said:

Really, I ought not to be working in an office environment as I'm rather poorly suited to it.

Try splitting your time 50/50 between heavy industry building sites and an office. In one, you aren't taken seriously unless you end every sentence with "Do it now, you fking useless fat ". In the other, that sentence would get you punched from the 30 stone woman guarding the stationary cupboard. I have more than one disciplinary action record from when I've been mixed up.

[Cotty]

phazed said:

I run my small business from home and absolutely love it. I have a dedicated office, everything I could need in there and absolutely no distractions or interference at all, (apart from PH).

Do I miss the banter, the general hubbub, the interruptions, or mixing with general feck wits, I certainly do not.

I envy you

[mikal83]

phazed said:

Fastdruid said:

OpulentBob said:

Painting artex ceilings. I'm about ready to kick the st out of the cat and bum my own dog on the neighbours lawn.

And as a bonus Artex contains asbestos so removing it isn't much of an option.

Bonded and set over all the ceilings in our house to de-artex!

Just done that to all my ceilings, now have probably 10 litres of painting to do!

[phazed 11.83]

10litres? That's only a few ceilings, luxury!

[thetapeworm]

[Saleen836]

As per doctors instructions I have to walk everyday, I'm lucky to be a few minutes drive from Longleat Forest and spending an hour walking in there is more relaxing and peacefull than walking around town, why is it that when I come across people walking their dog/s I get looked at like I'm some sort of alien just because I'm walking in the forest with no dog?

[DJFish]

Just carry a lead with you & shout a silly name occasionally.

[anonymous-user]

Saleen836 said:

As per doctors instructions I have to walk everyday, I'm lucky to be a few minutes drive from Longleat Forest and spending an hour walking in there is more relaxing and peacefull than walking around town, why is it that when I come across people walking their dog/s I get looked at like I'm some sort of alien just because I'm walking in the forest with no dog?

Your not wearing a n overcoat and trousers with a sort of Velcro fastening ?

[yellowjack]

Saleen836 said:

As per doctors instructions I have to walk everyday, I'm lucky to be a few minutes drive from Longleat Forest and spending an hour walking in there is more relaxing and peacefull than walking around town, why is it that when I come across people walking their dog/s I get looked at like I'm some sort of alien just because I'm walking in the forest with no dog?

They're just naturally inclined that way, unfortunately. It's usually because they like to have a swift look around when their dog takes a dump, and if no-one's looking they run off and pretend it didn't happen so they don't have to pick it up.

They probably think you're a crack undercover council dog warden who's about to drop them with a £1000 fine.

They behave similarly when it's parents taking kids for walks because now their disobedient and dangerously uncontrollable family pet has to be on a lead, because it almost certainly WILL bite strangers for no apparent reason. And mountain bikers get an especially deep dark recess in the bowels of hell reserved for them. Even if the biker happens to be riding on a designated MTB trail where the dog walker has no business going anywhere near. In those cases, it's VERY funny to "get a chase" from the dog and ride off in as straight a line as you can find away from the owner. My record is ¾ of a mile, with the owner's voice fading in the background as the clinically obese grumpy b'stard attempted to run after the dog. I presume the dog found it's way back to it's "master" when it gave up chasing me, but prefer to think it got permanently lost and is living wild now.

Seriously, the prevailing attitude among dog walkers seems to be that the entire natural world was created solely to act as a dog-toilet for their pampered pooches.