I'm going to take a big risk here - one trivial thing which always annoys me is when people actually go to pieces when they lose a pet. If they can't cope with the loss and the grief then don't have a pet! Someone I know put a post on Facebook yesterday saying how sad they were about a family thing but refused to say what about, so people (not me!) were asking if everything was OK, etc. Turns out their daughter's cat had passed away. FFS - get your priorities right! I know I'm a hard hearted person who doesn't grieve that much for a lost pet and it's probably down to the fact that I spent nearly all my 70 years in farming 'where-ever you have livestock, you have dead stock', but even so ..................
Trivial things that annoy you intensely. (Part 3)
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Originally Posted by silversox:
“I'm going to take a big risk here - one trivial thing which always annoys me is when people actually go to pieces when they lose a pet. If they can't cope with the loss and the grief then don't have a pet! Someone I know put a post on Facebook yesterday saying how sad they were about a family thing but refused to say what about, so people (not me!) were asking if everything was OK, etc. Turns out their daughter's cat had passed away. FFS - get your priorities right! I know I'm a hard hearted person who doesn't grieve that much for a lost pet and it's probably down to the fact that I spent nearly all my 70 years in farming 'where-ever you have livestock, you have dead stock', but even so ..................”
“I'm going to take a big risk here - one trivial thing which always annoys me is when people actually go to pieces when they lose a pet. If they can't cope with the loss and the grief then don't have a pet! Someone I know put a post on Facebook yesterday saying how sad they were about a family thing but refused to say what about, so people (not me!) were asking if everything was OK, etc. Turns out their daughter's cat had passed away. FFS - get your priorities right! I know I'm a hard hearted person who doesn't grieve that much for a lost pet and it's probably down to the fact that I spent nearly all my 70 years in farming 'where-ever you have livestock, you have dead stock', but even so ..................”
A pet is part of the family. It's not just an animal.
Originally Posted by silversox:
“I'm going to take a big risk here - one trivial thing which always annoys me is when people actually go to pieces when they lose a pet. If they can't cope with the loss and the grief then don't have a pet! Someone I know put a post on Facebook yesterday saying how sad they were about a family thing but refused to say what about, so people (not me!) were asking if everything was OK, etc. Turns out their daughter's cat had passed away. FFS - get your priorities right! I know I'm a hard hearted person who doesn't grieve that much for a lost pet and it's probably down to the fact that I spent nearly all my 70 years in farming 'where-ever you have livestock, you have dead stock', but even so ..................”
“I'm going to take a big risk here - one trivial thing which always annoys me is when people actually go to pieces when they lose a pet. If they can't cope with the loss and the grief then don't have a pet! Someone I know put a post on Facebook yesterday saying how sad they were about a family thing but refused to say what about, so people (not me!) were asking if everything was OK, etc. Turns out their daughter's cat had passed away. FFS - get your priorities right! I know I'm a hard hearted person who doesn't grieve that much for a lost pet and it's probably down to the fact that I spent nearly all my 70 years in farming 'where-ever you have livestock, you have dead stock', but even so ..................”
So you had livestock aka money-spinners....other people have pets.
As for priorities...I can guess what yours are - you, you and you.
When orders from the breakfast menu stops at noon and someone who has decided to wait until 12.01 to go out somewhere to buy breakfast sits down and it goes like this:
Diner: Is it too late to order the Big Breakfast Stack?
Wait Person: I'm sorry it's just after midday and the lunch menu is what is now available.
Diner: But I really would prefer to have something from the breakfast menu.
Wait Person: Chef is no longer cooking breakfast items and the kitchen is now prepped for lunch. Can I show you the lunch menu?
Diner: I don't want to see the lunch menu.
Wait Person: Chef is no longer cooking breakfast......
Now for the killer line....
Diner: Can you go and ask anyway?
Like, it's after midday and you've now decided you want breakfast and your life is depending on it?
Like chef says: "There's a wee greasy-spoon around the corner that does all-day frys, tell them to go there instead".
Diner: Is it too late to order the Big Breakfast Stack?
Wait Person: I'm sorry it's just after midday and the lunch menu is what is now available.
Diner: But I really would prefer to have something from the breakfast menu.
