Things That Trialvilly Annoy You.

Ragnar Lothbrok · 03-09-2019 1:09pm

For the next few hours I'll be dreaming about winning the €130 million Euromillions jackpot. I'm in a syndicate of 20, so I'm not being too greedy - all I want is a nice, little €6.5 million and I'd never have a TA again.

Euromillions - why do you torment me with your promises of flashy cars, fancy clothes, exotic holidays and gold taps in my kitchen that pour Jagermeister and Red Bull?

Serious TA is that the jackpot will probably be won by some fat, English lager lout :mad:

Blitzkrieger · 03-09-2019 1:10pm

I kinda have two separate ones.

People repeatedly pressing the button at pedestrian crossings. I was stopped at one last week and some attractive redhead was pressing the button like she was playing Shinobi, while expelling so much vapour from her e-cig that I think she might have been solely responsible for the overcast conditions that day. TBH, because it didn't hold me up, it was more funny than annoying!

Jebus, relax though - on some junctions those buttons don't actually do anything anyway.

The second one's TL;DR is people on the road who don't have to be.

I saw three women running on the road last night. There was a footpath next to them and they were running in single file, so I have no idea why they were on the road. They were going at a decent pace and it looked like a training session, so I'm betting they do this a lot. ****ing run on the footpath and you might prevent yourself or someone else getting hurt!

Last week there was a cyclist doing something similar on the link road. Now, maybe despite the cycle path being a different colour and having several signs telling pedestrians and cyclists which side to be one, he didn't see it as it was separated from the road. For some reason I reckon he did (I've seen cyclists do that before), and reckoned he was safer on the road than taking his chances with pedestrians and dogs on the cycle path. I think the lorry that couldn't get past and was tailgating him probably wasn't happy. Personally, I'd take my chances on the cycle path rather than with the lorry.

Lastly some old dude crossed the road in front of my car last night. I was the only one waiting at a junction, and with the layout I reckon it would have been shorter for him to cross behind me, but this genius decides that in the failing light and his grey clothing that the best thing to do is walk in front of the car that wants to go forward.

Sometimes simple decisions can keep us safer.

cj maxx · 03-09-2019 1:50pm

gifted wrote: »

When trivial turns into a full on ranting session....

Guilty of that but needs to be done sometimes.
Today's TA is flies, and how I go to get the vapona, they've all fcuked somewhere

Bredabe · 03-09-2019 1:53pm

I waited till the phone call I know was coming (awaited)did, knowing full well it would ring while I was in the dreaded shower.
There would be half a doz messages left, if I was in the shower when it came. call finished now and I feel even less like showering than I did.

TA how fleeting using motivation to do something dreaded runs out so quickly.

Bredabe · 03-09-2019 2:02pm

So called meantal health- professionals say casually to patients with a diagnosis of depression, that all they need to do is push themselves/snap out of it/they are wasting their lives.

The amount of locally based companies who dont respond to SM queries and think saying 'we dont have anyone monitoring our page' solves anything.

Final ta, ppl giving me upwanted advice on how easy driving is and how I'll be more independant, get used to the spacing issues around driving or how Im abusing the siblings who drive me places(where they want me to go with them).

dubstarr · 03-09-2019 3:12pm

Shemale wrote: »

A lot of dicks who dont want a relationship, telling women want to hear until they have sex with them. Drives me mad.

I found out one of my friends was doing this so myself and a couple of friends tore into him, he promised not to do it again.

When I found out he was still at it, I created a fake profile using a hot girls picture, bought a sim, arranged a date in a gay bar and "stood him up" after stringing him a long with a load of running late excuses, he was there for 4 hours. He was furious

Thats disgusting behaviour on your part.How dare you.You have no right to "tear" in to anyone.

I have just realised you are jealous.You want him and he doesnt want you back.

I hope he knows its you,and tells you to **** off.Thats what i would do.:mad:

Shemale · 03-09-2019 3:44pm

Misogynistic snowflakes, another TA

Shemale · 03-09-2019 3:45pm

dubstarr wrote: »

I hope he knows its you,and unfriends you.Thats what i would do.:mad:

Unfriends, lmao.

dubstarr · 03-09-2019 3:48pm

Shemale wrote: »

Misogynistic snowflakes, another TA

Dont come here calling people names just because you where called out on your behaviour.

If you find your "friends" behaviour so abhorrent doont be friends with him.Its really quite simple.

