Try camping instead.

Apologies. Sometimes this thread does become “things that are related to things that annoy you”

Camping could have a whole “things that annoy you” thread of its own.

Posters who don't know the difference between work permits and international clearance.

You're in a hotel having scrambled eggs and baked beans, aren't you?

Never tried it but I guess you're right.

Mid week a vast cavernous private cinema.

Toothless you say..? ;)

Racist...













Yes.

It is a sexy movie to be fair.

I lasted longer than the main protagonist.



Just

The latest Sky Sports ad is grinding my gears

Sky Sports. C*ntvision.

Noise pollution

TV trailers for TV shows during the advert breaks of that show

About 8.30 every night this week on Pick during the second advert break in the Flash there has been an advert for The Flash telling the viewer that the Flash is on Pick weeknights at 8pm.
Incredibly annoying!

The family of 8 who have surrounded me on a train and proceeded to eat kebabs.

Hillbillies? Is that a euphemism?

I’ll add to this hotels which only provide a water glass the size of a thimble in the rooms.

Nope. All real and literal.

The six children then proceeded to burn kebab-based energy running around the carriage without any parenting

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm kebabs......n

The big plastic bottle of mayonnaise in the kebab shop....it's a loaded donkeys cock!
Vile shit stuff!

I must have been in The US too long.... I quite like mayonnaise and put it on all my sandwiches... and lick the spoon/knife.

Agreed, the guy seems to have a stain on the front of his jumper too

Predictive text. Is it programmed by a f*cking lemon?

No, a lucking femon

The Purple Bricks ads.

And The Love Boat. Did we really watch that shite back in the day?

Finding out after years of marriage that the wife actually likes the Moody Blues. If I’d known I would have redrafted the prenuptial agreement.

I'm trying to figure out is your are happy or not happy she likes the Moody Blues?

Personally I'm a bit meh! My wife likes them, and I often have to endure them on long car journeys with her in the car, but I'm OK with that.

The c-units who stole the bike my mate had borrowed from his dad. Thus ruining the last few days if his visit from Australia.

Definitely been in the US too long

Bus drivers who stop four feet from the kerb. My mobility is not 100% atm, so I struggle a bit.

The old Woody Allen joke seems to go straight over their heads, but maybe they've heard it a few times before.

Not happy. Once you’ve ridden the see-saw most of their stuff is pretentious twaddle IMHO. My neighbor played an album of theirs recently and that’s what has led to more and more requests from the wife for some Moody Blues. Having had 100% control of the turntable for 18 years of marriage , dropping to 99% is painful.

On a related note of things that annoy me, we have a number of decent small music venues within 20 miles of us but these days they almost always have tribute bands. Where are the new bands?
Riffing back to the Moody Blues, Justin Hayward has a solo act coming around to one of these clubs. How on earth is he going to re-create a passable Moody Blues sound on his own without ten trucks full of gear?

For your next long trip, dig out Mott The Hoople’s Greatest Hits.....

Where are the new bands? You live in Connecticut, not Tennessee. ;)

True.All kids round here want to do is work for a hedge fund.They think China Crisis has something to do with tariffs. The more liberal ones worry that Manfred Mann was too gender specific.

Women who seem to be completely surprised that they will be asked to pay for their shopping after scanning it through a supermarket till.

That's a good point, it is basically the same here. All the Concerts in the Parks they have are tribute bands with smart arse names.

Some times they have a bunch of old fogies playing jazz, but never anyone young and new doing their own stuff.

All the young dudes must be doing their Honaloochie Boogie All the Way from Memphis...

I can't see 'black man ray' going down too well in Tenessee anyway :)

Yup - roll away the stone. Ian Hunter lives around here but he has not yet bumped into me. Lucky guy....

We did have Eric Burdon (the real one) and the Animals play in a park near us about a year ago. I think they rolled him on stage and he sang House of the Rising Sun, and they wheeled him off... We could hear it in our back yard so can't vouch for the quality. Not sure I heard any other song.

