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To be fair you were in Dumbarton, that was the least of your issues (Travelodge just next to the Esso on the Boulevard?)
****ing footage of people eating and smiling and nodding.
Car failing it's MOT on stuff when you booked your car in to be fixed first & then MOTd so now have failure & advisory on the history - bloody garage put it through MOT first 😡
Making eating noise while eating .... FFS!
This is particularly referring to some people from my part of the world or culture.
I know they love to eat but can you stop making noise while eating? No, I ain't referring to Japanese or Korean while they eat their noodles. I mean normal non-noodle related food. Why make the chewing noise? I know you are chewing the food but can you finish chewing before taking another portion to fill your plate? Nobody is competing with you ... you will Not starve by not eating another mouth full.
I am embarrassed just by sitting and eating with them on the same table. Yes, I tell them off especially friends. They just laughed it off ... FFS!
One colleague (British) who likes to eat his sandwich in the office and then to be followed with a bag of crisps then to wash it down with a can of diet coke whatever ... can create eating noise I could hear from another table. Geezz ... Sandwich is nothing "gourmet" but he eats it as if there is no tomorrow.
People wearing masks.
People wearing masks outside.
People wearing masks in their cars on their own.
Nothing more than virtue signalling.
People wearing masks.
People wearing masks outside.
People wearing masks in their cars on their own.
It's good that you realise it's disproportionate to get cross about those things 👍
Car failing it’s MOT on stuff when you booked your car in to be fixed first & then MOTd so now have failure & advisory on the history – bloody garage put it through MOT first 😡
Getting even more cross when garage does £700 worth of repairs you've asked for then car fails MOT on something irreparable 🤔 so in the scheme of things the first one is only mildly irritating 🤣
Football.
People who think I should like football.
Gogglebox.
People who call Goggle box Googlebox.
The fat eejit in the Merc beside me in the car park with engine running winding down his window only to vape out the window.
The diesel is loud and smelly as is your vape. I would like to sit and wait for Mrs 100th in relative peace.
Actually it's not so annoying I'm going to move.
On a similar vein, the idiot sitting outside our house for 10 minutes with his diesel engine idling. Had to shut our window, and it’s warm tonight.
Sorry. Those last two fail the 'disproportionately' test for me. Incandescent rage is justified with them both.
People who sit at a railway crossing, next to the sign thst says Switch off the Engine, whp deliberately tum the engine back on after the stop/start device has turned it off. Arrrrggghhhhhh
People who sit at a railway crossing, next to the sign thst says Switch off the Engine, whp deliberately tum the engine back on after the stop/start device has turned it off. Arrrrggghhhhhh
That really makes no sense whatsoever.. Lol! Stop start cars restart in less than a second, probably less than half a second!
Thats why the batteries on those cars are very expensive and several magnitudes more 'powerful' than a regular battery... To cope with the power spikes required for stop/starting constantly...
One from me... Mid contract price hikes due to CPI increases on broadband contracts.
I get that it's in the small print and I'm stuffed, but I'm currently on a 40mb connection, contract expires in November.
A month or so ago I saw that my current provider was offering 80mb connections for new customers, for a pound per month less than I'm currently paying for 40mb.
They flat out refused an upgrade or a discount on my current plan, and the cancellation fee would be about £100.
Looks like I'll be with a new provider soon, partly out of spite, but also as luck would have it, our street has been wired up for FTTP in the interim.
So not all bad I guess.
Jeremey Clarkson didn't approve of stop start when it came out, therefore the gammons will feel justified.
Shopping in town with Mrs asbrooks and now two grown up girls (both now in their 20's) on a Saturday afternoon just because it's a 'nice' thing to do with the family. OMG, it's the most dullest thing to do, ever! Hours of wandering around looking in shop windows and then when we do go in and try something on, they have no intentions in buying. Oh the out cry if their size is not available or an item not on display in their size. They have the poor shop assistants running around them chasing a sale.
By the time we get home usually empty handed I'm absolutely livid. If steam could come out on my ears it would.
