Irritations - dump here thread

[rsser]

* At the crowded supermarket checkout, the dumb sod who stands there dreaming til s/he hears the total, and only then goes digging in the bag to find the money.

* At the station, the sod who feeds the week's small change into the ticket machine while the train is coming up.

* At the ATM, the sod who goes through a string of cards before finding one with enough money for the withdrawal, AND THEN studies the receipt carefully before slowing filing it in the purse/wallet.

* At the local cafe, the woman representing a table of six who goes to the counter to place the order while talking over everyone back to the table to clarify who wants what, and there's a queue waiting to get a quick take-away coffee.

Your turn :D

[Woodwould]

People who refer to everyone from the UK as 'Whinging Poms' and then proceed to whinge about everything from; their job, other road users, petrol prices, the weather, the wife, the in-laws, the kids, other people's kids, the dog, the cat, the neighbours, their tools, what's on the telly, what's not on the telly, current fashions, current music trends, politics, politicians, current affairs, 'boat people', non-WASPS, everyone's incompetence etc. etc.

[jimbur]

People who keep saying, "Great big new...."

[ratchet]

people that say

important

with out sounding the last T

popular with the young now becoming common

[Big Shed]

G o m

[corbs]

people that drive 10km/h under the speed limit when you can't overtake safely then accelerate to 20km/h over for an overtaking lane then slowing down again at the end:~

people that do something illegal/dangerous on the road then abuse you for giving a "what the hell are you doing?":~

[funkychicken]

Whingers irritate me:wink:

[wheelinround]

People who refer to everyone from the UK as 'Whinging Poms' and then proceed to whinge about everything from; their job, other road users, petrol prices, the weather, the wife, the in-laws, the kids, other people's kids, the dog, the cat, the neighbours, their tools, what's on the telly, what's not on the telly, current fashions, current music trends, politics, politicians, current affairs, 'boat people', non-WASPS, everyone's incompetence etc. etc.


:brava:clap::laughing1::ukflag:

[weisyboy]

people who ring up and say "hi carl just wondering when you will be doing ym job, im the one with teh tree."

traffic cops.

people who put nails in trees, if i ever catch someone putting a nail in a tree then god help them.

[AUSSIE]

People who refer to everyone from the UK as 'Whinging Poms' and then proceed to whinge about everything from; their job, other road users, petrol prices, the weather, the wife, the in-laws, the kids, other people's kids, the dog, the cat, the neighbours, their tools, what's on the telly, what's not on the telly, current fashions, current music trends, politics, politicians, current affairs, 'boat people', non-WASPS, everyone's incompetence etc. etc.
Stop whinging Woody:D

[ratchet]

G o m


What

????

[Big Shed]

Grumpy Old Men:rolleyes:

[metester]

People who don't provide feedback on eBay. Come on people participate.

[rsser]

There's the caravan/camper trailer effect. When I'm towing one usually at 95 kph (actual) frequently a car will overtake on the assumption that at the next hill I'll be going too slow for them to sit behind, and then they drop below that when the hill appears and I've changed gears and haven't. So I end up breathing their exhaust.

[Sebastiaan56]

Bluddy right handed people coming to work on my desk and moving everything around :(( The other one is when an unnamed loved one makes me a coffee in a travel mug and turns the handle 180 degrees from where it should be...... Bluddy right handederers....

[Rum Pig]

People how use disabled parking bays when they have nothing wrong with them.
Contractors that think I'm stupid enough they can just lie about there work/progress and then ring me bitching when I do not use them again.
People how can not park between the lines

Getting busted for being on WWF at work:o:doh::U

[Waldo]

* At the ATM, the sod who goes through a string of cards before finding one with enough money for the withdrawal, AND THEN studies the receipt carefully before slowing filing it in the purse/wallet.

You too?

The dumb sod tourist from a country generally starting with A and ending in a.
"I'll just quickly go up get the paper, milk and some money", I tell my wife leaving her and the kids in the car.

Numbskull tourist tries once to deposit cheque after having slowly punched each number onto the key pad, reads in detail all the choices to select from, makes his choice.

