Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

jimgoose · 06-02-2014 01:05PM

Wossack wrote: »

Microsoft Word 2010..
Theres just so many poxy 'nuances' (to say it politely). Its like there's a perfectly functional word processor in there, but they've somehow layered a veneer of heart breaking abject misery over it.

An example of a fairly simple action- lets select a single particular word.. 'lol nope, lets select the sentence, with.. no without the full stop. Oh and the space after the full stop'. Sigh, and lets paste it over in another program 'lol, lets pop up a dialog and let you change the word/sentence to bold, while your mouse pointer is over your other program'

Its like that poxy little paperclip ****er is still around, behind the scenes, twisted up like golum, and who's sole meaning in life is to obfuscate the simplest bloody action.

Years down the line I hope to read of the inventor of said paperclip, on trial in the Hague for crimes against humanity

May I recommend "vi". :cool:

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 06-02-2014 01:08PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

The marketing cycle. I don't know if it's just here or in other places too. Right now we are in the Valentine phase: pink flowers and glitter and bears and oversized cards and overpriced romantic getaways (and when did that become a word?) everywhere. I'm already seeing the jif lemon creep, and a hint of easter too... then we'll have Mother's day...make it up to her for being a b1tch...then various bank holiday "madness" sales of bbq's and garden furniture...we'll have Hallowe'en and Christmas all ooooooooover again.

The problem is not even simply the marketing, its the fact that it's getting more hysterical all the time...and prolonged too. There was a time when I was young that we'd at least get a fuucking break in between "events" and "extravangazas" but now the fuuckers are overlapping them all! I dont want any poxy hallmark cards, teddy bears, weekends away, special edition creme eggs, anorexic santas peddling couches for Hardly Normal or DFS or spooky mallows alright?! Gawd. :mad:

My local Tesco were displaying their Easter stuff in early January alongside all the Christmas stuff they were trying to get rid of. The clothes shops are already displaying their Summer collections and come July it will be nearly impossible to buy a swimsuit or a pair of flip flops. By then the Back to School stuff will be out on display. :mad:

Sir Arthur Daley · 06-02-2014 01:10PM

Going to the toilet outdoors and the wind changes and get soaked by ones piss

Czarcasm · 06-02-2014 01:10PM

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

When you go into public toilets, by public toilets I'm talking about any toilet not in your own house, i.e. the toilets in your office building etc., and the lid is down. I always think I'm going to lift the lid and a pack of rats will emerge or there'll be some other surprise waiting.

It's always worse when the office lumberJacks been and left half his body weight behind him! Get some fibre in your diet man, the labour pains alone must be painful!

Aglomerado · 06-02-2014 01:14PM

Czarcasm wrote: »

It's always worse when the office lumberJacks been and left half his body weight behind him! Get some fibre in your diet man, the labour pains alone must be painful!

ha lumberJacks, cutting down enormous logs...

Yup, lifting the lid on a public jax can be terrifying. I rarely use a jax that has the lid down, but if I have no choice, I'll use my foot to lift it so that my nose is as far away as possible.

Czarcasm · 06-02-2014 01:18PM

Aleah Stocky Melon wrote: »

My local Tesco were displaying their Easter stuff in early January alongside all the Christmas stuff they were trying to get rid of. The clothes shops are already displaying their Summer collections and come July it will be nearly impossible to buy a swimsuit or a pair of flip flops. By then the Back to School stuff will be out on display. :mad:

The idea being of course that you buy a swimsuit now that's a couple of sizes too small, go on the latest fad diet (OldNotWise I heard all about about that "syns" diet yesterday that you were on about before, and one girl has even taken up the insanity "challenge", it was all I could do not to slip out under the desk and make a run for it to get away from having to listen to her tbh! :pac:), and then you'll have your, "bikini body" by Summer... Loathe to use this smiley but - :rolleyes:

Wossack · 06-02-2014 01:19PM

Aglomerado wrote: »

ha lumberJacks, cutting down enormous logs...

