The small things in life that annoy you

[Sheaf Saint]

When you invite a friend from out of town to stay over after a birthday party, and sleep in the spare room so they can have your bedroom, and they're still in fucking bed at 11:30 the next morning.

[Weston Super Saint]

People who pull up to traffic lights but leave too much room, then start inching forward as more and more cars join the queue.

[Lighthouse]

5 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

When you invite a friend from out of town to stay over after a birthday party, and sleep in the spare room so they can have your bedroom, and they're still in fucking bed at 11:30 the next morning.

I’ll be out in a minute, I’m just finishing my Tommy tank. 🙄

[whelk]

The increasing use of putting ‘right’ at the end of a question. 
 

 

[AlexLaw76]

3 minutes ago, whelk said:

The increasing use of putting ‘right’ at the end of a question. 
 

 

People who say “like” almost every other word… usually those u25 from the south east/ London

[mickn]

Pop up wastes, what's wrong with a simple plug

[trousers]

13 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

People who say “like” almost every other word… usually those u25 from the south east/ London, right?

Fixed it for you...

[trousers]

21 hours ago, Weston Super Saint said:

People who pull up to traffic lights but leave too much room, then start inching forward as more and more cars join the queue.

I do that to annoy tailgaters... Works a treat...

[egg]

Pies without a bottom. That's not a pie. It's a casserole with lid. 

[trousers]

45 minutes ago, whelk said:

The increasing use of putting ‘right’ at the end of a question. 
 

 

So, that's almost as annoying as those twats that start every f***ing sentence with 'so'

[whelk]

28 minutes ago, egg said:

Pies without a bottom. That's not a pie. It's a casserole with lid. 

My missus was making a pie the other day and asked a question about should she make it without a bottom. We haven’t spoken since, although I did giggle at her saying ‘bottom’

[egg]

2 minutes ago, whelk said:

My missus was making a pie the other day and asked a question about should she make it without a bottom. We haven’t spoken since, although I did giggle at her saying ‘bottom’

I'm surprised that you haven't packed and left mate. Credit to you for giving her another chance. 

[whelk]

32 minutes ago, egg said:

Pies without a bottom. That's not a pie. It's a casserole with lid. 

This is a perfect example that I must use to remind SOG about what this thread is for. Not those annoying, rapists and terrorists 

[Weston Super Saint]

2 hours ago, trousers said:

I do that to annoy tailgaters... Works a treat...

I think you've misunderstood the meaning of 'tailgating' if you think that's what happens at traffic lights!

 

[Lighthouse]

5 hours ago, egg said:

Pies without a bottom. That's not a pie. It's a casserole with lid. 

I think what you have there is a meat gazebo.

[badgerx16]

Our daughter has just taken her 9 year old son to the GP surgery, as he is not well. The doctor asked her "Why are you here ? What do you think is wrong with him ? What do you expect me to do about it ?".

 

Worth every penny.

[Lighthouse]

Martin Brundle’s grid walk. It used to be quite interesting and amusing, now the producers have clearly told him to go and talk to self obsessed cretins like Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Thee Stallion, in the hope of cheap headlines and confrontation. Brundle has even said himself he hates doing it.

[Convict Colony]

yes finally somewhere to post my inner rants as i see them happen.

Ok I wont post them all in 1 go will drip feed them.

No.1 People who walk into shops through the wrong sliding doors - i.e numpties walking into the shop via the exit door.

Edited 7 November, 2023 by Convict Colony

[Convict Colony]

No.2 - Why do women hesitate where to put their feet on escalators, why dont they shorten or lengthen their stride as they approach the steps rather that stop then move again.

[Convict Colony]

No. 3 (and i will post more as I remember them) Dutch people cannot talk quietly, they are the loudest people in the world, whispering is a national crime.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

47 minutes ago, Convict Colony said:

No. 3 (and i will post more as I remember them) Dutch people cannot talk quietly, they are the loudest people in the world, whispering is a national crime.

Deafened by the sound of clogs.

 

Things that annoy me?

Lazy national stereotyping. 🙂

[whelk]

Poppies with a football club badge. FFS just wear a poppy no one gives a fuck who you support and has no relevance to Remembrance 

[TheAlehouseBrawlers]

On 19/10/2023 at 10:28, TheAlehouseBrawlers said:

Newsreaders (most notably on the BBC) who stick a non-existent 'r' into words, often place names

Glarsgow

Parkistarn

Barth

Belfarst

Ugarnda

...to name a few

 

On 19/10/2023 at 13:41, Sheaf Saint said:

Sorry but I have to pick you up on this. That's actually the correct and respectful way to pronounce it. 

