Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[ebikeerwidnes]

The word admitted keeps getting used in the wrong context! For example, today I heard a BBC radio reporter say "He admitted he was glad to be back in management", when referring to a football manager who joined Blackpool FC the other week. What is there to admit to?! Surely "He said he was glad to be back" would've made more sense! You admit to things you wish you hadn't done, or said etc. "He admitted that he sent her a threatening text message" makes sense. Admitting to being glad about something (unless it's malicious) doesn't! 🤔

I see this a lot of Police series - even the real life ones

"So you admit that you visited Manchester on Friday!"

no I don't - I have said that I visited Manchester but that is not admitting anything

very annoying

 

[Accy cyclist]

I've just heard that Cadbury's Cream Eggs are an astronomical 70p! I haven't bought one for years. I would've put them at 30p at the most! 70 pence for a mouthful of chocolate and goo is ridiculous!! 🧐

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I've just heard that Cadbury's Cream Eggs are an astronomical 70p! I haven't bought one for years. i would've put them at 30p at the most! 70 pence for a mouthful of chocolate and goo is ridiculous!! 🧐

damn silly price - mind you I never eat them - prefer proper chocolate with not added stuff

 

[Jameshow]

Cheesy teen romcoms when you really want to be tinkering with bikes!!

 

[mistyoptic]

I've just heard that Cadbury's Cream Eggs are an astronomical 70p! I haven't bought one for years. i would've put them at 30p at the most! 70 pence for a mouthful of chocolate and goo is ridiculous!! 🧐

Dash it, that’s fourteen shillings!

 

[Accy cyclist]

I find these hard plastic openings very hard to open and dangerous. Last night I spent a good five minutes trying to push that plastic bit up, so I could supposedly lift the lid off the container. I eventually had to use a pair of leather gloves, to protect my fingers and thumb from being cut by that sharp piece in the lower photo. These type of food containers are so hard to open!!

 

[Accy cyclist]

I keep seeing this when I scrawl down local news paper stuff. I find those three creepy, especially the evil looking one in the middle!!

https://latest.goldenleaves.com/gol...9k&ad_id=00a090791f8038f497cba3d6ab73f46a8b&p

 

[Threevok]

I keep seeing this when I scrawl down local news paper stuff. I find those three creepy, especially the evil looking one in the middle!!

https://latest.goldenleaves.com/gol...9k&ad_id=00a090791f8038f497cba3d6ab73f46a8b&p

There are no complimentary people at funeral homes

although some are dead, gorgeous.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I keep seeing this when I scrawl down local news paper stuff. I find those three creepy, especially the evil looking one in the middle!!

https://latest.goldenleaves.com/gol...9k&ad_id=00a090791f8038f497cba3d6ab73f46a8b&p

I see a lot of similar things on the telly as well

fromlife insurance to simple funeral free cremations - all trying to scare people into worrying about leaving their kids with huge bills for the funeral when they die
Really insidious stuff trying to push buttons

I especially worry about the cremation ads - a lot of them seem to offer a simple service where someone turns up and takes the body away and the ashes get delivered back in a few days
That is all

not nothing else!!!

I really feel these things are setting up for a lot of family upset in a lot of cases unless EVERYONE is informed and genuinly happy about the arrangement.
I can see a lot of friends and family hearing about the death and asking about the funeral and only then finding out there is no plan for one - and the family having to put something together at the last minute - exactly what the advery is saying it will avoid

I know that the funeral for my parents and my wife's mother were difficult and took a lot of energy to organise - but I feel they helped a lot of people pay their last respects and process the events

 

[Electric_Andy]

I wasn't sure where to put this, but here seems as good a place as any.

All my life I've been annoyed by the fact that I can't clap very well. I see other people doing it (especially men?) and it sounds like a bullet being fired. Well, on Friday night I went to a quiz and observed a man clapping very loudly, so I observed his technique which was "dominant fingers slapping opposite palm". I'd always used "palm to palm". So just now I tried it, and hey-presto it was the loudest noise I've ever made!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I wasn't sure where to put this, but here seems as good a place as any.

All my life I've been annoyed by the fact that I can't clap very well. I see other people doing it (especially men?) and it sounds like a bullet being fired. Well, on Friday night I went to a quiz and observed a man clapping very loudly, so I observed his technique which was "dominant fingers slapping opposite palm". I'd always used "palm to palm". So just now I tried it, and hey-presto it was the loudest noise I've ever made!

I think the best technique depends on the exact shape of your hands
palm to palm works OK for me but the hands have to be slightly cupped and relaxed for it to work

 

[Accy cyclist]

Fancying tuna in olive oil/tomato sauce, on a jacket potato for a late tea 10 minutes ago, I carefully opened the tin while the spud was in the microwave. I was ever so gently opening the pull back lid when it gave way all of a sudden and flicked fishy olive oil and tomatoes all over my tie and newly washed and ironed shirt!!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Fancying tuna in olive oil/tomato sauce, on a jacket potato for a late tea 10 minutes ago, I carefully opened the tin while the spud was in the microwave. I was ever so gently opening the pull back lid when it gave way all of a sudden and flicked fishy olive oil and tomatoes all over my tie and newly washed and ironed shirt!!

An excellent example of advanced engineering where they make the fist part of the lid just that LITTLE bit harder to pull and then the last few mm that bit easier so it accelerates and flicks the contents in the exact direction required

Some might say this is cynical - but I have never seen this happen with things like cans of Bacon Grill which have no flickable contents - proving that it is deliberate design

probably

 

[Poacher]

Inspired by last night's Martin Lewis Money program, Mrs Poacher decided to follow his advice and check her state pension entitlement. (She's relied on my income for many years!)
We sat at the PC, laboriously working our way through all the steps needed to register for government gateway only to be told on what I presume was the last page that the system was overloaded and try again later!
Actually, I think this is far from trivial - it's a major thing.

 

[Beebo]

I think the best technique depends on the exact shape of your hands
palm to palm works OK for me but the hands have to be slightly cupped and relaxed for it to work

Plus a 45 degree angle when the top hand meets the bottom hand.