Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

Boom_Bap · 14-10-2014 10:22AM

Vel wrote: »

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!

I bet her name is Lucy*.

*Only people who have seen the recent movie called Lucy with my other wife Scarlett Johansson in it will get this reference.

smash · 14-10-2014 10:25AM

Forgot my headphones. Now I'll have to listen to everyone around me coughing up their lungs. I swear the whole office seems to have the feckin plague

Frigga_92 · 14-10-2014 10:30AM

Just picked up the phone next me
"Hi, X isn't here. I don't know where she is."
"Is she with Y?"
"I don't know"
"Is she with W?"
"I don't know"
I JUST SAID I DON'T KNOW WHERE SHE IS!!!

OldNotWIse · 14-10-2014 10:38AM

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

Just picked up the phone next me
"Hi, X isn't here. I don't know where she is."
"Is she with Y?"
"I don't know"
"Is she with W?"
"I don't know"
I JUST SAID I DON'T KNOW WHERE SHE IS!!!

Or, "do you know when X will be back?" - no

. I dont ask everyone leaving the office when they will be back...

MsBubbles · 14-10-2014 10:46AM

I'm on Reception and nobody tells when they're out of the office, it takes a minute to send an email saying I am on holidays/training course/at a meeting.

You're not James Bond ! FFS

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 14-10-2014 10:48AM

Brides, bridezillas. Good lord, #kantkope

eisenberg1 · 14-10-2014 10:51AM

jimgoose wrote: »

I cannot recommend "The Little Book Of Complete Bollocks" highly enough. Acquire it. Make it your companion. Love it. Have it's little book-babies. And above all, breeeeeeathe...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Little-Book-Complete-Bollocks/dp/0671037676

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Thanks Jim. just bought this a few mins ago, kindle edition for a few cents!!

Thanks for that Jim, spent my (kinda) hard earned cridit card on this, read it, and the only thing I can say is....

ITS FULL OF BOLLOCkS!!:mad:

jimgoose · 14-10-2014 10:54AM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Thanks for that Jim, spent my (kinda) hard earned cridit card on this, read it, and the only thing I can say is....

ITS FULL OF BOLLOCkS!!:mad:

You were expecting maybe Newton's Principia Mathematica???

gramar · 14-10-2014 10:54AM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Thanks for that Jim, spent my (kinda) hard earned cridit card on this, read it, and the only thing I can say is....

ITS FULL OF BOLLOCkS!!:mad:

You had been warned:pac:

jimgoose · 14-10-2014 11:26AM

Accountants and their delusions of competence. I had a Financial Bint hassling me all morning about the book-value of certain machinery I bought last year. According to her there was something like €50,000 missing. "And I'm a qualified financial accountant, so I know! I'm good at this!".

Woman, I'm an engineer. I've been an engineer for a long time. I munch C-code for breakfast, dream in differential calculus and speak fluent Newtonian physics. Did you put a decimal point in the wrong place? Of course you did. Now kindly bugger off!!

jimgoose · 14-10-2014 11:35AM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Or, "do you know when X will be back?" - no . I dont ask everyone leaving the office when they will be back...

I've just about trained our one to say, in a clipped Mid-Atlantic monotone, "<Plippity-Plip> Commander Goose is not aboard the Enterprise!" :pac:

Vel · 14-10-2014 12:02PM

Someone who retired last year came in this morning to say hi - grand.
She then decided she would like to take some photos - Ok, if that's your bag who am I to object!
I was then manhandled into posing in a photo with her - Not at all grand.
When the photo was being taken there was a group of my colleagues standing around watching and making me feel like a right pleb with my forced rictus grin - So very not grand.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 14-10-2014 12:19PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Accountants and their delusions of competence. I had a Financial Bint hassling me all morning about the book-value of certain machinery I bought last year. According to her there was something like €50,000 missing. "And I'm a qualified financial accountant, so I know! I'm good at this!".

Woman, I'm an engineer. I've been an engineer for a long time. I munch C-code for breakfast, dream in differential calculus and speak fluent Newtonian physics. Did you put a decimal point in the wrong place? Of course you did. Now kindly bugger off!!

They're not only a pain in the ass at work either jim. They're insufferable at home too!

jimgoose · 14-10-2014 12:22PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

They're not only a pain in the ass at work either jim. They're insufferable at home too!

