Trivial things that annoy you part 479

LynnGrace

Smidge wrote: »

When people need you.
That's when they contact you. They talk to you. They unload their problems.
Then once their lives take an upturn............Pooofff...they're gone.

Yes, I know the type. There is someone on our street like this.

Also friends who make no effort to keep in touch, and when you contact them to catch up, or arrange to meet up, they say 'oh I haven't heard from you in AGES'.

I pointed out to one person, who always did this, that she had the same means of contact, phone, email, etc, as I did.
It was if she thought hers were just for replying with...:D.

whiskeyman

People who turn into experts after watching 1 news report or reading a few articles on an event...

Rubberlegs

I have a wedding to go to today. I'm like a dog from lack of sleep, and look like crap. If one person tries to make me get up and dance, as usually happens, there will be bloodshed

Boom_Bap

Choochtown wrote: »

HEY ATM MACHINES! €130 IS a multiple of 50s and 20s so wtf is with the message "this machine only stocks €50 and €20 notes please select another amount". I don't want 2 or 3 50s I want 20s.


Simple feckin Maths.

It's TA that I know that this is down to the disburstment algorithm that is defined for the ATM.
You dont choose the nerd life, it chooses you

Maximus Alexander

Choochtown wrote: »

HEY ATM MACHINES! €130 IS a multiple of 50s and 20s so wtf is with the message "this machine only stocks €50 and €20 notes please select another amount". I don't want 2 or 3 50s I want 20s.


Simple feckin Maths.

It's not. It's a sum of 50s and 20s, not a multiple.

There's no way to multiply 50, 20 or both to get 130 using whole numbers.

You could argue that the algorithm in the machine should be able to work out how to sum them, but you can't say the machine is wrong if it mentions multiples. That message would be accurate.

OldNotWIse

The weird f*cking perve who sat too close to me on the luas this morning so that I eventually got off and waited for the next...and then there were no seats the whole way

I have the worst luck on the red line. I always seem to wind up sitting beside some fat person taking up half my seat or someone stinking of stale smoke or hacking back phlegm and sneezing and snorting. Even sitting on the outside seat offers little protection as when the tram fills, you can wind up having the head bet off you with someone's bag or shoulder. F*ckers. I'm like a freak magnet or something....

Zippie84

trivially annoys me that much of what is shared on this thread aren't trivial things :P

Rubberlegs

Why do manufacturers put washing instructions on pillows, if machine washing them is going to cause the filling to bunch up into clumps and twist round on itself? Why not say "don't machine wash" ? A***holes

OldNotWIse

Zippie84 wrote: »

trivially annoys me that much of what is shared on this thread aren't trivial things :P

I'm the opposite....

It trivially annoys me that annoyances have to be trivial to be posted here. I find myself wondering, "will this pass the trivial test?" and then I get anoyed thinking I can't post it because it's more than trivial :pac:

Maximus Alexander

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I'm the opposite....

It trivially annoys me that annoyances have to be trivial to be posted here. I find myself wondering, "will this pass the trivial test?" and then I get anoyed thinking I can't post it because it's more than trivial :pac:

I do hope you have access to Ranting & Raving. If not, do that.

Zippie84

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I'm the opposite....

It trivially annoys me that annoyances have to be trivial to be posted here. I find myself wondering, "will this pass the trivial test?" and then I get anoyed thinking I can't post it because it's more than trivial :pac:

Trivially annoys me when a joke I make seems to go over people's heads :rolleyes:

Also trivially annoys me when I then wonder if their response is actually a joke that has gone over MY head... *head melts*

OldNotWIse

Zippie84 wrote: »

Trivially annoys me when a joke I make seems to go over people's heads :rolleyes:

Also trivially annoys me when I then wonder if their response is actually a joke that has gone over MY head... *head melts*

Ah dont start getting all reactionary. Your joke didnt go over my head.

OldNotWIse

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

I do hope you have access to Ranting & Raving. If not, do that.

Will check it out. Do they judge you if your rant is too trivial though?

Zippie84

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Will check it out. Do they judge you if your rant is too trivial though?

No, they may* judge you for making massive huge assumptions and inaccurate things though :P

*Probably not

Zippie84

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Ah dont start getting all reactionary. Your joke didnt go over my head.

Good, cos I didn't say it did

OldNotWIse

Zippie84 wrote: »

No, they may* judge you for making massive huge assumptions though :P

*Probably not

Happy Friday

Maximus Alexander

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Will check it out. Do they judge you if your rant is too trivial though?

Nope, I'm pretty sure nothing is too big or too small to have a rant about. The main rule is that you don't ever go against the rant. If you disagree with someone's rant, you keep your lips sealed and keep walking.