Generally people not keeping things moving when out and about. Some great examples already in this thread like people acting shocked when they need to pay for goods at the checkout. FFS give your heed a wobble and just be ready to pay! It's not hard.
My latest episode of rage in this area is the tip. It gets busy, really busy if you time it wrong, but still you get people opening the boot of their car and it's utter chaos.. picking out 1 or 2 bits of metal at a time from in between garden waste, plastic, metal and goodness knows what else! At least have some semblance of organisation before you just drive down there. I mean generally our local tip is a brain out at the door place but this particular bad practice makes me want to throw them in the landfill skip.
Another fine example was at the petrol station recently. Half the pumps are off so a bit of waiting involved but not mad busy. Bloke in front starts filling up while his missus jumps out and starts wandering around the shop.. good I think, she'll pick up what they need and when he goes in it'll be bish bash bosh tap your card and gone.. Nope. Pair of them wandering around like they're shopping for some new clothes or something. FFS you can see me sat behind in my car. Ended up reversing and using another pump where the driver arrived a good 5 mins later but was done and dusted long before these wallopers had finished whatever in the wide world of * they were doing in the shop.
A separate one for me is people standing far too close in queues. We've just come out of a global pandemic FFS but still I have some people so close behind me they'd lick the back of my head if they stuck their tongue out. Just * off. You're not getting to the till quicker if you stand 2 air molecules behind me you **** prat.
and breathe..
Kramer
**** footage of people eating and smiling and nodding.
Yes! This is why I can't watch any cookery programmes. It could taste like shit for all we know and you're just acting. Jamie. You knobber.
Hours of wandering around looking in shop windows
You only have yourself to blame
Yup, extremely poor threat assessment. Shopping? With three females! What on god's earth were you thinking? Decant to a coffee shop or pub. Meet up with them when they're done. This is SOP, everyone knows that!
Shopping in town with Mrs asbrooks and now two grown up girls (both now in their 20’s) on a Saturday afternoon just because it’s a ‘nice’ thing to do with the family. OMG, it’s the most dullest thing to do, ever! Hours of wandering around looking in shop windows and then when we do go in and try something on, they have no intentions in buying. Oh the out cry if their size is not available or an item not on display in their size. They have the poor shop assistants running around them chasing a sale. By the time we get home usually empty handed I’m absolutely livid. If steam could come out on my ears it would.
The only way that this anger is disproportionate is because everyone is still alive.
Smokers, especially the pair of ****s camped next to me (who have a white diesel Audi that they left running next to our tents this morning for no reason) who can’t even manage a short 10 min ferry crossing without having to resort to a sneaky vape.
Then there’s their death rattle hack/cough
Then there’s their death rattle hack/cough
Hehe. I had an auntie who had a minah bird which had her smoker's cough off to a tee.
Further to @houns' post above. Vapers. Not the run of the mill, fairly discreet type. The bellends whose douche flute is like a dry ice machine at an Anthrax gig. Belching cloying, barf inducing bubblegum scented clouds in every direction. Selfish, self obsessed thunderc***s
When I have to breathe that shit in, it takes every ounce of my self control not to batter them to death with the nearest blunt instrument!
Grown men on construction sites who need to be told several times a day to wear the correct PPE.
The same grown men on the same sites asking for overtime to finish the job, only to spend the time on the phone or on extended breaks.
My van. 3rd injector replaced in a year and immediately miss firing on way home from garage in 5th gear. So will lose more work by no doubt having to to book it into garage again. Could really do with catching a break!
This has just riled me more than it should!...
A weekly magazine sub for the wife - it didn't arrive on 17th August, thought nowt of it, sometime they are late. Didn't arrive on 25th either.
So I email magazinesdirect and get the response - "We have checked our records and can confirm that the postal authorities returned an issue to us marked as undeliverable."
And based on one single issue being returned (probably because our road was closed that day) they suspended the subscription without even getting in touch. Nothing - not even a 'can we check out records'.
We now won't be getting one this week too as it's too late to restart the sub! 😡
People wearing masks.
People wearing masks outside.
People wearing masks in their cars on their own.
