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The kind of ******* driver who thinks it's ok to verbally abuse a teenager who is out cycling and call them something rhyming with banker at a set of busy traffic lights.
Maybe it's not disproportionately cross though. Sorry, venting.
Fortnite/Epic Games/Playstation account linking.
Just spent a good hour trying to sort out linking my sons accounts to his new console. Trying to unravel the previous 4 years of linking accounts on various consoles for multiple offspring and eventually (after lots of sweating and ranting) clicking a link that basically says "if this isn't right then you can't change it for 365 days". I closed my eyes, held my breath and clicked OK.... and it worked! But I've probably done something to another child's account that I'll find out the consequences of later today.
Buying an expensive rear light (Lupine rotlicht max) and finding it charges through micro-usb and not usb-c, FFS Lupine that should have been sorted 3 years ago.
Finding that not drinking actually makes me feel better. I cannot tell you how annoying that is.
People wishing me happy new year when I've been back at work a a week and they've just strolled back in.
People sitting at traffic lights with their foot on the brakes and the brake lights burning the back of my retinas.
Use the handbrake FFS that’s what it’s there for!
Cretins.
People sitting at traffic lights with their foot on the brakes and the brake lights burning the back of my retinas.
Use the handbrake FFS that’s what it’s there for!
Cretins.
I am with you (along with fog lights when the visibility doesn't require it!)....but
My new car doesn't have a handbrake, and even when I sit at the lights with my foot off the brake in 'hold' mode, the frickin' high level brake light blares away. Knowing of my own personal annoyance at just that situation, I somehow feel the need to apologize to other road users. So, if you ever end up behind me, sorry!
Likewise on my Tourneo Custom automatic. Also as soon as you put it in neutral the start/stop function turns off. It inly turns the engine off if you keep your foot on the brake in drive or put it in park.
My new car doesn’t have a handbrake, and even when I sit at the lights with my foot off the brake in ‘hold’ mode, the frickin’ high level brake light blares away
This annoys me too. On my Golf if you set the electric handbrake when stationary it turns the lights off. I always do this now
Someone putting their dog poo bag (with poop in it) in my recycling box. I spotted it and fished it out before the bin men arrived. Put it in my rubbish bag instead.
I hope you doubled up with the gloves as you fished it out the bag into the other bin, put me right off my tea
Thems m&s tetrapak juices.
Whilst we admire their decision to make the drinking straws out of paper, I have yet been unable to find a supplied straw, stiff enough to pierce their cartons of juice.
I hope you doubled up with the gloves as you fished it out the bag into the other bin, put me right off my tea
People who right-justify FOR NO REASON AT ALL!
My new car doesn’t have a handbrake
Whoah, what now?
What car is this?
I thought handbrake was tested as part of MOT?
My blood boils at all teh arrogant lazy parents who park up on the zig zags and double yellows outside my daughter's school..
Honestly...I'm about 3 hail-marys away from junmping up and down on their bonnet screaming profanities in their cracked window panes...!!!!!
I've actually figured it's better and (professionally) safer for me to just pony up and buy the school a bunch of free standing 'no parking' signs, and just donate them!!!
DrP
The constant use of the word "insane" by Youtube posters.
The constant use of the word “insane” by Youtube posters.
I know, it's mad, innit.
My outlaws are like toddlers in one particular respect and it maddened me the last time they were here. Felt like I spent 75% of my time moving stuff away from edges. Mugs and glasses an inch from table edges. Mobiles and I pads hanging over the edge. Ridiculous. Drove me mental.
Cat shit.
"Found" some near my bins this morning.
I’ve actually figured it’s better and (professionally) safer for me to just pony up and buy the school a bunch of free standing ‘no parking’ signs, and just donate them!!!
While this is the practical and sensible way forward, I do wonder if paying someone to walk round with a set of half windscreen size stickers that say 'I am a selfish *&^%£$" for parking here' would be more fun and effective...