And him laughing after been stood up for 4 hours.Did he know it was you that stood him up.

dubstarr · 03-09-2019 3:54pm

My TA is posters coming on to threads,posting something and then having a hissy fit when they are called on their behaviour.

Shemale · 03-09-2019 3:58pm

dubstarr wrote: »

Shemale wrote: »

Misogynistic snowflakes, another TA

Dont come here calling people names just because you where called out on your behaviour.

If you find your "friends" behaviour so abhorrent doont be friends with him.Its really quite simple.

And him laughing after been stood up for 4 hours.Did he know it was you that stood him up.

Backseat modding are we??

Calling names, lol. This is a TA thread snd I said a TA.

Its all there if you read it before waving your pitchfork around. I arranged it for a pub we were beside and told him that night, we are the only two that knew it happpened.

We were great friends when I did this and we are still are, he took it for what it was.

Anyway I am done talking about it and sure others are done reading about it.

Ifevera wiztherewas · 03-09-2019 3:58pm

Well that escalated quickly

Deebles McBeebles · 03-09-2019 3:59pm

TA, slow escalations.

Shemale · 03-09-2019 4:00pm

Bredabe wrote: »

So called meantal health- professionals say casually to patients with a diagnosis of depression, that all they need to do is push themselves/snap out of it/they are wasting their lives.

Or cheer up, deadly, why didnt I think of that..

GBX · 03-09-2019 4:02pm

Easy peel oranges, apparently. Not this pack!

Reading above. Ive little to be annoyed about :pac:

Jenna James · 03-09-2019 5:40pm

1st rune (jog), (limp :pac:) since June 2018 and it starts raining. Forgot how sexy running makes one look...

Purple Mountain · 03-09-2019 5:56pm

My DPD parcel that was to be delivered between 8 and 9am this morning.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 03-09-2019 6:37pm

Me, my sister and my friend talking about Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix being engaged just now.

Me: Random but good for them.
Friend: Random but how cute!
Sister: He’s 44 and she’s 34. That’s so predatory!
Me and Friend: what the ever-loving fuck?
Sister: He’s an older guy. I hate young women being preyed upon like that.
Me and Friend: She’s 34, not 18!

That’s not even the main trivial annoyance in and of itself. It’s the rush by some to make women into victims no matter what. Like, you’d have to think that at 34, Rooney Mara is likely plenty mature.

Purple Mountain · 03-09-2019 6:50pm

Turned up at 6pm.

Purple Mountain wrote: »

My DPD parcel that was to be delivered between 8 and 9am this morning.

NewbridgeIR · 03-09-2019 7:09pm

People referring to Tina Turner’s hit single The Best as “Simply The Best”

Pawwed Rig · 03-09-2019 7:17pm

Miley Cyrus. Why is her tongue always out?

Raconteuse · 03-09-2019 7:22pm

Channel 4's censoring of The Simpsons. Dry arse central.

IAMAMORON · 03-09-2019 7:42pm

**** who skip queues, anywhere and for any reason. I hate you and your selfishness and lack of patience, how boring.

daveorourke77 · 03-09-2019 7:45pm

Badly folded newspapers are the bane of my life

freshpopcorn · 03-09-2019 8:21pm

People who can't sit down and shut up when your watching TV. Now they are shaving with their electric razor.

Rubberlegs · 03-09-2019 8:22pm

The doors on the freezers in Tesco were so full of condensation I couldn't see what was in them.

Be right back · 03-09-2019 8:27pm

Drivers who drive into yellow boxes, while stuck in traffic..

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 03-09-2019 8:53pm

Raconteuse wrote: »

Channel 4's censoring of The Simpsons. Dry arse central.

And even Friends. I saw so many new bits when it moved to Netflix. Some really mild stuff too.

Paddy Cow · 03-09-2019 9:28pm

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

And even Friends. I saw so many new bits when it moved to Netflix. Some really mild stuff too.

Really? Friends was great but in PC terms it was pretty vanilla.

castletownman · 03-09-2019 9:42pm

So a small sector of the LGBT perpetually offended community staged a small protest during Pence's visit against his stance on homosexuality.

He is an old-school religious republican. He ain't for changing unfortunately. Besides I'm sure there are more important issues being perpetrated by his regime that could be highlighted. Like the growing racism, gun violence, collusion, their stance on climate change.....bleeding Trump as a human being.

Don't worry though, your rainbow flags and gyrating sent that Pence guy a clear message.

