People moaning about seagulls leading my regional news, and increasingly national news.

I'd include simply people who moan about seagulls too but it's not so trivial if it gets to the stage where a cull is implemented. I don't like One Direction. Can I cull them too?

i'll sign that petition

Spending 30 mins on hold to HMRC before giving up. It was much easier when I could walk into their local office & speak to someone directly.

The same thing happened with drink driving. The media eventually brainwashed the public into believing that if we drink drove we were as good as murderer's.

Here's an idea, they should run a brainwashing campaign about the dangers of talking on our mobile phones while driving. No wait, they did that too.

We sure know how to shoot ourselves in the feet, but at least we're lining government coffers.

That my friend has changed job and moved into a new flat yet he hasn't bothered to tell any of us.

Sorry, but that just gave me a vision of you all sitting around and someone suddenly saying 'Anyone seen Dave recently?'

I subscribe to this thread and I find it annoying that the daily link DS send me always, always takes me to the first page, not the page I was last on (which other forums seems to manage!).

Ha ha that would actually be really funny.

But he just lives in London so apparently us up here in the sticks don't matter enough for him to actually tell us anything.

Are you clicking the little arrow to the right of the subject title?

When you go to the shop for something, go inside the shop & forget what it is you want & buy something else or leave the shop empty handed, you get home, then remember what you want, even more annoying when it's an ingredient for some food you're making.

I've been to the shop 3 times this week to get some bleach. I still haven't got it.

Unshaved nasal hair.

My bug bear isn't with nasal hair although that is a real pain. What I can never understand are older men who have a shave to obviously appear clean shaven and to look trim and tidy but then do nothing about the thicket sprouting out of each nostril.

I mean if they had a beard and didn't care I could understand but if they shave their top lip the razor will be touching the dangling broomstick and you'd think they would consider trimming it. Even if they couldn't get the scissors or the little electric razor you can buy you would think they would have a crack with their existing razor.

How can they review their face afterwards to check if they've missed a bit and not notice the dangling growth. Why worry about stubble when your nose is growing the bush that you got dragged through? Why as well do their wives never tell them to take care of it?

In defence of the nasally hirsute, could I just point out that it’s not really possible to ‘shave’ that particular area.

The viable options are:

❶ Toe nail clippers;.......fraught with danger.

❷ Small sharp scissors;.....ditto, but marginally less fraught;.......(garden shears/ secateurs definitely NO!)

❸ Tweezers;...... not for the faint-hearted. Very effective and has the greatest longevity, but eye-wateringly painful. It’s best to select just a few hairs at a time (the longest first)....... try not to swear too much.

❹ Electric Nose Hair Trimmer;.......probably the best compromise option but they do nip sometimes, plus if you accidentally inhale the micro bits of hair it acts like ‘snuff’ and you can sneeze for hours.

❺ Nostril hair waxing;.........lets not even go there!



I might cover ‘ear shaving’ in another post.

If you bend your nose back, you can certainly get half or a third of the end of a disposable razor in there as I have done.

I like to use an electric trimmer for the pesky bleeders and tweezers for those frustrating ones that appear right on the very rim and seem to be connected directly to your brain.

I concur that ear shaving is even more problematic, especially with the whole distance foreground thing when holding up a mirror to assess how to get in there. I believe in some fine barbers they burn them with a wick.

People who resort to name calling whilst accusing others of being childish.

Getting rid of nasal hair can be bit dangerous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuCa_texW_0

Would this be to do with your posts/argument in politics by any chance?

People who get a first time mortgage and say things like 'I now own my first home'...

No you don't. It's just a massive finance deal that you're slowly paying off until you're old.

It's the same with people who drive flash cars. Most just have them on finance or PCP deals.

Politicians that are STILL getting away with these crazy expenses. It's like it's one rule for us and another for them!

I mean come on... claiming money to walk 300 metres to parliament? Who checks this stuff?

When you have just finished working an eight hour shift. You are on the bus coming home and the bus stops at the bus stop to pick up a man and a woman, and they spend a ridiculous amount of time saying "After you" "No - after you". I'm all for good manners, but FFS MAKE YOUR MIND UP AND GET ON THE BUS !

Their mates.

My dad used to use his gas cigarette lighter on a high flame for this but I haven't the courage.

Nor do I have a lighter since I gave up smoking.

It is one rule for us and one rule for you, that's the point. So just quit whining and do what you're told.

The one woman with a particularly loud, shrieking laugh in nearly every group of female friends at pubs or restaurants. "Whoo-hoo-ha-ha-ha!".

I’ve seen that woman many times;

.....and after her second sip of wine she gets even louder!