That Boots make up advert where a woman at the end says "ta dah"

She doesn't even say it with any punch or verve, just mumbles it. I thought it was meant to announce something dramatic.

It's about pre-empting a car coming to a stop at the junction, so you walk behind it rather than playing a game of 'you first' with the driver. Keep the momentum going, no stopping. No car, no worries.

I know what you mean. You get the same at firework displays. It's annoying and a distraction. But, I mustn't grumble too much as some of these vids which end up on YT are quite good quality. But please don't make these vids when standing directly in front of me (selfish mode).

Posters that use the expressions 'in the other thread' and 'the thread about .....', but don't provide a link to the relevant thread. Where is this bloody thread?

Today a work colleague is really getting on my nerves. He was off sick for 3 weeks with a chest infection (that's not why I'm irritated ). Now he's back, he seems to have forgotten everything. All week I've had to hand-hold and walk him through how to do even basic stuff. I'm trying so hard to be patient, but when I explain something simple that he should already know, and all I get in return is a gormless blank expression, it's really hard. He's a nice enough man, but I know my irritation is starting to show

That IS weird. A similar thing happened to my sister's colleague. She had some kind of bug in January and was pretty floored by it, so she was off for about 10 days. When she came back, she was as weak as a kitten still, but it seemed like her brain wouldn't click into gear. My sister was quite frustrated and had a good old moan to me, but I told her to be patient with her for a few days. The woman soon picked back up again, but yes, it IS weird - I secretly thought my sister's colleague was some kind of dim bulb or something until I read your post.

Today's trivial annoyance:

Has anyone noticed in novels where they sit down for a meal, get the starter served to them, speak about two sentences to each other and then ask for the bill? I'm not talking about "The food's terrible here," dialogue, either. It's seriously one or two sentences, hardly enough time to put salt and vinegar on their chips.

The woman next door. She has this huge great black Nissan Navara on the drive which doesn't go anywhere because she can't afford to run it. She either takes the bus the sixteen miles to work, or cadges a lift with a friend.

For the life of me, I can't see the point of having a vehicle as a fashion statement if you can't afford to put petrol/diesel in the thing. OK, so quite a few people in these parts have Chelsea Tractors because they live in the hills, and need them if it snows. But we are on the flat and so huge 4x4s are not necessary.

Er...but the road is clear. I fully agree about going behind a car (I do it all the time) but why do it when there's no car?

Coming home to find a card from the postman saying that they were unable to deliver a parcel because it was too large for the letter box. The item would easily have fit if the company had put it in a suitably sized packet, instead of it rattling around inside a too big box.

People who send you emails, then when you reply, you get their
Out Of Office response...........

^ People who get sniffy about you not replying quicker to their email. When you've got your Out of Office response on, which states when you'll (a) be back and (b) be able to respond to their email after that time. (As happened to me when I was off work the w/c February 29th.)

Someone on my Facebook who types "Lulz" or "Lulz!" It's "for the lulz" or "lol"/"LOL", don't mix them up!
Sorry but it annoys me

Pop singers who have their name shortened to something stupid.
It happened with Rihanna being called "RiRi" and now Taylor Swift is being called "TayTay"
FFS !

Thats happened for a while with artists like J-Lo (Jennifer Lopez) in the 90's/00's I think

The term Brexit is very annoying. Having an important issue and trivialising it's name into some catchy slang just feels wrong.

People who use trolleys in self service checkouts. By doing so, they're also blocking a lot of the way.

Not really annoying but I don't get the thing about married men wearing a signet ring on their ring finger.
It just comes across that they're more proud of being in the old boys club than married to their wife.

The BBC insisting on using the term "So called Islamic State".

It would not give them any more credibility to anyone with any intelligence to just call them Islamic State or IS.

Yes! This annoys the crap out of me. Also when Obama refers to them as ISIL.

Just to point out that I meant "Would Not". I've edited my post.

Those who always have to be in a relationship frustrate me. They don't even wait a week after breaking up before they're with someone again.

Exactly. Another thing people do is build big massive houses and then have only 1 or 2 lights on. My next door neighbour does that, their house is constantly in dark.

If they can't afford to run it then don't buy it!!

I like sitting in the dark, especially if I'm watching TV!


My annoyance is folk visiting one of my neighbours who seem to think it's perfectly acceptable to park over my driveway I know the street can be a nightmare for parking at times but they've done this when there's been a massive space across the road.

It's already shortened toRihanna, which is bad enough. I blame Lulu for starting all that nonsense.

Any record which includes 'feat' in the title, although it does serve a purpose in making sure I avoid it.