Irritating things people say that are easier said than done

PingO_O · 14-10-2012 09:18PM

Shinaynay wrote: »

Nothing annoys me more than random strangers thinking they have the right to pass comments to other people. Was crying in town one day last year, had been let go from my job that day & just had a call to say I'd lost a family member. Some nosey fcuker strolls passed me 'AH CHEER UP LOVE, MIGHT NEVER HAPPEN?' ... Genuinely wanted to kick him in the balls

I was thinking about this the other day and it's one of my pet hates. Like someone above this happened to me in a bar when I was looking for my friends, some random bloke told me to smile and I told him where to go.

How can someone be so insensitive that they can tell a complete stranger how to feel? It baffles me anyway, if I come across someone who looks down and not very cheery I just let them be, God only knows what they've been going through or feeling.

If this ever happens to you again seriously tell them to f*** off you'll feel ten times better

Another one to add is "stand up for yourself"

Probably meant well but so easy to say when you're not in that person's situation.

St.Spodo · 14-10-2012 09:22PM

jaffacakesyum wrote: »

+1

Can't stand this. Was at a bar one night. My friends were there but it was a pretty big place and I slipped away for a drink by myself at the bar. I'd had an awful day. Like you, had received bad news so I just wanted to be by myself. And a lad comes up to me and says "Ah come on cheer up luv. Give me a smile there"

Felt like boxing him in the face. Is that you're idea of a good chat up line when someone is visibly upset. :rolleyes:

Hate that. I was told to ''cheer up'' walking around town by a chugger recently. I'll cheer up if I want and it's none of your fúcking business.

token101 · 14-10-2012 09:24PM

If it's not sarcasm in the thread title, then 'easier said than done' is a bit irritating! Almost everything is easier to say than do!

PingO_O · 14-10-2012 09:25PM

St.Spodo wrote: »

Hate that. I was told to ''cheer up'' walking around town by a chugger recently. I'll cheer up if I want and it's none of your fúcking business.

Exactly!! It's ok to not be happy all the time ffs

token101 · 14-10-2012 09:26PM

St.Spodo wrote: »

Hate that. I was told to ''cheer up'' walking around town by a chugger recently. I'll cheer up if I want and it's none of your fúcking business.

It's even worse when you're actually not down or annoyed, you're just not permanently smiling! Someone saying cheer up is almost as bad as 'calm down'. People who say 'calm down' should be ****ing punched everytime they say it.

ilovesleep · 14-10-2012 09:27PM

languagenerd wrote: »

-"You just need to make some new friends!"

Yes, because I can just go out and pick a few off a tree now.

-"Get a job"

Very difficult these days! Especially for people who have no experience. I know a lot of people who didn't work while we were in school (the school frowned upon it, I worked for a couple of years and was encouraged to give up, because "if we focussed on the Leaving Cert, we'd get a much better job when we finished". Ha.) and then the recession hit the year we finished, so many of them are finding it really hard to get jobs now, because they have no experience and can't get any. I hate hearing people tell others "Just go and get a job!" - anyone who says that clearly has been lucky enough not to have been job-hunting in the last few years.

This reminds me:

Say if you come down with a cold with for example headache, earache, sore throat, cough, the sniffles etc and sometimes you can do all that you fcuking hell can to get rid of it but it lingers on for weeks and weeks and weeks. Eventually people around you, probably family, might get irritated by you being crocked all time and coughing a lot and might say: will you ever go and get rid of that and get better.

I'm doing all that I fcuking hell can.

PingO_O · 14-10-2012 09:34PM

token101 wrote: »

It's even worse when you're actually not down or annoyed, you're just not permanently smiling! Someone saying cheer up is almost as bad as 'calm down'. People who say 'calm down' should be ****ing punched everytime they say it.

Woah calm down there mate!

