Pet Peeves IV

[snooky]

The blatant lying and deception in the media and advertising.
The total lack of basic morality that is now accepted as the norm.
Everything right down to buying a packet of cornflakes, washing powder, etc and finding it's only 2/3 full.
Lawyers charging £200/hr. For what?
I better stop here or this will end up as long as 'War & Peace'

[Off the bar]

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Xmas jumper day at work, the work version of a fun run, bunch of fannies showing how "wacky" and "im mental me" they are, if I get through today without being charged with GBH I will have done well

Was just about to post the exact same I'm working near Liverpool st in the city today and the number of people wearing them and they all look like ****s.

[Hiber-nation]

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That "opportunities Fife" advert on local radio.

Local radio.

[lyonhibs]

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Xmas jumper day at work, the work version of a fun run, bunch of fannies showing how "wacky" and "im mental me" they are, if I get through today without being charged with GBH I will have done well

Just Xmas jumpers in general, or more specifically when used - as you say - as some kind of "look at how wacky and festive I am" benchmark and then splattered all over Facebook in posing selfies, often by grown men.

I got one as an absolute joke last year, but I'm acutely aware I look like a fanny wearing it so would only ever dream of wearing it for a bit of a piss take around the house.

[Geo_1875]

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Xmas jumper day at work, the work version of a fun run, bunch of fannies showing how "wacky" and "im mental me" they are, if I get through today without being charged with GBH I will have done well

This.

They've organised a charity fundraising Christmas jumper day at work. Buy and wear a £10-20 jumper and donate £2 to charity. I suggested not bothering with the jumper and everybody donate £5 and apparently I've got no sense of fun.

[McD]

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This.

They've organised a charity fundraising Christmas jumper day at work. Buy and wear a £10-20 jumper and donate £2 to charity. I suggested not bothering with the jumper and everybody donate £5 and apparently I've got no sense of fun.

2 years ago my work did a 'make your own Christmas jumper day', and I got told I was a humbug etc because I said I wasn't going to ruin a jumper by sewing tinsel and stapling baubles on it.

Just use an old one was the response, until I pointed out that having paid money for something, it was up to me what I chose to do with it, and that I didn't have the money at this time of year to buy another just for the 'banter'.

[snooky]

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This.

They've organised a charity fundraising Christmas jumper day at work. Buy and wear a £10-20 jumper and donate £2 to charity. I suggested not bothering with the jumper and everybody donate £5 and apparently I've got no sense of fun.

Maybe you haven't however, you've got a far more sense on how to give money to charity rather than a knitwear manufacturer or their like.
I'm with you all the way on this one, Geo_1875

[Hermit Crab]

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Just Xmas jumpers in general, or more specifically when used - as you say - as some kind of "look at how wacky and festive I am" benchmark and then splattered all over Facebook in posing selfies, often by grown men.

I got one as an absolute joke last year, but I'm acutely aware I look like a fanny wearing it so would only ever dream of wearing it for a bit of a piss take around the house.

. Complete roasters!

[Hermit Crab]

Celebrities wanting us to donate our hard earned cash. How about they dip their hands in their pockets instead.

[Hibrandenburg]

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Just Xmas jumpers in general, or more specifically when used - as you say - as some kind of "look at how wacky and festive I am" benchmark and then splattered all over Facebook in posing selfies, often by grown men.

I got one as an absolute joke last year, but I'm acutely aware I look like a fanny wearing it so would only ever dream of wearing it for a bit of a piss take around the house.

I saw a young lady wearing one with 2 Xmas puddings on the front yesterday at Glasgow airport. The puddings were perfectly placed and shall we say......oversized. I liked it.

[snooky]

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I saw a young lady wearing one with 2 Xmas puddings on the front yesterday at Glasgow airport. The puddings were perfectly placed and shall we say......oversized. I liked it.

What a dumplin'

[Hibrandenburg]

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What a dumplin'

[Scouse Hibee]

Paying for my car parking on Ringgo and then realising I have paid using my parking history for Rutland Street where I was two days ago instead of Brunswick Street where I am parked! £9.20 lost😣

[DrSpaceMonkey]

People who touch you when talking to you, be it an hand/arm or knee/leg when sitting down. Just no 😟

[#FromTheCapital]

People on here who refuse to click on a link because it's from the sun, Scotsman etc. But then ask for the content to be posted anyway. They probably make about 2 pence from your click, not a huge deal really.