Then the machine won't take his envelope with the cheque (this machine often doesn't).

So he tries 4 more times, each time slowly reading and slowly punching the numbers on the keypad.

Now I hate when people stand the other side of the thorough fare when they line up behind someone else at an ATM. You never know if someone is just waiting for something or waiting in line. So I stand behind them, but give lots of personal space, as you do.

Occasionally I glance at the bloke as he tries 5 or so times to put the blinking envelope into the ATM, you know you just look around the place trying calmly to wait.

Then he calls me over, "Please sir, don't stand behind me, I don't want you to see what I'm doing.", "Mate, I don't care what you're doing and I'm not watching what you're doing, so don't worry." So he get's the shytes, and crowds his whole self over the ATM. I just :shrug: and stay where I am thanks mate.

He tries another full go from the beginning to put the blasted envelope in, finally he gives up and goes into the bank!

I walk up, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep... take my money out and in less than 30 seconds I'm done and gone. Meanwhile I had to wait 10 minutes. :gaah:

So if it only took 30 seconds to read my post, read it 19 more times, yeah. :2tsup:

[Woodwould]

Trades people who think they're very 'metro', who wear the most nauseating body spray/aftershave, who come into my home, stink the place out, necessitating the doors and windows to be left open for hours on end in 11° C temperatures AND have the nerve to ask me to close the doors because they're cold! The new curtains don't look too bad though.

[ratchet]

Grumpy Old Men:rolleyes:

That's me

I thought it might be OMG ,

O My God

which is another word useage that annoys me

usually spoken by non believers and low lifes

I wonder if Julia says OMG

[Waldo]

That's me

I thought it might be OMG ,

O My God

which is another word useage that annoys me

usually spoken my non believers and low lifes

I wonder if Julia says OMG

Which I find the top of my hates, much more so than anything else.

[Rum Pig]

People how stop and have a chat in the supermarket isles and block the whole bloody isle and have the nerve to give you a rude look for making them move so you can get past:~

Finding the bottom of a rum bottle:doh:

[Waldo]

Then finding the bottom of the next? :D

[robbygard]

people that drive 10km/h under the speed limit when you can't overtake safely then accelerate to 20km/h over for an overtaking lane then slowing down again at the end:~

:~

i'll second that ... i did a lot of driving between bega and canberra up to a month ago and a fair bit between bega and melbourne and i am sure that they are all on those two roads


regards david

[underfoot]

Trades people who think they're very 'metro', who wear the most nauseating body spray The new curtains don't look too bad though.

:oo: aargh...that would turn even the mightiest of interior decorators limp at the wrist

[Woodwould]

:oo: aargh...that would turn even the mightiest of interior decorators limp at the wrist

............ http://www.woodworkforums.com/members/13149-woodwould/albums/woodwould-s-smilies-1/2586-ohyou.gif

[Big Shed]

That's me

I thought it might be OMG ,

O My God

which is another word useage that annoys me



Absolutely:wink:

[watson]

Forums

[Big Shed]

Forums

Nothing wrong with forums, however some of the members.................

[rsser]

Wasn't this thread about lightglobes??

I hate those compact fluoros with all the twists and turns that stick way out of your desk lamp. Look like Daleks' guts.

[pugwash]

Going to buy metal box corners and finding they come in packets of five!

Being made to go out and vote for one of two incompetents.

People who say "You should have been here yesterday!"

That enormous wall of bread at the supermarket.

Going shopping with my wife. (Don't get me started)

[nihilism]

The kids today that all seem to have hearing problems and spend all day with an iphone in their hand.

[metester]

Those frickin' barcode stickers that places like the Big B choose to stick on all their timber sheets, mouldings, bolts....you name it. Very frustrating. :((

[issatree]

Hi rrser,
Well where does one start.
We have the new ring Road that bypasses Geelong, & on the Ballarat Rd. there are 13 Overhead Lights not working. Went to see them, & it was explained to me they are having trouble getting the right Globes, & would cost in the vicinity of ( Wait for it )" $1,000000 " to replace them.