*Gets battered by token101

gobnaitolunacy · 14-10-2012 09:37PM

"Stop picking it"

smurgen · 14-10-2012 09:42PM

jaffacakesyum wrote: »

Shinaynay wrote: »

Nothing annoys me more than random strangers thinking they have the right to pass comments to other people. Was crying in town one day last year, had been let go from my job that day & just had a call to say I'd lost a family member. Some nosey fcuker strolls passed me 'AH CHEER UP LOVE, MIGHT NEVER HAPPEN?' ... Genuinely wanted to kick him in the balls

+1

Can't stand this. Was at a bar one night. My friends were there but it was a pretty big place and I slipped away for a drink by myself at the bar. I'd had an awful day. Like you, had received bad news so I just wanted to be by myself. And a lad comes up to me and says "Ah come on cheer up luv. Give me a smile there"

Felt like boxing him in the face. Is that you're idea of a good chat up line when someone is visibly upset. :rolleyes:

Do you not think that a bar might not be the best place to be if you're that upset?people go to bars to have fun,that guy as stupid as he was was probably just expecting you to be open to Have a laugh.

Chavways · 14-10-2012 09:44PM

bb1234567 wrote: »

You shouldn't be so quiet :rolleyes: Saying thats really gonna help a quiet person... or worse, why are you so quiet? or you should talk more..really anything like that is very annoying

What I realy want to say to these people is 'I'm very quiet because I'm silently judging you and your idiotic,annoying,loud mouthed personality.' But a lot of people wouldn't like to hear the truth.

ilovesleep · 14-10-2012 09:49PM

Sometimes a fat thread comes up in after hours where all the smart alecs will give their mighty know it all advice: there's no excuse for being fat. They need to stop eating macdonalds and supermacs and take aways and sweets and snacks. As if all and each and every one of them live on a diet of crap. I'm over weight and my diet wasn't good years ago but was at a nice size 16 but somewhere through the years my weight went up and so did my size. Diet has changed dramatically but weight is still on.
They need to go out and exercise and join a gym their advice is. Thats well and good if you live near a gym or have public transport to get you to and from or you have a car and can drive. Some people aren't all that lucky. I'm living in the sticks of rural ireland and to get to the nearest gym I'd have to walk 12 miles to get to and from the nearest gym outside of public transport.

Well can you not use public transport? I'm in work during those times.

Can you not get up earlier before work? There's no bus at five o clock in the morning.

Can you not walk to and from work?
I do and at one stage I was walking two miles each way.

My sister used to be overweight and she lost a lot of weight by joining a gym but she had her own car. The amount of work that she put in - she was going in at least four or five times a week. Some people just doesn't have that kind of time available.
And lets face it walking just isn't enough.

Some people cannot understand that everyone is different with different circumstances and different schedules and different lifestyles and indeed different backgrounds and upbringings.

jaffacakesyum · 14-10-2012 09:57PM

smurgen wrote: »

Do you not think that a bar might not be the best place to be if you're that upset?people go to bars to have fun,that guy as stupid as he was was probably just expecting you to be open to Have a laugh.

No it wasn't but I had to go out for a friends birthday. Anyway, excuse me for wanting a drink with the news I had gotten.

jaffacakesyum · 14-10-2012 10:02PM

ilovesleep wrote: »

Sometimes a fat thread comes up in after hours where all the smart alecs will give their mighty know it all advice: there's no excuse for being fat. They need to stop eating macdonalds and supermacs and take aways and sweets and snacks. As if all and each and every one of them live on a diet of crap. I'm over weight and my diet wasn't good years ago but was at a nice size 16 but somewhere through the years my weight went up and so did my size. Diet has changed dramatically but weight is still on.
They need to go out and exercise and join a gym their advice is. Thats well and good if you live near a gym or have public transport to get you to and from or you have a car and can drive. Some people aren't all that lucky. I'm living in the sticks of rural ireland and to get to the nearest gym I'd have to walk 12 miles to get to and from the nearest gym outside of public transport.

Well can you not use public transport? I'm in work during those times.

Can you not get up earlier before work? There's no bus at five o clock in the morning.

Can you not walk to and from work?
I do and at one stage I was walking two miles each way.

