
Some things that annoy me:
1) Not being able to find things in the fridge/cupboard, asking my wife and she
grabs whatever it is from RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME!
2) Telemarketers, yes those ones from Bangalore, trying to sell Optus, GoTalk or
whatever. You can usually tell when your in for one of those conversations when
you answer the phone and you spend 5 seconds going hello, hello, while the
dialing machine on the other end connects you through to a person. Watch out
telemarketrs, and I am talking to you at the top! (hey, as if they would be
reading my web page anyway .... ) I have a friend who has access to
"Australian Securities & Investments
Commission" website, where the company director(s) personal contact details are
listed! I was so close to calling Mr GoTalk at 3 in the morning to ask if this
was a good time.....
3) Realising that there is no paper in the toilet when it's too late.
4) People throwing away cigarette butts like they don't count as litter. I've
had a think about cigarette smokers. I think smoking is a good way to divide the
population into two categories. People who care and people who don't. Ever
wonder who the people are who threw that Maccas bag out the car window? That's
right, a smoker. If they throw their butts everywhere they are not going to
think twice about other types of litter are they? What proportion of illicit
drug users are smokers? Smokers clearly know that smoking is a crappy health
decision, and this masochistic behavior can't just be limited to smoking can it? I also
suspect that there would be a strong correlation between smokers and criminal
activity. And then smokers go and have children, continuing to smoke,
virtually guaranteeing the kids will get every disadvantage in life their parents had.
Obviously I don't smoke.
5) People who leave all their half eaten lunch and crap on tables in food
courts. Yes it is somebody's job to clean it up, but no I don't enjoy cleaning up your mess.
6) Battery powered devices that take THREE batteries. I can't buy them in
threes!
6a) Battery chargers that only charge pairs! Who's idea was that?
7) Appliances that beep. Why does everything have to beep? The microwave
oven, even the George Foreman grille beeps, randomly. Do your job "quietly".
8) While on the subject of beeping, who's idea was it to design an alert in
newer cars that can't be turned off and never times out INSISTING that you don't
open the driver's door with the key in the ignition, amongst other scenarios. I
am close to going POSTAL on this one, ESPECIALLY when I've arrived home with
sleeping kids, I stop the engine, open the door carefully and BAM, all hell
breaks loose.
9) Potatoes that are concaved in shape. Man they are a bitch to peel.
10) Pouring hot water into a cup with a tea bag and the tab goes in. I HATE THAT.
11) Apples that have little stickers on them. Every time I want an apple I have
to spend 5 seconds of my life peeling them off and getting to the bin, and I DON'T think
it's funny when the label sticker people stick it over the top of a grub hole.
12) Email "read receipts". Gee they shit me. It's none of your business when I
read your email. You sent it, I read it. End of story. Mind your own business.
13) Spilling the flavor/condiment packets that come with 2 minute noodles. They
give you barely enough and it shits me when I waste some!
14) People in the CBD on rainy days who have MASSIVE umbrellas. There should be
a legislated maximum allowed umbrella diameter within 1000m radius of the Post
Office
15) Fluorescent lights that take 30 seconds of blinking before they light up
properly.
16) Wide screen TVs displaying the wrong aspect ratio.
Too many people go out and buy these high resolution fancy TVs so they get this
fantastic viewing experience but can't work out how to use them and then make
everybody appear short and fat. I don't understand!
17) People who spit their chewing gum out into the toilet urinals. It doesn't
dissolve, it stays there for days getting pissed on.
18) People who where LONSDALE and EVERLAST shirts thinking it makes them tougher than everyone else.
19) The wearing of sunglasses inside. No you don't look cool. Yes your popped
collar and stupid hair add extra annoyance.
20) Dog Shit - I have two dogs. Recently the local city council imposed a by-law
insisting that when I walk the dogs, I pick up the dogs' shit and take it with
me in plastic bags. Now this combined with the fact that the council has also removed the vast
majority of public garbage bins in the suburbs has led me to make an interesting
observation. I can arrive home after completing my dog walk with my dogs' shit half an hour after it parted
company with the dog, and it will still be warm. Now what other substance in
that relatively small volume can stay warm for that length of time? I am looking
at how to harness this power of dog shit. Anybody have any ideas email me.
21) Hugh Hefner.
22) Ringing somebody up to be greeted by a screeching machine because you've
dialed the FAX number.
