Irritations

[Wickerman]

People who can’t use mobile phones properly. The hold them horizontally in front of their faces with the speaker on instead of against their ear. Why? Do they think that everyone needs to know what they are talking about?

In many cases these are people who are walking in town alone. They talk out loud because they are desperate to show they are not 'Billy, no friends'.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Presumably they hold the phone in this manner in an attempt to avoid frying their few remaining brain cells from the electromagnetic emissions put out by the phone. Given the mostly inane conversations which one can't but help overhear, they have been unsuccessful in that regard.

[Enigma]

People who can’t use mobile phones properly. The hold them horizontally in front of their faces with the speaker on instead of against their ear. Why? Do they think that everyone needs to know what they are talking about?

Presumably they hold the phone in this manner in an attempt to avoid frying their few remaining brain cells from the electromagnetic emissions put out by the phone. Given the mostly inane conversations which one can't but help overhear, they have been unsuccessful in that regard.

[Herlock Sholmes]

People who can’t use mobile phones properly. The hold them horizontally in front of their faces with the speaker on instead of against their ear. Why? Do they think that everyone needs to know what they are talking about?

[Herlock Sholmes]

The continued quest to frame Charles Lechmere for the Ripper murders is an irritation.

[John Wheat]

The continued quest to frame Charles Lechmere for the Ripper murders is an irritation.

[Ms Diddles]

I don't mind Oasis however you could never acuse them of being original. They sound like The Beetles mixed with a bit of The Stones.

Yes, very unoriginal John.

It's their stupid pro-nunc-iatiooooooon that really bugs me.

Someone should sign them up for some elo-cutioooooooon lessons!!!!

[Geddy2112]

A perfect description.

I’ve never understood the appeal. They just seem so average and dull. I don’t mind a bit of rock and roll excess (my favourite band Led Zeppelin, with The Who, virtually invented it) but Liam just comes across as a deeply unpleasant, unlikeable person. And that silly, exaggerated walk. There’s no getting away from the fact that they’re staggeringly popular though. People will sell their offspring for tickets. Give me Van Der Graaf Generator any day.

Absolutely, I think I said somewhere if they played at my funeral I'd still get up and walk out. Talentless arrogant horrible Mancs... grrrr

[John Wheat]

This one will be controversial especially today…..Oasis!

I loathe and detest them. The most overrated band in the history of music imo. Someone just described Liam Gallagher on tv as a great frontman and singer. The guy stands there like someone waiting for a bus with his hands behind his back wearing a Mac singing in his annoying whiney voice. He sounds like a fan singing a football song. God I hate Oasis so much.

I don't mind Oasis however you could never acuse them of being original. They sound like The Beetles mixed with a bit of The Stones.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Gotta agree with this one.

I once heard their music described as "nursery rhymes for drunks".

Apt I thought!

Edit: I bet Liam is one of those guys who walks about with his hands down his trousers and is always rummaging around in there too. He looks the type.

A perfect description.

I’ve never understood the appeal. They just seem so average and dull. I don’t mind a bit of rock and roll excess (my favourite band Led Zeppelin, with The Who, virtually invented it) but Liam just comes across as a deeply unpleasant, unlikeable person. And that silly, exaggerated walk. There’s no getting away from the fact that they’re staggeringly popular though. People will sell their offspring for tickets. Give me Van Der Graaf Generator any day.

[Ms Diddles]

This one will be controversial especially today…..Oasis!

I loathe and detest them. The most overrated band in the history of music imo. Someone just described Liam Gallagher on tv as a great frontman and singer. The guy stands there like someone waiting for a bus with his hands behind his back wearing a Mac singing in his annoying whiney voice. He sounds like a fan singing a football song. God I hate Oasis so much.

Gotta agree with this one.

I once heard their music described as "nursery rhymes for drunks".

Apt I thought!

Edit: I bet Liam is one of those guys who walks about with his hands down his trousers and is always rummaging around in there too. He looks the type.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Another irritation, people being intentionally stupid.
In this case, enforcing a rule that was made with a different intent in mind.

An example is, lining up in a grocery store. three self check-out machines and a sign that says 'No Carts'.
There's four regular check-outs open, and 6 or 7 people in each line.
So, I have a loaf of bread, a carton of eggs, and a carton of milk. My wife is pushing a cart with a case of 24 bottled water.
It's in the cart because it is too heavy to carry around the store.
So, we do not have a shopping cart full of groceries, which is what the sign refers to, which would slow down the fast self checkout.
We have four items, that's all.

So this assistant walks up to me telling me "no carts", which sparked off a ludicrous exchange. The aisle was wide enough for a cart, so she had no cause to stop me passing through. I said "you carry that case of water then!, it's too heavy for us".
All she could say was "no carts", "no carts".

Others may disagree, but in my view she was being intentionally stupid, it's obvious we did not have a cart full of shopping.
Maybe it's just me, but I expect staff to show a bit of gumption, if they see a pensioner struggling with a case of water, recognise the situation for what it is, or assist them in some other way.

Sounds like a jobsworth with no concept of common sense Wick. What if you had your arm in a sling and so took a cart for those 4 items? Or what if you were disabled? Or 85?

[Wickerman]

Another irritation, people being intentionally stupid.
In this case, enforcing a rule that was made with a different intent in mind.

An example is, lining up in a grocery store. three self check-out machines and a sign that says 'No Carts'.
There's four regular check-outs open, and 6 or 7 people in each line.
So, I have a loaf of bread, a carton of eggs, and a carton of milk. My wife is pushing a cart with a case of 24 bottled water.
It's in the cart because it is too heavy to carry around the store.
So, we do not have a shopping cart full of groceries, which is what the sign refers to, which would slow down the fast self checkout.
We have four items, that's all.

So this assistant walks up to me telling me "no carts", which sparked off a ludicrous exchange. The aisle was wide enough for a cart, so she had no cause to stop me passing through. I said "you carry that case of water then!, it's too heavy for us".
All she could say was "no carts", "no carts".

Others may disagree, but in my view she was being intentionally stupid, it's obvious we did not have a cart full of shopping.
Maybe it's just me, but I expect staff to show a bit of gumption, if they see a pensioner struggling with a case of water, recognise the situation for what it is, or assist them in some other way.

[Herlock Sholmes]

This one will be controversial especially today…..Oasis!

I loathe and detest them. The most overrated band in the history of music imo. Someone just described Liam Gallagher on tv as a great frontman and singer. The guy stands there like someone waiting for a bus with his hands behind his back wearing a Mac singing in his annoying whiney voice. He sounds like a fan singing a football song. God I hate Oasis so much.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Visitors to The Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C. who return home and fire off angry letters to the editor complaining that the Smithsonian is attempting to push the false religion of evolution upon their children and anyone else foolish enough to be taken in by their propaganda.

c.d.

Those people belong in a museum c.d. As exhibits.