People who use the word 'done' when stating they've visited a city, country or place of interest.
"I've done Inverness. Last year, with the little woman".
No, you visited Inverness, you pretentious prat!!!!!
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People who use the word 'done' when stating they've visited a city, country or place of interest.
"I've done Inverness. Last year, with the little woman".
No, you visited Inverness, you pretentious prat!!!!!
I done Duns once (that was enough).Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
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Originally Posted by Peevemor
Pretentious? Moi?
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The number of adverts on YouTube.
I tried to listen to Akala speaking at some Oxford thing and the adverts were every 2.5 minutes.
To add to that, every football clip is prefaced by an advert for online bookies.
When you stand to one side to let someone walk through a doorway or narrow path and they don't give as much as an acknowledgement of your existence, let alone a 'thank you'. Four people in a row today when I let them through a path. Infuriates me.
For the moment. Grimly hanging on:rolleyes::faf:Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
I think you're peeve is validated by the fact it's already been mentioned about 27 times on this thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
I have a slightly related one. When out walking I like to be pleasant and say hello, good morning, hiya, whatever is appropriate or comes to mind to folk I meet. The amount of people who just walk past or actually duck their heads to avoid any kind of contact is amazing. We've spent a lot of time in France and you can't go anywhere without people saying bonjour or bonsoir and it just feels right and pleasantQuote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PT0ay9u1gg4Quote:
Originally Posted by weecounty hibby
Sorry Ive no idea how to post a link
Seeing et cetera written as ect is a common one just now winding me up a bit.
Another beauty is that most West of Scotland pronunciations, def-in-ate-ly now being spelt that way instead of the correct "definitely".
Do you dislike it being shortened to etc, or just when the c and t are inverted?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby
People taking short cuts through other people's gardens.
I've not actually seen it across my garden but every so often I see people walking down the street and cutting the corner by walking through someone else's garden. It saves them about 2 seconds and just comes across as very disrespectful.
Letting their dogs do it is pretty much as bad too.
Only when inverted. Of course etc. Is common and perfectly acceptable in every day use.Quote:
Originally Posted by danhibees1875
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Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby
I used to have a workmate (who wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer) who often said "etcetera, etcetera..." when talking to people. I think he must have overdosed on The King and I when he was a lad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby
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Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby
Only vaguely related but...
When people write i.e. when they should have used e.g.
Or use e.g. when they meant i.e.
This is even quite common with Journalists, who are paid to write so should know better.
Contradictory alerts from courier companies. I’m getting a new pair of boots delivered and I received a text from Hermes at 11.53 this morning to say the package was with the courier and was on its way. At 12.22 I received another text saying there had been a problem and it could not be delivered today. At 12.48 I received yet another text saying it was on its way and would be delivered today between 3 and 5.
How can it change so often in a short timeframe?
Edit: two minutes ago I got another message saying the delivery has been rescheduled to between 1 and 2. I opened the message up just as the courier rang the bell :faf:
Can you give us an i.e. of what you mean?Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
Tories
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55827641
https://twitter.com/LukasStefanko/st...23108546478080
The need to travel somewhere to take a specific photo for social media as covered in the above links.
I wouldn't mind if it was just a queue for a photo but it's the idea that the majority of these clowns are almost beside themselves thinking about what hashtags they can use to maximise the likes on their Instagram that gets me.
People who walk in the middle of pavements during a global pandemic when the vast majority are trying to keep to one side or the other. I'd have said it was a macho thing if it was just men doing it, but it's women as well. Is it their way of showing they're covid deniers, or what exactly? :dunno:
Sellers on eBay who up bid their own item because they're greedy ****s and when their item doesn't sell because they've up bidded it so much they're stuck with it they then message you claiming the winning bidder didn't pay and you can now have said item at final price.
I know its against eBay rules for them to up bid but eBay rarely do anything about it.
Not sure if I've visited this before but so many people just don't know how to be good, efficient pedestrians. From dawdling in the middle of the pavement as you say, stopping abruptly for whatever reason, heading for the space which is obviously yours, walking on the left on narrow roads instead of facing oncoming traffic, stubbornly waiting for the green man before they cross the road even if there's no traffic coming. The list goes on.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
My ex used to work in an eBay department called "Safe Harbour". They had some amazing software that worked well against shill bidding. If you suspect that's happening then report it. With a few clicks they can pretty much confirm if someone is at it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
Crap pencils.