Wait Person: Chef is no longer cooking breakfast items and the kitchen is now prepped for lunch. Can I show you the lunch menu?
Diner: I don't want to see the lunch menu.
Wait Person: Chef is no longer cooking breakfast......
Now for the killer line....
Diner: Can you go and ask anyway?
Like, it's after midday and you've now decided you want breakfast and your life is depending on it?
Like chef says: "There's a wee greasy-spoon around the corner that does all-day frys, tell them to go there instead".
Originally Posted by bbclassics:
“When I moan about some things and I sound like I'm about 80 years old (I'm in my early twenties).
For e.g when I go out with friends they always pick the trashiest most awful clubs to go to (majority rules sadly). The clubs play god awful modern rap/r n b music - which I don't think can be considered music really. I mean I don't mind some old skool r n b/hip hop with some tight harmonies/ beats but the stuff they play now uggh, I usually leave early.
Then friends give you a look as if to say 'oh don't be a wet blanket' well if they'd pick a halfway decent venue for once maybe I'd stick around longer!”
“When I moan about some things and I sound like I'm about 80 years old (I'm in my early twenties).
For e.g when I go out with friends they always pick the trashiest most awful clubs to go to (majority rules sadly). The clubs play god awful modern rap/r n b music - which I don't think can be considered music really. I mean I don't mind some old skool r n b/hip hop with some tight harmonies/ beats but the stuff they play now uggh, I usually leave early.
Then friends give you a look as if to say 'oh don't be a wet blanket' well if they'd pick a halfway decent venue for once maybe I'd stick around longer!”
I used to hate this too when I was in my twenties, I hated the places they chose but it was a majority vote so I went along with it. But they always chose bars where it took 20 minutes for everybody to get served and by the time the last ones got a drink the others were ready to move on. They also always picked places where the music was so loud you could never talk.
The one night when I got them to try 'old man pubs' where the beer is cheap and you can talk and more importantly have a laugh and then on to the rock bar they all acted like spoiled idiots and showed me up!
They could never understand why I used to ditch them and go to the rock bar on my own instead.
Originally Posted by MadBetty:
“When orders from the breakfast menu stops at noon and someone who has decided to wait until 12.01 to go out somewhere to buy breakfast sits down and it goes like this:
Diner: Is it too late to order the Big Breakfast Stack?
Wait Person: I'm sorry it's just after midday and the lunch menu is what is now available.
Diner: But I really would prefer to have something from the breakfast menu.
Wait Person: Chef is no longer cooking breakfast items and the kitchen is now prepped for lunch. Can I show you the lunch menu?
Diner: I don't want to see the lunch menu.
Wait Person: Chef is no longer cooking breakfast......
Now for the killer line....
Diner: Can you go and ask anyway?
Like, it's after midday and you've now decided you want breakfast and your life is depending on it?
Like chef says: "There's a wee greasy-spoon around the corner that does all-day frys, tell them to go there instead".”
“When orders from the breakfast menu stops at noon and someone who has decided to wait until 12.01 to go out somewhere to buy breakfast sits down and it goes like this:
Diner: Is it too late to order the Big Breakfast Stack?
Wait Person: I'm sorry it's just after midday and the lunch menu is what is now available.
Diner: But I really would prefer to have something from the breakfast menu.
Wait Person: Chef is no longer cooking breakfast items and the kitchen is now prepped for lunch. Can I show you the lunch menu?
Diner: I don't want to see the lunch menu.
Wait Person: Chef is no longer cooking breakfast......
Now for the killer line....
Diner: Can you go and ask anyway?
Like, it's after midday and you've now decided you want breakfast and your life is depending on it?
Like chef says: "There's a wee greasy-spoon around the corner that does all-day frys, tell them to go there instead".”
People say 'I don't know why they can't cook it 1 minute after' but there has to be a stopping point or what if someone comes at 10 past when you are still cooking the late comers food and say 'well you are still doing his so do mine too' then so on and so on. People don't get that the cut off point is there for a reason
I work in a bar and people come after the bell at last orders and ask if they are too late and if you say yes they twist their fact, but the few times you do serve them another person sees this and appears for another drink, Then someone else and on we go. At some point you just have to say no!