For shíts-'n'-giggles, recite the proof that "0.9-recurring == 1" to him. It works just like a crucifix to a vampire! :pac::pac::pac:

gramar · 14-10-2014 12:27PM

Vel wrote: »

Someone who retired last year came in this morning to say hi - grand.
She then decided she would like to take some photos - Ok, if that's your bag who am I to object!
I was then manhandled into posing in a photo with her - Not at all grand.
When the photo was being taken there was a group of my colleagues standing around watching and making me feel like a right pleb with my forced rictus grin - So very not grand.

A old fart who retired from here comes in every month to regale us about his great retired life and all the craic he's having. The old prick.

Aglomerado · 14-10-2014 12:38PM

gramar wrote: »

A old fart who retired from here comes in every month to regale us about his great retired life and all the craic he's having. The old prick.

If it's so great what the fúck is he doing coming back to his old work? Gimp.

eisenberg1 · 14-10-2014 12:55PM

Att: All Car drivers

If is is dull/raining, i.e. low visibility, turn on your "little" lights

When it gets darker, turn on your headlights

And when it gets foggy, TURN ON YOUR FCUKING FOG LIGHTS!!!!

Thanks

Frigga_92 · 14-10-2014 01:20PM

When your hairdresser goes to a different salon miles away

She convinced me to cut my hair up really short and now I'm afraid of the other hairdressers

bnt · 14-10-2014 01:38PM

This may be bordering on the non-trivial, but: I'm getting annoyed by "stealth" price increases by reducing package sizes. Example: 800g is the standard mass of a loaf of bread, but 600g loaves are becoming more common, and I recently saw a 750g loaf, which is sneaky. Today I was in Tesco, and in the freezer there was the usual selection of ice cream in 500ml tubs, and then there was Tesco's new own-brand range in tubs of 480ml. We know what you're up to, Tesco ...

jimgoose · 14-10-2014 02:11PM

Aglomerado wrote: »

If it's so great what the fúck is he doing coming back to his old work? Gimp.

I would imagine the poor old devil is having a bit of a time adjusting to not working after forty or fifty years, and probably feels a bit lonely.

Frigga_92 · 14-10-2014 02:14PM

When your hair is at that in-betweeny stage before you get it done. I'm getting my hair done on Saturday but really I probably needed to get my hair done a month ago but just didn't have the time so at the moment it's too long at the back and growing at funny angles and the front is too long and getting in my eyes. Woe is me.

jimgoose · 14-10-2014 02:20PM

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

When your hair is at that in-betweeny stage before you get it done. I'm getting my hair done on Saturday but really I probably needed to get my hair done a month ago but just didn't have the time so at the moment it's too long at the back and growing at funny angles and the front is too long and getting in my eyes. Woe is me.

You are the MD and CEO of the Sigue Sigue Sputnik Appreciation Society, and I claim two packets of Rancheros. :pac:

MsBubbles · 14-10-2014 02:23PM

26sdrawkcab Kirby grips are awesome for keeping unruly hair at bay.

Pumpkinseeds · 14-10-2014 02:29PM

Toothache. 1 of my teeth is very sensitive, I'm guessing I need a filling.:(

Pumpkinseeds · 14-10-2014 02:31PM

Why is it so difficult to find decent hi viz products? I've managed to find a Sam Browne belt on Amazon but I'd almost given up hope of finding something hi viz that isn't an ugly tabard/vest or something with flashing leds. You wouldn't think it would be so fricking hard to get a simple reflective band.

OldNotWIse · 14-10-2014 02:36PM

People who insert an unncecessary "or" at the end of their question and just let it hang without offering the alternative:

Is X there?
No.
Oh right. Will he be back today oooooorrrrrr........
.......???
Or WHAT??!!!!!! Not? Is that the word you are looking for? Will he back today or not?

Colser · 14-10-2014 02:38PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Toothache. 1 of my teeth is very sensitive, I'm guessing I need a filling.:(

Get it seen to asap Pumpkin...it will come at you bad some Friday night and you will spend a weekend in pain if your dentist doesnt open on Saturday..Mine will come meet me at the weekend alright but the cost leaves me in pain also:pac:

OldNotWIse · 14-10-2014 02:41PM

Listening to budget live in one ear and getting updates about the budget on Boards - head wrecking! :P I know I know I know already!!!!

jimgoose · 14-10-2014 02:41PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Listening to budget live in one ear and getting updates about the budget on Boards - head wrecking! :P I know I know I know already!!!!

I'm listening to this:

gramar · 14-10-2014 02:48PM

Who is the complete fcuking arséhole who decided that putting cats eyes on the M9 the size of the Easter Island statues was a good idea?
Tool, whoever he was.

Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

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