Trivial things that annoy you part 8191.1

kfallon wrote: »

Training course today......great! :rolleyes:

Get my guitar

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

A trivial annoyance that I've had for years is relating to people getting other people's names wrong, or rather, not bothering to find out what their proper names are.

I used to deal with somebody called Adrian who have a slightly more unusual surname (so I won't mention it here). Everyone else used to call him Aidan, and his surname a similar but more common name. They'd always get both names wrong. Aaarrgghhh!!

There are a good few Polish people working here so I always try to pronounce their names correctly, and at least know their full names. A few minutes ago, my manager asked me if I could tell him Kamil's surname. I told him, and he burst out laughing.

"How do you spell that?" he asked, so I told him as he chuckled away in the background. He'd probably think that it was equally amusing that I'd know it (and the others' names too).

The girl I work with isn't great at names either. There's a company called Radionics that I'm sure a lot of AHers might have heard of. The girl that I work with always pronounces the name 'Radio-onics'. The first few times it sounded a bit cute. After 4 years, not so much.

Our purchasing department is in India, and she assigns genders to the people we deal with based on nothing. If I don't know an Indian name I'd look it up, just to have the correct image in my head, although I'd usually know. She might say "Deepak is looking for information about such-and-such. What will I tell her?" "Tell him this..."

The thing is...people probably don't know how annoying this is for me because I'm a fairly placid, laid-back person, and the only time I'd ever mention these things is in a jokey, humorous way.



(I bet ye will think I'm the one with the problem!)

I totally agree with you, I think it is the height of ignorance and it really gets on my nerves. It takes very little effort to just get someones name right, I don't have an unusual name, it wouldn't be that common but not unusual, anyways I have lost count of the amount of times I have been called everything apart from my own name... i'm always called a very close derivative of my name aswell which annoys me even more... and i've lost count of the amount of different variations and spellings I get on a starbucks cup... arrgh!!!!
anyways to sum up just make the effort, get peoples names right peoples!!!

ok feel better now..

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

A trivial annoyance that I've had for years is relating to people getting other people's names wrong, or rather, not bothering to find out what their proper names are.

Totally agree with this. It's just ignorance and laziness to not bother learning people's names.

My name is Finbarr but I prefer people to call me "Fin". Most people call me this but it always surprises me the amount of people who send me a text and write an email with "Hi Finn". I just don't know where they're getting this extra n from.

People who don't know the rules of the road regarding roundabouts.

Taking the last exit? By all means coast around on the outside and please feel free to cut across me halfway around to shorten your trip! And please don't subject yourself to the inconvenience of using an indicator :mad:

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I don't doubt she saved him, but am very surprised that she was the only one to help, and others filmed it. There are volunteers who patrol the river in Limerick by night..

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/cars-stopped-but-no-one-was-helping-me-says-limerick-woman-who-saved-man-from-suicide-686263.html

13/07/2015

A young woman who talked a man down from a bridge after he threatened to kill himself in the River Shannon has called for greater awareness surrounding suicide and depression.

Shauna O'Riordan, 19, said she was "absolutely shocked" when no one came to her aid as she clung to the man's legs after he clambered up on Shannon Bridge, in Limerick.

he man was about to jump, as rush-hour traffic whizzed by, but even though motorists stopped to watch, Shauna said nobody got out of their vehicle to help.
"I was holding his legs, so I was thinking: 'If I let you go, how could I ever get over that because there and then, your life is in my hands'," she said.

"Everything happened so fast. I grabbed onto him for dear life, (and) told him one million reasons not to jump in. He was screaming at me."

"I grabbed his face there and then and I said: 'You look at me - there's people who love you and you will get help'," she added.

Shauna said she was "crying for hours afterwards" after people ignored her while she tried to save the man.

"No one was helping me, and the traffic was stopped and there was people passing me," Shauna explained.
"I was shocked."

"There was a circle forming and I was thinking people are obviously going to look, but no one was going to help me, there was no one going to get out of their car and I was thinking why?"

"People could have thought we were a couple fighting but there was still someone up on the bridge. It was two o'clock in the day. I remember just holding his legs and just looking behind me and saying: "is their no one (coming)...seriously".

The part-time shop worker said she hoped her story would raise more awareness of people battling with their mental health.

I'm a nail biter, I'm trying to grow my nails at the moment. Today I forgot and bit one down quite low, so now I've to cut them all and start again...

Look how mature we are getting..no one jumping on the kebab-wagon:(:pac:

kfallon wrote: »

Speak for yourself, I still have the mental age of a 12 year old.....

Me too but I didnt want to be the one lowering the tone this time,serious issues such as back pain are being discussed:P

@Medusa ,try bio-freeze if the massage doesnt work.:)

My 9mth old nephew destroyed about 3 sheets, pissed on two then shat on the other one, he had managed to shiit up his back as well, I didn't have to clean it up but TA for whoever did.

I have a spot just above my lip, tried applying some prescription acne solvent to kill the bacteria and shrink it, the solvent dripped down onto my lip and in my mouth. Horrible taste, like how you'd imagine poison.

Graces7 wrote: »

Having an "old lady " day.. every bone is aching and getting out of bed was an act of sheer and utter heroism . Strong sweet coffee and brufen have helped a little but am heading out to shop and it will mar my pleasure.. POOR OLD THING!!

I always imagine Chariots of Fire are playing while I'm rolling out of bed.