Trivial things that annoy you part 479

Diamond Doll

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I have a relative who flogs the "Forever Living" stuff, and they very first thing they mention is "now I know what you are thinking but it's not a pyramid scheme"

I have a few friends/acquaintances who do it, it's scary how brainwashed they are! And they are constantly asking me do it too ... hard to find ways of saying no, without offending their choices!

smash

Go to a funeral, then there's the month's mind, then the anniversary.... If someone dies I will go to a church once! Don't get offended when I say I'm not giving up a weekend's plans to go to yet another mass!

the groutch

You shouldn't have to find ways to nicely say no, they're the ones that are hassling you.

jimgoose

I'm not one for taking a blind bit of notice of anyone's shape, live and let live, says I. But there is an incredible amount of bloody enormous women around the place these days. I popped into Penney's there at lunchtime on an errand and just ahead of me queuing at the customer service desk were a brace of veritable main battle-tanks, aged about thirty or so. Six feet tall if they were an inch, and as broad about the beam as what they were high. How is an otherwise normal human being that size unless their cutlery consists mainly of a fork-lift??

Menas

jimgoose wrote: »

I'm not one for taking a blind bit of notice of anyone's shape, live and let live, says I. But there is an incredible amount of bloody enormous women around the place these days. I popped into Penney's there at lunchtime on an errand and just ahead of me queuing at the customer service desk were a brace of veritable main battle-tanks, aged about thirty or so. Six feet tall if they were an inch, and as broad about the beam as what they were high. How is an otherwise normal human being that size unless their cutlery consists mainly of a fork-lift??

Lucky one of them did not ask you "Is my bum big in this?".

jimgoose

Menas wrote: »

Lucky one of them did not ask you "Is my bum big in this?".

"This" what? Solar-system?? :pac:

NOS3

That new AIB add.

"I love that shmell!' :rolleyes:

Penn

Feels like a small jagged piece of the Strepsil I was eating has now become lodged halfway down my throat. Now I'm coughing like a motherf*cker.

YOU HAD ONE JOB, STREPSIL! MAKE MY THROAT FEEL BETTER! YOU ARE LITERALLY DOING THE OPPOSITE OF THAT!

jimgoose

NOS3 wrote: »

That new AIB add.

"I love that shmell!' :rolleyes:

That's another thing. All the banks lately paying Cockleshell, Bender and Ramrod to dream up these cutesie-wootsie ads depicting them as hep-cat empathetic groovy guys, when they are in fact evil lizard-folk from Hell who would skin your grandmother alive for a ha'penny.

fiachr_a

When someone in their 80s dies and the death is described as unexpected.

Whitewinged

Penn wrote: »

Feels like a small jagged piece of the Strepsil I was eating has now become lodged halfway down my throat. Now I'm coughing like a motherf*cker.

YOU HAD ONE JOB, STREPSIL! MAKE MY THROAT FEEL BETTER! YOU ARE LITERALLY DOING THE OPPOSITE OF THAT!

Like when a piece of popcorn shell gets stuck in your throat.

Badly Drunk Boy

Coffee annoys me. The smell is rotten but I can live with that. It's people's attitude to it that really annoys me. You can even see that in different threads here today. "Will I walk into my new job with a cup of coffee in my hand?" "Why isn't Starbucks Christmassy enough?"

I don't even have the energy to complete my coffee annoyance. Maybe I need a coffee...

(That won't be happening!)

Whitewinged wrote: »

Like when a piece of popcorn shell gets stuck in your throat.

But popcorn shells aren't supposed to help your dodgy throat; Strepsils are.

the groutch

Whitewinged wrote: »

Like when a piece of popcorn shell gets stuck in your throat.

http://33.media.tumblr.com/b1fbc4e629746b484e6a3331da5a5f63/tumblr_n33m70t0Zi1rvco10o1_400.gif

Poochie05

Upselling! In particular in Boots and Superdrug.

