| Random irritations.. 09:32 - Jun 10 with 469138 views | Discodroid |
state funded schools in birmingham calling children to islamic prayer over the playground speakers, eschewing music lessons music, segregation... and the bbc doing a 'what are british values 'phone in this morning. cunnys.
evening standard , who seem to be phasing out their female genital mutilation wall to wall coverage , for a 'say no to rape in war' campaign. to be published in depth every night,, along with pictures of skinny london supermodels falling out of night clubson cocaine and articles on womens shoes and hanbags which cost £15,000 each.
and articles on 'suuuper property dahrling' that cost £25 million for a studio flat in barnes .tedious double page spreads on walthamstow village , sandwiches that are made by freegans for £50...and avante garde homosexual dance troops from slovienia .this paper says nothing at all to the average londoner.
musicals , and the cast's of musicals, especially amateur ones in church halls,romford, last saturday night.
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| Random irritations.. on 14:05 - Dec 4 with 2890 views | Logman |
Posted this before and it's kind of 2000 - 2010 material but people (usually girls/women) who say 'like' every other sentence.
Actually I don't have so much of a problem with girls saying it because it's part of the bonding exercise but mid-20/30 year olds saying it every 5 seconds. Come on !!! You're English, use the language properly and try to get to the end of a sentence without sounding like a teenager.
Still it's one of the best things about travelling - when you get on the plane and you know that you won't be hearing 'I was like ....' for 2 weeks |  | | |
| Random irritations.. on 14:08 - Dec 4 with 2884 views | derbyhoop |
| Random irritations.. on 10:04 - Nov 14 by ted_hendrix |
Kippers packaged in the hardest plastic known to mankind, If I want kippers for me tea on a Friday I have to start opening the packet on a Wednesday evening.
''Spreads Straight from the fridge'' there Isn't a butter in the World that ''Spreads Straight from the fridge''.
''Resealable'' peanut bags, they're not bloody ''resealable'' I re-sealed my large bag of peanuts last week and when I picked the bag up the bloody bag burst open and peanuts went everywhere. |
Any item where the packaging requires a newly sharpened Stanley knife to make the slightest impression in the thing that you are going to throw away.
Twitter or X is a toxic hell hole. No wonder everybody decent is migrating to Bluesky. Including LoftforWords and QPR. |  |
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Find me on twitter @derbyhoop and now on Bluesky |
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| Random irritations.. on 14:50 - Dec 4 with 2819 views | hubble |
Just making sure I'm up to date with recent posts: I have not moved to Bluesky, so obviously I am not decent. Nor have I ever been to a gym, or Chester. However (switching threads), I do like black pudding.
And if I haven't said it in this thread already: people who cycle on the pavement: utter, utter cants. |  |
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| Random irritations.. on 14:53 - Dec 4 with 2806 views | TheChef |
| Random irritations.. on 14:05 - Dec 4 by Logman |
Posted this before and it's kind of 2000 - 2010 material but people (usually girls/women) who say 'like' every other sentence.
Actually I don't have so much of a problem with girls saying it because it's part of the bonding exercise but mid-20/30 year olds saying it every 5 seconds. Come on !!! You're English, use the language properly and try to get to the end of a sentence without sounding like a teenager.
Still it's one of the best things about travelling - when you get on the plane and you know that you won't be hearing 'I was like ....' for 2 weeks |
Unless you're going to the US. |  |
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| Random irritations.. on 16:28 - Dec 4 with 2718 views | R_from_afar |
| Random irritations.. on 09:45 - Dec 4 by Watford_Ranger |
Had a work event at a very posh hotel the other day. Had to do a few emails so ordered a coffee at the bar. £7 for a double espresso plus 15% service. Shocking obviously and it wasn’t even that good but they had the gall to add an ‘optional’ £1 for charity. So you’re charging me (or my work expenses thankfully in this case) £9.05 for black coffee. You pay the quid to charity out of the £7 you’re charging. |
Wow! Terrible, just terrible.
How on earth can they justify a "service charge" for a coffee?  |  |
| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| Random irritations.. on 18:37 - Dec 4 with 2615 views | GaryT |
| Random irritations.. on 14:53 - Dec 4 by TheChef |
Unless you're going to the US. |
If it wasn't a 'like' every five seconds it was an 'um' at the slightest hint of a pause. Todays annoyance is "I'm not gonna lie". Well that's awfully decent of you chap but you could have just chosen to tell me the truth without the unnecessary preamble. Which, unfortunately, now makes me believe that you may indeed be about to lie.
Edit. Ah crap, that was meant to be a reply to Logman. [Post edited 4 Dec 18:39]
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| Random irritations.. on 10:27 - Dec 16 with 2231 views | loftboy |
Buying Christmas/ Birthday cards and being asked if you want a receipt,what’s the recipient going to do take it back if they don’t like the picture. |  |
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| Random irritations.. on 13:42 - Dec 16 with 2073 views | R_from_afar |
A company which services my solar installation has a really irritating and time-consuming booking system.
Here's what happened recently:
- They told me my contract had been renewed and *they told me* to contact them, to arrange the annual inspection
- I duly did, but...it soon became clear that that first contact is only designed to enable them to open a service ticket, time slots cannot be discussed.
