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It’s good that you realise it’s disproportionate to get cross about those things 👍
That's probably why I put it in this thread
I was getting disproportionately angry at people using disabled spaces when they shouldn’t, being too lazy to walk up a single flight of stairs in the gym, and then walking on a running machine.
There's a perfectly fit guy at the gym that I go to. Instead of parking in the car park where there is more than enough space to go around, he parks his big BMW SUV literally right outside the door to the gym on double yellow lines. He also spends more time staring at his phone than he does using the equipment.
I was getting disproportionately angry at people using disabled spaces when they shouldn’t,
I don't think that's disproportionate.
I live a few doors up from a fish & chip shop. The road directly outside is variously double yellows and a disabled bay. There's ample parking literally like 20 yards away. The number of entitled "I'll only be a minute" cat funts who sit there noshing away in their Range Rovers is just astonishing.
When you decide to give yourself an easy life for once and have a ready meal, but when you peel off the plastic lid it just rips around the edges, leaving the middle firmly glued in place.
Cinch adverts.
When you get an older car MOT and they stick half a dozen advisory eg slight misting of oil on a shock absorber
I took a car I bought back to where it got a few mot' s over the years and the corrosion or grease on 2 brake pipes advisory from a year ago failed the car, it has only done 4000 miles over the year and kept in a garage over the winter. I was told the corrosion has got really bad over 12 months
People who block the pump at the petrol station when they aren’t buying fuel, just a crap take-away coffee and some fags.
I’ll go one further. Anyone that doesn’t use pay at pump where available. Bastards. Fill up and **** off! You don’t need an overpriced mars bar, crap coffee or paper.
These food eating distractions remind me as an apprentice getting a bit of a hard time from one guy especially
Anyway the other apprentice who was always sent to the bakers for the bully journeyman everyday for cream apple turnovers and cream eclairs but probably never suffered from high cholesterol as on the way back the cheeky scamp would get his own back by squeezing and sucking most of the cream out
He would have been disproportionately cross had he known
Butter gynaecology.
You know what I mean. Folk who peel back like 1cm of the paper / foil under the lid and then try to extract the entire tub's contents through it.
"can I speak to the person that deals with your finance* please?"
"in what regard? can I help?"
"do you deal with the company finance?"
"which bit?"
"I need to speak to the person that deals with the company finance"
"OK, which bit, maybe I can help"
"the company finance, do you deal with that?"
"so you keep saying, what roughly do you actually want to sell me?"
"do you deal with the company finance?"
*see also logistics, stationery, packaging, space program...
Being pestered to leave a review for every single sodding thing you buy, every service you use, every place you visit. Time and again, even if you've already reviewed it multiple times. Just **** off and leave me alone you needy, whiney bastards.
People who wear current issue military kit and aren't in the military. ****ing wetwipes.
“do you deal with the company finance?”
I think I'd be disproportionately cross with anyone who rang up asking such a vague and ill defined question. In most companies I've worked in it could be hundreds of people in finance, each dealing with a specific subset.
“do you deal with the company finance?”
Yeah, I assimed it was @dangerourbrain asking this, but now I'm not so sure.
People who wear current issue military kit and aren’t in the military. **** wetwipes.
My Altberg boots bought from an online surplus store are perfect brown walking boots, wetwipe or not.
Men that urinate in the toilets when there are urinals available
Those of us older chaps with prostate problems don't like to stand around for 3 minutes or more at an urinal. Using the traps enables us to allow the flow, pause and flow again cycle to complete without tying up the quick use urinals and attracting unwanted attention.
Being pestered to leave a review
Imgine if you will, working in the NHS, where the Friends and Family test has become the single thing by which we're apparently measured these days, not "Are you better?" but "Did you like the doctor?"
If I were world king etc etc
People who wear current issue military kit and aren’t in the military
Saw one in head to toe MTP waiting for a bus the other week, the image only disturbed by the fact that he was maybe 5'6" was at least 280lbs with a beer belly to rival big daddy...
Saw one in head to toe MTP waiting for a bus the other week, the image only disturbed by the fact that he was maybe 5’6″ was at least 280lbs with a beer belly to rival big daddy…
Usually the way. Met plenty at public engagement events, would often lead with 'I was going to join the army but...'
