Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

jimgoose · 13-10-2014 03:32PM

veryangryman wrote: »

I don't think anyone stupid is aware that they are stupid. I mean me or you could be stupid but we wouldn't know it.

I CAN TYPING!?!!

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OldNotWIse · 13-10-2014 03:35PM

veryangryman wrote: »

I don't think anyone stupid is aware that they are stupid. I mean me or you could be stupid but we wouldn't know it.

Highly doubtful. I am aware of my own limitations. I know that I am above average intelligence...but I am also smart enough to realise that there are others smarter than me. It's like what they say about madness - if you question whether you're going mad, you're not. Genuinely stupid people think they are smart, like the crazies think they are sane. They dont reaslise their own limitations. They live in a kind of blissful ignorance and will simply stonewall anyone who tries to tell them where they are wrong etc.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 13-10-2014 03:40PM

Trying to start an open fire. Seriously, you'd wonder how hard it could be. Light a fire lighter, hape a rake of coal onto it, there ya go.

Except when I do it, the firefighter stops burning and I'm just left with a rake of coal not on fire. The stress of it. I want to get a shower and have it warm when I come back down in my towel. But it looks like ill have to be cold.

I have terrible problems in my life.

jimgoose · 13-10-2014 03:42PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Highly doubtful. I am aware of my own limitations. I know that I am above average intelligence...but I am also smart enough to realise that there are others smarter than me. It's like what they say about madness - if you question whether you're going mad, you're not. Genuinely stupid people think they are smart, like the crazies think they are sane. They dont reaslise their own limitations. They live in a kind of blissful ignorance and will simply stonewall anyone who tries to tell them where they are wrong etc.

Bertrand Russell got there before you, ONW:

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."

eisenberg1 · 13-10-2014 03:42PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Trying to start an open fire. Seriously, you'd wonder how hard it could be. Light a fire lighter, hape a rake of coal onto it, there ya go.

Except when I do it, the firefighter stops burning and I'm just left with a rake of coal not on fire. The stress of it. I want to get a shower and have it warm when I come back down in my towel. But it looks like ill have to be cold.

I have terrible problems in my life.

Do what Mrs E does, just fcuk half a box of firelighters in the grate....

jimgoose · 13-10-2014 03:43PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Trying to start an open fire. Seriously, you'd wonder how hard it could be. Light a fire lighter, hape a rake of coal onto it, there ya go.

Except when I do it, the firefighter stops burning and I'm just left with a rake of coal not on fire. The stress of it. I want to get a shower and have it warm when I come back down in my towel. But it looks like ill have to be cold.

I have terrible problems in my life.

If you're going to do that directly on coal, i.e. without any wood kindling, you need to use plenty of firelighter, let it burn for a minute to generate some half-serious heat, then heap coal directly on top. First, make a kind of "amphitheatre" of coal lumps for the firelighter to sit in.

smash · 13-10-2014 03:43PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Trying to start an open fire. Seriously, you'd wonder how hard it could be. Light a fire lighter, hape a rake of coal onto it, there ya go.

Except when I do it, the firefighter stops burning and I'm just left with a rake of coal not on fire. The stress of it. I want to get a shower and have it warm when I come back down in my towel. But it looks like ill have to be cold.

I have terrible problems in my life.

Fire needs oxygen to grow. Don't just heap the coal on top

jimgoose · 13-10-2014 03:48PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Do what Mrs E does, just fcuk half a box of firelighters in the grate....

And stay away from cheap, crappy firelighters with bugger-all kerosene in 'em. False economy when your arse is turning blue from de cowld.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 13-10-2014 03:51PM

Wouldn't it be great if you could press a button and have one? The clean up is terrible too. So disgusting. I cleaned it out, hoovered up the bits I missed, washed it down with bleach (let's hope it's not flammable) and now everything's all coal dust again.

OldNotWIse · 13-10-2014 04:13PM

Being disarmoured. I'm usually fairly together and self-sufficient, an inherent crank who does not tolerate fools and can kill with five words. Someone just completely blindsided me when he brought back my work ID he had borrowed and smiled and said, "I love this card, you've such a lovely pretty face" - for the first time in about a decade I was stuck for words and just gaped at him like a goldfish. Fúck sake. Must regain composure, can't be weakening!

redfacedbear · 13-10-2014 04:13PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Highly doubtful. I am aware of my own limitations. I know that I am above average intelligence...but I am also smart enough to realise that there are others smarter than me.

Clara had a fantastic quote on Doctor Who the other week - paraphrasing:

'Like many clever people you make the mistake of assuming everybody else is stupid'

I'm certainly guilty of that - but when you meet such profound stupidity on a regular basis often it's wise to start with that assumption :pac:

jimgoose · 13-10-2014 04:23PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Being disarmoured. I'm usually fairly together and self-sufficient, an inherent crank who does not tolerate fools and can kill with five words. Someone just completely blindsided me when he brought back my work ID he had borrowed and smiled and said, "I love this card, you've such a lovely pretty face" - for the first time in about a decade I was stuck for words and just gaped at him like a goldfish. Fúck sake. Must regain composure, can't be weakening!