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I’ve actually figured it’s better and (professionally) safer for me to just pony up and buy the school a bunch of free standing ‘no parking’ signs, and just donate them!!!
I wouldn't waste your money, they had the signs and the plastic bollards with plastic chain outside our local primary school. They had to be binned as they had been damaged by cars, I would like for there to be a punchline here but the driving standards and entitlement are such that this isn't the case.
I challenged a mother one morning when her front wheel was on the base of the sign and she told me "it's OK, I wont be long", no amount of pointing to the signs and explaining improved things so I left before I smashed her car to bits in front of a few hundred kids and parents doing the morning school run.
I left before I smashed her car to bits in front of a few hundred kids and parents doing the morning school run.
I bet there'd be a few hundred parents willing to swear that they never saw anything.
When they collect the recycling and leave one or two things in the bottom.
When they collect the recycling and smash your brand new box you had to pay for to bits.
When they collect the recycling and smash your brand new box you had to pay for to bits.
I feel you, one of my recycling boxes is more duct tape than box!
Swooping on the android keyboard just seems to pick completely random words half the time... Except when you want it to of course, except when you yet top demonstrate hope random the word production is. Grrrrrrr
When they collect the recycling and leave one or two things in the bottom.
And? They'll collect it next time.
When they collect the recycling and smash your brand new box you had to pay for to bits.
I gave up on boxes and sacks. a) they get stolen and b) some poxy little box is of little use when it's collected fortnightly and I could fill it in an afternoon. I just chuck out bin bags now, even the fascists that run Burnley Council will accept them so long as they're clear bags.
I can't even get a council approved plastic bag for my paper/light card board, despite repeated requests.
So I just ram it into amazon/morrisons grocery home delivery paper bags now...which luckily I have a surplus of as I order a couple of times a month.
The recycling people don't appear to have an issue with it, as its clearly a paper bag full of paper and light card.
When they collect the recycling and leave one or two things in the bottom.
And? They’ll collect it next time.
Well not really, as the same tends to happen every time innit.
Hence my disproportionate crossness.
People that keep trying to highlight that your being cross with something is disproportionate, in a thread dedicated to the celebration of that exact thing 😉
My wife left 3 half cut up peppers on the work top this morning. Cut the other half up for tonights tea then just left the remainder out to slowly decompose. Why would you do that? WHY???
Operation "walk you lazy c**ts" started yesterday!
Headteacher seemed really appreciative!
Lets hope this calms me down somewhat!
DrP
How do you say Philharmonic without mentioning Phil?
I remember Kirsty when she did the Stv news Monday to Friday she was gorgeous with the deep sexy toned voice. Serious face at the serious news but her face lit up like the sun coming through the sky when the good reports were read and no one died or was arrested and sent to jail
I do wonder if paying someone to walk round with a set of half windscreen size stickers that say ‘I am a selfish *&^%£$” for parking here’ would be more fun and effective…
As long as its a paper sticker and not the full plastic type that can be peeled back off in one go. One of those that tears or de laminates, leaving the really sticky bit firmly stuck to the windscreen.
If a jobs worth doing ...
I do wonder if paying someone to walk round with a set of half windscreen size stickers that say ‘I am a selfish *&^%£$” for parking here’ would be more fun and effective…
A mate and I made some up and had a wee campaign on inconsiderate parkers. Only small stickers tho and never where they can obscure vision. Maybe made a slight difference
How do you say Philharmonic without mentioning Phil?
Oh, you mention Phil, but usually it's seamless and one word like, 'fillahmonic'.
Not 'Phil Harmonic'. 😊
Estate agent signs with the photo of the agent on them. Yeah, they can say its all about "providing the personal touch" but all I see is "Look at me! Look at me!". Im probably wrong but it just seems egotistical, rather than "personal". Winds me right up when I know it shouldn't.
