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

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

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5s Alive

1,771 posts

33 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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anarki said:
Pay loads of council tax, have the smallest rubbish bins to entice people to recycle everything, then don't get the recycling collected. Fantastic service furious
yes
Here in the Borders they don't collect glass or garden waste so you have to take it to recycling points or the local tip yourself. Arrive at tip with garden waste then after a long wait in the queue. "No not there, just throw the bag in the general waste skip". irked

Thought it would be a one off but no so it goes straight into our grey general waste bin now. smile

Doofus

25,732 posts

172 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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People using 'Clarksonisms.'

"Jaaaaag"
"Nissan Kumquat"
"Footballist"
"Golf bats"
and all the rest.

Why do they want to emulate a semi-derelict sixty-year-old oaf?

Just fking stop it.


5s Alive

1,771 posts

33 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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Doofus said:
People using 'Clarksonisms.'

"Jaaaaag"
"Nissan Kumquat"
"Footballist"
"Golf bats"
and all the rest.

Why do they want to emulate a semi-derelict sixty-year-old oaf?

Just fking stop it.
I was thinking of appropriating one.

Pedallist.

I'm a lifelong cyclist, commuting out of necessity [but no longer] and mountain biking for the challenge and the fun so consider myself a cyclist.

When I see someone wobbling slowly along rigidly upright I think pedestrian on a bike. Ped a llist!

Maybe not... getmecoat


Roofless Toothless

5,613 posts

131 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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FatboyKim said:
I can deal with the odd noisy food packet in a cinema but something now triggers me when people can't go less than two hours in a cinema without checking their phone, lighting up one corner of the cinema.

Was sitting towards the back with my other half watching a film not too long ago when a youngish guy was kept getting his phone out, sending a message or something with a bright white screen then putting it back in his pocket. It happened about 5 times in as many minutes and my other half could tell I was getting agitated . Eventually I got up, went over to him and asked very politely if he could please refrain from going on his phone for the rest of the film because it's beginning to distract a number of people who have paid good money to come and watch this film.

'HE'S AUTISTIC!', boomed the lad's mum sitting next to him. 'Yeah, he's autistic bruv, what's wrong with you?', came another outburst from (presumably) the lad's feral sister who popped her head up from the row in front like a meerkat. It was at this point that I realised I was going to get nowhere with these knuckle-dragging idiots and went and sat back down, but the phone didn't reappear.

Off to see Top Gun tonight biggrin
Is it not possible to turn the screen brightness down, whether you are autistic or not? Gosh, someone could even do this for him.

That would wind me up too.

yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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LukeBrown66 said:
Even worse who east them in a cinema, headshot candidate surely
Arrrrrgh! ranting

People (invariably OLD people) who think their accursed "sweetie wrappers" somehow make less noise if they are opened s..... l........ o........ w.......... l............ y. No. They don't make any less damned noise. They make exactly the same level of noise, but it lasts longer. Which in any sane person's language equates to MORE bloody noise. FFS, can everyone just stop eating in cinemas? Please.

I mean, it's fine if it's during the ads reel, and before the house lights go down. But during a movie? Especially one that is dialogue heavy? Quit being so damned rude...

"I'm unwrapping this sweetie slowly so as to be considerate to my fellow patrons". No. You're opening a sweetie because you're an antisocial ccensoredt with the attention span of a fruit fly. If you can't do without a Werther's Original for a couple of hours, wait, and watch the bastid fillum when it's released on DVD or airs on a terrestrial TV channel, you ignorant old duffer(s).

*Downton Abbey: A New Era, The Regent Centre Christchurch, afternoon performance, circle, row CC, DD, or EE, in the seat 15 to 20 area. Just stop it.

And yes, I know afternoon showings in small independent local cinemas are peak pensioner viewing time. And I know that Downton Abbey: A New Era is prime pensioner viewing material. But it's the only showing my wife could make work before she had surgery which will mean no cinema for at least 10 weeks. And most of all, yes, I do demand respect form a generation only too fond of eulogising a past when "people had more respect for one another". Ha-rumph! irked

stemll

4,065 posts

199 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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Currently visiting my Dad on the Isle of Man as he's been in hospital. Go out this evening to do his shopping for him and random no-entry signs are appearing on roads I have been driving on all week. Having never lived on the island I had to use the sat nav to drive a couple of miles to a supermarket and had to divert three times for these closures.

I guess it's because he lives a stone's throw from the startline/grandstand but FFS, the TT doesn't start until Sunday! Stop shutting roads. So, so glad I am going home on Saturday before it gets completely nuts.

Red9zero

6,779 posts

56 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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stemll said:
Currently visiting my Dad on the Isle of Man as he's been in hospital. Go out this evening to do his shopping for him and random no-entry signs are appearing on roads I have been driving on all week. Having never lived on the island I had to use the sat nav to drive a couple of miles to a supermarket and had to divert three times for these closures.

I guess it's because he lives a stone's throw from the startline/grandstand but FFS, the TT doesn't start until Sunday! Stop shutting roads. So, so glad I am going home on Saturday before it gets completely nuts.
Not practice is it ? I got to drive on the closed roads to pick up my sister and her husbands broken F2 sidecar. It was very wierd.

