Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)

[mon the fish]

The proliferation of things becoming a 'Collectors Edition'.

It's not a collectors edition, it's a bloody magazine you tts.

[V8mate]

Cotty said:

“Old password is incorrect” fk off, the old password is correct as it has just let me into the system for you to ask me to change it. fking computers, I thought they were supposed to make life easier. Not make you contemplate slashing your wrists on a Monday Morning.

Mate, give that Commodore 64 up. Your online banking will never work properly on that.

[wst]

People who screenshot a picture and post that, instead of just posting the picture. Mostly happens on facebook with an easily guessable demographic.

[Cotty]

V8mate said:

Mate, give that Commodore 64 up. Your online banking will never work properly on that.

Oh that's not my computer or system, that's what I have to work on. My pc at home will piss on the works pc.

[FoxtrotOscar1]

People that use cold white led lights inside their house. Specifically the "big" light or on lamps.

[Shakermaker]

The annual proliferation of well-intentioned-but-generally-ignorant type people who want to make sure that we don't "forget the nurses" at Christmas.

because whilst we're all sitting down to enjoy our Turkey, the nurses will be there, at work, looking after the sick and injured, missing their own family.

Which of course, is a fantastic job that they do, and there is no denying that by anyone. This year in fact, there is more than usual chance that a nurse will be needed by us on Christmas Day, if our baby arrives early.

But why do we need to especially thank nurses at this time of year for giving up their time to work what I expect is just a day which falls on their standard roster pattern, which means some years they will work it, and some they won't.

Yet we don't have these same campaigns for..

Doctors/Surgeons
Pilots/cabin crew
Police
People that work at motorway service stations
Newsreaders
Journalists and the people who print the Boxing Day editions of the newspapers
TV continuity announcers
Priests - they all have to work on Christmas Day!
Staff who work at places like airports where things don't close on Christmas Day, so you still have to go to WH Smiths, or sort baggage, security, cleaning etc
Pub staff who work Christmas Day
Restaurant staff who open Christmas Day
hotel staff
on-call pharmacists
Railway engineers
Farmers
professional footballers going out for training
All the people that have to work on Christmas Day to activate the new SIM card in your mobile phone that you've been given
call centre staff for insurance firms claims management and any other 24/7 support functions
Breakdown and recovery mechanics/drivers
Security guards
power station employees
the armed forces


And I am sure there are many others as well.

All of these people are going to work on Christmas Day, some through direct choice, some indirectly will be working because their chosen line of work has to be operational 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and doesn't stop for Christmas.

It just annoys me that people only ever focus on "Nurses" as being the ones who are most deserving of our thanks at Christmas because they are the ones hardest done by.

[Europa1]

The annual "Winter Wonderland" is crap news story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-4238...

I am not sure what annoys me more: the cretins who think some tinsel and fake snow will cut it, or the cretins that go these things expecting them to be indistinguishable from a picture postcard alpine village.

Edited by Europa1 on Monday 18th December 11:57

[Shakermaker]

Europa1 said:

The annual "Winter Wonderland" is crap new story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-4238...

I am not sure what annoys me more: the cretins who think some tinsel and fake snow will cut it, or the cretins that go these things expecting them to be indistinguishable from a picture postcard alpine village.

I'll go with the people who set it up badly, somehow they do it every year. Consumers won't know until they get in whether it is going to be good/bad and there is no marker for quality - some places in the country do excellent events, some do not

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Russian Dolls annoy me; they're so full of themselves.

[V8mate]

'People from disadvantaged backgrounds'.


(The badge; not the people)

[Cold]

Do they know it's Chrissmasss time at allll?

[bristolracer]

Broken biscuits.

Have they been stacked on the shelf by somebody kicking them there?

I can’t dunk crumbs you morons.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

bristolracer said:

Broken biscuits.

I read this and initially thought you were referring to the boxes of 'broken biscuits' you can buy cheaply in Booker's and the like. And I even made a nice little Yo Dawg meme image for you.

Then I realised you are annoyed about biscuits that are broken, which makes far more sense.

[MartG]

People who would far rather make ad hominen attacks than actually come up with some facts to support their position

[glenrobbo]

bristolracer said:

Broken biscuits.

Have they been stacked on the shelf by somebody kicking them there?

I can’t dunk crumbs you morons.

Durrh? They are all made in the Broken Biscuit Factory you dingbat!

[glenrobbo]

People who dunk biscuits.





Except for my 2 yr old granddaughter, obviously. She can do no wrong.

[CJm123]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Indeed. Perhaps they don't understand fractions and don't realise that 3 & 1/4 is 3.25

Probably best not to mention the "thou" as a division of an inch.

It’s annoying

[nonsequitur]

glenrobbo said:

People who dunk biscuits.





Except for my 2 yr old granddaughter, obviously. She can do no wrong.

A tradition going back centuries when knights dipped lupins in their mead.

[glenrobbo]

nonsequitur said:

A tradition going back centuries when knights dipped lupins in their mead.

I think you have misinterpreted that particular euphemism, my good sir!

[droopsnoot]

nonsequitur said:

A tradition going back centuries when knights dipped lupins in their mead.

Dennis Moore.