Same section, we have to sit at the Traffic Lights for over 2 Mins. Now my Gripe is, on early mornings, you've just missed the Go Lights, & you sit & sit & sit. Now there is no Traffic coming N,S,E, or West, & there you sit wasting fuel.
Some people, although breaking the Law, drive through the Red Lights, & still there is nothing in sight.
Don't really blame them.
Regards,
issatree.
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[Carry Pine]

People who don't provide feedback on eBay. Come on people participate.

You are so limited in your ability to offer feedback on E Bay.
My experience is with sellers who charge high package and postage charges to make their profit. Try to register that as feedback and you come to a dead end. I purchased a 'sticker' for a bike that cost $6 in packing and postage and was sent with 2 50c stamps in a folded envelope. The result: the seller has banned me for offering negative feedback. Maybe I'm better off not dealing with the guy but i would like others to know what happened. This is not possible under the present system.

Sorry for hijacking the thread but that feedback comment is one that gets me mad.

Graham

[underfoot]

That enormous wall of bread at the supermarket.
)
I didn't even know I disliked that till you reminded me :2tsup:
the waste from that wall of dough is criminal.

[corbs]

... I purchased a 'sticker' for a bike that cost $6...

I think I was looking at the same stickers on ebay last night :)

[tea lady]

the twists and turns that stick way out of your desk lamp. Look like Daleks' guts.:rofl:


the seller has banned me for offering negative feedback. Maybe I'm better off not dealing with the guy but i would like others to know what happened. This is not possible under the present system.

Sorry for hijacking the thread but that feedback comment is one that gets me mad.

Graham:? You can ban someone from leaving negative feedback? :doh:


I didn't even know I disliked that till you reminded me :2tsup:
the waste from that wall of dough is criminal..... and such badly cooked dough. :C

I hate people in sports cars that sit on 10 kms below the limit. Jeeeeez! :doh: talk about rub it in. ......"I could go fast if I want but I don't feel like it.:p" ......... :gaah:

[artme]

Political ads.

Unecessary administrative procedures tthat cost money, time and confusion.

[Master Splinter]

Picking up a sheet of melamine faced board and getting a huge 'paper cut' across the palm of your hand from the edge that you just cut.

[jimbur]

Three H words:
Hero to denote someone who catches a ball or sells cheap groceries.
Humble especially when politicians use it of themselves.
Honouring when they mean commemorating - I saw something today about a memento honouring the founding of Melbourne.
Lots more but the froth gets in the keyboard,
Jim

[rsser]

Jim, yes, those ring bells.

Emotional as used in broadcasts. What?? Could mean

* angry
* sad
* happy
* anxious
* grieving
* raging
* joyous, and so on.

Sloppy journalese.

[springwater]

Stickers on apples. Suits, women in suits more. Bread ties. Plastic milk bottles. Packaging. "Moving forward" is a positive direction. What did we do without the"Model". Global warming. Who's tried to open the wrong end of thoise plastic bags that come off a roll in supermarkets.

[chambezio]

When talking to most younger people why do they insist on the well over used word......LIKE Like when did it come into service. Like Maynard G Crebbs used it because he was the original beatnik like. But that was, how long ago like?

AND what about those few hairs that get missed being shaved under the middle of the bottom lip or the 3 day growth look on today's celebrities. What is that about?

Then there is is those body pearcings.....you know those people (male or female) who look like they have fallen face first into a tackle box like

As a GOM and proud of it :U why doesn't Austar replay The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis so we can see Maynard G before he turned into Gilligan?

[bsrlee]

The drips who push & shove to get in front of you, then stop dead once they are there & rubber neck, fly catch & generally faff around. Preferably somewhere you can't get past THEM in turn, say at the top or bottom of an escalator in a busy shopping mall.

Ditto people who do DiY pedestrian traffic jams, again in the narrowest available space. There were a group of mothers (30 or so from one ethnic group) who used to hold a 'mothers club' & let their kids run riot outside a local retailer from about 2.30 on. The shop shut down because it was almost impossible to get in or out while they were there, no one else has leased the space & the 'mothers club' has disappeared.

