Trivial things that annoy you part 479

Menas · 29-06-2015 02:31PM

galljga1 wrote: »

You are obviously intelligent but just cannot spell Mensa.

Or Menace!

Pumpkinseeds · 29-06-2015 02:32PM

Kev W wrote: »

How is this a problem exactly?

Really, you don't see that blocking off a big space in the centre of one of the busiest parts of a shopping mall on one of the busiest shopping days every week for 2 months is a problem? Try getting to the bank, or maneuvering a trolley around them. A stupid, stupid, stupid idea.

Incidentally, I get the impression that you are following me through different threads looking for an argument, if so please get a life as I'm just going to ignore you from this point on. You're just getting a tad dull now.

Colser · 29-06-2015 02:52PM

When you answer your phone in work a few minutes before youre due to finish up and end up getting some dipstick with a ridiculous problem thats going to delay you for ages...give me strength lord ...Mondays are difficult enough

Menas · 29-06-2015 02:54PM

Colser wrote: »

When you answer your phone in work a few minutes before youre due to finish up and end up getting some dipstick with a ridiculous problem thats going to delay you for ages...give me strength lord ...Mondays are difficult enough

Just try the old "There is a fire alarm here now, I need to go" line?

messrs · 29-06-2015 02:58PM

Colser wrote: »

When you answer your phone in work a few minutes before youre due to finish up and end up getting some dipstick with a ridiculous problem thats going to delay you for ages...give me strength lord ...Mondays are difficult enough

Menas wrote: »

Just try the old "There is a fire alarm here now, I need to go" line?

Or the "sorry I cant hear you , its a bad line, your breaking up, hello, hello are you there?"

skafish · 29-06-2015 03:16PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Just read that the local shopping centre is going to be running a kids playgroup on Thursday afternoons all through July and August. Bad enough in itself, but the real kicker is that the area described as the Kids Play area, is right outside the fcuking bank in the busiest part of the mofo shopping mall. Whatever fcukwit thought that one up should be strung up by the balls.:mad:

The continuing invasion of Americanisms eg poop for poo, shopping malls for shopping centres, elevators for lifts etc

Pumpkinseeds · 29-06-2015 04:09PM

My tracksuit bottoms had no pocket so I had to store my house key in my bra when I went for a walk.

fiachr_a · 29-06-2015 04:29PM

Gay pride parades but no white pride ones.

JanaMay · 29-06-2015 04:47PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Really, you don't see that blocking off a big space in the centre of one of the busiest parts of a shopping mall on one of the busiest shopping days every week for 2 months is a problem? Try getting to the bank, or maneuvering a trolley around them. A stupid, stupid, stupid idea.

I think it's probably a good idea. Admittedly, I don't know the shopping centre you're talking about but I imagine that a self-contained area for children to play in while their parents do the shopping and go to the bank etc is probably beneficial to all. It saves time for parents, frees the supermarkets up of bored children who can cause a disturbance and creates employment for whoever looks after them. Obviuosly, if the management company has put it in an area which doesn't suit, shoppers should let them know.

On another note: my trivial annoance today is people letting their dogs wee outside my door. I'm fed up pouring bleached water over it! Wee stinks!

29-06-2015 04:51PM

Colser wrote: »

When you answer your phone in work a few minutes before youre due to finish up and end up getting some dipstick with a ridiculous problem thats going to delay you for ages...give me strength lord ...Mondays are difficult enough

Ring up someone else and tell them to do it

Pumpkinseeds · 29-06-2015 05:03PM

JanaMay wrote: »

I think it's probably a good idea. Admittedly, I don't know the shopping centre you're talking about but I imagine that a self-contained area for children to play in while their parents do the shopping and go to the bank etc is probably beneficial to all. It saves time for parents, frees the supermarkets up of bored children who can cause a disturbance and creates employment for whoever looks after them. Obviuosly, if the management company has put it in an area which doesn't suit, shoppers should let them know.

On another note: my trivial annoance today is people letting their dogs wee outside my door. I'm fed up pouring bleached water over it! Wee stinks!

