Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

Saw another lad I know died, ex work mate only 42. Sadly we’d lost contact. He loved his smokes and seeing on his SM years later he still has a cig in hand in 90% of photos, even his pic on rip,ie. A good dude. Hilarious, easygoing yet was bullish regarding looking out for his mates and had a nice rapid droll distain for assholes be they bogey colleagues, clients or bosses. Reliable like that. TA itself is we never reconnected down the line.

Sib got a message to go for his bloods tom am, he's changed dr and he was confused about which doctor it was from.

He made one phone call to check that the new doctor had his records, which was then followed by me having to make or take another three calls while trying to remember his medical records.

He's gone for a sit-down as "all this talking on the phone" has worn him out. TA2, he's sitting down and left me his phone to answer while he is sitting down; TA3, it's a POS phone. I bet later on that he'll still not have a clear plan in his head for his appointments next week.

The same guy has a lot of opinions on how phone's arnt work!

When the time is going so fast that ever other day seems to be bin day.

People always forget the silent 'f' - it's fElon Musk.

'Another lane won't work.' Maybe it won't in the long term, but I'm bloody driving to work today!

There's a stretch of dual carriageway that I drive on days I have to go to the office that has a limit of 120k, but most of the time you're lucky if you can do 90k. A lot of times it'll come to a stop in the middle of nowhere for no sodding reason (probably a phantom jam caused by a lane change and/or idiots ahead). If there's a tractor doing 60k god help us - we'll probably manage 62k because nobody can deal with it.

All this disappears when the road goes to three lanes. Suddenly traffic spreads out and speeds up - seems obvious the whole road should be three lanes, doesn't it?

And even if it doesn't work long term, at least it might work for a while. I mean, it's a response you don't get anywhere else. If an area needs more water they don't refuse to put in a bigger pipe. They don't say putting in a bigger pipe will only increase demand. They don't say we can't put in a bigger pipe but we'll deliver water by train... ...but we haven't built the railway yet. Also the station won't be anywhere near your house so you'll have walk twenty minutes for water.

They're never going to build a third lane so I'm just ranting. They're not delivering a sodding alternative either though.

"It's all geek to me" was right there for you man!

That I spent (wasted) at least half an hour this morning looking for an important legal document. Went through several thick folders of stuff I'd had open recently and found nothing. Eventually I remembered - it was on the photocopier.

Things that have annoyed me today so far:

"Why don't you have your own house(EVERYONE I know has their own house)" response to me saying it was hard to keep up with house prices in my band was met with rolled eyes and "FGS, you should have just asked your parents for it)

"I don't know why you are still here, too lazy I presume", when I told them that my inability to remember information + my inability to read my own handwriting(therefor useless in new situations or exams)

"We remember what we want to remember"

"Well if you wanted that new job, you could have MOVED"

Holy crumbs, this from a superior who is both a teacher and part of the HR team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tell me you come from a normal/wealthy home that monied their way out of any issues or had a supportive nextwork, without saying you have a privileged background!

The heroes in work meetings who extend said meeting by ten minutes asking questions. Always the same lads who have handy numbers too.

The amount of people who will just sit at a table outside somewhere to eat and drink stuff they clearly haven't bought there will never cease to amaze me. And it's not just an Irish thing, I saw it loads in Norway last week too. It's just so, so rude.

Wtf is this Dubai Chocolate shite thats seems to be everywhere

It looks like rancid dog sh*t.

Tried some last weekend. £8 for a small bar so fcuk right off immediately (I did not buy it). Chocolate tasted like hersheys shite, pistachio filling was fine, nothing spectacular.

Teenagers and those in their twenties who absolutely CANNOT hold a smartphone the right way up.

1. Having it in ‘speaker phone’ mode walking down the street means it has to be held like a slice of toast in front of them. This can obstruct their vision.
2. The oftentimes creates the necessity to put where the main phone speaker is (typically one of the bottom corners) up to their ear to hear whomever they are speaking with, so, in essence, they are effectively turning it upside down. Also done when listening to voicemails etc. Just hold it normally ta fcuk!

The reason that this has become popular is from shows like The Apprentice, where the contestants do this to make sure the audience hear the two-way dialogue (as the boom microphone is out of the shot). Conversing like this otherwise brings little to the party.

Boils my piss. The same for wireless ‘earbuds’ etc. They have a time and a place. Windy days ain’t one of them!! The mic picks up too much noise

When I were a nipper starting out with my first mobile, it was the Nokia 3210. The was only one way to hold it right, and that was between your ear and your gob!

People with really croaky voices either permanent from smoking or people who just refuse to clear their throat.

It was mystifying to me that Marian Finucane had such a long career as a radio presenter considering the croaky voice she had, she sounded horrific, couldn't imagine anything worse than having to listen to her for an extended period.