Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 8)

[Doofus]

Cotty said:

Doofus said:

Face cobwebs when walking the dog in the morning.

I hate them. Sometimes after the fourth or fifth one I will just walk holding a hand out in front of my face.

That's what I do, but I worry that people will think I'm goosestepping.

[Deranged Rover]

stemll said:

Morons at work asking for an ice-breaker from everyone in the meeting about what they did at the weekend and asking a second time after being told no.

fk off, the weekend is mine and is none of your business! All you have done is wasted everyone's time by making the meeting longer than it needed to be by padding it with st that no-one cares about.

Now add on the PH swear filter for changing F to f

You didn't do anything at the weekend, did you?

[Roofless Toothless]

I am really annoyed about just having to sign in to my PistonHeads account with one of those ‘select all the hats you can see’ picture squares. Apparently to prove I am human. Even my wife accepts this now. Why should I have to prove it to get my account on here? It took me four goes to get it right. Does that prove I am a stupid human?

[droopsnoot]

Doofus said:

Face cobwebs when walking the dog in the morning.

I get that a lot when walking to the pub and it's really annoying. Also annoying are the snails that seem to just sit in the middle of the footpath after it's been raining. I really do try to avoid them all, but inevitably there's a crunch sooner or later.

[FiF]

droopsnoot said:

Doofus said:

Face cobwebs when walking the dog in the morning.

I get that a lot when walking to the pub and it's really annoying. Also annoying are the snails that seem to just sit in the middle of the footpath after it's been raining. I really do try to avoid them all, but inevitably there's a crunch sooner or later.

Round here on the evening sniffs and answering wee-mails it's frogs of varying sizes and colours hopping around. For a while dog wanted to make friends with them all but even he is bored with them.

Just goes seeking lost tennis balls now. What amazes me is not the finding of them but that he'll go into gorse and bramble bushes until only his arse and furiously wagging tail is visible then comes out proudly with his latest treasure. Seems not to notice the spikes though really thick double coat.

What worries me more is the day we make the news, "Police are asking for witnesses due to a body found by dog walker etc" Matter of time.

[Doofus]

FiF said:

Just goes seeking lost tennis balls now. What amazes me is not the finding of them but that he'll go into gorse and bramble bushes until only his arse and furiously wagging tail is visible then comes out proudly with his latest treasure. Seems not to notice the spikes though really thick double coat.

Everything you see here (except the dog bed, which he never used) has been found and carried home over the past five years:

[RizzoTheRat]

PostNL, the Dutch postal service.

This is now the second time in a few months that they've tried to deliver a parcel when I'm not at home, so taken it to a local collection point instead, but not thought to notify me that I have a parcel to collect, so a week later they've sent it back to the sender.

Useless bunch of tts!

[brake fader]

when the cardboard flap on the cereal box won't stay closed properly, you'd think by now this would have been improved but no it's still 4 king rubbish.

[LunarOne]

stemll said:

Morons at work asking for an ice-breaker from everyone in the meeting about what they did at the weekend and asking a second time after being told no.

fk off, the weekend is mine and is none of your business! All you have done is wasted everyone's time by making the meeting longer than it needed to be by padding it with st that no-one cares about.

I don't understand why it's a big deal to talk about your personal life at work with your colleagues? If you don't work in the sort of place where you are at least friendly with your colleagues if not actually friends, then I feel very sorry for you. But having it as an icebreaker is a bit weird to me. Surely just talking about non-work stuff for a couple of minutes before a meeting is standard practice? You don't have to take part, but it's a bit unnecessarily secretive if you refuse to mention your outside of work life at all, isn't it?

[Sigmamark7]

Doofus said:

FiF said:

Just goes seeking lost tennis balls now. What amazes me is not the finding of them but that he'll go into gorse and bramble bushes until only his arse and furiously wagging tail is visible then comes out proudly with his latest treasure. Seems not to notice the spikes though really thick double coat.

Everything you see here (except the dog bed, which he never used) has been found and carried home over the past five years:

I’m not sure if my 2 year old black lab would ever retrieve any Game Birds, but he can certainly retrieve lost balls (ironic really, because he lost his own balls about six months ago!). Since he was a puppy, I’ve bought no more than three balls. He now has a collection of about 30 and that excludes all the manky ones I have quietly disposed of. He disappeared into the local woods this morning and came back with an almost new Chuckit ball. Saves me tens of pounds each month.

[stemll]

LunarOne said:

stemll said:

Morons at work asking for an ice-breaker from everyone in the meeting about what they did at the weekend and asking a second time after being told no.

fk off, the weekend is mine and is none of your business! All you have done is wasted everyone's time by making the meeting longer than it needed to be by padding it with st that no-one cares about.

I don't understand why it's a big deal to talk about your personal life at work with your colleagues? If you don't work in the sort of place where you are at least friendly with your colleagues if not actually friends, then I feel very sorry for you. But having it as an icebreaker is a bit weird to me. Surely just talking about non-work stuff for a couple of minutes before a meeting is standard practice? You don't have to take part, but it's a bit unnecessarily secretive if you refuse to mention your outside of work life at all, isn't it?

