Return of the silly little things that annoy you thread

[Steve Slatcher]

I'm not sure if it's bettter to be out-performed on a walk by a 7 year old, or by a 70 year old when you're around 20 years younger - which happened to a friend

 

[Colin Wills]

Passing.
I'll be very p!ssed off if I pass.
Passing is what the Essex children do to me on the M11.
When the time comes eventually I expect to die.

 

[Paul Abbott]

Passing.
I'll be very p!ssed off if I pass.
Passing is what the Essex children do to me on the M11.
When the time comes eventually I expect to die.

Couldn’t agree more, the queen may have passed, but the only thing I pass is water.

 

[Thom Blach]

the only thing I pass is water.

No Port?

 

[Paul Anderson]

No Port?

Or mastermind questions?

 

[Paul Anderson]

Passing is what the Essex children do to me on the M11.

Are they passers or undertakers?

 

[Colin Wills]

They will be undertaking the uber drivers in the middle lane south of Stansted, but that's another post!

 

[Neil Holland]

They will be undertaking the uber drivers in the middle lane south of Stansted, but that's another post!

Middle lane hogging is a valid silly little thing (I think first logged some time ago - for some reason recall Bryan Collins experiences between Brighton and Horsham on the A23!)

 

[Steve Slatcher]

The first time I heard someone had passed, my immediate thought was to wonder what exam they had been taking at such an old age. Or perhaps they'd been learning to drive, and had just got their license.

License of course is another word increasingly used with no qualification. It's important to know whether it is "driving" or "to kill"

 

[Johnny Richardson]

licence with an "s"

 

[Steve Slatcher]

licence with an "s"

That too. You got 3 annoyances for the price of 1

 

[Neil Holland]

On a work colleague's email footer:

Working Hours:- 08.45am to 16.45pm

Come the revolution...

 

[Paul J a i n e s]

Given the above post..... US date formats.

5/4/22 deadline.....everyone shits their pants

4/5/22.... aaah

 

[Paul J a i n e s]

Picking up time formats. I get airline tickets from US airlines with BOTH crappy am/pn AND mm/dd/yy formats.... arrrgh

 

[Charles Muttar]

Picking up time formats. I get airline tickets from US airlines with BOTH crappy am/pn AND mm/dd/yy formats.... arrrgh

And the US departure/arrival times are absurdly precise (1.33pm) and never adhered to

 

[Will Devize]

6.30am in the morning

 

[Leon Marks]

6.30am in the morning

I agree - but sometimes the Department of Redundancy Department does have value. I remember a former boss - an American - getting into trouble when he was nearly 12 hours late for his Eurostar reservation...

 

[Eric Burch]

6.30am

Qualifies for this thread by itself. Hideous hour.

 

[Adam Holland]

Milk with the new eco-friendly white top replacing the green, blue etc. Can’t tell you how many times I have tried to pour milk into my tea recently and wondered why nothing is coming out of the carton.

 

[Alex Jagger]

6.30am in the morning

Were you going to bed or getting up?

I've had good and bad for both and with very young children it can even be a lie in!

 

[Phil David]

Qualifies for this thread by itself. Hideous hour.

I'll take your word for it.

 

[Will Devize]

Were you going to bed or getting up?

All too often the latter; oh how I have come to rue Devize Jr's insatiable appetite for Weetabix at dawn.

 

[Steve Slatcher]

I agree - but sometimes the Department of Redundancy Department does have value. I remember a former boss - an American - getting into trouble when he was nearly 12 hours late for his Eurostar reservation...

Easily done. After having complained about the non-arrival of a supermarket delivery, it was pointed out that it was booked for the evening. In my defence, I could point to a couple of usability issues on the booking page.

Also, a maths professor turned up for a conference on the correct day of the year, but one year early. The story was told to me about about a specific person, and by someone taught in the same department, so I have every reason to believe it was not apocryphal.

 

[Geordie Torr]

Also, a maths professor turned up for a conference on the correct day of the year, but one year early. The story was told to me about about a specific person, and by someone taught in the same department, so I have every reason to believe it was not apocryphal.

I heard the same story about a group of Indian ant biologists. Again, not apocryphal - I heard it from someone who took them on a tour around the Northern Territory looking for cool ants so their trip wasn't totally wasted.

 

[Odd Rydland]

Customer surveys always leave me less satisfied with the company being surveyed.