[Closed] Sod the important stuff, let's have a good old Friday petty irritations thread

People who chew with their mouth open.

People in the sales department who ring to say they are going to send an email and then tell me that when I've read it they are coming down to talk me through it.

Can we do people who send you an email then call you 2 mins later to see if you've read it

often i day dream about running amok with a gun.

Not normal. ^^

I often dream of running amok with a gnu.

Customers who , when phoned , ask "and how much is the bill?"

I then have to walk from the workshop into the office to check the amount .

They then reply "i'll pay by card"

honkiebikedude - Member
Customers who , when phoned , ask "and how much is the bill?"

I then have to walk from the workshop into the office to check the amount .

They then reply "i'll pay by card"

I'm assuming you're phoning to tell the customer that whatever they were having repaired or serviced is ready to collect? If so you should be armed with that info before phoning?

The postman who folded the "do not bend" envelope to cram it through the letter box rather thann knock on the door.

eBay sellers who never reply to questions.

people.. i hate people , chav people the most, rubbish form of humans ...also inefficient and lack of finesse people as well bloody hate them.. generally people (99.9% of human population) hate the lot of them they do not deserve the Earths resources and just keep making many babies that populate the earth and eat and use more resources..... . apart from lone wolf people they are nice and just want to be left alone but would help when trouble is laid in front of them then they walk away or pedal away because they dont like people.

honkiebikedude - Member

Customers who , when phoned , ask "and how much is the bill?"

Does seem pretty reasonable tbh?

People who pick holes in your reply to a light hearted thread on an internet forum . 😛

Yeah OK, that is annoying 😆

buildy type people that want to "bring the outside in" usually at vast expense, just go and sit in the 'kin garden 🙄 🙄

People who park their cars beside yours when the entire parking lot is empty.

People who design/make jeans (98% of the time) with such flimsy thin pockets that they don't last more than 6 months before there are holes in them.

People who make noises when they eat.

People who say to themselves "that's better" after they have eaten.

People who are anal.

People who think Fish & Chips are unhealthy ... Ya, right ... nothing wrong with Fish & Chips as your bad health is caused by your own faulty genes and DNA.

😡

wives who feel that the freezer has to be so full that i have to **** the drawers back in with my boot to shut the freezer door again. and if we start using stuff from it, then we need to replace it straight away 'in case we feel like it again sometime soon. and anyway freezers work better full'.
itd be lovely to convince her to just have the drawers half full say, so i could actually see whats in there.

wives who feel that the kitchen cupboards need to be so full that we have tins of food for every eventuality in the next millenium, and if we use a tin of beans and drop it down to 15 cans, then we need to buy some more next time we're out.
itd be lovely to convince her that the cupboards would look lovely and tidy if we just had food in that we were likely to eat sometime soon.

wives who feel that we need 30 cans of diet coke in the 'drinks fridge' and will buy more BOGOF packs of coke every time we're out, cos we 'used some last week'.

please can we just buy stuff when we need it instead of always having the f***in house full of frozen goods, tins of sh*t and diet coke???

people who use more than one question mark at the end of a question just to accentuate their frustration.

'drinks fridge'

You make me sick.

You make me sick

There's only one valid way to have a drinks fridge, and that's by just not putting anything but drinks in your one fridge. I was shocked to discover some veg in my mate's fridge but it turned out it's for the rabbit

People who browse freezers in supermarkets by holding the door open to look inside [i]when the doors are made of ****ing glass.[/i]

So then when you come along to the same door they're rendered opaque because they've misted up inside and you've got to hold the door open to see what's inside, and some judgemental prick invariably walks past and glowers at you thinking, "look at that idiot, standing there holding open a clear door to look behind it." Just kill me now.

Movie trailers that say "Coming March Ten." It's **** tenth.

Moreover, it's the tenth of March.

Women... Makeup! Why?

Because they're ugly. HTH.

Women why rely on being attractive to make up for being disorganised, late, unhelpful, demanding and rude (not in that way either). If you were ugly you'd sort yourself out love.

For balance good looking blokes may also do this but 1) they don't try to use their charms on me and 2) I don't have the opportunity for personal experimentation.

vastly overpriced belroy wallet adverts that follow you around the internet though I have never clicked on that stupid ad in my life

Women who when you walk behind them because youre going in the same direction either suddenly speed up or stop dead for no reason or suddenly clutch their phone to their mouth and announce where they are on the street , as if youre going to grab hold of them.

Fat blokes who dress up in their sons tight suit and then go on mass to watch a gang of horses run round afield, jumping hedges, and shout haaaaaaa as then horses pass.

Blokes who take their wives g/f to watch horses run round a field, the women have made an obvious decision to get dolled up and look fantastic, so why does hubby /boyfreind/thug get so annoyed when you look at their partner.

People of low education who believe the torys are next to god and that ukip are a good group to support for the common man.

