Teeny tiny things that drive you nuts out of all proportion

[matthat]

People who drive to the gym, then use the exercise bike

My works canteen overlooks a gym carpark and always makes me chuckle the amount of people that park in stupid places just to get as close to the door as possible!.!

 

[phil_hg_uk]

My works canteen overlooks a gym carpark and always makes me chuckle the amount of people that park in stupid places just to get as close to the door as possible!.!

If they cycled to the gym they wouldnt need to go in

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

What on earth does my washing machine do with all my socks?

The little pixies inside have been slowly but surely harvesting them for years (so as not to arouse too much suspicion) and are eventually going to build a MASSIVE shade that will block out the sun so that they can hold us all to ransom.



....... They haven't quite grasped the nature of the weather in this country yet!

 

[hobbitonabike]

Horses on tv always neigh...horses tend to only neigh to other horses, food and people bringing food...not just because they are alive!!!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

If they cycled to the gym they wouldnt need to go in

I have cycled to the gym before (I know, I know), and afterwards, whilst everyone is pathetically running to their cars because it is raining, I, still being a bit warm from the gym, have cycled home, getting a truly refreshing shower in the process!

 

[Arch]

The old couple on the Wednesday round who insist on bringing their recycling out in their hands, instead of just leaving it out on the doorstep in the bags we provide like everyone else. Because they always do it when you're in the middle of sorting another boxful out, and you have to stop and take the stuff off them. And they miss us most weeks, and then say things like "You didn't come last week", as if it's our fault they weren't in at the precise time we turned up.

Also, in a Venn diagram way, because that old couple do this, but aren't the only people who do, people who hand you a pile of eg newspapers, and say "These are newspapers". Like we might not be sure after 3 years in the job....

 

[green1]

Horses on radio too - it's the only way to signal that they're there, but they almost never do it in real life.

My mum's horses neigh at ever tractor that goes past just in case they are bringing them another bale of hay.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

My mum's horses neigh at ever tractor that goes past just in case they are bringing them another bale of hay.

Our Goldfish also swim at the top and beg for food like dogs (or horses).

Just sayin, like.

 

[Arch]

Can't they just bang two coconut shell halves together?

More usually, it's coconut shells on a tray of gravel, I gather.

 

[Martyn H]

The old and ditheries in front of me at the checkout when I'm on a short lunch....arrrrrgh! - why at lunch time rather than when everyone is working. Other than that, I'm quite rational - really

 

[hobbitonabike]

Men who have obviously been dragged to the supermarket to 'help' with the big shop but just get in the way of everyone else. Just leave the poor guys at home and do other shoppers a favour!!! I hate shopping and certainly wouldn't expect hubby to do it. God bless home delivery shopping!!! Sit at home in comfort with a brew and get it brought to me...and no men blocking aisles with trolleys!!

 

[kedab]

More usually, it's coconut shells on a tray of gravel, I gather.

haha! how do you know this, Arch? have you done a spot of moonlighting as a 'radio horse sounds operative'? or summink

 

[Martyn H]

More usually, it's coconut shells on a tray of gravel, I gather.

It is indeed. I was helping to carry some instruments for a school concert, when I tripped and dropped the coconuts. That evening there was the sound of an off-beat horse heard in the assembly hall..........and I got 500 lines

 

[Arch]

haha! how do you know this, Arch? have you done a spot of moonlighting as a 'radio horse sounds operative'? or summink

No, but I would love to do that job! I fear more of it is cut in digitally these days, but it fascinates me.

When I was a kid, we went to Nottingham for a day (We lived in Leicester, and Nottingham was a glamorous shopping destination in comparison in those days), and there was a BBC Radio roadshow on, and there was a mini studio where they had three of the cast of The Archers (well, the Grundys, in fact), who read a scene, with volunteers from the audience providing the sound effects - doors slamming etc. I regret I was too shy to volunteer.

Most people don't realise that a lot of the sounds in films and so on are actually added in post production, and there are all sorts of tricks to get certain effects. And the person who does them is the Foley Artist you see credited if you stay to the end in the cinema. They have to watch the action and provide the sounds to fit. There was a Radio 4 programme about it a while back, and they take a lot of trouble to devise just the right sounds.

I wonder if MediaCity in Salford needs Foley Artists, and how the hell you get into a job like that!?

 

[matthat]

I actually used to be a sound engineer in theatre and have spent many an hr recording gravel foot steps and squeaky doors etc!!