In I go to check out the new Maybelline product, find it and standing there looking at it, up comes assistant.
'Can I help you there?'
Me: No thanks, I'm just checking out the New Maybelline supreme better than the last one eyebrow mascara/pencil/marker (Holding it up helpfully to show I've got it covered.)
Assistant: well we have some No 7 foundation we've got on offer today?
Me: No thanks. It's this I came in to check (holding it up again to emphasise I have it covered)
Assistant still hovers watching me so I can't take my time looking at the supreme better than the last eyebrow pencil thingamajig, selecting colour, etc. So I choose quickly, take it to the till to buy.
Assistant number 2: ok, that's €376.48 (or whatever), do you need stamps or phone credit today?
Me: argh?!!?

fussyonion

Burned the inside of my arm off the scalding hot oven tray.

Today's weather is trivially annoying; driving in rain is horrible.
Your shoes get wet, which means the pedals get wet and slippy, the inside of the car fogs up; you turn the heater on but that leaves you sweating, you open the door only for it to fling itself open wider, nearly taking itself off the hinges and to top all that car-related agony off, I forgot to get petrol on the way home.

Shop assistants who are so moody they make YOU feel like you've done something wrong.
The ones in my local chemist are so serious and not at all approachable; I hate going in there.

Waiting times in the hospital.
They NEVER see you at the time they're meant to so what is the actual point of allocating you a time?

There was also a guy who showed up without an appointment at this clinic and he was 10 minutes trying to tell the receptionist he should be seen to, only for her to repeat that he needed a referral letter or appointment.
Waiting in line next, I was fit to burst with frustration.

Savage Tyrant

Having to wait another 3hr 45mins to access a game I've already downloaded onto my system .... It's the 10th of November somewhere in the fûckin world anyway, just let me play what I paid for.

TheNobleKipper

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Coffee annoys me. The smell is rotten but I can live with that. It's people's attitude to it that really annoys me. You can even see that in different threads here today. "Will I walk into my new job with a cup of coffee in my hand?" "Why isn't Starbucks Christmassy enough?"

I don't even have the energy to complete my coffee annoyance. Maybe I need a coffee...

(That won't be happening!)

But popcorn shells aren't supposed to help your dodgy throat; Strepsils are.

But there is nothing that helps you poop better :eek:
Reason enough for some coffee each morning!

endofrainbow

infrequent flyers.........'nuff said

Magico Gonzalez

"Rocking up" - I just realised that anytime I hear someone say this it makes me want to get as far away from whoever said it before another moronic phrase comes tumbling out of the dopey mouths.

apieceofcake

Opened a new carton of milk and it's sour....yuck!! had poured into my tea first though....

eternal

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

"Rocking up" - I just realised that anytime I hear someone say this it makes me want to get as far away from whoever said it before another moronic phrase comes tumbling out of the dopey mouths.

Guy passed me today and I overheard him mention 'rocking up' so I imagined this hip dude but when I turned it was a 20 odd stone man with an exuberantly orange dyed head and charity shop attire well into his late 40s. The mind boggles

mynameis905

apieceofcake wrote: »

Opened a new carton of milk and it's sour....yuck!! had poured into my tea first though....

Happened me twice in the last week. Having to check the dates on the milk cartons very carefully to avoid it.

apieceofcake

Happened me twice in the last week. Having to check the dates on the milk cartons very carefully to avoid it.

The date on mine was this Friday - Friday the 13th!!

Not a happy camper going without my tea tonight

bodhrandude

I've got a boil on my buttocks, it is literally a pain in the ass.

strelok

some dublin security company rang my mobile at 5.30 this morning

what the ****. i don't live in or around dublin, I don't have any of their products and the house alarm wasn't even turned on

efb

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

"Rocking up" - I just realised that anytime I hear someone say this it makes me want to get as far away from whoever said it before another moronic phrase comes tumbling out of the dopey mouths.

Can I get an amen!!!

efb

Upselling- all up sellers must die!!!!

efb

Minions- I blame the fecking awful FB memes

Father Hernandez

Pizza being too hot but you're too hungry to let it cool so inevitably you end up burning your palate of your mouth, am I the only one?

whiskeyman

hogey143 wrote: »

Pizza being too hot but you're too hungry to let it cool so inevitably you end up burning your palate of your mouth, am I the only one?

When a big pepperoni piece (that's as hot as lava) drags all the molten cheese off the base in one bite, burning the mouth and leaving a topless base behind...