Things you hate III

and whilst we are on idiots in cars, I give you petrol stations. They fill up, browse in the shop, have a natter with the bod behind the counter, saunter back to the car, p**s about with the mirror,fiddle with the seat belt, open up a packets of mints etc etc. Then when you have the 'cheek' to blast your horn at them to get out of the way of the pump, flick the Vs and go even slower

 

School mums (and the occasional dad) who saunter to school at 28mph protecting their precious cargo and then saunter home at 22 mph as they have nothing to do other than wash some socks before making the same journey 6 hours later. I usually need to traverse these bottlenecks at >55mph to get to work on time. Hurry up or get out of the way

 

People who dont understand the question are we lifting on 3 or is it 1,2,3 lift?

 

Lift on 3, always. Those that lift after 3 are shirkers who are trying to get out of their share of the work by lifting on 4.

 

You missed out the puzzled look at the pay at the pump machine, the 'hacking in to NASA' approach to pressing many buttons slowly and the attempt to insert their card in the wrong bit which come before the filling up. The long pause after someone gets back to the car really annoys me too.

 

People who buy more than 1 lottery ticket. The odds are , so we’re told in excess of 14 million to 1, buying 2 doesn’t half the odds it just means you lose more( not that 7 million to 1 gives you fluff chance of winning).
In fact whilst I’m on it, the whole national lottery thing which is nothing more than a tax on the poor, desperate and probably stupid.

 

It does double the odds . In fact if you buy 7 million tickets you will have a 50/50 chance of winning !

 

I’ve had this argument several times with a friend who has a doctorate in physics but still doesn’t seem to get it. It’s the same principle as looking at two stars in the night sky: one can be twice as distant as the other but it doesn’t make any difference because they’re both so f***ing far away.

 

If they are all different of course.

 

Northerners!

 

Black pudding.

 

Bertha ? She's the queen of northern soul.

 

Bambalan probably.

 

Gout.

 

The Lawn Tennis Association or 'Let's Try Again' as a fellow coach calls it!
"In this moment" they are not fit for purpose.
They have suspended the president,pending a welfare investigation.This has dragged on for six months,not least because the cause of all the trouble was not available for interview for all of May.
They have £110,ooo,ooo for funding projects but as of today no bid has been accepted.
They are in the midst of a civil war with their main source of funding,that is The All England Club.
None of their projects work: Tennis For Kids,a laudable attempt to recruit new players,comes under the 'umbrella' of ClubSpark*.
ClubSpark takes approximately £6 of £25 each parent pays for a six session course.It also takes a percentage of every membership a club receives.No one can explain the benefits of this venture.
My TFK course fee has yet to be paid,but all fees were received by July 23. I do not need the money but in my latest attempt to discover when it would be paid,the poor beleaguered man ,who is in charge for our region, has told me I need to email 'lab tech'. Oddly enough ClubSpark isn't operating today!
Imbecilic. This is what comes of sacking anyone and everyone with tennis knowledge from the federation and replacing them with IT people.
This is what happens when you have five NEDs on a board of eleven who know nothing of tennis. Evdeka? Ha flipping ha!
*Why have you put a capital 'S' in the middle, LTA?

 

I would like this post, if I had half an inkling what it was about. Equally, I could dislike it too.

 

My hatred of toothpaste adverts rears its ugly head again. Why are the grinning morons brushing their teeth on these ads not actually using toothpaste? For sure I look like I have a serious bout of rabies every time I put a brush laden with toothpaste in my mouth. How is it possible to advertise a product with no actual existence of the product in the ad?

 

I would like the LTA,if THEY had half an inkling how to govern the sport!

 

Ice cream ads, if you can remember that far back, featured bowls of beautifully manicured...

[spoiler alert]

[whatever they say in unis these days to prevent people self harming]

...Smash.

Identical texture & didn’t melt under the lights..

 

Going back to work after a good holiday.

Also, having been in Copenhagen (and a day trip to Malmo), coming back to the UK is also a thoroughly depressing experience - the litter, the crap public transport, the miserable faces and fat scumbags that fill our streets is utterly depressing compared to the Scandinavian experience. And that's not even mentioning the disaster of Brexit and the impact that's going to have, which will also render it nearly impossible to afford a holiday to escape.

 

All horrendously over exposed to make those teeth look whiter than white. Same with ladies ageing cream so you can't possibly see a hint of a wrinkle. Do they think people are that stupid? Yes they're probably right.

 

Surely anti ageing.

 

People normally on local Facebook groups who find somebodies belongings/phone/bank card etc in a public place or restaurant or something, take said item home and then post on said Facebook group trying to find the owner.

I know they mean well but just hand it in at the ******* place you found it as that’s where the owner will go back to try and find it!

 

I know there is an ‘adverts you hate thread’ but this is a crossover.

That stupid ******* advert where kids describe how clean their backsides are after using bog roll, using some stupid fake made up analogies. “My arse feels as clean as a Rhino”

 

The latest craze for putting your arms out in front of you in some weird crocodile motion snapping them open and closed.

Can't remember where I saw it and no idea where it came from but it needs to be stopped.

 

I want to see more of it!

 

I see what you've done there

 

sí señor

 

Gift cards - they expire if you don't use them.

I mean, ok it encourages you to spend them on something specific rather than next week's supermarket shop, but the fact that if the expire you lose the money is rediculous.

It should be treated as money and therefore be unlimited. It won't go up or down in value. It's still only the same value it was purchased for.

I wonder how much money companies make out of unclaimed gift cards? I bet some places have departments dedicated to it. Must be thousands a year if not hundreds of thousands.

 

The fact that whenever we beat a team it is always because they have had a bad day according to most of the media pundits, never that we actually outplayed them, and also how they wax lyrical when one of the so called big teams play a long ball calling it a majestic pass, but when we do it, according to them it's direct long ball hoof football

 

Someone posted on my local group "found a book bag from xxxxx school outside xxxxx school, does anyone know Harry S's parents to let them know I have it. Why didnt they just take it to the school? ****tards.

 

Yep found a £150 voucher for some restaurant yesterday when doing my tax return. Expired last month. Ridiculous that they have expiries.

 

People who use the phrase "Can i get.....?" When asking for something in a shop or restaurant.
No you can't fecking get it. I can get it for you. The phrase these morons are looking for which should be beaten into their arrogant heads is "Please may I have?"
Douchebags of the highest order.

 

Getting the ‘you’re a weirdo look’ when I say I don’t want chocolate dust on top of my cappuccino and get it anyway.