The small things in life that annoy you

[badgerx16]

On 02/05/2024 at 11:18, trousers said:

Pretentious restaurant menus that just use a whole number, rather than proper currency notation, to denote the price of each dish 

I often wonder what would happen if somebody went into Currys to buy something advertised on TV as being "Just one nine nine", and handed over £19, telling the salesperson "That's one, nine, and nine".

( And, no, I'm too cowardly to do it myself ).

[buctootim]

1 hour ago, The Cat said:

The worst ones are those that put something like 9.5 and then can't be arsed to put the zero at the end. Tossers. 

I was window shopping for an engagement ring yonks ago and there was a group I liked - all stock numbered (or so I thought) 2.7; 1.8,  etc. When I asked how much the 2.7 ring was he just said £2.7 million sir. Turns out yellow diamonds are quite dear, not cheaper....    

Edited May 5 by buctootim

[Whitey Grandad]

3 hours ago, buctootim said:

I was window shopping for an engagement ring yonks ago and there was a group I liked - all stock numbered (or so I thought) 2.7; 1.8,  etc. When I asked how much the 2.7 ring was he just said £2.7 million sir. Turns out yellow diamonds are quite dear, not cheaper....    

Was she worth it?

[buctootim]

51 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Was she worth it?

The two kids were worth it. I went for something £2.695m cheaper    

Edited May 5 by buctootim

[Whitey Grandad]

3 minutes ago, buctootim said:

The two kids were worth it. I went for something £2.695m cheaper    

Well done. My wife’s cost us £25/10/6 or something close and she paid for most of that herself since she was working and I was a student. That was in 1968 and last October 55 years later she sadly passed away. I had bought her lots of jewellery over the years and my daughter has it all now including that engagement ring with the tiny diamond and the silver locket that that I had bought her before and which still has our daughter’s teeth marks in it.

We have a son, a daughter and seven wonderful grandchildren. My eldest grandson is a Saints fan and we both have season tickets and go to the football together.

Some things are truly priceless.

[Whitey Grandad]

6 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

I often wonder what would happen if somebody went into Currys to buy something advertised on TV as being "Just one nine nine", and handed over £19, telling the salesperson "That's one, nine, and nine".

( And, no, I'm too cowardly to do it myself ).

Legally the potential buyer makes an offer and the seller decides whether or not to accept it.

Back in the old days items were priced at a penny or two under a whole pound because it forced the shop assistant to ring the item up on the till and hence there would be a record of the sale. There’s a whole generation or two out there who won’t know what I’m talking about.

[buctootim]

6 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Well done. My wife’s cost us £25/10/6 or something close and she paid for most of that herself since she was working and I was a student. That was in 1968 and last October 55 years later she sadly passed away. I had bought her lots of jewellery over the years and my daughter has it all now including that engagement ring with the tiny diamond and the silver locket that that I had bought her before and which still has our daughter’s teeth marks in it.

We have a son, a daughter and seven wonderful grandchildren. My eldest grandson is a Saints fan and we both have season tickets and go to the football together.

Some things are truly priceless.

55 years! You're lucky- or more socially skilled than me. Sorry for your loss. It's obviously hard to adjust but sometimes it also creates space for something new. My exes parents were similar, married 50 years and when her mum died her dad eventually found a second life with ballroom dancing. Men in their 70s are in a minority and highly sought after....

[Whitey Grandad]

14 minutes ago, buctootim said:

55 years! You're lucky- or more socially skilled than me. Sorry for your loss. It's obviously hard to adjust but sometimes it also creates space for something new. My exes parents were similar, married 50 years and when her mum died her dad eventually found a second life with ballroom dancing. Men in their 70s are in a minority and highly sought after....

We had been together since we were both sixteen so it was nearer 58 years together.

I have had a few holidays alone and my son warned me that I should beware of ladies on the hunt for a wealthy widower and I have made a few friends. I have enough things to do to keep me busy but the wounds are still very raw. 

I’m fairly confident that I will not be taking up ballroom dancing though 😳

[Patrick Bateman]

53 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Well done. My wife’s cost us £25/10/6 or something close and she paid for most of that herself since she was working and I was a student. That was in 1968 and last October 55 years later she sadly passed away. I had bought her lots of jewellery over the years and my daughter has it all now including that engagement ring with the tiny diamond and the silver locket that that I had bought her before and which still has our daughter’s teeth marks in it.

We have a son, a daughter and seven wonderful grandchildren. My eldest grandson is a Saints fan and we both have season tickets and go to the football together.

Some things are truly priceless.

Things that make you smile and happy with life, lovely! 

[Weston Super Saint]

16 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

I often wonder what would happen if somebody went into Currys to buy something advertised on TV as being "Just one nine nine", and handed over £19, telling the salesperson "That's one, nine, and nine".

( And, no, I'm too cowardly to do it myself ).

They would look at you like you are a weirdo.

The advert on TV is an 'invitation to treat' and not an 'offer'.

