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

[Cotty]

RicksAlfas said:

Drivers who drive right up to a parked car (or other stationary obstacle) and then have to swing out into the opposite lane to get past it. If they looked further than the end of their bonnet and pulled out in advance they could drive past without bringing the whole road to a grinding halt.

I have noticed pedestrians do this on pavements. Three people walking side by side towards me filling the path, wall one side busy road the other. Im not stepping into traffic and I can't jump through the wall. They walk right at you and at the last second realise that "oh this is a human being that I can't walk though, perhaps I need to walk round them".

I was supposed to walk from Little Venice to Camden Lock this weekend. Warm weather, bank holiday, crowds and idiots that walk at you .... cancelled.

[C5_Steve]

carlo996 said:

Paranoia is a terrible thing.

Odd comment......

[Deranged Rover]

RizzoTheRat said:

I bought an auxiliary audio cable in Halfords some time back, I had to find someone to open the locked cabinet they keep these <£5 cables in, and then when I left the shop the alarms went off. I stopped and looked round but nobody came over so I carried on out of the shop.
I then went in to boots for something else and when I left the alarms went off. Again no interest from anyone so I went on my way.
It turned out the cable had an RFID tag stuck to the inside of the packaging, but presumably wouldn't stop anyone nicking it as nobody cares when the alarms go off.
I thought about sticking the label in a little used pocket of my wife's handbag for a laugh but thought better of it

About 30 years ago, I remember buying my first audio upgrade which was a 10m length of QED 79 strand speaker cable from John Lewis in Southampton (or Tyrrell & Green as it was then).

I had other shopping to do and, in every shop that I subsequently went into that had anti-theft gates at the door, my reel of cable set those alarms off! Each security guard was very nice and quite amused about it but, after the sixth occurrence, I got a bit fed up with it..

[hidetheelephants]

Sargeant Orange said:

The wife's cough, aka the loudest cough in the world.

She's had it since November (as she usually does but it has always gone in the new year previously) and it's driving me insane. So much so it's driven me to go back into the office rather than work from home and have to endure the associated headache it gives me.

I've got to the point of wondering if she has some kind of tic rather than a genuine cough (yes I've read up on it & it's a thing), or, more likely, is just doing it more loudly as she knows it grates on me.

I feel like I'm living with an 80 year old chain smoker retching from the pit of their lungs. At least when I have a cough I'll make an attempt to be considerate and cover it as best I can.

The worst part is that she doesn't try and help herself - like last night chomping away on crisps and wondering why she's waking up the whole street (if a window is open I can hear her from 150m away - I've paced it out).

Rant over

A persistent unexplained cough can be a sign of several unpleasant health problems?

[C n C]

popeyewhite said:

B+Q has some large bags of compost, fertiliser etc stacked outside the front entrance. To buy you have to trolley the stuff in, pay, then trolley out again. The bags are in the easiest position I've ever seen to drive up, open your boot, put a couple in and drive off within 20 seconds. I wonder whether anyone has.

^^^
This type of thing is quite annoying.

Although not in the spirit of this thread, at our local independent garden centre, where they have the compost and a 2 for 1 offer, they have a number of trolleys each already loaded with 2 bags. I thought it quite a good idea, as it saves you having to lift the bags into a trolley, and also encourages the 2 for 1 offer.

[Mercdriver]

Dundee B and Q has the entrance in the middle, it is a big store, garden centre is at the opposite end of the tills.

So you enter in the middle, walk to one end pushing a trolley, load up then push it to the other end to pay.

When you exit you have to then walk back to the middle if you parked your car at the entrance.

bks to that, local garden centre even loads trolley and takes it out to your car

Guess where I buy compost?

[carlo996]

C5_Steve said:

carlo996 said:

Paranoia is a terrible thing.

Odd comment......

What is odd is being perturbed by throwaway comments in the middle of general conversation?

[LunarOne]

Nexus Icon said:

I was encouraged to create a LinkedIn account about a decade ago. Soon after setting up I realised it was basically Facebook meets Friends Reunited but for c**ts with jobs, not just unemployed ones. It's still sat, as I opened the account, with no updates. Chuff off.

I'm not on regular social media, but I've had two jobs and plenty of freelance work come through LinkedIn since 2011. I was very resistant to joining up when it started up but It's proved its worth and I even had LinkedIn Premium for a while. But you do get headhunted a lot in my line of work and I've had to put a virtual sign up telling recruiters that I'm not interested, otherwise it's a non-stop flood of messages asking me if I'd like to change jobs. I'm sure I'd be earning more if I kept job-hopping every 18 months but it's not for me.

[NRG1976]

carlo996 said:

C5_Steve said:

carlo996 said:

Paranoia is a terrible thing.

Odd comment......

What is odd is being perturbed by throwaway comments in the middle of general conversation?

You’ve always had it in for c5-Steve

[carlo996]

NRG1976 said:

You’ve always had it in for c5-Steve

Did I, who said that, is it an alias….

[beagrizzly]

Nexus Icon said:

TameRacingDriver said:

LinkedIn.

What a festering pile of bilge.

The way they write their cringey twaddle on a new line for every sentence.

Just like this.

And the sheer cringe that people post on there. Blowing smoke up their own and other peoples arses. Talking absolute ste.

Like a guy last week, showing a video of him doing pull ups.