NewbridgeIR · 03-09-2019 9:57pm

Be right back wrote: »

Drivers who drive into yellow boxes, while stuck in traffic..

Or those who think they're parking spaces.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 03-09-2019 10:16pm

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Really? Friends was great but in PC terms it was pretty vanilla.

Yeah! Like, okay, for example. When Emily shows up at the girls’ apartment, Channel 4 cut out a bit where she says that she apparently looks like someone who has drugs shoved up her bum. That was how tame the wording was and they cut it. Also, Chandler calls Kathy a slut, also cut. And Joey saying he didn’t read LOTR in high school, he had sex in high school. That last one, I had noticed how the scene just cut off very weirdly. Three examples that spring to mind.

ArnoldJRimmer · 03-09-2019 10:34pm

The whole modern reappraisal of Friends irritates me, as when anything is judged in hindsight. The jokes around Carol and Susan's relationship are now viewed as offensive by some, but the same people forget that this was one of the first shows on TV that normalized a same sex relationship. It was becoming more acceptable with Ellen coming out, but it was still a brave move by the writers to have them as secondary characters. And even looking back, the jokes are absolutely harmless, and more about the awkwardness of Ross about the whole situation

And don't get me started on the Tom and Jerry cartoons that were banned because of smoking....

Paddy Cow · 03-09-2019 11:27pm

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Yeah! Like, okay, for example. When Emily shows up at the girls’ apartment, Channel 4 cut out a bit where she says that she apparently looks like someone who has drugs shoved up her bum. That was how tame the wording was and they cut it. Also, Chandler calls Kathy a slut, also cut. And Joey saying he didn’t read LOTR in high school, he had sex in high school. That last one, I had noticed how the scene just cut off very weirdly. Three examples that spring to mind.

Oh I'm not doubting you. I remember a thread around the time when Friends got added to Netflix and it had a resurgence in popularity and the main complaints from younger viewers who hadn't grown up with the show were how unrealistic is was that Monica had such a big apartment (she was illegally there on her grandmother's rent controlled lease), they were six white friends (not enough diversity) and it was homophobic because they took the p!ss out of Chandler with some people assuming he was gay. It was all harmless stuff and mostly journalists looking for one or two tweets on twitter to base an article on.

That is such a Joey thing to say and is probably more relevant now that it was 20 years ago :pac:

Raconteuse · 03-09-2019 11:34pm

Censoring Friends? Ffs.

The bit in The Simpsons they cut out today (among others) was "It's a pornography store. I was buying pornography". I mean really, it's one of the most well known gags in the show's history.

And Channel 4 was once the envelope pushing tv station.

DareGod · 04-09-2019 12:59am

bluewolf wrote: »

subtitles on netflix calling something a 'full-proof plan'

I keep noticing mistakes on Netflix subtitles. Sometimes big ones!

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 04-09-2019 1:57am

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

The whole modern reappraisal of Friends irritates me, as when anything is judged in hindsight. The jokes around Carol and Susan's relationship are now viewed as offensive by some, but the same people forget that this was one of the first shows on TV that normalized a same sex relationship. It was becoming more acceptable with Ellen coming out, but it was still a brave move by the writers to have them as secondary characters. And even looking back, the jokes are absolutely harmless, and more about the awkwardness of Ross about the whole situation.

I totally agree. It’s annoying. The show depicted Susan and Carol getting married. That was a landmark. And I liked that they didn’t make Carol and Susan a sickly sweet, nice-as-pie couple. Ross had issues with them as he rightfully should and the show didn’t shy away from that.

People have also pointed to the episode where Chandler is annoyed to realise that many people assume he is gay, saying it’s homophobic. Wouldn’t many a heterosexual man be concerned about that, that women they like mightn’t approach them because they think they’re gay? I think the criticism is that Chandler sees being gay as somehow lesser but I just read it as him being concerned that eligible women might be avoiding him based on an assumption.

dubstarr · 04-09-2019 7:54am

Buses.No matter which side of the road im on while waiting on my bus.The bus always comes the other side first

Living Off The Splash · 04-09-2019 9:02am

When I take a Paracetamol and then wonder if I have swallowed a bit of the silver paper wrapping as well.

mikemac2 · 04-09-2019 9:05am

Told a team member in work I had an interview when asked why I was takeing a half day

This morning in front of everyone they asked how was my interview

Have people no cop on? Well it’s not a secret and realy I don’t care if people know and they probably guessed anyway but you don’t declare to the entire team

My fault too, now I’m saying nothing

ohnonotgmail · 04-09-2019 9:25am

The new person in work took my mug. my retribution will be swift and brutal.

