Lifes Annoyances, what gets your back up
10 January 2009, 11:48 AM
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What gets my back up is simple: Lack of Consideration.
It encompasses a hell of a lot of what is mentioned above: acknowledging manners (when someone doesn't acknowledge me holding open the door I tend to say (loudly) "Oh DON'T mention it! Like you just DIDN'T!")
Driving considerately - i.e. NOT in the flaming middle lane.
Keeping to the side when in the aisles.
A new one: people who put their flaming trolley broadside across the aisle when they are looking at the shelves. If they've got their hand off I sometimes nick the trolley. It's a great laugh when they turn around and can't find it
I had one woman complain when I moved her trolley to the side and as I walked away I heard her say "if one more person does that..." So I went back and 'explained' that if she was more considerate to other people no one would have to!
Dozy tart.
It encompasses a hell of a lot of what is mentioned above: acknowledging manners (when someone doesn't acknowledge me holding open the door I tend to say (loudly) "Oh DON'T mention it! Like you just DIDN'T!")
Driving considerately - i.e. NOT in the flaming middle lane.
Keeping to the side when in the aisles.
A new one: people who put their flaming trolley broadside across the aisle when they are looking at the shelves. If they've got their hand off I sometimes nick the trolley. It's a great laugh when they turn around and can't find it
I had one woman complain when I moved her trolley to the side and as I walked away I heard her say "if one more person does that..." So I went back and 'explained' that if she was more considerate to other people no one would have to!Dozy tart.
10 January 2009, 11:58 AM
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the same people that say "i'm not racialist"
oh and so does burberry
and the idiot in front of you in the queue at the bank/post office/dartford toll
who always needs to pay with a checkbook
10 January 2009, 12:23 PM
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What gets my back up is simple: Lack of Consideration.
It encompasses a hell of a lot of what is mentioned above: acknowledging manners (when someone doesn't acknowledge me holding open the door I tend to say (loudly) "Oh DON'T mention it! Like you just DIDN'T!")
Driving considerately - i.e. NOT in the flaming middle lane.
Keeping to the side when in the aisles.
A new one: people who put their flaming trolley broadside across the aisle when they are looking at the shelves. If they've got their hand off I sometimes nick the trolley. It's a great laugh when they turn around and can't find it I had one woman complain when I moved her trolley to the side and as I walked away I heard her say "if one more person does that..." So I went back and 'explained' that if she was more considerate to other people no one would have to!
Dozy tart.
It encompasses a hell of a lot of what is mentioned above: acknowledging manners (when someone doesn't acknowledge me holding open the door I tend to say (loudly) "Oh DON'T mention it! Like you just DIDN'T!")
Driving considerately - i.e. NOT in the flaming middle lane.
Keeping to the side when in the aisles.
A new one: people who put their flaming trolley broadside across the aisle when they are looking at the shelves. If they've got their hand off I sometimes nick the trolley. It's a great laugh when they turn around and can't find it
I had one woman complain when I moved her trolley to the side and as I walked away I heard her say "if one more person does that..." So I went back and 'explained' that if she was more considerate to other people no one would have to!Dozy tart.
10 January 2009, 12:31 PM
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Traditional tin openers.
I like them. I don't like the ones that chop the top off the tin. But,when the traditional ones let me down by going duff, they really annoy me
I love my cats. But they do annoy me for as soon as they see me, they start meawing for food
My Feng Shui water fall has been annoying me too. The water pump is making an awful lot of rakkit these days. Instead of getting any relaxation, I get anxious with the horrible sounds.
And yes, I have used solution focused approach for both the things. Tin opener is in the orbit somewhere, Feng Shui thingy has been switched off. Oh, the cats are neither in the orbit, not are they switched off. I will just have to re-condition them somehow
I am ok now. Like this >
I like them. I don't like the ones that chop the top off the tin. But,when the traditional ones let me down by going duff, they really annoy me
I love my cats. But they do annoy me for as soon as they see me, they start meawing for food
My Feng Shui water fall has been annoying me too. The water pump is making an awful lot of rakkit these days. Instead of getting any relaxation, I get anxious with the horrible sounds.
And yes, I have used solution focused approach for both the things. Tin opener is in the orbit somewhere, Feng Shui thingy has been switched off. Oh, the cats are neither in the orbit, not are they switched off. I will just have to re-condition them somehow
I am ok now. Like this >
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10 January 2009, 12:35 PM
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Traditional tin openers.
I like them. I don't like the ones that chop the top off the tin. But,when the traditional ones let me down by going duff, they really annoy me
I love my cats. But they do annoy me for as soon as they see me, they start meawing for food
My Feng Shui water fall has been annoying me too. The water pump is making an awful lot of rakkit these days. Instead of getting any relaxation, I get anxious with the horrible sounds.
And yes, I have used solution focused approach for both the things. Tin opener is in the orbit somewhere, Feng Shui thingy has been switched off. Oh, the cats are neither in the orbit, not are they switched off. I will just have to re-condition them somehow
I am ok now. Like this >
I like them. I don't like the ones that chop the top off the tin. But,when the traditional ones let me down by going duff, they really annoy me
I love my cats. But they do annoy me for as soon as they see me, they start meawing for food
My Feng Shui water fall has been annoying me too. The water pump is making an awful lot of rakkit these days. Instead of getting any relaxation, I get anxious with the horrible sounds.
