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yes yes been done before (several times) but if I may just add...
#1232 Trying on sunglassess in the shop and the security tag keeps dangling over your nose on every pair.
#1233 Trying to get out of the back of someones car and the child locks are on so you have to wait. Like a child.
Anything slightly annoying you lately?
People at ticket barriers in front of you
and their ticket doesn't work. GET OUT OF MY WAY please.
Yeah don't try it a second or third time
You've failed now fuck off.
People at ticket barriers in front of you
who seem suddenly surprised that they need their tickets, so you have to stand waiting behind them while they rummage through their bag to find it
hmmm
that sounds more 'quite vexing' than 'moderately annoying'.
^
People whose tickets don't work are moderately annoying... it's not technically *their* fault so the rage is moderated.
but they can still fuck off right?
and get the fuck out of my working-tickety way?
When you're on a very busy tube/train, and someone forces their way out of their seat and tries to nudge past you to the door, despite the train not even being close to the next station.
Where are you going man? There's no room to manoeuvre, you won't get stuck on the train, chill out.
two good ones
#1234 trying on a pair of shoes/trainers that have been laced up in a way you're clearly not comfortable with
Tall people walking too close behind you
Back off. Your height is making me moderately unconfortable.
The predictable but still mildly irritating splash spaff you get
when taking the lid off a yoghurt
you have no idea how close i was to starting a thread in a similar vein once.
#1234
sticking with the trying on thing:
you take an item of clothing to the changing room, only to discover the size on the hanger is NOT the size of the garment.
A bit of a schoolboy error.
Who the hell thinks the sizes on the hangers are likely to be accurate?
People who have sex reguarly?
this is phenomenal
Not on the evidence presented here.
im with theo on this one
always check the label
THIS. Oh god, this.
I run my trips into shops with military precision - in-out and put the kettle on. One trip to the changing room, one trip to pay, get air lifted out of there.
So when this happens it COMPLETELY fucks up my agenda
#13232
When you fail to squash all your spaghetti into the pan and some sticks over the edge and gets burned.
a load of assorted AA batteries
some of which may work some of which may be dead.
But who's going to sort the wheat from the chaff?
what kind of monster doesn't throw out dead batteries straight away?!
what kind of monster throws out batteries at all?
don't you know you're killing the planet?
RECYCLE
Slow walking people
People who stop mid walk
People who turn one way then another IN MY WAY
Basically people who hinder my A to B.
#1239
When you peel the lid off your ready meal only for it not to come off in one piece so you have the choice of bits of plastic dangling in your food or risk arabiata infused 3rd degree burns by removing the remaining bits
You eat ready meals?
I don't know what to believe any more.
Also when you manage to peel off the film
only to be surprised that access to the food is still restricted due an additional, impossibly thin layer of film. Science shouldn't let those kind of things happen.
Hark at Roux Jr over here
Other people
You are a more tolerant man than I.
I doff my cap to you.
When you attempt to use the supplied label to reseal
the bag of rice/coffee at it fails because it simply isn't sticky enough or you've split the bag too much. I mean what's the fucking point man? What's the point.
Solution - eat everything in one go.
PS Cadbury bags of their giant buttons, clusters, caramel nibbles etc are all 99p in Tesco at the moment. I have bout five this week just to stock up.
A kilo of basmati?
in one go?
Sounds like a challenge.
best way to do this
is to pour boiling water into your mouth and down the rice that way.
It says a lot about me that I immediately thought about bags of chocolate before anything like rice/pasta.
the indigestion that comes from eating too much white bread.
Inside out socks that need to be turned the right way at 7'o'clock in the god damn morning
you've bought some fruit in a punnet.
unbeknown to you one of the fruits has an unseen bruise on it that you only notice when you get home and open the punnet.
I got a children's notepad set in my net of clementines yesterday.
If I needed stationery I would have asked for/bought stationery. Co-op is strange sometimes.
^worst Choose Your Adventure scenario ever.
oh don't
I bought some M&S nectarines and I bit into one and it was black inside. BLACK.
#13252
When you buy two seemingly identical bits of food, in a 2 for 1 offer say, one of the use by dates will always be like a week later than the other one.
Surely that's a good thing
Means you don't have to eat them both at once. Though you probably do anyway.
what i hate about packs of steaks or meat like that is...
you always get a big one and a small one.. why cant they be more evenly matched
cleaning a sieve
please don't make me clean the sieve.
too right
http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/look-dad-no-tunes-ep/lock-up-your-mountain-bikes/
There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves
There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves
With the possible exception
Of being Garth Crooks
There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves
I see your cleaning a sieve
And raise you cleaning a cheesegrater. Possibly one where someone's used the smallest holes for parmesan.
