Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

househero

Listening to other peoples moans

poundapunnet

Misty Moon wrote: »

Baby on board signs still not as annoying as babe on board, though.

I saw "Doggie on board" the other day. Aside from anything else it's really, really badly phrased.

Waking up five minutes before the alarm goes off. You're actually worse off going back to sleep but I always do on principle.

Pumpkinseeds

The Princess Bride wrote: »

Workman in my house today-is whistling to every single song on the radio.
I want to scream at him,instead,am smiling.

Note to self.
Turn off radio next time he comes over.

It could be worse, he could have a huge beer gut hanging out the front while his butt crack is on full view when he's kneeling down:eek:

JumpShivers

When someone says a passing 'hi' to you in the street or whatever, and you've no idea who it is.


It's bothering me now :mad: :pac:

Aidric

Enda Kenny's hand movements.

Czarcasm

JumpShivers wrote: »

When someone says a passing 'hi' to you in the street or whatever, and you've no idea who it is.


It's bothering me now :mad: :pac:

This always happens to me, but then I'm always doing something similar to other people too! I have a terrible memory and I'm practically blind as a bat, so one day I was standing outside the bank waiting for my wife inside when some guy came out and I greeted him thinking it was a friend of my wife's brother. We're chatting away for a good five minutes before my wife came out and I thought it was strange how she didn't recognise her brother's friend...

The guy must have walked off thinking "Who WAS that fcuking nut job?"

Terrible for names too, have to keep repeating their name to myself and then I've forgotten what they were saying! :mad:

Wotsername

Aidric wrote: »

Enda Kenny's hand movements.

EAMON GILMORE.

Mickey H

The Princess Bride wrote: »

Workman in my house today-is whistling to every single song on the radio.
I want to scream at him,instead,am smiling.

Note to self.
Turn off radio next time he comes over.

Ride him. Than at least he'll have something to be whistling about.

Chancer3001

whiskeyman wrote: »

People who drive up to a T'junction and stop too short to hit the sensor on the road for the traffic lights to turn green.
MOVE FORWARD PEOPLE!!!

There are no sensors on traffic lights like that.


You also can't flash your lights at traffic lights to make them turn green.

Pumpkinseeds

JumpShivers wrote: »

When someone says a passing 'hi' to you in the street or whatever, and you've no idea who it is.


It's bothering me now :mad: :pac:

I was looking at the notice board in the shopping centre last year while waiting for my husband. Someone doing a collection started chatting away to me using my first name. I have absolutely no idea who she was, none whatsoever. My husband came along at that point and she got distracted by someone making a donation, so I couldn't just politely say I didn't remember her, which was probably a good thing.

SamAK

bobbygrant wrote: »

Getting stuck behind a slow Learner driver when you are a hurry

I think i'd prefer to have an inexperienced driver going nice and slowly rather than have them barreling around the place....and if you're stuck behind them then utilize your superior driving skills to overtake them. I love overtaking

JumpShivers wrote: »

When someone says a passing 'hi' to you in the street or whatever, and you've no idea who it is.

Sort of annoying, and it's never a pretty member of the opposite sex. Damn shame!

Mickey H wrote: »

Ride him. Than at least he'll have something to be whistling about.

Cheesy porn script!

Mickey H

SamAK wrote: »

I think i'd prefer to have an inexperienced driver going nice and slowly rather than have them barreling around the place....and if you're stuck behind them then utilize your superior driving skills to overtake them. I love overtaking




Sort of annoying, and it's never a pretty member of the opposite sex. Damn shame!



Cheesy porn script!

If you write it, I'll direct it.

Frigga_92

A woman I work with is desperately trying to get tickets to a concert coming up in the next few weeks but it's sold out. She's giving out all the time about the price of tickets and how touts are ripping people off etc etc BUT she had no problem buying multiple sets of tickets to One Direction a few months ago and selling them for €400 a pop to parents whose kids were probably nagging the heads off them. That is karma.

gramar

People who pull out in front of you on roundabouts and then as they acceralate to get out of the way they lean forward into the steering wheel as if that will get them out of the way faster.

Czarcasm

gramar wrote: »

People who pull out in front of you on roundabouts and then as they acceralate to get out of the way they lean forward into the steering wheel as if that will get them out of the way faster.

Ohh trivial thread I love thee. Always puts me in a good mood in the morning by giving me a good laugh!

Sir Arthur Daley

gramar wrote: »

People who pull out in front of you on roundabouts and then as they acceralate to get out of the way they lean forward into the steering wheel as if that will get them out of the way faster.

That is the G force

krudler

Aidric wrote: »

Enda Kenny's hand movements.

