Things that annoy you
 

Modern firework displays that blast pop music at near defeaning levels during the whole bloody thing.

I thought the whole point of firework shows was to look and listen to them, not have Katy Perry and the Black Eyed Peas drowning the whole thing out.

Facebook now really gets on my tits.

Trick with facebook is to have a 'take it or leave it' attitude.

Have a couple of days where you are nailing it, then leave it for a week.

My apologies. I misconstrued what you said.

Which is annoying in itself. For both of us. So at least it's in the right place.

I just seem to have completely unintuitive predictive texting.

Which is also annoying.

Cool beans. FWIW St Valentines is obviously a created consumerism day. For my wife and I it is a bit sickly sweet special though. More than our wedding anniversary.

Our first meeting was a drunken six hour snog fest. Through emails while I continued to travelling through SA I arranged a return visit. I flew back in from Rio on February 14th. I changed all my travel plans to do that, I didnt know Virginia at all, all my friends and probably some on the BBS thought I was having a mid life crisis. A rational person wouldnt have done that.

I arrived with red rose, romance perfume and Belgian chocs. The rest is history. Summer holidays in Chile are the month of February, so I like to make sure I am somewhere gorgeous over that date. Thus, I am not conned into forking out over the odds for a shitty set menu in a packed restaurant somewhere.

Virginia gets fresh flowers about every two weeks from me. 16 years later.

Fireworks on the 7th

Yes all very well and good, but.....

19% ?

Why do you think she gets the flowers ;)

And every couple of weeks.....

If I got my Mrs flowers every two weeks she would just assume I was 19%ing someone else

Eyebrow pencils. Can anyone explain the current fashion for plucking out some or all of the hair and then painting an even wider completely unnatural looking couple of splodges across your forehead instead? It's like someone has let loose with a marker pen and looks absolutely fricken ridiculous!

...in fact, I'd go so far as to say that it looks like you fell asleep at your own stag or hen do and your mates drew them on for a laugh

Tell me about it...

:D

Been catching up on the Educating Cardiff and Greater Manchester series lately and Mrs Maidstoned and I found much hilarity at the various designs, styles and abilities displayed in this dubious beauty regime, by the students in the programmes.

Sometimes I cant find a vase.

The fact the manager of N Ireland is called Michael O'Neill and the manager of the Republic is Martin O'Neill.

When either are mentioned on the news it takes a few seconds to register which one they're talking about. Annoying!

Yes, it is very much like "You say potato, I say potato"

Crikey YES!! I hate with a passion in fact all the current trends in young women's make up, I mean WTF its like they all actually want to look like half the nunpties on Instagram its the new Croydon facelift look as I used to call it.

Then add all these ******* stupid daft filters and the filters that knock 10 years to make them look even less real then add the pout and the and look up to the camera to remove the 12 chins and make them look 9st instead of the actual 19 stone.

lol

The narcissistic Facebook/Instagram. Drives me nuts with 200+ "Friends" posting picture after picture of themselves. Out of the 200+ 5/6 likes and the odd comment "Gawjus" **** OFF

There were some crackers on Educating Manchester weren’t there!

Some teenagers had drawn on their eyebrows to such an extent that they looked permanently surprised.

Years ago the teachers would have said ‘WTF have you done to yourself, you look ridiculous. Go and wash it off’. I guess that school doesn’t allow the staff to make any such comment now.

In future when those kids look back on the teenage photos of themselves they’ll be questioning why nobody told them the truth and let them walk around like that.

Ones that go to gym, swimming pool, running track in the park to take selfies of themselves exercising, especially those that don't actually do any. Get out the ******* way.

This whole 'selfie' business, is it just the modern equivalent of clambering into a passport photo booth & taking pictures like people used to years ago?

Yeah maybe but daily updates is just ******* crazy at least in the past it was joint pictures and normally pulling stupid faces, they were not done to pass around in the Pub so people could say **** me you are Gawjus :supergrin:

Why else keep posting them other than trying to garner approval?! That was the point about the number of likes mostly they fail!

