Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

NIMAN · 11-10-2014 10:58AM

The use of 'so called' in news reports.

Rubberlegs · 11-10-2014 11:02AM

My car cut out in town last night , and it took a few attempts to get it going again. A couple of cars had built up behind me, so I stuck on the hazards to let them know I wasn't just arsing about, that somethin was actually wrong. Why does some twat feel the need then, to start laying on the horn? Do ya think I'm doing this just to p*ss you off ?? . Just a bit trivially annoying

fussyonion · 11-10-2014 11:38AM

When newsreaders on the radio say "At 10, I'm Kate Carolan" or "At 2, I'm Brendan Smith".
At 10 you're Kate Carolan? Who are you at 12?
It irritates the bejaysus out of me.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 11-10-2014 12:05PM

I am ridiculous when it comes to skin care. I would buy skin care products before I would buy food. I got a very very expensive moisturiser to make me feel better about turning 26. I only use a little amount as because its so good, a little goes a long away. I also exfoliate and cleanse my skin so as my skin can absorb it better.

So, this morning I went into the bathroom to wash my face. Imagine my horror when I see the OH scooping out practically a handful to put it on his unexfoliated/not properly cleansed skin.

He's asking me what my problem is, his face felt tight after the shower, why is it such a big deal, and I look irrational because I can't tell him how much it cost, and him there when his big shovel hands wasting it

fussyonion · 11-10-2014 12:06PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I am ridiculous when it comes to skin care. I would buy skin care products before I would buy food. I got a very very expensive moisturiser to make me feel better about turning 26. I only use a little amount as because its so good, a little goes a long away. I also exfoliate and cleanse my skin so as my skin can absorb it better.

So, this morning I went into the bathroom to wash my face. Imagine my horror when I see the OH scooping out practically a handful to put it on his unexfoliated/not properly cleansed skin.

He's asking me what my problem is, his face felt tight after the shower, why is it such a big deal, and I look irrational because I can't tell him how much it cost, and him there when his big shovel hands wasting it

I thought you said the other day you had just turned 25?
Or did I dream that?

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 11-10-2014 12:08PM

fussyonion wrote: »

I thought you said the other day you had just turned 25?
Or did I dream that?

No I was 25 two weeks ago, back when I was only a young one.

14 days on the wrong side of it now

fussyonion · 11-10-2014 12:12PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

No I was 25 two weeks ago, back when I was only a young one. 14 days on the wrong side of it now

I got very depressed about turning 25 but turning 26/27 was no biggie.
I think it's cos 25 seems like a big milestone.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 11-10-2014 12:16PM

fussyonion wrote: »

I got very depressed about turning 25 but turning 26/27 was no biggie.
I think it's cos 25 seems like a big milestone.

I'm absolutely devastated about my age. Have been since 19. It's probably because I'm a very superficial person and can't bear the thoughts of being older. I don't cry a lot, hardly ever, but I'm always inconsolable on my birthday. This summer I got Botox for the very first time, and I'm constantly checking my skin for new fresh lines. I get micro needling done in work so that helps my skin but I've just turned 26 and the thoughts of being almost 30 is putting me into a sweat.

I met my cousin in town last week, he's two days YOUNGER than me and he's grey, total salt and pepper head on him. It's very stressful.

Pumpkinseeds · 11-10-2014 12:30PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I'm absolutely devastated about my age. Have been since 19. It's probably because I'm a very superficial person and can't bear the thoughts of being older. I don't cry a lot, hardly ever, but I'm always inconsolable on my birthday. This summer I got Botox for the very first time, and I'm constantly checking my skin for new fresh lines. I get micro needling done in work so that helps my skin but I've just turned 26 and the thoughts of being almost 30 is putting me into a sweat.

I met my cousin in town last week, he's two days YOUNGER than me and he's grey, total salt and pepper head on him. It's very stressful.

Oh dear, you'd better start a course of anti-depressants when you turn 39. I didn't understand why my husband was so miserable in the run up to 40, until I hit 39. That was a seriously depressing year. Although once I got to 40 it was kind of ok.:D

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 11-10-2014 12:35PM

I'm kind of hoping ill get to the stage where it can't get any worse, like at some stage I'm going to have to realise I'm flogging a dead horse

fussyonion · 11-10-2014 12:36PM

If I get down about my age (which I shouldn't as I'm only in my twenties), I think of things in perspective.
It's the same with all little worries in life.

For example, I was speaking to a woman the other day. She's in her late fifties and she has terminal lung cancer.
She told me there's nothing else they can do for her and she doesn't have long left.
It made me realise that I have a lot to be thankful for.

"Being grateful for every year I'm alive" is another way of thinking of your birthday.

I feel thankful that I'm healthy, I have my partner and my family. I have friends and I have a happy life.
I don't have any worries and for that, it makes me think that age really doesn't matter.