People who talk with their hands in general, stop it! flapping around the place

Wibbs

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Or "Works at: Full Time Mom" statuses on FB

+1000. *grumpy old guy* Never mind the "mom" part. That grinds my gears too. Especially the claim that mom was in common usage in Ireland a generation ago. Eh, no it wasn't. If one of my school mates back in the 70's/80's had said "mom" instead of "mam" or "mum" he'd have been mercilessly slagged. Indeed I can even remember an example of this where a born in America girl whose family moved to Ireland when she was 12 or so, using "mom" and it being commented upon as being quaint/different*.

Actually forced nasally accents in general, but the valley girl whine in particular grinds my gears. *pulls back the slide on the AK and chambers a round...*

Ladies referring to their boyfriend as "the boy".

Bootcut jeans

*/grumpy old guy*




*the explanation that it comes from the Irish seems bogus to me too. A chap I know, born and bred in Donegal who only learned English when he attended primary school doesn't say "mom", but "mam" only the ahh part is longer than say the Dublin version. It's not the American "mom" by any stretch.

OldNotWIse

People who get on buses really near to where they terminate. Walk ye fat fuuckers! For example, getting on a bus on Dame Street even though it terminates on Eden Quay or something...ridiculous. If I only had that far to go, I'd walk. And in fact I walk further most mornings...unless I'm late...and then these useless lazy a*ses make me even more late. There should be some kind of alight only rule 3 stops before last.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

wtf's wrong with bootcut jeans

OldNotWIse

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

wtf's wrong with bootcut jeans

They're wide at the bottom.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

OldNotWIse wrote: »

They're wide at the bottom.

so am I, it's poetry

eisenberg1

Aaaaaaaaaaahlianz Insurance

OldNotWIse

Wibbs wrote: »

+1000.

In fact, those who do the "full time mom" status thing usually dont stop at that. Their fb becomes a shrine to their progeny. I've a relative who used to be a really interesting person until her other half shot his beans up her. Now when I go onto FB I'm bombarded not only with full time mom status updates but also dreary posts about baby sign language (the fuuck? where's the incentive to learn to speak if they can sign? Has anyone thought of that? The child will be sitting in school, oter kids yapping around it, frantically flapping its hands and doing interpretive dance or something ), baby yoga (ten cute, fat babies lying on a multicoloured mat...being babies :rolleyes:), incessant links to militant breast feeding forums/articles/jokes (I think there was even a photo once of two bottles (one from each boob, to be clear) of a woman who had a toddler and a newborn and lo and behold one expressed milk and the other expressed colostrum - my day has been saved!). We were subjected to this even before the poor child was born - "bump" was a regular feature on this profile. Talk about living vicariously through social media. :mad:

Wibbs

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

so am I, it's poetry

:pac:

yeppydeppy

I had a nice Nina Simone song in my head for today and then I got a call and someone asked me to book a Tori Amos ticket - now it's all Corkflake Girl!

Czarcasm

Wibbs wrote: »

Ladies referring to their boyfriend as "the boy".

Bootcut jeans

*/grumpy old guy*

I missed that the first time!

I was probably concentrating on the grown women that refer to grown men as boys bit, and thinking "Yeah, I'm becoming that old guy and all"...

Especially when I'm just after having a most uncomfortable conversation with a girl who's nearly half my age telling me about her boyfriend who wears "chinos and pumps"...

I could feel myself squirming and drawing back in my chair thinking "Ohh god, NOOOO!! Well, I suppose that takes bigger balls than I have!"... :pac:

Then I remembered when I was his age, I was wearing beige flares with a beige muscle top thinking I was the business... and nearly sunk to the floor with embarrassment!

SamAK

Mickey H wrote: »

If you write it, I'll direct it.

Hang on, let's have them in the back of the car shagging while some young-un is in front doing their test or something? Then they can all join in when they get home afterwards and then the plumber turns up and oh-my-god it's gonna get MESSY!

All a pipe dream for now but i'll work on it and get back to you!

Fancy a cameo as well? A la Tarantino?;)

jimgoose

OldNotWIse wrote: »

...baby yoga (ten cute, fat babies lying on a multicoloured mat...being babies :rolleyes:)...

"Baby yoga" is right, the big dirty-looking óinseach! :pac::pac::pac:

Mind you, I have to hand it to whoever came up with it - talk about money for jam.

eisenberg1

On the subject of woman/babies. When my OH was preggers on first child, I could not get over how some women, who had already birthed (see what I did there) would relish in telling horror stories of deliveries.

"Oh I was in labour for seven days, agony"
"Oh the doctor had to slice me in half, cos the child was twenty five pounds with a head the size of a VW Polo"
"Oh I had to have a team of doctors cos I was special"
" I had to have four epidurals and three containers of gas"
"Oh, you wont be letting him near you in a hurry again, it's never worth it"