Probably because she's dead.

Shopping in stores that have multiple staff doing Home Delivery Orders. Its bad enough with pensioners and mothers with young kids screaming running amok. But in recent years rhe added pleasure of Home Delivery massive trollys being operated by staff with little regard for the normal shopper blocking aisles as the chat away to each other leaving trolleys in front of shelves or fridges so you cannot see whats in them. Some of these stores are 24 hour opening do the shops in the quiet times. Store cold and frozen foods away from store floor.

Rant over....

Absolutely agree, pain in the arse, can't they pick these orders over night

People who talk to their animals as if they're babies.

or call them fur babies

One should only ever talk to one's pet canine in a Scooby Doo accent. Even when saying woof

Martin Tyler’s commentary on Rooney’s overhead kick against City keeps being replayed on Sky.

‘It defies description. How about sensational? How about superb?’

How about retiring?

Oh god, yes.

Sadly both the painter and the landscape guy are Hispanic... whether they are Mexican or not, I'm not sure.

The first painter I called was Greek for what it's worth.

Same here. I guess as they are doing this pretty much for 8 hours a day they know where everything is and seem to be on some kind of time schedule like that supermarket game show.

Maybe they should fit their carts with flashing blue lights like an emergency vehicle so we can all get out of their way as the zip around the store.

These contractors bite off more than they can chew. Never admit that they are too busy. If they're not punctual for an estimate, imagine what your chances are of them showing up on the scheduled date to start the gig. Especially if they've received a down payment. Co-vid will be blamed to get an extra few quid out of you. "Price of materials innit."
They'll be constantly robbing Pete to pay Paulie. Taking paint from your house to do the old dolls porch up the road. And then, when you run out of patience with them half way through the job they use the old death card.
"Me old gran, she was hundred and seven and we was real close. I'll be gone for a month. By the way I can get materials cheaper up where she's from. Got another grand?"

Well painter number 2 did show up at 4:45, so I guess in his mind was early!

He said all the right things, and I want him to do the work, but he can't start for another 3 weeks (Yeah right - see bbJ's post above). Also wanted my email address to send an estimate, which I texted him straight away. Let's see how long we have to wait for that.

Still no sign of the landscape guy or a response from the blinds people.

I’ve now been waiting for an operation on my hand for just over 18 months, understandable due to covid, but finally I was given a date for my pre-assessment which is scheduled for tomorrow.

Except I’m not now, I’ve just had a call cancelling it with no alternative date available as yet. Obviously this means that my operation has also been cancelled.

As an aside, my wife has been waiting for a blood test for seven weeks now and it has been cancelled 5 times and she hasn’t even got a new date for the 6th attempt. Apparently they haven’t got any yellow capped blood vials.

Thank god we saved the NHS or things could be really bad. :)

Good news... the landscape guy turned up out of the blue.

3 days late and no contact to say he was coming.

Hmm, wonder how it sounds when Californian tradies say "She'll be right" Thought that was an exclusively Aussie 'Tude.

I suspect it's a world wide issue.

I have for many years had the theory that tradesmen and car mechanics will inherit the earth!

That's artists for you. Soak up the avant garde of it all. After all, I believe it was Toulouse Lautrec who first coined the expression "je have to go to une autre job for a while, see you next Tuesday"

I guess I should have said "he showed up out of his blue period" not "out of the blue".

watch what you say - with terminology like that you'll upset Americans and feministas . Infact the only people you might not offend is the cants from sarf landan.;)

Those bohemian late 19th century absinthe-swilling bordello-frequenting French impressionist painters don't care who they offend :supergrin:

Annoyed at The Guardian trying to shame me in to paying for their content by suggesting that I am one of their most prolific online readers - Congratulations you are one of our top reader GLOBALLY.
Really?
Top in the WORLD.
The whole world.
Out of 7000000000 people I read the most articles on their website.
The financial model they run must be nearing collapse if they rely on the advertising footfall I generate from 20 pages a day.

My wife talking a text message into her watch because she couldnt be bothered to get up and get her phone!!