Bright Halo

2,950 posts

234 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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Doofus said:
People using 'Clarksonisms.'

"Jaaaaag"
"Nissan Kumquat"
"Footballist"
"Golf bats"
and all the rest.

Why do they want to emulate a semi-derelict sixty-year-old oaf?

Just fking stop it.
Using Golf bat is good fun as it really annoys the serious golf batters


Doofus

25,732 posts

172 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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Bright Halo said:
Doofus said:
People using 'Clarksonisms.'

"Jaaaaag"
"Nissan Kumquat"
"Footballist"
"Golf bats"
and all the rest.

Why do they want to emulate a semi-derelict sixty-year-old oaf?

Just fking stop it.
Using Golf bat is good fun as it really annoys the serious golf batters
They are annoyed because you sound like a nine-year-old.

Or one of those people who has memorised all the Monty Python scripts and recites them constantly.

stemll

4,065 posts

199 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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Red9zero said:
stemll said:
Currently visiting my Dad on the Isle of Man as he's been in hospital. Go out this evening to do his shopping for him and random no-entry signs are appearing on roads I have been driving on all week. Having never lived on the island I had to use the sat nav to drive a couple of miles to a supermarket and had to divert three times for these closures.

I guess it's because he lives a stone's throw from the startline/grandstand but FFS, the TT doesn't start until Sunday! Stop shutting roads. So, so glad I am going home on Saturday before it gets completely nuts.
Not practice is it ? I got to drive on the closed roads to pick up my sister and her husbands broken F2 sidecar. It was very wierd.
It is TT practice that starts on Sunday, racing isn't until next weekend. Southern 100 starts tomorrow but that is at Castletown down by the airport. These closures are not part of the TT circuit (given the state of some of the roads they'd have to use trials bikes if they were).

talksthetorque

10,815 posts

134 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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This season's Autospoort Podcasts. Content good to great most of the time -
But, hosted by Martyn Lee, who sounds eactly like someone with his CV would suggest.
Formerly a commercial radio presenter and hypnotist.

Still I suppose it's got to be better than Arianna Bravo's sixth form school project style podcasts last year. That really was teeth grinding time.



anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 27th May 2022
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Mike Oldfield for writing, and Maggie Riley for singing "4AM in the morning" on "Moonlight Shadow". As opposed to what, 4AM in the afternoon?



RC1807

12,483 posts

167 months

Friday 27th May 2022
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OnTheBreadline said:
Mike Oldfield for writing, and Maggie Riley for singing "4AM in the morning" on "Moonlight Shadow". As opposed to what, 4AM in the afternoon?
Ah, never mind - it was all good for Dave Angel, Eco Warrior. wink

V8mate

45,899 posts

188 months

Friday 27th May 2022
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All my colleagues for taking the piss because I'm in the office on a Friday.

hehe

getmecoat

ro250

2,734 posts

56 months

Friday 27th May 2022
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Doofus said:
People using 'Clarksonisms.'

"Jaaaaag"
"Nissan Kumquat"
"Footballist"
"Golf bats"
and all the rest.

Why do they want to emulate a semi-derelict sixty-year-old oaf?

Just fking stop it.
Slightly different but from same origin:

"Flappy paddles"


Chicken_Satay

2,297 posts

203 months

Friday 27th May 2022
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After work drinks with colleagues. I don't have an issue with spending some time with colleagues to get to know them a little bit. However, after work drinks i.e. just standing around drinking, piling in the calories, and talking about nothing that's of even very little constructive use is just a total waste of time. At least, if it's an activity based drinking session, you can have a bit of fun, but standing in a pub doing nothing is outrageously boring!

V8mate

45,899 posts

188 months

Friday 27th May 2022
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Chicken_Satay said:
After work drinks with colleagues. I don't have an issue with spending some time with colleagues to get to know them a little bit. However, after work drinks i.e. just standing around drinking, piling in the calories, and talking about nothing that's of even very little constructive use is just a total waste of time. At least, if it's an activity based drinking session, you can have a bit of fun, but standing in a pub doing nothing is outrageously boring!
Surely any group activity - whether after work drinks or anything else - is only as boring as the participants themselves?

Triumph Man

8,670 posts

167 months

Friday 27th May 2022
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ro250 said:
Doofus said:
People using 'Clarksonisms.'

"Jaaaaag"
"Nissan Kumquat"
"Footballist"
"Golf bats"
and all the rest.

Why do they want to emulate a semi-derelict sixty-year-old oaf?

Just fking stop it.
Slightly different but from same origin:

"Flappy paddles"
"torques" and "horsepowers" really annoy me

Chicken_Satay

2,297 posts

203 months

Friday 27th May 2022
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V8mate said:
Surely any group activity - whether after work drinks or anything else - is only as boring as the participants themselves?
Not really because even if the participants are boring, if the activity is exciting, e.g. team go-karting, you can still at least enjoy that.

Whats on Second

732 posts

32 months

Friday 27th May 2022
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Triumph Man said:
"torques" and "horsepowers" really annoy me
no, golf bats is funny.