Little things that irritate you

[DasNutNock]

Able-bodied people that use the lift to travel a floor or two up or down in a building that also has escalators and stairs. Lazy, and inconvenient for the people that actually need them - people carrying stuff, with trolleys or buggies, the disabled or very elderly.

[ageing hammer]

So this morning inside in bed having a Sunday morning lie in with my missus.

I got the leg over, she got her leg over, followed by loud shouts of HEY HEY and Jesus and NOOOOO
and quick move up and go go go etc..

The bed was shaking and creaking and there was general sounding mayhem.

Alas I know what you are all thinking but all is not what it seems..................

There was a ****ing wasp under the duvet.


Cue one of my sons banging on the wall saying " for God's sake ye are nearly sixty years old will ye cop yourselves on ow dat " ( that's how we speak in Cork)

Of course my going into him to tell him what had happened was never going to wash.

And to compound it the demon wasp got away out the window so no evidence.

[Blow Bubbles]

Laura Kuenssberg off the BBC.
No idea why, but there is just something about her that really irritates me.

Crooked face bint that most probably is a dirty little minx off camera

Make you right. Definitely would.

[sendô]

Double glazing salesmen.

Is it really that hard to just give me a quote?

[The Old Man of Storr]

People that keep pointing out the age difference between our eldest (7 years) and youngest (2 days) daughters. Yes, we're aware that's quite an age gap. Would you like to hear about the miscarriage we had in 2012?

First of all , my heartiest congratulations to you and your wife on the birth of your daughter and I'm really sorry to hear of your miscarriage in 2012 , you both must have been really worried this time around , the age difference is no one's business but your own .

Our two kids were born on the 1st and 2nd of October exactly 9 years apart , no reason whatsoever other than my Mrs wanted another baby - I just did as I was told .

Again , congratulations to you both !! :raver:

[Greatest Cockney Rip Off]

Double glazing salesmen.

Is it really that hard to just give me a quote?

Forget all the big companies. Go to a local glazier. They'll come round, measure up and give you a quote. Bigger companies come round, give you a Powerpoint presentation about how their glass is the best etc. etc. I gave up on them in the end and got a local company to sort it. Much quicker, was done and dusted in 3 weeks. That was a door and 5 windows.

[davids cross]

The word momentum........as in, it's going your way.

A fraudulent little bugger of a word......

[sendô]

Forget all the big companies.

Yeah that's what we're doing. Got someone coming round who buys them wholesale and installs himself later this week.

Had a small company quote, in out here's the price cheers.

Two more larger companies, an hour a time each all the spiel - smaller companies cheap **** dodgy labour, bigger companies all overpriced too many over heads.

One price, then a set discount, then a further discount because he likes me, then rings the office offers special deal if I buy right there and then, then one offering to buy the quote of the other company for £300 and to do them for £300 less than the other lot - except I'm paying him to "buy" the quote.

[Greatest Cockney Rip Off]

Good move.

You have to tell these big companies you've spoken to, straight that you’re going with someone else. Had them ringing me up for ages afterwards offering 30 and 50 quid discounts at random intervals. In the end I told them to f*** off and don’t ring me again. It was getting stupid, calls at 8 and 9 in the evening and the like. c****.

[Kludgehammer]

Our two kids were born on the 1st and 2nd of October exactly 9 years apart

As the old joke goes... were you a precision grinder, by trade?

[The Old Man of Storr]

As the old joke goes... where you a precision grinder, by trade?

Only took one go both times , should have hired myself out .

[DasNutNock]

That I'm considering moving us to another town because I can't stand the other parents at my kid's school. It's as if they haven't developed past adolescence and, in their 40s, their main concern is how much money everyone's got, how big their houses are and who is prettiest. It all feels so crass and juvenile and their snooty/obsequious behaviour is being picked up by their children. If you have lots of money and a big house and were/are a model, you're to be respected, admired, followed and envied. If you don't, you're to be sneered at, openly. Its all so childish and depressing. Like nothing else is of importance.

I kinda wonder if they ever have moments of clarity where they sense the futility of existing like that, and wonder if they're wasting their lives. Seems doubtful.

[White Goodman]

Unlikely Dan.

Same at my kids school. I refuse to get drawn into it but even my wife, one of the most sensible people I know, has allowed herself to get caught up in it since she gave up work

Constantly showing me Facebook updates from other mums about which I don't give a ****.

Ooooh look an extension to your house. Nobody cares . Even those who 'like ' the post clearly secretly hate them .

I wouldn't mind but most of these women have either never had jobs or not had one for about 15 years . Daft c****.

Without their husbands most of them are dole fodder. Little more than prostitutes

[prophet:marginal]

Are you sure that these tiresome ideas are restricted to the area where you presently live?

[DasNutNock]

Are you sure that these tiresome ideas are restricted to the area where you presently live?

A pertinent question and I suspect that they aren't. Weybridge, though - another level of awfulness.

[DasNutNock]

Unlikely Dan.

Same at my kids school. I refuse to get drawn into it but even my wife, one of the most sensible people I know, has allowed herself to get caught up in it since she gave up work

Constantly showing me Facebook updates from other mums about which I don't give a ****.

Ooooh look an extension to your house. Nobody cares . Even those who 'like ' the post clearly secretly hate them .

I wouldn't mind but most of these women have either never had jobs or not had one for about 15 years . Daft *****.

Without their husbands most of them are dole fodder. Little more than prostitutes

Thank you for elucidating my quandary better than I could.

[RichieRiv]

We can thank social media for putting the N is narcissism

[DasNutNock]

We can thank social media for putting the N is narcissism

What DID the self-obsessed do before Facebook?

[WHU_Del]

What DID the self-obsessed do before Facebook?

Proclaimed loudly in the lounge bar of their local.

[mushy]

. That was a door and 5 windows.

Roughly what would you expect to pay for a door and five windows?