My sister used to be overweight and she lost a lot of weight by joining a gym but she had her own car. The amount of work that she put in - she was going in at least four or five times a week. Some people just doesn't have that kind of time available.
And lets face it walking just isn't enough.

Some people cannot understand that everyone is different with different circumstances and different schedules and different lifestyles and indeed different backgrounds and upbringings.

I agree with the bit in bold and I certainly amn't one of those people who gives out to overweight people and claim it's easy, and all you need to do is exercise and stop eating McDonalds. I know it is hard.

BUT, that said, you don't need to go to a gym to lose weight. The wonderful thing about exercise is that it is free. You can go out for a run, do bootcamp style exercises...hell you don't even need to leave your house if you don't want to. So I don't think living far from a gym is a valid excuse

PC CDROM · 14-10-2012 10:04PM

I foresee this turning into a fattie bashing thread in 3........2.........

PingO_O · 14-10-2012 10:16PM

jaffacakesyum wrote: »

I agree with the bit in bold and I certainly amn't one of those people who gives out to overweight people and claim it's easy, and all you need to do is exercise and stop eating McDonalds. I know it is hard.

BUT, that said, you don't need to go to a gym to lose weight. The wonderful thing about exercise is that it is free. You can go out for a run, do bootcamp style exercises...hell you don't even need to leave your house if you don't want to. So I don't think living far from a gym is a valid excuse

I agree with this, plus you can spend loads of time in a gym arsing around not doing anything significant, i did plenty of times. It's all about the quality
of exercise you're doing and not where or how often.

phoenix999 · 14-10-2012 10:23PM

"Whateva"

Unregistered39 · 14-10-2012 10:33PM

ilovesleep wrote: »

Sometimes a fat thread comes up in after hours where all the smart alecs will give their mighty know it all advice: there's no excuse for being fat. They need to stop eating macdonalds and supermacs and take aways and sweets and snacks. As if all and each and every one of them live on a diet of crap. I'm over weight and my diet wasn't good years ago but was at a nice size 16 but somewhere through the years my weight went up and so did my size. Diet has changed dramatically but weight is still on.
They need to go out and exercise and join a gym their advice is. Thats well and good if you live near a gym or have public transport to get you to and from or you have a car and can drive. Some people aren't all that lucky. I'm living in the sticks of rural ireland and to get to the nearest gym I'd have to walk 12 miles to get to and from the nearest gym outside of public transport.

Well can you not use public transport? I'm in work during those times.

Can you not get up earlier before work? There's no bus at five o clock in the morning.

Can you not walk to and from work?
I do and at one stage I was walking two miles each way.

My sister used to be overweight and she lost a lot of weight by joining a gym but she had her own car. The amount of work that she put in - she was going in at least four or five times a week. Some people just doesn't have that kind of time available.
And lets face it walking just isn't enough.

Some people cannot understand that everyone is different with different circumstances and different schedules and different lifestyles and indeed different backgrounds and upbringings.

I hand on heart don't mean this to sound bad but this is very, very doable. And if you can keep it up both ways each day should keep you at a decent level of fitness I'd have thought? Your diet will still mostly dictate the weight but a good fast walk that gets your heart pumping is great!

Truley · 14-10-2012 10:35PM

"You're awful quiet, why are you so quiet, why aren't you loud and bubbly like everyone else in the world, you should talk more, stop being so shy, why are you shy?..." :mad:

OnTheCouch · 14-10-2012 11:29PM

languagenerd wrote: »

-"You just need to make some new friends!"

Yes, because I can just go out and pick a few off a tree now.

-"Get a job"

Very difficult these days! Especially for people who have no experience. I know a lot of people who didn't work while we were in school (the school frowned upon it, I worked for a couple of years and was encouraged to give up, because "if we focussed on the Leaving Cert, we'd get a much better job when we finished". Ha.) and then the recession hit the year we finished, so many of them are finding it really hard to get jobs now, because they have no experience and can't get any. I hate hearing people tell others "Just go and get a job!" - anyone who says that clearly has been lucky enough not to have been job-hunting in the last few years.