And yes, I have used solution focused approach for both the things. Tin opener is in the orbit somewhere, Feng Shui thingy has been switched off. Oh, the cats are neither in the orbit, not are they switched off. I will just have to re-condition them somehow
I am ok now. Like this >
Yin and yang balanced and order restored.
10 January 2009, 12:45 PM
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lol a guy at my work does this all the time. then the day i didnt say it he said morning to me so i walked up to him and tipped his cup of tea over his desk and walked off
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10 January 2009, 05:51 PM
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Interesting theres so many about driving and supermerkets. My personal supermarket one is when your following somone towards the exit, then when they get in the doorway, they stop!... Like they dont realise there are other people there waiting to go in or out
10 January 2009, 07:03 PM
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a) People that you let out of a side road junction who don't acknowledge you with a wave, smile or thank you.
b) Pedestrians who suddenly dart into the road realise they've timed their crossing wrong (as your approaching in your car) yet make no effort to hurry their **** and instead dawdle across while pretending they haven't seen you.
c) All Indian call centres that phone you at home on behalf of your bank or credit card company.
d) People that stop to chat with friends in the middle of a supermarket lane.
e) People that type alphabetic lists.
b) Pedestrians who suddenly dart into the road realise they've timed their crossing wrong (as your approaching in your car) yet make no effort to hurry their **** and instead dawdle across while pretending they haven't seen you.
c) All Indian call centres that phone you at home on behalf of your bank or credit card company.
d) People that stop to chat with friends in the middle of a supermarket lane.
e) People that type alphabetic lists.
10 January 2009, 07:19 PM
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Me, too.
More so, because they start calling me Aunty Ji, Bhabhi Ji etc. on phone
: But when I ask them to wave my credit card and banking charges, they suddenly flip over and say: "No maddam, Vee have to have da payment, so sorry." Barstwards! Anyway, my approach is to start ordering Indian takeaway on phone, as soon as I hear an Indian voice from the other end. "Two pakoras" No, madam....." Three Poppodums" Excuse......" 4 chicken baltis" I am actually speaking from....." One lemon pickle".......... and so on; until they hang up. Suresh taught me this trick
You see, if they are gonna charge me anyway, what have I got to lose? <shrugs> As a result, their calls to me have become very minimal.
10 January 2009, 07:52 PM
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People who say, BALL ?...... never heard of them.
People who say, How much? mine was £4.99 and does the same job.
Waking up 15 mins early to de-frost my truck, and there is no ice.
Not waking up 15 early, and there is ice.
Waking up and finding a packet of 'MilkyStars' in the fish tank.
Every time there are not 31 days in the month.
People who say, How much? mine was £4.99 and does the same job.
Waking up 15 mins early to de-frost my truck, and there is no ice.
Not waking up 15 early, and there is ice.
Waking up and finding a packet of 'MilkyStars' in the fish tank.
Every time there are not 31 days in the month.
10 January 2009, 10:41 PM
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People who wear the "You laugh at me `cos I`m different, I laugh at you `cos you`re all the same" T-shirt........you know the type, face piercings (along with millions of others), fat (along with millions of others), tattoos (along with millions of others).
**** fromage`s the lot of `em!
**** fromage`s the lot of `em!
10 January 2009, 10:53 PM
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People who wear the "You laugh at me `cos I`m different, I laugh at you `cos you`re all the same" T-shirt........you know the type, face piercings (along with millions of others), fat (along with millions of others), tattoos (along with millions of others).
**** fromage`s the lot of `em!
**** fromage`s the lot of `em!
10 January 2009, 11:48 PM
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people who allow their offspring to run riot in shops and restaurants
people who stop to chat on pavements and block the way
i can't stand it when someone talks over the top of someone else
leaving the milk out of the fridge, so when you want cold milk for your coco pops it's bleddy warm
when you step into a shop, and before you can even look at anything an assistant pulls their head out of their **** and says 'can i help you..'
people who stop to chat on pavements and block the way
i can't stand it when someone talks over the top of someone else
leaving the milk out of the fridge, so when you want cold milk for your coco pops it's bleddy warm
when you step into a shop, and before you can even look at anything an assistant pulls their head out of their **** and says 'can i help you..'
10 January 2009, 11:51 PM
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11 January 2009, 01:42 PM
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I totally agree with most already stated - including inconsiderate folk and bad drivers .
BMW drivers
- why are most of them ignorant/arrogant to$$ers who think they own the roads .
Skiving, chav dossers who do nothing but ream the state for money and handouts. The state for letting them get away with it.
Children in restaurants creating havoc and their parents doing nothing about it.
People who let you down - promise this and that, then deliver nothing.
.BMW drivers
- why are most of them ignorant/arrogant to$$ers who think they own the roads .Skiving, chav dossers who do nothing but ream the state for money and handouts. The state for letting them get away with it
.Children in restaurants creating havoc and their parents doing nothing about it.