Ultimate:
when someone's used the smallest holes for ZESTING.
WHYYYYYYYYY??????!!!!!!!!
why not?
it makes perfect zest
similarly,
the garlic crusher.
I was going to say this
I didn't but I was going to. You'll just have to trust me on this.
and cheese grater.
I swear steve's post wasn't there when I posted this.
Moderately annoyed about this.
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social/4300686#r6228634
When you sit down to watch a tv programme only to be greeted
with an episode mainly consisting of clips from previous shows
oh damn yes
is there anything more redundant in the early 21st century than the Friends clip show episodes? Oh, look, lots of funny/heartwarming clips, all of which I've seen about 11 times already and most of them in the past couple of months.
Worst is how they trick you into thinking it's a proper episode
and have some half-arsed narrative to weave together the clips.
#1235
when you get a little bit of splash back from washing your hands so it looks like you've had a minor accident.
Rushing to answer the phone
and getting a vaguely indian-sounding voice saying `May I speak to the homeowner`...
heh `irrTITation`
freudian or something
When you go to post something and someone's just beaten you to it
we're not all writing the same letters to the same people you know.
your mother will be displeased.
#22478
When the little metal things fall off the back of my Blackberry.
mouthwash bottles
always dribble a bit leaving blue marks all over your sink
our medicine cabinet is postively slick with the stuff
SLICK
When you peel off a sticker
only for it to not come off cleanly.
when you miss a tiny bit shaving
and you have to spend the rest of the day walking around with a single long hair next to the side of your mouth.
vaguely related (well not really)
when you get a spot just inside your nostril
This but when you shave your legs and find you've missed a tiny thin strip.
it's not going to be that long a hair though, is it?
unless you wake up every morning with a full beard
depends how often you shave
I shave: rarely
I'm totally with warny on this one.
this but
when I've been diligently applying E45 to my legs for a whole week, then try to shave my legs at 5.30am on Friday, and manage to cut them everywhere
then accidentally put the cut under hot water
When you make a cup of tea,
and those mini oil slicks float on the surface.
When you think a sneeze is gonna come........ :oO
......................................................and then id doesn't come.
Trying to doze on a train, only to be interrupted by the countless annoucements
over the Tannoy.
that's not moderate enough for this thread buddy.
I swear they actually make it louder in the quiet carriage
It's not because everyone else is quiet either, it's genuinely a bit louder.
When you get in a busy lift and you go into the corner and then people leave the lift
and theres just you and one other person in there who hasn't moved and squishes you into the corner for the next 5 floors.
Getting on a train,
then waiting as it sits in the platform for ages for no good reason, whilst other trains heading to your destination come and go without a care in the world.
people calling public address systems 'tannoys'.
people calling tannoys 'public address systems'
check out partridge
:D
IT'S A BRAND NAME
chillout Mr. Hoover
when a stone gets stuck under your shoe and you have to adopt
a Verbal Kint walk in order to dislodge it.
Or you could stop and remove the stone,
then continue walking rather than adopt a spastic's gait.
you're at some traffic lights at a junction.
its about to be your set of lights turn to go green. you get your biting point only for the pedestrian green man to come on.
who let clarkson in?
^ little known follow up single to ''Who let the dogs out''
Clicking "no"
on a dialogue box and only caching sight of the "don't ask me again" checkbox as your finger hits the mouse key.
oh we need a new bin bag? i'll get one.
oh this ones got a hole in it...actually so has the next one...and the next one...and...oh for fu...
never had this happen to me.
bin bag related
It's bin night, I'll just tie this bastard up and leave it outside, oh joy the long handle bits have snapped making it a lot harder to secure. Might as well empty the whole lot on the floor outside the front door and save the foxes and cats a bit of effort.
*tuts*
oh great, these bin bags only really marginally fit around the rim of the bin. its going to be a pain to get these off.
or stuff is going to slide down the side of the bag
and into the unprotected bin.
....leading to chunky bin juice.
