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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.

OP posts:
JudgyOldBag · 03/12/2013 16:21

I've seen a few people get told off for saying 'kids', they're baby goats don't you know Hmm

I always correct myself to write DCs... but fuck it I might rebel now!

StrawberryMoose · 03/12/2013 16:22

Kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids

MrsHoratioNelson · 03/12/2013 16:24

Judgy don't worry, i will not. She offered to come and watch him so i could get on Hmm

First, you're not holding my baby ever, lady. Second, if I've not got any housework done because the baby wouldn't let me and I wanted to watch Phil Spencer in Australia that's ok. Isn't it?! Angry

Besides, I have a cleaner.

JudgyOldBag · 03/12/2013 16:28

Maybe I've imagined the 'kids' thing - has anyone else come across it?? worried I totally made it up

Crikey She offered to come and watch him so i could get on that's even more worrying.

Dededum · 03/12/2013 16:38

Isn't Liam going to get his head punched in?

My mum, 'you know XXX', Me "not I don't" Mum "Well thought that you would be interested that she XXXX" - would mind but the stories go on for ever.......

LividofLondon · 03/12/2013 17:07

"I'm good"
"My Bad"
"can I get...."

Americanisms...fine if you're an American, twatish if you're not.

Original poster
HarkTEEHeraldAngelsSing · 03/12/2013 17:11

I'm American. And I think they're twatish.

I have to go get my gun, that all Americans own, to kill StrawberryMoose.

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JudgyOldBag · 03/12/2013 17:21

Hark do you refer to people as 'she' and 'he' while in their presence?

E.g. 3 people in a conversation. I say "I would like a cup of tea". American friend says "I would like coffee, but SHE would like tea".. rather than "Judgy would like tea"

It's just a turn of phrase, and isn't meant to be rude at all, but it just jars with me as we were always taught not to refer to someone as 'she' while they are in your presence...

Is this something all americans do, or is it just my friend?!

Original poster
HarkTEEHeraldAngelsSing · 03/12/2013 17:25

Yes. I do that. And I don't understand why it's rude.

However, father in law said that once and my mother in law pulled him up on it and I mentioned I don't get why it's rude and he said he doesn't either and he's Scottish!

So why is it rude?

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FixItUpChappie · 03/12/2013 17:27

A woman who works round the corner from our house parks on our street and everyday turns her car around in our driveway. I cant stand the sight of her.

...and breathe Grin

Ilovemydogandmydoglovesme · 03/12/2013 17:29

I am pissing myself at this thread. This is brilliant.

I have an update on my welly, if anyone gives a shit. Grin Rang the man in town and it's all done but he forgot to send it back!! I need that bloody boot you tosser!

WIBU to forget to settle the account?

TwoPeasOnePod · 03/12/2013 17:31

I wish DP would stop coming in of an evening with a plastic carrier bag if bits from the shop. Then unpacking the bag.
Then folding the carrier bag into a tiny cube.
Then hiding the carrier-bag-cube in places around the kitchen.
Hiding it in the cutlery drawer.
Poking it into the utensils pot so I find it whilst cooking.
Hiding it in the fridge drawer.
Hiding it between the tea/coffee/sugar pots.
Hiding it in the toe of my slipper AAAGH ENOUGH WITH THE CARRIER BAG CUBE

TwoPeasOnePod · 03/12/2013 17:36

Or the martyred sigh of a morning. "Sweetheart you must have been fast asleep last night. You were on my side. My bum got cold near that wall. Aww you were so warm though. Never mind" JUST SHOVE/ROLL/PUSH ME OUT OF YOUR WAY NEXT TIME AND WE WILL NEVER HAVE TO ENACT THIS CONVERSATION EVER AGAIN

TwoPeasOnePod · 03/12/2013 17:45

And yes like a PP I walk to school daily and encounter Ignorant Pig who is incapable of stepping half a foot to the side for me/telling her kids to move/speed up from a funeral plod. Once she saw me approaching at speed, then drifted out of her car and opened the door to let her kid out of the car. Blocking the entire path for, oh, about twenty hours.With no 'sorry hang on' or so much as a by-your-leave to me,stood right there with double buggy unable to step into rush hour traffic

Her monumental rudeness makes me want to grind my wisdom teeth to bitter dust

grimbletart · 03/12/2013 17:52

I am the most laid back person on the planet (so I'm told) but I get the rage at DH who cannot see a horizontal surface without covering it with letters, torn up envelopes, any tool he happens to have used, dead batteries, receipts - you name it, it's on the kitchen bar, the sideboard, his desk (where he then complains he can't find x or y - am I surprised?). I think he believes that leaving a space on a horizontal surface is against the law.

GRRRRRRRR Angry

Ilovemydogandmydoglovesme · 03/12/2013 17:59

"Liam! Liiiiiaaaaaammmm! I know you're in! This is fucking oregano!"

and

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

Pissing myself. Bizarely both from the same poster, sorry NutAbove, but god they made me laugh. Grin

FetchezLaVache · 03/12/2013 21:51

Finally! Someone has given me The Rage and I can now post on this thread legitimately.

I've just shared an amusing picture that appeared on my Facebook news fees courtesy of The Poke. Individual bread rolls at a supermarket, with a sign reading "DO NOT TOUCH BREAD WITH HANDS - PLEASE USE TONGUE".

Friend has commented "LOL! I would rather use tongs, personally- sounds a bit more hygienic!! xx"

FFS.

rootypig · 03/12/2013 22:00

This is illegal in California! Yes! Illegal to park across a driveway - even your own.

picnicbasketcase · 03/12/2013 22:04

I don't really understand why that's made you so angry Fetchez - is it because she's explained the joke with her comment?

And have I just done the same thing with this one? Shock

PansOnFire · 03/12/2013 22:13

People who use the word literally when it wasn't 'literally' at all - WHY? JUST, WHY?! No, you didn't 'literally' die - you are still fucking alive unfortunately.

PansOnFire · 03/12/2013 22:16

Oh and metaphors in the work place, so irritating

FetchezLaVache · 03/12/2013 22:23

Yes, as if it's so obscure that other, lesser people might not have worked it out! Things aren't funny if you have to explain them. And the person coming along like the teacher and explaining it just sucks all the mirth out of it.

And no, you haven't! I concede that I didn't explain too well why it enraged me- I changed her post a bit to protect the guilty, and maybe it lost something in translation. So on the plus side, I can now be enraged at myself. :)

WireCatGlitteryBaubles · 03/12/2013 22:27

This thread is The Best.

I am constantly fucked off with things.

Parking. Today, there were people parked badly. It didn't affect me one bit, but FFs, park properly you muppets.

puntasticusername · 03/12/2013 22:27

Pans I hate to break this to you, but they changed it...

m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23729570

KeatsiePie · 03/12/2013 22:38

Oh, Facebook. Someone on Facebook went for a bike ride half an hour ago, which he informed us of, as he does, every day, in case we were wondering whether he was going to go for a bike ride. As I do wonder, every day.

Then he posted that he had a flat tire on XX country road and asked for "suggestions." I found that I had many, but none of them could realistically be achieved with a tire.

Then he posted that he hoped the AAA guy was not lost. I don't know how he managed to decide to call them, as no one on Facebook advised him.

Now he has posted a photo of his flat tire with the comment that he feels lucky to be alive. YES OMG YOUR BICYCLE TIRE WENT FLAT ON A QUIET ROAD, I WAS SO AFRAID FOR YOUR FAMILY.

I am hiding his posts now, but that does not satisfy my rage.