He was 59 apparently, and boasted that blokes in their 20s couldn't do any pull ups.

Also claimed he enjoyed their girlfriends eyeing up this sad old bd who thought he was Arnie, while they were flabby and weak.

Then offered business advice for a large fee. A fee larger than his ego apparently.

But you get what you pay for. That's what he told us.

What a load of fking bks. That site really is full of s.

Why do I subject myself to it?

I was encouraged to create a LinkedIn account about a decade ago. Soon after setting up I realised it was basically Facebook meets Friends Reunited but for c**ts with jobs, not just unemployed ones. It's still sat, as I opened the account, with no updates. Chuff off.

Glad I'm not the only one thinking this. Tiresome place which I am on, but only from a 'just in case' perspective.

It must be said that most of the really successful people I know are either not on Linkedin, or are on there without posting ste to blow their own trumpet or kiss other people's arses.

(For the avoidance of confusion, I am not claiming that I am really successful because I'm quiet on Linkedin. I am quiet on Linkedin because I find it tedious )

[Bluedot]

beagrizzly said:

Nexus Icon said:

TameRacingDriver said:

LinkedIn.

What a festering pile of bilge.

The way they write their cringey twaddle on a new line for every sentence.

Just like this.

And the sheer cringe that people post on there. Blowing smoke up their own and other peoples arses. Talking absolute ste.

Like a guy last week, showing a video of him doing pull ups.

He was 59 apparently, and boasted that blokes in their 20s couldn't do any pull ups.

Also claimed he enjoyed their girlfriends eyeing up this sad old bd who thought he was Arnie, while they were flabby and weak.

Then offered business advice for a large fee. A fee larger than his ego apparently.

But you get what you pay for. That's what he told us.

What a load of fking bks. That site really is full of s.

Why do I subject myself to it?

I was encouraged to create a LinkedIn account about a decade ago. Soon after setting up I realised it was basically Facebook meets Friends Reunited but for c**ts with jobs, not just unemployed ones. It's still sat, as I opened the account, with no updates. Chuff off.

Glad I'm not the only one thinking this. Tiresome place which I am on, but only from a 'just in case' perspective.

It must be said that most of the really successful people I know are either not on Linkedin, or are on there without posting ste to blow their own trumpet or kiss other people's arses.

(For the avoidance of confusion, I am not claiming that I am really successful because I'm quiet on Linkedin. I am quiet on Linkedin because I find it tedious )

I'm still unsure whether Tej Lalvani's account on there is real or actually a parody account, it's worth following for the lols.

[Hackney]

I’m at a trade show and have seen someone advertising their “new PMP pack”. This annoys me beyond reason.

PMP stands for Price Marked Pack

[C5_Steve]

carlo996 said:

C5_Steve said:

carlo996 said:

Paranoia is a terrible thing.

Odd comment......

What is odd is being perturbed by throwaway comments in the middle of general conversation?

Who said I was perturbed? Just looking for context as your comment makes no sense. Perhaps if we could hear the internal monologue inside your mind we'd better understand but I'm not sure I'm prepared for that

[RizzoTheRat]

Hackney said:

I’m at a trade show and have seen someone advertising their “new PMP pack”. This annoys me beyond reason.

PMP stands for Price Marked Pack

Presumably if you try to buy one they'll ask for your PIN number

[GasEngineer]

RizzoTheRat said:

Hackney said:

I’m at a trade show and have seen someone advertising their “new PMP pack”. This annoys me beyond reason.

PMP stands for Price Marked Pack

Presumably if you try to buy one they'll ask for your PIN number

.. and hopefully the payment terminal has been PAT tested.

[RizzoTheRat]

It appears PostNL have cost me around €90 by not delivering a traffic fine, not putting a note through my door to say I had a letter to collect, and then returning to sender because I hadn't collected it. Meaning the first I found out about it was when I got a letter saying the fine had increased because I hadn't paid it!
bds. Of course I have no proof they didn't leave a note so I suspect raising a dispute will come to nothing.

[mko9]

RizzoTheRat said:

Hackney said:

I’m at a trade show and have seen someone advertising their “new PMP pack”. This annoys me beyond reason.

PMP stands for Price Marked Pack

Presumably if you try to buy one they'll ask for your PIN number

If you remember to go to the ATM machine first, you'll have cash

[R6tty]

popeyewhite said:

B+Q has some large bags of compost, fertiliser etc stacked outside the front entrance. To buy you have to trolley the stuff in, pay, then trolley out again. The bags are in the easiest position I've ever seen to drive up, open your boot, put a couple in and drive off within 20 seconds. I wonder whether anyone has.

Maybe I live in a more trusting part of the world, but yesterday I asked if I had to bring a bag of compost in to scanned. 'No. Just tell me what you want and I'll do it here at the till'.

[cuprabob]

R6tty said:

popeyewhite said:

B+Q has some large bags of compost, fertiliser etc stacked outside the front entrance. To buy you have to trolley the stuff in, pay, then trolley out again. The bags are in the easiest position I've ever seen to drive up, open your boot, put a couple in and drive off within 20 seconds. I wonder whether anyone has.

Maybe I live in a more trusting part of the world, but yesterday I asked if I had to bring a bag of compost in to scanned. 'No. Just tell me what you want and I'll do it here at the till'.

You've got an honest face, under that balaclava