Also peasants who drag their cutlery through their teeth. A withering look in their direction is usually enough to ensure it stops there and then.

"I'm happy enough that they're eating!" is one reaction I get.

My boss seems to want to do a couple of these.

In the job I was fired from unidentified poor performance was a factor. I think this actually equated to telling my boss what I thought of her ways of managing in a WFH environment and NOT attending a single team meeting hosted by her and her group of arselickers.

I was doing a bit of food shopping earlier, and as I picked some yoghurts a random woman looked at what I was getting, checked out what I already had in my trolley, looked at me and said 'oh, are you on Slimming World too?' I replied with 'you need to work on your chat up lines luv'.

I would love to have seen her reaction if the conversation had been reversed!!!

The killing of banter that PC has brought upon us.... Oh for one day back in Kenny Everett and Benny world. The total acceptance that minorities have the right to dictate that normal overheard banter is possibly against the law as they get offended. The Grassing culture that started with "If you see this Lorry driving badly phone this number" Helicopter Parents, People thinking we are more racist today than we were in the past... "We're not" Which has led to people looking for the slightest offence in the every day language. I just think we've lost more than we've gained out of all of this.

Seems to me I've lived through the freest time in society late 60's early 70's to the dawn of an almost draconian new age of conservatism.

Feel so so sorry for the kids behind us. That's assuming we can call them Kids nowadays.




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TBF. They can't miss what they have never had. In some ways like someone born deaf or blind. Maybe I shouldn't have typed that.

You ok Sheila?

Certainly seems as though someone has left his Fosters out on the porch in the blazing sun.

Coaching a football team, not 100% sure what happened in the build up, one child fouls another and the other immediately gets up and takes a few swings which may or may not have connected. I say to parent that I feel the child taking the swings is totally in the wrong and is responsible for the part that I saw happen regardless of build up, and their initial reaction prior to me attempting to explain myself more is favouritism. Like, I'm giving you and your son the chance to give your side of the story and explain why it was a good idea to punch someone and I am the one being horrible?!

I was so numbed out of doing 20 years of solid night shift, that it's taken me 11 months of retirement to readjust to the world. Not liking what I'm realising.

Some airy fairy silly bugger out there would try and put a racist handle on that. Which is exactly my point.

Despite the fact that it's more xenophobic ;)

'Someone left the Foster's in the sun,

And I don't think I can take it, I might as well shake it,

because this piss weak lager is done. IS done.....'


..a disco beat in the background.

Nice one :)

Not telling you lot how it's made and why they don't sell it here.

Laurence Fox

A beacon of shining light for that most put upon demographic of modern life, the privileged white male, leading the fight back against cultural oppression and political correctness and inspiring the silent majority to rise up from the shadows and reclaim their right to be middle class and gammony

OR

Self-obsessed racist smarmy Z-list celebrity prat who thinks anyone gives two shits about what he thinks about BLM?

You decide...

I've always thought his whole family a bunch of narcissistic c*nts, if that's any help? :)

Most supermarkets have singles nights. You should be balls deep by now instead of posting on here.

You did, so long as you are/were white and male.

It’s telling that giving other people the same opportunity to contribute to social norms that you have always had now feels like oppression to you.

Something I’ve noticed for a while now. It is very contrived because there is no way the men’s lower leagues are less popular than the women’s game. Definitely more quality. Be surprised if a top women’s international team could even beat a decent amateur men’s Sunday league side.

In saying that, if it gets more young girls interested and into playing football then it’s all good. But where does it end?

Looking at the fixture lists and reports on BBC Sport, I reckon it won’t be long before there’s a complaint that the female team names are all succeeded with the word ‘women’ - Man City women...Arsenal women. Hang on! Why aren’t the men’s teams? Are they superior that they don’t have to state what sex they are? Prepare yourself in the near distant future to see this score line on your BBC site: Crystal Palace Men’s 3 Brighton Hove Albion Men’s 0.

The slow disappearance of the ability to use the word "no" on any website, instead replaced by "not now" or "maybe later"

"Do you want to receive our useless daily newsletter, full of inane and useless shyte for the rest of your life? Your only two options are, "not now", or "maybe later" which means we can ask you this same pointless question every time you log on, for ever."

F*ck right off and stick it right up your passage along with HSBC's cookies.

Cunce

Indeed. A year or two back the Australian womens side, who are I thinked ranked top 4 lost 0-7 to Newcastle (Aust) U16s side.

The dropping of the definite article “the”. It’s not the lockdown, it’s just lockdown. The political parties annual conferences are referred to as Conference rather than the Conference. And that twat Charlie Stayt on the BBC referring to the Cabinet as simply Cabinet.
He is also the master of the pointless question. Often he asks an outside reporter questions like “give us a sense of the mood in the community”. How the fk is that news?

