Stuff that makes you disproportionately cross

When people talking about driving say things like “nearside, offside, inside lane, outside lane, undertaking, slow lane, fast lane” when they’re clearly confused and mean “left or right”. Then they go on to say the left side of the car depends on how you look at it. No, the left side off a car is always the left no matter where it is in the world or how you look at it. Just like your left and right hands never change or swap around.

Stop with the illogical terminology and just use “left or right”

I go with “first lane, second lane… n’th lane.”

have the capacity to work from home when it suits them coming in with full cold/flu/covid symptoms because they have a personal appointment later in the day which is easier to get to from work……arggggh 2 days later and I’m covered in cold….

I don’t think that’s disproportionate.  “I haven’t had a day off work in 20 years!!”  Yeah, but everyone else has because you’ve dragged your diseased germ-shedding carcass into the office to be the square root of **** all use, just so you can act superior when you should be in bed with a lemsip rub and a warm glass of horse liniment.  Twerp.

Stop with the illogical terminology and just use “left or right”

Port or starboard?

Broadband; I have a frequently dropping out router following a router os update. Zen are being no help other than saying wait for a software fix, but it’s not from them as they done make the hardware so it’s an indeterminate time. The OS can’t be rolled back, so they are following the script blaming everything and fixing nothing.

And they are the best rated provider.

Can’t stream music consistently, can’t work from home reliably, but keep paying your bills yeah.

While we are there, any replacement service wants at least a 24 month ‘contract’ where they reserve the right to increase the price of the contract within its term. @#£& it!

I’m moving to a cave and quitting this modern life.

People who are poor at communicating. I get that things may be delayed etc, but bloody well communicate that and don’t go to ground

People who are poor at communicating. I get that things may be delayed etc, but bloody well communicate that and don’t go to ground

This is “the fam.”  Her sister / son / daughter is coming to visit.  OK, cool, when?  Don’t know.  So we’re sat on our hands for three hours in the hope that someone is going to grace us with their presence at some point.  It’s just ****ing pig ignorant and I can’t be doing with it.  You can guarantee with 100% certainty that they’ll trap six nanseconds after you’ve gone “bugger it” and started doing something.

Conversely friends who expect you to drop everything at 20mins notice… wanna do X,X,Z?

No I have plans, how about tomorrow night?

“I don’t know what i’m doing tomorrow night yet, maybe, can I let you know tomorrow night?”

No, **** off!

People who u turn on a road but by turning left into a junction then immediately go full lock right to bring them to the give way lines. But do it with traffic turning into the junction so everyone has to brake because you’ve effectively swung across a road and your arse is now blocking the road.

Mrs BH has the habit of getting to the end of a bottle of milk or water or similar, leaving a thimble’s worth of liquid in it and returning the bottle to the fridge.  There is simply no use for this amount of liquid but it is seemingly OK to then complain the fridge isn’t big enough and we need to buy a bigger one.

This is “the fam.”

Tell me about it. Wedding. Didn’t get an invitation of any sort other than a phone call. No idea when it starts or what the expected end time is. We’re travelling a long way and I’d sort of like to be able to plan the journey.

Mrs BH has the habit of getting to the end of a bottle of milk or water or similar, leaving a thimble’s worth of liquid in it and returning the bottle to the fridge.

:up-pointing emoji: same here.

A conversation last week:

“If you’re going to the shop, we need Blu-Tack.”

No we don’t, I bought some yesterday.

“Have you hidden it?”

… uh.  Yes.  Yes I have.

“Why?”

Because I know full well you’ll immediately open a new packet and leave the dregs of the old one in the drawer.  It’s what you do.

“No I don’t!”

As a rough estimate right now there will be three or four near-death shampoo bottles, two deodorant bottles, countless cleaning products, half a dozen packets of pasta… I wouldn’t mind so much if they were different, like there was a coconut shampoo and a raspberry one on the go and she liked the variety, but they’re all the same.  There was two half-full cartons of milk in the fridge the other day.  Argh.

A bus service that takes bikes but not in all buses. So you have to pedal to the bus only to find “Not a bike bus mate”. So now I have to drive to work on a different site, as opposed to bus there ride back. Next bus might be a bike bus but gets in 15mins after start.

Would be less rage inducing if I didn’t already now today will be a waste of time.

– People who use the word ‘ignorant’ when they mean ‘rude’.

– This is why I could never be a waiter or chef. An acquaintance proudly showing off on Instagram the 82 quids worth of chateaubriand they had just ordered to their specification…

I would understand ignorance as being inherently rude. If it were not rude it would be unawareness instead.