Why?

Genuine question

I just saw Mick Ronson died in 1974... I will have to post that on the "I didn't know they were dead" thread. If I did know (which seems likely I should have), I had certainly forgotten!

They do like Diana Ross and The Supremacists tho......

There is a film about Ronno and Beckenham Boy Bowie on you tube and Hunter is in that. It’s good viewing....

No it isn't.

Just been playing some Mott the Hoople on iTunes... I had forgotten about the Saturday Gigs line, "But then we went to Croydon!"... it's the way they say it... always made me smile.

And what's wrong with The Musical Box?

Genesis.

It is if you’re on a plane and there’s another 8 hours to go. I think they mention the The Three Tuns in Beckenham too.That doesn’t happen very often....

Had a couple of blokes playing in a local bar a while back claiming to be members of the original Animals......they erre in the band, one for 5 years the other for 3......in 1996!!

Well he is dead, but he had 19 more years than that.

Using your beard trimmer to tidy up your eyebrows and having half your girlfriends thatch fall out of it and end up in your mouth. Apparently she had to use mine because the battery had run out on hers and she forgot to clean it because she was in a rush!
C**t will be in a rush to find somewhere else to live soon.

In your mouth by the sound of things :)

Wasps

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People who flap about like fannies when a wasp comes near them, and are then shocked when the startled little insect stings them in retaliation (not saying this is you btw Norwich_Eagle :))

Completely agree, I was just standing there minding my own business, didn't even know the little s**t was there until it was too late.

Ops.... 1993. Not sure where 1974 came from. (I do see he got married in 1974... which might have confused me!)

1993 makes a lot more sense.

It's still 25 years for it to have slipped under your radar H....

Were you thinking of Tex Ritter or Duke Ellington - both sang their last in '74 ?

Yep... I was over here by 1993.

I sometimes feel like back then before having full-on Internet it was like living in a world news abyss.

Ooh ya fvcker

I thought it wss wrong as he produced Morrisseys album and then he and Bowie coverd a song from it before he died.

People using hair driers in already hot bedrooms

Semi-colon misuse.

My Garden shed is free?

Did you mean to use a question mark?

At least it wasn't a semi-colon;

people who whistle as they are announcing the next train is cancelled :o

Random people? Your house sounds very open. Got any beers in the fridge?

The thought of Jim White being even more ‘buoyant’ today.

Looking forward to how he teases us before an ad break with 'news about an exciting young talent getting an improved contract at Exeter'.

Well clearly some people would be more welcome than others.

Horrible puffed up little man. Entering the studio like a boxer about to defend his title and then laying his phone on the desk like Churchill in the war room (as if anyone would text him anything of note).

Driving down a surface street minding your own business when the car in front kicks up a rock which slams into the grill and hood/bonnet of your new car which is less 3 weeks old and less than 300 miles on the clock.

I was scared to look at it, and sure enough nice nicks in the plastic grill and chips/scratches in the paint work. Very pissed off! Looks like a couple of grand to fix it to me.

Drove my previous car for 17 years and this never happened once...

What did you get in the end H?

A Ford Edge. 2.0 litre 4 cylinder Eco Boost

I did my head in going round and round trying to decide. It came down to comfort and ride in the end. I did a lot of research (Car & Driver, Edmund's, Kelly Blue Book etc,) and all had this as the best and quietest ride of this genre.

The roads are so shit here that I was looking for something that you didn't feel every bump in the road.

It's a little bigger than I need, and that does still bother me somewhat. But hey... too late now.

After driving any vehicle for 17 years, anything I got was going to freak me out. Lots of little things are annoying be about it, but it's just change which I'm not good with.

What about you CT, what do you drive in Santiago? I believe you didn't take your US vehicles down there.

Glad you're happy with it!
I have a Kia Sportage here, primarily it was the most spacious, best equipped I could find on the budget I had. I would have preferred to get another CX5 but they were just too expensive to justify. As it turns out I am happy with the Kia. It does everything I ask it to, including some pretty tough drives in to the mountains.