And then they get in their cars, head up the road & drive through red lights to stop anyone entering from a side street (with the green) getting in front of them.

Just as well they no longer give me a gun & ammo to carry.

[springwater]

Trying to operate the Tele with the heater remote control :-

[RufflyRustic]

Spending all day on the computer at work, then come home to a pc that doesn't work thanks to some wierd S***, spend the next 3 hours fixing it while running kid around to sports, cook dinner and eat said dinner, only to fix it just at bedtime....:rolleyes:

[Claw Hama]

Ok I'll jump on the band wagon.
People who are INCONSIDERATE, be it driving in trafic, in the supermarket, Bunnies where ever:((. To be considerate to others costs nothing (mostly) ahhh but then there are the others who then take your goodwill and consideration for granted they are just as bad.
And all the above:U

[RETIRED]

The term WT? Can't even say it.:~

[joe greiner]

Wasn't this thread about lightglobes??

I hate those compact fluoros with all the twists and turns that stick way out of your desk lamp. Look like Daleks' guts.
How many forum members does it take to post irritations?:D

Cheers,
Joe

[springwater]

The term WT? Can't even say it.:~

Pardon me :?

Getting the car door unlocking thing out of my pocket when it's not a car door I'm approaching...bit wierd aye...door/open :-

[issatree]

I'm having another go ?.
What about all these Ladies? who always wear Black clothes. Really gives me the Irats.
Gee there must be a lot of Dead People, Relatives or what ever.
Ladies, there are other Colours you know.
Black, sometimes, yes. but not day in day out, every day.
These days it is almost Blinding to see a Lady in a bit of Colour.
Regards,
issatree.
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[weisyboy]

firebugs. just got called out to fight another bushfire.:doh:

[Grumpy John]

Those frickin' barcode stickers that places like the Big B choose to stick on all their timber sheets, mouldings, bolts....you name it. Very frustrating. :((

People who bitch and moan when the cashier at Bunnies has to call for a price when the barcode is missing from a piece of timber, moulding, bolt....you name it.

People who want you to give, or have given 110%, not possible mate.

[switt775]

Bluddy right handed people coming to work on my desk and moving everything around :(( The other one is when an unnamed loved one makes me a coffee in a travel mug and turns the handle 180 degrees from where it should be...... Bluddy right handederers....

Not their fault, they're not in their right minds....:p

[jimbur]

All the jargon of the corporate self-exciters - the mission statements, motivational, inspirational, aspirational etc. Then there are the twenty page resumés packed with the above when all they want to say is, "give me a go, I have no experience".
Jim

[rsser]

1. Yes, or 'negative growth', and 'non-performing loans'; lot of those about but you can't get one from the bank more's the pity.

2. Fruit and veg shoppers keen to reduce waste who fill their basket with loose oranges, mandarines, lemons, carrots etc. And then everyone in the checkout queue has to wait for the cashier to sort them out for weighing. Shoot, why don't they just reuse some strong plakky bags?!

[rsser]

Oh, and car makers that hold you to ransom with the price of spares.

Tale from my mechanic: he had to replace the engine mounts on a Ford Mondeo. They were $1400.

EACH!

They'd been damaged in a crash and that wasn't picked up at the time of the repair. Luckily the insurer was pressured into coughing up again.

[artme]

That overused phrase "TOO easy"". Especially used by tadesmen who don't bother to recontact you!:~:~:~

[Big Shed]

That overused phrase "TOO easy"". Especially used by tadesmen who don't bother to recontact you!:~:~:~

Absolutely:D

[Sturdee]

Forumnites who seem too feel that a clean shed is no good and loudly tell you when you post a picture of your workshop that is neat.:((

I don't live in a pigsty at home so would should I want to wallow around in a filthy and dirty shed. :((


Peter.

[Grumpy John]

1. Yes, or 'negative growth', and 'non-performing loans'; lot of those about but you can't get one from the bank more's the pity..........................



And advertising claims of "5 times less"......................

I suppose it sounds more impressive than 1 fifth.

