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Old 21-08-2014, 14:36
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I'm not a parent or child hater at all but why am I sitting on a train in a completely deserted carraige and a mum decide that sitting down right next to me so her little boy can see the doors and she can talk in baby talk to him is something she should do.

There is literally no one else in this carriage, i get the kids excited but you walked past a set of doors to come and sit here and look at these doors.
Well, you should stop getting the kids excited. Don't tell them scary stories or whatever you're doing.
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Old 21-08-2014, 16:31
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People who make a big fuss over not wanting to have their picture taken.

We’re getting ID cards at work, and everyone needs a photo. One woman made such a fuss over it that everyone in the office heard all about her resistance to it, and when she finally had it done she was all “oh it looks awful I hate it”.

Get over it, it’s just a photo, nobody sees it or cares about it, and you’ve just drawn more attention to yourself and your eventual photo by making such a big fuss over it.
Ugh, my mum does that. She always dips her head and hangs her hair over her face if you manage to get her in the frame. Nightmare at my sister's wedding. To misquote Elizabeth Gaskell 'it is the height of vanity to always assume that others are overly concerend by your appearance'.

As a related gripe, she's obssessed (as some are on here) with keeping her details offline, especially facebook. She seems to imagine that just by going on facebook I'm opening myself to a world of constant abuse.
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Old 21-08-2014, 16:35
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When I am a passenger in a car and the car has a dirty windscreen.
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Old 21-08-2014, 16:51
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People who ask you if you want something and you've already given them the answer. Think Talkie Toaster from Red Dwarf.

"Would you like some toast?"
"No."
"Would you like a bagel?"
"No."
"Would you like a crumpet?"
"No, no, no. I told you before: I don't want toast, I don't want bagels, I don't want crumpets, I don't want crossonts and I don't want pancakes."
"Ah, so you're a waffle man?"
I had this at work from the office idiot.
"Would you like some pizza?"
"No thanks."
"It's nice do you want some?"
"I can't I'm allergic to tomato."
"But it's nice. Do you want some?"
"No. I'm allergic to tomato."
"Try a little bit you'll like it."
"No I won't"
"Go on try some. You'll really like it."
"No I won't really like having my throat swell up so I can't breath. I won't enjoy having a trip in an ambulance while I'm suffocating."
"Are you sure you don't want any? I'll leave some on your desk just in case."
"**** OFF!!!!"
"Well I was only asking!"
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Old 21-08-2014, 20:54
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New superhub which I was very happy with just dieing.

The tech was round earlier and replaced it and said it was probably a bad batch.
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Old 21-08-2014, 23:19
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Duplicate threads in multiple sub forums.
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Old 21-08-2014, 23:49
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The broken light on the pub next door that is keeping me awake by flashing constantly. And my new neighbours who keep filling my bloody bins up and to add insult to injury, putting the wrong friggin' things in the recycling. Grrrrrrr!!!!
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Old 22-08-2014, 00:39
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Fr******* recycling!
Balls to it, all my rubbish goes in the same bin.THE RUBBISH BIN.Lifes too short.
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Old 22-08-2014, 00:50
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My eyesight.

I really enjoy sewing, eg cross stitch and embroidery. I can't do it for long periods of time because of arthritis, but I do enjoy a little sesh every now and again. However, my bloody eyesight's so bad I need to wear my glasses, plus use a magnifying glass to see the fabric, plus use the magnifier to see the gods-bedamned chart I'm sewing from.

It's just so frustrating, what with losing my place on the chart, then having to re-focus the magnifier to see the damn fabric, then immediately forgetting the stitches I just counted, etc etc etc, that my enjoyment of it's completely spoiled. I still want to do it though, and it's driving me crazy. AARGH!
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Old 22-08-2014, 01:09
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Being ugly
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Old 22-08-2014, 01:36
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People in the music forum posting threads complaining about the order some pop bands decide to release their singles in, or obsessing over how much certain acts have sold or not sold, just because it's something I don't understand at all.
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Old 22-08-2014, 07:59
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When someone's walking along in the street, minding their own affairs, happily listening to their pocket radio via earphones, totally oblivious to the fact that the music is also blaring out from the radio's built-in speaker.

This was me this morning. - and it was only after I got back home I realised I'd forgotten to mute the built-in speaker - what a numptie.