[Sheaf Saint]

John Virgo shouting "WHERE'S THE CUE BALL GOING!?" literally every time it looks like a possible in-off. 

[AlexLaw76]

The annoying fact that ex players seem to wear the same footwear when doing punditry on Sky Sports

[Weston Super Saint]

7 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

The annoying fact that ex players seem to wear the same footwear when doing punditry on Sky Sports

Isn't it like the F1 coverage where they don't wear any obvious branding? Probably a limited selection if so.

[Turkish]

On 02/05/2024 at 08:25, Fan The Flames said:

Anyone over 30 taking a day off for their birthday.

some dopey bint i know is in her early 40s and has a birthday week which she publishes all over her facebook account, its fucking tragic.

Edited May 6 by Turkish

[revolution saint]

Using "I'm just saying" at the end of a (normally passive aggressive) sentence.  Totally redundant.  Of course you're just saying, what the fuck else did you think I thought you were doing?

[whelk]

2 hours ago, revolution saint said:

Using "I'm just saying" at the end of a (normally passive aggressive) sentence.  Totally redundant.  Of course you're just saying, what the fuck else did you think I thought you were doing?

You’re just too sensitive😄

[buctootim]

11 minutes ago, whelk said:

You’re just too sensitive😄

Nah. If he were the right amount of sensitive he would have understood what she was going to say and she needn't have wasted her breath. Bstard. 

[hypochondriac]

On 07/05/2024 at 12:23, revolution saint said:

Using "I'm just saying" at the end of a (normally passive aggressive) sentence.  Totally redundant.  Of course you're just saying, what the fuck else did you think I thought you were doing?

Another like this is when people say "and then I turned round and said" when there was no turning round at all so the phrase is redundant. 

[Weston Super Saint]

21 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Another like this is when people say "and then I turned round and said" when there was no turning round at all so the phrase is redundant. 

(/end MLG mode).

[hypochondriac]

 

1 hour ago, Weston Super Saint said:

(/end MLG mode).

Everyone's a little autistic sometimes. 

[badgerx16]

People that light stinking bonfires that smoke so much you could hide the Graf Spee up our road.

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

People who wear massive ear defenders to mow their tiny lawn with an electric Flymo mower (i.e. my neighbour, who I am watching as I type).

Maybe he is very sensible and will be laughing in 20 years when I'm deaf but I can't help but think it's over the top.

[Weston Super Saint]

1 minute ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

People who wear massive ear defenders to mow their tiny lawn with an electric Flymo mower (i.e. my neighbour, who I am watching as I type).

Maybe he is very sensible and will be laughing in 20 years when I'm deaf but I can't help but think it's over the top.

Luckily, you won't be able to hear him.

[Fan The Flames]

1 hour ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

People who wear massive ear defenders to mow their tiny lawn with an electric Flymo mower (i.e. my neighbour, who I am watching as I type).

Maybe he is very sensible and will be laughing in 20 years when I'm deaf but I can't help but think it's over the top.

A couple of my mates have developed tinnitus recently (we are in our 50s) one is particularly fucked off with it. Maybe your neighbour is a sufferer.

[ChrisPY]

Anyone who says a better goal difference is worth an extra point. Call it 0.0001 of a point or half a point or 0.9999 of a point if it’s necessary to explain why one team will finish above the other when they end the season level on points but it’s not the equivalent of an extra point.

[Whitey Grandad]

2 hours ago, Fan The Flames said:

A couple of my mates have developed tinnitus recently (we are in our 50s) one is particularly fucked off with it. Maybe your neighbour is a sufferer.

I developed unilateral tinnitus some twenty years ago and now I just have to live with it. Mine was caused by using a PC monitor that was too low for me meaning that my neck erector muscles were in constant tension. Over time the nerve signals through the dorsal cochlear nucleus got mixed with the auditory ones and I am constantly hearing the nerve commands as sounds.

It won’t kill me and I have to live with it but I would love to hear some silence so anything that can be done to preserve hearing is to be encouraged.

[badgerx16]

The fact that at least one of Man Utd and Newcastle will be playing in a European competition next season.

[trousers]

Nothing more annoying than certain Facebook memories that pop up on one's timeline...

 

[trousers]

Idiots on aeroplanes that pull on the back of the seat in front of them when  getting up from their seat, thus disturbing the person sitting in said seat (i.e. me!)

(Currently on a flight to Krakow and this has happened at least 4 times now. Twats.)

[trousers]

Idiots on aeroplanes that pull on the back of the seat in front of them when  getting up from their seat, thus disturbing the person sitting in said seat (i.e. me!)

(Currently on a flight to Krakow and this has happened at least 4 times now. Twats.)

[trousers]

Idiots on aeroplanes that pull on the back of the seat in front of them when  getting up from their seat, thus disturbing the person sitting in said seat (i.e. me!)

(Currently on a flight to Krakow and this has happened at least 4 times now. Twats.)