If they'd positioned the Play Area properly it would have been very handy for parents doing their shopping to leave the kids for an hour or so, but they put it in a narrow area which is really busy and will just get in the way. I can understand what they're trying to do, they just did it the wrong way. It's a shame really, then again the management of that shopping centre are regularly criticised for the running the place so badly.

Pumpkinseeds · 29-06-2015 05:07PM

Is the humidity making anyone else's hair a frizzy nightmare? I'd put off having it cut and coloured but I couldn't leave it any longer. I'm getting it done next week but my stylist is on holiday, I hate letting someone I don't know cut it.:( But it's either that or continue to look like a female Side Show Bob, despite washing, blow drying and straightening my hair every day.

JanaMay · 29-06-2015 05:10PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

If they'd positioned the Play Area properly it would have been very handy for parents doing their shopping to leave the kids for an hour or so, but they put it in a narrow area which is really busy and will just get in the way. I can understand what they're trying to do, they just did it the wrong way. It's a shame really, then again the management of that shopping centre are regularly criticised for the running the place so badly.

Ah, ok. Regular shoppers will have to complain to the management. Things are often badly organised, but if enough people complain in person it will be changed if possible. (BTW, I'm a serial complainer to companies etc). It's also worth bearing in mind that they might have weighed up all the pros and cons and that area was the only possible solution. Still, I think it might be worth your while mentioning it to them. If enough people complain they might move it to a better place.

Menas · 29-06-2015 05:12PM

JanaMay wrote: »

(BTW, I'm a serial complainer to companies etc). .

It is always worth complaining....if people dont then nothing changes.
But I know someone who complains for the sake of it, just to vent and rant for a bit. That is not nice.

DareGod · 29-06-2015 06:19PM

I re-joined Facebook recently and added a girl I used to work with who I got on really well with. She really liked me, she used to always seek me out to have a chat and we used to have drinks together on a work night out. (Nothing romantic - she has a long-term girlfriend.) Anyway, a week later (just now) she deletes me off FB.

I don't understand it. I barely post at all, like maybe once a week, maximum. And then just now she deletes me out of nowhere. I know the default response to this is "It's Facebook, it's not real life, so you shouldn't be taking it seriously." But I call BS on that oft-repeated response. Someone who I thought really liked me, and who I was very fond of, consciously decided to cut me off completely. It hurts a little. And I just needed to vent.

retro:electro · 29-06-2015 06:30PM

My TA is that I accidently unfollowed the trivial annoyances thread and have now to play catch up on three days worth of other people's trivial annoyances :pac:

Kev W · 29-06-2015 06:37PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Really, you don't see that blocking off a big space in the centre of one of the busiest parts of a shopping mall on one of the busiest shopping days every week for 2 months is a problem? Try getting to the bank, or maneuvering a trolley around them. A stupid, stupid, stupid idea.

Incidentally, I get the impression that you are following me through different threads looking for an argument, if so please get a life as I'm just going to ignore you from this point on. You're just getting a tad dull now.

I was just asking for clarification.

Kev W · 29-06-2015 06:39PM

fiachr_a wrote: »

Gay pride parades but no white pride ones.

At least you recognise that the lack of white pride parades is trivial.

miezekatze · 29-06-2015 07:06PM

Those stupid musicmagpie ads, so annoying!

Having run out of ice pops/ice cream.

My mouth is really itchy from hayfever and I'd just love a Loop now to numb the inside of my mouth.

RaRaRasputin · 29-06-2015 07:29PM

People stopping on the hard shoulder on the motorway. Yes, you are supposed to stop there for an emergency but how many emergencies can there actually be if you drive on the motorway for 2 hours and stop 8 cars..drives me insane

NOS3 · 29-06-2015 07:53PM

Accidentally spraying after shave right in your face.

conorh91 · 29-06-2015 08:03PM

Parents who let their very young children run amok with those odious scooters on the public road and footpath. It's a fatality waiting to happen in my area.