People who are inexplicably angry about stuff that has zero impact on them.
People lighting fire pits/burners at 10pm on some of the hottest nights of the year, midweek, whilst the rest of us are off to bed to go to work, school or whatever early the next morning.
Windows shut then, sweating away. Whoppers.
Crossness level - High: Lip fillers.
Crossness level - High: Vaping.
Crossness level - Off the fricking scale: People with lip fillers suckling on their vapes.
@kayak23 what have you got against Simon Calder?
The way that he gets rolled out every single time there is any kind of anything happening, and then proceeds to splurt out a load of waffle in that disproportionately cross, slightly aggressive and ranty tone that he has just makes me disproportionately cross I find. 😊👍
Aside:
I really don't understand why there's such forceful resistance to masks beyond Rage Against The Machine. Is it that simple, folk just being contrary for the sake of it because they don't like being told what to do? It seems such a petty thing to choose as a hill to die on. I don't see them turning right at "left turn only" junctions because screw you and your orders.
Over in the US, tough-guy preppers are burying ammo caches (but not food, obvs) so when the apocalypse comes they're ready to lead the charge like Johnny Rambo, yet ask them to cover up their nose and they turn into crybaby little girls.
It is truly, truly braindead. Vaccine hesitancy I can at least understand, it's invasive and once it's in you can't take it out again (and of course, there's a lot of anti-vax horseshit flying about which doesn't help improve people's ignorance and fear). But... it's a bit of cloth and elastic. 🤷♂️
Medical “professionals” coming to visit my wife who has a terminal lung disorder and no masks.
covid is still a thing and she is VERY vulnerable - thanks for the care and understanding.
ggrrrrrrrrrrr
People who have TVs on loud in hotel rooms.
People who talk right outside your door in hotels.
Lights in the smoke alarms in hotel rooms.
Lights on the TVs in hotel rooms.
Lights on the light switches in hotel rooms.
Not having plug sockets by the bed in hotel rooms.
Windows that don’t open in hotel rooms.
Noisy air conditioning in hotel rooms.
Soap etc in bottle dispensers fixed to the walls in hotel bathrooms.
Only have ‘mood’ lighting a lamps rather than a ‘big’ centre light in hotel rooms. Aka ‘hotel twilight’.
I spend way too much time in hotels.
Lights in the smoke alarms in hotel rooms.
I attribute a particularly weird dream that was loosely based on the search for the navigation beacon in The Rise of Skywalker but also contained elements of mountain biking, to the periodic flashing of the smoke alarm above my bed.
@therevokid that's rubbish. Sorry to hear of your wife's situation. Can you not insist visitors wear a mask for her sake? Being angry about professionals who should know better putting your wife at risk is not disproportionate. It's entirely justified.
Look after yourself, and reach out on here if you need to chat. Despite the bickering about mince and trivia, folk on here are really supportive when it matters.
"Why have you taken the filter out?"
"Stuff keeps getting caught in it."
"...
What do you suppose it's for?"
Dog treats that are impossible to cut into two.
When I open my Aergrind to find a pile of rough ground beans instead of the fine ground espresso I want, I get very cross that someone has picked it up and fiddled with the setting.
Disproportionately cross according to my family. I disagree. It's a serious business.
When I ask folk at work 'do you know how to do that' and they reply with 'yeah' I then watch them make a * of it.
I don't mind if folk don't know. I'd rather show them, but trying to blag it and fail miserably makes you look like a *.
Neighbours are supposedly getting large item uplift a fridge freezer but move it down the street a bit away from their door , it better get lifted
Take a shite in it. It won't make the situation any better but it may give you some puerile amusement. Oh and make sure their address is somewhere about it.
Opening a cupboard and an item falling out.
Selfish people after holding doors, gates
People sat in middle lanes this results in Monty burns level anger
People interupting conversations rediculous questions.
Policing not having a much harder stance like mowing down bellends on electric scooters while wearing a wooly face covering
^^ Completely unsuitable to hold a shotgun licence.