Talking of cars...people that think it’s acceptable to sing along to songs in the car when they’re in company.

Mrs Bubbs does it all the time and this last 6 weeks we’ve spent a lot of time driving together and it’s getting to the point I’m fantasising about having an ejector seat fitted.

I’m a musical fellow and like to listen and absorb a song, but all I get to hear is Mrs Bubbs (who’s not so musical) warbling over and ruining song after song. She also does that thing where she doesn’t know most of the lyrics yet still attempts to sing them, starting off with the wrong words then changing them mid word when she realises it’s wrong. Arghhhh!

My older brother had the same infuriating habit when I used to be a passenger in his car in our younger days. Problem is I’m too bloody polite to ever say anything. Don’t want to ruin their obvious over enthusiastic enjoyment and burst their tone less bubbles.

What warranty do you get there ? Uk is 7 years, but Thailand is 5 ? :confused:

Yep.... Mrs. Hog is the same. She thinks she has a good voice. I'm tone deaf and don't know good from bad, but I can assure her she does not have a good voice.

Also she will be at home listening to something on headphones and suddenly burst into song... chalk on a blackboard comes to mind!

That's the point CT... at the moment I'm still in buyers remorse. I'm not sure I am happy with it.

Must admit the Kia was not on my shortlist.... may be it should have been.

To get the discussion back to things that annoy you:

typically shitier here: 3 years or 100,000 kms

probably got something to do with the state of the roads and the likes of me who charge around on dirt roads at 10,000+ ft in the mountains.

No it shouldn't. Not with your budget H.

I'm sure it will grow on you

Ican beat that,my 13yr old daughter humming in the car....its the single most aggravating thing ever.

Nice to they are consistant.

Just for you

https://youtu.be/eTeg1txDv8w

We have a similar thing over volume. I like to play music quite loudly, whereas the rest of them want it quiet 'so we can talk'. Thats the reason i want to play it loudly.

Odeon prices. Rip-off wankers.

The Vue cinema in the town where I live is quite big (over 10 screens) and they now charge £4.99 for any film at any time, with the exception of Mondays where it's £3.99 for any film. I wonder if a cinema price war is brewing? Prices of £12+ seem a bit daft.

Just booked for the Vue instead, funnily enough. Tenner for under-12s at Odeon. Who’s paying that?

You've used this site for how long, and you still don't know how to embed You Tube vids?

It was a surprise. Div.




Not on a mobile.

Lawyers from opposing sides of the argument who cosily chatting amongst themselves about a resolution, and you only find out about it in court when they are addressing the Sheriff (The judge) when they put in a joint request to defer a case.


Would have been nice if my lawyer had consulted with me about it first :mad:

You've used this site for how long, and you still don't know how to embed You Tube vids whilst using your mobile and I'm the div?

Deleting movies you have downloaded from itunes onto an ipad. Thought these things are supposed to be intuitive not having to resort to google and go settings >general> storage bollocky bollocks etc just to delete a ******* film. Press film hold delete was the old way ******* software developer w4nkers.

Spending an hour fighting with Outlook because it's not connecting, fighting passwords, settings and routers, only to find out the problem was at their end. (Some kind of update going on).

I'm not sure it is annoying, more of a "don't understand"...

When you order something from Amazon that cost $2.75 and cost $5.75 to mail, it then takes over a week to get delivered. Following the tracking it appears to be doing a tour of The US stopping at every UPS outpost.

It would seem to me that this is more expensive than trowing it in with the overnight items that get put on a plane and show up the next day. The cost of all that handling across the country has to be comparable to the less handling via the plane.

I've also seen it where they seem to hold a package at the local depot, almost appearing to make sure you don't get it prior to the promised delivery date.

Always strikes me as odd, but I guess UPS/FedEx know what they are doing better than me!

"Alt-right"

They are Nazi *****, just call them Nazi *****, and stop trying to pretend they aren't just Nazi *****

Gammon