Irritations

[Ms Diddles]

Assembly/operating instructions for an item that was made abroad that are written by someone who speaks poor English.

Oh, I make a point of never reading instructions (or recipes or any kind of how-to guide).

It makes life more interesting.

I'm sure that if asked my partner would put "People who refuse to read instructions" near the top of his list of irritations though, as he usually has to dig the instructions out of the bin and re-do whatever unholy mess I've created!

[Herlock Sholmes]

Putting them back in winter is always nice as you get an extra hour of sleep!

Fair point Ms D

[Ms Diddles]

Having to put the clocks back and forward.

Putting them back in winter is always nice as you get an extra hour of sleep!

[Herlock Sholmes]

Assembly/operating instructions for an item that was made abroad that are written by someone who speaks poor English.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Having to put the clocks back and forward.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Companies that sell cosmetics and toiletries who try to convince people (usually targeting women) that they need to spend huge amounts of cash on products by insisting that you they need to apply more stuff to their faces every day than Van Gogh applied paint to a canvas.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Waking up in the dark and going to the loo under the foolish assumption that it’s around 3am. Then when you get back to bed and check your clock it’s 15 minutes before you need to get up!

[Herlock Sholmes]

People (Doctors for example) with illegible handwriting. How can anyone learn something as a child, improve with practice and then over the years go into such a reverse that they end up with worse handwriting than when they were a toddler! It’s so disrespectful too. You wouldn’t go into a shop and spout gibberish and expect to be understood and served accordingly so why would someone leave a note for someone that have to spend an age trying to decipher?

[Herlock Sholmes]

That box that comes up about accepting cookies every single time that you visit a website!

[c.d.]

Hats worn the wrong way round (why?)

Yeah, wearing a baseball cap backwards is pretty much the norm here in the U.S among the 15-30 (or even older) male crowd. The why of it is beyond me as I think it makes you look like a complete idiot.

The best sartorial advice I ever read on this phenomenon said "no male over ten years of age should ever wear their cap backwards unless they are playing baseball and they are the catcher."

c.d.

[Herlock Sholmes]

I’d like to add the entire fashion industry. How have we as a human race fallen for this glaring con? We have an industry full of people who not only make millions from clothes but they have also managed to arrange things so that a short time after a customer has spent a large chunk of cash on clothes the customer is told that these clothes should no longer be worn as they are now unfashionable. So that person must go out and spend more money on new, more fashionable clothes which in turn will be fit only for the charity shops in a few weeks time. It’s a brilliantly simple but unbeatable scam. Everyone is a winner…if you are in the fashion industry in any way of course. Customers addicted to fashion are permanently drained of cash.

And what pointless stupidities fashion has given us:


Barking mad clothes at fashion shows that a sartorially challenged clown wouldn’t wear.

The comedy hairstyles we see today amongst the young which look more like topiary.

Hats worn the wrong way round (why?)

Trousers hanging down so far that the person wearing them can’t walk normally.

Jogging bottoms with one trouser leg rolled up.

Walking around with a sweater tied around the shoulders.

Stupid, threatening face-coverings.

A hat and a hood at the same time.


I’m sure that if some pop star walked out dressed in an ill-fitting suit covered in custard with a bucket for a hat you’d get an army of halfwits doing likewise.

[Tani]

That’s rough Tani. I wasn’t suggesting that intolerances aren’t all genuine though btw.

This is true, but I find many are just put ons for some kind of vague attention. It's like the people who choose not to eat gluten for whatever reason, when those with actual gluten intolerances become taken less and less seriously. It's very annoying and makes people with actual allergies and intolerances be pushed away as posers too. It's usually dairy and gluten, for some reason. I guess no-one wants to fake a caffeine intolerance, that's too hard to keep up

[Herlock Sholmes]

I have a caffeine intolerance (the only intolerance I have) and it makes life so difficult. If I want coke I have to buy a large bottle because I've never seen decaf in small bottles, and if in a can only in a large pack etc. I can't always trust that I'm being served the decaf coffee I ask for. Caffeine is in many medications and other products naturally such as chocolate. I'm limited by which sodas I can buy etc. It's certainly nothing to brag about, given I once entered a psychotic state owing to overdosing. I just buy my decaf and get on with life. It's usually easy to find decaf tea and coffee in shops, but when it comes to medications such as painkillers, that's not as easy.

It sucks but life goes on

That’s rough Tani. I wasn’t suggesting that intolerances aren’t all genuine though btw.

[Tani]

And surely there can’t be so many food ‘intolerances’? I’m sure that some people just like to feel special and they aren’t happy unless they can say “yes, I’ve got x so I can’t eat rhinoceros.”

I have a caffeine intolerance (the only intolerance I have) and it makes life so difficult. If I want coke I have to buy a large bottle because I've never seen decaf in small bottles, and if in a can only in a large pack etc. I can't always trust that I'm being served the decaf coffee I ask for. Caffeine is in many medications and other products naturally such as chocolate. I'm limited by which sodas I can buy etc. It's certainly nothing to brag about, given I once entered a psychotic state owing to overdosing. I just buy my decaf and get on with life. It's usually easy to find decaf tea and coffee in shops, but when it comes to medications such as painkillers, that's not as easy.

It sucks but life goes on

[Pcdunn]

Yeah, that's pretty grim!

When I was growing up in Southern California, usually only old men wore socks with their sandals. (That has become a stereotype for retirees in Flordia, too.)

My dad used to say when driving, "Watch out for the old man in the hat!" I think because older men were more likely to wear fedoras in the car, and might not be good drivers. So getting stuck in traffic behind one could be slow-- or dangerous.