Nothing disproportionate about depression. It’s an utter ****
Folk that talk about Ae See when they mean AirCon.
The bags that fresh bread is wrapped in. That type with the thousands of micro-perforations.
How can they simultaneously be so difficult to yield their bounty, and yet, once opened, completely disintegrate at the slightest hint of bread egress and ingress?
Dicks 😡
The fact this morning's cereal is in a pouch with 40% less packaging than the traditional box. But the pouch isn't recyclable.
cheap plastic tat
expensive plastic tat
plastic tat that is neither cheap nor expensive
When you open a new bottle of milk and the tab snaps off leaving the heat glue seal firmly attached. Grrrrr
Or it tears just a corner off necessitating unpicking of the remainder. First World Problems.
Having to go into work.
Working with people that say "let's do something different today"
Working with people that say I'm negative when I say something won't work, then when it doesn't work they say "we all got it wrong"
Working with people that say I’m negative when I say something won’t work, then when it doesn’t work they say “we all got it wrong”
If I've learned anything in recent years, it's that the reason it didn't work is all your fault for not believing in it enough.
Ive got one, but i dont knw if its disproportionately cross, or just cross.
Why are the guys who manage audio at shows/gigs, the LAST people who should be managing the audio at shows or gigs?
Went to my daughters dance recital performance thing at the weekend, and had to leave half way through because the volume of the audio was uncomfortable.
I can tolerate listening to "let it go" yet again when i have to , but this MF seemed to have only attended the part of the training that said "if in doubt, just max all the dials".
A poppy, distorted, stressful mess. undoubtably damaging or damaged speakers. This isnt in some village hall, this is in the corn Exchange in Exeter, so a big speakser system capable of producing big sound.
These kids are 5-15 too, so not really appropriate for them to be on the recieving end of turning it up to 11 either.
I felt most sorry for the tap dancing girls, (and possibly one lad). There was no way anyone heard any actual taps. Not a chance. i doubt anyone saw any taps either cause their eyes were vibrating so hard to the mission impossible theme tune of all things.
Reminds me of a podcast i heard (and have mentioned before) about "sound", and in one episode they had an interview with a guy who did the technical work on a Metallica album. He was saying that James Hetfields basically bullied him into turning the master volume up on the recording, because "Metallica are the loudest and best band in the world", and the guy was trying to explain to him that the voulme should be in the correct place and if people want it louder they can turn their listening devices up, but Hetfield over ruled him, turned it up and the whole album is a bent distorted mess because JH is 'kin child.
Went to my daughters dance recital performance thing at the weekend, and had to leave half way through because the volume of the audio was uncomfortable.
+1
Want to chat to an old friend at a wedding? No chance because the self proclaimed DJ is playing Agadoo at 120dB. Obviously the only reason people go to family functions is to put up with this crap, not to actually see each other. That's the only reason I can see for nobody ever asking the 'DJ' to turn it down.
We had a Xmas party just before Covid where several of us had to leave because of the discomfort from the music. (Normally, loud gigs don't bother me, but this was something else.)
Went to my daughters dance recital performance thing at the weekend, and had to leave half way through because the volume of the audio was uncomfortable.
+2 I saw Ed Sheeran at the Stadium of Light and the sound was unbearable – anything other than slow ballads with just the acoustic guitar was reverberating around the stadium and horribly distorting the sound. The bass could have restarted a dead person's heart at times. Fair enough if had been Slayer in a small underground venue but come on – really not necessary.
I wouldn't have thought of this one, if it hadn't happened to me today - technology failing!
See, I had a hospital appointment and had never been to this place before, in the next city. All I had from them was basically a map of where the centre was in relation to their car park, so set Google Maps on my phone for the nearest road and set off. I soon realised the maps wasn't tracking me. So pulled over and re-centred and pulled away again. Now it's not tracking me again. Maps is showing me the place I pulled in to re-centre it! I'm, yes, I'm disproportionately cross. Oh most definitely. There's more, but it did lead to another kind of stuff that makes me cross in that way too - full car parks. Driving round a car park, seemingly endlessly, trying to find a place to stuff my shitty car, now that really really does my head in. Especially if I feel I'm late for an appointment (I wasn't).
