Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...

[oldbitterandgrumpy]

8 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said:

This sign in Dunfermline.

Thought that beyond ~3 miles you stop counting the fractions?

Pedantic? Moi?

[Melanius Mullarkey]

17 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said:

This sign in Dunfermline.

Thought that beyond ~3 miles you stop counting the fractions?

That is petty tbf.
 

I see that’s another sign yet to be updated as well. None of the surrounding roads including the motorways have yet to update signage to The Queensferry Crossing. 
 

Seething does not come close.

[Sergeant Wilson]

6 hours ago, DG.Roma said:

This must absolute torture for people with a complex about their weight. Football shirts are particularly bad for it. Adidas for example, a few seasons ago Large was Large, XL was a bit bigger. Now XL is just a longer version of large, good for tall skinny folk, but no extra belly space, and XXL is a cape. That's not me getting bigger, coz the old shirt still fits the same. Macron are worse still, getting the average Scotsman into an XL is like getting an apple into a condom, I'd imagine

I went to a Blyth Spartans game last season if they had any older kit on sale. They did, but the guy explained there had been an error in the sizing and they'd had to relabel the shirts. He asked what size I usually was and said that would be roughly a seven XL, which he could sell for £25.00. I told him I'd been insulted in better places for less than that.

I took my custom elsewhere.

[19QOS19]

Shop fridges that don't chill their contents. What's the actual point of them? Literally just wasting energy needlessly. 

[Jacksgranda]

On 06/06/2023 at 17:03, Empty It said:

Weddings are another thing social media has fucked, weddings used to be about people enjoying themselves now its about trying to compete to have the best wedding with the most money spent on it.

You forgot "with the best people"...

[10menwent2mow]

Went for a long walk round Aberdeen yesterday and if I'd been Michael Douglas' character in Falling Down, the body count would've been very high.

First up was the jakey in Greggs who dropped his can of jakey lager on the floor, proceeded to pick up a few things, walk out the door without paying, then sit down outside against the window and start enjoying his pilfered goods. Couldn't really blame the staff for not getting involved, wasn't like they could resell the stuff after jakey hands had touched it and they don't get paid enough to deal with that shite. 

Next was the jakey with his jakey dog on Nelson St who when approaching a group of 3 teenagers playing a bit of keepy up in the street shouted at them for having the temerity to play football because his clearly shitely trained jakey dog was going mental because there was a ball being kicked around. 'Go and not kick your football until I'm past with my dog' The kids were quite polite and said they didn't see him coming and he went off on one at them. 

Finally was getting on the bus when there were about 20 free seats being taken up by jackets, bags etc and not a single person moved anything to offer a seat. 

I'm sure Aberdeen is not alone in this but it appears increasingly that people are c***s 

[jimbaxters]

14 minutes ago, 10menwent2mow said:

Went for a long walk round Aberdeen yesterday and if I'd been Michael Douglas' character in Falling Down, the body count would've been very high.

First up was the jakey in Greggs who dropped his can of jakey lager on the floor, proceeded to pick up a few things, walk out the door without paying, then sit down outside against the window and start enjoying his pilfered goods. Couldn't really blame the staff for not getting involved, wasn't like they could resell the stuff after jakey hands had touched it and they don't get paid enough to deal with that shite. 

Next was the jakey with his jakey dog on Nelson St who when approaching a group of 3 teenagers playing a bit of keepy up in the street shouted at them for having the temerity to play football because his clearly shitely trained jakey dog was going mental because there was a ball being kicked around. 'Go and not kick your football until I'm past with my dog' The kids were quite polite and said they didn't see him coming and he went off on one at them. 

Finally was getting on the bus when there were about 20 free seats being taken up by jackets, bags etc and not a single person moved anything to offer a seat. 

I'm sure Aberdeen is not alone in this but it appears increasingly that people are c***s 

Correct not to pull a gun on them, well done. Did you not say anything though? Especially at the lad shouting at the weans?

[Self-raising Lazarus]

On 12/06/2023 at 10:42, DG.Roma said:

This must absolute torture for people with a complex about their weight. Football shirts are particularly bad for it. Adidas for example, a few seasons ago Large was Large, XL was a bit bigger. Now XL is just a longer version of large, good for tall skinny folk, but no extra belly space, and XXL is a cape. That's not me getting bigger, coz the old shirt still fits the same. Macron are worse still, getting the average Scotsman into an XL is like getting an apple into a condom, I'd imagine

Purchased a motherwell shirt 2 seasons ago and figured I'd go for an XL, felt like I was wearing a small man's top......

Yet I'm able to fit into large for almost everything else.

[scottsdad]

Me neighbours are out and their dog has been barking for 2 hours now.

