The electrical extension lead in my garden is tangled. This annoys me.
Posted : 24/04/2025 1:17 pm
nickingsley and fazzini reacted
Parents of very young children allowing them onto social media.
let them be children, skipping, jumping, climbing trees, I Spy, outdoor activities.
Posted : 24/04/2025 1:33 pm
nickingsley reacted
American man refusing to take his hat off in church.
Hang on, are you whinging about someone disrespecting a religion?
"Hello, is that the Kettle? Pot here. Just calling to say you're looking a little dark"
Posted : 24/04/2025 2:06 pm
unable to see the difference?
It's about being a decent chap. go into a church and show some basic respect. you are a guest in their house.
somewhat different from a discussion on a forum
when I am in a place of worship I observe the basic niceties. stand up and sit down at the relevant times etc. I used to take patients to church in my own time even though I thought it twaddle.
Posted : 24/04/2025 2:10 pm
boriselbrus reacted
unable to see the difference?
It's about being a decent chap. go into a church and show some basic respect. you are a guest in their house.
somewhat different from a discussion on a forum
when I am in a place of worship I observe the basic niceties. stand up and sit down at the relevant times etc. I used to take patients to church in my own time even though I thought it twaddle.
It's quite possible to totally disagree with something without breaking rule #1.
Though not always obvious from this forum.
Posted : 24/04/2025 2:33 pm
Topic starter
There's roadworks on the main road through town with temporary traffic lights.
That's not what's making me disproportionally cross though. What's making me disproportionally cross is every **** and their mother using our street as a rat-run to avoid them. I've just watched a Mexican stand-off between a couple of cars coming from one direction and an 18-wheeler coming from the other. After a lot of shouting and beeping, the lorry driver blinked first and ended up blindly reversing back into traffic with the adjoining road on a T-junction.
****ing idiots, it'd have been quicker just to wait for the lights but no, far better to spend five minutes arguing in the street than reverse ten yards to where there's no parked cars.
Posted : 24/04/2025 3:23 pm
Zedsdead reacted
'Lunch & Learn' bullsh*t meetings at work. I spend all my day at work, my lunch time is mine, don't stick these BS sessions in to take time off us.
Ask them if its compulsory. If it is then you are still entitled to your break. If its not dont attend
It isn't and I didn't...in the spirit of the thread title it makes me disproportionately cross regardless
Topic starter
I haven't looked but it sounds like there's another one. I've been serenaded by ksck ksck "this vehicle is reversing" ksck ksck "this vehicle is reversing" for several minutes now.
Seriously considering moving my car a couple of streets away, there's going to be a smash sooner or later.
Posted : 24/04/2025 3:39 pm
Anyone, and I mean ANYONE who had a part (however tangentially) in developing Volkswagen 'software'.
leaked psuedocode for VW nav unit startup procedure reads as follows:
int i = random(6);
if (i = 1) set radio_station = capital_dance; volume = max
if (i = 2) set map_available = australia
if (i = 3) then halt_cpu;
Posted : 24/04/2025 4:01 pm
jamesoz reacted
leaked psuedocode for VW nav unit startup procedure reads as follows:
int i = random(6);
if (i = 1) set radio_station = capital_dance; volume = max
if (i = 2) set map_available = australia
if (i = 3) then halt_cpu
Brilliant!
Also add random loud pop on startup to damage speakers nicely.
Default failure seems to be silence punctuated by it refusing to recognise a voice command, despite showing the voice command on the screen and having performed the command last journey.
Ok I’ll use the touchscreen, actually that’s refusing to do anything useful.
The silence bit annoys me lots because the 2 litre Diesel lump sounds horrible, no matter how much the Diesel fan club say otherwise. I really don’t want to hear it.
I wish it’d just break, rather than just randomly be a bastard. Then maybe it’d get fixed. But probably not.
Posted : 24/04/2025 5:18 pm
Topic starter
People playing dress-up with animals.
****'s sake, get a child or a doll already.
Posted : 26/04/2025 2:50 am
Talking about using resin, and saying 'when it's dry'.
It's a chemical reaction. It cures, not dries.
I have to try quite hard to be cross about it admittedly. 😊
Posted : 26/04/2025 6:47 am
Freehub splines made out of cheese so that sprockets bite into them and take ages to remove.
Just add a steel insert to one spline like Novatec, Bitex and others do. It won't cost either the earth or a Strava PB
Posted : 26/04/2025 9:47 am
Murray reacted
I Couldn't submit a gas reading for several days due to BG's pile of trash that resembles a website... kept getting "error please try later" or something like that.
Eventually submitted it, and got a follow up email:
We'd love to know more about your recent experience of submitting a meter read with British Gas Energy. It would be really helpful if you can complete a quick survey about it for us.
I never fill these thigs in, but I thought "right, you're getting it with both barrels now!!!"