Anything that involves being in a car kind of reduces the threshold of my breaking point, to be honest.
I saw Ed Sheeran at the Stadium of Light and the sound was unbearable
What was it like volume-wise though?
That stupid Tesco Pay+ app that, at the merest hint of being anywhere near a checkout, immediately logs you out requiring you to log back in again whilst standing at the head of a queue of six people and having to remember, and get wrong at least three times, that stupid password that you set three years ago and now have absolutely zero chance of remembering.
And breathe.....
Cheap crap hosepipes
Cheap crap hosepipe reels
Dealing with property developers.
You know they're a bunch of unscrupulous, grasping arseholes. They know it too. There is nothing you can reasonably do about it. If you complain too much they just stop even pretending they're going to fix your snags or any of the number of little things they seem to have sneaked through loopholes in the planning process just extract a few more £££
Muir Homes are top of the list right now 😡😡
Hearing my 60 year old male boss break down in tears in a Zoom call today describing his sense of anger, frustration and guilt as he announced that the support we were promised by a director last week has been pulled already.
I felt so sorry and angry for him.
The sandwich 'browsers' at the local supermarket. They stand right in front of all the sandwiches whilst they gawp and agonise over which to buy, often with a friend.
Also, in busy times at the small local Sainsbury's, the people buying one or two items who block the place up with their trollies, often parking them in front of the items you want. Use a basket!
they had an interview with a guy who did the technical work on a Metallica album.
That would be Death Magnetic. It's notorious for this, it's an unlistenable mess.
Cougar
That would be Death Magnetic. It’s notorious for this, it’s an unlistenable mess.
Yep, I literally cannot listen to that album.
I think there's some re-mastered versions out there that sound better. I should have a listen on Spotify & see if that's been improved at all over the CD I have.
I seem to remember seeing an interview with Lars Ulrich where he basically said "it sounds great, that's how we wanted it to sound & all the fans & haters are wrong....blah blah"
Bints at checkouts
Waits for checkout person to give them the total before even attempting to search for purse in bottomless bag
Searches through endless cards for the right one
Remembers that they have a points card that needs to be scanned first
Forgets pin
Searches for another card
Eventually remembers pin whilst carefully shielding their number from no-one
Puts card away - slowly
Has to pay cash for friend Maureens 20 Benson
Needs receipts for both transactions that have to be carefully folded and put in purse
Needs to top up phone credit
Needs to top up gas
Carefully puts purse back in depths of bag
Decides there's time for a chat with the cashier about the weather
Cash machines are almost as bad - I have no idea how something that takes me 30s can take someone else 5 minutes
I think there’s some re-mastered versions out there that sound better.
The tracks on Guitar Hero have been fixed.
Bints at checkouts
Waits for checkout person to give them the total before even attempting to search for purse in bottomless bag
Searches through endless cards for the right one
Remembers that they have a points card that needs to be scanned first
Forgets pin
Searches for another card
Eventually remembers pin whilst carefully shielding their number from no-one
Puts card away – slowly
Has to pay cash for friend Maureens 20 Benson
Needs receipts for both transactions that have to be carefully folded and put in purse
Needs to top up phone credit
Needs to top up gas
Carefully puts purse back in depths of bag
Decides there’s time for a chat with the cashier about the weather
Cash machines are almost as bad – I have no idea how something that takes me 30s can take someone else 5 minutes
Do you know what, in times past I would've agreed with you. Faffing was generally a female vibe. But these days it's usually men that are holding me up somewhere. Either standing behind someone at the bar who's peering into his horrible little change purse whilst ordering food for a family of ten, or groups of men standing at the trade counter yakking about nothing whilst I'm waiting behind to get served. Word's gorn mad.