[Melanius Mullarkey]

5 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

Me neighbours are out and their dog has been barking for 2 hours now.

What's  it saying?

[HK Hibee]

3 hours ago, 10menwent2mow said:

 

Finally was getting on the bus when there were about 20 free seats being taken up by jackets, bags etc and not a single person moved anything to offer a seat. 

this annoys me.

When I get on a bus or tram here everyone sits on the seat nearest the aisle rather than sitting at the window- if you then ask them to move so you can sit at a window they generally don't or move their legs a little bit.  I make sure that I bang into them to discourage that sort of thing in the future.

[Salt n Vinegar]

48 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkay said:

What's  it saying?

We have a similar problem, but it's even when our neighbours are in. If the dog is in the back garden, which meets our back garden on a long fence, the mutt seems to resent the intrusion of any bird, or even any neighbours being in their own gardens. The owners rarely if ever tell the wee diddy to shut it's pus.  What I can't understand is why the damn thing keeps shouting "Ralph, Ralph! There's no "Ralph" around here.

[Soapy FFC]

50 minutes ago, HK Hibee said:

this annoys me.

When I get on a bus or tram here everyone sits on the seat nearest the aisle rather than sitting at the window- if you then ask them to move so you can sit at a window they generally don't or move their legs a little bit.  I make sure that I bang into them to discourage that sort of thing in the future.

That's also when an unexpected fart could be useful 

[Salt n Vinegar]

32 minutes ago, Soapy FFC said:

That's also when an unexpected fart could be useful 

Just start talking about God. You'll find an oasis of calm opening up around you.

[Soapy FFC]

5 minutes ago, Salt n Vinegar said:

Just start talking about God. You'll find an oasis of calm opening up around you.

That could be risky as you might sit next to someone who actually believes. 

[Salt n Vinegar]

2 minutes ago, Soapy FFC said:

That could be risky as you might sit next to someone who actually believes. 

In Edinburgh? Well, it's possible, I suppose.  I know quite a few folk who would probably describe themselves as "culturally Presbyterian" but never actually darken the doors of a Kirk. The most religious friend I have is Roman Catholic who goes around claiming that everything nice he sees is a blessing from God, but he rarely comments on the "down" side of things. That'll be the "mysterious ways" aspect I suppose. 

Back on topic, if it's Edinburgh we are talking about, the only thing I could be pretty certain about is that if a stranger speaks to you on an Edinburgh tram or bus, they're probably NOT from Edinburgh. .  

[Melanius Mullarkey]

1 hour ago, Salt n Vinegar said:

We have a similar problem, but it's even when our neighbours are in. If the dog is in the back garden, which meets our back garden on a long fence, the mutt seems to resent the intrusion of any bird, or even any neighbours being in their own gardens. The owners rarely if ever tell the wee diddy to shut it's pus.  What I can't understand is why the damn thing keeps shouting "Ralph, Ralph! There's no "Ralph" around here.

Do you have a milkman called Ralph by any chance?

[TxRover]

30 minutes ago, Soapy FFC said:

That could be risky as you might sit next to someone who actually believes. 

Pick a nice sect with uncommon beliefs (and for bomus points, a tendency to not shower a lot)...perhaps U.S. Southern Baptist in Europe, maybe Greek or Romanian Orthodox in the Americas, etc. Then select a nicely outlying bit of their schtick and roll with it...five minutes into's God hiding dinosaur bones in the earth or the only true Patriarch of the church and you'll be laughing.

2 hours ago, HK Hibee said:

this annoys me.

When I get on a bus or tram here everyone sits on the seat nearest the aisle rather than sitting at the window- if you then ask them to move so you can sit at a window they generally don't or move their legs a little bit.  I make sure that I bang into them to discourage that sort of thing in the future.

There is sometimes no option but to select somebody to simply stumble and sit on...Then complain loudly they tripped you. Not applicable to the more heavily armed portions of the world (aka USA, Mexico, Central America, some of South America, lots of Africa and Yeman).

As for packages or jackets on seats, they're made for sitting too.

[Salt n Vinegar]

15 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkay said:

Do you have a milkman called Ralph by any chance?

Hmmm..  unknown. We get 2 deliveries of milk a week but it arrives between about 2 and 4 am so "interaction" (ahem!) Is not impossible. However, given the speed the truck moves at, contact would be limited!

[Melanius Mullarkey]

23 minutes ago, Salt n Vinegar said:

Hmmm..  unknown. We get 2 deliveries of milk a week but it arrives between about 2 and 4 am so "interaction" (ahem!) Is not impossible. However, given the speed the truck moves at, contact would be limited!

As Gary Barlow once said, “it only takes a minute girl”.