The window cleaners are very welcome to clean my windows and lovely people but why do they no longer come with a bucket and soap? They come with a smallish bag strapped to their shoulders and a scraper then do every window using whatever cleaning fluid is in that small bag. Then proceed goes house to house.
Correct me if I am wrong but no cleaning fluid can be that good to do that many windows. Surely the fluid gets mucky.

The fact that it takes BT 10 days to send an engineer out to 'upgrade' a phone line and I have to pay £50 for the privilege as well.

My mum does that all the time. I done my knee in recently and had to live in her house as I couldn't get up the stairs to my flat and she drove me mad. I'd be doing some work on my laptop and she'd keep sticking her head between my face and the screen to see what I was doing or "helping" by hammering on the keyboard. But I'm the bad guy because I'd get annoyed after all I wasn't doing anything just using a computer!

Tea bags in the sink .

When you buy a marked down food item from Tesco and they have stuck the big yellow reduction sticker over the heating/cooking instructions....

It's as if they are saying 'When you're getting this lasagne for just 90p you work it out!'

I just use the smoke detector as a kitchen timer. When that goes off it's ready

Ugh....I knew a man (now deceased) who lived near me who used to spend a small fortune on scratchies and lottos each week. He'd save up all the ones that were winning tickets over a month or so and then go to our local newsagent and hand them over one by one for verification and paying out then buy a whole raft of new ones. He did quite well too I might add. But as this process took ages you'd often be standing behind him for a good 15-20 minutes. He was a very nice man but it really wore on my nerves when I got caught behind him at times.

People giving way to you, when it clearly makes more sense for you to give way to them. Then you've got to say thanks.

The number of replies on the Pistorius thread.....

It's my day off and there's no one to play with. They all are at work or school, or too busy to indulge me.

The bloody cats won't play, either.

^no katnip toys hidden away for just such an occasion ?

That reminds me of someone my parents knew (who is also now deceased; he smoked and drank himself to death ). He did the lottery every week and he would spend at least £50 A WEEK on it! I don't know how many lines he did but that must have cost him a fortune.

Nope. We don't buy them that sort, anyway, because
a) Mach tends to hide them around the garden
b) Gadfly tends to eat them, which often meant an emergency visit to the vet's
c) Kane is too lazy to give a ****.

£50/week - I know I've got an addictive personality but I guess I should count me lucky stars it isn't as bad that that. Maybe he started with a couple of lines at the very beginning, then when they added the Wed draw he did that too with his "set of lines", then when they added the daily draws he did those too with his set, then when the Euro Draw came in he did that too, and from £2/week it grew to £50/week. (again!)

I know it's bad form to quote oneself, but I've just sorted this and feel all and

I added work email to LinkedIn and then forwarded the confirmation link back home which worked and my works email was now on the account. Then when I tried to log in from work then clicked "send verification pin to all emails" so I could get the PIN to confirm work as a valid place to log in from.

Only taken me a few weeks to think of that. Annoyed that I didn't think of it sooner.

Finding an interesting link to add to a thread, and someone has beaten me to it

Or starting a new thread on something, and someone says 'There's already a thread on that' (with a link to it) and I haven't noticed it...

Posting something and not noticing a spelling mistake till it's too late to edit

Going to cross road at pedestrian crossing, pressing the button. Then someone approaches on the other side of the road and presses the button. I. JUST. PRESSED. IT Why are you undermining my button pressing?

^ Being at the pedestrian crossing and moments after you press the button... nano seconds even.. it's like some magical power has vanished all the traffic.... EVERYTHING !!! You look left+right and there is nothing... absolutely NOTHING. So do you:
(1) cross all chuffed that you've got across sooner than expected, only to find just as you step off the road a whole bunch of cars zoom up to the crossing only to stop suddenly cos the lights changed and the green man is flashing and you look to see a row of drivers glaring at you with their "why the fk did you press that button, we're sat here for NOTHING" (there being no one else wanting to cross the road)
or (2) wait like a gimp until your personally requested green man appears which this time takes like for-E-veerrr.

AND

thinking I'd be more than ok with buying not so great quality conditioned comics cos "the price was so sweet" only to find them turn up with rips and bends and unbagged and unboarded and in a general pisspoor condition (though eBay listing DID reflect their icky state), and realizing I don't want such crappyquality things in my immaculate collection and I'm sat here working out how much NM copies will cost me and what a complete dildo I was and how much I wasted. It's ( NM or FVGC ) 4 ME or GTFO.

When I go to Sainsburys and they ask me to enter my pin number a split second before I'm actually able to enter it. Yes I know what to do. Just give me a bleeding chance will ya! I often try to beat them to it but they are always too quick and impatient.

People watching people playing computer games. My son does this a lot. He plays a game but spends as much time watching YT videos of recordings of other people playing the game. Not too bad in itself but made 100x worse by a running commentary usually from some overexcited American kid shouting his head off and swearing throughout.

Since I can shout louder than Shouty American Geek my son now knows to use headphones

I see what you did there

Two phone-based irritants that I've had trying to post this;

1) When you touch a link precisely but your phone decides to select a link nowhere near to the bugger that you actually pressed.

2) The fact that ****ing Autocarrot doesn't realise that sometimes you really do want to write the word "in", rather than "on". The context and the fact I pressed 'I' not 'o' should be your bloody clue!!!

Websites that won't accept credit card numbers with spaces, and you have to take them out before you can complete the transaction. Why? All credit cards have numbers in blocks of four, and it must be the simplest thing in the world to allow for the fact that some people are going to enter them that way! As many websites do of course.

I’ve got a spot right at the entrance to my earhole, and it’s really itching and sore and annoying me – but I can’t get to it to squeeze it!