So I clicked on the link, only to be greeted by this frozen loading screen:
Posted : 26/04/2025 2:57 pm
Ebike****ers riding on the heather instead of the track at the Golfie.
If you dislike rocks and uneven surfaces that much maybe mountainbiking isn't for you.
****ers.
Posted : 26/04/2025 3:09 pm
MoreCashThanDash and dove1 reacted
Wives* who insist on reading out whole articles from their phones, whilst I'm trying to read a completely different thing on my own phone.
* I only have one, honest I do. More than enough for me...
Posted : 26/04/2025 4:22 pm
MoreCashThanDash and dove1 reacted
Bin day yesterday. Put the bins out, drove 200 miles to a friend's funeral, drove 200 miles back diverting round the M1 being closed. Got home to find the bins empty (yay!) but not put away so at past 11pm I have to put them away before putting the car on the drive.
Posted : 26/04/2025 9:16 pm
Topic starter
Wives* who insist on reading out whole articles from their phones, whilst I'm trying to read a completely different thing on my own phone.
Putting the TV on, then watching videos on her phone. ****'s sake woman, pick one. *twitch*
Posted : 26/04/2025 10:57 pm
Why is the default crisp flavour in your favourite multipacks, when it's sold as a pack of 6 by itself only seemingly available in Salt and Vinegar or Ready Salted in pretty much all shops?
Absolute lunacy. What kind of maniac doesn't prefer Cheese and Onion when they're going on a deep dive of an otherwise multipack flavour?
Same happens with Hula Hoops and Discos.
Make with the Cheese and Onion already!
😡
Posted : 28/04/2025 8:22 am
The postal "service". On arriving home on friday I had a final demand road tax reminder waiting for me . I have yet to receive the usual first reminder and the final demand one was posted by DVLA on 14/05/25 and only arrived at my house on the 25th. Que a rush down to the post office and sending my reply first class signed for to try and get there as soon as possible.
Posted : 28/04/2025 12:20 pm
This yesterday
I saw a tiktok or FB or something on how to clear that up and get them all re-sorted using just a couple of magnets.
Which leads to - things that make me disproportionately cross - bloody tiktok 'hacks' making outdoor light fittings out of jam jars, or a wirestripper out of an old drinks bottle and a razorblade, etc. That I know I'll never use, but still watch, going 'ooh, that might come in handy one day' only to when finally someone drops a cases full of different sized screws, I can't FTLOM remember how to do them.
Posted : 28/04/2025 1:21 pm
Pedants, nit-pickers and fault-finders. Grr.
(Oh and by the way it's "cue". "Que" is Spanish. 😉)
Posted : 28/04/2025 1:25 pm
Roadworks without adequate signage.
I got to the roundabout where the A12 meets the M25 yesterday morning (from the east) wanting to head northbound. Having passed the southbound M25 exit I could only take the exit that put me back on the A12 towards London, the rest of the roundabout had been closed off!
I then had to go a mile or so towards London before I could turn back, head under the M25 for another few miles back the way I'd come before coming back again, taking the southbound exit a few more miles to the next junction then looping back again to finally head northbound. RARGH!!!
On my 2nd approach to the roundabout I was eagle-eyed looking for information signs, there was 1 small temporary digital sign off to one side with so much writing on it you stood no chance of reading it at 70mph.
Posted : 28/04/2025 2:29 pm
A picture paints a thousand words (but possibly raises more questions)
Posted : 28/04/2025 2:33 pm
People who approach roundabouts & roadworks at 70mph 😉
Posted : 28/04/2025 2:36 pm
People who had the ideal opportunity to draw a 3 mile long cock and balls with their GPS tracker and instead drew a snake with a hideous Chernobyl like deformity
Posted : 28/04/2025 2:51 pm
People who approach roundabouts & roadworks at 70mph
Sign was a looong way from the junction/roundabout/roadworks 😀
Posted : 28/04/2025 2:59 pm
I was on Selfridges website looking at electronics as I need a new pair of headphones. Now I get targeted adverts for Selfridges but for women's clothing including underwear.
Posted : 28/04/2025 4:41 pm
I was on Selfridges website looking at electronics as I need a new pair of headphones.
Aye, right. Dirty boy.
Anyway, the ID Mobile voicemail service
You
have
one
new
message
Message
from
0
7
7
6
8
9
4
3
etc
etc
Recieved
on
Monday
28th
March
etc
etc
Just play the muddyfunking message!!!!
Posted : 29/04/2025 11:26 am
MoreCashThanDash and Cougar reacted
You can only do that if you have the V5 in your possession because you need to enter the numbers on it. This vehicle was sold last month so no V5. Postal only.Que a rush down to the post office and sending my reply first class signed for to try and get there as soon as possible.
