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Old 18-03-2015, 16:06
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Passive aggressive notes REALLY annoy me, particularly if they contain phrases like "polite reminder" or "friendly reminder." If I know who left the note, I usually have a word with them and tell them to actually speak directly to people like adults; not to leave a patronising message. If I don't know, I write it on the bottom of the note.
But what trivial (yet annoying) things must you do to rack up so many 'polite reminders'?
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Old 18-03-2015, 16:17
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But what trivial (yet annoying) things must you do to rack up so many 'polite reminders'?
They're usually "small" but repeated things like changing kitchen/toilet paper, the crumbs in the butter, closing the windows when someone wants them open (or the reverse). I understand that it annoys people, but since we have a team meeting each week where you can bring up these things and remind others not to do them, I grind my teeth a bit at receiving emails about it in-between
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Old 18-03-2015, 16:29
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They're usually "small" but repeated things like changing kitchen/toilet paper, the crumbs in the butter, closing the windows when someone wants them open (or the reverse). I understand that it annoys people, but since we have a team meeting each week where you can bring up these things and remind others not to do them, I grind my teeth a bit at receiving emails about it in-between
So we are talking about the workplace? (I just assumed you meant the people you live with)

In all fairness, those are all Post-it noteworthy offences.
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Old 18-03-2015, 16:34
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So we are talking about the workplace? (I just assumed you meant the people you live with)

In all fairness, those are all Post-it noteworthy offences.
Fair enough (The people I live with now are generally OK except for one incident where a housemate came downstairs complaining that someone had slammed the front door and woken his 1-year-old who was staying over at the time. He decided to show his displeasure about this by slamming all the other doors in the house, waking the baby up yet again. Oh dear ...)
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Old 18-03-2015, 17:14
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I know it must be annoying to live with but I think the three examples I've highlighted are superb.
They actually show a level of wit and thought behind his behaviour which bodes well for the future once he's learnt when it's appropriate to do those things.
I'm sorry, I know you say he's a pain in the arse, but these examples are genius and really made me laugh. My youngest is born comedian and it makes it very difficult to tell him off for anything.
Thank you. Yes, he's wonderfully bright and witty, but I don't appreciate it when he lands us in trouble with his teachers and the people we don't want to deal with. Especially my aunt a.k.a. the battleaxe.

A couple of months ago our daughter came downstairs, looking pleased with her bridesmaid hairdo (similar to this). As she preened, just after the hairdresser left, our son said: "That [hairdo] looks rather priapic." Before we could stop her (we were distracted with other stuff), she consulted a dictionary on her phone.

Once she learnt what it meant, she ran up to her room and refused to leave until we changed her hairdo and redid her make-up (as she had been crying). This made us late for the wedding, which had the family - especially my aunt - pissed off with us. Dagger stares, snide comments, etc. while we smiled apologetically/sheepishly.

Incidents like that are the reason he's a PITA in our books at the moment. Maybe I'll see the funny side later, probably when I'm in my 80s, but right now, nope.
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Old 18-03-2015, 17:41
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People that have managed to get in to adulthood but still don't understand the basic premise of doors. Our shop door, like almost every other shop door in the country opens inwards with a "Push" yet the number of people that pull and then walk away just baffles me. I often wonder how they managed to leave their own home? did someone else open the door for them or do just not them them at home?
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Old 19-03-2015, 23:58
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One thing that so infuriates me are the people who don't bother to empty their bladder before they go in to the cinema, sit there crossed legged throughout the trailers and then 10 minutes into the film they insist on making everybody in that row of seats get up so they can go to the toilet and again 5 minutes later on the way back. I guarantee there's always one.

Also, (and this especially applies to theatres) people who turn up late or stand in the foyer drinking and chatting until the show starts before deciding to take to their seat. Whereby they insist on interrupting a whole row of people who have just made themselves comfortable who then have to move their coats off their knee, put their drinks somewhere safe while the entire row has to stand up two minutes after the performance has started to make way for Mr and Mrs Latecomer who make a right pain of themselves and are an absolute inconvenience to everybody including the people in the row behind who are now unable to see the show because all the people in front have been made to stand up in front of them.

These people should be locked out! If you can't organise yourself better then that's your problem.
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Old 20-03-2015, 00:34
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Mis-use of the term 'engineer' in the UK.

An engineer is actually a scientific professional who designs, using principles of physics and mathematics to propose solutions for building structures, or creating systems in other disciplines.

Yet people refer to any greasemonkey in overalls as an 'engineer'.
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Old 20-03-2015, 18:09
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Solar eclipses scheduled for the morning. The moon should be considerate for those partial to lie-ins.
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Old 20-03-2015, 18:15
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The laziness of delivery people, we live in a apartment block and we should get delivery to our front door not the communal door! Take away people are the worst for this but today amazon logistics did it! I'm disabled! They are bloody lazy!
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Old 20-03-2015, 18:20
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Subtitles that blend into the programme you're watching so you can't make them out.
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Old 20-03-2015, 18:41
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People that have managed to get in to adulthood but still don't understand the basic premise of doors. Our shop door, like almost every other shop door in the country opens inwards with a "Push" yet the number of people that pull and then walk away just baffles me. I often wonder how they managed to leave their own home? did someone else open the door for them or do just not them them at home?
Modern buildings would need the door to be pulled open from the outside, it's in the fire regulations as to escape you should only have to push doors open. So I can see why people would pull a door first as the majority of doors would need to be pulled from the outside.
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Old 20-03-2015, 20:00
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-Bad dates, I'm really sick of them. Next time someone asks me out I might just say no.
It's getting silly now.