+1 to the job dilemma.

Amazing the amount of people in the middle of a severe recession, who, either directly or indirectly, let it be known to me that I should get employment. As if it were as easy as catching a bus in the morning.

Shinaynay · 14-10-2012 11:55PM

ilovesleep wrote: »

Sometimes a fat thread comes up in after hours where all the smart alecs will give their mighty know it all advice: there's no excuse for being fat. They need to stop eating macdonalds and supermacs and take aways and sweets and snacks. As if all and each and every one of them live on a diet of crap. I'm over weight and my diet wasn't good years ago but was at a nice size 16 but somewhere through the years my weight went up and so did my size. Diet has changed dramatically but weight is still on.
They need to go out and exercise and join a gym their advice is. Thats well and good if you live near a gym or have public transport to get you to and from or you have a car and can drive. Some people aren't all that lucky. I'm living in the sticks of rural ireland and to get to the nearest gym I'd have to walk 12 miles to get to and from the nearest gym outside of public transport.

Well can you not use public transport? I'm in work during those times.

Can you not get up earlier before work? There's no bus at five o clock in the morning.

Can you not walk to and from work?
I do and at one stage I was walking two miles each way.

My sister used to be overweight and she lost a lot of weight by joining a gym but she had her own car. The amount of work that she put in - she was going in at least four or five times a week. Some people just doesn't have that kind of time available.
And lets face it walking just isn't enough.

Some people cannot understand that everyone is different with different circumstances and different schedules and different lifestyles and indeed different backgrounds and upbringings.

Just put the fork down.

Fight_Night · 14-10-2012 11:55PM

Agree with posts about telling people you don't know to cheer up and the like, but being confident is pretty easy once you make the first step tbh. Sounds like a lot of excuses by calling it hard.

MJ23 · 15-10-2012 12:31AM

Is it in yet?

DonLimon · 15-10-2012 03:34AM

Dance

ukonline · 15-10-2012 03:40AM

bb1234567 wrote: »

You shouldnt be so quiet :rolleyes: Saying thats really gonna help a quiet person... or worse, why are you so quiet? orr you should talk more..really anything like that is very annoying

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Yeah, it's like saying, "Why are you so short? Be taller!".

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kiffer · 15-10-2012 08:48AM

Fight_Night wrote: »

Agree with posts about telling people you don't know to cheer up and the like, but being confident is pretty easy once you make the first step tbh. Sounds like a lot of excuses by calling it hard.

You're not one of those fake till you make it people are you?

holystungun9 · 15-10-2012 08:59AM

The King of Moo wrote: »

"Go f**k yourself."

No one likes a quitter.

Red21 · 15-10-2012 09:17AM

Fight_Night wrote: »

Agree with posts about telling people you don't know to cheer up and the like, but being confident is pretty easy once you make the first step tbh. Sounds like a lot of excuses by calling it hard.

What's this first step then?
Look at it this way, most guys are aware that the only thing standing in the way of them hooking up with hot women is their lack of confidance, if confidance is easy why do people lack it? You can hardly say they just couldn't be bothered.

Brain Stroking · 15-10-2012 09:49AM

Truley wrote: »

"You're awful quiet, why are you so quiet, why aren't you loud and bubbly like everyone else in the world, you should talk more, stop being so shy, why are you shy?..." :mad:

A girl spoke to me like that on Friday night and i called her a moron. There was an instant swoosh of silence and then i excused myself and went to the toilet

Sleepy · 15-10-2012 10:27AM

I have to say people who can't just let things go or build a bridge irritate the hell out of me.

A 6 week old has a right to ball their little eyes out for hours on end, a 30-something doing it is pathetic.

Sykk · 15-10-2012 10:36AM

As someone already mentioned, it's got to be the "Literally!".

"I literally broke my ankle when I fell, on my way here"...

She says as she's standing there, talking... :mad:

Irritating things people say that are easier said than done

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