NOBODY wants chunky bin juice.
you can stop bin juice in its tracks
by recycling all your food waste. you heard it here first.
i've mentioned recycling twice in this thread for some reason
moderate irritation in relation to the 1639 cambridge to kings lynn
- the smuggo lecturer type who always seems to get in front of me in the queue to get on
- the time spend detaching half of the train and leaving it at cambridge
- smelly toilets
- the wait at littleport for the late-running train to come south
- when they decide to employ all four ticket inspectors at once and check everyone's tickets when alighting at kings lynn
When someones playing their music too loud on the train when you're trying to read
When you click on a username/password box on a website
but the username/password text doesn't disappear so you think "Ah, it'll probably disappear when I start typing in the box" BUT IT DOESN'T e.g.[usernameelthohffs]
also trying to fill a form in online
but missing a detail so it highlights it then filling that detail in and trying to submit again but it's cleared out the email boxes, the password AND unchecked the terms and conditions and you have to put them in AGAIN.
putting your email address in twice
just generally
When you're on the phone, standing on the pavement
and some double-decker buses or trucks crawl past at 10mph, making the most unholy revving racket, rendering your phone conversation useless.
^ this
and losing signal in general.
Nah, I like when this happens, makes me sound like a busy go-getter.
Caller: So Jim said he'll f-*TRACTOR RUMBLES PAST* HELLO? Where are you??
Me, smugly: OUT
So Jim said he'll fuck everything in sight.
Jim! Get off that tractor!
Rain
Walking down the high street and tripping over a slightly raised paving stone.
and the futile
examination of said paving stone so onlookers know why you've tripped.
...or a slightly loose one that splashes up the water hiding below.
Thinking you might have left the front door unlocked/oven after having walked 100 yards down the road, going back and checking, and finding you hadn't.
*oven on
*iron on
ALL THE TIME.
*hair straighteners on
:D
do this most days with my sodding car.
when it's been raining for five hours straight
and all you really want is a bag of McCoys from the local shop
man up you dicksplash.
You're moving to Scotland, remember????
yeah, but I'll be a student
as if I'll be able to afford McCoys!
The post-coital realisation that the wet spot is on *your* side of the bed.
then remembering it doesn't really matter
because you sleep alone
and you don't even have a bed
:D
*looks at Theo*
*nods sagely*
Shirt packaging
^This
I bought a shirt from Debenhams the other day and it contained more plastic pieces than an Airfix of the HMS Ark bloody Royal.
when you get into bed, turn the light off, just about to drift off
and then remember you haven't hung your washing out to dry, or some similar DOMESTIC CRISIS.
:D
Did this two nights ago.
or there's a light on somewhere,
faintly oh-so-faintly glowing through the door crack
I had this on Monday, remembering that my phone/alarm-clock was downstairs in the kitchen.
Really moderately annoying.
Getting settled in bed, then realising you might need a wee.
really wanting to watch something a bit ropey on telly
but everyone fannying about and not being ready but the thing on telly is a bit naff so you want to pretend you're quite casual about it.
`For fucks sakes everyone - will you please settle down - it's 3 minutes to 9 and Torchwood is about to start!!!`
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Not getting thank you/acknowledgement emails
I never thank the techies when they fix stuff on my website.
Nobody ever thanks me when I do my job.
The expansion/contraction of your wrist throughout the day
meaning you have a too tight/loose watch strap.
???
Just me then?
No.
pretty niche
but i'm mildly irritated that my bedroom door seems to be collapsing, but at a glacial rate. When i first moved in the lock completely aligned, and then started not to slide in properly so i altered it but now it is fully out of synch. and now it is starting to rub against the door frame. angrys up my blood i can tell you
all my doors do this
who fitted the doors?
ME.
Makes it doubly painful.
Getting your washing out of the machine
starting to hang it up, then realising you didn't put any powder in with it, so it needs to be washed again.
Using a toilet after someone has recently been and the tank isn't full enough to flush
meaning you have to stand there for a few minutes avoiding eye contact with the monster you have just created
having to flush a toilet a second (or third) time
knowing full well everyone else in the house is counting.
:D
YES I DID A BIG SHIT, OK? LEAVE ME ALONE WITH YOUR LISTENING.
that earns you respect in my house
Trying to find somewhere to park outside your house....
end up parking three streets away and by the time you've got back to your house there's a sodding space outside.
rain stopped play
men who think
they can wee standing up on moving trains. Especially the ones that tilt a bit when they go round corners.
especially when they're not even in the toilet
JE VEUX PISSER!
Realising the cup of tea you made half an hour ago is still in the kitchen
When you go to buy something on a website, and it asks you to log in/register,
but then takes you back to the home page rather than the one you were last viewing.
Unexpected item in bagging area
alarm going off just as you are about to get with a sexy lady in your dream
actually, it was probably for the best
this is a perfect metaphor for a DiS sex dilemma thread
forgetting to preheat the oven
Leaving the house in the morning to find your mp3 player has run out of battery.