[Gingermick]

Heard these dogs barking today at the shop and turned to see a woman and some dogs. She had one big dog and one little dog and this mongrel staffy had turned up and tried to go for the little one. The big dopey bully X she had just barked and the woman looked very worried. So me and this other bloke go and sort the dogs out (motorcycle boots aren't as good as steel caps for kicking things but better than thongs).
But not a thank you was forthcoming from her lips or her partner who turned up after I'd chased the Staffy away. :(
If someone helps you, you thank them.

[Sebastiaan56]

And advertising claims of "5 times less"......................

I suppose it sounds more impressive than 1 fifth.

Ive often wondered what that meant....

Customers who dont pay their accounts. Sharia Law has a place.....

[tea lady]

The term WT? Can't even say it.:~..and what about "real turning"? :brick:

[rsser]

heh heh ....

I don't mind being known as an unreal turner :D

[stuffy]

teenagers who say "lol" in answer to anything mildly amusing. By all means if it's funny then actually laugh but don't say it. :rolleyes:
Yes, my daughters, I'm talking about you!

[jimbur]

heh heh ....

I don't mind being known as an unreal turner :D

Sounds like a theme for a musical - Ern, the Phantom of the Lathe

[Manuka Jock]

"umm like , it like , you know , like starts at at like 6 o'clock "

Like 6 o'clock ??? 16 o'clock maybe ? 16 is like 6 ..... or it could be 9 , thats' like 6 too ......
or it could even be 19 , thats' like 6 as well . :rolleyes:

The mind boggles .:roll:

And as for the out of context 'like' in place of 'such as' that is creeping in . :doh:

[artme]

Forumnites who seem too feel that a clean shed is no good and loudly tell you when you post a picture of your workshop that is neat.:((

I don't live in a pigsty at home so would should I want to wallow around in a filthy and dirty shed. :((


Peter.

Ouch!!!!!

[artme]

People who will not take their shopping trolleys to the reaturn bays, or at least put them in a safe, out of the way space.

[artme]

Absolutely:D

Yes!! ABSOLUTELY>:p:p:p

[weisyboy]

People who will not take their shopping trolleys to the reaturn bays, or at least put them in a safe, out of the way space.

what i always thaught you were suposed to leave them in the middle of teh nearest empty car space.

[jimbur]

Shopping trolley bays that slope into the carpark:((

[Blue-deviled]

Smooth peanut butter.

Nouns being used as verbs.

Arsonists being called benign, chirpy things, such as 'firebugs'.

Sporting commentary - it is not 'medaling', you win a medal (the catholic church has issues with this too).
Aussie rules - I've been waiting for ages to see somebody 'kick a Major', and have yet to see a military man at the football, let alone one get booted.

The tug-of-war no longer being an Olympic sport.

Instructions on tooth-pick packets.

Anti-static straps on cars.

Lime-green (ouside of the outside of limes, of course).

Political correctness reaching Salada biscuits.

That's enough for now....

[Blue-deviled]

Shopping trolley bays that slope into the carpark:((

Usefull for roll-starting Minis, but otherwise annoying (or amusing, depending on where you're parked)!

[Blue-deviled]

All the jargon of the corporate self-exciters - the mission statements, motivational, inspirational, aspirational etc. Then there are the twenty page resuméspacked with the above when all they want to say is, "give me a go, I have no experience".
Jim

I'll action this situation for you Jim.

[jimbur]

I'll action this situation for you Jim.

When do you want me to finish the handles?

[Blue-deviled]

When do you want me to finish the handles?

Er, ASAP? I mean, in your good time.

[Chief Tiff]

That ridiculous advert that suggests that washing your clothes on a cooler machine setting will stop coral from overheating.

The word "empower" and all of its derivatives.

The word "pro-active"

Pro-active margerine.

Pro-active zit cream.

Any other word that's made up by putting the word "pro" in front of it to give it some sort of undeserved respectability; eg "pro-biotic" & "pro-vitamin".

People who use Phillips screwdrivers to drive Pozidrive screws.

People who when caught using Phillips screwdrivers to drive Pozidrive screws insist that "ah, they're all the same anyway mate".

