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Post by The Chubbster™ on Jan 30, 2013 14:40:39 GMT
Was getting a little nostalgic looking at some old threads and from what I can see we don't have one of these anymore....
Here's some from my own experience, just to get the ball rolling....
1. Old People Who Do there weekly banking at Cash Points.
I'm sure you've been there, you need £10 to get the train or something, but some old person is checking multiple accounts and searching for various credit cards and printing off recites and basically holding up those of us that have "REAL" things to be doing.
2. Old People Who Shop On Saturdays
I don't know about you, but I find that during the week, when the huge majority of people are at work and all the shops are empty with staff twiddling there thumbs, old people just sit indoors and "potter" around the house. But when Saturday comes and the rest of us all need to do our weekly shopping, they all come out in force, browsing the supermarket isles slowly and holding up our lives.
3. The Houses of Parliament
There are many forms of democracy around the world, with many different leaders of various chambers. Some terrible tactics are used "especially in America" like the Filibuster to delay legislation. But in England, we seem to be the only civilized democracy who think it's acceptable when writing laws and voting on national issues to squeeze all of our law makers into a room that has LESS seats than it does elected members, and have them sit opposite each other like drunken Football Supporters, waving pieces of paper around and chanting and sneering, and jeering at each other.... Live on TV. Pathetic......
There are 3 to start with. I have many, many more......
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Post by BB Warrior on Jan 30, 2013 15:04:36 GMT
It looks to me as if you just have a problem with people in authority and the elderly.... typical youngster! :P ;D
But, I would agree with the shopping problem (I really hate going to Tescos on a Saturday, always have my legs rammed at least 3 times by an old biddy armed with a lethal trolley) and you can add to the list the elderly driver going along the road at the same speed.... normally about 38mph.... regardless of whether they are on a dual carriageway or in a 30mph speed limit! ::)
Perhaps it only ever happens to me.... and it always seems to be when I am running late getting somewhere. ::)
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Post by "Silent" on Jan 30, 2013 15:06:02 GMT
Front fog lights on - NEVER needed, rear fog lights on - needed only in.............FOG ::)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2013 15:17:23 GMT
How ageist Glenn and how very dare you ! You have probably just upset two-thirds of Forum members! ;D
My pet hates, by contrast, mainly involve young people, not to mention their crappy music.........
1. Rudeness in young shop assistants, totally devoid of manners, who when you ask them where to find a product in a shop laid out with no apparent system, rhyme or reason, reply "if you can't see it then we haven't got it" - or blatantly lie with "we did have some in last week but we've sold out". Followed by "not sure if we'll be getting any more in." They just can't be bothered.
2. Young people/yuppies who commandeer all the bar stools up at the bar and form two or three layers to fight through to get served. And certain ones seem to hold special privilege, engaging the barmaid in deep discussion while I stand there futilely waving my tenner hoping one day to attract her attention.
3. Youngsters queueing to get on the bus. Fumbling with their purses or wallets and holding up us oldies who simply have to swipe our free bus passes! ;). And then you get two unmarried mothers trying to jockey their pushchairs into the allocated space which is obviously only big enough to take one. >:(
........and one 'golden oldie':
4. Richard Fecking Branson. Hasn't he got his fingers in enough pies already with music, trains, balloons, airlines, space travel ? Does he really need to continually bombard me with junk mail for Virgin media "Clive, we've installed fibre optic in your area, how about one of our set top boxes for just £29-99 per month, etc" >:(
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Post by milhouse on Jan 30, 2013 15:37:02 GMT
The most annoying thing ever.............
Kids and their trousers - Pull them up or buy a pair that fit >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
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Post by The Chubbster™ on Jan 30, 2013 15:46:06 GMT
Some nice ones there Tommo. I'm now going to prove to you that I am not "Ageist" so to speak. I want you and everyone to know that I dislike everyone equally :)
4. Young People With Headphones
The very purpose of headphones is so that other people don;t have to hear your music. So why is it (and it especially applies to public transport) that I can hear every ones crappy music regardless of headphones or not! I swear there will be a lot of old deaf people one day due to their eardrums being frazzled...
5. Public Transport
Young People put there feat on the seat, and keep it there, even if people are standing with nowhere to sit. They speak at the top of there voice with no regards whatsoever to other people around them. My all time favorite goes to people of all ages though, and that's the "My Bag Needs a Seat Of It's Own" club. There you are, looking for somewhere to sit, yet people refuse to put there bag on the floor or on there lap, and keep it there right next to them, so that nobody will sit next to them.