Drivers who edge forwards at a red light. Drives (ha) me nuts with the pointlessness of it. Do they really think that continually creeping forwards a few inches at a time will get them there any faster, or do anything other than waste fuel?
Taxi drivers are usually the worst offenders. Creep until they're 3/4 over the line, then when it turns green they pull away slowly anyway, making the whole thing even more pointless.
Payment systems that require you to authorize payment in your banking app, but in sending you to said app, kick you out of the transaction, losing your basket and mean it's impossible to pay for the thing you are trying to buy. I'M LOOKING AT YOU NATWEST!!
Payment systems that require you to authorize payment in your banking app, but in sending you to said app, kick you out of the transaction, losing your basket and mean it’s impossible to pay for the thing you are trying to buy. I’M LOOKING AT YOU NATWEST!!
As annoying as it is having to authorise in app, I've never had this. You can keep your shopping tab open you know?
Nope, it's in-page authorisation. Or if you go away from the page to the app, it kicks you out.
Also, new debit cards with all the details on one side so you now only need an image of one side of the card to have all the info you need to spend someone else's money! The whole point oF the CVC was to have it ON THE BACK!!!!?!!
I've done it hundreds of times, I'm blaming the user 🤣
Also, just had a new card from NatWest, as they are changing from visa to MasterCard and info is all in the normal place
Not denying yours isn't at all, but yeah, seems a bit odd
The damage to the environment by motor vehicles*. It's quite annoying, but judging by the inaction of the vast majority of us, I'm disproportionately cross about it.
*disclaimer: I'm just irritated by the amount of traffic on the roads when commuting by bicycle.
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When you open a new bottle of milk and the tab snaps off leaving the heat glue seal firmly attached. Grrrrr
Or it tears just a corner off necessitating unpicking of the remainder. First World Problems.
Oh absolute mother **r.
I get that mostly on Heinz ketchup bottles. The paper/plastic bit comes off and leaves a clear film below it, perfectly intact and completely removable without tooling up.
At least once it's followed by a watery red expulsion of poorly mixed ketchup all over the kitchen and myself as I take a knife to the b*** and forget not to squeeze it whilst doing so.
The designer can rot in hell.
Rot in hell!
Flags in front of the main stage at Glastonbury. In fact flags at any festival obscuring the view of the stage. Arseholes.
When people say 'purchased' instead of 'bought'.
Same sort as those ****s who repeatedly press lift or crossing buttons.
Drivers who edge forwards at a red light. Drives (ha) me nuts with the pointlessness of it. Do they really think that continually creeping forwards a few inches at a time will get them there any faster, or do anything other than waste fuel?
Same sort as those **** who repeatedly press lift or crossing buttons.
I'll see that and raise you, the ones who have clearly seen you press it, then reach past you and press it again just in case you didn't do it right.
I’ll see that and raise you, the ones who have clearly seen you press it, then reach past you and press it again just in case you didn’t do it right.
People who park next to a fuel pump at the local Tesco Express but don't buy fuel. Instead they go in to buy cigarettes / Monster Energy / a week's worth of shopping.
Or the utter arses that use ‘pay at pump’ but go into the kiosk when other, normal pumps are free. Ballsacks.
People who park next to a fuel pump at the local Tesco Express but don’t buy fuel.
Ebay sellers asking for a five star review for putting something in the post.
When people say ‘purchased’ instead of ‘bought’.
Brought when they mean bought irks me.
Mtb Websites that say they have a sale on, but also have a really bad search function, so I am lured in by the promise of x% off the exact tyre I want, which then turns out (after 15 clicks) to only be available in the wrong size. Twunts!
Ebay sellers asking for a five star review for putting something in the post.
Add to this, review sites (Trustpilot of the marketplace sites, I'm equal opps) that pester you for a review of something the day after you received it.
eg: - some grass seed. I haven't had chance to sow it yet, let alone for it to grow. Do I review it for it's nice package and seedy look, and then go back in later when it turns out it's all non-viable and all I've now got is a muddy pigeon buffet?
Ebay sellers asking for a five star review for putting something in the post.
