Trivial things that annoy you Part 27

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 18-01-2015 07:12PM

Couriers. Firstly, get a simple Sat Nav people! Secondly, saying nobody was home so delivery was not possible just because we were outside and didn't hear you phoning the landline for directions is just not good enough. What do we do? Sit inside by the phone all day every day in case something may be coming via courier? What if we both were at work?

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 18-01-2015 07:19PM

Aggressive assholes who help themselves to pretty much everything you own

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 18-01-2015 07:30PM

shuffle65 wrote: »

Not quite that old no, my username gives away my age

You're 65! I'd never have thought it by looking at you.

Rosie Rant · 18-01-2015 07:39PM

Smoke alarms that continue to beep continuously, even when the batteries have been changed. Nasty little elves that live in smoke alarms and wait until you're walking underneath so they can deliver an ear-piercing, head-exploding, extremely high pitched BEEP! The realisation that, if there ever is a fire, we're probably f***ed.

Aidric · 18-01-2015 07:41PM

People who coin phrases like grexit, brexit, francogeddon.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 18-01-2015 07:45PM

Rosie Rant wrote: »

Smoke alarms that continue to beep continuously, even when the batteries have been changed. Nasty little elves that live in smoke alarms and wait until you're walking underneath so they can deliver an ear-piercing, head-exploding, extremely high pitched BEEP! The realisation that, if there ever is a fire, we're probably f***ed.

Try opening it and taking a vacumn cleaner to it.

My TA with smoke alarms is that the batteries never run low during the day. They always decide to start beeping for low battery in the middle of the night. I go it up at 2am last month, climed on a chair and removed the battery. Just back in bed and Beeeeeeeep! It was the other smoke alarm at the other end of the hall that was low in battery. I could have screamed!!!!!

One eyed Jack · 18-01-2015 07:52PM

Sarah Jessica Parker's whiney voice, it's like ear syphilis, and her equally irritating typecast mannerisms are just as... endearing :rolleyes:

razorblunt · 18-01-2015 07:53PM

Just getting around to watching the boxset of Love/Hate ( I dont live in Ireland) it's a shame I know what happens seeing as everyone was blabbing about it non stop.

Rosie Rant · 18-01-2015 08:05PM

Jaxen Curved Shaver wrote: »

Try opening it and taking a vacumn cleaner to it.

My TA with smoke alarms is that the batteries never run low during the day. They always decide to start beeping for low battery in the middle of the night. I go it up at 2am last month, climed on a chair and removed the battery. Just back in bed and Beeeeeeeep! It was the other smoke alarm at the other end of the hall that was low in battery. I could have screamed!!!!!

Thank you, I'll try that! It's the most horrible, frustrating noise. Those damn elves

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Pumpkinseeds · 18-01-2015 08:20PM

shuffle65 wrote: »

Yep, I've got them on my bed! I guess we must be 'of an age'

I'm a 70's child. I think everyone had them back in the days of single glazing and crappy heating, when you'd run to get under the covers when you got into your pajamas. I remember having the Candlewick bedspread too.:D

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 18-01-2015 08:26PM

Any chance of some links to these bed sheets?

Pumpkinseeds · 18-01-2015 08:39PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Any chance of some links to these bed sheets?

I got them on Amazon

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 18-01-2015 08:41PM

Pretty!!!

Menas · 18-01-2015 08:42PM

Aaarrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhh. Who lost 3 pieces of MY jigsaw? And why did they not tell me????!!!

Pumpkinseeds · 18-01-2015 08:43PM

Finding a lone sock when you've just put on a load of washing.

fussyonion · 18-01-2015 08:47PM

Johnny Lyons from 98FM and the overly enthusiastic way he says "...with thanks to Captain America's COOKHOUSE and bar, serving MOUTHWATERING hamburgers since 1974" ....I fcuking hate it tremendously.

