Irritations

[Herlock Sholmes]

People who can’t make a phone call by holding the phone to their ear. They have to have it on ‘speaker’ and hold it in front of their face because they feel that the rest of the population is desperate to follow their inane conversation.

[Herlock Sholmes]

When did Libraries stop being Libraries?

I went to the local Library today for the first time in a while. It looked more look a drop in centre for people with double-digit IQ’s, deafness and serious hygiene issues. It was so loud. What happened to Librarians telling people to ‘shhhh’? If someone had gone to the Library to study or to do research they would have found it impossible. One young woman, sitting with 2 young men, was constantly making phone calls. One after another, all trivial. And loud! If she’d have just gone and stood on the doorstep of the Library she would have saved on her phone bill because the person she was talking to would have been able to have heard her from there.

And books? Around 50% of the quantity of books that there used to be because they are using the space for other things. Obviously having books there is a bit of an inconvenience so I don’t know why they don’t just have done with it and dump all of the books.

It’s a sad state of affairs that libraries have come to this.

[Enigma]

Ha! That bloke Jurgen Klopp, Enigma.

He's a legend.

(Agree the adverts are terrible though!)

Thanks for the info about him Ms D. I had to Google him.

He's also in an advert for Amplifon where he is so obnoxious that I wish I could re-arrange his teeth so he'd require dental work.

Regards,
Gary

[Ms Diddles]

The bloke with all his teeth showing in the Trivago adverts.

Ha! That bloke Jurgen Klopp, Enigma.

He's a legend.

(Agree the adverts are terrible though!)

[Wickerman]

Not being a big movie watcher, but I think I was watching Prime, suddenly, in the middle of this movie the screen goes black, this window comes up:
"This uninterrupted program will return, after these messages"

[Herlock Sholmes]

The recent trend of using the word ‘batter’ in cricket. For years it’s been a word only used by those that know nothing about cricket.

[Enigma]

The bloke with all his teeth showing in the Trivago adverts.

[Herlock Sholmes]

On my father's first visit to Canada, at a cafe he went to buy a simple cup of tea.
It turned into a Monthy Python sketch, . . . hot or cold, paper cup or?, black, white or cream, china, herbal, indian, etc. etc. sugar or sweetener ?. . .
You could tell, my dad was about to explode. . .

The worst is when they just give you a cup/mug of hot water and with a tea bag dropped into it. One day you’ll go into a café and order a sandwich and someone will just put the ingredients in front of you.

[Wickerman]

Trying to buy a light bulb. It used to be all you had to do was look for the watt size you needed. Now you have to choose between watt, lumen, LED, white, soft white, cool white, warm white, dimmable, non-dimmable, standard base and God only knows what (or is that watt else).

It seems the joke now has become how many people and how long does it take to pick out a light bulb?

c.d.

On my father's first visit to Canada, at a cafe he went to buy a simple cup of tea.
It turned into a Monthy Python sketch, . . . hot or cold, paper cup or?, black, white or cream, china, herbal, indian, etc. etc. sugar or sweetener ?. . .
You could tell, my dad was about to explode. . .

[Wickerman]

The more features you have, the more things can go wrong with it. Just give me an on-off switch, and a light so my wife knows when she's left the damn thing on!

[c.d.]

I bought a coffee maker yesterday from Amazon. Same damn thing. The number of options and features available was mind boggling. I just want a cup of coffee. Is that too much to ask?

c.d.

[c.d.]

Trying to buy a light bulb. It used to be all you had to do was look for the watt size you needed. Now you have to choose between watt, lumen, LED, white, soft white, cool white, warm white, dimmable, non-dimmable, standard base and God only knows what (or is that watt else).

It seems the joke now has become how many people and how long does it take to pick out a light bulb?

c.d.

[Wickerman]

The scourge of the urban landscape, bicycle lanes in the city center, absolutely ridiculous.
In the 'burbs, fine, less traffic, more space, but in the city center with trucks, buses, trams and general traffic all battling for space, many of these inner-city lanes are just not wide enough for a dedicated bicycle lane.
Our city has made it illegal to pass a bicycle down town, and now we have cyclists riding on the footpath to avoid the traffic, which IS illegal, flying across zebra crossings, which IS illegal, running through stop-lights, which is ALSO illegal.
Yet the rest of the civilized world tolerates this, all in the name of, what?

[Herlock Sholmes]

Motorised scooter death traps.

[Herlock Sholmes]

People who deliberate engineer it so that cars and motorbikes are twice as loud as they should be.