Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 11-11-2014 03:18PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Aaah Guys, C'mon ............fcuking Xmas talk.

What?! Boy you crazy!!! Apart from maybe 2 things, I've all my Christmas stuff got! Kids presents, friends presents, brothers presents and my own presents. I have my Christmas cards wrote and ready to send. I am on fire this year.

Woshy · 11-11-2014 03:19PM

Companies that don't say their name when you call. I've been ringing around a good bit this morning getting quotes for various things and the amount of times the phone is just answered with "hello" and then I have to ask "is that xyz?" like a gob****e.

Grrr!

eisenberg1 · 11-11-2014 03:20PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

What?! Boy you crazy!!! Apart from maybe 2 things, I've all my Christmas stuff got! Kids presents, friends presents, brothers presents and my own presents. I have my Christmas cards wrote and ready to send. I am on fire this year.

Well ask your OH to get you a fire blanket:D

jimgoose · 11-11-2014 03:22PM

73Cat wrote: »

Cheers for all the smart replies!! She has a disability, and some other parents probably wouldn't let a child with that disability walk to school at all, wet weather or not. It would do her no good to get her legs/feet wet. So that is why she gets a lift in the lashing rain.

Didn't mean to be smart 'Cat, and I'm sorry the small girlie has a disability, but I'm sure she wouldn't thank us for wrapping her completely in cotton-wool on account of some tedious medical point-of-order that probably bothers the adults around her more than her herself.

jimgoose · 11-11-2014 03:23PM

smash wrote: »

So it was lashing rain, enough to get you soaked just crossing the road after stepping off a bus, and you're complaining that parents didn't make their children walk home in the rain... :rolleyes:

They're not going to furkan-well dissolve, are they??

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 11-11-2014 03:27PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Well ask your OH to get you a fire blanket:D

http://www.net-a-porter.com/product/469206

I've asked for these bad boys! He'll need a fire blanket for them
Because they're so hot!

jimgoose · 11-11-2014 03:29PM

That gowl over on the Discovery Channel talking about putting on a special suit and allowing himself to be eaten by an anaconda. I mean what in the actual fortified haemorrhaging fuckery?? When did Discovery turn into Jackass? Since when is their idea of wildlife documentary the equivalent of the naturalists "Planking" and "Neknominating" on Faecesbook?? jimgoose does not like!! :mad:

OldNotWIse · 11-11-2014 03:30PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

It's my mothers birthday at the end of the month. I'm married, I haven't lived with my parents for 20 years. Why is it that I'm the one that will be expected to buy not only my own card and gift for her but also pick and get cards and gifts for her from my dad and brother? I organise everyone's birthday's and get feck all in return for it.:(:D

Because guys are shit at things like that. One year my Dad got a toilet seat from my brother. The same year he bought me a disposable packet of toothbrushes and a twin pack of soft & gentle. Shortly after was the glass crucifix for his friend who was getting married. His presents remind me of those trolley dashes they used to have years ago, and perhaps he thinks that's how shopping is done and nobody has ever corrected him. Buy the presents first*..assign them to people after. Baffling.

* push trolley in front of you at breakneck speed with one arm extended to allow as many items as possible to fall into the trolley. Pay for items. Leave shop.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 11-11-2014 03:30PM

jimgoose wrote: »

They're not going to furkan-well dissolve, are they??

Haha I remember the walks home from school in the rain. I had a thing about my hair. I have naturally curly hair, and I'd always have it poker straight in school. If it got wet though, then POOF!
So, id have my coat over my head, while the rest of me would get soaked. But I'd arrive home with perfect hair. Now I dont care so much about my hair. If its raining, my coat will shelter my handbag

jimgoose · 11-11-2014 03:34PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Haha I remember the walks home from school in the rain. I had a thing about my hair. I have naturally curly hair, and I'd always have it poker straight in school. If it got wet though, then POOF!
So, id have my coat over my head, while the rest of me would get soaked. But I'd arrive home with perfect hair. Now I dont care so much about my hair. If its raining, my coat will shelter my handbag

Heh. Yeah, I used to cycle to primary school about two miles as a nipper, sometimes the rain would knock you clean over. My father would take off in the opposite direction in his huge Granada about the same time, I swear I could hear him laughing sometimes when the rain was particularly foul, the bollix!

