Communal gravy boats

Women driving big, shiny, "recreational" vehicles that they simply can't handle.

Neighbour music can annoy, but we all have an understanding here.. and I'm skooling them in classic house anyway.

That said lived in a block of flats once and one dweller played some kickass junglist tunes, but at 2am. Asked him to be considerate for his neighbours but got the best justification ever: 'But the tunes are bad man!' Unsurprisingly he got his door kicked in and other parts shortly after by my other biker neighbour.

Just been reminded by a new thread:

Eurovision

:veryangry

I always get a nervous twitch watching Saturday kitchen, when it comes to the bit when the guests finally get to sample what's just been cooked.

It's that dread of imagining oneself lapsing into a tantrum or walking out because someone's talked too much over the dish or a bit of spital's gone into it; or someone's taken the best bit or moved the plate along before I'd had a fair go with it.

I don't understand why they can't just dish it up fairly and equally.

I won't have a bad word said against that class of restaurant chain. I like them all - Nandos, Bella Italia, Pizza Express, Cafe Rouge, Wagamamas - they're all exceptional, and probably better than any of their more expensive counterparts. The only one's s___ is, Miso, which I call Miso-horny.

I just wish there was an equally good and ubiquitous Indian equivalent.

But it's about as mediocre as possible

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A bit left field I know,but this annoys me,statue of King Richard 1,I'd get rid of it,useless king who nearly bankrupted the country with the Crusades

People who have been in the queue to use a cashpoint but wait until it's their turn to start searching their bag for their wallet or purse so that they can get find their bank card.

I'd be astonished if that's not the name of a quiz team who has taken on The Eggheads in the last 3 years.

He couldn't even speak English. Bloody foreigner, coming over here, taking our jobs...

EFA

People who always fail to see the middle ground in an argument.

Rubbish you don't know what you're talking about.:D

I'm sorry, you are completely wrong! :vader:

Yep, it's the same as people that wait ages for a bus then get their purse or wallet our for change.

Being laid out with back spasms. When you least expect or need it.

The amount of work you have to clear when there's only "1 more sleep before your holibobs"

Blokes at urinals who fart very loudly and then continue to prosecute said expulsion until the final squeeze at the end sounds like it could have almost approached wet status.

Blokes who would rather use the urinal right next to you than go into an empty cubicle

Most books that, on the cover, say something like "A [insert name] Novel." The only exception to this are the John Corey books by Nelson Demille.

Blokes who go into the cubicle and then let rip with what is clearly a scatter gun explosion, that you just know will have sprayed the rim as well as the bowl, and then give an audible-to-the-next-cubicle sigh of satisfaction.

Ha haaa ... what would you do??!

Frightened of being shown-up, are you?

Posts that put 'no?' at the end. If you are making a point with the rest of the post why add this, isn't it now? :)

No. What now?

Mayonnaise. Especially when it's added to my food without me knowing. Horrible shit.

Going in to a shop to buy a sandwich - and they are all containing mayonnaise. Fck right off.

What happened to egg & salad cream, for example?

A big pet hate is this.

Customer Service - you want a "Hello" and a smile from the person serving you. So, why do you have to be so ****** rude and come to the till, talking on your mobile frigging phone, and remain having a conversation throughout the whole sodding transaction. You cnts can fck off because I am not serving you. Wankers. Even worse when they can't even break their conversation to say "Hello" or "Thank-you".

bad day at the Tesco's check out is it?

This would lead to much merriment and laughter in my office.

Mayonnaise on chips. Plain wrong.

I wont hear this. It's a matter of opinion I know, but, you are wrong. Very wrong.

HP brown is the condiment for chips. All foreign impostors must be returned to their countries of origin.

The district line when the blue team from Fulham have a mid-week evening fixture.

So you hate the GPD section of this website I take it?

Probably been posted already but people who recline their seat on a plane as soon as the fecking thing takes off.

