Petty Annoyances

[indiepanda]

Keef Wrote:

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> People (and I'm really not looking at you moos)

> correcting other people's spelling or grammar. In

> an essay or work email, okay. On here or the like,

> no no no, please don't! It's smug at best, and

> frankly cruel IMO.

I couldn't agree more. One of the girls on another forum I post on is forever getting ribbed by some people about her spelling and grammar and it's totally unnecessary. Everyone knows what she means. It's not witty or clever it's just patronizing.

[missd]

Keef Wrote:

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> It must have been said already, but after this

> morning...

>

> Feckin kids playing mobile phone music on the

> bus!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :X

Too right. This just really annoys me. It ruins my journey and i get so angry. If the kid issmaller than me I'll say something like "why don't you have headphones?" or "why do you think the whole carriage wants to listen to your music". If i put on a stern enough face they normally turn it off or get out their headphones (!!).

If the kid is bigger than me (not hard at my amazing height of 5 ft 2) i'll normally move carriages but get really annoyed that I have to move because some little sh** thinks he has the right to sit there listening to his music really loudly and that everyone else on the carriage should hear it too.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

indiepanda Wrote:

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> Keef Wrote:

> It's smug at best, and frankly cruel IMO.

>

> I couldn't agree more. ... It's not witty or clever it's just

> patronizing.

Absolutement!

Maybe someone should inform one or two Members of the self-appointed cognescenti on here.

If it keeps them happy who are we.with bigger fish to fry,to complain...:))

[Keef]

Asset, I wasn't aiming directly at you either, although it is definitely one of your things. However, you're not nasty about it, and it definitely wasn't you who had a go at my friend!

[Keef]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Carnell's post made both me and lady mac laugh out

> loud on the 176. . . Which deserves a prize of its

> own

Made me laugh too, but in the interests of balance, Tony's reply made me snigger as well.

[HonaloochieB]

Women applying make up on the bus irritates me more than it probably should.

[Ted Max]

What I internally label Threads of doom, where all therein seem destined to repeat themselves to an uncomprehending world until the power runs out. There's a particularly apposite example rumbling on at the moment.

[ruffers]

Bus drivers who open the rear door and watch people getting off for a couple of seconds before opening the front door to let people on. Clearly this is much more annoying when it's raining.

[Keef]

What I internally label Threads of doom, where all therein seem destined to repeat themselves to an uncomprehending world until the power runs out. There's a particularly apposite example rumbling on at the moment.

Bloody spot on! I am not above being drawn in to such threads, but you are so spot on!

[SimonM]

>>btw: Who was tied to a rock and tortured by a vulture in Greek Mythology?

>>Its for the ?125,000 Millionaire question and I have no idea?...Any idea M8?:D<)

[buggie]

missd Wrote:

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> Keef Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > It must have been said already, but after this

> > morning...

> >

> > Feckin kids playing mobile phone music on the

> > bus!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :X

>

>

> Too right. This just really annoys me. It ruins my

> journey and i get so angry. If the kid issmaller

> than me I'll say something like "why don't you

> have headphones?" or "why do you think the whole

> carriage wants to listen to your music". If i put

> on a stern enough face they normally turn it off

> or get out their headphones (!!).

>

> If the kid is bigger than me (not hard at my

> amazing height of 5 ft 2) i'll normally move

> carriages but get really annoyed that I have to

> move because some little sh** thinks he has the

> right to sit there listening to his music really

> loudly and that everyone else on the carriage

> should hear it too.

This is one of my pet hates too but what really irritates is the few times I have turned and asked the (normally) lads to turn it down I've had other passengers look at me as if I'm barmy for saying anything and no one backing me up, even if I get an earful back - if someone else said something I'd hope I'd back them up... no wonder the kids keep doing it.

[Jah Lush]

I normally ask the annoying little brats if they have headphones and politely ask if they would use them please because I'm trying to read my book, thanks. If they refuse then I'll ask them if the offending phone is insured. If it is, throw it out the window. If not, just give cuff fecker around the ear, and threaten to shove the phone up his arse. Usually works for me.