18-01-2015 08:49PM

Rosie Rant wrote: »

Smoke alarms that continue to beep continuously, even when the batteries have been changed. Nasty little elves that live in smoke alarms and wait until you're walking underneath so they can deliver an ear-piercing, head-exploding, extremely high pitched BEEP! The realisation that, if there ever is a fire, we're probably f***ed.

"Yo must keeel it with Fiyah''

oh wait....:o

bjork · 18-01-2015 09:51PM

To my dog

The world will not explode if you try to get your kong from under the chair. There is no need to starve or coming begging every single time it happens.

Stop being a dick
Your sincerely
Bjork

PS less time on boards, more time practicing how to be a dog please

selous · 18-01-2015 09:58PM

Car insurance companies that promise No sh1t then wont quote for your car, then another one wont, because of the make, (NO it isn't a Honda Civic, bit old for that) Then go out to browse some "more common insurable ones" and notice the handbrake is on the passenger side of the centre console on a lot of them, WHY? what do they know that I don't??

shuffle65 · 18-01-2015 10:14PM

Jaxen Curved Shaver wrote: »

You're 65! I'd never have thought it by looking at you.

Does that mean I can retire now?

Kiwi in IE · 18-01-2015 10:16PM

People saying 'yeah' at the same time as taking an inbreath! Arghhhh!!!

Pumpkinseeds · 18-01-2015 10:21PM

Not too trivial, but icy footpaths. It annoys me that footpaths aren't gritted when the roads are gritted. I had to turn back half way through my walk as the paths here are treacherous.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 18-01-2015 10:22PM

shuffle65 wrote: »

Does that mean I can retire now?

I did so at 60, so you're 5 years late.

shuffle65 · 18-01-2015 10:28PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I'm a 70's child. I think everyone had them back in the days of single glazing and crappy heating, when you'd run to get under the covers when you got into your pajamas. I remember having the Candlewick bedspread too.:D

Ah yeah, we had the candlewick bedspreads too, and those awful nylon ones with a big frill on them

fussyonion · 18-01-2015 10:29PM

Tomato juice dribbling down your arm under your sleeve when you bite into a sandwich :mad:

Pumpkinseeds · 18-01-2015 10:30PM

shuffle65 wrote: »

Ah yeah, we had the candlewick bedspreads too, and those awful nylon ones with a big frill on them

I think ours had fringed edges. They were pastel colours. Pink, blue and yellow are the ones I can remember, although I may have suppressed the memory of others.:D Ah, Jesus, now I've remembered the God awful orange fabric bed settee that was in the house.:eek:

shuffle65 · 18-01-2015 10:35PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I think ours had fringed edges. They were pastel colours. Pink, blue and yellow are the ones I can remember, although I may have suppressed the memory of others.:D Ah, Jesus, now I've remembered the God awful orange fabric bed settee that was in the house.:eek:

I remember a mattress covered in a material that I believe was resurrected as the curtains in the 'Only fools and horses' flat...

I think we need to start a new thread, Bedclothes from the 1970's...

Smidge · 18-01-2015 10:47PM

shuffle65 wrote: »

Ah yeah, we had the candlewick bedspreads too, and those awful nylon ones with a big frill on them

Those were wonderful.
I especially loved how they always snagged on a toenail, no matter how well manicured they were.
Or how you could have slept under one and then unknowingly have had a fitful sleep. Maybe rolled around a bit too much.
You would know you did this upon wakening when you gave yourself an electric shock off the first thing you touched.

Weren't the 70's brill?

McChubbin · 18-01-2015 11:23PM

So many pretty things on eBay and having no money until Wesneday.
Also: Being unable to properly spell Wenesday. Just call it Wensday and be done with it FFS!

jimgoose · 19-01-2015 12:09AM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Sarah Jessica Parker's whiney voice, it's like ear syphilis, and her equally irritating typecast mannerisms are just as... endearing :rolleyes:

SJP is a scrawny, miserable-looking yoke that's like something that was dug up. Fellas who slobber over her would want about four batin's.

Trivial things that annoy you Part 27

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