I wonder if we'll be able to "think dictate" text messages in our lifetime.... possibly! That'll be interesting in the Multiverse.

People that get into a right emotional tizzy when reviewing food or drink on supermarket websites. Alright, some product or other may have been a little dry, or lacking in flavour etc, etc, but it didn't kill you did it? Just shove it down your Gregory and stop being a such a drama queen.

Nadine Dorries

“Get that down yer Ruud Gullit and STFU” :lux:

Mary Berry's facking hair.
Candyfloss head.

Oh god yes I only have to look at her and I get annoyed as I know what is going to come out of her mouth will make me even worse!

She has a tortoise head

That's a bit rude, I know she's a bit old, but surely in control of her bowels still?

Ahh are you annoyed that she's a guilty fancy?

“Gurning” Gregg Wallace.

Spent a day with him. He's a perv.

American words such as , my bad , kiddo , Dogo

apparently y'all .. is being adopted in many of the world's languages

"My bad" is one of most moronic expressions around currently.

I thought adding an "o" at the end of names was an Australian thing?

Corro
Ambo
Garbo (not as in Greta)
Arvo
Bowlo

:wallbash: :veryangry

Addo

From the quill of the great Australian playwright Willo Shakespeare of course - "Much Addo About Nothing"

No, I'm annoyed that she's a nasty piece of work, thick as pig shit and then plays the sexism/misogyny card when pulled on it.

It’s a very useful word that exists in most languages.

Helloo :supergrin:

My bad
Pants instead of jeans etc
Can i get a ...
Sick

You surprise me. He’s such a hit with the ladies, he’s on his fourth marriage ( the latest, an east European twenty odd years his junior ).

I love Masterchef but spend most of the programme mumbling ‘what a twat’ to myself every time he comes on the screen with his sycophantic bollocks and stupid faces. Childish little **** he is

Ghastly twat. I loathe him. He is on my death list along with Fearnley-Whittingstall and Jimmy Carr.

He is fairly annoying although seemingly genuine. If we are buying concrete wellies for TV chefs though I would also like to nominate Nigel Slater.

Is Fearnley -Whittingstall a person or a brand of cricket bat ?

Gregg Wallace ..... most punchable face in TV.

His head is on a swivel and his eyes are on stalks.

I'm no soy boy, I can appreciate a beautiful woman, but there is a time and a place. It was constant perving.

John Torode on the other hand was an absolute gentleman.

I'm nt sure that "kiddo" is American and the only usage of "Dogo" I'm aware of is in "Dogo Argentino" the banned Argentine dangerous dog.

Both "sick" and "pants" are olden days English terms - the latter from the woppish "pantaloon".

People who can't chew food with their mouths closed.

Ex .Mother in law, in the end couldn't sit opposite her when she was eating, she chewed her food like a cow in a field

"Can I get"...Grrr, "Its can I have" No you cant get it because I am serving you, I will get it you can have it, its that simple.

My late dad (who FWIW was Irish) would say pants and thus I have inherited the practice. When I get pulled up on it I generally retort with . . so why do we call our undies underpants?

This has been posted before and I agree .... most annoying, I think it's an age group thing as it's the under 30's using it mainly?

How have we skipped to the small fry and not mentioned Gordon Ramsey and Jamie Oliver ?

Why is only this use of get so annoying?

What does to get mean? It’s a very flexible verb and usually replaces a more appropriate verb. (I got home at 8 - I arrived home at 8, which is more appropriate?)

I realise thinking about the many and varied uses of get won’t make this particular use of it any less annoying, but it is a bit irrational and really shouldn’t annoy anyone based on our multiple usage of get in other circumstances.

People who can’t spell “Ramsay”.

I done ..... instead of I did.
And even ....
They done instead of they did.
What's that all about?

Feckless northern types say “pants” instead of “trousers” as well.

Dunno.

:supergrin:

:D;)

Im the same with my son. Even recorded him eating and played it to him and his mother, apparently that made me a bad person.

So not posting about Biggus on the pork scratchings after a few down the pub like we all thought then..

Eh?

Well how did we know who?