I'm never taking acselfie with you incase you try to cop a feel.

Prude.

:supergrin:

I love those programmes.

Twenty somethings who go to the gym, pool and running track who should be getting shitfaced and laid. What is wrong with that generation?

:D

I really like Masterchef.

But **** me, Greg Wallace is an absolute spanner

Have had to delete a former schoolfriend due to the constant updates of how her new house is progressing. Final straw was a photo of her new washing machine and tumble dryer.

Her Facebook used to be great, photos of her staggering around with her tits and arse hanging out now fill up my feed with images of their dumb kid and new house.

Currently watching Apoc Now on something called Spike5. Probably one of the most cinematic scenes as the helicopters fly in to Wagner, the y cut to the ads. Lol.

Superb commentary on this phenomenon- the pout particularly intrigues/annoys me - whoever decided this was a good look has a great sense of humour.

Football fans not knowing the Laws of the Game.

http://cpfc.org/forums/showthread.php?t=272735

Me too, on many different levels.

But I don’t think any have come close to the Educating Yorkshire series and that amazing story line of Mush and Mr Burton, who helped him pass his A level English and then deliver that speech. Great piece of memorable television.

The BBC News website.

Once the un-flinching bastion af the civilised Wests neutral reporting of home and worldwide events.

Have they TOTALLY given up on being neutral any more?

And why do half their headlines involve a rhetorical ( clickbait style ) question?

Shit journalism nowadays.

The BBC news site has been shit for years now. Real dross of a news website. Where once detailed written articles are now replaced by a 30 second (if you're lucky (unlucky?) ) superficial "report".
Still, there's some nice pretty moving pictures to look at. :moo2:

Would have more impact if he took the shot sat behind the wheel.

Total let downs.

42 and drinking until 6am last week. :p

Agree completely, utter style over substance.

My daughters pet rats eating through the computers power cable while she sits on her bed talking to her boyfriend......then her asking ME to buy her a replacement at £40.....little bastards are going to get fed to the cat!

And it used to be absolutely fine…

Rep sent. They are showing 20 years of website changes at the moment
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41890165
Some makes sense but its now so loud with BIG stuff everywhere its become a magazine not a news site.

I'm buying her bloody nothing.

How can rats be classed as pets?

I also watched this last night. The timing of the advert breaks was completely bizarre. When Kurtz finally appears from the shadows to comment on Willard being a messager boy after a prolonged build up they immediately went to an ad break.

Putting swimming hats on your kids. Guaranteed meltdown, histrionics, pain and tears. And the kids don't like it either.

Shaved heads. Also cuts out any potential lice problem.

Convertibles with diesel engines. I see the attraction of convertibles despite our crap weather and despite the fact that sitting in traffic with the roof down isn't great due to emissions from other vehicles. Why then choose one with a diesel engine to add to the general smell and fug?

The guilt trip your local council likes to put you on when you visit your local Dump. Oooops sorry, silly me, Recycling Center.

Just like the overloading guilt the Directors of my local council feel every month when they take £250 from my bank account.

Tight arse :D

You should count yourselves lucky - our town of 20,000 inhabitants doesn't even have a local 'civic amenity site'. We have to take all our waste to the car park on a Saturday morning where it is loaded into 2 dustbin lorries without any separation for recycling. I tried to visit a neighboring recycling centre in Rutland but I was stopped from unloading because the Big Brother number plate recognition cameras had identified that I wasn't resident in Rutland!

Genius. Thank you.

Works with snooker balls too.*

* Doesnt really work with snooker balls

?

It's a Selhurst Celtic ting. Admittedly that isn't a sock though.

SC is our resident hard man. *

* not really.

:D

Johnbush, it stems from a post I made a few years back about whacking a woman and a wolf/dog over the nut with a sock filled with snooker balls. I think it was Tomo's dog?

It's followed me about since, and I've played up to it myself as well. I shall cease from here onwards as I've probably jumped the shark.

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Siberian hamsters innit.

Maybe we should create a false account and apply?

And their live football sucks. You have to refresh to get the latest scores.

