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I am being completely U and I don't care

190 replies

HarkTEEHeraldAngelsSing · 02/12/2013 13:01

My next door neighbours are a lovely retired couple. They have an adult daughter who often comes to visit.

It totally gets on my wick that she parks her car in the road across the bottom of their drive, rather than pulling into their drive like a normal person would.

ARGH!!

No, it's none of my business. Yes, I have more important things to worry about. No, it doesn't affect my life at all.

It just makes me INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you.

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goodasitgets · 03/12/2013 15:26

IABU today because my neighbours leave their rubbish bins in my parking space. I'm sick of moving them. They don't work and have had all day to move them, but no, unless I drag all four bins out I can't get into my parking Angry

sydlexic · 03/12/2013 15:31

I have just got home from visiting MIL, I parked across the bottom of her drive, the neighbour gave me a funny look and I knew what she was thinking.

In my defence the drive sweeps one way and up a slope, I never manage to reverse up it without touching the grass. If I touch the grass MIL has a melt down, so I just don't bother.

FetchezLaVache · 03/12/2013 15:42

I've just read this thread and I'm fucking FURIOUS- nobody has annoyed me in any way, shape or form today, the cunts. They're clearly doing it deliberately. I will have to go to ASDA to seek justification for my rage.

grimbletart · 03/12/2013 15:45

Ooh a curmudgeon thread - bliss.

Why do people say "I'm good" when you ask them how they are? I don't want to know if they are imminently going to be elevated to sainthood. I want to know how they are. It's "well" numpties (unless you are sick of course). Same for those sports type who say "I played good". "He played solid". Haven't you heard of adverbs? Have they been abolished?

ViviPru · 03/12/2013 15:49

Same for those sports type who say "I played good". "He played solid". Haven't you heard of adverbs? Have they been abolished?

What about the ones who use "you've" "you're" and your" instead of "I've" "I'm" and "my" i.e. "you've gone out there and you're trying to do your best" NO! I didn't. YOU did.

JudgyOldBag · 03/12/2013 15:50

Are they the same people who say "My Bad" Grimble?

As in, when they make a mistake "Ooh sorry. My Bad"

I actually had an argument with an ex about this. I said wtf, you're not on 'Friends' you know!

ViviPru · 03/12/2013 15:54

"can I get...."

JudgyOldBag · 03/12/2013 15:55

Oh god, yes those people Vivi - usually in post-match interviews. They drive me nuts too.

AND ALSO what is the current trend for historians talking about historical events in the present tense. i.e. "King Henry IIIV walks up to his army and commands them to fight". I hate this, and always imagine people tuning in halfway through to a radio programme to hear "Scotland has declared war on England, and the troops are lining up" and believing it to be a newsflash!!!

What is wrong with using the past tense, when talking about the past!?

aNutAboveTheBreast · 03/12/2013 15:56

My neighbours annoy me. If you must sell drugs, please sell decent ones so I don't have to listen to people yelling "Liam! Liiiiiaaaaaammmm! I know you're in! This is fucking oregano!" at 1am. While it's true I can only hear this if I open the back door or a window, I still know they're there.

My upstairs neighbour annoys me by leaving and entering the house 3 or 4 times a day and slamming the front door every single time .

Being pregnant annoys me. I bent over to put a shoe on earlier and wee'd myself.

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HarkTEEHeraldAngelsSing · 03/12/2013 15:58

OMG if we're raging about clients...I was actually not raging about the client, but about their fucking pop up that has to be 800mmx2000mm and at least 720dpi and my computer is soooo slow with a file that big. I moved a piece of text less than a cm and it took, I swear, 5 minutes for it to actually re-render the graphic.

Which led to my posting on my FB page:

See, what people don't get about being a freelance graphic artist is; I don't have co-workers.

So while I'm waiting for small changes on this big file (pop up, final file is about 1.5'x6') to render, I'm posting things like this on Facebook.

If I had co-workers, I'd be bothering them instead.

This is also why, BTW, graphic, animation and game creation studios have so many toys lying around. I would bet a fiver that SkyNet was invented by a programmer waiting for something to compile.

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farewellfigure · 03/12/2013 15:58

I just left my nice warm office to walk into the cold kitchen so I could change the battery on my e-fag. When I got into the kitchen I discovered I had taken my PEN into the kitchen, not the e-fag and had to walk all the way back again, TWO WHOLE ROOM AWAYS. That really gave me the rage.