You say that but based on recent experiences, some people find it really hard to do just that. I have paid for a few things recently with a quoted delivery time of a few days. A week later I send a message asking if there is a tracking number as I haven't had it yet. The reply is along the lines of oh yes, its still in my car to drop off, I've been really busy...
Automated "Happy birthday" emails. What's that about? It's automated! So its not somebody wishing you happy birthday! It's completely nothing! You might as well receive "Happy Wednesday" emails for all it means. Ooh! Thank you so much automated programme for triggering a pice of code that sends me an email with some meaningless words in it! It's made my damn day! (It's not my birthday btw)
Work.
Runners with long pony tails that swoosh about from side to side as they run.
Niche, but there you go... 😂
Dimwits effing up the operation of breakfast in hotels. Ffs stop dithering and get out of my way
Partner insisting that the correct vacuum tool for vacuuming the floor of the entire house is the upholstery tool (approx 10x3cm) and then leaving this attached to the hoover hose and hiding the actual floor tool under some random piece of furniture or in a random cupboard which takes me ages to find when I try and vacuum so I may as well do the vacuuming with the upholstery tool.
Sends my blood pressure through the roof multiple times a week.
My goodness, how often do you Hoover? 🫣
At least every other day and often every day - we have a golden retriever!!
Add to this, review sites (Trustpilot of the marketplace sites, I’m equal opps) that pester you for a review of something the day after you received it.
Amen to this. Was looking at tents the other day and the reviews were mostly 5* "looks amazing haven't had the chance to use it yet bought for next summer but looks ideal"
Or scewfix where folk review paint they haven't used yet.
eg: – some grass seed. I haven’t had chance to sow it yet, let alone for it to grow. Do I review it for it’s nice package and seedy look, and then go back in later when it turns out it’s all non-viable and all I’ve now got is a muddy pigeon buffet?
I do hope you used that for a review 😀
Runners with long pony tails that swoosh about from side to side as they run.
That's probably the best thing about running 😉
Or scewfix where folk review paint they haven’t used yet.
That reminds me. Use of the word 'folk'. That makes me disproportionately cross.
*Virtually every thread in the chat forum of STW.
*My inability to remember if I have already posted something in this thread.
*So....people who use "for free".
It bloody well is "free" as in "free of charge" or "for nothing"
Flies that just constantly buzz around you while you're just trying to relax.
Get a life you fly dicks! 😡
People who hover round the milk and sugar table at conferences/meetings/church, either putting it in in the wrong order, or crossing back in front of you just when you thought it was safe to remove your teabag with the wooden lollipop thingumajig, and now you have to juggle the teabag while they turn round and start chatting, still blocking all access to the milk and the teabag bin. **** off out of my way for ****'s sake!
Breadcrumbs in the marge.
It annoys me to the extent that I now have a separate tub of marge just for me to use, but my wife keeps using that tub too and leaving crumbs in it. I'm going to have to buy a secret fridge and keep a 3rd tub in there...
Get a life you fly dicks!
this made me laugh quite a lot 😀
Am I the only person who gets pleasure from spraying them with a squirt of fly killer and hearing them do that spinny round and round buzzing on their backs? I know it's wrong, but they're only fly dicks.
empty jars/containers that once contained useful stuff like mustard or soy sauce etc put back in the cupboard so it looks like we still have some but actually we dont. Just put it in the sodding recycling! or even by the sink - then i can order more rather than me going to get some and finding its empty.. grrr.. and you can bet your arse that the lids wont be on properly either... just to wind me up more
Breadcrumbs in the marge.
See also flakes of tuna in the mayonnaise
See also flakes of tuna in the mayonnaise
I couldn't live in your household if that's how degraded your co-habitants have become. Animals!
and you can bet your arse that the lids wont be on properly either
This really grips my shit/grinds my gears/makes me ever so annoyed. It all stems back many years to when we had just got a new bottle of very thick balsamic vinegar, the missus opened it and popped it back in the cupboard with the lid half on. I went to pick it out the next day and just grabbed the lid which resulted in balsamic vinegar and shards of glass all over the floor/cupboards/my feet.