Originally Posted by MadBetty:
“When orders from the breakfast menu stops at noon and someone who has decided to wait until 12.01 to go out somewhere to buy breakfast sits down and it goes like this:
Diner: Is it too late to order the Big Breakfast Stack?
Wait Person: I'm sorry it's just after midday and the lunch menu is what is now available.
Diner: But I really would prefer to have something from the breakfast menu.
Wait Person: Chef is no longer cooking breakfast items and the kitchen is now prepped for lunch. Can I show you the lunch menu?
Diner: I don't want to see the lunch menu.
Wait Person: Chef is no longer cooking breakfast......
Now for the killer line....
Diner: Can you go and ask anyway?
Like, it's after midday and you've now decided you want breakfast and your life is depending on it?
Like chef says: "There's a wee greasy-spoon around the corner that does all-day frys, tell them to go there instead".”
“When orders from the breakfast menu stops at noon and someone who has decided to wait until 12.01 to go out somewhere to buy breakfast sits down and it goes like this:
Diner: Is it too late to order the Big Breakfast Stack?
Wait Person: I'm sorry it's just after midday and the lunch menu is what is now available.
Diner: But I really would prefer to have something from the breakfast menu.
Wait Person: Chef is no longer cooking breakfast items and the kitchen is now prepped for lunch. Can I show you the lunch menu?
Diner: I don't want to see the lunch menu.
Wait Person: Chef is no longer cooking breakfast......
Now for the killer line....
Diner: Can you go and ask anyway?
Like, it's after midday and you've now decided you want breakfast and your life is depending on it?
Like chef says: "There's a wee greasy-spoon around the corner that does all-day frys, tell them to go there instead".”
Was this customer Michael Douglas in Falling Down?
Something happens at work, I think ooh this will be a good posting on the trivial annoyances thread but by the time I get here, I forget what it was 
Originally Posted by Zeropoint1:
“I used to hate this too when I was in my twenties, I hated the places they chose but it was a majority vote so I went along with it. But they always chose bars where it took 20 minutes for everybody to get served and by the time the last ones got a drink the others were ready to move on. They also always picked places where the music was so loud you could never talk.
The one night when I got them to try 'old man pubs' where the beer is cheap and you can talk and more importantly have a laugh and then on to the rock bar they all acted like spoiled idiots and showed me up!
They could never understand why I used to ditch them and go to the rock bar on my own instead.”
“I used to hate this too when I was in my twenties, I hated the places they chose but it was a majority vote so I went along with it. But they always chose bars where it took 20 minutes for everybody to get served and by the time the last ones got a drink the others were ready to move on. They also always picked places where the music was so loud you could never talk.
The one night when I got them to try 'old man pubs' where the beer is cheap and you can talk and more importantly have a laugh and then on to the rock bar they all acted like spoiled idiots and showed me up!
They could never understand why I used to ditch them and go to the rock bar on my own instead.”
I agree - sadly my friends act the same way as yours did. I really hate buying a drink then having to rush it as someone in the friend group 'thinks it's a bit dead in here' (i.e. doesn't like the music). You always have loud ones in the group who take over and they are usually the ones with dreadful taste.
BIB Am tempted to go to rock bars instead at the end of the night but I'll probably get weird looks being on my own
Everyone elses friends/groups will be dancing to fun indie music and I'll be thinking 'I wish that could be me and my mates'.Also I don't want to get hit on by weirdos, and I don't have the guts to dance on my own.
Damn it all
Originally Posted by milo1:
“Supermarkets that have "half price" or the price of the item splashed across the packaging.”
“Supermarkets that have "half price" or the price of the item splashed across the packaging.”
What's intensely annoying about that?
Originally Posted by cris182:
“People say 'I don't know why they can't cook it 1 minute after' but there has to be a stopping point or what if someone comes at 10 past when you are still cooking the late comers food and say 'well you are still doing his so do mine too' then so on and so on. People don't get that the cut off point is there for a reason
I work in a bar and people come after the bell at last orders and ask if they are too late and if you say yes they twist their fact, but the few times you do serve them another person sees this and appears for another drink, Then someone else and on we go. At some point you just have to say no!”
