Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

LynnGrace

Arsehole driver who did a very dangerous overtaking manoeuvre to get into the lane I was in, he had already come around a roundabout in the wrong lane. I did enjoy the fact that his car bears the marks of his sh1te driving though, huge scrapes along the side, (not caused by me)!

eisenberg1

"Mind those, be careful, sometimes they can be very hot"

"Yeah, ok ok, OUCH, jaysus, they are hot, aren't they.

OldNotWIse

When the microwave heats the bowl but not the contents.

When a cracker breaks when you try to spread something on it.

When bread tears when you try to spread butter on it.

nemesisdg

Oh so your constantly going to check on your exceptionally bright smart phone the whole way through the movie? Even at the really important parts? Oh great, thanks.

Mumble mumble mumble.

Boom_Bap

LynnGrace wrote: »

Arsehole driver who did a very dangerous overtaking manoeuvre to get into the lane I was in, he had already come around a roundabout in the wrong lane. I did enjoy the fact that his car bears the marks of his sh1te driving though, huge scrapes along the side, (not caused by me)!

I was driving side by side with someone who started to drift over to my lane.
Rather than get all beepy beepy ragey ragey, I took note that the side of the Yaris encoaching on me looked like a stock car, so I just slowed down and let the Yaris driver continue to drift into my lane, then correct, they drift in again, rinse, repeat.
The rest of the car apart from the passanger side looked brand new.

OldNotWIse

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I was driving side by side with someone who started to drift over to my lane.
Rather than get all beepy beepy ragey ragey, I took note that the side of the Yaris encoaching on me looked like a stock car, so I just slowed down and let the Yaris driver continue to drift into my lane, then correct, they drift in again, rinse, repeat.
The rest of the car apart from the passanger side looked brand new.

Frightening amount of sloppiness on our roads

LynnGrace

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I was driving side by side with someone who started to drift over to my lane.
Rather than get all beepy beepy ragey ragey, I took note that the side of the Yaris encoaching on me looked like a stock car, so I just slowed down and let the Yaris driver continue to drift into my lane, then correct, they drift in again, rinse, repeat.
The rest of the car apart from the passanger side looked brand new.

Yeah, I just let this guy off. He was gesturing from the window, looking for a response so no way would I be bothered.

Boom_Bap

nemesisdg wrote: »

Oh so your constantly going to check on your exceptionally bright smart phone the whole way through the movie? Even at the really important parts? Oh great, thanks.

Mumble mumble mumble.

I went to the movies with a group of friends one time. My friend sitting beside me leans in as the movie is about to start and says to me; 'see that Emergency Exit' sign just to the bottom right of the screen, it's very bright isn't it?'

This is what I seen the entire duration of the film

Pumpkinseeds

Nosy neighbours. I've spent the day painting outdoors and I ache everywhere. The amount of curtain twitching was unreal. Is it really that odd to see a woman doing some diy? There's a very 'special' neighbour who is a total pervert, he sat in his garden watching me, I could feel his beady little eyes.

It's not as if I was wearing hot pants and a bra to paint. The old biddy next door was making comments to someone about how I should leave it for my husband to do:rolleyes:

Boom_Bap

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Nosy neighbours. I've spent the day painting outdoors and I ache everywhere. The amount of curtain twitching was unreal. Is it really that odd to see a woman doing some diy? There's a very 'special' neighbour who is a total pervert, he sat in his garden watching me, I could feel his beady little eyes.

It's not as if I was wearing hot pants and a bra to paint. The old biddy next door was making comments to someone about how I should leave it for my husband to do:rolleyes:

Did he have a blanket accross his lap that kept rising and falling? And one hand (maybe 2) under the blanket?

My most recent annoyance, I grabbed a glass of water from the water cooler, chugged it back and then nearly had a heart attack. The water must have been 99.5 degrees celsius.

As an opposite to that, I used to have a customer in Nairobi that I would visit from time to time, the water coolers in thier office dispenced near boiling water. I never got as far as the chugging phase thankfully.

dub_skav

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Did he have a blanket accross his lap that kept rising and falling? And one hand (maybe 2) under the blanket?

My most recent annoyance, I grabbed a glass of water from the water cooler, chugged it back and then nearly had a heart attack. The water must have been 99.5 degrees celsius.

As an opposite to that, I used to have a customer in Nairobi that I would visit from time to time, the water coolers in thier office dispenced near boiling water. I never got as far as the chugging phase thankfully.

Is this a subtle joke I'm missing?

Boom_Bap

dub_skav wrote: »

Is this a subtle joke I'm missing?

Nope, it's the reason I am not a scientist. I should have said the water at the cooler today was 0.5 celcius, just above freezing.

Pumpkinseeds

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Did he have a blanket accross his lap that kept rising and falling? And one hand (maybe 2) under the blanket?

My most recent annoyance, I grabbed a glass of water from the water cooler, chugged it back and then nearly had a heart attack. The water must have been 99.5 degrees celsius.

As an opposite to that, I used to have a customer in Nairobi that I would visit from time to time, the water coolers in thier office dispenced near boiling water. I never got as far as the chugging phase thankfully.