People who let you down - promise this and that, then deliver nothing.
11 January 2009, 02:19 PM
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Oh good thread
Most drivers in the UK - no road sense, lane discipline or concept of the law and way too agressive. Especially those ones who take it upon themselves to police your speed and not move out of the outside lane of a motorway when there is nothing on either lane next to them. Have driven in numerous other countries and can honestly say there is nowhere as bad to drive as the UK.
The media - the way they sensationalise everything, make up stories to suit their own agenda and pay a tiny fine if they get caiught out and most of all how they wallow in doom and gloom while rarely mentioning any good news. E.g. The tsunami a few years back - you could almost see them wishing the death toll to keep rising or the recession - they can't wait to make it worse and scare people half to death
Many TV/radio 'personalities' - including Julian Clary, Jamie Oliver, Terry Wogan, Steve Wright, Chris Evans, that fat ugly bird form Birds of a Feather - the planet would be better off without them.
Football and the moronic playground style arguing that goes on around it (just read some of the Sport forum here to see what I mean)
Forum posters who bend every thread to suit their narrow minded one track agenda!!!
Air travel or rather the queuing that seems to accompany it at every turn.
Halfords - a store more deserving to go bust I do not know of.
People who actually think that either of the main parties should be voted in at the next election
Unruly kids and the 'parents' who these days seem to expect everyone but them to do the parenting (i.e. most parents) e.g let's ban the Internet because I let my child of 8 years old on it unsupervised and they found a chat room or some ****. Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh I could go on and on.
And calm
Most drivers in the UK - no road sense, lane discipline or concept of the law and way too agressive. Especially those ones who take it upon themselves to police your speed and not move out of the outside lane of a motorway when there is nothing on either lane next to them. Have driven in numerous other countries and can honestly say there is nowhere as bad to drive as the UK.
The media - the way they sensationalise everything, make up stories to suit their own agenda and pay a tiny fine if they get caiught out and most of all how they wallow in doom and gloom while rarely mentioning any good news. E.g. The tsunami a few years back - you could almost see them wishing the death toll to keep rising or the recession - they can't wait to make it worse and scare people half to death
Many TV/radio 'personalities' - including Julian Clary, Jamie Oliver, Terry Wogan, Steve Wright, Chris Evans, that fat ugly bird form Birds of a Feather - the planet would be better off without them.
Football and the moronic playground style arguing that goes on around it (just read some of the Sport forum here to see what I mean)
Forum posters who bend every thread to suit their narrow minded one track agenda!!!
Air travel or rather the queuing that seems to accompany it at every turn.
Halfords - a store more deserving to go bust I do not know of.
People who actually think that either of the main parties should be voted in at the next election
Unruly kids and the 'parents' who these days seem to expect everyone but them to do the parenting (i.e. most parents) e.g let's ban the Internet because I let my child of 8 years old on it unsupervised and they found a chat room or some ****. Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh I could go on and on.
And calm
11 January 2009, 02:49 PM
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*The lack of manners these days generally
*Young people with no respect (god I sound like my dad)
*People walking around town/supermarket with no idea of what is going on around them so walk slowly or drag their trolley so it hits everything and everyone.
TBH....Everything and everyone
*Young people with no respect (god I sound like my dad)
*People walking around town/supermarket with no idea of what is going on around them so walk slowly or drag their trolley so it hits everything and everyone.
TBH....Everything and everyone
11 January 2009, 02:56 PM
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The Budgie/Parrot thingy in my house,the little Barstard won't shut the **** up,really annoying when trying to watch a tv programme,and all ya can hear is blaa blaa blaa blaa.I still don't know who the hell bought it.
Cable tv,why is it now you got like 3 or 4 stations of the same channel,for example living tv,living tv+ living tv 1,living tv 2,or is that uk tv gold,or it could be Dave,there is so many It's all the same sodding programmes repeated on each channel.There is not enough extreme sports channels either,that actually show extreme sports.And some other things,oh and being quoted £260.00 for an oxygen sensor the other day,i nearly fell flat on my ***.I bought a Bosch one for £50.00 and fitted it myself this morning,jobs a good un.Amen and peace out.
Cable tv,why is it now you got like 3 or 4 stations of the same channel,for example living tv,living tv+ living tv 1,living tv 2,or is that uk tv gold,or it could be Dave,there is so many It's all the same sodding programmes repeated on each channel.There is not enough extreme sports channels either,that actually show extreme sports.And some other things,oh and being quoted £260.00 for an oxygen sensor the other day,i nearly fell flat on my ***.I bought a Bosch one for £50.00 and fitted it myself this morning,jobs a good un.Amen and peace out.
11 January 2009, 03:53 PM
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More from the shops. Stupid people that wait for the cashier to tell them the total before they even think about getting their payment out, then route around for ages in the biggest bag ever. People who are so naffing slow at packing that they stand there for ages after the cashier is done looking pious whilst the cashier has to wait for them to get ready to pay. I usually end up offering to pack for them(get some real funny looks, but never a thankyou).