Have I mentioned this already? People holding phones horizontally flat in front of their mouth. What's that all about, is it supposed to be 'cool' like holding guns sideways in a John Woo movie? I keep expecting to hear them asking Scotty to beam them up.
(Also, "movie," it's a goddamn film. I make myself disproportionately cross sometimes.)
Have I mentioned this already? People holding phones horizontally flat in front of their mouth. What’s that all about, is it supposed to be ‘cool’ like holding guns sideways in a John Woo movie?
Like a handheld radio? Yeah, very bizarre.
I'll counter that with smart phones that mute the call or hang up if it is even lightly touched by a bit of loose hair* when you put it near your ear. (I do hold it horizontally but use head phones as no one needs to hear the other side of the conversation but me)
*long hair, not over excessive ear hair
I have young persons in the office, they've said;
1. I'm not on the phone, I'm recording a voice note
2. I dropped my phone and now the "ear" microphone doesn't work, so I have to use it like that
3. They've seen it on the Kardashians, and they do it so their make up doesn't get smudged, and everyone copies them
4. Oh yeah I do that to
5. because they're all dickheads, that's why.
They only do that phone holding nonsense on “reality” shows so the microphone on set can pick up both sides of the conversation. People who watch said shows are too stupid to know this and think that by copying they are one step closer to being like their idols in the shows.
See also point 5 above.
You calling me a dickhead? I'd add a smiley but I can't work out how to, see point 6 below
6. They're old and incompetent and can't use this new fangled technology properly.
@jag1 no it’s a Venn diagram really, people who hold their phones like that to copy TV are dickheads, not all people who use their phone like that as there are (admittedly very few) reasons why it might be appropriate, other than a misguided attempt to try and look cool…
I thought it were so the microwaves don't fry their brains or something?
People wearing tough mudder T shirts, I imagine they think they’re proper bonkers zany for running round a muddy field
People wearing tough mudder T shirts, I imagine they think they’re proper bonkers zany for running round a muddy field
I don't quite get that one myself, but meets the thread brief 👍 I imagine they are just chuffed with completing a fun/challenging event and fancied a memento of it? Surely If they've done one of those events, wearing the T-Shirt is no different to someone wearing a 'Fulchester 10K' T-Shirt or whatever?
I’ll counter that with smart phones that mute the call or hang up if it is even lightly touched by a bit of loose hair* when you put it near your ear
... are broken. Proximity sensors have been a thing forever, the touchscreen should disable if it's near your face.
6. They’re old and incompetent and can’t use this new fangled technology properly.
You don't know how a phone works?
I thought it were so the microwaves don’t fry their brains or something?
Bit late for that.
Vegans.
No wait, I've done that one...
Folk leaving car engines running while waiting at level crossings. Even though there are lots of signs saying "Stationary vehicles please turn off engines" plus a load of signs designed by a local primary school. A pointless, unnecessary (and easily avoidable) way to pollute the air.
This is in Starbeck between Knaresborough and Harrogate so a very busy road where the barrier is often down.
Yeah, I assimed it was @dangerourbrain asking this, but now I’m not so sure.
People who accidently insult you on the internet
Meta disproportionately cross people make me proportionally disproportionately cross.
Meta disproportionately cross people make me proportionally disproportionately cross.
The ones who tell you about it on Facebook you mean?
(and easily avoidable)
Yes they could fix the crossing being closed for 20 minutes an hour. Or maybe just open it between trains. Or send all the traffic down bogs lane.
Any of these would also improve my pedal to work significantly too.
Possibly not as much as getting rid of other people.
Actually I think that is my only real offering for this thread:
Other. Bloody. People.
Yes they could fix the crossing being closed for 20 minutes an hour. Or maybe just open it between trains. Or send all the traffic down bogs lane.
Any of these would also improve my pedal to work significantly too.
Possibly not as much as getting rid of other people.Actually I think that is my only real offering for this thread:
Other. Bloody. People.
It's a bloody nightmare but one step at a time and it would be great to get folk to at least turn of their engines. I can easily jump the queue on my motorbike 😃 Still can't work out why some folk think leaving their engines running for 10 minutes is a good thing.