My mother would occasionally drive me in her car if it was particularly bad, unless she was going to town for the morning in which case she'd take off in the opposite direction as well, after the other fella! :pac::pac::pac:

eisenberg1 · 11-11-2014 03:36PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

http://www.net-a-porter.com/product/469206

I've asked for these bad boys! He'll need a fire blanket for them
Because they're so hot!

Ahem, well thats different, though I would prefer the Jimmy Choo's ( for my oh, not me) and they are only 1200 quid.....then I would need the fire blanket:D

OldNotWIse · 11-11-2014 03:38PM

Woshy wrote: »

Companies that don't say their name when you call. I've been ringing around a good bit this morning getting quotes for various things and the amount of times the phone is just answered with "hello" and then I have to ask "is that xyz?" like a gob****e.

Grrr!

Isn't it your job to know who you've called?

The other side of that TA coin is when you answer the phone and say "Hello OldNotWIse Bus Improvement Commission" and they say, "Is that OldNotWIse Bus Improvement Commission?"

jimgoose · 11-11-2014 03:44PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

http://www.net-a-porter.com/product/469206

I've asked for these bad boys! He'll need a fire blanket for them
Because they're so hot!

Oh Hell yeah. You're definitely going to need an Aston Martin to set off them mofos. :cool:

redfacedbear · 11-11-2014 03:45PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

"Hello OldNotWIse Bus Improvement Commission"

"Is that OldNotWIse Bus Improvement Commission?"

'Yes'

'I've got a question about Bus Improvements would you be able to help?'

GRRRRRR

Rubberlegs · 11-11-2014 03:46PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Didn't mean to be smart 'Cat, and I'm sorry the small girlie has a disability, but I'm sure she wouldn't thank us for wrapping her completely in cotton-wool on account of some tedious medical point-of-order that probably bothers the adults around her more than her herself.

It's ok:). I didn't mention her disability in my post, as it's not the first thing I think of when talking about her. So yes, I came across as a mollycoddling Mammy, dashing to the school in the rain. And I got the sort of replies that were well deserved, if that was the case. I don't believe in wrapping her in cotton wool, she just gets on with everything her peers do unless it is something she is genuinely unable for. However getting her feet soaked is a big no no, as her skin can break down. Anyway, the sun has come out now, yay!!

Generic Dreadhead · 11-11-2014 03:50PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I was thinking maybe if I bought my own boots he wouldn't have to buy them for me, and that might be an idea for a present?

Ah come one now, there's a whiff of nonsense off that.... So you buy yourself something.... and that's his present

:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

I would say more but I read the sticky on misogyny and i'm tempering my gender based tongue in cheek humour currently

jimgoose wrote: »

<SNIFF> Selflessness like that is exceedingly rare. You are an inspiration. :cool:

(on a serious note, what game/games does he play most on his Playstation? I could recommend one as I am currently having the same conundrum, also getting him a game might keep him busy for a couple of evenings, depending on the way you look at it, that can be an added positive)

Aglomerado · 11-11-2014 03:52PM

Working my butt off to get a report ready for a meeting only to find I'd made a mistake with the dates and turn up at the meeting room at the right time, a day early, only to find it was full of completely different people.

and exit sharply...

Vel · 11-11-2014 03:53PM

People congregating around the doorways of shops psyching themselves up to go out in the rain, thus blocking the exit of those of us who have lived in the country all our lives, are used to this concept called rain and realise we are not going to dissolve all over the pavement if we have to walk about while it falls from the sky.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 11-11-2014 03:59PM

Cormac... wrote: »

Ah come one now, there's a whiff of nonsense off that.... So you buy yourself something.... and that's his present

:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

I would say more but I read the sticky on misogyny and i'm tempering my gender based tongue in cheek humour currently

(on a serious note, what game/games does he play most on his Playstation? I could recommend one as I am currently having the same conundrum, also getting him a game might keep him busy for a couple of evenings, depending on the way you look at it, that can be an added positive)

He plays fifa and he got that new call of duty one and he's got some pre ordered for Xmas. He has literally everything I can think of. He doesn't believe on waiting for things.

