Minor things that bother you

April 1st is fast becoming one of those days of the year I mildly dread, like Halloween.

It may as well be called National Village Idiot Day. A day where idiots and corporations strive to out do each other in mutual celebration of their idiocy through the lamest jokes or pranks. Any other day this stuff would be ripped to shreds. But on April 1st it's all fine because..."hey, guys, it's April Fools! Ha ha! Got you! Can you believe us? We're actually f****** HILARIOUS". There's having a sense of humour and then there's this tedious rubbish. Not funny, never will be.

As for why I dread it, it's simply because for one day perfectly decent news outlets are now being infected with this nonsense. They obviously feel the need to compete. And it's just annoying knowing ahead of time you'll have to wade through this type of stuff just to get to the real news.

 

I sense from your anger at such a harmless little carry on, that you have maybe been a hapless and embarrassed victim at some time.:naughty:

 

Ha you'd think so wouldn't you! ;D No I'm just old and intolerant before my time on certain things.

What did make me laugh was a story I read this morning re a great double bluff. A car dealership in New Zealand ran a front page advert in one of their national newspapers saying something along the lines of 'April Fools Day Special - first person who turns up at our office with their old car and this ad will get a brand new BMW...honest!'. I imagine most people scoffed at it given the date. Well one woman actually chanced her arm and turned up and sure enough got a brand new BMW, with her old car being auctioned off for a disabled kids charity.

And that, businesses, is how you can approach April 1st in a good humoured, original way that advertises your company without resorting to half-arsed jokes!

 

When I offer guests a tea/coffee and they ask for a specific brand (I only drink Yorkshire Tea etc), who then also put 15 sugars in said drink.

 

That's just rude. Fine if you give people a choice, but unless you live in a cafe, they've no right to expect a variety to be stocked.

 

rubbish tv over bank holidays

 

At T junctions your passenger in car leaning out to check if there's any traffic coming from the right, invariably when you are trying to see what's coming from the left. Just bloody keep your head back and let me drive woman.

 

I have the passenger seat as far back as possible especially to stop that. Nothign more annoying that the passenger starting to move it forwards to give who ever is in the back "more room". Nope The seat is like that for a reason.

 

Not sure if I've already mentioned it, but the habit some people have of always leaving a bit of food on a plate.

I'm not talking about when a portion is too large, or when they leave undesirable or indigestible matter, but people who leave a few rocket leaves or a sugar snap pea on the plate. Just ****ing eat it so the plate can go straight into the dishwasher.

Even worse is when these people put their plates into the sink, with a bit of food still on them.

 

Are you my ex wife?

 

Misaligned headlights. Don't they check for these on MOTs anymore?

 

Just grab the weights and if anything's said just growl loudly ... works most times

 

People that set up Twitter accounts for their 5 a side teams and run them as if they were a real team...

 

People that try and emphasise points by adding 'in any way, shape or form.'

 

mums taking kids to school, there is noting on gods earth more selfish, don't give a toss how they drive or who's day they screw up

slags...

(in any way shape or form)

 

It's in case they also dislike chicken nuggets in their wave-particle form also.

 

People that say "end of".

 

Here here

 

People who reply to posts from months ago :naughty:

 

immigration. in any shape or form. end of

 

People who say 'yourself' when they mean 'you.'

 

Fire alarms at work.

Wasted 10 mins.

 

When I get 95% of the way to sneezing and then nothing happens.

Makes me look like a lunatic.

 

People using the phrase (and any variations to this whatsoever) "you can take the girl out of Yorkshire, but you can't take Yorkshire out of the girl!"

It does not make you look profound, it does not make you look intelligent and it does not make you an interesting person for using this overused and irritating sentence.

 

People who say "in a nutshell"

 

It depends upon where she put the Yorkshire in the first place! :naughty:

 

People who use themselves, and only themselves, for the back ground on their phone

 

At least we both agree it's only a minor thing.

 

The girl in my office who shrieks "AWKWARD!" and does jazz hands when situations are anything less than 100% expected

 

Is she fat? Only fat girls do jazz hands.

 

You're spending time with the wrong people.

 

No, completely the opposite. Jazz knows no size boundaries.

 

Why?