[SteveT]

That degree of subtleness usually does for this variety of selfish no-hoper Jah, good for you.

[AllforNun]

Bear traps get right up my nose, i nearly got caught in one in Dulwich Park, just behind the cafe. Thank god over our way the FOPR feed the buggers, they stay away from the cafe area as a result.

[ruffers]

Now this is petty - schoolchildren (OK, one particular school boy)on the bus who stand in the bus exit area and don't get out of the way with sufficient alacrity when we reach the stop. Extra annoying points as there are seats available within three paces.

Get. Out. Of. The. Way. I have a split second of my life to save here.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

SimonM Wrote:btw: Who was tied to a rock and tortured by a

vulture in Greek Mythology? Its for the ?125,000 Millionaire question and I

have no idea?..Any idea M8

> Nobody. It was an eagle not a vulture. Prometheus

> had his liver eaten whilst so tied, and then it

> conveniently regenerated overnight so the bastard

> bird could feast again and again.

>

> SimonM (arrogant, supercilious grammar

> school-educated pedant....>:D<)

It was an EAGLE?? No wonder I didn't get it!::o

p.s.Greek Mythology wasn't too high on the agenda at my Grammar School.:)

[Moos]

There's a difference between getting annoyed with lazy misuse of language and actually diving in to correct other people's posts. (S'allright Keef, I didn't think you were having a pop)

I don't generally go in for the latter, although I have occasionally made jokes when other people's slips of the keyboard make funny reading, and I think (or hope) that it will make the poster smile rather than feel got at. I don't think I'd mind if someone did that to me, although I guess it's all in the context.

Another petty annoyance - spitting in the street. When did that become OK?

[HonaloochieB]

Moos Wrote:

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> Another petty annoyance - spitting in the street.

> When did that become OK?

Spitting in the street is of course appalling, but the Teddy Boy nose clear, whereby said Ted blocks one nostril and discharges a stream of mucus into the gutter is a thing of matchless wonder and skill.

[Moos]

Exactly. When the Quiet Room becomes a Wild West saloon, as it does from time to time, and Wild Ed Citizen hits the spittoon from forty paces, that's cool. When middle-aged women let rip in Lordship Lane it's vile.

[KalamityKel]

I thought it was just a camberwell thing...

[SteveT]

Dear Moos you paint such a graphic picture, made me LOL.

[annaj]

After a completely dire weekend at work, of the sort that makes even a natural optimist start to doubt human nature, I made the mistake of venturing outside today and went to the supermarket.

My petty annoyances are....

The man carrying a baby in a sling (so its face was right under his chin) and smoking...

The man in Sainsburys who took a flapjack out a box on the shelf and ate it without buying the box...

The man at the checkout who ate his way through an entire bag of kettle chips and drank half a bottle of juice from his trolley, whilst flicking through a magazine off the shelf, in the five minutes he was queueing. FFS it's five minutes. Can you not just wait? Are you really going to starve? Are you really that busy and important?

And finally, the woman on the really busy 185 carrying nothing more than a handbag, but with her papers spread out on the luggage shelf, you know, so it's easier to read, who completely ignored me and didn't move and inch when I got on with three enourmous (reusable, don't panic) shopping bags.

And SeanMacGabhann, if you so much as whisper that it serves me right for going to Sainsburys, I'll.... well I don't know what, but just don't.

[SeanMacGabhann]

* gasp! *

The very idea....

I wondered why you had been so quiet all weekend. Have a nice cup of tea/glass of wine/whatever you need

There There

[SteveT]

Life always feels better on, during, or after the third beer,

Cheers annaj

May your lot improve during the drinking too.

[Keef]

Seeing your train pulling away from he platform and thinking never mind they're every 10 minutes. Only for the next one to turn up 20 minutes later!