Things Cat Trialvilly Annoy You (part whatever) MOD WARNING IN OP

FishOnABike · 01-05-2020 5:51pm

New Home wrote: »

Watch out, though... there's brandy and there's brandy...

Just don't name a dog's dinner out if it! :-))

Porklife · 01-05-2020 6:24pm

FishOnABike wrote: »

Just don't name a dog's dinner out if it! :-))

There's the truth...and the truth!

Ta that the Simpsons got so **** after season 8.

Second Ta that my sister just called me immature for saying party on Wayne when she said she had opened wine (I watched Wayne's World the other day)

Antares35 · 02-05-2020 11:24am

Robsweezie wrote: »

TA my cranky cynicism towards mid covid happiness on the telly. musical performances, jolly feel good gestures....often doesnt match my own mood and i hate myself for not always embracing it.

Don't feel bad about it. Most of those suffering from toxic positivity are probably deeply unhappy somewhere in their subconscious. They're trying too hard to prove their happiness. Better to be a cynic, less potential for disappointment.

the beer revolu · 02-05-2020 1:17pm

Porklife wrote: »

Hmmmm scrap my last post about beer...I'm buying brandy. This coffee just got interesting!:p

Buy golden rum.
Espresso, butter and rum (bit of sugar, too)!
Amazing.

Blitzkrieger · 02-05-2020 1:29pm

In a busy take away last night some woman on the phone couldn't seem to grasp why her order was going to take so long. She does know other people exist, right?

cj maxx · 02-05-2020 1:36pm

My car's wing mirrors retract when I lock it,it makes it handy to know it's locked just by looking.
But I had to change that as the mirrors were constantly moving out a focus.
Now I'm clicking my key constantly to check it's locked

whisky_galore · 02-05-2020 1:53pm

You can't use the words plan, schedule, scheme, programme anymore, everything is a "roadmap" now.

bonzodog2 · 02-05-2020 2:07pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

You can't use the words plan, schedule, scheme, programme anymore, everything is a "roadmap" now.

Or a narrative or a conversation

Widdershins · 02-05-2020 3:12pm

Maybe no so ta but...I often see this being said and it shouldve been dispelled by now.

Telling a small woman that if she keeps standing up to a large man he will "soon back off" is bollocks.

Let me see youstand up to someone you're unevenly matched with. How about two or three armed men?

Just stand up to them, mate. Put them in their place with a few carefully chosen words, a little witty put down, and they'll drop the weapons and go running. Reformed characters forever after.

dubstarr · 02-05-2020 3:16pm

Made burger and chips for dinner.But i ddint do enough chips.

All that fandango · 02-05-2020 4:16pm

When girls stick the tip of their tongue out between their teeth when they smile for photos....why?!?! Can you not smile with your tongue fully in your gob like a proper human?

the beer revolu · 02-05-2020 4:24pm

Video calls /facetime.

Yes, I understand there are situations where it is useful and great when families are apart.

But generally, use the fcuking voice call feature.

This morning, was having a bit of a lie in with the Mrs. Sitting up in bed chatting. Lovely.
Male pal of my wife's rings up for a chat - except it's video chat! Fcuk of, please. I don't want people watching me in bed, thank you very much!

Also, now under so much pressure to get involved in meet ups on zoom. I'm fcuking allergic. Yes I miss my friends. No, I don't want to go on camera as part of a group chat.
I have to do it on occasion for work.
Not for pleasure, thanks.

New Home · 03-05-2020 12:02am

All that fandango wrote: »

When girls stick the tip of their tongue out between their teeth when they smile for photos....why?!?! Can you not smile with your tongue fully in your gob like a proper human?

I had a male colleague who used to do that all the time, even when talking.

It's only cute if you're under 5.

Trigger Happy · 03-05-2020 3:07pm

When half your icecream falls off the stick and on the ground.
It was a brunch too.

03-05-2020 3:11pm

You're not having a good day Trigger!

My TA. There's about 12 settings on my tumble dryer. Sometimes I don't realise it's already on the right setting and I press the button and then I have to keep pressing and go through every setting to get back to where I started.