JudgyOldBag · 03/12/2013 15:59

"You get so annoyed with these bartenders. You walk up to him and say 'Can I get a Beer', and he says no sorry. So you say 'Sorry My Bad"

To be fair, to real life americans, some of these things don't sound as rude as they do to us brits. I have an american friend who always refers to me as 'she' in my presence. I have to bite my tongue from saying "SHE is the Cat's mother!"

JudgyOldBag · 03/12/2013 16:03

If we're raging about slow computers - mine can take 5 whole minutes to open up an email. And then if I accidentally click on the wrong email, I have to wait for that to open up before I close it to open the right one.

Makes me want to cry. Whenever I complain to our IT people, they test it and it always works just fine. Like it knows when they're watching.

FragglerockAmpersand · 03/12/2013 16:05

Judgy YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's driving me round the COCKING BEND!!!1!!!

It's over IT'S OVER. It's DONE. It's PAST. These are EX-EVENTS! STOP IT! STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT!!!!!!! Angry Angry Angry

"The slave makes a sacrifice to the household gods unaware Vesuvius is about to erupt" FUCK YOU MARY BEARD AND FUCK YOU SIMON SCHAMA

I don't mean it, I love Mary Beard but FFS Angry

StrawberryMoose · 03/12/2013 16:07

People who say 'obviously' in their sentences when it's NOT OBVIOUS AT ALL. Angry

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HarkTEEHeraldAngelsSing · 03/12/2013 16:11

Okay, stand back...

I'm being a true bitch here and I know it and I don't care.

I am so fucking fed up with people on MN (and elsewhere) expecting the whole fucking world to be so fucking careful with every fucking thing they say and do in case someone who reads/hears it might have at one time had a hard time in the same situation and aren't dealing with it well. Or in case you use some word, that was an every day word 2 weeks ago and and is suddenly unfucking PC. Or not PC in this country but fine in another or some such fucking shit as that.

Well fuck that shit. We've all had hard lives. That's what life is. It's fucking hard. Unless you're the fucking Queen or some shit like that. And words are just fucking words. Yes, they can hurt, but how the fuck are we all suppose to fucking keep track of what's okay and what isn't when it fucking changes every five fucking minutes?

So if some of us would like to have a fucking laugh fuck off with your offence and hurt feelings and just go the FUCK AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And the first person who tilts their head at me is going to die.

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JudgyOldBag · 03/12/2013 16:11

oh I hate 'Obviously' too.

AND I hate it when comedians always follow their gags with an "Errrrm" while they wait for the expected laughter. As if they're pretending they're just in mid conversation and not waiting for everyone to piss themselves.

Jo Brand does this all the time, as do a lot of the others. It's like a tick that they have. They must teach it in comedian school. Errrm.

MrsHoratioNelson · 03/12/2013 16:11

The stupid woman across the road wants to be my friend. I don't want to be her friend, we have nothing in common, she has a horrid, badly trained dog and is clearly unstable.

Plus, I find it very suspicious that she suddenly wants to be my friend now I a newborn that i will not let her cuddle.

Back off crazy lady and stop ringing my doorbell Angry

JudgyOldBag · 03/12/2013 16:13

Cross posted with you there Hark Grin

Totally agree with you. I always correct myself whenever I write 'kids' on MN because I believe it's 'not acceptable'. WTF

There's also a hell of a lot of double standards on here.... Hmm

Still love it though

ViviPru · 03/12/2013 16:14

Hahah TEE That's PRECISELY why I'm usually knocking about on here too... waiting for adobe to catch up with my brain. I've just installed a new solid state hard drive and a whole load of ram and my mac's now running like lightening so I have NO excuse.......

Procrastinating graphic designers of the world UNITE

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HarkTEEHeraldAngelsSing · 03/12/2013 16:14

Eh fuck it. I say kids. I don't care who finds it 'unacceptable.'

They can fuck right off.

And now I have to go make a pie. Chicken, with puff pastry, if anyone is interested in having a piece. Xmas Grin

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StrawberryMoose · 03/12/2013 16:15
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puntasticusername · 03/12/2013 16:18

What? We're not allowed to say "kids"? Why not?! And when was one of you bastards going to get around to telling me that, hmm?

JudgyOldBag · 03/12/2013 16:20

Oh and MrsHoratio don't let that woman touch your baby. She sounds odd

MrsHoratioNelson · 03/12/2013 16:20

WTAF is wrong with kids? Is it offensive to goats?