Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

OldNotWIse · 03-11-2014 01:23PM

Ignorant people who think it's ok to comment on someone's size if they are tall. The amount of people who've said to me, "the height of you" just beggars belief really. Have they never seen a tall woman? I'm 5ft9, hardly a fúcking giraffe like

I don't have a problem with being tall but I have a problem with people thinking they have the right to comment on anyone's size. There seems to be an unwritten rule that they can comment on someone who is tall or slim, but not short or fat. You often hear people saying, "jeez look at the weight you're after losing, you're fading away" but less frequently..."oh look at the lard áss, did you eat all the pork pies did ya?" or "god you're a bit of a short arse aren't you? Where were you when they gave out the height?"

smash · 03-11-2014 01:27PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Ignorant people who think it's ok to comment on someone's size if they are tall. The amount of people who've said to me, "the height of you" just beggars belief really. Have they never seen a tall woman? I'm 5ft9, hardly a fúcking giraffe like I don't have a problem with being tall but I have a problem with people thinking they have the right to comment on anyone's size. There seems to be an unwritten rule that they can comment on someone who is tall or slim, but not short or fat. You often hear people saying, "jeez look at the weight you're after losing, you're fading away" but less frequently..."oh look at the lard áss, did you eat all the pork pies did ya?" :P

You know what annoys me? When people think they're cool and say "We're all the same height lying on our back... wink wink" - No we're not you moron, someone could have a huge belly, or boobs, or both!

OldNotWIse · 03-11-2014 01:32PM

smash wrote: »

You know what annoys me? When people think they're cool and say "We're all the same height lying on our back... wink wink" - No we're not you moron, someone could have a huge belly, or boobs, or both!

I never thought about that! I was thinking more "er no, we are different lengths lying down!" but the height thing makes sense too!

allibastor · 03-11-2014 01:33PM

Don't know how trivial but I was getting my hair cut on Saturday.

There was a Polish couple who spoke no English getting their kids hair cut beside me and kept getting up to try and tell the lady doing the hair cutting what she was doing wrong.
The lad doing my hair had to stop every few mins cause your one kept pushing in beside her son. The kid was about 12 like and the parents asked for a hair cut, then cant speak English to say what they want. The poor lady cutting the hair just looked like she was going to shave his head just to shut them up.

It made my 15 min haircut last for about 25 mins.

smash · 03-11-2014 01:36PM

I always fall asleep in the hair dressers when the chick washes my hair and does that little head massage. Then I wake up cranky!

OldNotWIse · 03-11-2014 01:41PM

In Lidl the other evening and there was a queue of around 4 or 5 people at the only checkout that was open. Hardly a big deal. Anyway there was some self-entitled, overweight, middle-aged bint in the shop who decided that she was too fúcking royal to queue, and started shouting at some poor girl working down at the freezer section to open up another til. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. What annoyed me even more was that the girl obliged her. Seriosuly, society needs to tell people who behave like this to go jump, otherwise they'll never change! I bet she left feeling all smug and satisifed, and will do the same in the next place she finds herself faced with a queue

smash · 03-11-2014 01:46PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

In Lidl the other evening and there was a queue of around 4 or 5 people at the only checkout that was open. Hardly a big deal. Anyway there was some self-entitled, overweight, middle-aged bint in the shop who decided that she was too fúcking royal to queue, and started shouting at some poor girl working down at the freezer section to open up another til. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. What annoyed me even more was that the girl obliged her. Seriosuly, society needs to tell people who behave like this to go jump, otherwise they'll never change! I bet she left feeling all smug and satisifed, and will do the same in the next place she finds herself faced with a queue

In fairness, this is something that pisses me off no end. A queue at a till and workers standing around stocking shelves or just chatting. Customers pay your wage and keep the business open, don't leave them standing around and go open another till! The queue will be gone in 5 minutes and you can get back to whatever you were doing. Lidl and Aldi are useless for this kind of thing.

One eyed Jack · 03-11-2014 01:47PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Ignorant people who think it's ok to comment on someone's size if they are tall. The amount of people who've said to me, "the height of you" just beggars belief really. Have they never seen a tall woman? I'm 5ft9, hardly a fúcking giraffe like I don't have a problem with being tall but I have a problem with people thinking they have the right to comment on anyone's size. There seems to be an unwritten rule that they can comment on someone who is tall or slim, but not short or fat. You often hear people saying, "jeez look at the weight you're after losing, you're fading away" but less frequently..."oh look at the lard áss, did you eat all the pork pies did ya?" or "god you're a bit of a short arse aren't you? Where were you when they gave out the height?"

Speaking as a shortarse fat guy, people notice alright, and comment, and they don't hold back!

Recently I went out for a meal with some friends for a wedding dinner rehearsal (no, I didn't know there was such a thing either!), and the groom-to-be, his mother turned round in front of a table of about 30 people -

"Jesus Jack, you're after putting on SOME weight since the last time I saw you!"

'Twas on the tip of my tongue to say "Well thanks, really, I'd never have noticed it myself if you hadn't pointed it out to me!".