She's never going to be able to forget that, I won't let her.
very thick balsamic vinegar, the missus opened it and popped it back in the cupboard with the lid half on. I went to pick it out the next day and just grabbed the lid
Yup, except with marmite in my case... 😡
empty jars/containers that once contained useful stuff like mustard or soy sauce etc put back in the cupboard so it looks like we still have some but actually we dont.
Do you live here and I just haven't noticed? My partner will say "we need bleach," I'll go "WTF, there's like four bottles in the cupboard!" And there is, three of which contain homeopathic amounts of bleach. See also, fruity shampoo and anything else I'm not the primary consumer of.
Take bottle, empty bottle, throw away bottle, get new bottle, how is this a difficult bloody concept? I emptied like half the bathroom last week and got shouted at for throwing things down the stairs.
I used to get this at work too. I'd buy, say, a tub of butter and everyone else would just help themselves, presumably thinking "it's only a bit of butter." Which is fine until I get two rounds of toast out of a full pack before it's been emptied, and then the empty carton is stuffed back in the fridge so I don't know that it needs replacing. (So then faced with dry toast I steal someone else's and the circle of life continues.)
Was looking at tents the other day and the reviews were mostly 5* “looks amazing haven’t had the chance to use it yet bought for next summer but looks ideal”
Or scewfix where folk review paint they haven’t used yet.
Conversely, 1* reviews from morons. I was looking at a canvas print the other day, the first 1* review was because it didn't come supplied with a picture hook.
Catching your clothing on your handlebar as you walk past your bike
The use of the phrase "Over and out" in tv/film. See also that extra gear in car chases.
This next one is incredibly petty and for that I apologise and also am more than happy to be corrected because it niggles me something rotten.
Litter bins. Not the bins themselves, they're great but the word "litter" on them. If you put it in a bin it's not litter. If you intend on putting your rubbish in a bin then it's not litter. OK, if I pick something up from the floor that's been discarded then yeah, that's litter, that can go in. Anything else is rubbish/refuse, surely?
On train announcements where they say "we are now arriving into...." This just grates with me. "We are now arriving at" or "We are now approaching" (as the automated announcements have it) just sound better. I'm not enough of a grammar nazi (honest) to know whether this is correct or not but it just sounds off.
"Analogue bike"
Having to log into the forum to see latest posts.
On train announcements where they say “we are now arriving into….”
Yeah.
Flies that just constantly buzz around you while you’re just trying to relax.
Get a life you fly dicks!
Oh god I hate them with a passion. The worst is at night time when one of the bastards flies in to your face. Then buzzes about like a ****, then comes back and hovers around your face. The rage just builds when you turn the light on and can’t see the little flying dickhead.
This tree
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And the fact I can't get this ruddy photo rotated.
As the Steve Wright thread has been closed.
Steve Wright makes me insanely angry
Hollibobs
Hump day
5 more sleeps to Christmas etc etc
As the Steve Wright thread has been closed.
Steve Wright makes me insanely angry
One of the two has.
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/good-news-everyone-2/
This tree
And the fact I can’t get this ruddy photo rotated.
HTH
🤣🤣
That's made my day, that has.
Brilliant
Just got asked outside for a fight witha psychopath who was having conveyor rage due to separation anxiety from his 2 ltr bottle of squash. However, posting photos on here of a tree, with a beautiful sky made me lol
So all is good in the world.
How can anyone get mad with a tree?
I assume its the silly little stalk of extra tree poking out of the top of the actual tree, like a bit of skinny broccoli. So that's a fair shout in view of the thread title.
To those messing about with the photo... 🤣
You know squeezy condiment bottles which are obviously meant to sit on their big flat lid with the label's writing the correct way up? People placing them lid side up with the writing upside down. Thanks fool, now the ketchup is in the opposite place that it should be.
They should make the top of these bottles round.