Now that really is trivial but it does irritate me.

Antares35 · 03-05-2020 8:09pm

When people say "put some time in the diary". For example, "we need to discuss project X, can we put some time in the diary next week?". No Dorris, you can't put some time in the diary because you don't get to create time. You can schedule a meeting for some of the time that already exists within the diary, but you cannot simply "put some" there. God :rolleyes:

cj maxx · 03-05-2020 8:56pm

I had a ( badly needed) shave yesterday. Today the tiny bits I missed have grown , above and below the lips. (I'm a man so geet you heads outta the gutters) which means an unnecessary shave , imo, tomorrow.
Just annoying

Porklife · 03-05-2020 10:37pm

the beer revolu wrote: »

Buy golden rum.
Espresso, butter and rum (bit of sugar, too)!
Amazing.

Is this a real thing cos if so I'm on it!

Purple Mountain · 03-05-2020 11:58pm

Companies are making it harder for customers to contact them.
Emsils returning not received, refer to the chatbot.
I know what I'd like to do to said chatbot.

cj maxx · 04-05-2020 12:16am

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Companies are making it harder for customers to contact them.
Emsils returning not received, refer to the chatbot.
I know what I'd like to do to said chatbot.

Due to covid19 calls may take longer than usual.. bullsh1t !

Antares35 · 04-05-2020 10:32am

cj maxx wrote: »

Due to covid19 calls may take longer than usual.. bullsh1t !

DPD are doing this. Big banner on their website saying their service is sh*t because of the virus, when in fact it was always sh*t, now they just have an excuse.

Wanderer2010 · 04-05-2020 11:29am

Men in their late 20s/early 30s riding a bike meant for a teenager. they look so out of place and wrong. It smacks to me of being a scumbag look.

04-05-2020 11:54am

Women(its predominantly women) on Instagram who insist on doing a 20 story "special" of pictures when its a friends birthday....a particular woman who i am friends with (and would whinge why didn't i like her post or to another friend why they unfriended them - its because of crap like this) i have seems to do it every day, even for people she half knows

Bredabe · 04-05-2020 12:02pm

Had enough of everything yes and went to sit by a quite body of water(as I find water soothing), with a book, podcast and a small picnic type snack.
Just got settled, when someone asked me if I was Ok? reassured them and then some kids starting cycling to close to me, rapidly followed by ppl reving their engines.

Ta even in an area with green spaces, noise and smells gravatate towards me when I need complete peace.

RiderOnTheStorm · 04-05-2020 1:17pm

TA'd that sometimes the Boards app brings me to the last page of a thread when I click on thread name. Even though it looks like its page 1 its really the last (16 years old!) and I have to click on page 2 then 1 .....

bonzodog2 · 04-05-2020 1:54pm

Neighbour is power washing parts of apartment parking area. Reminds me of the joke about the man painting his house with a 2" brush.

eisenberg1 · 04-05-2020 2:18pm

The noisey bint next door with a voice that could cut glass.
Constantly (at the top of her screechy voice) asking her kid
“Do you want on swing.”
“Do you want dolly?”
“Do you want blah blah”
She seems to equate good parenting with being really loud.
The crowning glory was this morning (I’m in my garden trying to read)
When she roars to her other half “Do you want an EXPRESSO ? I can make it on the machine.”
Try reading the box that the machine came in....

bonzodog2 · 04-05-2020 2:19pm

When things 'land' or 'drop' that are not aircraft or things affected by gravity

Blitzkrieger · 04-05-2020 2:23pm

Spent about 15 minutes manually correcting a formatting error that I thought would take ages to root cause. It probably would take ages to root cause but I put in a work around in about 30 seconds.