I bet you also complain that the BBC give more air time to Liverpool and Man Utd rather than Palace.

Not forgetting "Carnival".

I'll give it a swerve if you don't mind. Judging by her wan appearance and the shinny film of sweat that coated her, I think the lady in question got confused with 'cheese singles' night.

Definitely one of my pet hates.

Nope.

One would think sirdougie is trying a tad too hard to appear right on.

Probably hates himself for being born a white male football supporter.

When womens football stops being shite then it can climb up the ladder of importance.
Vastly overblown version of something that you'd barely pause to watch in your local park. At international level worth a look to see some decent thighs if you are into 'sporty' muscular women - and that in itself is somewhat dodgy territory for various reasons.

And as for how he snidely misinterpreted Ozzie's comment.

What a sap. Trying toooooo hard.

People who annunciate too much.
Billie Piper was on Radio 2 yesterday and this reminded me.
It grates to hear someone / make / all / of / their / words / com / plete / ly / sep / a / rate / from / each / oth / er.
Even Commander Data manages to speak in a fluent manner, even if he can't use contractions.

There's a presenter on CBBC's MOTD kickabout (kids' footy show) & every / single / word / she / says is delivered with an unbelievable level of incredulity.

She'll say something like 'Andros Townsend made 14 Premier League starts for Crystal Palace last year' & make it sound like he's climbed Mount Everest, swum the Amazon & flown to the moon in the same afternoon.

Things that annoy you
 

Gateline staff at train station saw that the ticket gates were becoming crowded and social distancing was non existent. He opened a overflow gate and shouted to crowd “this way and can you have tickets ready”

Nothing wrong so far?


Some Karen stayed behind for 10 mins to wait for station manager to complain he didn’t say “please”.

This gateline staff has been punched (and finished his shift afterwards) and threatened to be stabbed in last two weeks.

Actually the stabbing story is quite funny... the gateline staff is Eastern European... a punter threatened to “shank him”... he lost his rag... really started shouting at the stabby chav.... it seems he misheard the word “shank” and thought it was something far more sinister

Like the Archangel Gabriel?

Two ply toilet paper when the perforation lines on the two sheets don’t align. I probably need say no more.

just unroll one ply and they line up again!

How long has Panther lived without knowing this?

:D

:lux:

Temporary traffic lights on busy roads because of some ****** adding an extension to their house.

On the subject of loo rolls I was pleased to see on the back of a 9 roll pack of Andrex instructions as to how to wipe your bum! I've been doing it wrong for 60 odd years apparently. The world's gone mad!

It's amazing innit?

AATOT

When you go out with another couple and they cant sit more than 2 inches from each other and have to sit on the same side of the table.
Always creeps me out.

Trying to unroll the first sheet of cheap 'multi-ply' toilet roll

Mankind.

30 minute programmes made from less than 10 minutes of footage. Examples include border patrol from around the world, close calls caught on camera, Ill-gotten gains, etc

As an extra, keep splitting the stories up so we have to keep watching and then re-capping from 5 minutes ago with the previous footage we already saw to 'remind' us what you saw 5 minutes ago... with the previous footage

Yes, but life’s too short. Anyway, this thread is about things that annoy you, not how you solve things.

Quite a long time, but I know loads of other stuff, much of which is less useful!

No need to make a song and dance about it - but somebody has!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqNBRRvUqmo

Banjos

Not all bad...

I've tried this and actually made it worse.

But yes, it is fixable...

Working with wood on a do-it-yourself home project.

When installing the last screw of 100+ the wood splits!

This is why I've worked with metal all my life... wood is the devils own.

Yep one of my pet hates and part of the reason I can’t watch homes under the hammer. Watched a 3 part series recently on Vietnam war that I swear could have been just one.

Is bog roll different in America?

Yes, it is inlaid with gold, and makes your shit not stink...

Sounds like you are buying the cheap stuff from the dollar store. Ours used to be much nicer than that :)

Dollar??? No way.... 99c store, yes!

(Or Costco)

:)

Simple solution to that for me. Stop watching. Esp the re cap shows. TVs answer to internet click bait (you'll never guess what these actors look like now) - utter waste of time.

To annunciate is to proclaim....I think you mean enunciate.

Pre drill.

Colleagues at work who replace the letter A in their name with the @ sign on their O365 profile.

Hi, my name is Tw@t.