People who I don't know but insist on calling me "mate".

People who don't know when to stop writi...

[Gingermick]

what's a posidrive screwdriver mate?

[Chief Tiff]

what's a posidrive screwdriver mate?
:banghead:
:smack:
:upset:

People who use emoticons and smilies instead of words!

[jimbur]

Just heard the ABC talking of a netball game kicking off!:((

[artme]

what i always thaught you were suposed to leave them in the middle of teh nearest empty car space.


Yair, but I left that unsaid because of the unpleasant language I would be forced to use to show my extreme irritation with such folks.

[Woodwould]

Just heard the ABC talking of a netball game kicking off!:((
I heard that on the 7 pm news too. Did you see the tall girl score the hole-in-one?

[Woodwould]

Also shown on the news last night was a banner in the crowd at the football yesterday that read: DIDAK YOUR MY HERO. Utter imbecile!

[rsser]

Or the adulation given to Barry Hall.

If he did off the field what he does to players on it he'd just be an everyday thug charged with assault.

[corbs]

Or the adulation given to Barry Hall.

If he did off the field what he does to players on it he'd just be an everyday thug charged with assault.

I used to play against Barry in the under 17's growing up. He was a meat head then and nothings changed:-

[metester]

During the recent World Cup many commentators referred to Argentina as 'Argentinia'. AFL commentators saying 'Shot on goal' instead of 'Shot at Goal'. I had better stop. Very irritating ;).

[AUSSIE]

I think I will keep well away from some of you lot.
Doesn't seem to take much to light the old fuse does it?:q

[jimbur]

I think I will keep well away from some of you lot.
Doesn't seem to take much to light the old fuse does it?:q

See, there it is again - old fuse - ageism now. Everyone's against us.:D

[AUSSIE]

Whinge (whinges, whingeing or whinging, whinged)[no object]

complain persistently and in a peevish or irritating way:stop whingeing and get on with it! (as adjective whingeing) a whingeing killjoy:roll:
Hey ,
You still wake up in the morning,don't you?
Go and do some woodwork.and let the world go by.

[jimbur]

Laughing out loud here Aussie (daren't use the acronym)
Cheers,
Jim

[rsser]

GOMs rule!

(esp when the false teeth go missing).

Another gripe:

'Ahlympics' rather than Olympics

[Manuka Jock]

'Tor' ( as in the Welsh for mountain etc )

rather than 'Tour' for a journey

[Woodwould]

Another gripe:

'Ahlympics' rather than Olympics
Thanks for the reminder – Olympics (and the Commonwealth Games and any other athletic or ball sports that dominate the media and the majority of conversation).

[Manuka Jock]

People who refer to saw stools ( the ones with the flat top ' T ' to lay timber on ) as saw horses ( the ones with the saddle ' X ' to place logs in )

[AUSSIE]

People who refer to saw stools ( the ones with the flat top ' T ' to lay timber on ) as saw horses ( the ones with the saddle ' X ' to place logs in )
Here (http://www.toolcrib.com/blog/2008/07/22/24-free-sawhorse-plans-in-the-hunt-for-the-ultimate-sawhorse/) & Here (http://www.sawhorseworkshop.com/linksplans.html) & Here (http://woodgears.ca/sawhorse/plans.html)
NZ'er:doh:I have heard of a Tasmanian calling them saw stools also:o

[Manuka Jock]

Here (http://www.toolcrib.com/blog/2008/07/22/24-free-sawhorse-plans-in-the-hunt-for-the-ultimate-sawhorse/) & Here (http://www.sawhorseworkshop.com/linksplans.html) & Here (http://woodgears.ca/sawhorse/plans.html)
NZ'er:doh:I have heard of a Tasmanian calling them saw stools also:o

Yep, there must be some rather odd breeds of horses in some parts of the world.
Their saddles must be uncomfortable also .
I spose when they set out go tramping up Flat Top Mountain they get lost and end up on Saddle Hill :D

[RETIRED]

Sawhorse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawhorse)

[jimbur]

Sawhorse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawhorse)

Asking for trouble if you use that design:D