PS Lexie, with all the skin treatments and creams you buy, I bet your skin's like a baby's bum!

Seriously though, all you can do with your face is look after it, drink tons of water (which REALLY works) and eat well.
And be thankful that you're still alive, breathing and healthy.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 11-10-2014 12:42PM

You know what, FO. You're dead right. There's so many people out there, not healthy and okay, and age doesn't even come into it. A girl I know from years ago who's the same age as me has stage 4 cervical cancer, which has spread to her liver. In the grand scheme of things I'm quite lucky that all I have is an over inflated sense of importance. Perspective is a great thing, but still. I worry! And you'd think I'd have enough in my life to be worrying about rather than obsessing over skin care and battling my hirsutism

dellas1979 · 11-10-2014 12:44PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I'm kind of hoping ill get to the stage where it can't get any worse, like at some stage I'm going to have to realise I'm flogging a dead horse

Awh lexie

I think you should enjoy your 26 year old self now. Rather than worrying and thinking what youll be like at 30/40/50/60. Youll definitely get to a stage (when you are those ages) and think "why did I worry so much at 26?". But that is all for you to learn

eisenberg1 · 11-10-2014 12:51PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

No I was 25 two weeks ago, back when I was only a young one. 14 days on the wrong side of it now

fussyonion wrote: »

I got very depressed about turning 25 but turning 26/27 was no biggie.
I think it's cos 25 seems like a big milestone.

I have clothes older than both of you:D

fussyonion · 11-10-2014 12:52PM

Exactly. What'll happen is when you're 50 or 60 you'll be thinking "I was worried about getting older when I WAS young. I should have enjoyed those years instead of worrying about how old I was."

Perspective is a beautiful thing!

Nothing wrong with wanting to take care of your appearance but remember there are ladies in their fifties/sixties who'd kill for your skin!

eisenberg1 · 11-10-2014 12:53PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Oh dear, you'd better start a course of anti-depressants when you turn 39. I didn't understand why my husband was so miserable in the run up to 40, until I hit 39. That was a seriously depressing year. Although once I got to 40 it was kind of ok.:D

Pumpkin, I didnt mind being 40, but being 41 was a bit odd, cos I was then "in my 40's":eek:

Wish I was 41 now:D

eisenberg1 · 11-10-2014 12:58PM

fussyonion wrote: »

Nothing wrong with wanting to take care of your appearance but remember there are ladies in their fifties/sixties who'd kill for your skin![/QUOTE

Sounds like a quote from "Silence of the Lambs":D

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 11-10-2014 12:59PM

fussyonion wrote: »

Exactly. What'll happen is when you're 50 or 60 you'll be thinking "I was worried about getting older when I WAS young. I should have enjoyed those years instead of worrying about how old I was."

Perspective is a beautiful thing!

Nothing wrong with wanting to take care of your appearance but remember there are ladies in their fifties/sixties who'd kill for your skin!

My dad used to always tell me if I kept putting all that "sh1te" on my face that I'd end up looking like a crinkled up plastic bag. I'm honestly so strict with my skin. No fizzy drinks, no smoking, no tea/coffee, at least 3 litres of water a day, which makes me go around with the bathroom habits of shergar. I get micro needling done once a month, I use factor 30 under my moisturiser in winter, factor 50 in summer. I use Dermalogica cleansers and exfoliaters and spent just shy of 250 on a moisturiser full of marine extracts to keep my skin looking fresh - and i still needed Botox. I should probably stop drinking, or at least detox once in a while but it's literally my only vice.

So it's very annoying with he comes in with his face that hasn't seen an exfoliant in its life, and starts plastering himself with my magic potion.

LynnGrace · 11-10-2014 01:19PM

In the supermarket earlier, and three people in the queue for the self service checkouts with full trolleys, despite signs, and the fact that there isn't enough space for trolleys in that section anyway.
Trivially annoyed, although I just went to one of the ordinary checkouts instead.

redfacedbear · 11-10-2014 01:29PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Pumpkin, I didnt mind being 40, but being 41 was a bit odd, cos I was then "in my 40's":eek:

Wish I was 41 now:D

Like the child that gets through the first day of school no bother but freaks on the second when he realises he's going to have to keep going back and back and back :pac:

I'm exactly the same - 30 was fine but turning 31 and the dawning realisation that this being-in-your-thirties business wasn't going away was hard.

I turned 40 a couple of weeks ago and have been fine (honest!) but you can fully expect me to be on here in eleven and a half months time in the throes of a mid-life crisis. I predict I'm going to be trivially annoyed that my wife doesn't think my plan to trade the car in for a motorbike is fantastic!

eisenberg1 · 11-10-2014 01:48PM

redfacedbear wrote: »

Like the child that gets through the first day of school no bother but freaks on the second when he realises he's going to have to keep going back and back and back :pac:

I'm exactly the same - 30 was fine but turning 31 and the dawning realisation that this being-in-your-thirties business wasn't going away was hard.

