Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

Wotsername

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Horror films, or more specifically, the women in horror films. I only half watch them, my husband loves them, but when I see some silly cow running to hide in an upstairs wardrobe or some such to hide from whatever serial killer/monster is on the rampage, I just want to slap some sense into her. For goodness sake, you wouldn't hide in a wardrobe or run yourself into a corner, you'd grab a knife or whatever weapon you could and fight back.

Currently the Hills have eyes 2 is on, utter crap, funny how there's always some dynamite lying around handily in these films.

Didn't they make a couple of satirical takes on that? Think they were called Scary Movie 1 and 2, or something like that?

czechlin

Horror films.
I can only handle the really stupid ones (like Scream or whatever it was called).
Anything more serious/brutal I just can't do.

Photo-Sniper

I hate it when people say "Oh, I'm a vegetarian except for fish".

Yeah? And I'm a non-smoker except for cigarettes.

GY A1

people who just dont shut, close ur mouth for a second

czechlin

Photo-Sniper wrote: »

I hate it when people say "Oh, I'm a vegetarian except for fish".

Yeah? And I'm a non-smoker except for cigarettes.

This annoys me to no end! *Since when is fish a vegetable!? You're a pescatarian you eejit! Get your facts straight people if you want to throw it in other people's faces...* Yeah I know what you mean!

Also people, who throw their "diet" into other people's faces. I don't eat meat much but I'm an omnivore. I've no problem with vegetarians, pescatarians, vegans, fruitarians etc. But I don't want to listen to it all the time. I don't inform them how I like my steak either.

Photo-Sniper

czechlin wrote: »

This annoys me to no end! *Since when is fish a vegetable!? You're a pescatarian you eejit! Get your facts straight people if you want to throw it in other people's faces...* Yeah I know what you mean!

Also people, who throw their "diet" into other people's faces. I don't eat meat much but I'm an omnivore. I've no problem with vegetarians, pescatarians, vegans, fruitarians etc. But I don't want to listen to it all the time. I don't inform them how I like my steak either.

I'm a professional chef so I have to deal with waitresses coming back to the kitchen everyday with this kind of sh"t.

"The customer wants to let you know that this is not medium, this is raw...its still red!"

"ehm yes, it is medium, I can make it well done for them if they dont want it red"

Waitress comes back 10 minutes later.... "No they want it medium".

IT IS FKING MEDIUM. One waitress was fired for coming into the kitchen once to ask if the "Coq au vin" was suitable for vegetarians, I sh*t you not.

Tough business... No wonder my nerves are bad.

eisenberg1

Oops69 wrote: »

Seachtain na gaeilge..........drop dead.

I dunno. I just gave them two euro and they gave me a lovely badge. Are they bad people?:P

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Horror films, or more specifically, the women in horror films. I only half watch them, my husband loves them, but when I see some silly cow running to hide in an upstairs wardrobe or some such to hide from whatever serial killer/monster is on the rampage, I just want to slap some sense into her. For goodness sake, you wouldn't hide in a wardrobe or run yourself into a corner, you'd grab a knife or whatever weapon you could and fight back.

if you haven't seen it watch 'the cabin in the woods'. dont read about it before you watch it as you'll spoil it on yourself but it should be a good movie for the horror fans and non horror fans

eisenberg1

Photo-Sniper wrote: »

I hate it when people say "Oh, I'm a vegetarian except for fish".

Yeah? And I'm a non-smoker except for cigarettes.

Except for fish and chicken:), and the odd joint, and |I don't drink, except for Baileys....and gin, and at Xmas, and when I am holidays, and when I am out, and at weekends, and and and and.......................

OldNotWIse

"Time is ticking on" - Time doesn't tick. Clocks (which admittedly are used to measure time) tick. Time does not. I would be less annoyed (although a bit freaked) if you said, "come on now. The clock is ticking on".

OldNotWIse

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Except for fish and chicken:), and the odd joint, and |I don't drink, except for Baileys....and gin, and at Xmas, and when I am holidays, and when I am out, and at weekends, and and and and.......................

Or as Ed Byrne says, I only smoke your fuucking cigarettes. I never buy my own.

dubstarr

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

if you haven't seen it watch 'the cabin in the woods'. dont read about it before you watch it as you'll spoil it on yourself but it should be a good movie for the horror fans and non horror fans

I love Cabin In The Woods,one of my favourite films.

maguic24

dubstarr wrote: »

I love Cabin In The Woods,one of my favourite films.

Cabin in the Woods was a total mind-f*ck.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

dubstarr wrote: »

I love Cabin In The Woods,one of my favourite films.

i was all set up to hate it as I can't stand whedon or whedonites but damn it if it didn't suck me in, was very impressed with it

yeppydeppy

yeppydeppy wrote: »

Why do you say that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_monkey_(colloquialism)

OK so wikipedia isn't totally reliable but there's no mention of out here?

