Trivial things that annoy you Part 27

Boom_Bap · 07-01-2015 03:53PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Oh, and did I tell you that I was out picking up De Vegetables for Christmas on the afternoon of Christmas Eve? I was, we usually leave it 'til then to grab things like sprouts, couple boxes of peas, mixed veg, etc. Do you think there was a Brussels sprout in either of the huge Dunnes foodmarkets in this leafy, comfortable suburb of Cork? Was there fcuk-buggery, mate. I very nearly Steven Seagal'ed the youngfella working in one of them with his Ironic Post-Modern beard as he gave me an amused look and said "Yeah, mad isn't it? No Sprouts like!!" :mad:

I done the same on Chistmas Eve, we were having some folk over on Stephens Day at short notice and had nothing in.
Dunnes was like one of the shops in the first season of The Walking Dead minus all the zombies and carcases.
People were resorting to grabbing anything. 1 old dear was proclaiming that she had the last tin of Quality Street in ye olde shoppe.
Not a vegetable in sight. But luckily I took another whip past the veg section before checking out. Some stocker had found a box of loose carrots and spuds and just popped them out on my return. Christmas miracle.
TA - cooking on Stephens Day a/k/a leftovers day.

OldNotWIse · 07-01-2015 03:53PM

73Cat wrote: »

I didn't look at thread since yesterday morning, and squeeeeee, 9 pages to read . TA that I got so excited. Thanking left, right and centre, but the internet connection is so slow today .

My TA is why do other women look at me so suspiciously when I say I don't watch the soaps? I have zero interest in them. I was at a wedding, and a friends wife, asked me what I thought of the latest Eastenders storyline. I said I didn't watch it. You would swear I had just told her I murder babies and eat them raw, the look on her face. She had to call over another friend to say "you won't believe this , but 'Cat doesn't watch the soaps!" I felt like a very interesting specimen altogether

Lol because cooked babies would be ok :P I hear you on the soaps thing. I consider every second spent watching them to be a sinful waste of one's life (says she typing her 7,854th trivial annoyance...)

bonzodog2 · 07-01-2015 03:54PM

Jaxen Curved Shaver wrote: »

How the heck are you supposed to fold a double bed sheet on your own? Out of the dryer they come, I'm 6ft tall and I still can't fold the blasted things on my own without them dragging on the ground.

Put it on the bed, in a heap, if your floor is so bad. Find a long side, put top and bottom corners of that side together. Hold with one hand, together. Find middle with other hand. Lift with 2 hands, short side of sheet (hanging down) should now be less than your upstretched arms height and not touch floor.

jimgoose · 07-01-2015 03:55PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I done the same on Chistmas Eve, we were having some folk over on Stephens Day at short notice and had nothing in.
Dunnes was like one of the shops in the first season of The Walking Dead minus all the zombies and carcases.
People were resorting to grabbing anything. 1 old dear was proclaiming that she had the last tin of Quality Street in ye olde shoppe.
Not a vegetable in sight. But luckily I took another whip past the veg section before checking out. Some stocker had found a box of loose carrots and spuds and just popped them out on my return. Christmas miracle.
TA - cooking on Stephens Day a/k/a leftovers day.

Yeah, I hear that. I had to blow a ferocious 83-year-old's head clean off with my semiauto Mossberg because Mrs. Goose wanted a nice bit of Christmas Cake. It's getting a bit ridiculous. :pac::pac::pac:

Mr. CooL ICE · 07-01-2015 04:00PM

73Cat wrote: »

My TA is why do other women look at me so suspiciously when I say I don't watch the soaps? I have zero interest in them. I was at a wedding, and a friends wife, asked me what I thought of the latest Eastenders storyline. I said I didn't watch it. You would swear I had just told her I murder babies and eat them raw, the look on her face. She had to call over another friend to say "you won't believe this , but 'Cat doesn't watch the soaps!" I felt like a very interesting specimen altogether

That's like me and football.

Every colleague ever: "See the match last night?"
Me: "What match?"
Every colleague ever: "Y'know, the united one"
Me: "Oh, right. Who were they playing?"
Every colleague ever: :eek:

eisenberg1 · 07-01-2015 04:04PM

Nicolas Cage wrote: »

That's like me and football.