“People say 'I don't know why they can't cook it 1 minute after' but there has to be a stopping point or what if someone comes at 10 past when you are still cooking the late comers food and say 'well you are still doing his so do mine too' then so on and so on. People don't get that the cut off point is there for a reason
I work in a bar and people come after the bell at last orders and ask if they are too late and if you say yes they twist their fact, but the few times you do serve them another person sees this and appears for another drink, Then someone else and on we go. At some point you just have to say no!”
People who say 'can you go and ask?' clearly have no idea how a commercial kitchen works. Chef starts clearing the breakfast shift away 15-20 mins before the cut off...utensils used for cooking eggs, bacon etc have to be washed and returned for cooking foods for the lunch menu. Chefs have to clear and wash work areas so that everything is ready to go for the lunch shift at midday - people come in expecting to order lunch at midday and if chef is still cooking eggs and bacon on the hot plate - that needs to be scrubbed and cleaned down - that means a delay in prepping the cookers for lunch. If you advertise that you serve lunch at 12 then you have to be ready to start doing exactly that. I've seen chef agree to do two breakfasts ordered by a couple of foot-stampers at 11.58 but it's not done with a smile believe me....
I could fill a book with 'chef's responses' to such orders
Originally Posted by davads:
“Was this customer Michael Douglas in Falling Down?”
“Was this customer Michael Douglas in Falling Down?
”
I've seen customers who almost beg to suffer the same consequences as Douglas's victims in that film
Originally Posted by Bob Le Terrible:
“The mindless mixing of upper and lower case letters in handwriting.
”
“The mindless mixing of upper and lower case letters in handwriting.
”
i KnoW , It'S a rEET BuggER.
Originally Posted by Tiger Rag:
“Withheld numbers”
“Withheld numbers”
Ditto
I wont answer the phone if the number is withheld. If you want to be smug and keep your phone number unlisted and ex-directory then don't bother calling me and certainly don't bother giving me your mobile number either. I know people who are at home most of the day, every day, and have a landline but refuse to give you their landline number when you ask for it. I'm not going to spend money calling your mobile so you can stick your mobile number.
Annoying that I've asked Scottish power to stop making marketing calls to me (two a day, they never let it ring long enough for me to answer),
Their answer was to register my phone numbers with TPS making it illegal for them to call me again.
Why not just remove me from your spam call list? Can you not trust yourselves to do the right thing, you have to make it illegal to do something before you stop it?
Anyway, anyone know a good energy supplier (if such a thing exists?)
Their answer was to register my phone numbers with TPS making it illegal for them to call me again.
Why not just remove me from your spam call list? Can you not trust yourselves to do the right thing, you have to make it illegal to do something before you stop it?
Anyway, anyone know a good energy supplier (if such a thing exists?)
Originally Posted by MadBetty:
“People who say 'can you go and ask?' clearly have no idea how a commercial kitchen works. Chef starts clearing the breakfast shift away 15-20 mins before the cut off...utensils used for cooking eggs, bacon etc have to be washed and returned for cooking foods for the lunch menu. Chefs have to clear and wash work areas so that everything is ready to go for the lunch shift at midday - people come in expecting to order lunch at midday and if chef is still cooking eggs and bacon on the hot plate - that needs to be scrubbed and cleaned down - that means a delay in prepping the cookers for lunch. If you advertise that you serve lunch at 12 then you have to be ready to start doing exactly that. I've seen chef agree to do two breakfasts ordered by a couple of foot-stampers at 11.58 but it's not done with a smile believe me....
I could fill a book with 'chef's responses' to such orders”
“People who say 'can you go and ask?' clearly have no idea how a commercial kitchen works. Chef starts clearing the breakfast shift away 15-20 mins before the cut off...utensils used for cooking eggs, bacon etc have to be washed and returned for cooking foods for the lunch menu. Chefs have to clear and wash work areas so that everything is ready to go for the lunch shift at midday - people come in expecting to order lunch at midday and if chef is still cooking eggs and bacon on the hot plate - that needs to be scrubbed and cleaned down - that means a delay in prepping the cookers for lunch. If you advertise that you serve lunch at 12 then you have to be ready to start doing exactly that. I've seen chef agree to do two breakfasts ordered by a couple of foot-stampers at 11.58 but it's not done with a smile believe me....