Bike shops that dispay prices on bikes,

I don't want to hear any more tosh from the wimminz-haterz. 😐

They just luuuuurve a strong woman. 😉

People who don't bother to use any capital letters or punctuation in their posts.

People waiting for the lift in the supermarket who push their trolleys up to the doors, so when it arrives nobody can actually get out of the lift.

people who think you hate them because you find them irritating

lift in the supermarket

Opening up a thread knowing you'll get annoyed at the sheer pettiness of the forum and finding you agree with exactly 92.8% of the posts, and it's been a bit of a chuckle getting to page 8.

Bastards - I hate it when that happens.

People dribbling on about mindfullness, youre either alive or dead, asleep or awake.

And scarves

Fage yoghurt that has a foil lid and a transparent plastic cover on the yohurt that you need to pick off with your fingers so you get yoghurty fingers and takes a spoonful of yog with it when you peel it off...Do I scape it, lick it, just bung it in the bin?

bra straps that don't stay on your shoulders

bra straps that stay on the shoulders

People who give crap examples.

scaredypants - Member

lift in the supermarket 😯

Yep ours has a 3 floor underground car park so you need to use the lift unless you fancy pushing a trolley up ramps with cars coming down

"London Underground is running a good service on all lines"

Colin Montgomery on sky's masters coverage

Android apps that only work in portrait.

My Friday's gripe is simply poor lane discipline on the M5, M42 and M6 made more infuriating by no chuffing vehicles in the near side lane.......and the knob wits that accelerate with you when you try to overtake them in the centre lane using the correct lane. Bring on compulsory re-tests!

People who use the word literally incorrectly....and frequently.

Recently was in a meeting with a fairly senior manager telling everyone present that when he got the email, he "literally crapped himself".
Cue another politely saying, "I'm sure you don't mean that literally."
"No, no, honestly, I crapped my pants...."

There is no helping some people.

Fat blokes who dress up in their sons tight suit and then go on mass to watch a gang of horses run round afield, jumping hedges, and shout haaaaaaa as then horses pass.

Yep ours has a 3 floor [b]underground[/b] car park so you need to use the lift unless you fancy pushing a trolley [b]up[/b] ramps with cars coming down

Que?

Cougar - you don't want to see it, I don't want to write it. Company policy dictates otherwise (email sigs).

People who bang on about other groups of people holding them back on my Facebook feed, when in reality it's the corruption of their own people that is a much bigger problem.

But problems are only problems if it affects you personally, so forget all your countrymen....the most important thing is all these Americans holding you back from earning hundreds of thousands in New York!

Lazy Entitled Private School Educated Cockwomble thats forgotten where they came from deleted. Stupid bint should have studied a proper subject instead of Publishing at Boston if she wanted to be taken seriously.

Luggage carousel idiots with trolleys in airports.

Never mind the trolleys, it's the innate need to have their knees brushing the damn thing so nobody else can get a look in that endears them to me.

Getting stuck behind someone at checkout with a handful of those bloody supermarket loyalty vouchers.

Supermarket loyalty vouchers and money off next shop coupons - just price it properly in the first place muppets.

People who seem surprised or dither around when asked by airport security staff to remove via laptop, contents of pockets etc, delaying the rest of us in the process.

Airport security staff who despite me emptying my life into the plastic box then ask, "anything in your pockets" - I've already bloody done it you asshat!

People in 'fashion' 4x4's. Their over inflated levels if self importance, tw*ttishness and vulgarness can be directly measured by however many bodywork extras they selected from the showroom catalogue.

Some rather good choices in here...

Mine ?

A simple one.

Credits. I mean credits at the end of Films/TV shows/Radio Programmes and such. I really don't care who made it, wrote the script, did the sound, fetched the tea.. I am really not bothered and I'd say the only people that are are the people involved in producing the entertainment media.

Me.

Why do I always have a [b]tiny[/b] bit of sugar in first coffee of day?

Just grow up and have at least half a spoon, or none.

People who instant message me at work with just the word 'Hi' or 'Hello', then nothing.

Just ask the the bloody question you want me to answer!

I ignore these people now. There's one bloke in particular who will not do anything until he's had a 'hello' back. Longest I've strung it along is 8 days before he gave up and he never said what he wanted!

People in the sales department who ring to say they are going to send an email and then tell me that when I've read it they are coming down to talk me through it.

My librarian did that to me a few weeks ago, I was already pissed off with her, as I knew the email was her telling me she was leaving, already a shit day, I may have been a bit more curt with her than I needed, and she lost it.

Turns out she was bipolar and just about holding it together for the past few days.....ah well, the call blocking feature on my phone is working well just now, down to 20 calls a day just now.

MrOvershoot - Member
Yep ours has a 3 floor underground car park so you need to use the lift unless you fancy pushing a trolley up ramps with cars coming down

squirrelking - Member

Que?