(I do hold it horizontally but use head phones as no one needs to hear the other side of the conversation but me)
It’s quite possible that your headphones also have a microphone so no need for the horizontal nonsense - and if your headphones don’t have a microphone then you should get some that do.
People moaning about the 20 mph limit recently introduced to built up areas here in Wales.
And more irritating is my colleague who spouts that she's not going to comply with the new limit but then drives at 20 mph along the unaffected 40mph bypass. Grrr.
Wheely bins and domestic bin collection. It’s such a stupid system and so utterly inappropriate for urban areas.
Agreed, the Spanish system with large communal bins roadside or underground works well
QUINNBET advert that is taking up nearly half the screen of my laptop as I write this.
I imagine they are just chuffed with completing a fun/challenging event and fancied a memento of it?
Yep my OH wore hers the other day when out for a run because she was excited to be doing another Tough Mudder this weekend, today infact. People enjoy them and go back for more. I'm currently drinking coffee from my Brighton Big Dog 2016 mug.
I imagine they are just chuffed with completing a fun/challenging event and fancied a memento of it?
They're tour tees for civvies. Ms. RM has a drawer full of the buggers from running.
people that expect the website for free and then moan at the adverts that are needed to pay for it.
Drivers who fail to stop before the solid white line at traffic lights but drive a metre over it before stopping.
I would say betting ads but my anger isn’t disproportionate.
Parents who let their kids run around screaming on a campsite before 08:00.
Yours angrily at the Big Shakeout festival
Agreed, the Spanish system with large communal bins roadside or underground works well
and Italy, and...
Drivers who fail to stop before the solid white line at traffic lights but drive a metre over it before stopping.
That reminds me. People who cut the corner when turning off a main road into a side street when I'm approaching the junction in the opposite direction on said side street. Forcing me to slow or stop because they are on my side of the road.
Motorists moaning about being slightly inconvenienced by their journeys taking a few minutes longer (whilst sat in an air conditioned car in a comfy seat listening to podcasts or their fav music) whilst not caring that reducing their speed can significantly reduce the likelihood of them accidentally killing or maiming someone’s dad, kid, dog.
also pavement parkers blocking the whole pavement just to keep the road clear to allow traffic to flow but necessitating pedestrians and people in wheelchairs or pushing kids in buggies to negotiate the carriageway itself.
ps I do walk to work and the kids to school but I do drive as well when I need to.
People who cut the corner when turning off a main road into a side street
Local Amazon delivery driver in her big van did this to me a month or so back. She was quite taken aback when I stopped, got out and remonstrated with her. It all just works better when we all stick to the designated side of the road, you'd think.
Well, I seem to have put this discussion into a 3-day coma with my thrilling anecdote just up there ^, so I'll try another 'thing' instead.
I give you... people who can't tie their coat/fleece around their waist properly, because they only know of a granny knot. It's dead simple - "Right over left and under, then left over right and under" = a reef knot, and the remaining ends of the sleeves stick out sideways. A reef knot is bomber. If you do "Right over left and under; right over left and under again" what you then get is a granny knot, and the loose ends stick out above & below. And it just looks shite, plus is liable to coming undone. Grrrrrr. Just me?
* holds hand up
On the very rare occasion that I actually use my mobile to take/make a call I hold it out away from me and have it on speaker. This is because it’s in a fully enclosed waterproof case and my hearing is crap, so it’s really hard for me to hear the other person when using phone normally (I never take a call when I’m around others).
I’m sorry
And it just looks shite.
Whereas a fleece tied around your waist with a reef knot looks......?
Grrrrrr. Just me?
I'm going to say yep!
Perfume adverts on the telly. What kind of hallucinogens are the people that make them taking? Is that what happens when you give a first year media studies undergrad an unlimited budget and LSD on draught? Who on God's earth is actually influenced to buy some overpriced smelly water off the back of watching one of those?
Perfume adverts on the telly. What kind of hallucinogens are the people that make them taking? Is that what happens when you give a first year media studies undergrad an unlimited budget and LSD on draught?
E bikes
People in cars that don't indicate
E bikers
E bike adverts
Got asked my professional opinion on a thing at work. My opinion is different to two idiots at my work and a bigger idiot in the customer. But I’m right. They don’t like it. But I’m still right and I’ve sent them the evidence to prove it . Now apparently I have to set up a meeting with these three idiots plus a load of other idiots to tell them why they’re all wrong. Just **** off and do it wrong, I don’t give a shit!