I settled for a caesar salad off the menu just in case she was also going to pass remarkable about how many 'syns' were in a beef szechuan! :pac:

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 03-11-2014 01:50PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Ignorant people who think it's ok to comment on someone's size if they are tall. The amount of people who've said to me, "the height of you" just beggars belief really. Have they never seen a tall woman? I'm 5ft9, hardly a fúcking giraffe like I don't have a problem with being tall but I have a problem with people thinking they have the right to comment on anyone's size. There seems to be an unwritten rule that they can comment on someone who is tall or slim, but not short or fat. You often hear people saying, "jeez look at the weight you're after losing, you're fading away" but less frequently..."oh look at the lard áss, did you eat all the pork pies did ya?" or "god you're a bit of a short arse aren't you? Where were you when they gave out the height?"

I find people do comment about the height thing, I'm between 5'3/5'4. Not outrageously short, but I'm conscious of it. I usually wear high shoes on nights out, feet get sore at the end of the night so I go from being 5'9/5'10 back down to being at people's shoulders. There will be always one with the "oh my god you're tiny! Where did you go!". My brother is almost a foot taller than me. If I'm giving him hassle, sometimes he's like "hello? Who's there?? Who said that?!"

It's also a pain standing in a que. there was this time some young lad with a school bag on his back managed to elbow me in the forehead as he went to hoist his bag up. And in 6th year, it was a horrible feeling queuing at the shop at lunch time and being submerged by a sea of monstrous first years.

I would love to be your height

OldNotWIse · 03-11-2014 01:50PM

smash wrote: »

In fairness, this is something that pisses me off no end. A queue at a till and workers standing around stocking shelves or just chatting. Customers pay your wage and keep the business open, don't leave them standing around and go open another till! The queue will be gone in 5 minutes and you can get back to whatever you were doing. Lidl and Aldi are useless for this kind of thing.

It was hardly a queue out the door though, and it was yer one's attitude that annoyed me. It is annoying that they never have a full complement of open cashiers but I think anyone who shops in Lidl is aware of this, and running in and having a hissy fit over it is silly. Plus it's rude to shout at someone at the back of a shop from the till. She jumped straight on the one that opened then instead of acknowledging the fact that there were 3 people who had been queing before her. Almost like, "it's my till now, I opened it".

OldNotWIse · 03-11-2014 01:51PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I find people do comment about the height thing, I'm between 5'3/5'4. Not outrageously short, but I'm conscious of it. I usually wear high shoes on nights out, feet get sore at the end of the night so I go from being 5'9/5'10 back down to being at people's shoulders. There will be always one with the "oh my god you're tiny! Where did you go!". My brother is almost a foot taller than me. If I'm giving him hassle, sometimes he's like "hello? Who's there?? Who said that?!"

It's also a pain standing in a que. there was this time some young lad with a school bag on his back managed to elbow me in the forehead as he went to hoist his bag up. And in 6th year, it was a horrible feeling queuing at the shop at lunch time and being submerged by a sea of monstrous first years.

I would love to be your height

I'd love to be around 5ft6 - shall we split the difference?

eisenberg1 · 03-11-2014 02:00PM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Speaking as a shortarse fat guy, people notice alright, and comment, and they don't hold back!

Recently I went out for a meal with some friends for a wedding dinner rehearsal (no, I didn't know there was such a thing either!), and the groom-to-be, his mother turned round in front of a table of about 30 people -

"Jesus Jack, you're after putting on SOME weight since the last time I saw you!"

'Twas on the tip of my tongue to say "Well thanks, really, I'd never have noticed it myself if you hadn't pointed it out to me!".

I settled for a caesar salad off the menu just in case she was also going to pass remarkable about how many 'syns' were in a beef szechuan! :pac:

I would love to reply with "well, I suppose if really starts to bother me, I can diet, but you, on the other hand, are stuck with that head for life."

OldNotWIse · 03-11-2014 02:03PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I would love to reply with "well, I suppose if really starts to bother me, I can diet, but you, on the other hand, are stuck with that head for life."

My hero

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 03-11-2014 02:10PM

My simpleton of a boyfriend keeps leaving windows open. It's a game in our house. He opens, I close, he opens, I close, he opens I threathen his life and then close, and he'll probably open them again when he thinks I'm not paying attention. I'm terrified of mice. I'm scared of spiders, but my fear of mice is on a totally different level. Like having a mouse in the house would be a valid reason for me to go stay in a hotel or somewhere safe until its gone.

Anyway, there's at least two mice in the house today. He set a trap downstairs on Saturday, and something got caught in it, you'd want to hear the racket it made. By the time he got home, it had wriggled itself free. This morning, I got up and out of the corner of my eye I saw something run under the couch. And there's noise upstairs.

My boyfriend thinks its funny that I'm so afraid. He doesn't understand, it's not just a fear it's a proper phobia. I have him put traps all over the house but they're obviously cheap traps and no good because they're catching nothing.

I rang rentokil, and text him to tell him and now he's in a snot saying we don't need rentokil, and they can't even come out today for gods sake

eisenberg1 · 03-11-2014 02:13PM

That sounds like a rat.....

