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

[Doofus]

Chicken_Satay said:

Boring people, e.g: "tell us a bit about your life outside of work":

Answer: "I've got two children, one of whom is a teenager, a dog called Bawbag, and I'm a big Man U fan".

YAAAWWWWNNNNN!!!!!

Well don't fking ask then! Nobody is at all interesting.

[cuprabob]

Chicken_Satay said:

Boring people, e.g: "tell us a bit about your life outside of work":

Answer: "I've got two children, one of whom is a teenager, a dog called Bawbag, and I'm a big Man U fan".

YAAAWWWWNNNNN!!!!!

At least they named their dog with you in mind...
...only kidding

[Chicken_Satay]

Doofus said:

Chicken_Satay said:

Boring people, e.g: "tell us a bit about your life outside of work":

Answer: "I've got two children, one of whom is a teenager, a dog called Bawbag, and I'm a big Man U fan".

YAAAWWWWNNNNN!!!!!

Well don't fking ask then! Nobody is at all interesting.

I didn't ask, I read it in a newsletter.

If somebody had told me they had some sort of hobby i.e. something a bit different/unique from the usual "I've got two children" crap, even if I had no interest in that hobby whatsoever, at least I'd then be able to consider that person to be a little bit interesting...

[MartG]

Hugo a Gogo said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

I've got to chuckle with one of my friends.

If you tell her you've just booked a one week holiday in a hotel in Tenerife then she'll say she's just come back from 2 weeks in her villa in Elevenerife.

Tell her you're the worlds biggest wker and she'll say she's frigged herself 20 times in the past hour.

Why do people do it?

Errr, oh. I mean, it annoys beyond reason.

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Monday 16th May 00:28

I've got two friends like that...

[Mallard126]

I'm surprised anyone ever gets onto TV quiz shows.

I apply for them regularly but I always struggle to fill in the bits that say "Tell us something interesting about you." There is absolutely nothing whatsoever interesting about me or 99.9% of other people.

[cuprabob]

Mallard126 said:

I'm surprised anyone ever gets onto TV quiz shows.

I apply for them regularly but I always struggle to fill in the bits that say "Tell us something interesting about you." There is absolutely nothing whatsoever interesting about me or 99.9% of other people.

I presume they just lie

[Halmyre]

cuprabob said:

Mallard126 said:

I'm surprised anyone ever gets onto TV quiz shows.

I apply for them regularly but I always struggle to fill in the bits that say "Tell us something interesting about you." There is absolutely nothing whatsoever interesting about me or 99.9% of other people.

I presume they just lie

On 'Only Connect', each contestant is introduced along the lines of "Joe Bloggs, who owns 600 copies of Great Expectations". If I was ever to get on the show I'd be hard pushed to come up with something notable.

[FatboyKim]

Mallard126 said:

I'm surprised anyone ever gets onto TV quiz shows.

I apply for them regularly but I always struggle to fill in the bits that say "Tell us something interesting about you." There is absolutely nothing whatsoever interesting about me or 99.9% of other people.

I did apply for The Chase a few years ago. Got down to the final 3 people of that audition session where they set up a kind of minigame of the show in an office room. Towards the end, that question came, "Tell us something interesting about yourself", like a typical job interview.

I worked for a chauffeuring/security company at the time and was a fulltime driver in central London for a family in the public eye with kids. "Oooh, who do you drive for then?", they asked. "I can't really say I'm afraid", I replied. My lack of willingness to divulge any sexy information to them and everyone else in the room sealed my fate I think.

Why does everybody have to have something 'interesting' about them?

[1000 Miglia]

Woman on Beat the Chasers last night was quite interesting , first female pilot to fly 747s or something and she had actually

been a question on the Chase in the past .

Lyn Barton , I think .

That's not annoying ,just adding to the conversation above .

[GroundEffect]

1000 Miglia said:

Woman on Beat the Chasers last night was quite interesting , first female pilot to fly 747s or something and she had actually

been a question on the Chase in the past .

Lyn Barton , I think .

That's not annoying ,just adding to the conversation above .