Sorry I didn't explain that very well (I blame red wine)

If you park in the lower levels of the car park you could walk up the ramps to get to the store level having first collected a trolley, but its far easier to use one of the 3 lifts that take you to store level.
To make it even more complicated the main entry/exit is at the lowest level but you can exit on level 2 in a car but at any level on a bike 🙂

but at any level on a bike

Is this where the 'drop off' thread would be useful?

Overuse of "Stellar". There were apparently Stellar performances at the Chinese Grand Prix and a Stellar cast in a Radio 3 opera this weekend. At least it got used properly on The Sky at Night.

[i]My librarian[/i]

You have your own librarian?

Now that *is* irritating.

overuse of the word 'awesome'.

i heard edith bowman on the radio some time ago now talking to a teenager that had called in to the show.

"and what school do you go to?"
"st johns secondary school"
"awesome!"

er....no, its not really is it.

Wow,four days on and you're still going. You lot are a bunch of whingey bastards 🙂

Lisa Tarbuck

Actually this is is in the wrong thread - she is not a petty irritation is she?

I think she's great. 🙂

Elaine Paige and Vanessa Feltz, on the other hand....

Surely already mentioned but fit and able bodied people that stand still on escalators. Lazy oafs!

(caveat: yes of course someone may not be obviously unfit and unable, but as 99.9% of the mouth breathing population stand still on them, that's a lot of unfit and unable people!)

People who dont drive up to the stop line at traffic lights but crawl forward waiting for them to change ,along with anyone in traffic who doesnt react when the lights change so only about two cars get through before they change again

"Child in Car" notices - thank the Lord you told me, I was just about to deliberately rear end your car!

The knobber that changes the WiFi password I use at work. Wouldn't mind but its thrice (don't get me started on the use of "two times" instead of twice) a week because "people keep logging into it". What, the public access WiFi for the public? People log into it? What the **** did you think they were going to do?

Being called 'Boss' - no I am not, I do not know you, employ you or manage you.

Awful sports pundits / presenters (here's looking at you Chiles, Townsend, Motson)

Ditherers

People who leave drinks bottles on the mats at the bouldering wall - right where people can fall off on to them. Death's too good for 'em I say.

"thrice a week" ? Now that sounds very odd vs "three times a week".

So it has to be people who use the word thrice.

🙂

It's been done somewhere on an earlier page, but the overuse of the word 'like' As commonly used by my daughter.

Daughter: "Please may I have, um, like, some orange juice."
Me: "Here's a coffee. It's a bit like an orange juice...."

[i]It's been done somewhere on an earlier page, but the overuse of the word 'like' As commonly used by my daughter.

Daughter: "Please may I have, um, like, some orange juice."
Me: "Here's a coffee. It's a bit like an orange juice...."[/i]

Its been done like twice before, but as its soooo like annoying, lets make it four!

(apologies to the person who mentioned the quote button)

Michael Owen as a commentator.

Excellent footballer, but that does not give you right to assault my ears with your banality every time a game is on BT.

He should really stick to doing voiceovers for helicopter tours of Dubai.

😳 🙂
I imagine someone has also picked up on folk not reading all the thread too.......

"Child in Car" notices

+1, especially when these cars fail to show any courtesy to me on my bike. Twunts.

Fair weather cyclists. Mid-December there was no queue for the shower at work. Now it appears everyone in the building has decided to ride in and my leisurely breakfast and shower routine is but a distant memory.

bought vs brought etc, misspelling or using the wrong words in general which make the writer look fick when they are sensible and intelligent.

[i]bought vs brought etc, misspelling or using the wrong words in general which make the writer look fick when they are sensible and intelligent. [/i]

See also:

'off' vs 'from' (and, for maximally heated pi$$, 'off [b]of[/b]' vs 'from')
'should of' vs 'should have'

Grr.

People who needlessly print e-mails and spend half the day wandering to the printer to collect them when they could quite easily transfer information between windows on their computer screen. Copy and paste is there for a reason.

NZCol - Member
bought vs brought etc, misspelling or using the wrong words in general which make the writer look fick when they are sensible and intelligent.

In a cycling context the number of people who get their brakes confused with 'breaks' 🙄

People who feel the need to comment on what I'm eating just because they go to the gym once in a blue moon. I ride between 150 and 200 miles a week and weigh around 11 stone. I'll eat whatever the heck I want thanks!

People who don't shower before using the swimming pool, or even worse, the bloke who was shaving in the sauna the other week - WTF, the dirty bar steward!

"thrice a week" ? Now that sounds very odd vs "three times a week".
So it has to be people who use the word thrice.

pedantry.

[quote=slowoldman said]
How about "thrice weekly"?

Not having it.

People who don't shower before using the swimming pool

+100000

People posting in a Friday thread 😉

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"I'm OCD"

I absolutely hate that phrase. Nope, you like things tidy or done properly. That's really not OCD.