Careful, ONW - that was Kobudera, he's probably a ninja!! :pac:

Aglomerado · 13-10-2014 04:25PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Being disarmoured. I'm usually fairly together and self-sufficient, an inherent crank who does not tolerate fools and can kill with five words. Someone just completely blindsided me when he brought back my work ID he had borrowed and smiled and said, "I love this card, you've such a lovely pretty face" - for the first time in about a decade I was stuck for words and just gaped at him like a goldfish. Fúck sake. Must regain composure, can't be weakening!

Yuck. Have you antiseptic wipes for your work ID? (You may not know where he's been with it!!)
I look like a grinning loon on mine, mad eyes and all!

Colser · 13-10-2014 04:27PM

Stupid people cant help it I suppose but its the ones who pretend to be stupid that really bug me...cute hoors imo...

eisenberg1 · 13-10-2014 04:39PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Being disarmoured. I'm usually fairly together and self-sufficient, an inherent crank who does not tolerate fools and can kill with five words. Someone just completely blindsided me when he brought back my work ID he had borrowed and smiled and said, "I love this card, you've such a lovely pretty face" - for the first time in about a decade I was stuck for words and just gaped at him like a goldfish. Fúck sake. Must regain composure, can't be weakening!

Snap out of it woman!!

Before you know where you are, you will be patting kiddies on the head and watching "Nationwide":D

Pumpkinseeds · 13-10-2014 05:22PM

Facking sanctimonius twats lecturing the rest of the community for not protesting water charges. Yeah fcuker, you IRA supporting piece of sh*t, I remember when you and your like fled here from Belfast in the 70's with your tails firmly tucked between your legs, so don't fcuking tell the rest of the town that we should be 'ashamed'. Fcuking nordie terrorist supporting **** wouldn't know what irony was if it jumped up and bit them in the arse.:mad: * And breathe.:)

Generic Dreadhead · 13-10-2014 05:23PM

Ranting and Raving thread is that a way :pac: ---->

OldNotWIse · 13-10-2014 05:26PM

Aglomerado wrote: »

Yuck. Have you antiseptic wipes for your work ID? (You may not know where he's been with it!!)
I look like a grinning loon on mine, mad eyes and all!

I was freaked out by the bitemarks in it...until I remembered they are mine

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 13-10-2014 05:30PM

I wouldn't describe the IRA (back then) as terrorists, trying to defend yourself and your country shouldn't mean you're a terrorist.

Pumpkinseeds · 13-10-2014 05:48PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I wouldn't describe the IRA (back then) as terrorists, trying to defend yourself and your country shouldn't mean you're a terrorist.

It was the parents that came south in the 70's, it's the ones that are late 30's or 40's that proudly display pro IRA stuff all over their facebook pages that piss me off. I live in a town with a very large nordie population who are very pushy, loud and at times, downright aggressive. I really resent people who support terrorism climbing on their moral high horses to ridicule the rest of us for not protesting fricking water charges.

My husband is English and I've lots of friends in the UK, it pisses me off hearing all this pro IRA sh*t, anyways, I don't want to derail the thread.:)

Frigga_92 · 13-10-2014 07:23PM

Where's Czarcasm?

I HATE waiting on my dinner

selous · 13-10-2014 08:19PM

The buggers that are setting off fireworks for last few weeks morning noon and night day in day out, then complain they have no money to pay for water or electric or ............!!!!

Pumpkinseeds · 13-10-2014 10:42PM

selous wrote: »

The buggers that are setting off fireworks for last few weeks morning noon and night day in day out, then complain they have no money to pay for water or electric or ............!!!!

I got into a row elsewhere tonight with a parent who thought it was perfectly ok to give kids/teenagers fireworks and leave them to their own devices with them. Fcukwits should not be allowed to breed. The same fcukwit was only recently bemoaning the lack of sense of community in the town.:rolleyes:

13-10-2014 10:47PM

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

Where's Czarcasm?

I HATE waiting on my dinner

Czarcasm brings you dinner??

do tell :P

Vel · 14-10-2014 08:09AM

Girl on Luas with two Iphones on the go scrolling through Facebook on both of them. Her thumbs were a whirl of activity. Life needed!

OldNotWIse · 14-10-2014 09:42AM

The fúcking twat who decided to take to the streets in a JCB this morning at 08:30

Beep beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!!!!!!!

gramar · 14-10-2014 09:47AM

I saw Love/Hate for the first time on Sunday. Could barely hear a word with the old pair crinkling and flapping of
broadsheet newspapers every 10 seconds.

OldNotWIse · 14-10-2014 10:00AM

Budget...budget...budget...water...water...water...

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Rosie Rant · 14-10-2014 10:05AM

People who bring massive trolleys with a fcuckin months worth of groceries piled into them into the self service area in the supermarket. My basket is heavy, damn you!

whiskeyman · 14-10-2014 10:06AM

The aircon in the office isn't working right and it's just that little bit too cold.
If I put my jumper on, it's too warm.

Woe is me...

Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

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