I'm writing a stiff letter the the BBC, the Scottish sports reporter on there has just clearly said Pak-i-stan lost to England at the cricket. 'Disgusted' of Safampton.  

[badgerx16]

Why can't I turn on our new LED strip lights without having to download a fucking app and registering my details so I can receive a verification code ?

Edited 13 November, 2023 by badgerx16

[Lighthouse]

12 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

Why can't I turn on our new LED strip lights without having to download a fucking app and registering my details so I can receive a verification code ?

Slight tangent, I decided to take all the lights out my living room this year and replace them with Philips Hue Bluetooth spot lamps. Looking back I can’t imagine the place without them, well worth the investment.

[inspectorfrost]

On 06/11/2023 at 20:49, Lighthouse said:

Martin Brundle’s grid walk. It used to be quite interesting and amusing, now the producers have clearly told him to go and talk to self obsessed cretins like Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Thee Stallion, in the hope of cheap headlines and confrontation. Brundle has even said himself he hates doing it.

I'll always remember that gridwalk classic from 15-20 years ago

"Kimi, did you see Michael Schumacher pick up his lifetime achievement award?

"No, I was having a shit"

[Sheaf Saint]

Idiot delivery drivers who seemingly can't understand the simple instruction "press here" on my camera doorbell. I fitted it for a reason, as I have recently built a garden office pod for WFH, but so many of them still just knock and then leave a card when I inevitably don't answer.

I know delivery driving isn't exactly a high skilled job, but the ability to use a fucking doorbell should still be a prerequisite FFS. 

Edited 16 November, 2023 by Sheaf Saint

[badgerx16]

1 hour ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Idiot delivery drivers.....

Could have just left it there.

 

[AlexLaw76]

2 hours ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Idiot delivery drivers who seemingly can't understand the simple instruction "press here" on my camera doorbell. I fitted it for a reason, as I have recently built a garden office pod for WFH, but so many of them still just knock and then leave a card when I inevitably don't answer.

I know delivery driving isn't exactly a high skilled job, but the ability to use a fucking doorbell should still be a prerequisite FFS. 

I love it when you receive a photo of 'your' front door, claiming you were not in.

Yet, you were in, and the picture is not of your front door, nor any on your street.

[badgerx16]

31 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

I love it when you receive a photo of 'your' front door, claiming you were not in.

Yet, you were in, and the picture is not of your front door, nor any on your street.

We were in the front garden when a DPD driver tried to drop a parcel at a house just a few doors up the road. When he got no answer, and noticing we were in, he asked if we could take the parcel for "the white house across the road", which we did. As he drove off I checked the house name on the parcel and saw it wasn't the house he was knocking at, it was one 400 yards further along the road.

I have lost count of the number of drivers who have to be shown that our house name is written in large letters on a plaque on the front gate; "Oh, I never saw that".

[whelk]

18 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

that our house name is written in large letters on a plaque on the front gate

The Holt?

[badgerx16]

23 minutes ago, whelk said:

The Holt?

"If you can't see this you shouldn't be driving".

[Lighthouse]

Had a mare with a delivery driver last year. Went something like this:

• Ordered an item online for £35, free postage, UK seller.
• Sent tracking number in confirmation email, checked after a few days and it’s coming from China - okay, no biggie.
• Get email about a week later saying my parcel will be delivered today - I’m in, perfect.
• Receive text the same day saying we were unable to deliver your item due to problem with the address.
• Look out of front window - Nothing. Walk to end of drive - nothing resembling a delivery vehicle for 1/4 mile either way.
• Receive email saying they will attempt to redeliver on day X.
• Day X comes, receive text saying they were unable to deliver as item was oversized and needed a specialist vehicle (item would fit in a shoe box).
• Get fed up and decide to just let them return to sender and claim a refund.
• Check tracking website a few weeks later, item has apparently been ‘destroyed’ at the depot.
• Email original website and relay all of the above, ask for refund, they refuse on the grounds that I was ‘negligent’ with my address.
• Email them about 6 more times with screenshots of my address, written perfectly on the original order email.
• They refuse point blank to acknowledge any of this, end up getting a refund through Visa.

[inspectorfrost]

Mainly motoring ones

-Putting zebra crossings within 20 yards of roundabouts so the roundabout gridlocks everytime someone crosses the road

-People in traffic jams that leave a 200 yard gap between them and the car in front. Just takes a few people to do this and it makes the jam ten times worse. There's a sensible gap, then there's stupidity.

