Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[mustang1]

The "Trivial things that please you beyond all expectations" thread.

 

[mustang1]

Tyre manufacturers game TPI counts (I thought you are supposed to only count the threads per inch on the outer layer of rubber and not all the layers of rubber added together).

Iirc I learned that from Sheldon Brown. If I am wrong about that then apologies to Sheldon's family but if I am right then credit to Sheldon.

 

[colly]

Sainsburys.

I do not usually shop there but had reason a few months ago to call in for a few carrots. Looked around for a bag to put them in....
No bags. Not even paper bags.
Instead a smug, virtual signalling, idiotic sign saying something along the lines of

"We no longer provide bags for fresh fruit and veg you need to bring your own because we are doing all we can to reduce our impact and cut down on plastic and waste"

All well and good and oh so right on except directly opposite all their own packed veg was lined up, 2 spuds or apples at a time, sitting in cardboard trays wrapped in sodding plastic and costing half as much again.

So there l was trudging to the checkout juggling half a dozen bloody carrots.

Price gouging, self serving, virtue signalling shite business. Maybe they all are but at least l can get a bag at Lidl.

 

[KnittyNorah]

My neighbour annoys the hell out of me every time she announces that 'it's freezing' when the temperature is, like today, still in double digits - certainly nowhere near 0 - 1deg, albeit wet and windy.

She gets offended when I disagree and say, no it's not, it's nowhere near freezing, look at the temperature- it's much too warm for frost or ice ...

 

[PeteXXX]

Sainsburys.

I do not usually shop there but had reason a few months ago to call in for a few carrots. Looked around for a bag to put them in....
No bags. Not even paper bags.
Instead a smug, virtual signalling, idiotic sign saying something along the lines of

"We no longer provide bags for fresh fruit and veg you need to bring your own because we are doing all we can to reduce our impact and cut down on plastic and waste"

All well and good and oh so right on except directly opposite all their own packed veg was lined up, 2 spuds or apples at a time, sitting in cardboard trays wrapped in sodding plastic and costing half as much again.

So there l was trudging to the checkout juggling half a dozen bloody carrots.

Price gouging, self serving, virtue signalling shite business. Maybe they all are but at least l can get a bag at Lidl.

I don't do Sainsbury's, but Tesco have a cunning plan to extort a few more pennies.. They don't have paper bags for fresh fruit & veg but they'll attempt to sell you a reusable one for 30p in the hope that you don't bring it next time then hopefully buy another one..

 

[classic33]

My neighbour annoys the hell out of me every time she announces that 'it's freezing' when the temperature is, like today, still in double digits - certainly nowhere near 0 - 1deg, albeit wet and windy.

She gets offended when I disagree and say, no it's not, it's nowhere near freezing, look at the temperature- it's much too warm for frost or ice ...

I think its the warmer weather earlier in the year ending suddenly, with rain the following week that has folk saying that.

 

[ColinJ]

I think its the warmer weather earlier in the year ending suddenly, with rain the following week that has folk saying that.

In the days when my 'ex' was, er, my 'current', she would notice that the temperature had gone up from 16 degrees to (say) 19 degrees and declare that it was 'baking hot' outside. I would reply that it wasn't, it was only 19 degrees. That would trigger off a long debate about absolute and relative measurements.

On a practical level, if baking hot is used to describe 19 degrees, then 23 would have to be something like very baking hot, 25 would be extremely baking hot, 28 would be crazily extremely baking hot, and over 30 would be unbelievably crazily extremely baking hot, which isn't exactly useful!

 

[Accy cyclist]

People keep asking me how old my "cute" dog is, what's his/her name and "is it a boy or girl". It happened about 7 or 8 times yesterday. On one occasion when they asked his gender I said "It's non binary stroke gender fluid".


Does it matter what his name is?! I'm going to start asking what their name is!🧐

 

[ColinJ]

Does it matter what his name is?!

If it doesn't matter what a dog's name is, why give the dog a name...?

 

[Accy cyclist]

If it doesn't matter what a dog's name is, why give the dog a name...?

It matters to me, as you give dogs names hoping they'll respond when being called etc and for vet and dog grooming appointments, but what does his name matter to them! I sometimes ask the breed of a dog, but not the name. Why don't they go the whole hog and ask what he's having for his fecking tea!!

 

[KnittyNorah]

I think its the warmer weather earlier in the year ending suddenly, with rain the following week that has folk saying that.

Any temperature in the 20s and she switches her unending complaints to it being 'boiling hot'.

She was wittering on on that vein three years ago when I'd just moved in, and I said 'I won't listen to anyone calling summer weather in England 'boiling' - I lived for years in Australian and Arabian deserts so I know what 'hot' is - and here is not hot' and glared at her. The only time since that I've heard her complain about the heat was on the very hottest couple of days this last summer - and then the only thing I heard was a brief mention.

She complains about the wind, too. A fresh breeze is 'blowing a gale' ...

 

[oldwheels]

My neighbour annoys the hell out of me every time she announces that 'it's freezing' when the temperature is, like today, still in double digits - certainly nowhere near 0 - 1deg, albeit wet and windy.

She gets offended when I disagree and say, no it's not, it's nowhere near freezing, look at the temperature- it's much too warm for frost or ice ...

She may well be feeling cold tho’. I find as I have got older that I feel cold more even when others do not. I was sitting my car today with a winter jersey and a medium jacket and seeing people seemingly happy in tshirts and shorts passing by outside. High wind chill factor as well which I was protected from.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I can't get my phone or laptop predictive text to stop predicting OK when I want to type okay.

 

[KnittyNorah]

She may well be feeling cold tho’. I find as I have got older that I feel cold more even when others do not. I was sitting my car today with a winter jersey and a medium jacket and seeing people seemingly happy in tshirts and shorts passing by outside. High wind chill factor as well which I was protected from.

I know what you mean - but as she claims it's freezing when the temp drops below 12 deg, and boiling when it rises above about 18 deg, and blowing a gale when it's merely a fresh to moderate breeze, and as she is 25 years younger than me, I don't think 'feeling cold' is her only issue!

 

[youngoldbloke]

Premature 'Black Friday' sales - they aren't, it's not for 2 weeks.