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Really minor annoyances


Becs said:
Ex-MIL was super strict about cushion positions and she had those frilly lace things over the back of the cushions, the seats and the arms of the settee. Had to try and sit perfectly still to try and not dislodge things and the minute you stood up, she dived right in to straighten everything back up again.
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Sounds like a woman after my own heart!
 
Car adverts (or any other advert for that matter) which only show the car (product) for a split second so you can’t get a proper look at it.
Makes me want to looking into it less.
 
chunkyshanhawk53 said:
Even the plastic clips and all the superfluous packaging really annoys me

This is the stuff that this thread is all about
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I don't mind packaging that serves a purpose. If it protects the product in some way. But the shirt is folded around the cardboard and then packed. The pins serve no purpose whatsoever.

Except to spike you the moment you put the shirt on
 
For those of us who still buy records - the carboard packaging that is made specifically for sending records through the post that have a serrated tear off "easy open" tag to pull that is supposed to open up with one smooth action to reveal the record BUT it comes apart at each serrated bit meaning that the strip comes off in 1/2 inch bits taking a good 5 minutes to open the damned thing leaving lots of bits of torn cardboard on the floor.
 
Redandwhitedust said:
When you buy a shirt and it's attached to cardboard with pins.

Thought this had died out in favour of plastic clips. Nope...
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I don't miss unpacking school uniform and you end up with a pile of cardboard, plastic clips, pins and bits of plastic that were under the collar, round the inside of the collar and across the collar button.

It's bloody school shirts man, not a Savile Row suit. They don't need to be so neatly packaged. Within a day or so they're usually covered in a combination of paint, mud, dinner and snot anyway.
 
Got an email from Lacoste telling me to look at their online sale
Had a bit browse. Clicked on a couple of items for a closer look. Didn’t bother buying.
Minutes later an email from Lacoste “we saw you were looking at X …”
Annoying and more than a little creepy anarl.

Also every month I get a mortgage statement in the post and every month along with it, and sometimes again in a separate letter, I get offers to take a loan out against the equity I’ve built. Like I once told you on the phone, I’m trying to pay the fucker off ASAP you dense twats, and at 2.5 percent interest so am I fuck going to borrow money off myself at your current 8% rate.
 
Tex said:
Got an email from Lacoste telling me to look at their online sale
Had a bit browse. Clicked on a couple of items for a closer look. Didn’t bother buying.
Minutes later an email from Lacoste “we saw you were looking at X …”
Annoying and more than a little creepy anarl.

Also every month I get a mortgage statement in the post and every month along with it, and sometimes again in a separate letter, I get offers to take a loan out against the equity I’ve built. Like I once told you on the phone, I’m trying to pay the fucker off ASAP you dense twats, and at 2.5 percent interest so am I fuck going to borrow money off myself at your current 8% rate.
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Don't start me on that.

I bought a lawnmower in the sale at the backend of the year. I'm still get adverts "because you bought a lawnmower, we thought you'd be interested in.... MORE LAWNMOWERS!"

In what world are people who buy one lawnmower looking to buy more 4 months later, before they've actually even had a chance to use the one they bought
 
Ebay allowing sellers to lie about the item location.

I bought this a few weeks ago:
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I usually avoid anything that gives the location as just London or UK. Anyone actually in London gives the area of London. This seller has got wise to it and is claiming their products are in Gateshead. I ordered one and it arrived from China via the Evri Gateway (international customs hub). At least this one was only a week and a half. I have had things take 6-10 weeks, one was a small electrical component when I was in the middle of a project.

Reported it to eBay, and their response was that all was fine. They don't see a problem with sellers telling lies.
 
League Wan said:
Glad we had ours before all that shite. Another import from the USA along with having a baby shower.
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:D When I saw someone said that a few days ago, I didn't know what it was and assumed it was some kind of party for a LGBT+ person who had decided what gender they wanted to be identified as.
 
It’s a minor annoyance to me that so many celebrities are utterly thick and know next to nowt. My evidence is telly quiz programmes of course.

Latest example: Dianne Buswell on tonight’s episode of House of Games. Probably a repeat. Which simply means it’s another opportunity to see how utterly thick she is and how completely astounded she is when somebody answers a totally simple question correctly.

But on the show with her tonight is that Welsh tv weather guy Owain Wyn Evans. And he made a fairly limp quip about him wanting to be successful in the quiz because his middle name is ‘Wyn’ (Win: geddit)

She was utterly amazed. Astounded. Remarked on how fabulous it was. And how she hadn’t realised.

But she’s sat next to him and every single time he’s introduced, his full name is announced. And she only just realised what his name is.

(Please, please don’t bother with the ‘wad’ type comments. That’s just another minor annoyance)
 
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