Actually, as we're here, estate agent listings that are just plain bobbins. Too few photos, no floorplans, etc. It's not difficult, for the money they charge things like this should be a given.
Estate agents, funeral personnel and even vasectomy surgeons
https://images.app.goo.gl/A5M46jiGYYpoLNqD6
People who use 'electric' as a noun, as in 'the electric is broken' - the electric what? It's an adjective, and the noun is 'electricity'.
Similarly, verbing nouns.
"Inbox me." WTAF are you talking about? When you visit someone in person do you door them? Pillock.
Similarly, verbing nouns.
Like the word “verbing”?
Like the word “verbing”?
Whoosh!
Whoosh
Well perhaps not. The point being that verbing itself is a well established verb converted from a noun; it’s a good example of many English words(such as table a motion or liquify some wax) that started as nouns and later became verbs too. So if it’s acceptable to use verbing then there is nothing wrong with other verbed nouns, like inbox.
Perhaps what Cougar really objects to is neologisms; in which case he won’t be Googling anything.
accountants
Technology not working exactly as intended.
Case study: there's a hipstery food court-type place here called Edinburgh Street Food which has an app ordering system rather than a traditional order point as there are so many vendors. In theory it works spotlessly and saves a lot of time...EXCEPT: The mobile signal inside is so terrible and so is the wifi because it is always so busy. It can take about 10 minutes to navigate through the website to actually put your order in because of so much loading.
I am usually twice as hungry from seething with rage by the time I manage - even though I am not in a rush by design of me being in there to have a good time and a nice meal.
Alternatively: The screw part that connects the jetboil cup to the stove. Several times the thing has nearly ended up being booted off the hill whilst I faff to get it aligned properly. That's definitely a me problem.
Apart from that I don't have anger issues..!
Well perhaps not.
Honestly, that hadn't occurred to me and it's a good catch. It wasn't intentional (for once), I shall of course flagellate myself forthwith.
Perhaps what Cougar really objects to is neologisms
Not really. I'm comfortable with googling (small 'g') using Google (big 'g') or Bing (still shit). Language evolves. I'm 52 and "yeet" has entered my vocabulary, I think it's a glorious word. (Hey, check me out, being on fleek.) But "inbox me" just grates, perhaps because it's both nonsensical and redundant.
Technology not working exactly as intended.
This is also my own fault but,
I have the smart dining room lights configured as "dining room rose" (as in ceiling rose as opposed to the other lights). Nine times out of ten "Alexa, dining room rose on" will turn on the lights. The other, it'll turn everything pink.
Hey, check me out, being on fleek.
Sadly, I suspect that now that the likes of us have cottoned on to "on fleek", using "on fleek" is no longer on fleek. So to speak.
Using the term “cockpit” for the handlebar area of a bicycle. It’s most commonly used in bike test articles referring to a “tidy cockpit” what does that even mean? It quite often results in me a) swearing, sometimes out loud and, b) not bothering to read the rest of the article.
Sadly, I suspect that now that the likes of us have cottoned on to “on fleek”, using “on fleek” is no longer on fleek. So to speak.
I don't doubt it. But I still say "cool and groovy" and that was off fleek before I was born.
Almost everything these days but then I am very old (or certainly feel that way sometimes)
The other, it’ll turn everything pink.
That's just the red mist descending due to technology getting it wrong!
Almost everything these days but then I am very old
I'm old, but 'the youth' having slang that I don't get is precisely how it should work. I refuse to get old and grumpy [like our parents] about youth culture that I don't understand. I mean I don't get why all the young girls are wearing 'mum' jeans, they weren't that flattering the first time around, but who am I to judge?
People who persuade companies to move onto a super new all encompasing software system without bothering to check that it actually solves the problem that you have rather than solving a problem that you don't have and adding new ones
I don’t get why all the young girls are wearing ‘mum’ jeans
I don't know what "mum jeans" are. Does that make me more or less fleeky?