Every colleague ever: "See the match last night?"
Me: "What match?"
Every colleague ever: "Y'know, the united one"
Me: "Oh, right. Who were they playing?"
Every colleague ever: :eek:

"You did not see the match? YOU DID NOT SEE THE MATCH?? is your telly broken?"

"No, I was watching Fair City"

They will never ask again:D

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 07-01-2015 04:04PM

Realising the most variation my diet got today was 3 different colour macaroons.

The lunch of winners though
http://tinypic.com/r/34sndwh/8

rainbow kirby · 07-01-2015 04:06PM

When you order something online and it arrives and the sizing is completely out. Thought I had a bargain on a new swimsuit, by the looks of things I need to return it and go 2 sizes smaller...

jimgoose · 07-01-2015 04:07PM

rainbow kirby wrote: »

When you order something online and it arrives and the sizing is completely out. Thought I had a bargain on a new swimsuit, by the looks of things I need to return it and go 2 sizes smaller...

Thinly-veiled "I'm built like Georgia Salpa" post logged. Consider this a warning! :pac:

rainbow kirby · 07-01-2015 04:09PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Thinly-veiled "I'm built like Georgia Salpa" post logged.

Hahahahahaha no - I'm no skinny mini! It's more that I took it out of the packaging and it looked a hell of a lot bigger than the one I was wearing at the pool this morning.

fussyonion · 07-01-2015 04:32PM

rainbow kirby wrote: »

Hahahahahaha no - I'm no skinny mini! It's more that I took it out of the packaging and it looked a hell of a lot bigger than the one I was wearing at the pool this morning.

Are you on holidays? :mad:

rainbow kirby · 07-01-2015 04:35PM

Nope, just swam before work at the pool near the office. Saves me having to do stuff later if I get the workout out of the way in the morning pre-coffee when I'm too stupid to know better.

Graces7 · 07-01-2015 04:44PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Oh, and did I tell you that I was out picking up De Vegetables for Christmas on the afternoon of Christmas Eve? I was, we usually leave it 'til then to grab things like sprouts, couple boxes of peas, mixed veg, etc. Do you think there was a Brussels sprout in either of the huge Dunnes foodmarkets in this leafy, comfortable suburb of Cork? Was there fcuk-buggery, mate. I very nearly Steven Seagal'ed the youngfella working in one of them with his Ironic Post-Modern beard as he gave me an amused look and said "Yeah, mad isn't it? No Sprouts like!!" :mad:

Happened to me one year when I was trading at a farmers market, I delayed going over to the veg stall and when I got there it looked as if a hurricane had hit. The man kindly let me rummage among the wreckage and I rescued a small handful of sprouts...it is not shopping but a feeding frenzy

stoneill · 07-01-2015 04:49PM

I hate the feeling of panic that wells up when you're bursting for a piss, running to the urinal, a drop or two making their sneaky appearance, you run while fiddling trying to open the fly of your jeans, fumbling around for the top of your jocks to pull your mickey out and you can't find the way in as you are really fidgeting with the bottom of your t-shirt.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 07-01-2015 04:50PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Oh, and did I tell you that I was out picking up De Vegetables for Christmas on the afternoon of Christmas Eve? I was, we usually leave it 'til then to grab things like sprouts, couple boxes of peas, mixed veg, etc. Do you think there was a Brussels sprout in either of the huge Dunnes foodmarkets in this leafy, comfortable suburb of Cork? Was there fcuk-buggery, mate. I very nearly Steven Seagal'ed the youngfella working in one of them with his Ironic Post-Modern beard as he gave me an amused look and said "Yeah, mad isn't it? No Sprouts like!!" :mad:

What annoys me is the number of people who grab all the fresh veg at Christmas and they complain about the waste and all the unused food they had to dump after Christmas. Can they not judge how much they'll use? Or do they not recall chucking sprouts in the bin last year and the year before?

yeppydeppy · 07-01-2015 04:50PM

A certain poster here (you know who you are) who complains of ill health but has the diet of an unsupervised 7 year old child.:D

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 07-01-2015 04:55PM

yeppydeppy wrote: »

A certain poster here (you know who you are) who complains of ill health but has the diet of an unsupervised 7 year old child.:D

Well now! If we're going the road of posters here who cause annoyance there's this one who......