Sitting on the loo at 4 am to discover that one of the kids has peed on the seat. At least at other times there’s a chance I’ll remember to check, but in the dark in the middle of the night it’s easy to forget.
people who can’t tie their coat/fleece
Corollary: "why do my shoelaces keep coming undone?"
This is a hill I will choose to die on, I'm with you brother.
This is because it’s in a fully enclosed waterproof case and my hearing is crap, so it’s really hard for me to hear
Have you considered holding it closer to your ear rather than a foot away?
Im the same as houns. Even holding a phone close to my ear I find it hard to hear so I do the speakerphone thing
Whereas a fleece tied around your waist with a reef knot looks……?
I'm less worried about the sartorial elegance of the fleece round the waist, sometimes it's just the only practical option. I'd not be wanting to drape it over me shoulders, mincing-stylee 😅
Grrrrrr. Just me?
And Cougs, apparently. So if there's just the 2 of us, it fits the thread requirement of 'disproportionate' at any rate. I'll take that.
Even holding a phone close to my ear I find it hard to hear so I do the speakerphone thing
Just imagine if you had it on speakerphone AND close to your ear.
Speakerphone is fine, I have no issue with that. It's the horizontophone style that disproportionately pisses me off. You're on speakerphone so the speaker is flapping away off out in the distance, but you've got the microphone right next to your mouth like a regular call. That surely cannot be pleasant for the other participant.
All those tedious new names electrically-assisted bicycle provocateurs try to get people to call bikes; you just know they dream of dropping the “e-“ when wittering about their machines.
” but you’ve got the microphone right next to your mouth like a regular call. That surely cannot be pleasant for the other participant.”
depends. They could be on the phone to the daft c*** walking in front of me the other day, with the mic end of the phone jammed into their lughole, speaker directed out at the road. That would sort of even it out wouldn’t it?
Parents who let their kids run around screaming on a campsite before 08:00.
No court in the land will convict on that one.
Stuffing shit in used crockery.
A chocolate biscuit wrapper plonked in a near-empty coffee cup, a wadded up serviette / kitchen roll / snot rag floating about in the remains of your soup, a banana skin abandoned in the milky unpleasantness that was once a bowl of ice cream, etc etc.
What's the thinking here, what do you suppose are the next steps? I'll tell you what the next step is, some other poor **** has to fish around in your effluvia to retrieve your crap, be that restaurant staff or me or whomsoever is cleaning up after you. And do you really think this vegetarian wants to rummage about in what was once prawn linguine in order to excavate half a dozen Quality Street wrappers? You're literally creating work for no reason and it's grim work at that, ****ing stop it.
These sprung up overnight companies with doctor in their nam eg roof doctor, computer doctor , paving doctor, garden doctor
You don't need to phone at 8am to get an appointment that tells you they are not proper doctors, they chuck flyers nobody wants through your letter box, have a red + sign on their van
They employ anyone whether they can do roofing or painting etc
They will drive you to the nearest cashline saving old folk the trouble, very obliging that way
Stupid effin Bad Gateway errors - AGAIN. It's really piss poor.
Newer 'cars' that no longer have indicators as part of the rear light cluster, but for some brilliant reason, now have them as part of the rear bumper...
Whereas a fleece tied around your waist with a reef knot looks……?
At least with the way your sleeves stick out to the side with a Reef knot, you know where to Place your Hands.
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People who cut down sycamore trees
Vegan friendly mineral oil..
Stay with me on this.. I mean, mineral oil is probably made of dinosaurs and shell fish, so totally not vegan unless it died a million years ago?
What about an animal that died yestereday? where do we draw the line?
hotel pillows.
hotel pillows
Hotels that tuck the duvet in, so that when you untuck it, it pulls the sheet out too.
What about an animal that died yestereday? where do we draw the line?
About a million years ago.
Gov announce my pay rise months ago....don't get pay rise
People who put their rucksacks and pushchairs in the bike space on trains. Up against the wall with them
People who fill all 4 bike spaces on a pendolino with one of those 70kg fat tyre ebikes which look like they've been thrown together in a shed by a blind blacksmith