I wasn't taking too much notice, I didn't want to encourage him:D

Pumpkinseeds

Todays other trivial annoyance is the cost of paint. We're painting the kitchen at the weekend and need 5 litres of the paint we like and it only comes in 2.5 litre tins at 38 euro a tin, maybe it's just me but I think that's extortionate.

mickydoomsux

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Nosy neighbours.

Irish people are nosy as ****.

I'm relatively new to the small village i live in now (5 years) and people still hawk me out of it when i'm outside my house for any reason. A little convenience store opened a couple of doors down at the being of the year and that has only made things worse. You'll see people pulling into or out of the parking spaces in front of it not even looking where they are driving because they are too busy staring up in my face.

Some auld lad straight up asked me who i was when i was coming out of my front door one morning to get in my car to go to work. I told him that wasn't anything he should worry himself about.

I also hate the Irish thing of "Do you know Mrs. Such and Such from <insert place you live>?". No, no i don't. Why would i want to? Irish people seem to have a bizarre desire to know exactly who everyone is, where they are from and who they are related/married to. What good will this information do them?

eisenberg1

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I wasn't taking too much notice, I didn't want to encourage him:D

Probably just cleaning his sunglasses under the blanket:eek:

mickydoomsux

mickydoomsux wrote: »

Irish people are nosy as ****.

I'm relatively new to the small village i live in now (5 years) and people still hawk me out of it when i'm outside my house for any reason. A little convenience store opened a couple of doors down at the being of the year and that has only made things worse. You'll see people pulling into or out of the parking spaces in front of it not even looking where they are driving because they are too busy staring up in my face.

Some auld lad straight up asked me who i was when i was coming out of my front door one morning to get in my car to go to work. I told him that wasn't anything he should worry himself about.

I also hate the Irish thing of "Do you know Mrs. Such and Such from <insert place you live>?". No, no i don't. Why would i want to? Irish people seem to have a bizarre desire to know exactly who everyone is, where they are from and who they are related/married to. What good will this information do them?

I actually kind of love this about ' the Irish'

Pumpkinseeds

mickydoomsux wrote: »

Irish people are nosy as ****.

I'm relatively new to the small village i live in now (5 years) and people still hawk me out of it when i'm outside my house for any reason. A little convenience store opened a couple of doors down at the being of the year and that has only made things worse. You'll see people pulling into or out of the parking spaces in front of it not even looking where they are driving because they are too busy staring up in my face.

Some auld lad straight up asked me who i was when i was coming out of my front door one morning to get in my car to go to work. I told him that wasn't anything he should worry himself about.

I also hate the Irish thing of "Do you know Mrs. Such and Such from <insert place you live>?". No, no i don't. Why would i want to? Irish people seem to have a bizarre desire to know exactly who everyone is, where they are from and who they are related/married to. What good will this information do them?

I know, my husband is English and still finds a lot of it very strange, even after living here for the past 7 years. He found it really odd when people would say hello when we were out walking and didn't get why complete strangers would greet you in the street. It's a habit I grew out of living in England.

Mal-Adjusted

mickydoomsux wrote: »

Irish people are nosy as ****.

I'm relatively new to the small village i live in now (5 years) and people still hawk me out of it when i'm outside my house for any reason. A little convenience store opened a couple of doors down at the being of the year and that has only made things worse. You'll see people pulling into or out of the parking spaces in front of it not even looking where they are driving because they are too busy staring up in my face.

Some auld lad straight up asked me who i was when i was coming out of my front door one morning to get in my car to go to work. I told him that wasn't anything he should worry himself about.

I also hate the Irish thing of "Do you know Mrs. Such and Such from <insert place you live>?". No, no i don't. Why would i want to? Irish people seem to have a bizarre desire to know exactly who everyone is, where they are from and who they are related/married to. What good will this information do them?

Do you not read the monthly death penalty threads? They're probably just trying to make sure you're not a child molester.

jimgoose

mickydoomsux wrote: »

Irish people are nosy as ****.

I'm relatively new to the small village i live in now (5 years) and people still hawk me out of it when i'm outside my house for any reason. A little convenience store opened a couple of doors down at the being of the year and that has only made things worse. You'll see people pulling into or out of the parking spaces in front of it not even looking where they are driving because they are too busy staring up in my face.

Some auld lad straight up asked me who i was when i was coming out of my front door one morning to get in my car to go to work. I told him that wasn't anything he should worry himself about.

I also hate the Irish thing of "Do you know Mrs. Such and Such from <insert place you live>?". No, no i don't. Why would i want to? Irish people seem to have a bizarre desire to know exactly who everyone is, where they are from and who they are related/married to. What good will this information do them?

Oh this is just the getting-to-know-you phase. Wait until they decide they like you and accept you. You'll find the parish priest going through your bins, people will have barbecues at random on your front lawn, and the local "Tom" character ("'Twas my own money, Fader - I couldn't be bothered fillin' out de forums!!") turning up in your master bedroom, making sure you're nice and safe.

OldNotWIse

mickydoomsux wrote: »

Irish people are nosy as ****.