Yup, lifting the lid on a public jax can be terrifying. I rarely use a jax that has the lid down, but if I have no choice, I'll use my foot to lift it so that my nose is as far away as possible.

jacks lid.. I feel like an american cop opening the boot of a perps car

OldNotWIse · 06-02-2014 01:40PM

Czarcasm wrote: »

The idea being of course that you buy a swimsuit now that's a couple of sizes too small, go on the latest fad diet (OldNotWise I heard all about about that "syns" diet yesterday that you were on about before, and one girl has even taken up the insanity "challenge", it was all I could do not to slip out under the desk and make a run for it to get away from having to listen to her tbh! :pac:), and then you'll have your, "bikini body" by Summer... Loathe to use this smiley but - :rolleyes:

raaaaaar :mad: Someone actually said to me the other day (and I kid you not), "A summer body is made in the winter" :eek::eek::eek: If I hear one more bint parping on about syns I'll go spare. Also annoying is the 5:2 thing. Gorge for 2 days and then live like a fuucking Trocaire box beneficiary for the other 5. Why? Why????? Can't you just be normal for 7? Like, if I want a chocolate bar (which usually only happens once a month) I'll just have it and be done with it. This thing of cutting it up and agonisingly eating a square a day, doing calculations that pythagoras wouldnt understand to figure out how long it'll be on your hips (forever love, that stuff has set)when we all know you run into the bathroom and devour a slab of chocolate when nobody is looking, or putting it in the freezer "in case I eat it", pointing at people eating it and saying, "oh you're so bold. OMG I couldn't!". I feel like looking them up and down saying, "hummmmm, and yet, you're fat and I'm not....hmmmmm". Should clamp their fuucking mouths shut - that way they'd lose weight and I'd get a bit of bleedin' peace.

^ see what you started? :pac:

syn---nyom nyom

06-02-2014 01:45PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

r Also annoying is the 5:2 thing. Gorge for 2 days and then live like a fuucking Trocaire box beneficiary for the other 5.

No... you eat normal for 5 days and fast for 2

Frigga_92 · 06-02-2014 01:45PM

Czarcasm wrote: »

It's always worse when the office lumberJacks been and left half his body weight behind him! Get some fibre in your diet man, the labour pains alone must be painful!

We have 2 lumberjacks in our office, the only 2 men in the office, the rest are women so you'll often catch us whispering on the stairs "don't go near the bathroom" and by that we don't mean don't go into bathroom, we mean don't even enter the same floor that the bathroom is on.
Also, these men, obviously embarrassed by their bathroom activity, then close the door on their smell without opening the window, trapping it in the bathroom. WHY?

eisenberg1 · 06-02-2014 01:52PM

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

We have 2 lumberjacks in our office, the only 2 men in the office, the rest are women so you'll often catch us whispering on the stairs "don't go near the bathroom" and by that we don't mean don't go into bathroom, we mean don't even enter the same floor that the bathroom is on.
Also, these men, obviously embarrassed by their bathroom activity, then close the door on their smell without opening the window, trapping it in the bathroom. WHY?

The trick is to get a canary.............if you don't hear the canary singing in the jacks, don't enter:P

OldNotWIse · 06-02-2014 01:54PM

bluewolf wrote: »

No... you eat normal for 5 days and fast for 2

Sheer madness. Surely if you eat normally for 5 days, you wouldn't need to starve for 2? I remain a fan of the mouth clamping :P

deise08 · 06-02-2014 01:55PM

That ranulph is pronounced rayfe.

Aglomerado · 06-02-2014 02:05PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

The trick is to get a canary.............if you don't hear the canary singing in the jacks, don't enter:P

With all this toilet talk, I felt a familiar rumbling in my gut.

New trivial things that annoy me:

People stopping to talk to you in the corridor when you're on your way to the toilet.

Meeting the same person every time you go to the toilet. You think they live in there. Or vice versa. Because it happens several times a day.

eisenberg1 · 06-02-2014 02:06PM

deise08 wrote: »

That ranulph is pronounced rayfe.

It is?

Pumpkinseeds · 06-02-2014 02:13PM

Parents who allow their offspring to take a dolls pram into shopping centres/shops. This is something that really p*sses me off. There is no justification for allowing a child to bring a bike or dolls pram etc into a shopping area, especially not a 3 or 4 year old child, it's just a pain in the ass for shoppers who have to navigate their trolleys around a child, often unsupervised, while the parent chats with other people, oblivious or indifferent to the problems their child is creating for other shoppers.

maximoose · 06-02-2014 02:23PM

Women in the office having loud conversations on the phone with their kids several times a day.

OldNotWIse · 06-02-2014 02:28PM

maximoose wrote: »

Women in the office having loud conversations on the phone with their kids several times a day.

The male equivalent is guys talking about their kids football matches (and using language that would suggest they are professional players) on a Monday morning.

Frigga_92 · 06-02-2014 02:50PM

I work in a small town in Ireland, this small town is over-run with dog owners who allow their dogs out in the morning and only allow them back in the evening.
This results in stray dogs everywhere, running in traffic etc. and dog poo everywhere.

