Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

Aethan Dor

whirlpool wrote: »

(It means they don't have iMessage switched on.)

Why would that bother you?

Easy, cos iMessages are free so it actually usually means that their phone has currently got no 3G or wifi and you've been charged for that message !

iMessage only works when both phones are using either a 3G or wifi connection !

Fred Swanson

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eisenberg1

Bob Dylan, playing "live" in Dublin and Cork

I went to his concert the last time he was here and I think he was dead then.

ormeau 1

That moment in time when a new haircut suddenly becomes an old one.

Czarcasm

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Bob Dylan, playing "live" in Dublin and Cork

I went to his concert the last time he was here and I think he was dead then.

Sure that makes no difference nowadays, they can just pull a "Futurama" on it like they did with 2Pac who was what, 2decadesdead?

I can't wait to see what they do with Jenna Jameson, though I wouldn't pay a whole lot to see that either...

BBDBB

Daveysil15 wrote: »

They never seem to pull them in the Hollywood films. Another thing you see in films is people stopping elevator doors from closing by putting their hand in. I tried that once and it nearly crushed my hand. Fecking films are misleading. :mad:

The one that gets me is when the characters can always manage to get the perfect parking spot either just outside the building they go in or in the perfect position to observe the bad guys from across the street and down a bit

jessiejam

Saturday morning hedge trimmers/lawn mowers/chainsaws.
Just please wait until the sun comes up ..... please?

eisenberg1

jessiejam wrote: »

Saturday morning hedge trimmers/lawn mowers/chainsaws.
Just please wait until the sun comes up ..... please?

Chainsaws I get, but lawnmowers and hedge trimmers? In Feb?

miss no stars

Gokei wrote: »

Holy crap. We bought a house months ago, then revamped it before moving in.. Neighbours haven't even so much as knocked in to welcome us to the area..

So, hi. Knock in whenever. Kettles always on.

Haha.

To be fair, they have relatives living a few houses down so they don't exactly look lonely or like they need welcoming. It just bugs me that I can't see the inside

Plus, if I put people out for months with building work 7 days a week (oh yes, all 7 days *sigh*) I'd knock around my new neighbours and say thanks for putting up with it, we're having a couple of glasses of wine on Friday evening if you fancy dropping in. But maybe that's just me

osarusan

BBDBB wrote: »

The one that gets me is when the characters can always manage to get the perfect parking spot either just outside the building they go in or in the perfect position to observe the bad guys from across the street and down a bit

Or when a character opens a dictionary, or encyclopedia, or whatever, on exactly the right page, first time, every time.

whirlpool

Aethan Dor wrote: »

Easy, cos iMessages are free so it actually usually means that their phone has currently got no 3G or wifi and you've been charged for that message !

iMessage only works when both phones are using either a 3G or wifi connection !

Texts are free too.

Unless it's 1999 again and no one told me.

Czarcasm

whirlpool wrote: »

Texts are free too.

Unless it's 1999 again and no one told me.

Go on...

Guys, hands in the air! Ladies, legs in...


Should've been a DJ

Pumpkinseeds

I still have no clue what's happening with my parcel. DPD haven't updated the info since Friday night, all I know is that presumably it's still in the Uk, no idea if it's been processed there and just not updated. Usually I tick the other courier option for delivery but this time I had to be adventurous and try the alternative, this is what comes of living dangerously:D, never again DPD, never again:mad:

Czarcasm

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I still have no clue what's happening with my parcel. DPD haven't updated the info since Friday night, all I know is that presumably it's still in the Uk, no idea if it's been processed there and just not updated. Usually I tick the other courier option for delivery but this time I had to be adventurous and try the alternative, this is what comes of living dangerously:D, never again DPD, never again:mad:

The hell? You're waiting on that since... ages ago? :pac:

DHL are always on the ball for me anyway, I'd be ordering a lot of stuff from Germany, usually comes within two business days.

Maybe call them, I know when I'd to order a hard drive from Pixmania once, even though the main site was in English, the rest of the bloody site was in French, so their delivery systems were in French, so for anyone that couldn't understand French and their package got held up, they were screwed... and not in a good way.

Pumpkinseeds

Czarcasm wrote: »

The hell? You're waiting on that since... ages ago? :pac:

DHL are always on the ball for me anyway, I'd be ordering a lot of stuff from Germany, usually comes within two business days.

Maybe call them, I know when I'd to order a hard drive from Pixmania once, even though the main site was in English, the rest of the bloody site was in French, so their delivery systems were in French, so for anyone that couldn't understand French and their package got held up, they were screwed... and not in a good way.