- Instead, they ring you back, at any old time. Not surprisingly, I missed their call.
- They left a message, great, except that they informed me that they had selected a slot of their choosing and simply booked me in.
- Surprise surprise, I couldn't make that time. So, I have to ring them back. As you can imagine, I was far from happy by this point. What a charade the whole process is!
- They informed me that they would get back in touch about an alternative slot. Days later, it's still radio silence.
- What was particularly rich was that they said that this is a busy time of year for them. Fair enough, but if that's the case, why did *they* ask me to book an inspection. Instead, ask the customer to book one in the spring or at some other, more convenient time.
- Net net: Nothing has been achieved grrrrrr  | |
| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| Random irritations.. on 13:58 - Dec 16 with 2038 views | dannyblue |
The mother of my children. |  | | |
| Random irritations.. on 12:29 - Dec 18 with 1806 views | Juzzie |
| Random irritations.. on 13:58 - Dec 16 by dannyblue |
The mother of my children. |
The children of my mother.
Oh, hang on...... |  | | |
| Random irritations.. on 14:10 - Dec 18 with 1715 views | Bluce_Ree |
My new office is in an open plan building and two floors down is the canteen. Quite handy most of the time. But over Xmas they hire it out to individual teams who want to do a Xmas meal. Which is fine except that I'm now at my desk listening to F*CKING ELTON JOHN AT LOUD VOLUME.
This is like some sort of fking hate crime.
Pretty good bassplaying on that song though whatever it was. Anyway, f*ck off, man!
ALSO: literally every person I've walked near today has been splutter-coughing like they've got FULL BLOWN AIDS. Motherf**kers, if I'm ill on Xmas day I will shit on your dads.
EDIT: Shakin' Stevens now. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
EDIT: Wizzard now. FUUUUUUUUCK. Only because this song reminds me of the end of the Black Mirror episode White Christmas which was shockingly bleak.
EDIT: F*ck it. Ended up jogging back to the car park to get my noise cancelling earphones out of the car. [Post edited 18 Dec 15:22]
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| Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. He runs like a cheetah, his crosses couldn't be sweeter. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. |
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| Random irritations.. on 16:23 - Dec 18 with 1603 views | Juzzie |
| Random irritations.. on 14:10 - Dec 18 by Bluce_Ree |
My new office is in an open plan building and two floors down is the canteen. Quite handy most of the time. But over Xmas they hire it out to individual teams who want to do a Xmas meal. Which is fine except that I'm now at my desk listening to F*CKING ELTON JOHN AT LOUD VOLUME.
This is like some sort of fking hate crime.
Pretty good bassplaying on that song though whatever it was. Anyway, f*ck off, man!
ALSO: literally every person I've walked near today has been splutter-coughing like they've got FULL BLOWN AIDS. Motherf**kers, if I'm ill on Xmas day I will shit on your dads.
EDIT: Shakin' Stevens now. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
EDIT: Wizzard now. FUUUUUUUUCK. Only because this song reminds me of the end of the Black Mirror episode White Christmas which was shockingly bleak.
EDIT: F*ck it. Ended up jogging back to the car park to get my noise cancelling earphones out of the car. [Post edited 18 Dec 15:22]
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Can you imagine working in a superstore like Sainsbury's, Tesco etc where it's Christmas music all day long for weeks on end. Guantanamo Bay is Hotel Paradise by comparison. | | | |
| Random irritations.. on 16:49 - Dec 18 with 1564 views | 81A |
Losing, and never again finding, the end of the sellotape. I know they do those spool things, but I'm not a supply teacher with a gonk on the end of my pencil and patches on my jacket.
Come to think of it, the whole Christmas wrapping experience is distressing - can't I just transfer dollary-doos straight to the kids instead ? | | | |
| Random irritations.. on 17:59 - Dec 18 with 1492 views | derbyhoop |
| Random irritations.. on 16:23 - Dec 18 by Juzzie |
Can you imagine working in a superstore like Sainsbury's, Tesco etc where it's Christmas music all day long for weeks on end. Guantanamo Bay is Hotel Paradise by comparison. |
As a spotty teenager I worked in Tesco, Hammersmith. Music was an 8 track cartridge (ask your dad), which, as you can guess, had 8 tracks. By the end of 1st shift I was ready to take an RPG to damned machine | |
| "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one's lifetime." (Mark Twain)
Find me on twitter @derbyhoop and now on Bluesky |
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| Random irritations.. on 22:41 - Dec 18 with 1375 views | GaryT |
You are up a ladder and you drop a screw, what are the odds of finding if....
a) You in an enclosed space like a bathroom. 50/50
b) You are in a garage and you hear the screw hit the floor....and then total silence. 10%
c) You are in the garden and it falls into the long grass. 0.001%
Screws...twisty little sneaky bastards, especially the flat head ones. | | | |
| Random irritations.. on 10:41 - Dec 19 with 1250 views | Juzzie |
| Random irritations.. on 17:59 - Dec 18 by derbyhoop |
As a spotty teenager I worked in Tesco, Hammersmith. Music was an 8 track cartridge (ask your dad), which, as you can guess, had 8 tracks. By the end of 1st shift I was ready to take an RPG to damned machine |
*pedant warning* - "8 track" doesn't refer specifically to the number of songs contained (though, of course, it can hold eight if they all fit as it's capacity was around eighty minutes of music). It's the number of channels available i.e. stereo would be two.
