Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[PeteXXX]

But you only need to open one fold at a time generally.

... which is why Pete's annoyance is indeed beyond expectations! :P

In a force 9 gale 🍃 🍃 🍃

 

[oldwheels]

Just stick it in a stew or a pasty.

Pretty sure we had cat food once.
Farmer and wife went to the Highland Show and came back with various samples. A tin of cat food was left on a kitchen shelf.
One evening us workers got fed something vaguely fish tasting and then noticed too late that the cat food tin had vanished.
We never did get a satisfactory answer.

 

[grldtnr]

I am getting increasingly annoyed about modern life in general, life was so much simpler before all this modern techno gubbins we have to deal with now.
I do yearn for the old days when you just went to the shops and bought stuff with notes & coins, had time to talk to other people, now you want something, you go online ,you order it, they want a electronic bank transfer, and it's on your doorstep next morning , in some cases within the hour!
Delivered by some feckless twonk that cannot wait for 30 sec's before it's shoved under your doormat or chucked over a fence possibly by someone who shouldn't even be here !
Such is the power of big commerce, who pay the meanest wages , to make stonking profits.
Tell me am I wrong......

 

[Hover Fly]

When you come out of a paid-for public toilet and some old gadgy is waiting to push past you to save 40p.

 

[Alex321]

I am getting increasingly annoyed about modern life in general, life was so much simpler before all this modern techno gubbins we have to deal with now.
I do yearn for the old days when you just went to the shops and bought stuff with notes & coins, had time to talk to other people, now you want something, you go online ,you order it, they want a electronic bank transfer, and it's on your doorstep next morning , in some cases within the hour!
Delivered by some feckless twonk that cannot wait for 30 sec's before it's shoved under your doormat or chucked over a fence possibly by someone who shouldn't even be here !
Such is the power of big commerce, who pay the meanest wages , to make stonking profits.
Tell me am I wrong......

OK, as requested.

You are wrong.

Seriously, I do disagree with a lot of that.

I would not go back to the days when you had to use cash for everything, when the shops all closed about the same time you finished work, so you had to do most of your shopping on Saturday (Shops weren't open Sundays then), as did most other people, so it was crowded and busy, and you couldn't actually talk much to the shopkeepers without pissing off everybody in the queue behind you.

It may be more impersonal now, but it is a lot more convenient.

 

[Dadam]

so you had to do most of your shopping on Saturday (Shops weren't open Sundays then

And let's not forget you had to make sure you had enough cash out during the week because the banks weren't open Saturday. Which probably meant queuing up in lunch hour during the week as they were all shut and locked up when you left work.

 

[grldtnr]

And let's not forget you had to make sure you had enough cash out during the week because the banks weren't open Saturday. Which probably meant queuing up in lunch hour during the week as they were all shut and locked up when you left work.

I worked as a postman, so started early ,finished early, generally was done by lunch, time to do the day to day menial chores in the afternoon, which wasn't inconvenient for me at all, apart from working half day Saturday and early nights ,
Wasn't a 9 to 5 existence.
It suited me fine !

 

[Dadam]

I worked as a postman, so started early ,finished early, generally was done by lunch, time to do the day to day menial chores in the afternoon, which wasn't inconvenient for me at all, apart from working half day Saturday and early nights ,
Wasn't a 9 to 5 existence.
It suited me fine !

So you were alright, Jack.

 

[grldtnr]

So you were alright, Jack.

Certainly was, a union man as well, that will upset lot of people on here, but let's not forget what the unions fought for, fair working conditions and entitlements for all.
I may have been all right, but early mornings and a 6 day week meant ,I made sacrifices too.

 

[raleighnut]

Certainly was, a union man as well, that will upset lot of people on here, but let's not forget what the unions fought for, fair working conditions and entitlements for all.
I may have been all right, but early mornings and a 6 day week meant ,I made sacrifices too.

Aye Posties and Milkmen all in the pub at 12, the main sorting office/depot in Leicester (back of the train station) had its own 'club' over the road, that got turned into a pub when working practises changed called 'The Royal Mail' although it has been demolished now (redevelopment) and the sorting office is on an industrial estate in the middle of nowhere

 

[grldtnr]

Aye Posties and Milkmen all in the pub at 12, the main sorting office/depot in Leicester (back of the train station) had its own 'club' over the road, that got turned into a pub when working practises changed called 'The Royal Mail' although it has been demolished now (redevelopment) and the sorting office is on an industrial estate in the middle of nowhere

If I started at 4 in the morning, would you say being in the pub by 1 is fair?

 

[lazybloke]

If I started at 4 in the morning, would you say being in the pub by 1 is fair?

A bit like the "Fridays" rides: start at midnight, finish in the morning with a fry-up and beer for breakfast.

 

[raleighnut]

If I started at 4 in the morning, would you say being in the pub by 1 is fair?

Yep, but then I worked nights for years* so rarely got to the pub but sat at home with a cuppa, a glass of something and my HiFi on after taking my GSD for a run on the park. I had my evenings in a morning, I worked with other people who went home and straight to bed but they then woke up shortly after noon and just sat around til work

* 6pm - 6am 4 days a week

 

[grldtnr]

I 'm not whinging, earlies and nights had there advantages, the majority of my working life, for a few years I worked in a bakery for a supermarket, which was soul destroying sometimes ,making stuff then see it dumped as it wasn't sold, I got out and took the post job on where I was for 27 years, finishing up on nights,which paid off my mortgage soni could retire early.
Doing earlies, I'd get home ,I could go out during the afternoon cycling, walking or sailing untill the evenings started to close in with the seasons.
On nights, I'd get home from work, have a few hrs sleep ,then the best part of the day to enjoy doing what I liked,
Yes in my day we had Spanish' working practises , but if the work wasn't there you couldn't do it so Job and knock was quite common.

 

[Accy cyclist]

James Whale! What a 2 hat he is!! 🧐 Not only has he been 'dying' for the last 6 years that I know of, due to kidney cancer which he never fails to mention on his Talk TV Saturday night show, but he just cuts folk off if he doesn't like what they're saying! "Goodbye" in a pompous manor he constantly says to guests on his show before cutting them off. He shouldn't be allowed to censor guests views by cutting them off, if he disagrees with them. He's just done it now, so I felt the need to vent my spleen!!🧐