General things that Annoy you

Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:

Stig said:

Secret Santa - what a load of old nonsense.

Women in offices (yes women, sorry girls and Leuth) who witter on about secret Santa for weeks; hound people into participating; dig away at finding who's got who and then bitch about who got what.
Or is it only offices I've worked in?

Nope it happens everywhere!!... Secret Santa stays Secret for about five minutes after presents have been given out because none of them can keep their traps shut!!

I once got a zippo lighter engraved with a picture of my Mrs and the kids (taken just after our son was born)

one year i got a really tacky mug that still had a £2 price tag on it.

both years the budget was £10

Greenie said:

Stig said:

Secret Santa - what a load of old nonsense.

Obliged to do this, its never been a problem but the person who has organised it at my place has used an online reminder system, apparently we can make a SS 'wish list', I haven't made my 'wish list' and a notification tells me at least once a day, we have a limit of £8 (no, really) how about a real Ferrari then?

"Obliged to do this", "SS wish list"? Sounds a bit 3rd Reich to me.

Stig said:

Secret Santa - what a load of old nonsense.

Agreed. Utter cobblers. Ok if you are in Primary school I guess.

I haven't taken part in years - but when I did I just used to put a tenner in an envelope.

ricky_otto said:

Sitting on the train and overheard this conversation.....

Bloke 1 "Saville was like a legend in the paedophille world"

Bloke 2 "yeah, but he was still a wrong un"

Words fail me. I can not believe the mentality of some people.

Odd. In one of those freebee magazines they give out up London, there's a page where they write "conversations overheard in London this week"; I reckon this one could feature!

Last week one of them was one girl saying to her friend "I reckon she's lying, how did she get 100%, there were only 30 questions!" .......

ricky_otto said:

Sitting on the train and overheard this conversation.....

Bloke 1 "Saville was like a legend in the paedophille world"

Bloke 2 "yeah, but he was still a wrong un"

Words fail me. I can not believe the mentality of some people.

Didn't think you came in on the Bexleyheath line mate.

Mincing. And I don't mean in the sense the word can be used to offensively describe gay men. I mean umming and arring not making decisions.

The world would be so much easier if less mincing went on

DaveMehmet said:

ricky_otto said:

Sitting on the train and overheard this conversation.....

Bloke 1 "Saville was like a legend in the paedophille world"

Bloke 2 "yeah, but he was still a wrong un"

Words fail me. I can not believe the mentality of some people.

Didn't think you came in on the Bexleyheath line mate.

I made an exception today.

People who turn corners without indicating. I mean its hardly a big effort to flick the indicator on is it...and it even turns itself off (mostly)! Thoughtless.

LenGlover said:

The Post Office.

My daughter asked me post a parcel for her so I did as I was told and ended up queuing for 20 minutes or more in the Post Office.

Me: Please may I post this parcel for my daughter?

Her: Maybe. What's in it?

Me: I've no idea. like I said I'm simply posting the parcel for my daughter.

Her: (accompanied by Meirelike smirk) Well you can't post it then heath and safety dangerous goods reasons.

Me: It might be an idea to display a notice informing that you will be asked the contents of parcels. I can't believe I'm the only person to post things for other people.

Her: You should have known.

At that point the options were to give her a piece of my mind or withdraw from the situation. For the good of my mental health I chose the latter option.

I'm fuming just reading that. Len you have my undying admiration for your self control.

cafcdave123 said:

SuedeAdidas said:

Carter said:

Mincing. And I don't mean in the sense the word can be used to offensively describe gay men. I mean umming and arring not making decisions.

The world would be so much easier if less mincing went on

I've never heard the term used in that context (umming and arring).

Surely what you describe is either dithering, fannying around or piss balling about?

Have you heard "don't mince your words "? It comes from that basically

Erm....well I think I......what I mean is......what I'm trying to say is.......you're right. I have heard of it.

Right. So as I was typing the last post I ended up in Notting Hill Gate as I got on the wrong train. Rather than go back the other way, I decided to go an alternative route.

I managed to sit on a Central Line train, when a woman taps me on the shoulder and asks me to get up. I was pretty horrified actually, as I always try and offer my seat to pensioners and the like.

Now I should clarify that I have an issue with my left knee. If its stationary for anything more than a few seconds then it "locks" in place, and is incredibly painful when I move it. Sometimes it's just a sharp pain and a click, sometimes it feels absolutely awful and I lose my breathe momentarily, or - worst case scenario - immediately fall over. Needless to say, sometimes standing up requires twisting my knee to a 90 degree angle and slowly straightening it out.

