The That Really Grinds My Gears thread

by Big Daddy Bee Fri 28 Jan 2011, 6:39 pm

First topic message reminder :

So then people what really annoys you.

No matter how gig or trivial it is, this is the thread to vent your anger and annoyance.

I shall start this with:

Starburst. They are not Starburst, they are Opel Fruits and always will be. And don't get me started on Snickers. STOP CHANGING THE NAME OF SWEETS!!!! :evil:

by Adam D Fri 05 Aug 2011, 10:27 pm

Sarah Milligan.

Shes on every frikkin' show on TV.

She is so annoying.

by Liam_Main Fri 05 Aug 2011, 10:31 pm

Hobo wrote:Sarah Milligan.

Shes on every frikkin' show on TV.

She is so annoying.

How dare you disrespect a Geordie! mad

Although I would probably agree, thought I was the only one who didn't find her funny. Ross Noble now thats a funny Geordie

by Guest Fri 05 Aug 2011, 10:47 pm

Liam_Main wrote:
Hobo wrote:Sarah Milligan.

Shes on every frikkin' show on TV.

She is so annoying.

How dare you disrespect a Geordie!

Although I would probably agree, thought I was the only one who didn't find her funny. Ross Noble now thats a funny Geordie

Ross Noble's face alone makes me laugh! He's quality.

by liverbnz Sat 06 Aug 2011, 12:37 am

When you're beating one off to babestation and the woman walks into the room. Should really knock first!

by **Pal Joey** Sat 06 Aug 2011, 1:31 am

People with way too many tattoos... and really badly 'drawn' cheap ones as well.

I don't mind if she has a tiny pink elephant on her ankle or a butterfly near her gorgeous 'waist' though.

But a woman with a tattoo of another woman carrying an axe on the back of a motor bike? No thanks.

I've got to stop going out more... Wink

by Doon the Water Sat 06 Aug 2011, 8:32 am

I always find it gross to see a bride in a large white wedding dress showing all her naff tattoos, euck.

by Luckless Pedestrian Sat 06 Aug 2011, 11:32 am

Ross Noble is a tw@t.

by Thomond Sat 06 Aug 2011, 12:51 pm

I don't know who Ross Noble is.

by Cari Sat 06 Aug 2011, 1:12 pm

Thomond

http://www.rossnoble.co.uk/

by Luckless Pedestrian Tue 09 Aug 2011, 11:28 am

The lower-case i in 'i'm lovin' it.' I want to know who thought that was a good idea and what their reasoning was.

by liverbnz Tue 09 Aug 2011, 12:13 pm

People that need to be involved in every conversation in the workplace, just to show how knowledgeable they are. It doesn't matter if it's about Picaso's best work, or the best colour sandels to wear with a pink and white maxi dress, this guy is always at it!

by **Kenny** Tue 09 Aug 2011, 3:07 pm

Idiots rioting in London .

by greybeard Wed 10 Aug 2011, 8:46 am

Co-workers that send you emails, then come to your desk to tell you they've sent you an email and proceed to tell you what they wrote.

by Adam D Wed 10 Aug 2011, 8:54 am

luckless_pedestrian wrote:The lower-case i in 'i'm lovin' it.' I want to know who thought that was a good idea and what their reasoning was.

i did

by greybeard Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:09 am

Did you train someone to do that? Did you? Did you?

by liverbnz Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:09 am

greybeard wrote:Co-workers that send you emails, then come to your desk to tell you they've sent you an email and proceed to tell you what they wrote.

Ha, my old boss did that quite often. T'was quite annoying right enough.

by **Kenny** Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:18 am

People who make conversation but then dont really listen to what your saying and then walk away before you have finished talking .

My old boss used to do this when he was bored , he would wander over start talking to you then just walk off . It used to p..s me off no end .

by Cari Fri 19 Aug 2011, 4:21 pm

People who pull up outside your house in their car, but have no consideration about noise i.e. don't turn the music down and honk the horn regardless of the time of day or night mad

by **Pal Joey** Fri 19 Aug 2011, 4:59 pm

Thoughtless baastards...

I'm recently getting these illegally parked vans and bloody big hummers parked close to where my driveway meets the road...blocking my vision on the high side - when I've got to exit.

You then have to stick the nose of the car out a little to see beyond; which subsequently p's off other drivers coming the other way up the hill. They soon realise I have to use this technique just to get a clear view of what's coming down the hill.

by **Pr4wn** Fri 19 Aug 2011, 5:24 pm

People who walk in front of you on the pavement and then just stop for no reason.

by Guest Fri 19 Aug 2011, 5:26 pm

Co-workers who show each other their pay packets every Thursday afternoon.

by Doon the Water Fri 19 Aug 2011, 5:40 pm

Linebreaker
I have always found a golf tee applied to the wheel valve works well in those kind of situations!

by **Pal Joey** Fri 19 Aug 2011, 5:42 pm

Yeah Doon, I'm thinking a couple of nails under the back wheel(s).

Even hummers don't carry 2 spares... do they?

by Guest Fri 19 Aug 2011, 6:06 pm

Flies. Especially the ones that no matter how many times you swat them away, they just keep coming back.....

by Luckless Pedestrian Fri 19 Aug 2011, 6:25 pm

They just want to be friends, Dreamer. Wink

by Guest Fri 19 Aug 2011, 8:29 pm

are you trying to tell me something Lucky? Wink

Another thing: seagulls! There are some currently living on my roof and for the love of everything, they just do not shut up! mad

by Doon the Water Fri 19 Aug 2011, 8:41 pm

People who live in cities and buy four wheel drive cars.
Now that is just plainly idiotic.

by **Pal Joey** Sat 20 Aug 2011, 3:39 am

When you find a nice place for lunch - where the food & service is above average... but then (after a few weeks say) the service and quality drops off and the portions gets smaller when the owners get a little too familiar with you. So you start going somewhere else and whenever you walk by that place... you get sad & sorry looks from the owner.

by Cari Sat 20 Aug 2011, 9:20 am

rugbydreamer wrote:Flies. Especially the ones that no matter how many times you swat them away, they just keep coming back.....