Or you could just do it online like normal people, 😁
Posted : 29/04/2025 11:31 am
It appears that I may have pressed a 5 instead of a 4. And don't call me Shirley!was posted by DVLA on 14/05/25
rush down to the post office and sending my reply first class signed for to try and get there as soon as possible
You could've just used your time machine again, surely?
Posted : 29/04/2025 11:33 am
Oh - I have one now!
I do a lot of cooking, really enjoy it. Few times a year my in-laws come to stay, or my Mum for example. I like to make them a nice dinner.
I get disproportionally cross when I'm chopping onions or whatever, and I get a wincing "Oooooh, be careful!" from the side - this happens very often. Oh, nah, I think I'll just do this with reckless abandon shall I?
Posted : 29/04/2025 2:20 pm
Why is the default crisp flavour in your favourite multipacks, when it's sold as a pack of 6 by itself only seemingly available in Salt and Vinegar or Ready Salted in pretty much all shops?
On the crisps front...
red is ready salted
green is cheese and onion
blue is salt and vinegar
No other colour assignations are correct. I am looking at you, Walkers, the company that used to get this right but no longer does. After I opened a packet of cheese and onion and experienced extreme disappointment.
Posted : 29/04/2025 2:36 pm
Oh, nah, I think I'll just do this with reckless abandon shall I?
When visitors are present, I like to impress them by chopping onions whilst juggling both knives and onions*.
* Not actually true.
Posted : 29/04/2025 2:38 pm
Topic starter
. I am looking at you, Walkers, the company that used to get this right but no longer does.
Mandela Effect. Walkers has always been the wrong way around, there was never a change.
Posted : 29/04/2025 3:33 pm
Waking up for my nocturo-pee at any time after 3:30am because there is absolutely zero chance of getting back to sleep*. I find that 1:30am is the best time.
*Not as bad as not waking up for a nocturno-pee I suppose.
Posted : 29/04/2025 4:02 pm
My wife buying fruit because fruit 'is good for you', then having to throw most of it away because she hasn't eaten any of it.
Posted : 29/04/2025 4:09 pm
Topic starter
My wife buying fruit because fruit 'is good for you', then having to throw most of it away because she hasn't eaten any of it.
My partner does a weekly shop where she buys two weeks' worth of food. Like, whereTF do you think we're going to put all this? I'll just put these two tins of beans with the other seven we already have, shall I?
Posted : 29/04/2025 4:40 pm
Bike shed at work. 2 sheds with 30 odd spare racks with no locks. My lock, used 3-4 times a week fixed to a rack. Someone chucks my lock on the floor, leans their bike against the rack! ooh that winds me up.
What’s almost worse is the owner of that bike went into the shed when I was just about to go home, whipped his bottle out of the cage and was gone before I had a chance to ask why he did it! argh 😡
Posted : 29/04/2025 7:04 pm
My partner does a weekly shop where she buys two weeks' worth of food. Like, whereTF do you think we're going to put all this? I'll just put these two tins of beans with the other seven we already have, shall I?
Yeah – we currently have three tubs of ice cream plus about 15 Magnums in our freezer. It drives me mad.
Posted : 30/04/2025 11:00 am
WhatsApp userists that use Send like they use Enter.
Write a short line, SEND
Another line. SEND
Another comment. SEND
Just frikkin compose a single message containing all of your thoughts and send it as a whole will ya ffs! Then I don't get 73 beeps notifying me of a new sentence!
Posted : 30/04/2025 11:32 am
IHN reacted
Another one on the food front that drives me mad – my wife will buy some random thing (let's say 'sweet potato', as this is the current thing currently lurking in the fridge) then, when I ask about it, she'll say 'I fancy doing something with sweet potato'. She has no idea *what* to do with it (as I do most of the cooking), it gets left there and forgotten about, then she buys another (yes – we currently have two huge sweet potatoes in the fridge). I could use some in a Thai curry at the weekend, but with the amount we have, I could invite everyone from STW around for dinner 😂
Posted : 30/04/2025 11:53 am
Invite John Doe, he can bring ice cream for dessert.
Today's annoyance - people who weren't taught to either eat or talk. Ramming food into your cakehole then attempting to keep jabbering on is not pleasant for those around you.
Posted : 30/04/2025 3:19 pm
Invite John Doe, he can bring ice cream for dessert.
johndoh IS John Doe 😉 It's the nickname vs username thing with the quotes.
STW meetup time! Thai curry and ice cream for everyone round at John's place tonight!
Posted : 30/04/2025 3:52 pm
Just frikkin compose a single message containing all of your thoughts and send it as a whole will ya ffs! Then I don't get 73 beeps notifying me of a new sentence!
Same goes for Teams at work
In fact, I'll add people who send a Teams message that just says "Hi". You're getting ignored until you tell me what you want.
Posted : 01/05/2025 9:31 am