TheFarrier wrote: »

Nope. A brass monkey was a frame made from brass used to hold cannonballs on old time warships. Like this(on phone so sorry about the link): https://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&site=webhp&tbm=isch&source=hp&ei=1gUiU66uDYPKhAfA3oEQ&q=brass+monkey&oq=brass+mon&gs_l=mobile-gws-hp.1.0.0l5.2079.5228.0.6389.10.10.0.6.6.0.245.1507.0j8j2.10.0....0...1c.1.37.mobile-gws-hp..1.9.435.myyZDGCp0l4#biv=i%7C11%3Bd%7CUWwkDP6iF7SddM%3A Brass contracts when cold, so in very cold conditions the frame would contract enough the the cannonballs would pop off of the frame.

Useless information is my forté

I used to think I was good at useless information - now I have to check everything on the net.

SpaceCowb0y

yeppydeppy wrote: »

I used to think I was good at useless information - now I have to check everything on the net.

I feel the same way about spellings :pac:

eisenberg1

yeppydeppy wrote: »

I used to think I was good at useless information - now I have to check everything on the net.

I prefer useless, pointless information, which is untrue. It makes for a much better conversation in a pub on a dull evening. I get laugh out of feeding someone a load of old ****e and they look at you and say "Oh, really, I would have never known that":D

Czarcasm

Companies advertising the wrong contact phone number on their website.

I've had to e-mail their customer services department to tell them to contact me instead. The e-mail hasn't bounced back yet at least!

Wrong number on their website though, somebody's getting a slap! :pac:

czechlin

Photo-Sniper wrote: »

I'm a professional chef so I have to deal with waitresses coming back to the kitchen everyday with this kind of sh"t.

"The customer wants to let you know that this is not medium, this is raw...its still red!"

"ehm yes, it is medium, I can make it well done for them if they dont want it red"

Waitress comes back 10 minutes later.... "No they want it medium".

IT IS FKING MEDIUM. One waitress was fired for coming into the kitchen once to ask if the "Coq au vin" was suitable for vegetarians, I sh*t you not.

Tough business... No wonder my nerves are bad.

Being a chef is extremely stressful from what I've heard and I believe it. Photo-Sniper, you need a holiday! :eek:

czechlin

Bus drivers, who forget to change the bus signage display yoke from 'Sorry, Not in Service' to wherever they are going. Sorry my ass! :mad:

RoboRat

People who every time they are out, bum cigarettes under the pre tense 'I don't smoke normally'.

You smoke every time you are out so go and buy some. They usually follow it up with 'I don't want to buy 20 as I will just smoke them'... I don't smoke 'normally' but when I used to go out I would buy 20, then when heading home I would give what was left to a homeless person, another smoker or bin them.

OldNotWIse

RoboRat wrote: »

People who every time they are out, bum cigarettes under the pre tense 'I don't smoke normally'.

You smoke every time you are out so go and buy some. They usually follow it up with 'I don't want to buy 20 as I will just smoke them'... I don't smoke 'normally' but when I used to go out I would buy 20, then when heading home I would give what was left to a homeless person, another smoker or bin them.

That one always amuses me. Its like, well...yes thats what they are for. What else would you do with them?? Reminds me of some people I know (the usual slimming world/WW/points/syns/no bread bints that I have covered here before) who buy chocolate and then put it in the freezer "in case I eat it" - Is not buying it an alien concept for you??

LynnGrace

krudler wrote: »

can you link in with me next week to revert back to me on that issue?


Go away you fcuking idiot.

I'm going to use this response...the day I win the Lotto and know that I never have to work again

OldNotWIse

LynnGrace wrote: »

I'm going to use this response...the day I win the Lotto and know that I never have to work again

"As he watched the eyeless face with the jaw moving rapidly up and down, Winston had a curious feeling that this was not a real human being but some kind of dummy. It was not the man's brain that was speaking, it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words, but it was not speech in the true sense: it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck."

Winston Smith witnesses duckspeak in George Orwell's 1984

RoboRat

I'm going to use this response...the day I win the Lotto and know that I never have to work again

I remember meeting a radio presenter to discuss a project and he said, 'lets dovetail and touch base next week' I just stood staring at him and eventually asked him 'what hell are you on about?' He was quite embarrassed and muttered that we should just meet up next week.

Why, oh why do people say these stupid catchphrases?

LynnGrace

RoboRat wrote: »

I remember meeting a radio presenter to discuss a project and he said, 'lets dovetail and touch base next week' I just stood staring at him and eventually asked him 'what hell are you on about?' He was quite embarrassed and muttered that we should just meet up next week.

Why, oh why do people say these stupid catchphrases?

I worked with a guy who started to use the phrase 'speak to' when he meant discuss. 'We will speak to the risks involved in this approach'. Wha??

Maximus Alexander

We need to take a helicopter view of this and with some blue sky thinking we can hammer it out, get all our ducks in a row and pick the low hanging fruit going forward.

OldNotWIse

The fact that I cant find a parade time online...and the fact that the OH is making me go to the parade instead of sleeping/drinking/eating/studying/merely existing :mad:

LynnGrace

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

We need to take a helicopter view of this and with some blue sky thinking we can hammer it out, get all our ducks in a row and pick the low hanging fruit going forward.

....while we have our brown bag lunch...:D

Maximus Alexander

LynnGrace wrote: »

....while we have our brown bag lunch...:D

I'd prefer to avoid a captive lunch situation, so let's touch base in the PM.