Have to try that one.

In the recent past the BBC had a web page that had live scores on the left and the live table on the right. Simple and perfect for giving you an understanding of how the days games were panning out.

So they dumped it.

Extendable dog leads. Absolutely fecking pointless invention that causes no end of problems with people tripping over them.

If you are incapable of training a dog to walk to heel, an extending lead doesn’t resolve you from controlling your hound.

It’s an admission of failure. If you are incapable of actually training a dog, and need one of these to ensure your dog doesn’t run away, then don’t own a dog.

Dont use snooker balls.

brilliant

EFA

Thanks for that.
It was just that I didn't understand the reference.

Still don't, but nothing new there.

Indeed.

Maybe SC was one of the gangsters that used to barge into snooker clubs and do over some poor fecker, when I was playing several years ago. Places I was a member of, Crystal Palace, Tulse Hill, Rileys at Catford.

Useful for a few late pints and pie or two. All htree places I saw groups steam in at 2am or somesuch and give some poor sod a real shoeing. It was like being an extra in a Krays movie.

'You aint seen nothing, right'

'Whatever you say. Guv'



'Drink up we're leaving' .....before the cops arrive looking for witnesses.
Even the bloke behind the desk advised us to hop it and settle up next time we were in.

Don't know if this has reached london yet but people who respond to your question with the words "What Happened"
"Nothing fvckin happened, I just asked you the feckin time."
This used to be common among members of the Hispanic community, for who English wasn't their first language. Now you're getting every Tom,Dick and Harriette, many of whom are college educated, responding in that way. :grrr:

Watch "Scum".

Back when I was at school, we had those teachers who would be so hippicritical . It really wound me up. F@king teachers

Were they English teachers?

Trying to scroll on a slow phone through internet pages, and clicking on things you don't want to. On the BBS, it's profiles. I've never clicked on anyone's profile deliberately.

My pocket does that sometimes with my phone, it looks like you're stalking them. When I first joined, I often forgot and tried to look at a larger picture of their avatar (?) and ended up on their page.

Ah. It's not just me then.

'Back when I was at school'? You're only 22, so that was about five minutes ago, not Tudor England.

I saw what you did there :afro:

No, they just didn't like hippies.

Who does?

Add them to the list.

Taking your morning stroll during the school run.

With added Dulwich Village for extra annoyance.

The other day my phone randomly sent a picture via WhatsApp of my son dressed as a banana to one of my ex colleagues:eek:

I should add that most of the things that I find annoying are down to my lack of tolerance. At least, the annoyance is.

Which is annoying in itself.

Having a cricked neck.

Could have been so much worse, I bought a phone off of a female colleague ages ago as a stop gap as I had lost mine. I had the pleasure of seeing her boyfriends dick pics, only as thumbnails fortunately. I backed it up to my PC when my phone arrived and a only a few weeks ago whilst searching my drop box for .jpg there were these pictures only figured out wtf they were by opening the file location!

So in here is a hint when you "delete" images off the phone it still leaves a thumbnail...

Very true, in some cases dog owners are just abdicating their responsibility to train their dog and just clipping it on to a huge lead. Really annoying when they use the extended lead on a path and expect other people to step over it whilst their dog is dashing about unpredictably.

My wife set up a function that sent all the pictures on my phone: WhatsApp, camera and downloads etc, to a shared family pics google cloud thing. She went through them one day and found, amongst boring boilers and cables there were some truly savage things that a friend on a WhatsApp group had sent - they were savage. We had a massive barney off the back of it, and I still don't think she believes me when I say they were sent to me and I didn't look them up.

You were great in American Beauty

A rat that can talk and eat at the same time? Don't feed it to the cat, get it on Britain's Got Talent as a vent act!

You would be amazed how many are sold!

Boom! No-one else saw what you did there

Anyway - back on thread:

1) The England 'band' - please stop letting them in to play the same three 'tunes' - they're almost as much a worldwide laughing stock as ...

2) The England team - please stop letting them in

Kevin Bacon's EE phone ads