- Clients who when I email them a few questions they skim read the email and don't answer properly, so they leave the creative choices up to me I guess. I think it's cus if something goes wrong in the publishing process they can point the finger at me - I see their game,sneaky.
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Old 21-03-2015, 11:15
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What is annoying me at the moment is abstract terms such as "Accessible Parking" in place of disabled parking. Is there no acceptable word for disabled people anymore? Such a word does come in handy for when people need to distinguish between disabled and non-disabled people. For example, when making provisions for things to be accessible or used by disabled people, such as car-parking.

"Accessible" tells you nothing in itself - people are left to read between the lines. All spaces should be accessible in principle. It wouldn't be much of a car park if spaces were inaccessible would it?

I saw something recently using the term "facial differences" for people with cleft pallette. No two faces are the same. Even identical twins are slightly different. We all have facial differences.

"Learning difficulties" covers so many types of difficulties that it's really become a pointless phrase.

Why can't we just have descriptive word for things? Why pussyfoot around?
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Old 21-03-2015, 12:34
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I paid £25 for two headlights in halfords the other day. Only to find they're flipping YELLOW!!

I look like a flipping chav!
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Old 21-03-2015, 12:40
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People who ask what something is "when it's at home" - like the idiot at work who is constantly poking his nose into other people;s business. "Ohh what's that when it's at home?" Same as it is when it isn't at home!
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Old 21-03-2015, 13:35
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I filled in a DD mandate online for my Council Tax on 16th March and got the appropriate response from the council the same day.

Next day another email from them to say that my mandate couldn't be processed in time for my elected date of 9th April in time! It really takes them 3 weeks to set up a DD?

If there's one thing that burns my chops more than anything else it's inefficiency in Government, albeit local government
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Old 21-03-2015, 14:13
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The dodgy GPS on my allegedly upgraded phone. I run three times a week and am trying to improve my speed and distance, GPS should be brilliant for this.

Not on my sodding phone. The GPS either can't lock in at all or cuts off at a random time of its choosing. I've had a good google, tried all the tips but nothing is helping. If it wasn't my phone I'd be taking a hammer to the flippin' thing. Run for an hour and it records a distance of 1.37 km, grrrrrrrrr..
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Old 21-03-2015, 14:32
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On facebook:

"Name a [country/name/animal etc] with/without the letter [A/B/C... etc] in it. 99% will fail"

Then you see your friend comment.

Do you think they genuinely feel like they're in the top 1% intelligent people in the country cause they managed? Lol
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Old 21-03-2015, 14:57
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My fridge freezer beeps continuously if the door is left open for more than a minute which is great if one of the kids doesn't close it properly but it's annoying as fck when I'm putting shopping away.
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Old 21-03-2015, 15:44
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That is the purpose of them, So you don't spend the money without breaking the thing and not many people will be willing to do that

It is actually a good idea to stop the temptation to take a pound here and there

However for your purpose it isn't ideal, More for people to save money for a year etc and then use it
Wiggle a table knife in the slot, coins will just slide down the knife. Notes may take a little longer!
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Old 21-03-2015, 16:06
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I have to keep my mouth firmly zipped about this, or catch a load of flak from my wife.
Yesterday, Mothers Day, we drove to her parents to take them out to lunch, also there were my brother-in-law and his wife.
In the restaurant, when the waitress took our orders, I said, "I'll have the lamb please."
Aside from my wife, the other four just said, "Chicken, Roast Beef, don't put gravy on, let me pour it, oh, and another two beers."
Not one please or thank you.
When we were ready to go, my brother-in-law said to the waitress, "Got the bill?"
My wife dug her nails in my arm, and hissed, "Shut it."
That lack of common politeness really grinds my gears.
I detest this sort of thing too. My o/h brother has a g/f that speaks to waiters, shop workers and any one she deems to be lower than her (she is a cleaner fgs). So embarrassing to be in her company. It.s not only what she says, it the aggressive manner she says it. They go on a lot of cruises and are always asking us to go along, no thank you, one week in Spain was enough for me. I can imagine how she treats the crew on board. We were in a hotel that asked us in the mornings what we would like for dinner, three of us chose from the menu, she was bl**dy rude and snapped at the waitress, "how do I bl**dy know what I want to eat in the evening", We cringed, she got a salad. She didn't try that again. Amazed that the "older generation" are rude to waiting staff, thought it was only the younger ones that get the blame.
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Old 21-03-2015, 18:08
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Is there an age when you're "too old" for a fringe? I only asked because somebody told me that I'm too old for one.
I'd be interested to hear other people's views because I've had a fringe for the past sixty odd years!
I'm in my 50's and I have one
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Old 21-03-2015, 18:26
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I detest this sort of thing too. My o/h brother has a g/f that speaks to waiters, shop workers and any one she deems to be lower than her (she is a cleaner fgs). So embarrassing to be in her company. It.s not only what she says, it the aggressive manner she says it. They go on a lot of cruises and are always asking us to go along, no thank you, one week in Spain was enough for me. I can imagine how she treats the crew on board. We were in a hotel that asked us in the mornings what we would like for dinner, three of us chose from the menu, she was bl**dy rude and snapped at the waitress, "how do I bl**dy know what I want to eat in the evening", We cringed, she got a salad. She didn't try that again. Amazed that the "older generation" are rude to waiting staff, thought it was only the younger ones that get the blame.
I'd a friend who was like that, every time we went somewhere she just went out of her way to be rude to everyone. In restaurants she'd always demand something that wasn't on the menu and kick up a fuss because she couldn't get it, complain because other customers were being served as well as us and no matter what she got she'd complain that something was wrong or it wasn't what she ordered.
She'd even come out with the "do you know who I am?" line - she was a bloody receptionist in an office block!
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Old 22-03-2015, 12:06
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electrical appliances really **** me right off
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