Back in the day you could rely on common standards. These days a good number of pencils you buy just shred and the lead breaks at any attempt to sharpen them.
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Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
Now mentioned 87 times, so definitely a serious issue.
People who expect others to read every post in a lengthy thread of no great importance to ensure there’s no repetition, that’s quite irritating 😂😛Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
Will keep mentioning it until the culprits stop doing it. Most or all will have access to the internet, so they've no excuse for not coming on to hibs.net and realising that they're behaving badly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
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Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
Don't get me wrong, mate, I definitely agree.
I'm one of the other 86 people that moaned about it.
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That's been done as well. :faf:Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
Has anybody mentioned Germans yet?
What about people who walk in the middle of the pavement?Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
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Originally Posted by Northernhibee
Why, don't they like Germans?
Germans don't walk, we march.Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
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Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
They teach it from a very young age.
They even have kids TV movies called Märchenfilm.
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Originally Posted by Keith_M
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Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
This one? :greengrin
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That's the one, just posted it in a way that only IT geeks could decipher. :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
Glad I live where I do. All the people I meet give me a wide berth. BO has its benefits 😁Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
In all seriousness, we will step off the pavement when possible, something that was not happening during the summer when there were visitors in town. If you are facing oncoming traffic you should give way to other people on the pavement.
Agree. Also why is ‘music’ being played after goals are scored at games played behind closed doors when there’s about 50 folk watching?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
People who think they are being helpful but they’re not.
Whilst I was cooking tonight, my girlfriend came through and started tidying up. I had the scales out, then I went to weigh something else and it was back in the back of the cupboard. I then got some cornflour out, realised I needed a little more and then realised she had put that back too. Chopping board... in the dishwasher when I still needed to chop something.
She then moaned when I served it that it was cutting it fine for her zoom call with her pals. It would have been out 5-10 minutes earlier if she hadn’t been “helpful”!
People who say ‘north of’ instead of ‘more than’. I’ve even started doing it. Hate it.
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Originally Posted by overdrive
That's not 'helping', that's called being a 'control freak'.
I believe it's quite common in members of our species with 'xx' chromosomes.
That does my head in.Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
My wife calls me the messy chef, despite my food being superior (she doesn't season anything: pasta water, potatoes, roast chicken) and she complains about the kitchen being a mess when I cook. Simple solution, stay out of the ****ing kitchen while I cook and let me tidy up after myself in my own time.
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Originally Posted by Jones28
:top marks
Bl**dy Women!
:greengrin
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Originally Posted by Jones28
My wife is a good cook but I'm better and she leaves me alone in the kitchen but I'm a bit messy, I do clean up after myself but never to her standards, she'll always go and clean up after me. :greengrin
I'm the better cook and I clean up as I go.Quote:
Originally Posted by J-C
My peeve in this regard is that when the Mrs cooks, I HAVE to help, she can't just do it herself. Well, she can, but she always has to get me involved, like she can't have me minding my own business while she's busy with it.
Conversely, I do tea (sometimes tea for 4 other people having separate things) and tidy up to let her have an hour or so to herself.
The same principle applies to tidying up, etc. If she's doing it, I can't sit without getting asked to help.
I do it, I just get on with it.
Often hear the phrase "nobody helps out in this house" as well, which is a particular peeve of mine.
AmenQuote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
I hate when my other half does try to help with tidying, cleaning, cooking etc.
I'm better at it and it just annoys me when she gets involved.
Aw **** I NEVER ask the wife for help with a job, but as soon as I do something selfish like sit down I get the “can you help” in a tone that suggests if I don’t I’ll pay for it emotionally for days.Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
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Originally Posted by Jones28
I'm crap at household chores but do what I can, but when it comes to the kitchen that's my area where I do my thing. Love cooking, am pretty good at it and like being left alone and having things to hand in my own organised chaos. Don't like when that's disrupted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
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Originally Posted by matty_f
I do tidy as I go and afterwards but it's never good enough as she says I always give it a quick once over instead of a proper clean. She says it jokingly though as I do tend to do a lot around the house I was brought up by my dad after my parents got divorced and it was a case of doing things for myself from a young age. In our house I do the clothes washing, the shopping, the cooking and hoovering but never the kitchen and bathroom, as it's always a quick once over and she likes it done thoroughly, no problems with that as we've been together 31 years now and it all works perfectly.