To follow on from that, what really gets me are the people who come to sit next to you because there are no 2 spaces on there own free, they sit down, and then the moment 2 spaces become available they jump straight up and take a seat over there! I mean why? Am I that offensive? Do I smell? Do they really have to put all that effort in to avoid eye contact?
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Post by BB Warrior on Jan 30, 2013 16:01:37 GMT
I want you and everyone to know that I dislike everyone equally :) To follow on from that, what really gets me are the people who come to sit next to you because there are no 2 spaces on there own free, they sit down, and then the moment 2 spaces become available they jump straight up and take a seat over there! I mean why? Am I that offensive? Do I smell? Do they really have to put all that effort in to avoid eye contact? Maybe you have answered your own questions there.... ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2013 16:23:34 GMT
I think our ideas are beginning to converge now, Glenn. ;)
5. Queues.
a) In the Post Office. A single-file queue right out into the street and only one position open out of the two available. And someone sitting behind the other, with a closed sign on the glass, either counting money regardless or eating sandwiches. >:(
b) In the Bank. Again, a queue a mile long, and at the most three positions open. An old, deaf person at one, with the cashier trying to get a message across. Someone being trained at the next (closed) one. Position three commandeered for at least a half hour by someone paying in £500-worth of coppers in plastic bags, the next one trying to push a different account with a 'special rate of interest' to someone who just wanted to draw some money out, and the end cashier has just been pulled away by another cashier to sort out a query. Then the assistant manageress propositions everyone in the queue in turn saying "is there anyone who just wants to make a deposit?" No there isn't, eff off !
c) In the Supermarket. A shortage of tellers on the right sided tills. A profusion of left handed tills. We are used to a right handed one (we have our own slick routine). Five minutes spent "till-hopping' - whichever we choose seems to move slower than any of the ones we rejected, so we try another, and lo and behold people that we saw waiting behind us are now at the checkout having their bills tallied and we're still loading our stuff on the belt......
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2013 18:15:37 GMT
When people put 'of' instead of 'off'
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Post by BigPhilMac on Jan 30, 2013 19:15:14 GMT
People who say YOLO, people who needlessly go to tesco everyday, people who spend excessive money on eating out then moan when theyre skint, journalists who cant spell or write coherently (see various sky sports articles), people who dont use 'a' or 'an' correctly in a sentence, people who buy coffee and go 'i need this to get by' (NO YOU DONT!!!! I GET BY FINE!!!) when i see people all the time who never seem to be at work yet im grafting, amd various other things that i couldnt say without attaining a life ban from the forum :p ;D thank god i could have this rant :D
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Post by iang on Jan 31, 2013 0:04:51 GMT
Easter eggs on sale 2 Weeks after Christmas!!
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Post by BigPhilMac on Jan 31, 2013 0:28:43 GMT
Christmas in general, hideous time of the year, when idiots trying to sell stuff knocks on the front door, being put on hold for ages when calling a helpline
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Post by Sir Chancelot on Jan 31, 2013 8:55:21 GMT
The most annoying thing ever............. Kids and their trousers - Pull them up or buy a pair that fit >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( See a forthcoming episode of Room 101 to be broadcast on 15th February. I was there for the live filming, however did not take part in a demonstration ::) |
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Post by Sir Chancelot on Jan 31, 2013 8:58:02 GMT
People who use the phrase "at the end of the day" and footballers who say they have "given 150 %"
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2013 9:28:15 GMT
Christmas in general, hideous time of the year, when idiots trying to sell stuff knocks on the front door, being put on hold for ages when calling a helpline Humbug ! ;D I must admit that Christmas has become too commercialised (they start to advertise it on TV in November), and the whole concept of what it's supposed to be about has been lost amongst the greedy kids and over-indulging adults: For me in recent years it's become a "damage limitation to the wallet" exercise (due to the hordes of young relatives in my family) But it sounds as if you have the medical condition "Seasonal Affectation Disorder" - and you can get help for that....At my doctor's recommendation I bought a "Light Box". It contains fluorescent tubes and you spend an hour a day in front of it and it replaces the vitamins we miss out on due to lack of sunshine in the winter months. I was sceptical at first, but somehow it really seems to do the trick ! |
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Post by BigPhilMac on Jan 31, 2013 10:04:50 GMT
