Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[PeteXXX]

Campsite shower cubicles that have nowhere to put your clothes!!

Indeed! I just take a towel & wash bag and wear shorts to & from my ablutions. 👍

 

[mistyoptic]

Not really trivial but seems the only benefit of these inquiries is to the legal profession 🤬

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj9yepzl1rjo

 

[figbat]

Campsite shower cubicles that have nowhere to put your clothes!!

Or the place allocated for your clothes is in the spray zone from the shower.

 

[raleighnut]

Or the place allocated for your clothes is in the spray zone from the shower.

Showers on a campsite, I've always been a 'tap and toilet' camper.........maybe a sink under the tap for a bit of 'luxury'

 

[Animo]

AI generated item descriptions on Ebay.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Showers on a campsite, I've always been a 'tap and toilet' camper.........maybe a sink under the tap for a bit of 'luxury'

I stayed at the campsite at Torridon a couple of days. The only campsite where I seen they actively encourage you to light a fire - to keep the midges off. Torridon midges are like normal Scottish midges on PEDs. When we packed the tent up, despite it being sunny, we both wore Gore-Tex jackets with a towel rolled up poking out of the hood to make it like a parker.

It did have a toilet block - unheated - though. So luxury.

There was a guy that lived year round in a c aravan there. Kilt. Real dirk in the sock. Washed in the concrete toilet block. Genuinely have no idea how hard you'd have to be to live like that, absurd. My mate asked if the midges didn't get him down though. His eyes began to roll and we backed away slowly, avoiding sharp movements.

So in the sense that midges are tiny little inconsequential things that are annoying beyond expectation (if you've not me them before...otherwise expectations are that they're going to make you homicidal with rage) then they probably go on this list.

 

[ColinJ]

So in the sense that midges are tiny little inconsequential things that are annoying beyond expectation (if you've not me them before...otherwise expectations are that they're going to make you homicidal with rage) then they probably go on this list.

Agreed - see below!!!

The midges here are not quite as vicious as yours, but they can still be pretty nasty!

I went out on my bike one still summer evening a few years ago and punctured on the steep, hairpin descent at Blake Dean, up on the hills above Hebden Bridge. Here...

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Graining Water runs under that bridge from the left and joins Hebden Water on the right. I got off and was starting to fix my puncture when a car came down the hill and stopped by me. The couple in it asked if I were okay? They offered me a lift back to Hebden Bridge with my bike, but I told them that I was fine, only a puncture, I'd soon fix it. Thanks a lot for offering though! Off they went...

Now, here is a simple equation: Summer evening + still conditions + water = MIDGE ATTACK!!!! The little sods found me 10 seconds after the car left. I was bitten over 40 times before I could scoop up my spare tube, tyre levers, bike pump etc. and dash up the road to relative safety. I finished the repair and headed for home. By the time I got back both of my legs had come up in big red spots.

 

[Webbo2]

I saw something where someone had made a midgehood with a pair of safety googles fixed in to the hood. Apparently if emergency services are dealing with an incident on a road in a wood it’s virtually impossible to work because of the midges.

 

[PeteXXX]

As we're on midge anecdotes....

Wild camping in the wilds somewhere twixt Lochgilphead & Oban, I heated up a can of Macaroni Cheese on the stove, got it to an edible temperature, sporked a big dollop into my mouth totally forgetting that I was wearing midge net over my head and face..... 🤦‍♂️

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Whenever someone dies and people wax lyrical about how they were the greatest singer in the history of the Universe and utterly transformed the world of music forever, or something... And you are just there thinking,

"Who? They were so famous that I've never heard of them in ma puff!"

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

... And then you get all these people who are like

"Yeah, I went to one of their legendary first gigs in February 1976 and it was in his garden shed. It was only four of us and the family dog and I had to sit on his Dad's garden rake whilst they flicked fag ash on us all as the place was so small... Yah de yah yah..."

Did ye, aye?

Still not heard of them Mister...

 

[No Ta Doctor]

I get thoroughly annoyed by people who have only heard of Queen and maybe the Rolling Stones not knowing about the slightly lesser known geniuses that have utterly transformed the world of music forever. Especially if I'd been lucky enough to have been to one of their legendary early concerts in some garden shed somewhere.

Also: Sonny Rollins is not dead yet, but he's getting on a bit and when he goes I will be genuinely upset, so I suggest you all start doing your homework now. And if you only vaguely remember Herbie Hancock from the 80s synth-pop hit Rockit, but you get it mixed up with Axel-F (Beverley Hills Cop theme tune) or the Miami Vice theme then it's time to put in the hard yards on his '60s and '70s back catalogue - including his work as a member of Miles Davis's second great quintet, because that one's gonna hit hard.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I get thoroughly annoyed by people who have only heard of Queen and maybe the Rolling Stones not knowing about the slightly lesser known geniuses that have utterly transformed the world of music forever. Especially if I'd been lucky enough to have been to one of their legendary early concerts in some garden shed somewhere.

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It's just it seems like someone dies every other week who was this and who was that and you just think,

"Really? Who?"

And then you get people telling us how great they were as if it's common knowledge and/or as if music is some sort of religion and we should all be wailing at the sky or something.

I am sure they were great people and so on, but... "Who?". 🤣


Sportspeople are just as bad, if not worse.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

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It's just it seems like someone dies every other week who was this and who was that and you just think,

"Really? Who?"

And then you get people telling us how great they were as if it's common knowledge and/or as if music is some sort of religion and we should all be wailing at the sky or something.

I am sure they were great people and so on, but... "Who?". 🤣


Sportspeople are just as bad, if not worse.

Yeah I know, I'm only pulling your leg. There's a definite "talking heads" gravy train of people who will say anything for a few quid (same people on all those shows) "yeah, his work with XXXXXX was seminal, ta very much, that'll be £500. Sorry what? You want something about why it was seminal? What do you want me to say? 'He invented talking using his lips'? Fine, no problem. 'He invented talking using his lips, we couldn't believe it, all my mates would practice in my bedroom, just moving our lips around, saying stuff'. That's £750 now, as that was quite a long anecdote"

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Yeah I know, I'm only pulling your leg.

Yebbut, there are people who really believe it all.

P.S. Where do I catch this gravy train? Asking for a friend...