It's horribly wasteful of CPU power, but seems to add no noticeable extra running time to a weekly data processing task. へ‿(ツ)‿ㄏ

New Home · 04-05-2020 2:28pm

eisenberg1 wrote: »

The noisey bint next door with a voice that could cut glass.
Constantly (at the top of her screechy voice) asking her kid
“Do you want on swing.”
“Do you want dolly?”
“Do you want blah blah”
She seems to equate good parenting with being really loud.
The crowning glory was this morning (I’m in my garden trying to read)
When she roars to her other half “Do you want an EXPRESSO ? I can make it on the machine.”
Try reading the box that the machine came in....

Shout over to her, "YES PLEASE, MAKE IT DOUBLE, WITH MILK AND TWO SUGARS!".

New Home · 04-05-2020 5:01pm

1. Stupid cans that don't stack (Lidl pineapple in juice, I'm looking at you).
2. Prickly heat. Stupid sunny Smay weather! I was outside under an umbrella for half an hour, FFS!

A Consonant Please Carol · 04-05-2020 5:46pm

New Home wrote: »

1. Stupid cans that don't stack (Lidl pineapple in juice, I'm looking at you).
2. Prickly heat. Stupid sunny Smay weather! I was outside under an umbrella for half an hour, FFS!

Hi twin!
*waves really dramatically*

New Home · 04-05-2020 5:49pm

A Consonant Please Carol wrote: »

Hi twin!
*waves really dramatically*

Ah, yes! The calamine twins finally reunited.

New Home · 04-05-2020 7:58pm

Oh, one more I'd forgotten about! Last Friday someone planted an earworm in my head.Then, when I complained about it, they suggested I listen to a different song, even more earwormy than the first. I spent the last three days (and nights, even in my sleep!) with those two fecking songs going around in my head and ears. I ended up having to kill them with Postman Pat... how the hell do I get rid of THAT one, now? Beware, if anyone suggests the Barney song, they're DEAD. DEAD, DEAD, DEAD, DEAD!!! :mad:

Goodigal · 04-05-2020 8:06pm

TA that our small cul de sac has become like an industrial estate in terms of noise in the last few days, between power hosing and angle grinding before 9am this morning to a guy totally dismantling a car engine, to people blaring their radios in the back garden. We are all in this together stuck at home, but no escape from the constant noises...

04-05-2020 8:15pm

I'm really sick of all these public service announcements lately about Covid:

ONE: stay indoors
TWO: Exercise within 2km if you really must
THREE: wash your hands over and over and over
FOUR: Keep 2 meters apart at shops if you absolutely MUST buy food
FIVE: Don't visit your granny
SIX: Stay positive, stay in touch, Zoom everyone, Stay happy, We're all in this together.........from your loving Government

every time there is a new announcement from Leo there is a new set of rules played over and over and over again!

I feel like a 2 year old being told what to do all the time!!

Tauriel · 04-05-2020 9:33pm

Been suffering from a severe bout of vertigo since earlier this evening, came out of the middle of nowhere. Vertigo medication hasn't worked and after making the most gorgeous cup of tea, I spilt half of it on myself (thankfully I had a blanket thrown over me).

cj maxx · 04-05-2020 10:11pm

I've just watched Onward.
TA I cried at the end.

Deja Boo · 05-05-2020 7:39am

Boards times out on attachments, can't see any of the cute dog and cat pics in the ah pet thread

Deja Boo · 05-05-2020 7:40am

mustang shelly wrote: »

Been suffering from a severe bout of vertigo since earlier this evening, came out of the middle of nowhere. Vertigo medication hasn't worked and after making the most gorgeous cup of tea, I spilt half of it on myself (thankfully I had a blanket thrown over me).

Vertigo is the worst, mind yourself Mustang!

Bredabe · 05-05-2020 11:52am

I was watching a video of a pair of dyslexia tutors discussing how dyslexic students can help themselves adjust to their new study environment, one of the speakers referred to their students as dyslexic's which sounded to me like in their mind these youngsters were a different life form.

Having to explain important life concepts to ppl who are emotionally unavailable.

whisky_galore · 05-05-2020 12:27pm

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Men in their late 20s/early 30s riding a bike meant for a teenager. they look so out of place and wrong. It smacks to me of being a scumbag look.

It looks like they either got put off the road or they're heading for a drug deal.