That's usually a sign that something's rotting somewhere... Shocked

My colleague at work was telling me about how her son's bedroom became infested with flies because he'd left some sarnies in a bag on top of his wardrobe and completely forgot about them for some time... vomit

by Adam D Sat 20 Aug 2011, 10:06 am

Negative people.

I live my life believing the best but am surrounded by people who run down my spirit.

To the haters and moaners - up yours.

by Cymroglan Sat 20 Aug 2011, 10:17 am

Spitting on a sports field even that can be done discreetly.

by Luckless Pedestrian Sat 20 Aug 2011, 11:42 am

Doon the Water wrote:People who live in cities and buy four wheel drive cars.
Now that is just plainly idiotic.

The worst is when people who live in cities get white 4x4s. When you see a white 4x4 in the city you can be certain of two things:

1) It's never going to be taken off-road;

2) Its owner is a tw@t.

by **Kenny** Sat 20 Aug 2011, 9:35 pm

Drunken Bbq's when they dont use smokeless coals , and dont care that smoke is going everywhere and just keep adding lighter fluid !!

Love a good bbq nothing quite like the smell of cooking meat , much better then the smell of smoke .

by Luckless Pedestrian Sat 20 Aug 2011, 10:54 pm

I've said it before and I'll say it again: supermarkets shouldn't put 'easy-open' and 'resealable' on their bags of pasta when they're neither easy to open nor resealable.

by Doon the Water Sun 21 Aug 2011, 4:39 pm

Luckless...
I live deep in the country and it is always amusing to see Range Rover owners going off road and thinking that thier modified towny car can do what a Land Rover manages easily.
Lost count of the ones I have seen towed to the road.

by **Pal Joey** Sun 21 Aug 2011, 4:58 pm

The shaky hand-held camera technique in contemporary tele-movies and documentaries, etc. It's not that cool!

It's getting overused and can be very distracting at times. What's wrong with a good old stable tripod?

by **Kenny** Sun 21 Aug 2011, 5:00 pm

Trying to get 606v2 on your mobile !

by theundisputedY2D2 Sun 21 Aug 2011, 7:15 pm

90% of kids in TV adverts.

Smug tw@ts.

by Beer Sun 21 Aug 2011, 8:11 pm

Yeah, those babies with their water. Little sh|ts.

by Celtic Warrior Sun 21 Aug 2011, 9:51 pm

theundisputedY2D2 wrote:90% of kids in TV adverts.

Smug tw@ts.

Surely just kids in general is a valid option.

by Breadvan Sun 21 Aug 2011, 9:54 pm

Coming back to the crappy UK weather after a week sun worshipping in 35o a day Ibiza...... Cry

by **Kenny** Sun 21 Aug 2011, 10:00 pm

Celtic Warrior wrote:
theundisputedY2D2 wrote:90% of kids in TV adverts.

Smug tw@ts.

Surely just kids in general is a valid option.

Yeh but those smart alec rollerskating babies take the biscuit .

by **Pal Joey** Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:53 pm

Perfectly boring looking households on TV ads

by Cari Mon 22 Aug 2011, 11:48 am

Trying to submit a form via the internet. You can't save it as you go along because the system won't let you, then it times out when you're finished sending your efforts into cyberspace mad

by **Pal Joey** Mon 22 Aug 2011, 11:55 am

That's incredibly annoying Cari. Then only thing I can suggest (too late now though) is that next time print it off when you can.

In my line of work we have very large files which often crashed - so I developed the habit of saving frequently. Then there was the fallback of going into the temp directory and renaming .svs or .bak files to .dwgs. Even that didn't work sometimes when a particular file got corrupted... so I had to restart from scratch.

Is there an option anywhere to save your form to a draft folder on the relevant server?

by Beer Tue 23 Aug 2011, 9:14 am

My boss.

Do some effing work you useless tool.

by Cari Tue 23 Aug 2011, 9:24 am

Line - it was an odd programme. You couldn't save as you went along, or print only when the form was completed. Anyway, it's all done now, because I typed everythign into Word and then cut and paste really quickly before it timed out again!

by Sir. badgerhands Tue 23 Aug 2011, 10:42 am

My boss who has a penchant for pink ties and well cut shirts.

While wearing his smart business attire he is overly fond of saying assorted business speak very loudly.

For example - "let's go in aggressive and make this happen"
"lets play hardball on negotiations, let's make it happen"
"let's blue sky it, then touch base and make it happen"
All of the above is usually accompanied with a double finger point.

Am considering giving him the scissors takedown in the middle of the office while screaming "LET'S MAKE IT HAPPEN!!"

by Cari Tue 23 Aug 2011, 10:53 am

Oh no Sir B - do you work for Tools R Us? And I thought the Civil Service was bad... Rolling Eyes

by Sir. badgerhands Tue 23 Aug 2011, 11:03 am

Cari wrote:Oh no Sir B - do you work for Tools R Us? And I thought the Civil Service was bad...

Haha, My work is a former civil service place.

Lot's of corp suits and folks who play squash at lunch.

I'm quickly becoming the office weirdo who refuses to speak in office lingo and spends most of my day looking at colleagues with cold dead eyes!!

Wish I was a dolphn trainer or somehing of that ilk!! Wink

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