23) Paypal. What is with those guys? You sell something. Somebody pays you,
Paypal hang onto it for four days while they clean up on the short term money
market. You don't get all the money the buyer paid and when it finally turns up in your account they take a bit more
when you actually want to get it out! Bastards
24) Personalised Number Plates! Yes you are very clever, yes you have come up with a very clever word.
No I am not going to be bothered to work out what it is supposed to say.
It is extra frustrating when you actually ask somebody what their cryptic plate is supposed to say, and it isn't supposed to say anything!
So why are you paying $500000000000 a year for that?
25) I was in traffic in the car the other day watching this youngish guy at the
wheel getting all frustrated.
Funny thing was he was in a Ford Festiva. So guys, I recon if you are going to start waving
your arms around and mouthing off make sure you aren't driving a girl's car.
26) Blue eye shadow. What is with that? So girls get out of bed in the morning and think:
Hmm, what can I put on to dress me up like Bobo the Clown? Blue Eye Shadow!.....Perfect!
27) Queues. Living in a capital city I gotta expect to have to line up for things.
The thing that shits me about queues is when you get on the end of a long one and by the time
your turn comes around you are still the last one in the line!
28) When you are in an elevator, you arrive at the destination floor, the door slides open and you go to step out
and some clown is standing right in the middle of the door opening like nose to nose with you and they go "sorry, sorry" and move out of the way.
The thing is, were they not considering the "remote" possibility that there might actually be somebody getting out?
29) This one might make me unpopular but what is with this "Equal Opportunity" thing??
It really shits me when I am filling out some sort of application and there is a question there on:
"Do you identify yourself with one of the below Equal Opportunity groups?". I read the list and there is no selection for non-homosexual,
Caucasian, English speaking male.
Why do I not deserve equal opportunity?
If people in minority groups what equal opportunity the way to get it is to stop banging on about how different they are.
30) Passionfruits that like don't even have one spoonful of stuff inside. When I go to the trouble of paying $5 kg for passionfruit I want more than 10 grams of goods.
31) Walking races, competitive walking, don't even know what to call it. Participants look like they are in some sort of distress. The world's
stupidest sport. Right up there with Olympic snoozing.
32) When shit sticks to non-stick fry pans. I've spent a packet on a big brand pan, cooking eggs the other day they stick! So when I actually manage to get an egg out of the shell without breaking
the yolk, it gets destroyed when I try to get it out of the pan!.
33) Shopping Centre car parks. The only place where you can get away with stalking.
34) When you get a pair of pants out of the washing machine and the draw string has pulled through. You've got a draw string with only ONE END that you need to somehow turn back to two.
35) Why is something called Chilli so hot?
36) I hate when I put together a carefully worded email, I check and double check the wording, send it then realise that I didn't put in a "subject"!.
And it keeps comming back to remind me every time the message is replied to!
37) Phonetic alphabet when people hit you with: d for dog, a for apple.... what is this: kindergarten? delta is d, alpha is a!
38) People who can flick their pen around on their hand, because I can't
39) Why do drivers at night have to grab high beam at every opportunity?
40) Why is there not a cancel button in elevators? Have no elevator manufacturers considered that people change their minds? Obviously the thought must have occured
to somebody who builds elevators, so I can only conclude that the joke is on me: Otis thinks its funny that they can waste everybody's time.
41) Why is it that manufacturers like Sony, Aiwa, Apple ...... go to a LOT of trouble to
make their portable music players small when Metro Men getting around the city connect up these HUGE CAN EARPHONES and walk around like tossers?
42) Piracy - Why are we all supposed to loose sleep about pirating software, music and videos? Lets have a think about who it is that is complaining, and who they are complaining about.
People doing the pirating are largely equivalent to ye olde England Pesants. The people getting pirated from are the Aristocrats.
So the 1% of the population with all the money are moaning that the rest of us are stealing from them, and those of us with relatively nothing are supposed to feel guilty? Get Stuffed.
The thing that scares Sony Records and their RIAA cronies is that sooner or later the actual people who write the music will work out that with the internet, they are not needed!
43) Shits me when you get a new rego sticker for the car and when putting it on you get wrinkles in it! You've got to look at for a whole year!
44) Limousines - showoff!
45) The Gay Martigras. There isn't a non-gay martigras is there? Straight people don't dress up all stupid and "celebrate" their straightness do they? Be gay, who cares.
46) Celebrities complaining about the paparatzi. Isn't it these people who take photos for the people who MAKE YOU FAMOUS? Wish I had that problem.