No offence, but people who instead of just letting the website wrap the text around, hitting enter to create a new line.

So you
end up with
weirdly parsed
sentences.

Stop it

[1000 Miglia]

Sorry ,just 1 more thing I'm not good at .

[austinsmirk]

Chicken_Satay said:

Boring people, e.g: "tell us a bit about your life outside of work":

Answer: "I've got two children, one of whom is a teenager, a dog called Bawbag, and I'm a big Man U fan".

YAAAWWWWNNNNN!!!!!

Literally every person on R2 popmaster. I generally listen via an app and fast forward all the morons saying hello to dave the dog and Cynthia the cat aaaaaaaarrrrrgggghhhhhhhh !

Don’t care. Just do the questions Ken.

And why some people enter when clearly they’ve never even heard a pop song ever, goodness knows

[Mallard126]

I've done Popmaster. You have to get (IIRC two out of three) screening questions right to prove you're not a complete moron.

I won a digital radio.

[98elise]

Mallard126 said:

I'm surprised anyone ever gets onto TV quiz shows.

I apply for them regularly but I always struggle to fill in the bits that say "Tell us something interesting about you." There is absolutely nothing whatsoever interesting about me or 99.9% of other people.

My brother has attended a few shows being recorded, and one asked for embarrassing stories.

Having had a few drinks he wrote one down that was work related. It was the sort of thing you would laugh about with mates, but not colleagues or polite company.

As the show started recording he realised that if the story made it onto the show a lot of his clients and high profile contacts might think they were unknowingly involved. It would be very embarrassing for him.

He spent the next few hours praying they didn't pick him! Fortunately they didn't.

[bristolracer]

RizzoTheRat said:

Bus replacement services. Going to a show tonight, but going to have to leave work early to get there in time because I can only get the bloody train half way there and then switch to a bus so the trip takes way longer than it should.

And you get charged railway ticket price for a ride on the bus.

[ro250]

austinsmirk said:

Chicken_Satay said:

Boring people, e.g: "tell us a bit about your life outside of work":

Answer: "I've got two children, one of whom is a teenager, a dog called Bawbag, and I'm a big Man U fan".

YAAAWWWWNNNNN!!!!!

Literally every person on R2 popmaster. I generally listen via an app and fast forward all the morons saying hello to dave the dog and Cynthia the cat aaaaaaaarrrrrgggghhhhhhhh !

Don’t care. Just do the questions Ken.

And why some people enter when clearly they’ve never even heard a pop song ever, goodness knows

In the participant's defence, it's R2 that have the tradition of giving them 30 seconds. I'd struggle to fill 30 seconds with anyone I'd want to 'shout out' on the radio.

[rayny]

MartG said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

I've got to chuckle with one of my friends.

If you tell her you've just booked a one week holiday in a hotel in Tenerife then she'll say she's just come back from 2 weeks in her villa in Elevenerife.

Tell her you're the worlds biggest wker and she'll say she's frigged herself 20 times in the past hour.

Why do people do it?

Errr, oh. I mean, it annoys beyond reason.

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Monday 16th May 00:28

I've got two friends like that...

I was wondering how long it would take somebody else to enjoy that as much as I, and three of my friends, did.

[The Moose]

21st Century Man said:

The Moose said:

The thing that REALLY pissed me off however is when they play you a 2 or 3 second clip of someone "typing"

They would say that it's simply representative and harmless, but it's the sort of low level duplicity that permeates not only sales and marketing, but is seemingly bloody everywhere. It's normalising lying.

Use the "AI" to speed the process up for everyone. It's all about reducing their costs and I suspect that the aim with those stupid "smart" systems is to try to get as many people as possible to just go away.

[Cotty]

Speaking to an elderly neighbour about a shared problem and how to resolve it. She keeps going off topic and when I mention that its not relevant I get a "I KNOW". Well why the fk mention something that is not relevant. She is trying to set up a meeting but doesn't know the house number or time. Thinks we should all meet outside my house then walk to the meeting, why not just give everyone the time and address.

35minute call that could have been sorted in 5

[21st Century Man]

The American habit of giving surnames as first names, particularly to girls.