May 2010
13 posts
90 - Losing the end of the Sellotape
Who hasn’t sat turning the tape round and round running their nails along trying to find the end. The frustration as you fail to find anything like the end or the false joy of finding a bit only to pull it off and realise it was a short bit of tape stuck around the roll. The irritation at the fact that you had the end free just a minute ago and another fruitless attempt when you find the end...
89 - The pavement shuffle
For those who don’t know it’s when you end up walking the opposite path to someone and both do that silly stepping left/right thing until someone says “for f**ks sake” and just barges past.
It’s always a little worse when you’ve spotted the situation building and start to drift to the side of the pavement and the other person takes the same evasive action, you...
88 - Song lyrics as your facebook status
For those not unaware your facebook status is a way of conveying what you’ve been up to to those who are friends on facebook. It is not the place for a game of name that tune, I’m sure there’s a stupid app that you can send me 100s of invites for so you can play that.
87 - Wearing a cap in the gym
I’ve been to quite a few gyms in my time and so far I’ve found people wearing baseball caps in just about everyone of them and yet I’ve never been in gym where the lights are so bright I need to protect my eyes from their glare with a cap, or a gym where there is the need for concern about getting sun burnt on my head.
So that has led me to the conclusion that wearing a cap in...
86 - Running out of remote control batteries
You point and press and nothing happens, you’ve taken the batteries out and given them a rub and nothing, you’ve even swapped the batteries around inside and put them in different positions and still nothing. So off you go to the man draw and disaster, there are no more batteries!
Especially frustrating as new items no longer have controls on them so you can’t even get off your...
85 - Leaving for a few days and not scheduling the...
There should have been some additions to here over the past few days but I didn’t schedule them properly and actually set them to publish next week. Which is good as it means I don’t have anything to do next week now at least.
84 - Getting to the last box of a sudoku puzzle...
You’re just about to start celebrating when you realise the final box of the puzzle has two 9s in. It’s a crushing blow and you either face up to trying to repair the damage or give up and hide the offending puzzle away so now one can see the mistake you made.
83 - Wet socks
Wandering around the house and standing in something is annoying but it’s even worse in socks. The feeling as the wetness spreads around your sock and into your toes is horrible. The same feeling is just as bad when you step in a puddle and the water seeps through your shoes and you feel it making your socks soggy.
82 - Small toasters
I don’t buy particularly big bread, just normal sized. It’s damn irritating though when it doesn’t fit in the toaster and you end up with one half toast and one half normal bread and have to turn it around and then burn the middle bit.
Make toasters bigger please.
81 - Being told who to vote for
For those in the UK it won’t have passed you by that today is a general election and one of the most irritating things from the whole campaign is newspapers who tell you how to vote. They should just be reporting the news, fair enough with a bit of bias a story that sits on the fence wouldn’t be that interesting to read. However straight out saying “we think you should...
80 - Chewing gum
I can’t understand the appeal with gum, it doesn’t look good chewing it, especially when you do so in that open mouthed I’m full of myself teenage ASBO style.
When you’ve finished with it you then need to find a bin to put it in, nope don’t be sticking it to the bottom of the desk or just throwing it on the pavement.
If you want to use it to get fresh breath why not...
79 - Wearing sunglasses indoors
Seriously who wears sunglasses in doors. Even Brad Pitt would look a little silly.
I think the only saving bit of this irritation is that everybody knows the wearer looks like an idiot, everyone except the sunglasses wearer of course.
78 - Speliling nasis
Personally I like to be quite keen with my spelling, at the end of the day incorrect spelling looks unprofessional, but jumping on every little error in a facebook status that I’ve typed with clumsy drunken fingers on my iphone is just a little irritating.
Although failbooking has some good examples of when spelling Nazis can actually be funny...