4 separate dinners? No chance!Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
As for the “no one ever helps” stuff I just make sure I always point out when I’ve done stuff so it’s fresh in the memory next time she considers it. I now get moaned at for “going on about it” but I just make sure she knows it’s as a result of her moaning.
It's quite clear from this discussion that Men are definitely the oppressed Gender*
I've been telling people that (mainly women) for years but they just laugh.
* Not sure if we're supposed to say Gender or Sex nowadays, but that's a different argument.
I was bidding on a pair LG SPZLS that don't come up very often at all, they seller was absolutely bidding them up they sold for £360 in the end and my top bid was £350, that was my budget. I'm fully expecting an email saying the winner hasn't paid and would you like them now? They'll get told to bolt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
Quite rightly so. Like I say, report them. EBay will then put them under the microscope and if they are being naughty then they'll get found out and binned.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
It really grips my faeces when people use a TLA and wrongly assume everyone else understands.
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Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
Send them to AlaskaQuote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
Haha nice oneQuote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
Sainsbosses this morning and TWICE saw people pawing at the unbagged bakery stuff, not using tongs or whatever... no more cheese twists for me :-/
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Even pre pandemic I never bought stuff from there for the same reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by Just Alf
We've got major roadworks going on the road outside our front window which is causing lots of cars to detour through our very narrow streets and has caused endless amounts of near misses as idiots come out of junctions without looking in an attempt to make up time. There's also been people moving the cones to drive through the roadworks when the workers aren't there, causing issues with pedestrians crossing the road and not expecting to see cars coming.
Yesterday morning we awoke to snow and my partner - who had been doing some outdoor personal training - phoned me to meet her at the car as she'd hurt herself in a fall and wanted a bit of help. Went down to wait for her car arriving and drew a self portrait in the snow on my own cars windscreen - only to see a police van drive into the car park and give me a ticking off for it. Even explaining that it was my car and I'm waiting for my partner didn't seem to make a difference to their attitude.
Amazed me that considering the chaos being caused by idiots around the streets that a bit of snow doodling is the main concern.
People who can't keep things even moderately tidy.
We have a built in wardrobe. About a third of it is mine and the other 2/3s are for the Mrs. I keep my formal shirts together, casual shirts together, trousers together, knitwear together, jackets together and ties and belts together. There's a shelf above that I have half of that has hats, scarves etc on it. The rest of the space is a ****ing tip. Clothes hanging off hangers, stuff crammed onto the shelf, shoes everywhere. It's the same with drawer space. I have half a drawer that has sports stuff like running tops and shorts in it and a whole drawer that has polo's and t-shirts. The other space is just a bomb site. Whenever we go out I'm convinced it takes her so long to get ready because she can't find anything.
I suggested having a clear out yesterday. An England rugby top was uncovered that predates us meeting, that I have never seen worn and I didn't even know it existed. 'Are you throwing that out?' An absolutely incredulous 'no' was the answer and I'm somehow the idiot for even suggesting as much.
She was at it again tonight. Was doing a roast turkey and it was time to take it out to rest. Got a mat out to put the roasting dish on, got it out the oven and when I went to put it down the mat was gone.Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
My wife will wear my slippers if they are closer than hers.
It bothers me . It's minging. She doesnt even put them on correctly . She thinks that if she doesnt put them on fully , it doesnt count so she stands on the heel part so she can wear them like sliders.
Not only that . she will wear them when taking the bucket out . Even in the rain.
I didnt realise how much this bothered me until I started typing this out.
FFS. WTF?
She Will also lie about it.
Me "You've been wearing my slippers again"
Wife "Och I have not"
Me "Well the heel part is flat and my socks are soaking.
When you're in Aldi or Lidl waiting in the queue, they open up a new checkout and the person behind you bursts out to get to that one first. Invariably a tosser that doesn't wear their mask over their nose and doesn't realise that you can be reasonably nice to checkout staff.
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Originally Posted by Northernhibee
Look, I was in a hurry. Get over it, for goodness sake!
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Next time I’m going to make such a passive aggressive comment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
Not really, I’ll just frown. Heavily.
Delivery drivers. Why do they go overboard in both ringing the bell and then knocking, and ALWAYS when my daughter is having her afternoon nap. Just had something delivered and the guy rang the bell 3 times and knocked 3 times all one after the other. My daughter is now up, hasn’t had enough sleep but thinks she has and will be in a grumpy mood the rest of the afternoon.