-'Bike friendly' road layout changes that benefit no-one. Special mention to whoever designed the traffic light junction approach near Cambridge railway station where they put the cycle lane in between the inside and middle lanes. At peak times you effectively have to mow an entire peloton of cyclists down to turn left at the junction. They couldn't have designed it to be more downright dangerous if they tried.

-The current roadworks at the M25/A3 junction. After a 1-2 mile tailback, they only split the lanes/filter the traffic for each direction in the final 100 yards

-Binmen who can't be arsed to close the bin lids in pouring rain after emptying our bins. Then soaking myself when tipping all the rainwater out.

-Having to ask twice to cancel parts of my Sky package, after the human assistant I eventually get through to gives me an automated message of how wonderful each thing is I want to cancel after I ask the first time

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

"See it, say it, sorted". Especially if you get an Avanti train from London to Stafford as they repeat it in Welsh every 5 minutes (as the train terminates in Holyhead...).

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

Work emails. Fuck off.

[Fan The Flames]

Squeeze

[trousers]

On 16/11/2023 at 14:26, Lighthouse said:

Had a mare with a delivery driver last year. Went something like this:

• Ordered an item online for £35, free postage, UK seller.
• Sent tracking number in confirmation email, checked after a few days and it’s coming from China - okay, no biggie.
• Get email about a week later saying my parcel will be delivered today - I’m in, perfect.
• Receive text the same day saying we were unable to deliver your item due to problem with the address.
• Look out of front window - Nothing. Walk to end of drive - nothing resembling a delivery vehicle for 1/4 mile either way.
• Receive email saying they will attempt to redeliver on day X.
• Day X comes, receive text saying they were unable to deliver as item was oversized and needed a specialist vehicle (item would fit in a shoe box).
• Get fed up and decide to just let them return to sender and claim a refund.
• Check tracking website a few weeks later, item has apparently been ‘destroyed’ at the depot.
• Email original website and relay all of the above, ask for refund, they refuse on the grounds that I was ‘negligent’ with my address.
• Email them about 6 more times with screenshots of my address, written perfectly on the original order email.
• They refuse point blank to acknowledge any of this, end up getting a refund through Visa.

Which retailer? (Would be useful to know in order to avoid making the same mistake! ) 

[StDunko]

Just bought flights to Bucharest, 4 nights, the car parking at the airport costs more than the flights...

[Lighthouse]

11 hours ago, trousers said:

Which retailer? (Would be useful to know in order to avoid making the same mistake! ) 

It was a website called Ortorex which, having just looked at their Trustpilot reviews, doesn’t seem to be particularly reputable.

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/ortorex.com

[andypen]

Milk bottle tops, instead of being brightly coloured they're now virtually transparent. The result is you scouring the kitchen for the "lost" lid when the thing is on the bottle in the first place.

[whelk]

3 hours ago, andypen said:

Milk bottle tops, instead of being brightly coloured they're now virtually transparent. The result is you scouring the kitchen for the "lost" lid when the thing is on the bottle in the first place.

I think too many were stealing the bright coloured ones to make earrings and necklaces. Cost of Living crisis and all that

[Winnersaint]

On 05/11/2023 at 09:58, trousers said:

So, that's almost as annoying as those twats that start every f***ing sentence with 'so'

And 'mate'!

[trousers]

When you really want to sneeze but can't, despite staring into a 60 watt lightbulb for several minutes

[trousers]

23 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

It was a website called Ortorex which, having just looked at their Trustpilot reviews, doesn’t seem to be particularly reputable.

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/ortorex.com

Oops... Schoolboy error... I'll withhold my sympathy for blatant lack of research! Inexcusable... 

Edited 28 November, 2023 by trousers

[Lighthouse]

40 minutes ago, trousers said:

When you really want to sneeze but can't, despite staring into a 60 watt lightbulb for several minutes

Try plucking out a few eyebrow hairs, it triggers the same facial nerve which causes sneezing, apparently.

[trousers]

Southampton FC press conference streams that invariably start after the first question has already been asked and part way through the answer...

Edited 28 November, 2023 by trousers

[whelk]

3 hours ago, trousers said:

Southampton FC press conference streams that invariably start after the first question has already been asked and part way through the answer...

Pressers eh

[Holmes_and_Watson]

"pressers" instead of "press conference" 🙂

[Fan The Flames]

McDonald's forgetting to give you the dip with cheese dippers.