Christmas in general, hideous time of the year, when idiots trying to sell stuff knocks on the front door, being put on hold for ages when calling a helpline Humbug ! ;D I must admit that Christmas has become too commercialised (they start to advertise it on TV in November), and the whole concept of what it's supposed to be about has been lost amongst the greedy kids and over-indulging adults: For me in recent years it's become a "damage limitation to the wallet" exercise (due to the hordes of young relatives in my family) But it sounds as if you have the medical condition "Seasonal Affectation Disorder" - and you can get help for that....At my doctor's recommendation I bought a "Light Box". It contains fluorescent tubes and you spend an hour a day in front of it and it replaces the vitamins we miss out on due to lack of sunshine in the winter months. I was sceptical at first, but somehow it really seems to do the trick ! I find its even morr depresssing when some places are putting out christmas stuff in july, how far will it go until we have christmas rammed in our faces all year round!!! :o |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2013 10:38:03 GMT
I find its even morr depresssing when some places are putting out christmas stuff in july, how far will it go until we have christmas rammed in our faces all year round!!! :o Cheer up Phil! |
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Post by Sir Chancelot on Jan 31, 2013 12:11:44 GMT
Car drivers who do not acknowledge you to say thanks when you let them out of a driveway.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2013 12:32:30 GMT
Car drivers who, when approaching roadworks where one lane is coned off, refuse to take their place in the queue and wait till the last possible moment before getting in the one remaining lane. "I could have done that" think I, having queued patiently for five minutes, as some inconsiderate b*st*rd who's just arrived shoves his 4 x 4 across my bows. >:(
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Post by BB Warrior on Jan 31, 2013 15:04:49 GMT
Car drivers who, when approaching roadworks where one lane is coned off, refuse to take their place in the queue and wait till the last possible moment before getting in the one remaining lane. "I could have done that" think I, having queued patiently for five minutes, as some inconsiderate b*st*rd who's just arrived shoves his 4 x 4 across my bows. >:( Ooops.... sorry Tommo, I will let you go first next time. :P ;D ;D |
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Post by Sir Chancelot on Jan 31, 2013 15:23:28 GMT
Airport check-in staff who ask have you packed your suitcase yourself ?
Also when they ask has anyone has interfered with it ?
How should I know, it has been in the attic for 12 months.
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Post by Sir Chancelot on Jan 31, 2013 15:25:41 GMT
Getting to the till, queuing for yonks, paying for your stuff, walking out, then and an alarm sounds......
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Post by milko on Jan 31, 2013 15:43:29 GMT
Being a calm, relaxed and happy individual myself I would have to say that nothing annoys me!
milko ;D ;)
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Post by Chris_Sav on Jan 31, 2013 16:11:07 GMT
Getting to the till, queuing for yonks, paying for your stuff, walking out, then and an alarm sounds...... Much more fun than that is what I did last week to Tescos after I got home and found a security tag on a bottle. Next time we shopped I took the tag, I waited until a mass were coming out through the the gate and walked in, setting the alarm off ;D ;D. The poor old security staff were rounding up everyone in sight ;D ;D but not those walking into the store ;D ;D Sav |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2013 19:52:39 GMT
Being a calm, relaxed and happy individual myself I would have to say that nothing annoys me! milko ;D ;) Farrelly used to ! :D |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2013 19:55:04 GMT
6. Ellie Goulding and her stupid, piping little voice.
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Post by RP (R.I.P.) on Jan 31, 2013 19:58:32 GMT
People who put chalk on beer mats at billiard competitions ::) ;)
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Post by BigPhilMac on Feb 1, 2013 0:06:22 GMT
I find its even morr depresssing when some places are putting out christmas stuff in july, how far will it go until we have christmas rammed in our faces all year round!!! :o Cheer up Phil! I enjoy the irony of telling me to cheer up when we all seem to be grumpy codgers alike ;D ;D people who dont thank you for holding a door ooen, inside im yelling distasteful and unmentionable sayings :p |
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Post by BigPhilMac on Feb 1, 2013 0:09:50 GMT
People whom if they text you and you rey instantly, they take all to respond, its like what can possibly take up your damn time that quickly, although im sure we all do it :p ;D
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Post by BigPhilMac on Feb 1, 2013 0:13:36 GMT
Ive just realised im probably the most active user of this thread, so basically, i am THAT miserable! :o
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