You know when interviewers on telly interview a politician and they try to go all Paxman but they're shit at it? Man, I just have to switch over. Useless idiots.
Technology not working exactly as intended
Yeah, like people who put those ketchup bottles with the wide lids designed to be stored lid down, lid up.
Someone went to the trouble of designing that and you just ignore it and revert to the old, less efficient way, even though the label is now upside down
Maniacs.
Keep looking at all the issues raised on this thread and realised I must have been disproportionately cross most of my married life
even though the label is now upside down
The shampoo and conditioner my partner gets comes in these bottles. One of them has the label correctly orientated when the lid is up, the other with the lid down, despite being the same bottles. Every time I see them a little bit of me dies inside. If you're going to be shit, at least be consistently shit.
Does that make me more or less fleeky?
I’m pretty sure that one of those options isn’t possible.
Tiny stickers on fruit, have we done this? Apples particularly. What are they for? They convey no useful information and are just pointless and irritating.
I either notice and have to peel the annoying ****er off and then find somewhere to put it, or don't and inadvertently eat it!
Doggo and pupper really gets my back up
They convey no useful information and are just pointless and irritating.
They often have a 4 digit code, which if the supermarket is sensible will match the code needed at the checkout, making the cashiers life easier. The supermarket will not be sensible though so you're at the mercy of some 17 year old who doesn't know the difference between a Braeburn and a Jazz, and really doesn't care enough to stare at his laminated list long enough to figure it out. Same with pears, 20 years later I still don't care what the difference is between a Conference and whatever the other one is/was.
Doggo and pupper really gets my back up
Fur babies.
Folks with dog poo bags who, seeing the bin on the path already stuffed full, dump their bag next to the bin on the floor. Worse still are the ones who dump their sh1tbags on the slab where the bin, having been set alight by scrotes and removed by the council, used to be.
I shall clarify. They convey no useful information to me. It shouldn't require vigilance and effort to avoid ingesting a stock control tool.
Fur babies
and even worse, fur babies who've crossed the rainbow bridge.
and even worse, fur babies who’ve crossed the rainbow bridge.
Yoo monster, there wiv the angles. Fumin 😡
Fur babies
and even worse, fur babies who’ve crossed the rainbow bridge.
You know. I'm an animal lover and I can empathise with people's relationship with pets. A loss can hit as hard or harder than the loss of a family member.
But this saccharine-sweet sickly baby talk makes my shit itch. Are you 12? These are the same people who play dress-up with their dogs and cats, knitting them Christmas jumpers and hats and what have you, and they really really need to get laid.
People who aren't American and say "ass".
The word is "arse", you arseholes!
similarly, "Mom"
makes my shit itch
Such a simple phrase that conveys the emotion so eloquently....
The word is “arse”, you arseholes!
When I was at university up norf, I was led to believe that was a function of being a northerner (ass) or southerner (arse).
I have consequently since been terminally undecided as to which I prefer!
I don’t get why all the young girls are wearing ‘mum’ jeans
What are mum jeans?
I don’t know what “mum jeans” are. Does that make me more or less fleeky?
What's fleeky?
When I was at university up norf, I was led to believe that was a function of being a northerner (ass) or southerner (arse).
Is that not arse-backwards?
Stacey Solomon. Generally.
But also specifically for her lack of command of good grammar. There was a trailer I heard on tv recently for a forthcoming episode, and the soundclip was "Me and my team was [doing something...]" Two simple grammatical errors in about 5 words.
Just f***ing NO
People who try to carve a saddle into the butter.
Got a really cool hot wood filler gun. Not cheap at all. About £80. Should be good right?
Well yeah, except whoever designed the blow moulded case didn't consider that you might want to put the gun away mid-stick. You can't pull the stick out as it can damage the gun internals (according to the instructions) so to fit it back in the case you have to cut the stick off. 😡
The gun won't fit in any other way.
Stuff like this is just astounding really.