Miss Lizzie Jones · 11-11-2014 04:01PM

Smoke detectors going off when you make toast. :mad:

Generic Dreadhead · 11-11-2014 04:05PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

He plays fifa and he got that new call of duty one and he's got some pre ordered for Xmas. He has literally everything I can think of. He doesn't believe on waiting for things.

Lucky bugger :P

Make him something, like a collage of photos, a painting etc

OldNotWIse · 11-11-2014 04:21PM

When silly women do that thing where they wave their hands in front of their faces when they start to cry - are they trying to distract themselves from whatever is makign them cry? Are they trying to dry the tears with the frantic flapping motion? Who knows...

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 11-11-2014 04:27PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

When silly women do that thing where they wave their hands in front of their faces when they start to cry - are they trying to distract themselves from whatever is makign them cry? Are they trying to dry the tears with the frantic flapping motion? Who knows...

I do that on the rare occasion I feel a tear coming, it helps not to let it drop. Index finger in the inner corner of your eye to collect traitor tear, and then bam, back to the emotionless bitch everyone knows I am

grundie · 11-11-2014 04:33PM

People who hold the doors open for their friends on the DART/Luas. Unless it's the last service of the day it's just selfish and obnoxious.

eisenberg1 · 11-11-2014 05:04PM

The cyclist in the dark scenario has not improved in my area, out again yesterday evening, a group of 6-7 cyclists, two abreast, one hi vis between them and about half had lights. Thats bad enough, then we have Johnny Fcukwit, jogging on the road, against traffic, while there is a perfectly good footpath AND footpath/cycle path only three feet to his right.

This angers me because it is an accident waiting to happen and it is so avoidable.

Aglomerado · 11-11-2014 05:08PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Thats bad enough, then we have Johnny Fcukwit, jogging on the road, against traffic, while there is a perfectly good footpath AND footpath/cycle path only three feet to his right.

This angers me because it is an accident waiting to happen and it is so avoidable.

I see these idiots all the time. They are asking for trouble. A couple of weeks ago a woman was jogging towards traffic at 7am, wearing no reflective gear, on the road where there was a footpath available. Fine if she wants to commit suicide, but she doesn't have to implicate some unsuspecting driver who is only going to work as well.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 11-11-2014 05:28PM

Aul ones who have jobs for a hobby. I went into the chemist today. I just want a cheap perfume to wear every day. That Victoria beckham one isn't the worst, I quite like it. So I went to see what they had, and sure enough VB is there reduced down to 14.95, and a tester bottle on top of it.

The tester looked quite big for the price so I interrupted an old woman who was busy chatting her friend about someone's daughter gone off the rails, to ask her if that was the size displayed (there was no size on the bottle) she checked and told me no, it was a 50 ml bottle. The 30 ml was on display. That's okay I said, can I get the 50ml.

She was getting quite irritated as her friend stood with her mouth opening, listening. She told me they didn't do 50mls as they wouldn't be on promotion. I am not interested about the promotion, I want the 50ml bottle I don't mind paying. So then I asked her could I see the size of a 30 ml bottle (as it was in a box and I can't guess measurements), she told me no.

So then I'm walking up and down the aisles looking at different sets, and stuff and you know how it's so narrow? This absolute simpleton kept walking behind me, clearly I was in her way so I moved to the top of the aisle and started moving back down the back of the aisle. Who's behind me? Yeah your one. It'd be fine if she was actually looking at stuff but no, she was just behind me rushing me. Hate that.

And then I went to buy new boots because the boots I was wearing was hurting my feet. They are destroyed and although they look like they were made for winter, they certainly weren't made for rain.
http://tinypic.com/r/ycxs4/8 they don't look like that anymore.

CrowdedHouse · 11-11-2014 06:09PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

He has literally everything I can think of.

You can't go wrong with a nice Rolex or Omega watch......

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 11-11-2014 06:13PM

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

You can't go wrong with a nice Rolex or Omega watch......

Yeah good idea ill have a look in the buy and sell and see if there's any decent fakes

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 11-11-2014 06:13PM

Is the buy and sell even a thing anymore

Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

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