She’s Italian.

Young people that don't get my 70's and 80's cultural references and stare at me blankly when I'm trying to crack a joke!
Forget half of the educational syllabus, and introduce practical lessons so that when I make the noise of the Six Million Dollar Man, they don't look at me like I've got a problem.

:D

I stand corrected. Ta.

Splat them whilst they are small and you don't end up with the daytime telly nightmares of ainsley, da acampo or that self styled kitchen goddess :)

And at least Ramsay can plate his food, every single dish I have seen Jamie Oliver present looks like it's been emptied onto whatever he's serving dinner on today

Bothered.

People who talk like Maidstoned.

People who are Alf lite.

Ouch

:D:D:D

When you dunk your rich tea biscuit in your tea and it breaks off because you got the timing wrong. Not the same once you fish it out with a spoon!

Maidstoned annoys himself.

Just call them underwear like us Americans. Saves any confusion.

yeah but you had to be running in slow motion too.:lux:

A few years ago I was having a 1:1 with one of my direct reports. At the end of each 1:1 we used to have a little social chat. She said she was going to see The Saturdays that Saturday. I asked her if she was going to see The Sundays the day after. She gave me the blankest of looks.

Yanks getting the blame for every little bastardization of the English language. OK, I know they have done a commendable amount of damage to it, but blaming them for the likes of 'Kiddo' is pure BAloney. Kiddo is predominantly north of England and was chanted by the wankers for many years. I've spent over 40 years in the States and have never heard any one called Dogo. Dago yes, but Dogo no.
The sticking of a vowel on the end of the name seems to have started during the dumbing down of English football in the 70's and 80's. Instead of interesting nicknames like the 'flying pig,' the Preston plumber' or Yogi Bear you have gum munchers like Sam and Harry going on about "Davo was massive tonight, as was Gazza and Keano" etc Dubliners have taken the sticking the 'O' on a name to a new level.
It's like when a British ex-pat smugly nudges his mate and smirks when a yank says the word 'Saaccher". The ex-pat who usually has never kicked a ball in his life straightaway feels a surge of superiority over the yank, who was an all star College player and now has eight caps for the U.S.
If you go back twenty years before football was invented by Sky you will find that the word 'soccer' was widely used in the English media and prior to the Big Match we had "Star Soccer." So anyway let's "Move On"

I rather like "My bad"... it is rather appropriate as it's always my fault.

I Get It

It's an olden days posho British word anyway. There were two types of football: "rugger" and "soccer".

Oi, don't forget Gaelic. Your mate still watches these boards you know. He won't be pleased.

He's more Ing-er-lish than me. Anyway, I was talking about public school Victorian toffs who I doubt would of been that interested in GAA sports (or Aussie Rules for that matter).

Are you having an embolism?

Sub Alf lite.

Auctioneers who speak in that absolutely ludicrous patter style where they roll all their rrrrrrs and you can’t hear what they’re saying.

In particular, the daft Home Counties bint on the television right now who is spoiling my enjoyment of Christina Trevannion.

Daughters who "yeah yeah yeah yeah" you when showing them how to maintain their motor scooters and what the warning lights all mean...and then seize the engine of said motor scooter because they havent cheked the oil and ignored the red warning light.

:veryangryWas it Gemima Brettell? Christina Trevannion is wife material.

I believe you are a decendent of the Bermondsey-Faministas, who in Vicky's time were referred to as the Low Irish. They were fond of the odd game of GAR, were good spellers and very well respected:hi:

I am very well respected, that is true.

I watched that too this morning. Very annoying and adds absolutely nothing to an auction.
Bint.

McAfee Security Scans... And I appreciate I should just uninstall the damn thing, but that's not the point really. It should be able to do a job and do in unobtrusively and only when I set the scan to run, but no it has to run itself at the most inopportune times and grind the computer to a stuttering halt while doing so in the background... only to pop up saying it didn't find anything, but I really should upgrade to their premium plan to make my computer more secure.

Despite my best efforts in the settings screen to only scan once a week at a specific time, it still does its thing every day.

Wank stain of a software.