Pensioners in supermarkets on Saturday morning. Why? They have all week to shop so why sloth round the aisles like a creeping grey plague getting in the way of people who just want to shop and get on with life?
Also North Face clad, balaclava masked scrotes zipping round city centres on souped up electric scooters.
I realise that I am also unsuitable to hold a shotgun licence...
Dunno about disproportionately, but I've just tried to do online check in for a couple of flights with Ryanair that were, unknown to me, booked via some agent they're having a tiff with, so they are trying to make it as hard as possible for passengers to use them. Cue endless verification process (twice over) involving 'live action selfies' and payments.
Suffice it to say I will never use either of them again. RAGING! 🙂
People who let other people out on the road.
Ultimate selfishness.
Make all the people behind them feel cross just so they can feel that they've done their good deed for the day.
People who let other people out on the road.
Oh, this is a good one.
People who let other people out on the road.
... when there's nothing else behind them.
People waiting to come out, I'll glance behind. If it's solid traffic I'll let them out because it makes zero difference to anything and the poor sod is going to be there hours otherwise. If there's like one car behind me then I won't because there's no point.
I will however counter this with, people who are letting you out but have made no indication that they're doing so. So they'll approach slower and slower before finally somewhat exasperatedly flapping their hand at you... like, I appreciate it and all, but it'd have been easier and quicker for all concerned if you'd just got out the way.
When I forget a conversation, "you never listen."
When she forgets a conversation, "you didn't tell me that."
People who let other people out on the road.
Perfectly acceptable to let people out when the car behind is tailgating you 😁
Oh and I'll add: drivers who don't let you cross the road when it makes no difference at all to them.
Eg. I am standing at the edge waiting to cross, maybe to an island or something, and 5 cars in slow moving rush hour traffic sail calmly past at 5mph only to get held up 10 meters down the road. Would it really hurt you to let me go? Makes me just as angry whether they're being selfish or just plain oblivious.
See also: drivers who don't stop at zebra crossings.
People who open packs of biscuits and then don't put them in the biscuit barrel.
Folk who don't raise a hand in acknowledged thanks, after you move over and wait as they drive down a narrow bit of road.
Or pull out suddenly,wave, then stop and attempt to parallel park in a spot that is much too small, but they'll happily block the entire road until it becomes obvious even to them.
See also: cyclists who don’t stop at zebra crossings.
fify
People who take biscuits out of perfectly adequate packaging and decant them into some kind of 'barrel' in an attempt to keep up with the Joneses.
bickering about mince and trivia
The fact this should be "mince and tatties", then imagining a STW mince and tatties argument has lightened today's mood.
Drivers trying to cut over a T-Junction,then glaring at the cyclist waiting (on the right side of the line)at said T-junction..W**kPuffins
People who buy a food item from a cafe on a gorgeous sunny day, having parked right next to all the people enjoying their food/drink/cake/snacks outside in the glorious sunshine, they then sit inside their Audi TT, fire up the engine and let it idle while eating. The stupid inconsiderate driver polluting the cafe customers, most of whom have cycled.
Oh yes the balaclava wearing scooter riding, red light jumping, pedestrian hitting little scrotes (the sooner they're rounded up and flown out to a desert island the better).
Opening a cupboard and an item falling out.
I'm at the point when I'm surprised if this doesn’t happen
See also: cyclists who don’t stop at zebra crossings.
This really doesn't bother me as a pedestrian. I try to wave cyclists through, although they usually stop. Its a tiny effort for me to stop and as a cyclist I know it's nice to keep rolling. Obviously not great if you are expecting them to stop and they don't but not as bad as a car doing it (usually with the driver on the phone or playing with the radio, utterly oblivious to their surroundings)
People who are turning left into a side road when there is a car waiting to emerge, so they stop. When there is a line of cars as far as the eye can see all going 42mph. Causing the emerging vehicle to pull tentatively 3ft forward just enough to block the road in the hope that someone coming the way will also stop to let them in.
Causing maybe 40 cars to all come to an unnecessary standstill just because
It would be a much more pleasant experience for everyone if we were all happy to actually let people out of side streets, if everyone realised that person's journey was just as important as theirs.
