Annoyances & Irritations

[Hairy-Joe]

The neighbors have a sheet of polythene flapping in the wind. The noise of it is driving me daft for some reason......

[DeletedUser]

Its got fecking cold today and I've had to put the heating on.

[Diamonds of Frost]

Ncd is gone

[Mirabeau]

My wipers stopped working.

[Hairy-Joe]

Why the feck is the grass still growing this late in the year? If I leave if for a week, I've nearly got silage.....

[8760976543]

The city/utd result...

[DeletedUser]

People who will do anything for you - as long as it does not inconvenience them in any way whatsoever.

[Hairy-Joe]

The city/utd result...

I take it you're a United supporter?

Don't worry, I'd rather eat the ball then have to watch 22 grown man chase a piece of leather around a field

[95438756]

Why the feck is the grass still growing this late in the year? If I leave if for a week, I've nearly got silage.....

Still growing in front garden. Thriving like a weed.

[Mirabeau]

I was at a match last night.
Some people leave as soon as the whistle goes and that's fine.
I usually stay on for a few minutes.
I usually step back and allow space for anyone to go while I can still see the pitch.
There's is always one non-understanding bovine who just stands beside me gawking, expecting me to move. As always, I'll point to space in front of me.
An age of enlightenment passes and they slowly begin to move into the unoccupied space to freedom.

It's just a little thing; I think it annoys me because it's people like that who try to make their problems - my problems, and that doesn't work for me brother.

[Hairy-Joe]

This is going to be a bit niche but Thetford fitting crap springs to the clasps on their motorhome fridges! Mine broke and the fridge is hardly 3 years old (typically a motorhome fridge should last the life of the unit. I disassembled it and a cheap, weak spring broke.

Well, that's annoying as I can't now lock the fridge for driving.

Thankfully I was at home so I went online to see about a replacement spring. No, I have to buy a whole clasp. Feck that for a game of soldiers!

30 min later I rigged up a much better spring (springy bar as opposed to the wound spring of the original) and normal operation is restored

[CelticRambler]

Two items ordered together (as a pack of two), delivered in two separate packages, bound together with plastic strapping. With the "FRAGILE" stickers on each placed face-to-face on the inside so they couldn't be seen.

Fortunately the internal packaging was sturdy enough, and they came via La Poste who (contrary to many private courriers) seem to know how to handle parcels.

[678904673]

Having to clean out the Hamster cage because the kids have lost interest in it and barely remember it's there

[isha]

Having to clean out the Hamster cage because the kids have lost interest in it and barely remember it's there

This suddenly brought up an old memory. It's a macabre story so don't read on if you want to be cheerful. We lived in a tiny stone house when the kids were small, two really unbelievably small upstairs bedrooms. When our oldest got to the age of needing his own space, we decided to move our bed downstairs (where it could also function as a day couch/space in the living room - this was a very small house! No electricity or running water ). He got our room and we got the living room where the kids also kept their hamster's cage. The first morning I woke up kind of confused and groggy as to where I was and the first thing I saw was the hamster cage on a little table beside me with one of the hamsters heads wedged between the bars, and the rest of him hanging limply. Yuck. Kids and blooming hamsters.

[Del.Monte]

The amount of dead stuff online would suck the life out of you. Facebook pages for long closed businesses are a particular hate of mine as I have to spend hours researching such stuff and if I had a Euro for every blind alley I have been led down I would be a rich man.

[CelticRambler]

Might be a particuliarity of French websites, but: coming from a search page, websites insisting you define your "local" bricks-and-mortar store before allowing you move on to the product page, then telling you the product is not available so they can't give you any information about it.

It's the internet FFS, the whole world is "local" if I'm window-shopping.

[CelticRambler]

And while I'm here: feckin search engines sending me to recipe websites that only use incoherent American units. What kind of a jellied brain thinks it's still a good idea to mix quarts and cups and teaspoons and ounces and inches (inches? FFS) in a recipe.

[Hairy-Joe]

Yep, bloody American units!

No wonder NASA lost a space craft when they various contractors got the units mixed-up and just looked at the number and not the unit!

Anyway, how bloody big is a "cup"? I've various sizes of cups in the press!

[isha]

As I have their cup measures and an old chart that translates most old measures I'm okay, though a stick of butter is where I can come unstuck.

[isha]

I have so many minor annoyances at the moment, it's hard to know where to start! The ESB bill - for fuxake, I could buy a serviceable second hand car with the amount they are asking in the last bill. Or a nice holiday in Gozo. I am in roaring pain the last 10 days because of a wild night of dancing I put in - moves I obviously had not been practising before the stupid mood came upon me. My love of brussels sprouts is under attack. I said to himself that lots of people like brussels sprouts and he said give me a list of their names. And because we have taken to cutbacks in the household shopping, he is actually hiding nice things for himself! I found the last of the cheese for last week hidden in a side pocket of the fridge. And that is all without the threat of nuclear conflagration being handwaved on all sides. Plus, Christmas is just over 9 weeks away, and I've not a thing done

[678904673]

Getting home with the shopping and realizing you forgot to pick up toilet roll. Quite the bummer

[CelticRambler]

As I have their cup measures and an old chart that translates most old measures I'm okay

G'wan then: what's 3 cups of (fresh and squishy) figs? I'll take it in numbers of figs or grammes/kilos.

[isha]

G'wan then: what's 3 cups of (fresh and squishy) figs? I'll take it in numbers of figs or grammes/kilos.

I don't know. I would go with grabbed handfuls being a cup in that case, but if you have big hands, you're in trouble. But for your future edification, here's what I have.

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[Diamonds of Frost]

Myself. I'm on my holidays and it's been an endurance so far. Only another 6 nights left.

It's roasting hot so I can't go outside during the day and I dislike where we are staying. So I feel guilty that I'm not having a brilliant time because husband loves it and I love him. And to make it worse I've been moany and not liking how I've been

[isha]

Myself. I'm on my holidays and it's been an endurance so far. Only another 6 nights left.

It's roasting hot so I can't go outside during the day and I dislike where we are staying. So I feel guilty that I'm not having a brilliant time because husband loves it and I love him. And to make it worse I've been moany and not liking how I've been

Awwwww, you poor thing, honestly it's horrid. I adore heat and sunshine, and my husband instantly breaks out in full body, insanely-itchy prickly heat rash and sits around like a man in agony (because, I suppose, he is in agony). If I want to go to warm places I go with someone else or alone.