I just came back from lunch, having dodged loads of the poo and there was a man on the street calling his dog. I had seen him earlier leaving the post office with the dog in tow, the dog has a limp in one of his legs, no collar, no lead, the usual.
So way way up the street the man was whistling for the dog, I had seen the dog standing around near a chemist way down the street so I said to him "oh he's back at the chemist" and the man said "oh it's grand, he'll find his own way home" and kept walking.
I would be crying my eyes out if I was out walking my dogs in the middle of town and one of them disappeared (not that that would ever happen as I'd never walk them in a town off lead). He just headed on home

Another thing that annoys me is people who cannot train their dogs to walk on lead properly. I always laugh when I see someone being dragged along by their little terrier or jack russell. I have a 12 and a half stone great dane and 2 german shepherds, who just stroll along with me at my pace, always have done.

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 06-02-2014 03:06PM

maximoose wrote: »

Women in the office having loud conversations on the phone with their kids several times a day.

Also women in the office who never stop talking about their kids, or who start up 'mammy' cliques, often dragging in reluctant mothers who would far prefer to be discussing last night's episode of Operation Transformation, or some juicy bit of office gossip with the rest of their colleagues.

Turtyturd · 06-02-2014 03:07PM

Cyclists...I walk up the quays from Eden Quay to Smithfield each morning to work and you will not make the trip without at least one breaking the lights at O'Connell St, Capel St or Church St.

Czarcasm · 06-02-2014 03:13PM

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

I work in a small town in Ireland, this small town is over-run with dog owners who allow their dogs out in the morning and only allow them back in the evening.
This results in stray dogs everywhere, running in traffic etc. and dog poo everywhere.

I just came back from lunch, having dodged loads of the poo and there was a man on the street calling his dog. I had seen him earlier leaving the post office with the dog in tow, the dog has a limp in one of his legs, no collar, no lead, the usual.
So way way up the street the man was whistling for the dog, I had seen the dog standing around near a chemist way down the street so I said to him "oh he's back at the chemist" and the man said "oh it's grand, he'll find his own way home" and kept walking.
I would be crying my eyes out if I was out walking my dogs in the middle of town and one of them disappeared (not that that would ever happen as I'd never walk them in a town off lead). He just headed on home

You should try living in a city where it's like trying to walk on wet cement with the amount of dog excrement you have to try and steer around, it's actually worse in the more affluent neighbourhoods. The less affluent neighbourhoods are nothing to write home about either because while they're strolling about the town with their unmuzzled bull terriers and mastiffs, they've left the horses outside roaming the estate leaving mounds you'd trip over if you didn't see them (actually they're hard to miss!)...

Another thing that annoys me is people who cannot train their dogs to walk on lead properly. I always laugh when I see someone being dragged along by their little terrier or jack russell. I have a 12 and a half stone great dane and 2 german shepherds, who just stroll along with me at my pace, always have done.

I used "walk" greyhounds to earn money when I was younger, five in each hand, the older ones were grand, the younger ones when they weren't going for my jugular would have ripped the arms off me trying to get away, but instead they had me drag along behind them scooping up tarmac with my bottom lip! :pac:

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 06-02-2014 03:21PM

flatmates used 300gb of data in the last 2 weeks

definitely getting another snotty email from upc about this

Fred Swanson · 06-02-2014 03:31PM

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krudler · 06-02-2014 03:37PM

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

flatmates used 300gb of data in the last 2 weeks

definitely getting another snotty email from upc about this

That's about average these days I would have thought?

Fred Swanson · 06-02-2014 03:38PM

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Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 06-02-2014 03:40PM

well we were already at 500gb 2 weeks ago, so we're pushing 800 and a bit now only reason i'm a bit concerned

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500 being the monthly limit

Fred Swanson · 06-02-2014 03:44PM

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Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 06-02-2014 03:45PM

they're not amazingly strict, but i got a letter the month before last about the same thing

ah well, nothing to be done about it now. i can always get indignant about it on the upc talk to forums later

Czarcasm · 06-02-2014 03:52PM

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

flatmates used 300gb of data in the last 2 weeks

definitely getting another snotty email from upc about this

They're clearly not taking "the no-fap challenge" seriously anyway...

What is it about everything being a "challenge" these days anyway? If someone wants to be a fat wanker then they're not going to get too excited about ideas like "the insanity challenge" or "the no fap challenge"...

Fcuking Americans, how about "the 'stop making out you have it sooo hard' challenge"... :rolleyes:

Second time today, I'm struggling with the 'sarcastic prick' challenge - "Nothing is my fault"...

I robbed that from "the personal responsibility challenge", clearly I'm also struggling with "the kleptomania challenge".

Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

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