OldNotWIse

Zippie84 wrote: »

Good, cos I didn't say it did

I know. You kind of....half said it The "people who...." post that comes directly under and the content of which is directly related to the one above, but actually isn't technically a reply

Zippie84

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I know. You kind of....half said it The "people who...." post that comes directly under and the content of which is directly related to the one above, but actually isn't technically a reply

Nope, I said 'Trivially annoys me when a joke I make seems to go over people's heads '

Key word is 'seems'.

Regardless of whether or not the joke did go over someone's head, when the response to a joke suggests that it might have done, it trivially annoys me.

On a seperate note, I have literally no idea what you're talking about about any post that says 'people who' as none of my posts said that, or what 'is directly related to' is about....

OldNotWIse

The stream of people walking past between five and half five.... Bye! Bye! Have a good evening! ok yeah...bye ..... see ya..... bye........


....enjoy the weekend...... byeeeeeee

The same stream that walks past in between nine and nine fifteen in the morning..... Moooorning! Good weekend? Greeeeat to be back! Morning! Hiya!!!! Monday again!!! Raining out there now! Hiya.....

OldNotWIse

Zippie84 wrote: »

Nope, I said 'Trivially annoys me when a joke I make seems to go over people's heads '

Key word is 'seems'.

Regardless of whether or not the joke did go over someone's head, when the response to a joke suggests that it might have done, it trivially annoys me.

Ah

LynnGrace

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

Nope, I'm pretty sure nothing is too big or too small to have a rant about. The main rule is that you don't ever go against the rant. If you disagree with someone's rant, you keep your lips sealed and keep walking.

That's what I really like about the Ranting and Raving forum. Plus there are great laughs to be had.

Gwynplaine

People's over reliance on their phone. I see people now who can't hold a conversation any more. Looking at the phone every 30 seconds.
People putting their whole lives on Facebook. Cop on.

eisenberg1

When people say " I will catch you up" WTF!!

OldNotWIse

Gwynplaine wrote: »

People's over reliance on their phone. I see people now who can't hold a conversation any more. Looking at the phone every 30 seconds.
People putting their whole lives on Facebook. Cop on.

Urgh this so much Not unrelated to people who are more concerned with taking photos of themselves to load up onto facebook to show they had a great night instead of just being concerned with having a great night.

...and people who take photos of their fodo

everlast75

OldNotWIse wrote: »

The stream of people walking past between five and half five.... Bye! Bye! Have a good evening! ok yeah...bye ..... see ya..... bye........


....enjoy the weekend...... byeeeeeee

The same stream that walks past in between nine and nine fifteen in the morning..... Moooorning! Good weekend? Greeeeat to be back! Morning! Hiya!!!! Monday again!!! Raining out there now! Hiya.....

I'm the opposite - i walk in and say good morning to all 4 in the office at the same time. Get nothing/or a grunt back and that's it. Find that annoying

eisenberg1

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Urgh this so much Not unrelated to people who are more concerned with taking photos of themselves to load up onto facebook to show they had a great night instead of just being concerned with having a great night.

...and people who take photos of their fodo

Fodo?

Mrs E and I got a chance of a couple of days away there last week, and we noticed that carry on while we having a pint in the hotel. Couples all over the place with their heads stuck in a phone, and kids with them using tablets.....nobody saying a word. Odd, very odd.

OldNotWIse

everlast75 wrote: »

I'm the opposite - i walk in and say good morning to all 4 in the office at the same time. Get nothing/or a grunt back and that's it. Find that annoying

I'll say hello to you next time! But don't tell the others :P

OldNotWIse

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Fodo?

Mrs E and I got a chance of a couple of days away there last week, and we noticed that carry on while we having a pint in the hotel. Couples all over the place with their heads stuck in a phone, and kids with them using tablets.....nobody saying a word. Odd, very odd.

Food, sorry Though I'm pretty sure taking photos of your fodo can lead to some serious indecent exposure allegations :pac::pac:

Generic Dreadhead

If your Youtube video tells me to "Not click that Skip Button" I'll skip your advert instantly, now f**k off telling me what to do, it might work on the unwashed brain dead masses but not me. Still haven't watched House of Cards, couldn't give a f**k

whiskeyman

Spending ages on Netflix looking for something to watch, then just giving up because you're too tired...

Feels like I'm paying 7 quid to exercise my fingers each weekend.


(sounds durty! )

murph226

Anton Savage.

HandsomeDan

Cormac... wrote: »

If your Youtube video tells me to "Not click that Skip Button" I'll skip your advert instantly, now f**k off telling me what to do, it might work on the unwashed brain dead masses but not me. Still haven't watched House of Cards, couldn't give a f**k

Works on the great unwashed, but not clever Cormac.

Thinkin' you're gonna get the sex, and then not getting it.

Stephen King 'build-ups'... so effin tedious.