Tasden · 03-11-2014 02:23PM

smash wrote: »

In fairness, this is something that pisses me off no end. A queue at a till and workers standing around stocking shelves or just chatting. Customers pay your wage and keep the business open, don't leave them standing around and go open another till! The queue will be gone in 5 minutes and you can get back to whatever you were doing. Lidl and Aldi are useless for this kind of thing.

In fairness though, and I don't know if it applies to aldi/lidl, some places only allow certain staff on tills or staff are given a task and if they stop that to go on tills and then end up staying on tills (which happens all the time cause random customers still complain if you try to close your till after serving the initial queue) then they get given out to when their section is a mess cause they were busy elsewhere. Its a lose lose situation!

And even when you think " but they're section is clean and the shelves stocked, they're not needed there atm", the second you leave it to serve a customer the place goes to hell and then your manager walks past right at that moment and thinks you've done nothing all day despite the fact they can see you're helping a customer!

So many things like this annoyed me when i worked in retail- thank god its over :pac:

03-11-2014 02:23PM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

Discovered over the weekend that, in 2014, there are still people out there with €600 smart phones who switch off their mobile data while they're out and about to save money

Got a message from a friend on WhatsApp at about 1pm asking if I'd like to meet for dinner at 8pm. I respond in the affirmative at about 1:30pm.

7:30pm I get a message back saying "Sorry, we got here early and I only got your message now. We've already ordered".

They came back to my place after dinner. Turns out he had switched off his mobile data after sending the invitation and didn't switch it back on for ~6 hours.

Apparently this is common practice to not "waste data". Mind. Boggled.

Even if mobile data is on, whatsapp does that sometimes anyway, refusing to notify you of a message til hours later or until you go into the app. It's a pain in the face

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 03-11-2014 02:24PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

That sounds like a rat.....

What? Why? How would you know if its a rat?

Maximus Alexander · 03-11-2014 02:24PM

smash wrote: »

You know what annoys me? When people think they're cool and say "We're all the same height lying on our back... wink wink" - No we're not you moron, someone could have a huge belly, or boobs, or both!

Hah! I'm picturing the exchange now:

"Ah sure we're all the same height lying down!"

"No, actually, you'd be about three times my height in that case."

Followed by a long pause while the penny drops.

eisenberg1 · 03-11-2014 02:25PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

What? Why? How would you know if its a rat?

I was talking about your OH....:D

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 03-11-2014 02:27PM

And that whole "same length lying down" is scour anyway. I was tipping one of my housemates at the beginning of the year for a while, he was 6'5. It made certain things horrid awkward, even lying down.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 03-11-2014 02:27PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I was talking about your OH....:D

My heart!!!! Honestly do you think it's a rat?

Maximus Alexander · 03-11-2014 02:27PM

bluewolf wrote: »

Even if mobile data is on, whatsapp does that sometimes anyway, refusing to notify you of a message til hours later or until you go into the app. It's a pain in the face

Aye, it seems to do it if you leave the conversation open and let the phone go to sleep, which seems like a glaring oversight. But that wasn't what happened in that case.

He actually said to me "You could have sent me a text, my mobile data was off." Why would I reply to you in a different medium than the one you contacted me through!? How was I to know you're a nut case?

One of my best friends but, seriously, people are weird.

03-11-2014 02:30PM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

But that wasn't what happened in that case..

Oh I know yeah. Separate rant.
Even if I just havent been using WA, it won't tell me I have a new message in any conversation for hours sometimes

smash · 03-11-2014 02:34PM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

Aye, it seems to do it if you leave the conversation open and let the phone go to sleep, which seems like a glaring oversight. But that wasn't what happened in that case.

He actually said to me "You could have sent me a text, my mobile data was off." Why would I reply to you in a different medium than the one you contacted me through!? How was I to know you're a nut case?

One of my best friends but, seriously, people are weird.

They can have a €600 phone that they got for free on contract, and have a measly 100mb data allowance.

There's no point in getting a smart phone on a dumb plan!

Boom_Bap · 03-11-2014 02:35PM

bluewolf wrote: »

Oh I know yeah. Separate rant.
Even if I just havent been using WA, it won't tell me I have a new message in any conversation for hours sometimes

WA on Mrs. Baps phone likes to send her alerts all through the night. I'm thinking it's time to give her phone ebola.

portarlington speakers · 03-11-2014 02:40PM

The way TV Programmes showing places often show more of the presenter than the place.

eisenberg1 · 03-11-2014 02:48PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

My heart!!!! Honestly do you think it's a rat?

Well if you set a mouse trap, you usually end up with a dead mouse in it. Is the trap still there?

Generic Dreadhead · 03-11-2014 02:50PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

And that whole "same length lying down" is scour anyway. I was tipping one of my housemates at the beginning of the year for a while, he was 6'5. It made certain things horrid awkward, even lying down.

Tipping?

grundie · 03-11-2014 03:00PM

Although I never click on a link-bait articles, I am still strangely annoyed by the fact that the thumbnail will usually show an arrow or a ring pointing to the subject matter.

Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

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