But yes, hearing the same 8 christmas songs on loop all day would do the same to me too! | | | |
| Random irritations.. on 10:48 - Dec 19 with 1223 views | GaryHaddock |
| Random irritations.. on 22:41 - Dec 18 by GaryT |
You are up a ladder and you drop a screw, what are the odds of finding if....
a) You in an enclosed space like a bathroom. 50/50
b) You are in a garage and you hear the screw hit the floor....and then total silence. 10%
c) You are in the garden and it falls into the long grass. 0.001%
Screws...twisty little sneaky bastards, especially the flat head ones. |
Best way to find dropped screws I find is to hoover near the area once you are finished doing what you are doing.
The vacuum will soon let you know (loudly). |  | | |
| Random irritations.. on 12:06 - Dec 19 with 1124 views | W4Hoop |
| Random irritations.. on 18:37 - Dec 4 by GaryT |
If it wasn't a 'like' every five seconds it was an 'um' at the slightest hint of a pause. Todays annoyance is "I'm not gonna lie". Well that's awfully decent of you chap but you could have just chosen to tell me the truth without the unnecessary preamble. Which, unfortunately, now makes me believe that you may indeed be about to lie.
Edit. Ah crap, that was meant to be a reply to Logman. [Post edited 4 Dec 18:39]
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Oh I do so agree. All variations of "to be honest", "if I'm being honest", "I have to be honest", and their bastard cousin "I'm not gonna lie". Meaningless verbal chewing gum. At the Rooney/Vardy libel trial, a witness began answering a question with the words "I'm not gonna lie...". The judge immediately interrupted with "I should hope not. You are in a court of law!" | | | |
| Random irritations.. on 19:34 - Dec 19 with 958 views | Mick_S |
“ not really”
That’s a yes, then. |  |
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| Random irritations.. on 18:42 - Dec 26 with 568 views | Juzzie |
“Limited interruptions”
Is what Amazon Prime call ‘adverts’. Why not just call them adverts, they already have a name.
This trend the last few years of sanitising everything is doing my nut in. | | | |
| Random irritations.. on 20:22 - Dec 26 with 509 views | Bluce_Ree |
It's why I don't have Prime now. Fk them. They not making enough fking money? C*nts.
Now I just sub for December so I can order presents and shit. Beyond that, fk Amazon. | |
| Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. He runs like a cheetah, his crosses couldn't be sweeter. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. |
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| Random irritations.. on 20:25 - Dec 26 with 501 views | Watford_Ranger |
People who can’t just leave your house when it’s time to go. Endless faffing about, having a little chat with everyone and generally hovering so you can’t just clear up and relax. | | | |
| Random irritations.. on 22:36 - Dec 26 with 403 views | R_from_afar |
| Random irritations.. on 13:42 - Dec 16 by R_from_afar |
A company which services my solar installation has a really irritating and time-consuming booking system.
Here's what happened recently:
- They told me my contract had been renewed and *they told me* to contact them, to arrange the annual inspection
- I duly did, but...it soon became clear that that first contact is only designed to enable them to open a service ticket, time slots cannot be discussed.
- Instead, they ring you back, at any old time. Not surprisingly, I missed their call.
- They left a message, great, except that they informed me that they had selected a slot of their choosing and simply booked me in.
- Surprise surprise, I couldn't make that time. So, I have to ring them back. As you can imagine, I was far from happy by this point. What a charade the whole process is!
- They informed me that they would get back in touch about an alternative slot. Days later, it's still radio silence.
- What was particularly rich was that they said that this is a busy time of year for them. Fair enough, but if that's the case, why did *they* ask me to book an inspection. Instead, ask the customer to book one in the spring or at some other, more convenient time.
- Net net: Nothing has been achieved grrrrrr |
There is a postscript to this: On 23rd December, I was on Loftforwords when I saw a notification of a voice mail appear on my 'phone. My mobile didn't even ring.
I duly checked the voice mail and discovered that it was from a service engineer, saying he was on his way and he'd be with me within 45 minutes.
All well and good except: No one had let me know about the appointment. No text, mail, call, nada  .
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| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| Random irritations.. on 12:18 - Dec 28 with 250 views | 81A |
Radio advert for some nonsense Directory Enquiry type service called "Maureen 118212". Putting on a silly voice for a radio ad is just lame and, more to the point, who even needs your poxy service ("£2.50 plus call charge") in the era when even my Nan's got a smartphone?
And you can do one too, 118118 weirdo runners. | | | |
| Random irritations.. on 12:54 - Dec 28 with 194 views | Watford_Ranger |
Big communal recycling bins on my road overflowing with all sorts of random crap people have chucked out. Furniture, clothes (clothes donation thing is 2 mins away), books, unbroken boxes. | | | |
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