As I've stood up I've ended up hurting myself, I've actually apologised to the woman for "being in my own world" and - realising the old gent who she wanted to sit down didn't want my seat, I even did the old "hah, my stop is next - take it" and gave the woman a knowing smile. Nobody sat in my seat - it was empty for 3 stops.

Then it occured to me: what the fuck? I sat down to try and stop my knee from locking and to take the pressure of it, I have friends who are my age (mid twenties) that have issues that would mean they need a seat too. You've seen my age, figured that I'm just fucking rude and then decided to prove a point. I went from being pretty mortified at myself and embarassed, to just angry to be honest.

There are rude people in the world, and a higher concentration on the London Underground than most places, but don't feckin judge people because of their age.

For what it's worth, I'm currently standing on a train home and my knee feels like it's on fire.

LuckyReds said:

Right. So as I was typing the last post I ended up in Notting Hill Gate as I got on the wrong train. Rather than go back the other way, I decided to go an alternative route.

I managed to sit on a Central Line train, when a woman taps me on the shoulder and asks me to get up. I was pretty horrified actually, as I always try and offer my seat to pensioners and the like.

Now I should clarify that I have an issue with my left knee. If its stationary for anything more than a few seconds then it "locks" in place, and is incredibly painful when I move it. Sometimes it's just a sharp pain and a click, sometimes it feels absolutely awful and I lose my breathe momentarily, or - worst case scenario - immediately fall over. Needless to say, sometimes standing up requires twisting my knee to a 90 degree angle and slowly straightening it out.

As I've stood up I've ended up hurting myself, I've actually apologised to the woman for "being in my own world" and - realising the old gent who she wanted to sit down didn't want my seat, I even did the old "hah, my stop is next - take it" and gave the woman a knowing smile. Nobody sat in my seat - it was empty for 3 stops.

Then it occured to me: what the fuck? I sat down to try and stop my knee from locking and to take the pressure of it, I have friends who are my age (mid twenties) that have issues that would mean they need a seat too. You've seen my age, figured that I'm just fucking rude and then decided to prove a point. I went from being pretty mortified at myself and embarassed, to just angry to be honest.

There are rude people in the world, and a higher concentration on the London Underground than most places, but don't feckin judge people because of their age.

For what it's worth, I'm currently standing on a train home and my knee feels like it's on fire.

So if no one sat down in your place why was she asking you to get up?

LuckyReds said:

ForeverAddickted said:

LuckyReds said:

Right. So as I was typing the last post I ended up in Notting Hill Gate as I got on the wrong train. Rather than go back the other way, I decided to go an alternative route.

I managed to sit on a Central Line train, when a woman taps me on the shoulder and asks me to get up. I was pretty horrified actually, as I always try and offer my seat to pensioners and the like.

Now I should clarify that I have an issue with my left knee. If its stationary for anything more than a few seconds then it "locks" in place, and is incredibly painful when I move it. Sometimes it's just a sharp pain and a click, sometimes it feels absolutely awful and I lose my breathe momentarily, or - worst case scenario - immediately fall over. Needless to say, sometimes standing up requires twisting my knee to a 90 degree angle and slowly straightening it out.

As I've stood up I've ended up hurting myself, I've actually apologised to the woman for "being in my own world" and - realising the old gent who she wanted to sit down didn't want my seat, I even did the old "hah, my stop is next - take it" and gave the woman a knowing smile. Nobody sat in my seat - it was empty for 3 stops.

Then it occured to me: what the fuck? I sat down to try and stop my knee from locking and to take the pressure of it, I have friends who are my age (mid twenties) that have issues that would mean they need a seat too. You've seen my age, figured that I'm just fucking rude and then decided to prove a point. I went from being pretty mortified at myself and embarassed, to just angry to be honest.

There are rude people in the world, and a higher concentration on the London Underground than most places, but don't feckin judge people because of their age.

For what it's worth, I'm currently standing on a train home and my knee feels like it's on fire.

So if no one sat down in your place why was she asking you to get up?

Because there was an older gent, but he looked a bit annoyed that she'd done it to be honest, and I figure he was a bit embarassed that she'd done it, so he didnt even go for it!

Thinking of it, he did sit down somewhere else though. So there really was no reason for her to do it.

Should have shown her your ticket proving that you've paid like everyone else so are allowed to sit down.

Would have ignored her myself as you should wait to be offered, not bloody demand like that!!

People that have got cartilage or ligament damage in their knees and don't go and get it looked at.