Well done for missing the point. The issue is being told when, where and who to talk about it with rather than natural conversations happening with colleagues I like which would be normal. This was in a scrum meeting so less than a minute per person. He has just doubled the length of the meeting by filling it with st I don't want or need to know. And yes, I am still annoyed with him even though it was at 10am and yes, it's beyond reason.

And.... to the other poster, I did plenty this weekend thanks but I'm not telling you about it either

[Rich Boy Spanner]

This site randomly asking me to prove that I 'am a human' by using capture boxes asking me to identify rooms with curtains or pictures with lamp posts like it's 2004 all over again. If you don't bother and close the site and re-open it, it then doesn't bother you with it anyway.

[bmwmike]

Driving on the motorway at night this weekend, first time in a while, and I know we've had this particular moan in here before but MY GOD the headlights on some cars are like badly fitted xenons fitted to chav mobiles from the early 2000's. Particular offender being a 2024 Hyundai Tucson which lit up the entire inside of my car when it was behind, and absolutely migraine inducingly blinding.

And before anyone says get my eyes checked, I'd agree, if it was ALL cars at night, but its definitely a minority and its often newer SUV's as they're higher up. Or driven by idiots who can't turn off the full beams.

[Frimley111R]

brake fader said:

when the cardboard flap on the cereal box won't stay closed properly, you'd think by now this would have been improved but no it's still 4 king rubbish.

And related to that, why Weetabix can't design a simple opening system instead of me tearing zig zags into each tube to get them out (you can do it if you very carefully undo the sealing edge but...)

[C5_Steve]

bmwmike said:

Driving on the motorway at night this weekend, first time in a while, and I know we've had this particular moan in here before but MY GOD the headlights on some cars are like badly fitted xenons fitted to chav mobiles from the early 2000's. Particular offender being a 2024 Hyundai Tucson which lit up the entire inside of my car when it was behind, and absolutely migraine inducingly blinding.

And before anyone says get my eyes checked, I'd agree, if it was ALL cars at night, but its definitely a minority and its often newer SUV's as they're higher up. Or driven by idiots who can't turn off the full beams.

Yep, even though my car is very low and therefor would catch possibly more glare than a regular car some are just blinding. Tesla's usually.

I've actually been wanting to adjust my own headlights up a bit but was putting it off until I could do it properly. I don't know why I don't just aim them 1000m down the road given the state of some modern cars.

[LunarOne]

Rich Boy Spanner said:

This site randomly asking me to prove that I 'am a human' by using capture boxes asking me to identify rooms with curtains or pictures with lamp posts like it's 2004 all over again. If you don't bother and close the site and re-open it, it then doesn't bother you with it anyway.

I think that's a new measure recently deployed to combat the scourge of spambots trying to get us PHers to embark on a sex life in India or the Gulf states.

Personally if it means clicking on a box to tell them I'm human, then I'm all for it. But that doesn't take away your right to be annoyed beyond reason about it of course!

[RizzoTheRat]

Further to my earlier post on a missing parcel...

The sender used DHL, and thier tracking says it was delivered, and has my address as the delivery address. PostNL, who sent it back to the sender aren't able to give me the address they delivered it to because of data protection, so I now have no idea if they've returned it to the sender (who think it's been delivered to me) or to a DHL depot somewhere.

How can a company who's primary job is deliver post and parcels be so incompetent at delivering post and parcels?

[ade73]

C5_Steve said:

bmwmike said:

Driving on the motorway at night this weekend, first time in a while, and I know we've had this particular moan in here before but MY GOD the headlights on some cars are like badly fitted xenons fitted to chav mobiles from the early 2000's. Particular offender being a 2024 Hyundai Tucson which lit up the entire inside of my car when it was behind, and absolutely migraine inducingly blinding.

And before anyone says get my eyes checked, I'd agree, if it was ALL cars at night, but its definitely a minority and its often newer SUV's as they're higher up. Or driven by idiots who can't turn off the full beams.

Yep, even though my car is very low and therefor would catch possibly more glare than a regular car some are just blinding. Tesla's usually.

I've actually been wanting to adjust my own headlights up a bit but was putting it off until I could do it properly. I don't know why I don't just aim them 1000m down the road given the state of some modern cars.

Fight fire with fire.

My S2000 has 100W main bulbs

[Chauffard]

A six pack of crisps from a German based grocery outlet contains only five, shall I take it back to complain, is that petty ? How do I prove it anyway ? Life is so complicated, did Samuel Pepys or Albert Camus have these problems ?

[Lotobear]

brake fader said:

when the cardboard flap on the cereal box won't stay closed properly, you'd think by now this would have been improved but no it's still 4 king rubbish.

On a related topic - fruit and fibre cereal.

The lovely fruit bits (raisins) always settle to the bottom and you only finally reach them in the last couple of bowls.