...It's just so frustrating, what with losing my place on the chart, then having to re-focus the magnifier to see the damn fabric, then immediately forgetting the stitches I just counted, etc etc etc, that my enjoyment of it's completely spoiled. I still want to do it though, and it's driving me crazy. AARGH!
Have you tried enlarging the pattern ?
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Old 22-08-2014, 09:10
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The cleaners at work. Nothing against the people I just have a problem with the time they're here. They do most of the cleaning late afternoon. Most of the people in the building leave at 5 which is usually when they've started mopping so we all have to very carefully go down the wet stairs and very carefully go across the wet reception. There's been one minor accident that I'm aware of but no matter how many times my team leader (who is currently pregnant so even more worried about slipping) brings it up in the health and safety meetings it gets ignored. We're also the only department who are upstairs, but everyone pretty much ignores us so they don't care.
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Old 22-08-2014, 12:15
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when I am trying to watch something on my VLC player, and i am unzipping a ZIP file and it makes it skip and freeze ARGHHH
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Old 22-08-2014, 12:49
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It taking me about 10 years to find that Sainsburys do a packet of frozen veg containing cauliflower, broccili(?) and peas which is super easy to microwave - now just need to make up about 8 years worth of 5-a-day's.

when I am trying to watch something on my VLC player, and i am unzipping a ZIP file and it makes it skip and freeze ARGHHH
^trying to do 2 things at once on a computer... what is this madness ?!
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Old 22-08-2014, 14:26
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Pictures of dirty children.

Ok i know children get messy but it seems quite common on facebook for people to keep posting pictures of their children looking scruffy.

Today for example someone uploaded a picture of their nursery school age child with his father on a day out. The kid has chocolate all round his face and long hair that looks like it needs a good brush!

Why not at least wipe the food off his face before taking the picture?
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Old 22-08-2014, 15:00
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When someone's walking along in the street, minding their own affairs, happily listening to their pocket radio via earphones, totally oblivious to the fact that the music is also blaring out from the radio's built-in speaker.

This was me this morning. - and it was only after I got back home I realised I'd forgotten to mute the built-in speaker - what a numptie.


Have you tried enlarging the pattern ?
You numpty. You are also a genius. My first thought on reading your suggestion was "Well no, because...." then a pause. And my second thought was "....actually, how damn stupid of me." It was like some kind of mind-expanding revelation. You genius.

Thank you so much.
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Old 22-08-2014, 16:50
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^no problemo , we've all found ourselves milimetres away from those eureka moments but needed a jolt from another to take us over the line <- sounded better in me head.
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Old 22-08-2014, 17:00
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Ours is a very small office with about ten fellas and two ladies. One lady is a young, happy go lucky, devil may care, everything comes for free attitude; the other, me, is the old, grumpy, money doesn't grow on trees, person. Anyway, every Monday the cleaners have filled the loo roll container with four new rolls and put a new one on the holder and by Tuesday there's only one left. Ggggrrr! Boss tells me not to make a fuss but ..... it really gets my goat. What on earth is she using them for?
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Old 22-08-2014, 17:18
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^taking them home to save a few £s - or taking really long and messy ....................
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Old 22-08-2014, 18:15
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The wipers not going at the right speed for the amount of rain and not having a setting that is adequate. It makes me apocalyptically angry. It's really not healthy!

Why does the sodding conditioner run out before the shampoo, despite using the same amount. They need to make bigger conditioner bottles.
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Old 22-08-2014, 18:38
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The name Jonjo.

It just sounds stupid.
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Old 22-08-2014, 20:54
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Why does the sodding conditioner run out before the shampoo, despite using the same amount. They need to make bigger conditioner bottles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmJ-vpz_DHk -
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Old 22-08-2014, 21:17
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Ours is a very small office with about ten fellas and two ladies. One lady is a young, happy go lucky, devil may care, everything comes for free attitude; the other, me, is the old, grumpy, money doesn't grow on trees, person. Anyway, every Monday the cleaners have filled the loo roll container with four new rolls and put a new one on the holder and by Tuesday there's only one left. Ggggrrr! Boss tells me not to make a fuss but ..... it really gets my goat. What on earth is she using them for?
Ask her! Go on, I'm dying to know too (although she's probably just taking them home)
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Old 22-08-2014, 21:26
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I can remember being at University in the MAC lab and how pissed I was each time the PC lab users (oiks) came in and nicked the paper from our (MY) printers cos theirs had run out, so I started hiding stacks of it in the nearby filing cabinet so I'd always have some. Maybe this is what you should try so you never find yourself 'short' when taking a bathroom break.
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