Self-centred bastards of the lowest order.

Or a pub, selling pub food being called a 'Kitchen'.

Particularly when it's a daytime budget flight to Spain.

Just relax.

China Resources Vanguard check out surely?

Indeed!

Furthermore, the turds who find it necessary to park their car next to yours in an empty car park.

Whenever I hear some dude drop a fecal cluster bomb, he has my utter sympathy.

The other day i went to buy my lottery tickets and the woman serving me was eating a packet of crisps. She handed me over the tickets and they said "sorry there might be some salt and vinegar on those."

People who continue to eat on the phone, especially when you say "I can tell you're eating so I'll call you back" , which is a polite way to have a go at them, and they reply "No, it's ok" and carry on eating !

Take the hint you div !

Report her. That shouldn't have happened.

She should be eating out of sight.

:D

Once a train snitch, always a train snitch.

To whom?

Some people's standards are higher than others.

besides, as I said, customer service works both ways.

To the MD of Londis, the Head of the National Lottery and tweet Gary Lineker (if they were Walkers crisps).

I'm sure they'll put their top men on it right away.

:D

Glorious.

It really doesn't.

It's a one way street.

To an extent, when I was at uni I worked as a tillgirl, you don't expect people to be polite to you or say hello etc. and for 5.80 an hour Asda weren't going to get much out of me, but once I had a customer that was so rude I refused to serve them. There's a difference between rudeness and ignorance

I understand what you are saying but was your refusal to serve them your personal decision or company policy?

My utter respect :D

Asda's policy is if the are rude and /or offensive then you can refuse to serve that customer. It is at your own discretion, but when I told the supervisor the situation she agreed I acted in the right way and continued the transaction herself

A good company will support you in such instances, just as they will come down on you, as the company employee, if you did not provide the standard of service so rightly expect by that company, and its customers.

I guess the customer wasn't rude to your supervisor then?

no they were too stunned by my reaction :p

Brilliant. :D

In the words of Apollo Creed ' some people got to learn... the hard way'

I was a being trained as a till monkey at Texas Homecare back in the day (part of my warehouse staff role was to be able to cover the tills if required) and when a what appeared to be a vagrant approached my till clutching two bottles of white spirits my supervisor whispered in my ear: "Don't serve him, he's going to drink those" and then scarpered.

So I said to yer man that I can't serve him. He looked shocked and explained that his appearance was due to gutting a house and the painters needed white spirits for the gloss paint work they were doing.

That was fair enough for me, especially as I'd been abandoned, and as I was putting them through the till he gave me a wink and said: "You haven't got any in the fridge have you?"

I was back ragging the forklift around the loading bay in about 10 minutes & was never put on the tills again.

His response wasn't taken in good spirits then.

Only having 3 weekends off as a family this year due to me and Mrs mushroom's shift work.
This annoys me a tad
:(

The clapping and cheering and fawning that goes on as animal and waving jockey walks down the winners enclosure, just because a bloke managed to sit on a horse that beat some other horses over the line. It was the horse that won, not you, so pipe down. You in fact made it go slower.

Good point!

Ban horse racing. Full stop. Capital letter.

....or try it without the jockeys.......let the horses take all the glory themselves?

Yeah, like it. They can do whatever they wish with their winnings too!

It reminds me of the unsung Sherpas who carry all the kit bare-footed up a vast mountain for explorers who get all the credit and goodies.

Here's a great example of your customer service:

High standards? :D

They are moments of comedy gold given to those that deserve it. It's how customer service should be all of the time, but it isn't, because we have to be 'professional'.

Where's your sense of humour, BE?

;)

Also, BE, do you really have that much time on your hands to go digging?

Have you not heard the phrase 'hung like a horse', don't you think that is enough ?

I was actually working all day today so no, but generally yes I do.

(If I'm honest I came across it when searching for a post of mine on a completely different subject. It just seemed perfect for this thread.)

