Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)

[RayDonovan]

AstonZagato said:

Doofus said:

Honourable Dead Snark said:

Girl from school I have as a friend on Instagram obviously got married fairly recently because I’ve lost count the amount of times she finds any excuse to post pictures of her wedding day.

At least once a week she posts a story wishing someone she knows a happy birthday and every single time it’s a picture of them, with her, at her wedding being the centre of attention.

Screams unashamed narcissism to me and I’m very close to unfriending her but part of me is curious how long she’ll keep it up for.

Of course it's narcissism, it's Instagram. That's what it's for.

The wife of a friend of mine is on there. I follow her out of curiosity as she is utterly unrelenting in her posts - many each day. She is always at some high end restaurant or luxury brand boutique. These are clearly posed shots - not random selfies. She has high production values (not sure if she has a professional photographer but she must be picking and editing from many hundred shots). She also puts some trite homily about self fulfilment on every post. A different designer outfit every time.

It must be exhausting.

I thought perhaps she is able to earn something from it but she only has 9,000 followers (most seem to be men who simp in the comments).

Hilariously pointless.

Presume that is how you start to try and become an "Infuencer". I work in food and there's hundreds of food influencers on there, buying, trying and reviewing mostly snacks and chocolates. Only a very small handful actually either get paid or even get the products for free.
We work / worked with some and the actual cost to the manafacturer is really low (compared to TV / YT etc).

Tell her to get her chebs out, instant way to increase your followers

[RayDonovan]

When you try to organise something in a mates' WhatsApp group chat and 10% of the group reply.

[Red9zero]

RayDonovan said:

When you try to organise something in a mates' WhatsApp group chat and 10% of the group reply.

We have a family WhatsApp group. Trying to arrange stuff is like pulling teeth.

[captain_cynic]

Red9zero said:

RayDonovan said:

When you try to organise something in a mates' WhatsApp group chat and 10% of the group reply.

We have a family WhatsApp group. Trying to arrange stuff is like pulling teeth.

It's still better than trying to do the same thing in person though.

[popeyewhite]

captain_cynic said:

Red9zero said:

RayDonovan said:

When you try to organise something in a mates' WhatsApp group chat and 10% of the group reply.

We have a family WhatsApp group. Trying to arrange stuff is like pulling teeth.

It's still better than trying to do the same thing in person though.

Sometimes that's not the case. Face to face you'll get an answer then and there, my experience with several (business) WhatsApp groups is people put off giving an answer either through procrastination, inability to make up their minds, or they prefer the personal approach. Certainly has its uses though. I'm not surprised the family group struggles!

[RayDonovan]

Red9zero said:

RayDonovan said:

When you try to organise something in a mates' WhatsApp group chat and 10% of the group reply.

We have a family WhatsApp group. Trying to arrange stuff is like pulling teeth.

We have group members that literally never contribute anything!

[Penny Whistle]

droopsnoot said:

Penny Whistle said:

What a palaver ! Come to a halt, engage parking brake, foot off footbrake. Light changes, foot depresses the loud pedal and off we go (parking brake releases itself).

Oh - you've got an engine and a gearbox ! How quaint; life is so much easier with motors.

Can you still have a loud pedal in an almost-silent car?

It is rather easy to make the tyres squeal by using that pedal.

[SteveStrange]

Penny Whistle said:

droopsnoot said:

Penny Whistle said:

What a palaver ! Come to a halt, engage parking brake, foot off footbrake. Light changes, foot depresses the loud pedal and off we go (parking brake releases itself).

Oh - you've got an engine and a gearbox ! How quaint; life is so much easier with motors.

Can you still have a loud pedal in an almost-silent car?

It is rather easy to make the tyres squeal by using that pedal.

You can wheelspin in a Leaf? Impressive.

[LunarOne]

SteveStrange said:

Penny Whistle said:

droopsnoot said:

Penny Whistle said:

What a palaver ! Come to a halt, engage parking brake, foot off footbrake. Light changes, foot depresses the loud pedal and off we go (parking brake releases itself).

Oh - you've got an engine and a gearbox ! How quaint; life is so much easier with motors.

Can you still have a loud pedal in an almost-silent car?

It is rather easy to make the tyres squeal by using that pedal.

You can wheelspin in a Leaf? Impressive.

ON a leaf. The wrong kind of leaves, obviously.

[Zumbruk]

Pi day on the 14th March.

Only in America.

The rest of the world it's 22nd July.

[LunarOne]

Zumbruk said:

Pi day on the 14th March.

Only in America.

The rest of the world it's 22nd July.

3.14.... Or am I due a parrot?

[RizzoTheRat]

Surely 22 July is Pi approximation day isn't it?

[LunarOne]

Since the 10th month is named after 8 (Oct)
and the 11th month is named after 9 (Nov)
and the 12th month is named after 10 (Dec)
then the 13th month should be named after 11
and the 14th months should be named after 12...

So it should really be on the 3rd of Dodecember.

[Zumbruk]

LunarOne said:

Zumbruk said:

Pi day on the 14th March.

Only in America.

The rest of the world it's 22nd July.

3.14.... Or am I due a parrot?

Only the septics write dates as MM/DD. Is that a parrot?

[Morningside]

LunarOne said:

Since the 10th month is named after 8 (Oct)
and the 11th month is named after 9 (Nov)
and the 12th month is named after 10 (Dec)
then the 13th month should be named after 11
and the 14th months should be named after 12...

So it should really be on the 3rd of Dodecember.

Lousy Smarch.

[21st Century Man]

That seemingly every truck on the M1 today was "Delivering Sustainable Solutions".

[LunarOne]

21st Century Man said:

That seemingly every truck on the M1 today was "Delivering Sustainable Solutions".

About 15 years ago, products all became solutions. Maddening unless they were selling brine. Now everything is a "sustainable" solution, which is doubly maddening. To add insult to injury, in my new job I am required on occasion to "deliver" training.

The only way it could get more annoying is if either Sadiq Khan or Nigel Farage said it. Both men who I hate and who hate each other. And I suppose Khan thinks he's "delivering" a "sustainable" "solution" too. Oh, and air quotes. And the American "Quote-Unquote".

[shih tzu faced]

Don’t mind admitting that I don’t really know what sustainable actually means in terms of these adverts, slogans etc. is it just the current buzzword that gets shoe horned into everything because it sounds clever?

Case in point a radio advert today for insurance of all things (might have been Zurich?). In the background there’s sound effects of a wedding going on with bells ringing, I do’s and so on and the word sustainability is mentioned several times and is obviously the main message of the ad. Wtf is this sh!te all about?

[Turtle Shed]

Greatest Hits Radio (paid for version) advertising the fact that there are no adverts on the paid for version.

[Penny Whistle]

"Leveraging"