Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[Mike Ayling]

Our 5 year old granddaughter loves to eat raw sprouts ( and prefers the main stem of broccoli to the " little trees " as she calls them )
Grandma picks off the outer leaves and rinses a small bowl of sprouts for her to crunch on while we're preparing dinner. 😮

Our Greyhound likes brocoli stems!

 

[Andy in Germany]

Companies that advertise jobs with my job title but want something I'm clearly not trained to do.

I'm an Arbeitserzieher or Occupational Therapist, trained to train people with various difficulties and help them find meaningful work, and I have a certificate to train people at technical colleges. I'm not trained medically like an Ergotherapist, or to work with children. I'm also not asocial worker. Yet so many companies currently advertise like this:

Wanted: Occupational Therapist/ergotherapist/Care Worker/Children's Worker/Social Worker/Kindergarten Teacher.

Generally they really want an ergotherapist and/or children's worker but because all social sectors are short of staff they're trying to catch everyone, which results in much wasted time because search engines pick these descriptions up.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Looking to give my old patio slabs a bit of a springclean I thought that I'd check out the reviews of the product I'd seen advertised and headed to Amazon. The reviews broke down as follows: 5⭐️ = 41%, 4⭐️ = 30%, 3⭐️ = 9%, 2⭐️ = 10%, 1⭐️ = 10%. Clicking on any star rating other than the 5 star ones brings up the message " Sorry, no reviews match your current selections. " 🤔

 

[mistyoptic]

Looking to give my old patio slabs a bit of a springclean I thought that I'd check out the reviews of the product I'd seen advertised and headed to Amazon. The reviews broke down as follows: 5⭐️ = 41%, 4⭐️ = 30%, 3⭐️ = 9%, 2⭐️ = 10%, 1⭐️ = 10%. Clicking on any star rating other than the 5 star ones brings up the message " Sorry, no reviews match your current selections. " 🤔

I've noticed that too. I think what it means is someone's given a star rating but was too lazy to write a comment to go with it.

It shouuldn't be allowed. Someone ought to do something...

 

[PeteXXX]

Corduroy trousers 👖

 

[Moon bunny]

Corduroy trousers 👖

They are not trivial. Mud-catchers that make a horrible noise when the wearer is walking, like some sort of mutant giant grasshopper trying to attract a mate, which he won't because any passing female will catch an eyeful of his ugly, old-fashioned leg-apparel and think "Ugh!!".

 

[PeteXXX]

They are not trivial. Mud-catchers that make a horrible noise when the wearer is walking, like some sort of mutant giant grasshopper trying to attract a mate, which he won't because any passing female will catch an eyeful of his ugly, old-fashioned leg-apparel and think "Ugh!!".

@Moon bunny speaking truth! 😂

 

[Andy in Germany]

They are not trivial. Mud-catchers that make a horrible noise when the wearer is walking, like some sort of mutant giant grasshopper trying to attract a mate, which he won't because any passing female will catch an eyeful of his ugly, old-fashioned leg-apparel and think "Ugh!!".

Don't hold back @Moon bunny, tell us what you really feel.

 

[ColinJ]

Oh!

I have a pair of black cords that I have never worn because I chose the size that I aimed to be rather than the size that I actually was at the time. It was an incentive to get slim again. This year looks finally like being the year that they will fit me...

 

[ColinJ]

I will use them as a deterrent to the hordes of randy widowers pestering me in Todmorden...

 

[Tenkaykev]

Oh!

I have a pair of black cords that I have never worn because I chose the size that I aimed to be rather than the size that I actually was at the time. It was an incentive to get slim again. This year looks finally like being the year that they will fit me...

I have a pair of lightweight 10k racing shoes that I was going to use when I got fast and slim enough to not look like a plonker.
I'm still waiting 😁

 

[youngoldbloke]

They are not trivial. Mud-catchers that make a horrible noise when the wearer is walking, like some sort of mutant giant grasshopper trying to attract a mate, which he won't because any passing female will catch an eyeful of his ugly, old-fashioned leg-apparel and think "Ugh!!".

- so that's where I went wrong!
Actually I quite like them, it's cargo pants that are really the problem, especially when hanging below an obscenely swollen beer-belly.

 

[ColinJ]

I will use them as a deterrent to the hordes of randy widowers pestering me in Todmorden...

Er, the widows are just as bad!

 

[Moon bunny]

- so that's where I went wrong!
Actually I quite like them, it's cargo pants that are really the problem, especially when hanging below an obscenely swollen beer-belly.

Just don't get me started on cargo pants!

 

[youngoldbloke]

Just don


Just don't get me started on cargo pants!

- and cargo shorts are even worse!