This from the point of view of someone who has to turn right out of a side street every morning through a line of slow moving traffic. Is amazing how selfish they all are. They're in a rolling queue, can't possibly stop for a few seconds, oh no. And god forbid I start to poke my nose out. Woah, that really deserves the gesticulations and people shouting w4nker at me.
people who are letting you out but have made no indication that they’re doing so. So they’ll approach slower and slower before finally somewhat exasperatedly flapping their hand at you… like, I appreciate it and all, but it’d have been easier and quicker for all concerned if you’d just got out the way.
- this, on the motorway. The car that is hovering around your blindspot ~5m back in the next lane suddenly wants you to pull out into the non-existent space in front of them, when doing so would be about as dangerous a thing as you could do. Two minutes before they were catching up, so why not just carry on past and let me decide when it safe and appropriate to change lanes, like I'm supposed to?
That we install speed bumps where we should be installing cameras or closing through roads.
Those thick, bumpy lines at an increasing pitch you get approaching a dangerous junction to remind you to slow down? I'm fine with that.
Those thick, bumpy lines at an increasing pitch you get AFTER a dangerous junction to remind you to slow down?
Wtf is that about?
kayak23
Those thick, bumpy lines at an increasing pitch you get AFTER a dangerous junction to remind you to slow down?
Wtf is that about?
In Wales near my parents they do it properly with the lines painted only on the incoming direction. I think it just got lost in translation when it got popular. Either that, or someone has a lot of paint to use up, or is on a day rate.
When I forget a conversation, “you never listen.”
When she forgets a conversation, “you didn’t tell me that.”
God yes! The version I live with is:
When I have forgotten something MrsJohn has told me: 'I can't believe you've forgotten that thing I told you'
When MrsJohn forgets something I told her: 'You can't expect me to remember everything'.
What makes me cross is private student rental accommodation. A relative is paying £700 a month for a room in a shared house of 7. So the cost is pretty annoying in itself. But not content with just taking the cash the landlord then dictates that no bikes can be stored anywhere in the house, and runs frequent checks. There isn't anywhere secure enough outside so he is unable to have a bike at uni. Why is the landlord allowed to dictate terms like this? Surely "leave it as you found it" would be a fairer arrangement?
And on a similar theme - landlords using deposit as a nice bonus for themselves. The last place he rented, all left tidy and clean... apart from some dust on the blinds for which they deducted £75. The thieving little so and so's.
Probably been going on since the beginning of time but still annoying.
I get the same thing all the time.
I ask a question... "I told you last week!"
Well no, dear, you have half a conversation in your head and you only verbalise the other half.. And expect me to understand or even care what you are saying?
When the boots on the other foot though.. I get "you never mentioned that! "
I refer you to my WhatsApp massage at 16:37 last Thursday, which you marked as read and even replied to!
Then I get the silent treatment for a few days.
Just took a delivery of bolts for a DIY project,
40 M12 bolts - check
40 12mm washers - check
40 12mm nuts - check
16mm drill bit…
Finding that the table's been cleared... ...into the sink.
Bellends suddenly changing lanes in traffic jams, causing people behind them to brake suddenly and so making the traffic jam even worse.
Get a call about a coupon (apparently that's what the bit you cut out with a holesaw is called) getting sucked into a pipe as its contaminated and under vaccum, they want to know if we can live with it if they can't get it out.
Check the job spec to familiarise myself with it, take firm note that the flange they were drilling was supposed to have been removed to a workshop.
Wonder why that was?
****ing idiots.
(they got it out)
Councils lowering speed limits that have been perfectly fine for the last 30 years and put up cameras to generate cash.
the cash the landlord then dictates that no bikes can be stored anywhere in the house, and runs frequent checks.
Move the bike outside ahead of the visit. A landlord can't just come and go as they please, it's the tenants' home.
landlords using deposit as a nice bonus for themselves.
This was cracked down on too. If the deposit isn't in a holding scheme then they're acting illegally.
A wee bit of haar blows in and getting blinded by fog lights