I could fill a book with 'chef's responses' to such orders
”
BIB - I'd imagine it's a bit like the chef in road trip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4ZXRlcoEW8
Recruitment agents. They're all nicey-nicey to ya, 'I'll call you tomorrow my love' and after a certain point in time they go missing. It's like where are they?
I went to a recent interview (through an agency) and if they want to pick the other candidate that's fine - it's not the industry I work in, but they could at least let me know whats happened.
I at least deserve a rejection email, now I am stuck in limbo ( i'm presuming I have not got the role).
I only ended up going cus A) I had nothing to lose and B) the agent wouldn't get off my back about it - I felt pressured into going tbh. It seems to me they've found their golden child and now are quick to drop me like a hot potato.
I went to a recent interview (through an agency) and if they want to pick the other candidate that's fine - it's not the industry I work in, but they could at least let me know whats happened.
I at least deserve a rejection email, now I am stuck in limbo ( i'm presuming I have not got the role).
I only ended up going cus A) I had nothing to lose and B) the agent wouldn't get off my back about it - I felt pressured into going tbh. It seems to me they've found their golden child and now are quick to drop me like a hot potato.
Peeling a satsuma or boiled egg and the peel/shell only comes off in little bits and if your fingernails are too long you get bits of satsuma peel or eggshell underneath them, but if your nails are too short then you can't peel the damned things effectively.
Originally Posted by Tiger Rag:
“A pet is part of the family. It's not just an animal.”
“A pet is part of the family. It's not just an animal.”
An inability to form normal human relationships is no excuse.
People who mislead you. I guess in the future I'll have to hand hold and get them to condense it down a bit further. Until I get a clear statement from them so I know where I stand. UGH
I have a selection of high quality waterproof coats with hoods.
Very nice, keeps the top half nice and dry, but when it pees it down the water runs off onto my trousers. Wet jean legs aaaaaaaaaaah.
PS
I do have waterproof trousers but I hate wearing them as no matter how well they claim to be completely waterproof yet highly breathable there ain't much breathing going on in the underpants area.
Very nice, keeps the top half nice and dry, but when it pees it down the water runs off onto my trousers. Wet jean legs aaaaaaaaaaah.
PS
I do have waterproof trousers but I hate wearing them as no matter how well they claim to be completely waterproof yet highly breathable there ain't much breathing going on in the underpants area.
Originally Posted by bbclassics:
“I agree - sadly my friends act the same way as yours did. I really hate buying a drink then having to rush it as someone in the friend group 'thinks it's a bit dead in here' (i.e. doesn't like the music). You always have loud ones in the group who take over and they are usually the ones with dreadful taste.
BIB Am tempted to go to rock bars instead at the end of the night but I'll probably get weird looks being on my own Everyone elses friends/groups will be dancing to fun indie music and I'll be thinking 'I wish that could be me and my mates'.
Also I don't want to get hit on by weirdos, and I don't have the guts to dance on my own.
Damn it all”
“I agree - sadly my friends act the same way as yours did. I really hate buying a drink then having to rush it as someone in the friend group 'thinks it's a bit dead in here' (i.e. doesn't like the music). You always have loud ones in the group who take over and they are usually the ones with dreadful taste.
BIB Am tempted to go to rock bars instead at the end of the night but I'll probably get weird looks being on my own
Everyone elses friends/groups will be dancing to fun indie music and I'll be thinking 'I wish that could be me and my mates'.Also I don't want to get hit on by weirdos, and I don't have the guts to dance on my own.
Damn it all”
I would honestly say go on your own and see what happens. The first time I went alone it felt so weird to out on a Saturday night then I quickly realised that nobody knows who's with who half the time and you do get talking to people.
I should add even now at 39 (shudder!) I still find it hard to go out and meet people and most of the time when I do go out it's to the same bar and I never actually arrange to go I just turn up and see who is out. On my birthday on Monday I went with my housemate and we ended up in a large group playing 'guess what was the number 1 song of each year?' It was great fun and I won
But seriously I've been doing my own thing a lot for about 16 years now from days out and holidays to gigs and concerts and met some great people. In fact as I write I'm uber excited listening to Lindsey Stirling waiting for the UK tour date to be announced and will book a hotel room and hang out in London for a day or two... And if there's no UK date it will have to be a trip to wherever in Europe.
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