[Caversham Green]

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The blatant lying and deception in the media and advertising.
The total lack of basic morality that is now accepted as the norm.
Everything right down to buying a packet of cornflakes, washing powder, etc and finding it's only 2/3 full.
Lawyers charging £200/hr. For what?
I better stop here or this will end up as long as 'War & Peace'

It's the half-truths that irritate me. Saw an ad from British Gas yesterday saying how much they were helping us at Christmas by not putting their prices up.

That's right, they're bragging about doing absolutely nothing.

And why do Freeview feel the need to advertise on TV? If you're watching the ad you've either already got Freeview or you don't want or need it.

[heretoday]

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People who touch you when talking to you, be it an hand/arm or knee/leg when sitting down. Just no 😟

There's too much hugging going on also. Sometimes people you've only met ten minutes ago feel free to grab you. It's down to the EU of course. All this pawing and pecking will stop once Brexit takes hold.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

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I saw a young lady wearing one with 2 Xmas puddings on the front yesterday at Glasgow airport. The puddings were perfectly placed and shall we say......oversized. I liked it.

Did they have sauce drizzled over them?

[Scouse Hibee]

Olives the food of the devil,I hate the taste of them.

[Hermit Crab]

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Olives the food of the devil,I hate the taste of them.

Black olives. Yum yum.

[#FromTheCapital]

Love olives but can understand why some people don't. I wasn't a fan myself until a couple of years ago.

[StevieT]

TV adverts for the next 'must have' game (normally some sort of was / shoot 'em up game). You watch all the footage and, in small writing at the foot of the screen, it says 'not actual game footage'. What's the point in that?

[O'Rourke3]

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People on here who refuse to click on a link because it's from the sun, Scotsman etc. But then ask for the content to be posted anyway. They probably make about 2 pence from your click, not a huge deal really.

Multiply that by a few hundred though... it's not the personal cost but the cumulative. I've no problem if people choose to buy or read any paper. Copying content doesn't seem difficult if the reader wants to post the story.

[Future17]

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There's too much hugging going on also. Sometimes people you've only met ten minutes ago feel free to grab you. It's down to the EU of course. All this pawing and pecking will stop once Brexit takes hold.

Surely you would be peeved if it took hold?

[Scouse Hibee]

People who dismiss every new idea as "it won't work" "takes too long" "why change". It does my nut in and happens regularly at management meetings. What the objectors really mean is they can't be ersed if it means they might have to work for a change and suffer a little disruption as something new is implemented. Some of the reasons for objection are laughable and one person has the stock answer for every single suggestion that has ever been put forward "tried that at my last work"

[wpj]

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People who dismiss every new idea as "it won't work" "takes too long" "why change". It does my nut in and happens regularly at management meetings. What the objectors really mean is they can't be ersed if it means they might have to work for a change and suffer a little disruption as something new is implemented. Some of the reasons for objection are laughable and one person has the stock answer for every single suggestion that has ever been put forward "tried that at my last work"

"You're setting yourself up to fail"
"When I was at (insert old job here) we did......"

[easty]

I've got 2 folk in my office who seem to think the last week at work before Christmas is like being back at school. Just turn up and piss about until it's the holidays.

I could half understand it if they were teenagers, but they're both over 50.

I've lost track of how many times I've been asked what I'm doing, or told I should just leave that til January. Naw...I'll have other work to do in January!

[lord bunberry]

People who park in a legitimate parking space, then put their hazard lights on!! Someone then comes along and parks behind them leaving one of their lights hidden. You then get polite drivers slowing down to let them out of the space as they can only see the one indicator.

[Pretty Boy]

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I've got 2 folk in my office who seem to think the last week at work before Christmas is like being back at school. Just turn up and piss about until it's the holidays.

I could half understand it if they were teenagers, but they're both over 50.

I've lost track of how many times I've been asked what I'm doing, or told I should just leave that til January. Naw...I'll have other work to do in January!

It's mental isn't it?

You just know they will be the same erseholes mumping and moaning about their workload and passing it off onto other people in January because they are 'too busy' as well.

[snooky]

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People who dismiss every new idea as "it won't work" "takes too long" "why change". It does my nut in and happens regularly at management meetings. What the objectors really mean is they can't be ersed if it means they might have to work for a change and suffer a little disruption as something new is implemented. Some of the reasons for objection are laughable and one person has the stock answer for every single suggestion that has ever been put forward "tried that at my last work"

The contrary is just as bad. New bosses that come in and change a method of operation that has been honed for years. They think they know a better way even though it was tried before and didn't work. Worst of all, they don't listen when told this fact because they are the boss and they know best.