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Sorry. Those last two fail the 'disproportionately' test for me. Incandescent rage is justified with them both.


 
Posted : 04/09/2023 8:04 pm
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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


 
Posted : 04/09/2023 9:49 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 05/09/2023 1:15 pm
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Jeremey Clarkson didn't approve of stop start when it came out, therefore the gammons will feel justified.


 
Posted : 05/09/2023 1:34 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 05/09/2023 2:29 pm
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^This is why Fishing and mountain biking pubs were invented!

To be fair you should have known better than to go shopping with 3 females! You only have yourself to blame.


 
Posted : 05/09/2023 3:13 pm
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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..


 
Posted : 05/09/2023 3:48 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 05/09/2023 4:00 pm
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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!

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Posted : 05/09/2023 4:00 pm
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@asbrooks

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.


 
Posted : 05/09/2023 4:01 pm
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Baked Alaska that has been made with blowtorched Swiss meringue. Motherf***ers.


 
Posted : 05/09/2023 9:47 pm
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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


 
Posted : 05/09/2023 10:04 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 05/09/2023 10:22 pm
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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!


 
Posted : 05/09/2023 10:43 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 05/09/2023 11:39 pm
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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!


 
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Posted : 06/09/2023 11:35 am
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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! 😡


 
Posted : 06/09/2023 11:44 am
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People wearing masks.

People wearing masks outside.

People wearing masks in their cars on their own.

Nothing more than virtue signalling.

I suspect a fair percentage of the folk believe that the mask is protecting them.


 
Posted : 06/09/2023 11:44 am
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@kayak23 what have you got against Simon Calder?


 
Posted : 06/09/2023 11:47 am
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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.


 
Posted : 06/09/2023 11:49 am
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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.


 
Posted : 06/09/2023 12:01 pm
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Crossness level - High: Lip fillers.

Crossness level - High: Vaping.

Crossness level - Off the fricking scale: People with lip fillers suckling on their vapes.


 
Posted : 06/09/2023 12:11 pm
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@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. 😊👍


 
Posted : 06/09/2023 12:23 pm
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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. 🤷‍♂️


 
Posted : 06/09/2023 12:31 pm
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Simon Calder - Gammon enabler.


 
Posted : 06/09/2023 12:32 pm
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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


 
Posted : 06/09/2023 1:49 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 06/09/2023 4:13 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 06/09/2023 4:23 pm
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@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.


 
Posted : 06/09/2023 4:50 pm
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"Why have you taken the filter out?"

"Stuff keeps getting caught in it."

"...
What do you suppose it's for?"


 
Posted : 06/09/2023 8:57 pm
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Dog treats that are impossible to cut into two.


 
Posted : 06/09/2023 9:02 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 06/09/2023 9:08 pm
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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 *.


 
Posted : 06/09/2023 9:10 pm
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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


 
Posted : 06/09/2023 10:52 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 07/09/2023 12:26 am
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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


 
Posted : 07/09/2023 9:21 am
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^^ Completely unsuitable to hold a shotgun licence.


 
Posted : 07/09/2023 9:27 am
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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...


 
Posted : 07/09/2023 9:51 am
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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! 🙂


 
Posted : 07/09/2023 11:14 am
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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.


 
Posted : 07/09/2023 11:22 am
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People who let other people out on the road.

Oh, this is a good one.


 
Posted : 07/09/2023 11:23 am
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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.


 
Posted : 07/09/2023 12:25 pm
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When I forget a conversation, "you never listen."

When she forgets a conversation, "you didn't tell me that."


 
Posted : 07/09/2023 12:29 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 07/09/2023 12:33 pm
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