Paddy Cow · 04-09-2019 10:46am

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

I totally agree. It’s annoying. The show depicted Susan and Carol getting married. That was a landmark. And I liked that they didn’t make Carol and Susan a sickly sweet, nice-as-pie couple. Ross had issues with them as he rightfully should and the show didn’t shy away from that.

People have also pointed to the episode where Chandler is annoyed to realise that many people assume he is gay, saying it’s homophobic. Wouldn’t many a heterosexual man be concerned about that, that women they like mightn’t approach them because they think they’re gay? I think the criticism is that Chandler sees being gay as somehow lesser but I just read it as him being concerned that eligible women might be avoiding him based on an assumption.

That goes completely over the heads of those looking for offence. There was an episode where Chandler said he wasn't gay but if he was, he could get Brian and the other woman told him Brian was out of his league lol. If Chandler was homophobic, he wouldn't even have been joking about getting with another man. You have it spot on. He didn't want women thinking he was gay because then they wouldn't date him and he was already bad enough with women.

Boom_Bap · 04-09-2019 11:03am

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Miley Cyrus. Why is her tongue always out?

Just like one of the Jedwards, always has his mouth open in pics

ohnonotgmail · 04-09-2019 11:11am

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Miley Cyrus. Why is her tongue always out?

As she says herself

I was crazy about making the tongue slide work. I was so embarrassed to be on the red carpet, and so many of those ****ing disgusting photographers would tell me to blow a kiss, and that's not me! I don't want to blow you a kiss. I didn't know what to do with my face, so I stuck my tongue out, and it became a rebellious, punk-rock thing

cj maxx · 04-09-2019 11:28am

When I'm parking my car and the car beside me moves forward or back. Always scares the shyte out of me. I think I'm still moving

Ol' Donie · 04-09-2019 11:34am

I have one spoon of sugar in every coffee I drink, and I have three coffees every day.

That means I have 21 spoons of sugar every week just in my coffee.

That's an absolutely ludicrous 1,096 spoons of sugar a year I ingest, just to make my coffee taste nice.

If I could simply drop the sugar in my coffee, this stupid belly I'm developing would surely be fairly reduced.

But coffee's gross without sugar, and delicious with it. And I'm unquestionably addicted to it.

So, that's all a bit annoying, isn't it?

EmmetSpiceland · 04-09-2019 11:43am

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Just like one of the Jedwards, always has his mouth open in pics

I believe that is known as the “soylent grin”, in certain circles.

DuckSlice · 04-09-2019 11:46am

*****, ***** annoy me

Dial Hard · 04-09-2019 12:26pm

Ol' Donie wrote: »

I have one spoon of sugar in every coffee I drink, and I have three coffees every day.

That means I have 21 spoons of sugar every week just in my coffee.

That's an absolutely ludicrous 1,096 spoons of sugar a year I ingest, just to make my coffee taste nice.

If I could simply drop the sugar in my coffee, this stupid belly I'm developing would surely be fairly reduced.

But coffee's gross without sugar, and delicious with it. And I'm unquestionably addicted to it.

So, that's all a bit annoying, isn't it?

Sugar on its own isn't particularly fattening - there's a whopping 16 calories in a teaspoon. Your coffee habit is not giving you a belly at 48 calories a day.

Hyperpalatable combinations of sugar and fat in junk food and treats are the issue. Very few people get fat from eating too much of either in isolation. Mostly because neither is particularly palatable on its own.

the beer revolu · 04-09-2019 12:55pm

Ol' Donie wrote: »

I have one spoon of sugar in every coffee I drink, and I have three coffees every day.

That means I have 21 spoons of sugar every week just in my coffee.

That's an absolutely ludicrous 1,096 spoons of sugar a year I ingest, just to make my coffee taste nice.

If I could simply drop the sugar in my coffee, this stupid belly I'm developing would surely be fairly reduced.

But coffee's gross without sugar, and delicious with it. And I'm unquestionably addicted to it.

So, that's all a bit annoying, isn't it?

Just gradually cut it down over a couple of weeks.
Even if you got it down to 1/2 a spoon that would be half the sugar you'd be ingesting.
Having said that. it's not that much sugar.

Things That Trialvilly Annoy You.

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