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I am being completely U and I don't care

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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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lostblonde86 · 03/12/2013 22:45

That is like our neighbours that don't use there drive way and both park outside leaving a huge gap outside their driveway and party in front our our house, meaning I have to park up the road.
Like you nothing I can do, bit sooo annoying!Hmm

toomanypasswords · 03/12/2013 22:52

Love a rant about irritating little things and particularly a parking rant! We have a college around the corner from us and because all other roads in the area are residence parking only, all the students park in our road. I watched a girl park her KA yesterday (one of the smaller cars possibly available) in front of our house. She drew up about eighteen inches away from the kerb, decided she wasn't quite straight so reversed back and pulled forward again, making absolutely NO difference to the position of her car, stopped, opened the door to check distance from kerb and obviously decided it was fine to abandon your car in the middle of the road and left. I know it doesn't really directly affect me at all but I was so cross!!!

Onefewernow · 03/12/2013 23:01

Hate Americanisms. DS said we were "out of resources " only this evening. Presumably meaning crisps.

Ilovemydogandmydoglovesme · 03/12/2013 23:33

"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."

I do this all the time. Blush

IamChristmas · 03/12/2013 23:59

Ooh I have a good one! I went on a training course recently and the trainer had the most annoying habit of saying "alright" before every single sentence, and sometimes halfway through a sentence and at the end.

"Alright, so now we are going to get into groups, alright, and in your groups I'd like you to discuss the main issues for today alright, and then at the end pick one person to feedback, alright".

I counted 47 "alrights" in 21 minutes. 21 MINUTES!

How I got through that 4 DAY COURSE without clawing my own face off I'll never know!

FetchezLaVache · 04/12/2013 00:21

Ilovemydog, stop it forthwith!!

Monty27 · 04/12/2013 00:28

Yes and them two down the street with their two cars, why have you parked outside your own house all week, as i do because I commute. Until Saturday when I come back with a car load of shopping?? Go on, go on. Whyyyyy? And I know you're both retired and you do you stuff during the week. grrr

It's like they move theirs in as soon as I move mine. Oh and it also means I have to park underneath a tree which leaves the covered in bird crap and leaves and sap filthy.

Park down the street you asses!

ViviPru · 04/12/2013 09:02

Hilarious post, Keatsie.

IamChristmas that sounds like the "So" sentence starters. You may not have noticed them yet but mark my words, you will do now.

EVERY sentence starts with "So". I have no idea why or how this has become a thing, but it has. A conversation pepperer becoming as ubiquitous as the mid-sentence "like" and I find I am increasingly doing it too. I hate myself.

ArgyMargy · 04/12/2013 09:08

Vivi apparently this originated in the world of science/academia or something. I read about it. I have to resist doing it but people I know literally start every sentence with "so". The one that really annoys me is when people lift their voice at the end of every sentence, as if they were asking a question?? I think this came from Australia (where I would not be annoyed by it).

BlancheDubious · 04/12/2013 09:12

I hate when people hold a mug by wrapping both hands around it like they're camping up Everest. Added annoying points for inhaling deeply at same time.

sebsmummy1 · 04/12/2013 09:14

Blanche that's only in soup adverts surely!!!

monicalewinski · 04/12/2013 09:30

YY Blanche to the mug-hugging, the perpetrators are always the type to wear their 'confort cardi' with the cuffs pulled down over their hands, too. Grrr.

Laughed out loud at Keatsies cycling friend, hate hate hate people like that - usually as deeply mundane in rl as they are on fecking fb.

Puntastic, you have now upset me deeply with the news that they've changed the dictionary to appease the 'literallers'.

I'm right in the mood now to go and deliberately seek out annoyances so I can have the rage!

monicalewinski · 04/12/2013 09:31

Aaargh. *comfort, not confort.

BlancheDubious · 04/12/2013 09:32

I'm raging about "literally" too Angry

mistlethrush · 04/12/2013 09:44

Here here

I have seen it too often here recently and it makes me furious. But I don't feel like thread crashing to point it out.

SchnitzelVonKrumm · 04/12/2013 09:51

There was a woman this morning playing a little game with her puppy (on a lead). Right in front of the (small) gate to school, just as the bell rang. Angry

shewhowines · 04/12/2013 10:10

Text instead of texted. Gah!

Pontouf · 04/12/2013 10:17

Oh my god, I've had curmudgeon rage already today. Had I ring for an appointment at Dr's for DD. it's one of those deals where you have to ring at 8am for a same day appointment but if you don't manage to get through by 8.20 all the appointments are gone. So I sit there redialling again and again.

The thing is the fucking thing alternates between "the surgery is now closed" answer machine message and an engaged tone. For 10 minutes. How can it be engaged one minute and then fucking closed the next??!!!! Gives me high blood pressure I swear. DH has to leave the room if I'm on the phone to the docs!

Pontouf · 04/12/2013 10:18

Also every time my dentist sends me an email confirming my appointment the subject line says "Comfirmation". Furious.

JudgyOldBag · 04/12/2013 10:30

I can't believe they changed 'Literally' just because too many people were too stupid to use it correctly. Now what word do we have when we really want to literally say literally...? Will they have to invent a new word to mean 'Literally'???

'So' as a sentence starter, aaargh I hate that. Usually used by the same people as I complained about earlier, who say "Yeah" when asked a non yes or no question. e.g. "How is your job going?"... "Yeah. So I'm really busy". Aaaargh!

I thought 'Like' went without saying. It gives me the true rage. I can almost excuse young people doing it, even though it's awful, it's pretty hard to get away from. But I have a friend who is intelligent and works in an important role, and makes herself sound really stupid by using it as a sentence starter AND a space marker while she's thinking. So our conversations go like this: "How is your job going?"... "Like, like ... like, it's ok, but like, like I'm really busy"

Isn't there a topic called 'Pedants corner' for this kind of thing? I feel bad taking over OPs thread which was more of a rant about parking, with pedantic grammar and speech habits! Sorry OP!

JudgyOldBag · 04/12/2013 10:35

On and HarkTEE you asked why using 'She' in someone's presence is considered rude?

I really don't know - It was just something we were taught not to do. I know that Americans do it and don't mean to be rude at all. It took me a while to get used to it from my American friend, it was only when I heard other Americans doing it that I realized that it wasn't just her being rude. So beware that people who aren't used to it might consider it rude.

I think it's just a funny cultural difference - really can't think of any reason for it to be honest!

FetchezLaVache · 04/12/2013 10:58

shewhowines, I quite agree with that one.

Caitlin17 · 04/12/2013 11:35

I'm distressed at the loss of literally. I fought a losing battle for presently to keep its meaning of soon , in the near future and not just because synonymous with at present.

People who send business e-mails which don't have contact phone and address details in the footer so I have to waste time clicking every email on the file to find it, giving up and looking else where.

Caitlin17 · 04/12/2013 11:37

The "he" "she" thing is very rude.

Caitlin17 · 04/12/2013 11:38

Not just be synonymous. Obviously.