Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

Property tax that was supposed to "maintain" local services. The house that I own is about 3 miles outside the nearest town. It's a lovely area, the houses are nice. What local services do we have though? None. Any street lights? Nope. Are potholes filled over? Nope. Part of the road gets badly flooded when it rains, because the pipes to drain it off needs to be cleaned, and the council stick up 'road flooded ahead' signs and leave it for MONTHS, and when it's eventually sorted the road is all corroded.
Do the council keep the grass verges neat? Nope the residents do.

Then you go into the local council housing estate. Where a lot, if not most of them are paying a subsidised rent and no property tax. Yet, it's the best kept part of town. Grass is cut on the greens, the walls are painted each time it's defaced with obscenities such as "XX is a rat" and "**** the guards, scum". Yeah cause really, the guards are the scum. :rolleyes:

They have footpaths, they have a resource centre, they have street lights, they have signs saying children at play. And they contribute **** all to society, unless you count donations to the poor box as part of a court order as contributing.

I am not saying all money collected in an area should be spent in the same area, leaving the disadvantaged worst off, but Jesus. Every one of the houses out our way would be contributing something yet nothing is put back into the neighbourhood. You'd wonder why you'd bother

gugleguy wrote: »

Right Christy, tell us who should replace them? Pleeeeese!

No one will ever be able to replace them. I'm sorry Gugleguy!

Definitely not you anyway, after befriending Catallus. :P

smash wrote: »

Skinny Christy?

WTF?

smash wrote: »

They could be your nemesis and you can fight over the ownership of this thread.

I'll get the baby oil and paddling pool.

I'll just bodyslam the fcuker, no skinny b*tch is going to beat me. Nuh-uh.

P.S.: Baby oil? I thought you didn't like hairy fat birds?

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Sorry!! I'm going to start those 3 happy things a day thing so I won't be so ranty

Ah please don't.

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Todays trivial annoyance, not being rich.

Whatever you do Pumpkin, don't go doing fundraising, bloody bricking it in case this thing doesn't come off and only a handful show up for it

Getting ready for said event and one of my wife's mates strolls in on me in the bathroom, runs back out to my wife screaming as she goes "There's a naked man in your bathroom!"...

She didn't even give me a chance to introduce myself! :pac:

All sorted since though

Griever931 wrote: »

When somebody is eating and they are constantly scraping their knife and fork off the plate.

And people who stir tea and coffee until it sounds like they are trying to scrape the inside out of the mug.
That and people who scrape up the frothy bits of a cappuccino, or any milky coffee, with a spoon, and 'mmmmming' and 'yumming' it into their mouths. I was at lunch one day ages ago with someone who started to do that. Ugh.

eisenberg1 wrote: »

And what about the waiter/waitress with the "and have you tried our apple pie, its really lovely".

Its supposed to be Lovely, its a fcukin apple tart, and its a four quid a pop, with a blob of cream on it.

Well if they did get the apple tart, it might stop them yum yuming and scraping the mug. No, on second thoughts, it would probably double it.

eisenberg1 wrote: »

And what about the waiter/waitress with the "and have you tried our apple pie, its really lovely".

Its supposed to be Lovely, its a fcukin apple tart, and its a four quid a pop, with a blob of cream on it.

And it's not even real cream. It's that fake cream out of a can. It's very hard to find a place that uses proper whipping cream

honeygirl wrote: »

My mother shoves unwanted advice down my throat daily, but when I ask for advice I get told "oh I wouldn't want to get involved" aahh. trivially annoying and doing my head in.

My mother is the same except I tend to ignore her and avoid talking to her if at all possible. I remember being upset a few years ago and ringing my mam. I was a bit down about college at the time and just worried in general. Her response: "That's the devil influencing you, if you went to mass, you wouldn't be worried. Try saying a few prayers and going to mass." :rolleyes: I'm an atheist.

Moral of story...I haven't asked her for advice since.

honeygirl wrote: »

I try not to but every now and then she sucks me in and I forget:mad: But no I won't ask advice again.

My mam is the pits. My little sister rang me in awful state this week and she was talking to her dad (my stepdad) and he said to her 'Okay, I won't tell your mother'. WTF? The poor little mite was in awful state. Anyway, she got it sorted and told the quare one after she had everything done and dusted. She rang me 3 times because she couldn't talk to her own mother.

That more than trivially annoys me. :mad::(