Tripping up over the cable of the lawnmower,no matter how I try I keep having to move it around me.Next year we are getting someone in to relay the driveway and shorten the lawn,I might get a proper of fashioned push lawnmower.Not sure if Mrs P agreed with my idea.
Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?
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mistyoptic
Vintage
- Location
- A parallel reality
Completely agree. Thinking of a cordless rather than push, though
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
"get-go".
That really upsets me.
That really upsets me.
youngoldbloke
The older I get, the faster I used to be ...
Unless you spend lots of money most cordless are push anyway. Petrol?
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
My wife is allergic to gluten. We have two tubs of flora and two toasters to stop cross contamination.
CanucksTraveller
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
- Location
- Hertfordshire
Paranoid over-regulation of e-cigarette equipment by people who don't understand it.
Example 1: If you buy say, a spare battery, or a replacement tank, or some filament wire to build a head, you'll find a warning sticker on it telling you that it "contains nicotine". But of course, it does no such thing. You'll also have to provide ID to the Amazon driver as the product "contains nicotine". No it bloody doesn't. Only if I buy liquid, and only if I buy the liquid with nicotine in it, and only when I fill that tank, does the tank then contain nicotine.
It's like selling glass tumblers to over 18's only, because "they contain alcohol". No they don't! Only if you put alcohol in them!
Example 2: Liquid used to be sold in 30ml or 50ml bottles, so I would buy 200ml in 4 bottles. Now, thanks to overthink by regulators, I'm restricted to buying it in containers of no more than 10ml, because clearly the previous 30ml and 50ml bottles could be deadly in a way that 3 or 5 x 10ml bottles cannot.
So I still buy 200ml of liquid, but it now comes in 20 x 10ml bottles which is more expensive and far worse for the environment. But safer, apparently.
Example 1: If you buy say, a spare battery, or a replacement tank, or some filament wire to build a head, you'll find a warning sticker on it telling you that it "contains nicotine". But of course, it does no such thing. You'll also have to provide ID to the Amazon driver as the product "contains nicotine". No it bloody doesn't. Only if I buy liquid, and only if I buy the liquid with nicotine in it, and only when I fill that tank, does the tank then contain nicotine.
It's like selling glass tumblers to over 18's only, because "they contain alcohol". No they don't! Only if you put alcohol in them!
Example 2: Liquid used to be sold in 30ml or 50ml bottles, so I would buy 200ml in 4 bottles. Now, thanks to overthink by regulators, I'm restricted to buying it in containers of no more than 10ml, because clearly the previous 30ml and 50ml bottles could be deadly in a way that 3 or 5 x 10ml bottles cannot.
So I still buy 200ml of liquid, but it now comes in 20 x 10ml bottles which is more expensive and far worse for the environment. But safer, apparently.
mistyoptic
Vintage
- Location
- A parallel reality
Motorists who can’t be bothered to smile and acknowledge the fact that you gave way on a narrow road
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
Clearly those people should be lined up and shot - especially if I am on a bike
Had one yesterday - just glared at me!!!!
ANyway - annoying things
over aggressive adverts on the telly that really try to scare people
current least favourite - Verisure Alarms - basic advert concept - "GET ONE OF OUR ALARMS NOW OR YOU WILL ALL DIE!!!!!!"
I may be exaggerating
Another one is pretty much any life insurance advert aimed at the over 50s
"I thought I ought to - you know - for the family"
deliberate guilt trip aimed at older people
bar stewards the lot of them
- Location
- London
I have a certain fondness for the ones where a person of a certain age seems to be chatting up their neighbour of the opposite sex in their kitchen by discussing funeral plans
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
All the talk about promoting a return to foreign travel when there’s a climate crisis going on.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
this shop...
...or more, this shop sign.
It's been lots of different shops over the years, but that bit of street furniture obscures every single sign it's had.
It's reopening again as a street wear shop... nice new colourful sign, centred to the frontage and obscured by the crossing lamp.
Just centre the wording over the feckin doorway
...or more, this shop sign.
It's been lots of different shops over the years, but that bit of street furniture obscures every single sign it's had.
It's reopening again as a street wear shop... nice new colourful sign, centred to the frontage and obscured by the crossing lamp.
Just centre the wording over the feckin doorway
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
Just centre the wording over the feckin doorway
Then the name will be obscured if you move six feet to the left ...
