Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...

[KnightswoodBear]

1 hour ago, jmothecat said:

I just read an article suggesting it is transphobic to not go out with a transwoman who still has a penis. I don't consider myself to be transphobic whatsoever but there's no way I would be willing to have sex with a 'woman' with a penis. The whole trans thing is getting a bit much.

There are no chicks with dicks, Johnny, just guys with tits!

[Father Dougal McGuire]

When people post about dad or mum. Like, "dad said this to me and mum laughed at it" please say "my dad" and "my mum".  
Thank you 

This. Pisses me off far more than it should

[Jamaldo]

My mother in law refers to my father in law as 'dad' infront of my wife. My wife seems to think this is perfectly normal behaviour.

Do they think they're in the Beano or something?

[19QOS19]

I speak a small amount of Spanish. I can order food or taxis, have a polite (if limited) conversation and know some weird phrases that have no real use but have became lodged in my head.

A few weeks after I started work here some Columbian girl came in with shitty English but I managed to get her sorted through a mixture of pointing, google translate and the little bit I already knew. Since then I get so much extra work because "I speak Spanish".

Tonight, before I started work, some guy phoned up from Majorca looking for his brother who, he thinks, has been admitted to a mental health hospital we cover. He was told to call back after 2200 (London time) because "The guy who speaks Spanish will be here".

So I've spent ten minutes translating everything this guy has said and getting the gist of the issue only to tell him that he's called back too late. He needs to call tomorrow during office hours and, when he gets through to the correct department, they'll sort him out with a proper translator. He's, quite rightly, pissed off because the p***k I work with, rather than making an effort to help him, just told him to f**k off until it was too late to be of any use.

[throbber]

You notice this in the soaps. No place names, just always, always 'Scotland', that mystical place where soap characters move to be written out (it's either that or car crash / who-dunnit murder), or character goes to for a business trip so their actor can have their holiday break.

There was actually a slot on the Scott Mills show a good 15 years ago that was called "Dead or in Manchester" when contestants got given the name of a character in a soap and had to say whether they were killed or if they moved somewhere never to be seen or spoken about again.

[welshbairn]

10 hours ago, Rugster said:

When people post about dad or mum. Like, "dad said this to me and mum laughed at it" please say "my dad" and "my mum".  

Thank you 

Worse is when health professionals or social workers ask about my elderly parents. "How's Mum coping?" I'm in my fucking fifties.

[topcat(The most tip top)]

There are no chicks with dicks, Johnny, just guys with tits!

I think the phrase is "Chaps with Baps"

[Hedgecutter]

My mother in law refers to my father in law as 'dad' infront of my wife. My wife seems to think this is perfectly normal behaviour.

My OH has this issue too. What's worse is that they still do it when I'm there without her in the room!

[throbber]

Even when people refer to their friend/other half who I have never met by their first name annoys me. If the person you are talking to doesn't know the other person then refer to them as "my friend" it "my girlfriend" and not by their first name.

[Hedgecutter]

PTTGOYN:  People who use partner / family names in the assumption that you know (of) them.

Workmate:  "So, I was out with Kerry last night"

... wait, who the hell is this 'Kerry' you've never spoken of until now?  Wife? Friend? Escort?

Even when people refer to their friend/other half who I have never met by their first name annoys me. If the person you are talking to doesn't know the other person then refer to them as "my friend" it "my girlfriend" and not by their first name.

I feel your pain.

Anyway, today's PTTGOYN : When people reply "yes" or "no" to the following type of question...

e.g. "Did Aberdeen win their semi at the weekend, or did they bottle it like usual?"

"Yes"

F*** off.

[Mark Connolly]

10 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

not transphobic

transphobic

HTH

I thought the whole point of the trans thing was to get a bit extra or to get a bit less, not a bit much?

[NorthernJambo]

There's this flash c**t at my work, gets right on my nerves. It's petty because I'd do the same but anyway, this Colombian wid started but could barely speak a word. In steps boy wonder and starts giving it licks in Spanish, obviously looking for his hole, which is fair enough. Now though, when we get someone who speaks Spanish we obviously ask them to talk to him, and he complains about it? Was quite happy to speak Spanish to her, cunto. Nae idea if he managed to ride the Colombian though.

[irvine_buddie]

11 hours ago, jmothecat said:

I just read an article suggesting it is transphobic to not go out with a transwoman who still has a penis. I don't consider myself to be transphobic whatsoever but there's no way I would be willing to have sex with a 'woman' with a penis. The whole trans thing is getting a bit much.

Going by this logic, any straight man not willing to have sex with a gay man is homophobic.

[DA Baracus]

Weather chat in general annoys me, but people lying about the weather has irked me.

Folk going on about the snow as if it's some mad plague of spanners tainted with HIV falling from sky. It's snow. Calm down.

The lying bit is folk claiming that they've never seen it snow in April. It happened last year for one. It happens quite often. Also folk who say 'we have no summer'. It was fucking roasting last summer, like it is almost every summer.

[GordonD]

19 minutes ago, DA Baracus said:

The lying bit is folk claiming that they've never seen it snow in April. It happened last year for one. It happens quite often. Also folk who say 'we have no summer'. It was fucking roasting last summer, like it is almost every summer.

^^^^^ Lives in Australia

[throbber]

Was it roasting last summer? I don't seem to remember this.

[Scary Bear]

Was it roasting last summer? I don't seem to remember this.

If you turn your thermostat down to 16, then hey presto! the Scottish summers become roasting!

Top Tip.

[Jambomo]

When people post about dad or mum. Like, "dad said this to me and mum laughed at it" please say "my dad" and "my mum".  
Thank you 

My PTTGOYN is when people do this with babies. They'll say something like "this is for the mother and baby" or medicine for baby".

Whose baby? Is it her baby or their baby? Just a random baby they kidnapped? It's as though they drop into baby talk by just looking at a kid. It's not just people either, adverts do it all the time as well.

It drives me nuts.

[whiskychimp]

http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/14138010.Walthamstow_man_pens_book_after_paying_off_mortgage_in_just_seven_years/?ref=rss#comments-anchor

This guy annoys the f**k out of me. Firstly his money saving tips, eat own brand food

Secondly his overpayments of £3k a month. That isn't done by a few paltry savings. It's done by earning a lot

Thirdly, and most annoyingly, people are looking at this as a huge amount of money saved. He's actually a fucking moron. His interest rate on his mortgage over the last decade could have been as low as 1.5%. He could easily have got 6% by putting that money elsewhere. He's actually lost out by paying off his mortgage. 

[deej]

19 minutes ago, whiskychimp said:

http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/14138010.Walthamstow_man_pens_book_after_paying_off_mortgage_in_just_seven_years/?ref=rss#comments-anchor

This guy annoys the f**k out of me. Firstly his money saving tips, eat own brand food

Secondly his overpayments of £3k a month. That isn't done by a few paltry savings. It's done by earning a lot

Thirdly, and most annoyingly, people are looking at this as a huge amount of money saved. He's actually a fucking moron. His interest rate on his mortgage over the last decade could have been as low as 1.5%. He could easily have got 6% by putting that money elsewhere. He's actually lost out by paying off his mortgage. 

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His smugness had better start writing his next books 'How my Mrs run off with another geezer and took me to the cleaners' or ' How I paid off my mortgage but had to refinance it again to pay off my credit cards that I paid me mortgage off with'.