Stupid little things that bug you

[lefty goldblatt]

People asking me all the time where I am from.

I tell them the town, but they reply, "No, where are you really from?"

Have you been asked this by an ex "lady in waiting" at a royal function, recently?

This is currently the lead item on BBC News

 

[lefty goldblatt]

Whenever you go into a shop/supermarket, there's silly Christmas songs blaring out from early November onwards.
I particularly hate "Santa Claus is coming to town", "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas" and that dreary Paul McCartney thing about Simply Having Wonderful christmas Time.

Oh the fucking joys.
It's December the first, and we're about to be bombarded with that steaming turd that is Fairytale of New York, every 5 minutes.
Then you'll get every dullard reminding you that "it's a classic". NO IT'S NOT. It's two people bitching at each other, and then, Christmas is mentioned at the end of the chorus. Yes, it really sums up what Christmas is all about.

Then you'll get the bores, whining that the radio have edited some words out of it.

Even more annoying than Stop the Cavalry

 

[Slipper One]

Have you been asked this by an ex "lady in waiting" at a royal function, recently?

This is currently the lead item on BBC News

What a coincidence. :)

I suppose their interest/curiosity was the same as your reference, but I didn't see any need to make a headline over it.

No different to my wife being Canadian of German heritage and people who have an interest asking where in Germany her family were from, not simply Germany.

The same with me, where in England, not just England. Seems a perfectly normal question to ask.

 

[halfmist]

When someone asks a question on Social Media and the first answer is the correct one, end of thread, so why do the next 20 replies just repeat the same answer.
It’s not a bleeding competition your entering.

 

[BlueMoonday]

Waiting in the queue for the self checkout and the docile person in front hasn't clocked that one of the tills is free. Which means you have to inform them it's available.

 

[DrBlueBob]

What a coincidence. :)

I suppose their interest/curiosity was the same as your reference, but I didn't see any need to make a headline over it.

No different to my wife being Canadian of German heritage and people who have an interest asking where in Germany her family were from, not simply Germany.

The same with me, where in England, not just England. Seems a perfectly normal question to ask.

If the question were phrased differently would that make it non racist?

By that I mean are you allowed to ask someone's heritage? I would have thought that would be ok as it's presumably borne out of interest as opposed to any other emotion.

I ask as it seems a minefield these days as to what one can or cannot say.

 

[Protein Junkie]

Just walked into one of those Heel bar shops to get new battery for watch.
“ Can I have a new battery for my watch?”
“ Yes leave it here with me. Can you come back in 10 minutes?”
“No”
“Why”
“ Because you’ve got my watch !!!”

 

[GornikDaze]

Noisy twats on trains who talk so loudly that even with music full blast in your headphones you can still hear them talking shite!!

 

[Robinho's Subbuteo]

People who change their mind part way through shopping and just leave the thing they don't want any more on the nearest shelf rather than return it to where they got it from.

You absolute lazy twats!!!

 

[Barcon]

What a coincidence. :)

I suppose their interest/curiosity was the same as your reference, but I didn't see any need to make a headline over it.

No different to my wife being Canadian of German heritage and people who have an interest asking where in Germany her family were from, not simply Germany.

The same with me, where in England, not just England. Seems a perfectly normal question to ask.

Think yourself lucky. I was once asked, “yeah, but what part of England are you from? Scotland”?