Breakfast radio. Cept IvanYeats and the other fella.

Generic Dreadhead

HandsomeDan wrote: »

Works on the great unwashed, but not clever Cormac

Well yeah...... cause some people will do what they are told. People like Darren Brown have made careers on it. Not to mention sleazy pickup artists.
You'd be surprised at the effect saying "Don't do that"/"Do That" can have on people.

0byme75341jo28

"Sorry, bus full"

everlast75

really loud people.. I mean people who don't necessarily shout but their voice pierces your eardrums. ordering a sandwich hear and I'm actually wincing with her voice resonating around the counter :-/

OldNotWIse

everlast75 wrote: »

really loud people.. I mean people who don't necessarily shout but their voice pierces your eardrums. ordering a sandwich hear and I'm actually wincing with her voice resonating around the counter :-/

Or people who talk really loudly to you for the benefit of others. I've an "acquaintance" like this, who is nice and quiet and softly spoken when it's just us but as soon as we are in a crowd/on the street/in a shop together she starts screeching stupid things that she thinks make her look cool....in an American accent! You can hear her all over the place and the whole thing is hugely embarrassing for me. Oh and trivially annoying too, just in case

OldNotWIse

People (woman aged 15-25 are the worst offenders) who say, "that's so random" - STRANGE! The word you're looking for is STRANGE!

Zippie84

OldNotWIse wrote: »

People (woman aged 15-25 are the worst offenders) who say, "that's so random" - STRANGE! The word you're looking for is STRANGE!

but... random in that context doesn't necessarily mean 'strange'?

OldNotWIse

Lennon Gorgeous Cookbook wrote: »

"Sorry, bus full"

Used to happen to me when I lived near the city centre. I'd walk home from work but was never in the mood for walking in the morning so would try to get a bus about 4 stops from town. The feckers would always be full and I had this irrational hatred for those already on it. In a weird way, I think my unreasonable sub-conscience actually wanted them to get off and let me on because they had taken it so far already and really should give someone else a go The unreasonableness of that anger was also a source of trivial annoyance. Oh those hazy days...

OldNotWIse

Zippie84 wrote: »

but... random in that context doesn't necessarily mean 'strange'?

Unless you have been privy to all the such statements that I've heard, how can you make that assertion?

LynnGrace

Lennon Gorgeous Cookbook wrote: »

"Sorry, bus full"

Yes, and even more annoying when it is far from full. A driver refused to allow about 6-8 people on recently, at a stop, and there were visibly empty seats on the bus, as well as standing space.

everlast75

OldNotWIse wrote: »

People (woman aged 15-25 are the worst offenders) who say, "that's so random" - STRANGE! The word you're looking for is STRANGE!

or "totally",

"OMG" or even worse
"oh.. (big pause)..
My.. (big pause)
GOD!",

"totes" ..one I heard today "adorbs"! WTF!?

My all time hate is the word "like" being inserted 25 times in one sentence. FFS, take a breath, form a coherent sentence in your head and then execute it with normal intonation.

Christ!

(I feel better now thanks )

Zippie84

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Unless you have been privy to all the such statements that I've heard, how can you make that assertion?

I have

It's been commonly used in such context for years. Sometimes means things that mean slightly different to strange, hence doesn't 'necessarily' mean strange

Pumpkinseeds

Patchouli oil. It's awful, not so much a scent as an assault on the sinuses. When I rule the world it will be outlawed and wearing it shall be a hanging offence.

Zippie84

everlast75 wrote: »

or "totally",

"OMG" or even worse
"oh.. (big pause)..
My.. (big pause)
GOD!",

"totes" ..one I heard today "adorbs"! WTF!?

My all time hate is the word "like" being inserted 25 times in one sentence. FFS, take a breath, form a coherent sentence in your head and then execute it with normal intonation.

Christ!

(I feel better now thanks )

Oh. My. God. Like, I so totes agree!!!!

everlast75

Zippie84 wrote: »

Oh. My. God. Like, I so totes agree!!!!

(*Polishes shotgun and starts car)

OldNotWIse

Zippie84 wrote: »

I have

It's been commonly used in such context for years. Sometimes means things that mean slightly different to strange, hence doesn't 'necessarily' mean strange

You know you've heard every statement that I have heard? You're a bit...random aren't you?

Zippie84

OldNotWIse wrote: »

You know you've heard every statement that I have heard?

No, don't be silly :rolleyes: not remotely what was said

eisenberg1

Zippie84 wrote: »

I have

It's been commonly used in such context for years. Sometimes means things that mean slightly different to strange, hence doesn't 'necessarily' mean strange

But surely the TA is someone saying "random" when it is clearly not random, just strange. In which case, just say "That's strange", and save "random" for random stuff. No?