Tony Le Mesmer

When you watch a current entertainment programme on the telly and as if by a miracle there is no sign of James Corden anywhere. Ahhhhhhhh what a refreshing change. I've turned a negative into a positive.

When you watch a current entertainment programme on the telly and as if by a miracle there is no sign of James Corden anywhere. Ahhhhhhhh what a refreshing change. I've turned a negative into a positive.

Nice one Muski - on a similar note, when you disagree violently with someone online about a particular subject but then on another topic you find that you have common ground. You realise that we all come into this world the same and we're not always so different as it sometimes feels
I did consider proposing that no one was allowed to post in the annoyance thread without posting one here as a counter balance, but that seemed a bit too draconian!
 

I like it Steve and I shall be using this thread a lot also but for some reason it's human nature to look at negatives and not highlight positives which I've never understood. Let's change it!
I think I read on the Brentford thread about a fan who dropped his wallet or something and a man found it and gave it back to him. This happened to me once as well as my mobile phone on a separate occasion and I got them both back. There are some decent folk in the world. Just not in Parliament.

I've been wanting to start this thread for ages
As the "Random stuff that annoys me thread" reaches 100+ pages, it is pretty clear that we could solve the world's energy crisis if we somehow harnessed man's natural ability to complain about things.
So, as one poster accused me of having "no balance" I thought I'd try and tip the scales of karma and start this one up as well. Let's see if it is just as popular?
So I will start with an easy one.
When you read through a lengthy online debate and you disagree with what people are saying, so you stick your neck out and say something - get a torrent of abuse back - and then suddenly someone you don't know pops up and agrees with you. Immediately restoring both your faith in humanity and the thought that you may be going mad.

In a slightly more elongated way than i'd hoped - yes.
Praise the Lord.

Haha! Might try some of those moves next time.

Totally agree. Supermarket exits used to be terrible for this pressurised giving. You mumble 'not today, thanks' and they respond with a heavily sarcastic 'HAVE A NICE DAY'. You can almost feel them thumbing their nose at you, or giving you 2 fingers.
The other thing is these TV adverts, pulling at the heart-strings (I don't think I've got any anymore). A dulcet-toned voice pleads with you to give 'just £3'. What they don't say is 'every month'. If I gave to everyone of these begging charities, I'd be bankrupt, and in need of charity myself.

I think what you're saying is that giving to charity is a personal choice and no one should feel co-erced, pressured or shamed into giving. Amen to that

I just completely blank them now. It's alien to me as I feel really rude and ignorant doing it but they are being rude and ignorant towards me so I don't feel guilty now. It's a waste of time even acknowledging them. In addition, it does no help to their charities either - at least from my friends and family - when I ask them not to give to X charity in the future just because they have annoyed the hell out of me.
I even got friends to cancel their direct debits for a couple of charities on the basis that I was harassed by their 'chuggers'.
I worked for one of the UK's largest dog rescue charities for a while and they are some of the worst and persistent I've seen. This organisation is marketed perfectly and they have money literally flooding from every orifice you can think of. The amount of senior staff perks and unnecessary expenditure will knock your socks off. I left partly because of this. I'm about dogs, not feathering my own pension pot. Having had experience of working for this organisation it gave an insight to family and friends who now donate to local, under resourced dog rescue charities where every single penny in some form or another will benefit an animal. There is no waste and no extras for senior management and needless employment positions.

It's the New Order.

People who carry dogs.
Oddly enough they've got legs.
Let them use them.

Sky sports constant attempts to brand Liverpool vs Man Utd as 'Red Monday', across TV, App and website.
So pleased it turned into 'dead Monday',  with one of the most boring games between the two played out.

Yes Stive. I can have gluten and occasionally I do so when there is no other option (convenience really) but it's not that often. I have reactions like skin rashes, headaches, really bad motions and cramps and brain fog, lethargy but nothing as serious as those who have celiac.
There are some breweries now who are brewing gluten free beers and not really making a song and dance about it, they can often be found alongside the ordinary beers. It's just a case of reading the label. Others get their bottles marketed on some GF section at £3 plus a bottle which you can't blame but i wouldn't buy them. Bought one once, Hambletons or something and it was pretty ropey.
The Scarborough Fair Wold Top is not even advertised gluten free and you'd not know unless you read the smallprint and guarantee at the back of the bottle. I've got that at £1.80 a bottle which for a gluten free beer that tastes great and 6% is superb.

I thought i was the only person who thought like this.
Same here Stive. Could be the finest beer in all the land but if it's marketed in a manner i find annoying then i won't buy it. Yes i'm odd.
That aside, i don't know if anyone has tried the St Peters range of beers? They come in a sort of old fashioned mead bottle shape and had Ruby Ale, Organic and even a gluten free bottle. It's nice stuff and the bottle is damned heavy! I think they are from Bungay in Suffolk.
My favourite brewery ever though are Wold Top from near back home in Hunmanby, Filey. They do a superb range including a 6% Scarborough Fair IPA gluten free and one other gluten free called Against The Grain which is about 4% i think. They do a lot more others including Wold Gold. Superb. Never used to be able to buy them down this neck of the woods but they are available in some places.

Yes, kids wouldn't be like they are now if they had stamps to collect.

when people let your tyres down! 
I once went to York on a lads weekend, and in the morning, my wife went into labour and I had to rush back, but some tosser had deflated my tyres so I missed the birth of my triplets.

Yeah jono, you were completely unreasonable. I still have a bone to pick with you over that.
When you finally allowed me to collect the car, even after spending £5k on it I still can't get the bugg3r to fly ...

 

Oh the people you meet on eBay 
i sold a car once .. Auction coming to an end in a day or so, some bids in close to reserve ...guy asking to come and view .. All looking rosy.
Then some plank rings and says he really wants the car, he's very local and will I put a buy it now price on. So I do .. Little bit above the reserve and he buys it. ... But he doesn't because he then rings and says can I hang on while he sells his car. I was fuming and said so but with a sigh of resignation suggested that I Would wait 7 days. .. He said I was being totally unreasonable ... Ummmm It's an auction mate .. But he didn't seem to quite understand that. 

I think David mentioned something about people bidding moments before an auction ends then take ages to pay. I've had one today. Bid minutes before the end, won the auction then tell me they'll pay in a couple if days time.
That's ok sunshine, you take all the time you need.

Folk who antagonise animals. Just seen footage of a diver in a shark cage getting attacked by a great white who got into the cage. They lure it to the cage with food and now the shark has injured itself and swims off with blood flooding from a wound it sustained.
can't they just leave the bloody things be? They aren't there for human entertainment , tossers .  

Feel a bit down now after looking at all these fine ales. I've only got Banks's Amber Bitter. Cracking value though at 89p and it's not a bad brew either.

First takeaway from brand new bar and bottleshop Suds & Soda, on Friar Gate.
Opened (officially) last night and was packed.

 

I think David mentioned something about people bidding moments before an auction ends then take ages to pay. I've had one today. Bid minutes before the end, won the auction then tell me they'll pay in a couple if days time.
That's ok sunshine, you take all the time you need.