And you forgot to put a book in your bag.
."Unable to read disk"
I am a simmering powderkeg of rage today
If I go to put on the kettle* in a minute and the button won't stay down because somebody has just used it, and its precious little element is too hot and prissy to let the switch go down, then I might actually boil over into a massive rage. or tears. Definitely going to the gym tonight to smash up shit.
*We normally have a tap of boiling water. It isn't broken ---> more than moderate irritation.
^ Rag week
Trailers you can't skip on a DVD
unable to perform this operation. Peform this dickhead *sticks middle finger up at tv and carries on watching Runaway Bride trailer*
On my Charlie Wilson's War DVD
There's an unskippable 5 minutes of Gwyneth Paltrow talking about AIDS. Save it for Comic Relief for fuck's sake.
a film has good music on the closing credits
only for the voiceover telling you newsnight is about to start over on bbc2 talks straight over the top of it.
Oh god this
restaurant websites that require you to download a (massive) pdf file, just to see the menu.
</theoatmeal.com>
EMPTY ice cube trays.
*grumble grumble*
...and spilling water from the tray as you return it, filled, to the freezer.
^ and when you can't quite seem to find a level surface to lay the tray back down on
when you nearly have an accident but don't
like a mug slips half a centimeter in your hand but sticks rather than falls out and your heart does a big flip anyway.
When you're cooking unreasonably early/late, you forget to shut the kitchen door, and then set off the fire alarms.
You’ll all know this one
You’re 18 minutes into a prog rock workout, your warlock cape is starting to get sweaty, and you look over your bank of keyboards and see Don suddenly drop down into 4/4 time and keep that riff humming. For GODS SAKES man pull yourself together
Wait, you're in Darcy's band?
This explains so much!
For god's sake man, go out and celebrate.
For one day, you really don't need to be on the internet.
What HYG said, go out and celebrate having got into the second best university in the UK, do it, get drunk!
<ducks for cover> #sortofajoke
He's going to Oxford?
I genuinely don't know
(I did a quick scan but couldn't see for sure) so I was actually trying to second-guess your joke.
:D Never change x <3
Oh kay...
...and then you come along to ruin the thread.
yeah
as if anyone minds coughing spaff everywhere.
Oh god
When someone at work jams the printer but is too thick to fix it, so spends 5 or 10 minutes slamming the trays in and out, ripping up bits of paper and tutting about how stupid the machine is.
NB When the printer breaks on my watch it's because it's a complete bag of old shit, obviously.
When I walk to the other side of the office to get something off the printer
and it has run out of paper, only for me to sdiscover that the person whose job (and I hasten to add, one of their very few tasks in the office) is to keep this gargantuan printer churning is on the phone to her friend again, complaining about her husband, again, I have a small stroke in my head.
for a second I thought you meant you had a watch with a printer on it
you should get one
or Theo should. whatever
When you get an interlude or a skit on shuffle
This means you, Outkast.
when someone's calling you
but your iphone wont let you slide right to accept it.
^thinly veiled 'people call me' post
if only people were calling because they actually wanted to talk to me
rather than get me to do stuff for them :(
When websites move.
So, you go to click the page in order to use your trackpad scroll and the fucking page moves beneath your cursor and plants a nice, spammy link where you're about to click.
when someone hasn't wrapped the cheese properly
When you just miss someones call , you ring them back straight away.
and the cunts don't answer.
I'm moderately irritated now as it happens.
I lost a button off my (fairly new) coat today and I can't find the spare. It's not in the inside pocket, nor is it in my tin of random shit.
Result: moderate irritation.
Getting a small stone stuck in the tread of your tyre
tck tck tck tck tck tck tck tck tck tck tck tck tck tck tck tck tck tck tck tck tck tck tck tck tck tck tck tck
I bought a ukulele on ebay the other day (my first purchase in some time).
The seller took my money, deleted the item and then deleted his account.
I'm at the top-end of moderately irritated.
at the risk of stating the obvious
you kind of deserve that for trying to buy a ukulele
It's not the kind of thing I would usually look at buying...
But I stumbled upon an excellent band a few weeks ago who used a ukulele, amongst other instruments, through most of their set. And I basically wanted to copy them.
when someone else enters the teapoint/office kitchen
a crushing sense of mild irritation is swift to follow
When you go for a crap at work...
...and the toilet seat is still warm from the previous occupant.
When people connect computers to a telly for meetings and spend 20 minutes trying to find the channel that works
Have you tried 'detect displays'?
OH NO YOU HAVEN'T.