I turned 40 a couple of weeks ago and have been fine (honest!) but you can fully expect me to be on here in eleven and a half months time in the throes of a mid-life crisis. I predict I'm going to be trivially annoyed that my wife doesn't think my plan to trade the car in for a motorbike is fantastic!

Ha, been there. Dont forget the ponytail.:D

dellas1979 · 11-10-2014 02:00PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

My dad used to always tell me if I kept putting all that "sh1te" on my face that I'd end up looking like a crinkled up plastic bag. I'm honestly so strict with my skin. No fizzy drinks, no smoking, no tea/coffee, at least 3 litres of water a day, which makes me go around with the bathroom habits of shergar. I get micro needling done once a month, I use factor 30 under my moisturiser in winter, factor 50 in summer. I use Dermalogica cleansers and exfoliaters and spent just shy of 250 on a moisturiser full of marine extracts to keep my skin looking fresh - and i still needed Botox. I should probably stop drinking, or at least detox once in a while but it's literally my only vice.

So it's very annoying with he comes in with his face that hasn't seen an exfoliant in its life, and starts plastering himself with my magic potion.

Well, based on thinking about this, my bug bear is that people think I am a lot younger than I am. And I hate it! Older people and people my own age can be very condecending. I do feel sorry for actual younger people that thats the way older people talk to them.

3 times in the last month alone Ive been asked for ID for cigarettes. The other day at work, a newbie asked me how long Id been working there. I said 4 years. They said "wow. Really?" Well you mustve just came straight from college then." No. Few weeks ago, I was out with the work crowd, heading to a night club, and was asked for ID. All my colleagues pissed themselves.

I smoke, drink, coffee, fizzy drinks, just about every hedonism. I think I pickled myself somehow.

eisenberg1 · 11-10-2014 02:12PM

dellas1979 wrote: »

Well, based on thinking about this, my bug bear is that people think I am a lot younger than I am. And I hate it!
3 times in the last month alone Ive been asked for ID for cigarettes.
.

One of my daughters cant even buy a lottery ticket, ID everywhere she goes.

We were abroad on hols a couple of years ago, and we were out for dinner,gave the waiter our food orders and I ordered beers for Mrs E and myself, the waiter then asks "And what will the little girl have?"

Rubberlegs · 11-10-2014 04:34PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

One of my daughters cant even buy a lottery ticket, ID everywhere she goes.

We were abroad on hols a couple of years ago, and we were out for dinner,gave the waiter our food orders and I ordered beers for Mrs E and myself, the waiter then asks "And what will the little girl have?"

Hehe, I'd say she was raging!! My daughter was buying drink in SuperValu, awhile back, was about 20 at the time. She was like a lunatic at the till , when the girl turned to me and asked was she old enough. It was hilarious:)
I was over in Lidl the other morning, and threw a bottle of wine into the trolley. When I got to the till, the foreign chap looks at me, and says something to me about alcohol. He calls another fella over, and they are looking at me. In my head I'm thinking "Oh my God, they are actually going to ask me for ID", my face started to feel a bit hot with embarrassment/ the thrill of them thinking I wasn't old enough. Who was I kidding, the other chap says to me "Its only 10.23, too early to buy alcohol, you will have to wait another 7 minutes". Back down to earth with a bump, haha. Told him I didn't need it that bad, I'd stay going.
My trivial annoyance - why don't Lidl close off the alcohol section till 10.30.

LynnGrace · 11-10-2014 05:05PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Ha, been there. Dont forget the ponytail.:D

Photo please

11-10-2014 05:16PM

NIMAN wrote: »

The use of 'so called' in news reports.

yes!!! and also 'Sort of' on Property shows, ' there a sort of door here, '

no, its isnt a fookin sort of door,it is indeed a DOOR!!!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 11-10-2014 05:19PM

Street parking and simpletons who can't park properly. Was looking for a space this evening, the opposite side of the street had space for two cars. So I went down the street, came back up that side, and some ignoramus had parked in such a way that she was taking up both spaces with her one car.

Paddy Cow · 11-10-2014 05:49PM

fussyonion wrote: »

Make-up testers.

I was in Penneys today looking for a lipstick and they had loads of testers.
All opened and used. Why would I want to use a tester which has been used by dozens of other people beforehand?!

I have no solution to this dilemma, but it's trivially annoying nonetheless!

I rub some on the back of my hand to get an idea of the colour.

Pumpkinseeds · 11-10-2014 06:03PM

People who spit big globs of phlegm onto the footpath. It disgusts me and makes me want to shout 'you facking kna*ker' at them.:mad:

Fred Swanson · 11-10-2014 09:18PM

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Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

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