What's Your Pet Hate

[mic-d]

All the bloody crime shows on TV.
When the weatherman says "maximums" and "minumums"
People who say "less" when the situation calls for "fewer", who say "located" as a fancy word for found, or say "you and I" when it should be "you and me" or vice versa.
Stepping in dog ####
Realising I got too pernickety about a post
People who don't understand road rules.
The drought.
People who distinguish between safe drinking water and recycled sewerage and the scientists and engineers who couldn't get this simple message across.
Not having enough space for a good workshop.
Barking dogs, and people who torture animals

[HappyHammer]

• Noisy Eaters (Shut your mouth!!)
• People who do not pick up thier dogs #####
• People with no sense of humour
• Whingers
• People who think it's OK to drop litter wherever they please
• Lack of manners
• People who smoke when walking down crowded streets (and I smoke)
• weak handshakes
• having my dinner interrupted by anything
• slow drivers in right hand lane or middle lane
• Insincerity
• light sentences for sex offenders
• people taking the p1ss with my property whether given permission or not

That's a good start anyway...

HH.

[Sturdee]

............ She ranted and raved and carried on a right treat about us being incompetent and not saving her house. No thanks for saving her family, just abuse about losing her house.

..............

She still gives us grief almost five years later, hassling us if she sees us training and even heckled her next door neighbour who since the fire became a member of the Brigade.

Thanks for your post Brendan. My gripe is not as bad as yours but it shows how ungrateful some people can be. These bloody oxygen thieves should have been eliminated from the gene pool a long time ago.

Maybe she wanted to get rid of her husband rather than the house.

It just bugs me that it makes volunteering a bad experience and our society could not function without volunteers giving something back to the community. On the other hand the grateful smile of a needy customer who is able to buy good stuff at reasonable prices makes up for it.


Peter.

[floobyduster]

calling a govt or corp enterprise for a simple enquiry (esp a toll call) -

please
press 1 for ...
press 2 for ...
press 3 for ...
2
press 1 for ...
press 2 for ...
press 3 for ...
3
thankyou, all our operators are busy at the moment, you will be answered by the first available operator (yeah, right) :mad:

...:mad:

...:mad: :mad:

...:mad: :mad: :mad:

you have moved forward in the queque, your call is important to us, you will be answered by the first available operator

...:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

...:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

...:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggghhhhhhh

CLICK ( I hung up)


try somewhere else

"hello, I'm Tracy and I can understand what you say ...

do you want "abc" or "xyz"?"

(neither, I want) 'klm'

"I'm sorry, I didn't understand what you said - do you want "abc" or "xyz"?"
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

CRASH ( I hung up)

Maybe they could employ some of those infuriating telemarketers:

"and what would you be wanting to be asking?"

[Lignum]

Exploding lightbulbs....:eek: Put a freshie in 3 days ago and tonight it just went "Bang" and shattered everywhere:eek:

[Iain]

or say "you and I" when it should be "you and me"

But that is correct, I bollock my offsprung (plural ) for saying 'Me and XXX' rather than 'XXX and I'.
My pet hate at the moment is that bloody terrible super ad, 'His fees are lower, his fees are higher, etc etc etc'.
Of course they bloody are, what do you think we are, complete cretins:mad:
Also the press 1 press 2 press3, enter your telephone number, then get asked for your phone number when you finally get a human.

[Sturdee]

My pet hate at the moment is that bloody terrible super ad, 'His fees are lower, his fees are higher, etc etc etc'.
Of course they bloody are, what do you think we are, complete cretins:mad:

But what about the cost of all those commercials.

I bet that next year the net gain by the non idustry superfunds will be better because the fees they pay will be less than the costs of those commercials.


Peter.

[Gumby]

my pet, he hates cats

[Iain]

Peter, the point is, higher or lower than what, where is the yardstick, just a lot of padding.
They could make the point in 10 seconds rather than the infantile rambling.
I also take your point with the Op Shops, I frequent them too and am well known(:confused: is that a good thing) and the dear ladies often put things aside for me for when I next come in, bless their little hearts.
The local one sells fruit for a ridiculous low price and I buy quite a bit and always round up to the nearest $2.00.
I even rescued one of the old dears from the outside dunny earlier this year when a little brown snake decided to sun itself outside the door on the concrete while she was inside.
I now have 'local hero' staus too

[meerkat]

my pet, he hates cats

ROFL

Big Brother
Australian Idol (I'm with you there JDub)
Survivor
GPS Navigators with the LATEST (2 year old) maps
HappyHammer said a lot of it for me.
Tool Teachers (That is teachers that are tools)
An empty stubby

[Lignum]

Helloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwww Ank Walker Nationaaaaaaal Tiiiiles:eek:

[Clinton1]

People who eat with their mouth open.
People who eat and talk at the same time and look at you so you can see the 1/2 chewed crud in their mouth.

When you want to tell someone that they are a complete tosser, but you know that it will cause problems and keep you in their grid square longer.
Other people trying to make their mistake your problem.
Smartarses.
Short people that get a bug up their #### when you don't stand far enough away from them. I mean, if I wanted to intimidate them I wouldn't just stand close to them. :confused:
Thieves.

Whoops - this hasn't got anything to do with reno's. I wonder who that annoyed!

[Iain]

Short people that get a bug up their ####

Worked with one, he was a manager who took great delight in firing people, even if it involved setting up first.
Used to stand on a little box to make public announcements and we all had a great laugh when I stood beside him on his little box, and was still taller
Venomous little piece of shyte he is:mad:

[Waldo]

G'day,

• Newsreaders who don't understand that 'was' is singular and 'were' is plural. :mad:
• idiots who use the left lane which only runs 5m past the lights to overtake a
line of tarffic - so I block the bastards out. :mad: (blocked one out yesterday bigtime)
• Indians ringing me to sell me something. :mad:
• the PC carp that is creeping into our schools and lives by a minority of insecure pinkos. :mad:
• a certain politian this morning that never has anything of value to say other than to hurl insults at everyone and has no proposals of his/parties own as an alternative. :mad:
• the Greens. :mad:
• the civil libiterians with their everything is evil carp. :mad:
• Australian Idol, Big Brother and all the other "reality" programmes.
• and I hate how "programmes" is now spelt programs, flaming lazy if you ask me! :mad:

There you go, that's my rany and now I'll go pull some stuff out of the ctiric acid bath and have a coffee and come back to do some work. And maybe while I'm down there lean against my bench and think about nothing really and pick up a bit of rosewood and sniff it.

[Iain]

Spotty little shytes in retail stores who tell me their life experiences and offer 'expert' advice on something of which they know nothing (one yesterday proceeded to tell me about his expertise in psychology )
Rosewood sniffers (only jealous because I haven't got any Waldo )
Stale coffee beans.
Cold toast.
Cheap margerine.
The price of olive oil at the moment (does that come from the middle east too?)
Discovering dog shyte on my shoe when I am driving.
Cleaning the shed.
HAFCO
Dentists, send a cold shiver down my spine.
Committees, back stabbing swine.
Cask wine, even though it's all I can afford some weeks.
Cheap scotch (rather drink coffee).
ATO, ANZ and a few others.
Puddles in the driveway when I get home after dark, usually just slightly deeper than the height of my shoe.
Sensor lights that turn on and off all night but don't activate when I get home (see puddles).