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Originally Posted by Northernhibee
Duly noted.
Anyone who delivers to our block just pushes our buzzer regardless of who they are delivering to. We're number 1 and every time it's buzzer goes, 'hello', 'parcel for number 14'. We'll press number 14s buzzer then, same with take away drivers. 'Food for number 6'. Last night even the Police were at it. Just got the bairn settled, half 9 the buzzer goes, 'it's the Police can you let us in please'.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Modfather
There's got to be s secrecy button? If there is flick it to the sounder off mode... just mind to put it back on when you order a just eat or you'll go hungry! :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
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Same in my house.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Modfather
My 13 year old is a nightmare when she gets wakened like that.
Is your bell audible outside?Quote:
Originally Posted by The Modfather
Lost count of the hours I've wasted standing at somebody's door only to be told the bell doesn't work. If I don't hear the bell, or see it light up, I then chap the door.
Pretty fair point, something I've never considered :agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by Killiehibbie
Hermes delivery drivers. If you're ordering trainers and Hermes are the couriers then your trainers are more than likely getting volleyed from the van to your door from about 3 miles away. Boxes are always crushed or damaged and the trainers invariably have marks on them as a result. :grr:
Do you give the bottom of the door a kick as well. :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Killiehibbie
My bell is audible, I don’t take my keys with me when I go for a run and my wife normally locks the door, so often have to use the doorbell. It makes sense to knock if the driver can’t hear the bell. However a lot of drivers seem to go vastly overboard with ringing the bell and also knocking. They might as well stand under my daughters window and shout that the delivery is here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killiehibbie
Canker sores / mouth ulcers, makes eating almost unbearable.
I've been known to hit the window when I can see them sitting glued to the telly oblivious to my attempts at smashing the door in. They've only had about half a dozen emails and texts telling them when I'd be there.Quote:
Originally Posted by silverhibee
Some folk think 1 is the concierge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
It's unreal the amount of entry systems that don't work at all, regulars get phoned when I'm a minute away and come down to get their parcel.
If I'm your driver you've got about 20 seconds after I ring the bell.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Modfather
What if the person is elderly and infirm?Quote:
Originally Posted by Killiehibbie
They'll get a bit longer once I know thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
But you have buggered off before I can get to the door so you will never know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killiehibbie
Put it in special instructions or the neighbour will probably tell me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
Butter on the edges of the lid. I have no idea how my wife manages it but it drives me nuts to pick up the butter and find the outside caked in butter.
On a related note, how my wife stacks the fridge. E.g. she’ll put the smaller, more cylinder like Philadelphia in the door and then the larger, rectangular-er butter on top of it so it falls out whenever you open the fridge. I even opened the fridge and a glass jam jar was balanced on the butter inside the door. Does she not ever see the cause and effect!!!
Feels good to get them off my chest!
As per my deleted post on the tv thread.... posting on the wrong thread!
There should really be a wives/partners pet peeves thread.
Maybe a thread to swap them so people either get a break from it or realising that they've actually got it quite good? :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
I'll swap mine for a solenoid for the starter motor of a 2000 Kawasaki ZRX 1100. Save me trying to order oneQuote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
Mosquito bites and mosquitos in general.
Specifically going to bed and within two seconds hearing the sound of a mosquito flying around your head, you turn on the light, and the thing has managed to warp speed into hiding.
Turn off the light and within two seconds it's back at your ear.
:agree: We're plagued by them in the summer over here. I've fitted insect screens to my doors and windows and that has helped keep the house free of the little buggers, but going outside at dusk can be a nightmare in the summer.Quote:
Originally Posted by CloudSquall
I'm really sorry if I've posted this before but the term "eye bleeding" seen so often on the main board. Just stop and think what you're saying. Are you repeating a completely nonsensical phrase or do your eyes actually bleed?
Possibly pisses me off more than anything else I see on here.
During this spell of freezing weather, grown men going around in shorts and flip flops really bugs me. I've just seen two such clowns in the local shop. "Aye, I'll just act like I'm still in Benidorm last July, even though it's sub-zero".
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Originally Posted by Hibernia&Alba
I understand that but I am truly amazed that the cold does not bother them.
Yeah, they have to be crazy. The shorts are bad enough, but flip flops, like they are sitting around the pool... :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by pollution
The incorrect use of the word “officially” - as in “I officially don’t like that TV show”. Irritates the hell out of me.