[egg]

1 minute ago, trousers said:

Idiots on aeroplanes that pull on the back of the seat in front of them when  getting up from their seat, thus disturbing the person sitting in said seat (i.e. me!)

(Currently on a flight to Krakow and this has happened at least 4 times now. Twats.)

Yep, irritating. I let it go once, address it if it happens again, and have never experienced a 3rd. 

[Whitey Grandad]

People who post the same thing three times 😉

[whelk]

46 minutes ago, trousers said:

Currently on a flight to Krakow and this has happened at least 4 times now. Twats.)

So is that twelve times in total?

[Fan The Flames]

Mobile phone signal.

I can't remember the last I made a call on the move without struggling to get through or maintaining the connection for the whole call.

[Lighthouse]

The constant Ayrton Senna stuff on the F1 coverage and social media pages. I get it, 30 years, but f**k me it’s been incessant for about a month.

[tdmickey3]

30 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

The constant Ayrton Senna stuff on the F1 coverage and social media pages. I get it, 30 years, but f**k me it’s been incessant for about a month.

Just wait until we have the anniversary candlelit vigil of Klopp leaving every fuckin year

[Holmes_and_Watson]

10 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

Just wait until we have the anniversary candlelit vigil of Klopp leaving every fuckin year

I think our period of mourning his departure, will last at least until the first anniversary.

[Turkish]

When you board a flight and they announce if you’re in rows 18 onwards please board from the back and fuckwits still get on the front barging their way through and making everyone going the right way back up so they can get to their seat. Dickheads

[trousers]

On 19/05/2024 at 12:42, trousers said:

Idiots on aeroplanes that pull on the back of the seat in front of them when  getting up from their seat, thus disturbing the person sitting in said seat (i.e. me!)

(Currently on a flight to Krakow and this has happened at least 4 times now. Twats.)

 

On 19/05/2024 at 12:43, trousers said:

Idiots on aeroplanes that pull on the back of the seat in front of them when  getting up from their seat, thus disturbing the person sitting in said seat (i.e. me!)

(Currently on a flight to Krakow and this has happened at least 4 times now. Twats.)

 

On 19/05/2024 at 12:45, trousers said:

Idiots on aeroplanes that pull on the back of the seat in front of them when  getting up from their seat, thus disturbing the person sitting in said seat (i.e. me!)

(Currently on a flight to Krakow and this has happened at least 4 times now. Twats.)

Shite WiFi on BA flights....

[revolution saint]

Streaming services that release an episode a week.  F*ck off!  That's one of your advantages over linear programming - watch whenever you want.  Except the new stuff - we'll drip feed you that for no apparent reason.  Twats.

[whelk]

12 minutes ago, revolution saint said:

Streaming services that release an episode a week.  F*ck off!  That's one of your advantages over linear programming - watch whenever you want.  Except the new stuff - we'll drip feed you that for no apparent reason.  Twats.

Just wait until all episodes have ‘dropped’ then start watching. I like the old days when everyone asked if you watched Minder last night. You got to think of the poor podcasters

[revolution saint]

40 minutes ago, whelk said:

Just wait until all episodes have ‘dropped’ then start watching. I like the old days when everyone asked if you watched Minder last night. You got to think of the poor podcasters

Yeah, that's what I do.  Annoys me when the first one comes out and have to wait a couple of months before I can binge it.  True, there's no "water cooler moments" (stupid phrase but there you go).  I think I watch less and less linear TV as time goes on.  It's really just sporting events and news now.

[badgerx16]

BBC headline ; "Family opens their back garden to 50,000 festival goers."'

 

Reality ; farm clears 3 fields for music festival.

[Whitey Grandad]

People who spray champagne around as a celebration.

[Fan The Flames]

On 25/05/2024 at 17:24, Whitey Grandad said:

People who spray champagne around as a celebration.

https://x.com/SouthamptonFC/status/1794773616514437562

Edited May 26 by Fan The Flames

[Whitey Grandad]

4 hours ago, Fan The Flames said:

https://x.com/SouthamptonFC/status/1794773616514437562

I rest my case.

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

On 24/05/2024 at 17:45, revolution saint said:

Yeah, that's what I do.  Annoys me when the first one comes out and have to wait a couple of months before I can binge it.  True, there's no "water cooler moments" (stupid phrase but there you go).  I think I watch less and less linear TV as time goes on.  It's really just sporting events and news now.

They really should just put the whole 2024 season of the news on Netflix now rather than us having to just watch an episode per day. It's getting a bit ridiculous these days anyway and not as good as it used to be.

[trousers]

Sainsbury's flawed product substitution policy for deliveries... when I order 450g of gravy for 4 people, I do so because that's the amount of gravy I want.... cue the numpties at Sainsbury's substituting it for 300g of gravy for 3 people. If I wanted gravy for 3 people I'd f***ing order gravy for 3 people, you f***ing imbeciles. Happens all the f***ing time with all sorts of f***ing produce. Twats.

[whelk]

Taste the Difference- how flash!