Every evening when I'm walking home or heading out for a jog, I'll see a parent absent-mindedly using their smartphone, or talking to their adult friend, while their kids hurtle around pedestrians, and across private gateways and other busy entrances like supermarkets and builders merchants, with only the occasional, half-arsed calls of "Oh come back Jaydon/ Katelyn/ Lily-Mae"

When you're pulling out of a carpark on a busy road, it's difficult enough to keep an eye on traffic without having to worry about a three-foot child coming from nowhere on a push-scooter. Such exits are designed to allow the driver to see road-traffic approaching, not children whizzing along the path on push-scooters.

Not sure this even qualifies as a trivial annoyance tbh. It's only trivial in the sense that it's so ridiculously commonplace. Parents, control your children on those things.

Samsgirl · 29-06-2015 08:15PM

I had a tummy bug on Sat during which I went for an interview, travelled 2 hours home by car and did the grocery shopping.
My husband seems to now have the bug and the dying swan act has appeared. The dramatics are just wonderful. He is seriously p*ssing me off. Has even developed a limp to go along with it.

RaRaRasputin · 29-06-2015 08:15PM

conorh91 wrote: »

Not sure this even qualifies as a trivial annoyance tbh. It's only trivial in the sense that it's so ridiculously commonplace. Parents, control your children on those things.

I agree, this is not a trivial annoyance because it's too annoying to be trivial.
If they run/ roll towards me I just don't get out of the way and let them hit my knee because they always end up screaming/ crying in shock because someone didn't clear their royal path, while the horrified parents run over to hug their previously neglected offspring.. Unfortunately there is no such easy solution when you're in a car.

Robsweezie · 29-06-2015 08:15PM

DareGod wrote:

I don't understand it. I barely post at all, like maybe once a week, maximum. And then just now she deletes me out of nowhere. I know the default response to this is "It's Facebook, it's not real life, so you shouldn't be taking it seriously." But I call BS on that oft-repeated response. Someone who I thought really liked me, and who I was very fond of, consciously decided to cut me off completely. It hurts a little. And I just needed to vent.

I get you. Most won't think it's a big deal, but it's the symbolism behind it. Nowadays, a Facebook friend removal usually means "I don't care about, or want anything to do with you anymore" it seems really personal. That they just dumped you. I understand why it hurt you. People underestimate their actions online.

Rosie Rant · 29-06-2015 08:33PM

Got blocked at nearly every aisle by the same couple while shopping today. She was pushing a massive trolley and he was pushing a buggy and they were walking side by side as slowly as they could. They were not moving for anyone.

lizzyman · 29-06-2015 08:36PM

fiachr_a wrote: »

Gay pride parades but no white pride ones.

You appear to have taken a wrong turn at the banjo playing rednecks/inbreeders anonymous forum.

Pumpkinseeds · 29-06-2015 08:49PM

lizzyman wrote: »

You appear to have taken a wrong turn at the banjo playing rednecks/inbreeders anonymous forum.

+1 Quick, keep paddling I hear banjos.:D

KatW4 · 29-06-2015 09:41PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote:

Is the humidity making anyone else's hair a frizzy nightmare? I'd put off having it cut and coloured but I couldn't leave it any longer. I'm getting it done next week but my stylist is on holiday, I hate letting someone I don't know cut it. But it's either that or continue to look like a female Side Show Bob, despite washing, blow drying and straightening my hair every day.

It's making mine dryer than usual! 45 minutes it took to brush today. I have the same problem with my hairdresser. She isn't opened half the time and when she is it doesn't suit for me to go in. Ugh hair is too difficult to manage.

eternal · 29-06-2015 10:52PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Is the humidity making anyone else's hair a frizzy nightmare? I'd put off having it cut and coloured but I couldn't leave it any longer. I'm getting it done next week but my stylist is on holiday, I hate letting someone I don't know cut it.:( But it's either that or continue to look like a female Side Show Bob, despite washing, blow drying and straightening my hair every day.

Out like a bush especially in the misty rain. 80s ballad look is not good.

Trivial things that annoy you part 479

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