I would understand ignorance as unawareness, ie ‘Ignorance is no excuse under the law’ but it has become increasingly used to mean rude.

Similarly, the word precocious. I always thought it meant obnoxious/annoying, but it turns out it means old beyond their years, or more mature than their age would suggest. Of course the two are not mutually exclusive.

Some while ago, there were several days-worth of posts here about the sensible sequence of cutlery in drawers. No firm conclusions as I recall, but at least a tacit understanding that perhaps K-F-S was one sensible option.

Holiday let owners take note; this cannot be right. Come on, spoon, spoon, spoon. WTF?

I know somebody who refers to the inside lane as being on the left, except on roundabouts when it is the inside of the circle, so the right.

proudly showing off on Instagram the 82 quids worth of chateaubriand they had just ordered to their specification…

People who like their steak cooked in the fires of mount doom!!! just why?????

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like blue steak, medium rare is where it’s at….

proudly showing off on Instagram the 82 quids worth of chateaubriand they had just ordered to their specification

I’m surprised their specification was “I’d like it cooked to resemble a £2.30 Tesco frozen beef dinner” but each to their own I guess.

An acquaintance proudly showing off on Instagram the 82 quids worth of chateaubriand they had just ordered to their specification…

Massively overcooked is not the way to have good meat. I am now disproportionately cross!

I like my steak so as a good vet could still save it. That burnt offering is indeed fit to make me disproportionately cross.

This kind of **** wittery.

I mean, I get it, you’re not a graphic designer but surely you realise what you’ve done.

Look at the original image that you sourced for the document you’ve sent me. Now look at it in your document.

It doesn’t look the same does it? No.

Yes I know it now fits neatly in the stupid space you’ve tried to cram it into. But it looks shit!

Just. Don’t. Do. It.

I’m moving to a cave and quitting this modern life.

I’m tempted by this but this forum is one thing I’d miss.

As a rough estimate right now there will be three or four near-death shampoo bottles, two deodorant bottles, countless cleaning products, half a dozen packets of pasta…

Oh, sweet mother of God, I’ll be burying these with her under the patio! Just had to pull half a dozen of bottles of fabric softener out the cupboard to find the actual Persil. Given that between a runner, a gymnast and a cyclist every single wash includes sports kit that should not be ruined with fabric softener!

Fabric softener. An entirely unnecessary contribution to chemical pollution of the environment.

I intentionally did that at a friends house recently to annoy them

I’m working in someone’s house, and I turn it around for them as a public service.  🙂

How can I be expected to work in such unforgivable conditions!

Schoolboy error. You want Fairy Platinum for quality, or supermarket own brands for cheap.

(I’ve been looking into this in some depth recently as The Small really like bubbles and I thought “I can surely do better than that.”)

The contents are irrelevant and it’s not the first time I’ve seen the bottle like that.

Someone went to the trouble of designing that, prototyping it, testing it, market research, countless development meetings etc, even put the label on the way in the orientation it’s supposed to sit.

And then, this… I feel saddened.

Fabric softener. An entirely unnecessary contribution to chemical pollution of the environment.

Which is precisely why, every time Her Indoors pours 3 capsfull (capfuls?) into the machine, I do my level best to surreptitiously spoon some of it back out into the bottle when she isn’t watching

DPD delivering to a business out of business hrs ….. just why?

This kind of **** wittery.

I am (not disproportionately cross) slightly annoyed that reeksy didn’t put that post in the ‘HOPE not hate’ thread.

The realisation while installing its replacement that I probably brought about the premature demise of the power supply in my living room PC by orienting it the right way up but the fan facing downwards when upwards airflow would be much better in that enclosure. FFS.

Plug in air “fresheners”.

Use of the word “freshness” when what they mean is a gagging stench triggering allergies whilst polluting and wasting resources. There is no more pointless triumph of bollockery or better proof that we should be doomed for allowing this cack to exist on our beautiful earth.

I’m with you @smiffy

I walked past a shop recently with a sign on the door, “Please respect our perfume free environment.”

I love the idea of someone not going in because they’re wearing some horrible stink.

Schoolboy error. You want Fairy Platinum for quality, or supermarket own brands for cheap.

(I’ve been looking into this in some depth recently as The Small really like bubbles and I thought “I can surely do better than that.”)

On this topic – people diluting washing-up liquid so what comes out of the bottle is useless runny muck no good for cleaning anything. My teeth splinter with fury every time that happens.

Is that a thing? Who does that?

And surely the solution (ho ho) is to use twice as much? It’s heavily diluted as soon as you squirt it into the sink anyway.

people diluting washing-up liquid so what comes out of the bottle is useless runny muck

plus a million for people who do that to shampoo