(Sorry, I’m in a bad mood this evening)

fact and figure heavy TV or YouTube videos shows that have to caption or vocalise the imperial measurement also as an exact metric every time the imperial one is used. I was watching a documentary on rockets and it was constantly 'This rocket weighs 20,000 lbs or 9071.8kg, It can fly at 2000mph or 6473.3 KM/H and can travel 7000 miles or 11265.4 km'. Just stick to the one please!

Worse still is US programs that have been replaced with UK commentary like the one at night that shows spectacular crashes. ' The speed boat hit a freak wave and flew 30.48 metres in the air!' That'll be about 100 feet is it then?

Absolutely do (and counter-sink), but you can't pre-drill the part the screw drives into,which is what caused a split in this case. Also I had the driver torque on the lowest setting, and what I thought was a good distance from the edge.

A pilot hole then. It should only be the thread catching the wood not the solid core/shank.

You don’t like sitting next to your wife?

Is there anything more annoying (boring) than people (my wife) telling you about the dreams they had last night... every frigging morning!

The occasional insight might be interesting if they are particularly bizarre, but every frigging morning....

Guessing she isn’t telling you about the erotic ones. Funny but you are never in them, is that why?

Also guessing your wife doesn’t read the BBS :)

If she does - Hi Hedeghog’s wife :)

God I hope not... I'm toast if she does!

That’s what I was thinking :) better turn off your thread subscribe email updates too or :)

The curse of a digital footprint.

Oh god, I get this too... even to the point where she can put me in the doghouse because she dreamed me doing something to annoy her :wallbash:

Looks like you work with some @rseholes :)

Today I re-installed the Youtube app on my firestick. Why can't I just log in to my account using my username and password, why does it force me to link from a computer or a phone?

The wife over this weekend. She has a cold so her inability to do anything of any use other eat like Mrs Pacman or be generally short tempered. Just go to bed and wallow there please dear !!

No no mate. They have to be martyred . I have to do this it's only a cold ,sniff sniff ,cough cough. But when you get sick and act sensibly ,he's got man flu. Been there done that.

Sounds like that came from the Donald Trump playbook...

The mask-but-not-covering-the-nose wearers.

Shit or get off the pot.

But do I?

Only people that suffer from "man-flu" are women.

Those white sticky tape thingies that seal sliced loaves.

Annoy the cr*p out of me. :)

Stephanie McGovern

She’s a good fit for the guilty fancies thread though

The saying Oh my days. My daughters seem to use it as a response for everything and its driving me mad.

Agreed. They should be informed that the correct response is oh FFS.

On very misty mornings drivers who see no reason to turn on their lights.

You're barking up the wrong tree what that one.

Those fasteners that sort of slot in on bags of cat food or occasionally sweet bags. What a pain in the the arse they are...the amount of minutes I've wasted trying to seal a bag, before launching it to one side in disgust. Yet on another day they clip together without a fuss.

People who think wearing a grubby Hi-Vis vest is a perfect substitute for actually having any lights on their bike at night.

Transfer windows. Hate them.

Not quite.

Townsend volleys a rocket from 35 yards past Ederson into the net at the Etihad = "Oh my days".

Sakho falls on his arse in his own penalty area and gives away another goal = "Oh FFS".

ITKs who get my hopes up by saying things like ‘lots of irons in the fire’, ‘I’d be amazed if we didn’t get anyone in’ and ‘be patient, targets lined up’ only for nothing to happen as usual.

And those that openly speak as if they are ITK on here but have contacts that clearly are out of the loop, or just making it up. There are serial candidates and I fall for them every time. Stellavista had it nailed this year and against the flow called it a while back - respect SV.

Indeed. I have given up with the TH forum, it's just too tiresome sifting through the nonsense to find something of interest. There's a reason the likes of Clapham Grand stopped posting here.

Shame that.

They love the attention, all the little hints they drop, the cryptic knowing comments - they get a much wider audience on Twitter than here.

See post #35732

I take no credit for that, and it certainly doesn't please me, Martin. Could still be wrong if we make a signing or two from the Championship, but those sources are very trustworthy.

Guessing they are still saying the same huh?

TBH I don't want players for the sake of it or suggest we should pay mad money - just hoping we can tackle the gaps and the scale of the looming problem (contract/age) within our means. The 1 starter loan, 1 short term matchday squad and 1 mid term potential doesn't feel enough. Couple more wouldn't fix it all but would substantially change that assessment. I can't work out how we handle next Summer with rolling over a bunch of older players again.

Apologies but I missed what you said previously. Would you mind repeating it?

Posted on 23rd Sept:

'I admire your optimism, FM, but all I am hearing is that we are most likely done as far as the first team squad is concerned.'