:)

Language experts that start threads that they don’t know what they’re talking about. :bash:

Tomorrow the PM will say …………
Tomorrow the Chancellor will say …………..
Tomorrow the leader of the opposition will say in a speech………….
Tomorrow the leader of the Lib Dems will say …………………..

There was a time before media advisers when announcements were made to the House!

People who sit in their parked cars smoking and throw the butts out of their car window .

Or the feckers who empty their ashtrays under the car when it's parked.

For once it would be the nags on the nose bag not the jockeys.

Lunchtime Palace matches. It's just not right. How is a man supposed to watch football half-asleep?

On the contrary, I'm quite looking forward to the early kick off tomorrow. Out the ground by 3. Then either in the pub, or home to watch the late kick off and the rugby on TV and iPad.

Drivers who dither at junctions
Drivers who go 25mph in a 30 on a clear road.
Drivers who do not use their indicators.
Drivers who do not acknowledge when you have been courteous to them when you give them the right of way.

So basically all drivers.

Right on brother.

Non indicator wankers make me do a primeval scream.

Also annoying are the people who stick to 40 in every speed limit. 40 in 30, 40 in 40, then out onto bigger roads, but still 40 in a 50, ooh a national speed limit, let's still do 40.

Arseholes.

Oh, and poor road positioning. At a t-junction for example. If you're turning left, then position yourself over on the left, especially if the road widens at that point. Similarly, if you're turning right then move across closer to the middle of the road.

I get so pissed off on the roads.

God yeah, me too. Driving really isn't pleasurable at all anymore is it, for all those reasons and more. Average speed cameras manage to remove even the slightest amount of enjoyment there is from a long drive somewhere.

I miss the days of taking your time, driving out to the coast in summer. If you try it now on a country road you get a bmw up your arse within 5 minutes.

David Tennent chanelling Shakespeare for a Heinz soup ad

People that write on Internet forums about their wife and put Mrs 'insert their own username'

Eg. "I asked Mrs Skiddo the other day to pop along to the green grocers."

Cringeworthy.

It's even worse now with "smart motorways" - an oxymoron if there ever was one.

The feckers will book you without you even knowing for minor transgressions of the speed limit. The argument against raising the speed limit was that people would take the piss and exceed the new limit.

There has to be an even stronger argument to raise it now if you get a ticket and points for a few mph over 70 on the M25. It's plainly a revenue generation exercise and nothing to do with safety.

This annoys me as much as people who sign off complaints as "Angry/disappointed of Surrey" or some shit like that

Not indicating at roundabouts has to be the crime of the century. If you're at a particularly busy, small one like the Ravensbury in Mitcham, the potential to actually get onto the ****** is severely hampered if people don't indicate when they exit. I mean, they must sit there getting ****ed off by exactly the same thing before then doing it themselves, surely?

They've introduced them on the a9 between perth and inverness (120 miles). I dont know if its reduced accidents but its certainly reduced the enjoyment of driving on that road even more. The problem is still people getting frustrated by following lorries or caravans for miles of single carriageway and then overtaking towards traffic. If anything the cameras are another distraction as people spend too much time looking down at their speedo and out for the bloody cameras.

Oh god, even reading this has made me angry.

Did you also know that it is an offence to go round a roundabout 3 times

People who lie annoy me. There are no green grocers left and if they were they'd be called greengrocers.

People (mainly women) who can't reverse park.

People talking about 'execution of passing' instead of just 'passing'

These new small-flush/big-flush toilet buttons.

I don't understand them. They don't work. They stress me out. I JUST WANT IT GONE.

Press the big one then.:eek::D

People at bus stops who don't realise they're standing blocking the pavement that others are trying to use

Twice

Me too. That stretch of road is the bane of my life. :(

Kids that hide in the trees and "egg" your car in the middle of the night, nearly making you crash.

It's the same at T-Junctions. Actually worse in my mind.