Nah! Let's not.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 07-01-2015 04:56PM

yeppydeppy wrote: »

A certain poster here (you know who you are) who complains of ill health but has the diet of an unsupervised 7 year old child.:D

Hey! When you have a cold you're allowed nice things!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 07-01-2015 04:59PM

stoneill wrote: »

I hate the feeling of panic that wells up when you're bursting for a piss, running to the urinal, a drop or two making their sneaky appearance, you run while fiddling trying to open the fly of your jeans, fumbling around for the top of your jocks to pull your mickey out and you can't find the way in as you are really fidgeting with the bottom of your t-shirt.

Give it a few years until this is a regular occurrence every day and you'll no longer be annoyed: just resigned to it.

the purple tin · 07-01-2015 05:04PM

stoneill wrote: »

I hate the feeling of panic that wells up when you're bursting for a piss, running to the urinal, a drop or two making their sneaky appearance, you run while fiddling trying to open the fly of your jeans, fumbling around for the top of your jocks to pull your mickey out and you can't find the way in as you are really fidgeting with the bottom of your t-shirt.

Worse still when you are bursting try to unzip only to realise you're wearing a button fly :eek: the extra few seconds it takes to get your lad out is like the climax of an action movie.

OldNotWIse · 07-01-2015 05:16PM

the purple tin wrote: »

Worse still when you are bursting try to unzip only to realise you're wearing a button fly :eek: the extra few seconds it takes to get your lad out is like the climax of an action movie.

The female equivalent of that is when you eventually do get to sit down and realise the lid is up.

Oh wait, there doesn't need to be a female equivalent because the button/zip thing can happen to us too lol

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 07-01-2015 05:23PM

Trying to get a pencil skirt up, tights down, Spanx down. Sometimes it's easier not to go!

OldNotWIse · 07-01-2015 05:27PM

Perhaps not trivial, but finding out that since my beloved dog passed away from a degenerative disease in 2010, a cure for that disease has been discovered. I'm happy that other owners and their dogs will not have to go through what we did, but I can't help feeling a little sad that my beloved friend missed the boat. And now I am welling up God damn

Graces7 · 07-01-2015 05:28PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

The female equivalent of that is when you eventually do get to sit down and realise the lid is up.

Oh wait, there doesn't need to be a female equivalent because the button/zip thing can happen to us too lol

You mean the lid is down?

ie closed.. I never sit down on loos. I rented a house where the toilet was no longer attached to the floor...after the inevitable flood the local man came,, plumber and electrician and school bus driver... rural of course... said the floor was too wet for him to work and I never saw him again so I learned to hover.. dratted seat here is broken so the same here..

Graces7 · 07-01-2015 05:30PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Perhaps not trivial, but finding out that since my beloved dog passed away from a degenerative disease in 2010, a cure for that disease has been discovered. I'm happy that other owners and their dogs will not have to go through what we did, but I can't help feeling a little sad that my beloved friend missed the boat. And now I am welling up God damn

(((so sorry)))) How old was he?

Graces7 · 07-01-2015 05:31PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Trying to get a pencil skirt up, tights down, Spanx down. Sometimes it's easier not to go!

At my age you have no choice :rolleyes: and not much warning either:eek:But then I dont wear what you do..

OldNotWIse · 07-01-2015 05:31PM

Graces7 wrote: »

You mean the lid is down? ie closed.. I never sit down on loos. I rented a house where the toilet was no longer attached to the floor...after the inevitable flood the local man came,, plumber and electrician and school bus driver... rural of course... said the floor was too wet for him to work and I never saw him again so I learned to hover.. dratted seat here is broken so the same here..

Oh sorry yeah

You'll have to excuse me. The synergistic effect of nurofen cold & flu and lemsip... :pac:

I never sit down either unless I am at home. As a child, my mother was obsessive about this and to this day when I use a public toilet, I can hear her screeching, "don't sit down!" in my head

I have some impressive strength in my thighs from years of dishing out the number ones mid air

OldNotWIse · 07-01-2015 05:34PM

Graces7 wrote: »

(((so sorry)))) How old was he?

She came to us at 10 weeks and we were blessed to have her for 12.5 years.

Hugo Stiglitz · 07-01-2015 05:35PM

Extremely minor family bickering at a nice event :mad:

Boom_Bap · 07-01-2015 05:36PM

I got a right b*llocking from Mrs. Bap when she discovered that I let our little one sit on a public toilet.

Trivial things that annoy you Part 27

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