I'll see if it arrives tomorrow, if not I'll call them, at least with the other lot I could understand the tracking info and it was usually An Post that delivered it. But this is nuts. I hate waiting around for packages. There was a DPD driver ahead of me at the cashpoint at lunch time, I had to seriously restrain myself from asking him to explain their terminology to me, I decided to let the poor guy alone in the end.

eisenberg1

The dickhead in front of me yesterday at the toll.

There are signs for it seems like five miles advising of the upcoming toll on the road, and then when this guy arrives at the barrier, he seems to think it is going to rise of its own accord, then, after a while it finally dawns on him that you have to throw some money at it. I can see him rooting around all over his poxy car for bits of change.

Gokei

eisenberg1 wrote: »

The dickhead in front of me yesterday at the toll.

There are signs for it seems like five miles advising of the upcoming toll on the road, and then when this guy arrives at the barrier, he seems to think it is going to rise of its own accord, then, after a while it finally dawns on him that you have to throw some money at it. I can see him rooting around all over his poxy car for bits of change.

He was probably expecting his tag to work

eisenberg1

Gokei wrote: »

He was probably expecting his tag to work

Then why go to the "basket" booth? Would he not just go for the express lane? It was open..

December2012

Or maybe he concentrates on his driving on a motorway instead of looking for change?

eisenberg1

December2012 wrote: »

Or maybe he concentrates on his driving on a motorway instead of looking for change?

Well I would have though, prior to embarking on the journey, knowing you are going to use a toll road, you might make sure you have some change close to hand, if you don't have exact change, you can always go to a manned booth, thus not holding anyone up, and more importantly not annoying me.

Gokei

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Then why go to the "basket" booth? Would he not just go for the express lane? It was open..

My tag wasn't working few weeks ago. Rang easy pass and they sorted the account over the phone. But said it'd take up to 48 hrs to filter to the tag. So for those two days, I was going up to the kiosks with the hope of them rising, on the fifth time it worked.

eisenberg1

Gokei wrote: »

My tag wasn't working few weeks ago. Rang easy pass and they sorted the account over the phone. But said it'd take up to 48 hrs to filter to the tag. So for those two days, I was going up to the kiosks with the hope of them rising, on the fifth time it worked.

But using the toll during that 48 hours or so, you still had some coins to hand, just in case, right?

Look, maybe his tag wasn't working, maybe he dropped his coins, maybe he forgot he was on a toll road, maybe not in a hurry, but it is ONLY a trivial annoyance. I got over it:D

macplato

mauzo! wrote: »

There's 2 doctors in my local GP surgery. I made an appointment with the nice one, I had to get some information to bring it to hospital, straightforward enough.

Sitting in the waiting room and who calls me in? The asshole. I just scowled at the receptionist, she said he swtiched me over to him and she doesn't know why.

Now I have to queue again to see the other nice one because I refuse to talk to the mean one. He's so mean and rude and I always leave in tears!

Kudos to you for refusing to be seen by someone you don't feel comfortable with! Many people would rather leave in tears than stand up for themselves.

GenieOz

The tiny parking spaces in my local Aldi, it is impossible to park within the lines and not either hit your door off someone elses car or vice versa.
The only place where I don't fault people taking two spots.

SpaceCowb0y

When one of your housemates uses the last of the toilet paper and doesn't bother their hole to replace it with a new roll and you only realise this when it's too late! :mad::mad:

Digital Solitude

When somebody calls themselves an "iPhonewankaaaaa" I get such a urge to slam their head off a brick pavement

deise08

Never heard of that expression. Are they calling themselves a wnker? That'd be funny

id rather brie

People who decide to only get their purse/wallet out when they get on to a bus, then root around dropping each coin in individually. The sound of each subsequent coin increases my impotent rage by an order of magnitude.

When people try to talk to me from a different room. Mothersucker, do not call me from another room and then refrain from acknowledging my reply, I will passive-aggressively sit down and be annoyed.

The phrase "truth is stranger than fiction", it's absolute bull. Fiction is capable of far crazier possibilities, you know, what with not being bound by the bloody underlying laws of reality.

Tzardine

Shop assistants who do not hand your change to you but instead put it on the counter or even worse there is an assistant in the local garage who hands you back the change on top of the notes in some sort of leaning tower of Euro's situation. Sigh.

Sadderday

delivery drivers that fiddle around for change when your standing in your doorway letting the heat out and your chipper getting all cold... so ya tell him ta keep it and then you realise they didnt put yer bleedin battered sausage in the bag !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!