Antares35 · 05-05-2020 12:41pm

There was a letter for me in the postbox, with no address, just my name so I knew it had been hand delivered. I was really happy about it and delayed opening it, knowing it was from OH. We'd had a conversation a while ago about the importance of us him making small gestures and generally being thoughtful. I couldn't wait to see what it was - maybe a plan for us to go somewhere when the pandemic eases, or some nice pictures of us, or even just a letter.

Pretended there was no post when I came back inside. I didn't want an audience when I opened his letter. He didn't seem to mind, clearly playing it cool.

Eventually couldn't hold off any more and opened it up.

It was a letter from my neighbour (who appears to have lost the plot) welcoming me to the neighbourhood - that I moved to over 2 decades ago.

Multiple TAs now - that I am so naïve and just assumed the letter was from him, that I am ungrateful in the face of receiving at least a lovely letter from someone during these difficult times, but mostly that I woke up in fine form and am now annoyed with OH for not being the sender - he literally had to do nothing to annoy me

(and I can't even tell him why I am annoyed or explain what he hasn't done)

GBX · 05-05-2020 12:49pm

Doing an online course. Theres 2 different lecturers and one of them has the most annoying droning accent. Its excruciating listening to him.

Vita nova · 05-05-2020 1:46pm

Earlier, I mentioned not compressing empty containers before putting them in the bin. On a similar theme, people who don't empty liquid (non oil) containers before putting them in the bin. I'm talking mainly about milk cartons, soft drinks bottles, beer cans, etc; the bins can become very smelly and with pay per weight it costs more.

freshpopcorn · 05-05-2020 5:01pm

When somebody asks for advice about a problem they are having.
99 people tell them one thing and they are in the wrong.
1 person might say your right.
Then they'll argue with the 99 people and praise the 1 person the agrees with them.

Deja Boo · 05-05-2020 6:15pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

When somebody asks for advice about a problem they are having.
99 people tell them one thing and they are in the wrong.
1 person might say your right.
Then they'll argue with the 99 people and praise the 1 person the agrees with them.

Ah, validation... How does that saying go? "Most people don't want your opinion, they want to hear their opinion coming out of your mouth" (or something like that, lol).

Deja Boo · 05-05-2020 6:23pm

GBX wrote: »

Doing an online course. Theres 2 different lecturers and one of them has the most annoying droning accent. Its excruciating listening to him.

So much this. There's a Pimsleur language course I kept trying, but the voice and accent of the "native speaker" is so very bad, you can't be even sure of what he is saying. Ended up googling every word for proper pronunciation - drove me mad.

Antares35 · 05-05-2020 7:02pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

When somebody asks for advice about a problem they are having.
99 people tell them one thing and they are in the wrong.
1 person might say your right.
Then they'll argue with the 99 people and praise the 1 person the agrees with them.

Reminds me of when I want to find something out and do a search online for it. Invariably there will be a result (usually a chat forum or something) where one person has asked the same question and there are 70 responses so I think, grand, there will surely be an answer here.

But no... it is just 70 moronic bints replying with "oh this happened to me too, I hope we get an answer" or "I had this very same question" - really? That's nice, because you're only supposed to reply if you have a f*cking answer :mad:

Poochie05 · 05-05-2020 8:07pm

Antares35 wrote: »

Reminds me of when I want to find something out and do a search online for it. Invariably there will be a result (usually a chat forum or something) where one person has asked the same question and there are 70 responses so I think, grand, there will surely be an answer here.

But no... it is just 70 moronic bints replying with "oh this happened to me too, I hope we get an answer" or "I had this very same question" - really? That's nice, because you're only supposed to reply if you have a f*cking answer :mad:

Following this thread because the same thing happened to me and I want to hear how you get on!

TA there is a pedestrian crossing I can see from my house at night and the orange lights flash at slightly different times.

Things Cat Trialvilly Annoy You (part whatever) *MOD WARNING IN OP*

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Things Cat Trialvilly Annoy You (part whatever) MOD WARNING IN OP