I'm relatively new to the small village i live in now (5 years) and people still hawk me out of it when i'm outside my house for any reason. A little convenience store opened a couple of doors down at the being of the year and that has only made things worse. You'll see people pulling into or out of the parking spaces in front of it not even looking where they are driving because they are too busy staring up in my face.

Some auld lad straight up asked me who i was when i was coming out of my front door one morning to get in my car to go to work. I told him that wasn't anything he should worry himself about.

I also hate the Irish thing of "Do you know Mrs. Such and Such from <insert place you live>?". No, no i don't. Why would i want to? Irish people seem to have a bizarre desire to know exactly who everyone is, where they are from and who they are related/married to. What good will this information do them?

Yes. My parents live in a place with a population you could count on one hand (well, maybe more!) and they are considered blow ins. Even if they live there until they die, they will be outsiders. It would take at least another generation to be normal. Weird.

First time I drove the OH to their house, she commented that I must know everyone there because we all waved at each other driving past, but actually I didnt know a lot of them, its just a thing that's done there!

Boom_Bap

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Todays other trivial annoyance is the cost of paint. We're painting the kitchen at the weekend and need 5 litres of the paint we like and it only comes in 2.5 litre tins at 38 euro a tin, maybe it's just me but I think that's extortionate.

Ah, paint prices, my old nemisis.
I've learned that you just need to wait for a bank holiday to get decent prices and offers.
One of the larger hardware places, lets just say the have a B, Q and an & in their name had a 2 2.5ls of paint for €35 the last bank holiday.
And the other larger competitor with a base and home it thier name had 3 for the price of 2 the same weekend.

jimgoose

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Yes. My parents live in a place with a population you could count on one hand (well, maybe more!) and they are considered blow ins. Even if they live there until they die, they will be outsiders. It would take at least another generation to be normal. Weird.

First time I drove the OH to their house, she commented that I must know everyone there because we all waved at each other driving past, but actually I didnt know a lot of them, its just a thing that's done there!

I grew up here:

Fred Swanson

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eisenberg1

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Ah, paint prices, my old nemisis.
I've learned that you just need to wait for a bank holiday to get decent prices and offers.
One of the larger hardware places, lets just say the have a B, Q and an & in their name had a 2 2.5ls of paint for €35 the last bank holiday.
And the other larger competitor with a base and home it thier name had 3 for the price of 2 the same weekend.

If only I could find out where Home & B or BaseQ are...............

mickydoomsux

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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I don't want to be accepted. I just don't want to be gawped at like a zoo animal every time i go to get my phone charger out of my car or something.

daithi7

- People blabbing endlessly at above normal voice levels on their mobile phones in restaurants/cafes/trains &/or other public places

-Drivers who drive at about 10 to 20km/hr below the speed limit on 1 carriageway roads
-who amble off city traffic lights thereby getting you & everyone stuck behind them needlessly caught in the next light
-who in traffic block up junctions totally , thereby preventing cars coming against them from being able to turn right, leading to avoidable gridlock
-Volvo drivers (designed for dummies & mostly driven by them )
-white car drivers (generally clueless)
-SUV drivers (generally try to throw their weight around)
-Drivers on their mobile handsets
-Smoking drivers who flick their cigarette butts , often lighting, from the car

Unhygenic people in public places
People with colds or flus who fail to cover their mouth and nose and end up sneezing & sniveling all over the place

Politician's promises
Public sector unions
Parasites. , oh sorry covered that with the one just before

Philo Beddoe

daithi7 wrote: »

- People blabbing endlessly at above normal voice levels on their mobile phones in restaurants/cafes/trains &/or other public places

Why do people do that? Do they do it deliberately or is it entirely unconscious behaviour once they've got a phone to their ear? If they do it deliberately, are they genuinely unaware that the person on the other end can understand you if you speak at a normal conversational level?

Pumpkinseeds

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Ah, paint prices, my old nemisis.
I've learned that you just need to wait for a bank holiday to get decent prices and offers.
One of the larger hardware places, lets just say the have a B, Q and an & in their name had a 2 2.5ls of paint for €35 the last bank holiday.
And the other larger competitor with a base and home it thier name had 3 for the price of 2 the same weekend.

I think we're just going to have to bite the bullet this weekend. We were supposed to have done the bathroom at least a month ago and still haven't done it yet. The kitchen is the most urgent now, then the bathroom then the bedroom. Ah the joys of decorating:(

Boom_Bap

daithi7 wrote: »

-Drivers who drive at about 10 to 20km/hr below the speed limit on 1 carriageway roads

What annoys me is that people think the speed limit is the average cruising speed.
I think the real annoyance is drivers who dont acknowledge there are faster drivers driving below or above the speed limit and dont have the courtesy to allow the faster driver to move past when safe to do so.

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I think we're just going to have to bite the bullet this weekend. We were supposed to have done the bathroom at least a month ago and still haven't done it yet. The kitchen is the most urgent now, then the bathroom then the bedroom. Ah the joys of decorating:(

We are in the same boat. Every room needs to be done at this stage and got the kitchen done at the weekend.
I dont mind the painting, it's the f*cking preperation and the edges between the ceiling/skirting/door frame and the wall that p*ss me off.