[Rules p.1] Things that annoy you guys. 100 percent. Not gonna lie

My headphones are trapped in head phone case (zipper broke in closed position)
It's hell

People who open the window on the train when it's already bloody freezing.

Hexx wrote:My headphones are trapped in head phone case (zipper broke in closed position)
It's hell

Even if the pull breaks off can't you still tease it open with your nails or a paperclip or something?

Replace it with a keyring. You can also buy fabric zip pulls in packets.

Green Gecko wrote:

Hexx wrote:My headphones are trapped in head phone case (zipper broke in closed position)
It's hell

Even if the pull breaks off can't you still tease it open with your nails or a paperclip or something?

Replace it with a keyring. You can also buy fabric zip pulls in packets.

Oh yeah thanks. I'm sure I can get in eventually - and the case doesn't owe me anything...it's been driven over....twice....

But I can't to them at work where everyone's being super noisy

It's slightly chilly out, not really cold. So obviously the heating on the bus is cranked up onto full power and the sun through the windows made the journey unbearable.

Conversation with a colleague today:

"I strawberry floating hate London, everyone's so rude!"
"I don't think London's particularly rude."
"Oh yeah? Well I was in Primark down there once and this woman was stood by the pyjamas not moving and I couldn't get round so eventually I had to just reach over her to get what I wanted and she turned round and kicked off at me!"
"Did you say excuse me?"
"No but she got really rude towards me!"
"Yeah but you were rude first by not giving her a proper chance to move..."
[Yaddayadda changes subject to old people apparently not saying thank you when given a seat on the Tube - again, doesn't sound like London to me.]

The whole "rude Londoners" thing is a real bore...

Victor Mildew wrote:The guy behind me hasn't stopped yawning since I got in, I reckon he's doing one about every 10 seconds, and they're these huge theatrical ASK ME ABOUT HOW TIRED I AM yawns which are a mixture of yawn and loud full lung exhale.

Guy in my class does this all the time. He also:

constantly burps in his mouth then breathes it out (seems to do this every few minutes)
only ever breathes through his mouth (unless he is eating) and sounds like Darth Vader at the finish line of a marathon
when he is eating he breathes so loudly though his nose it sounds like he's about to have some sort of fit or something
permanently has strawberry floating stinking coffee breath

Dowbocop wrote:Conversation with a colleague today:

"I strawberry floating hate London, everyone's so rude!"
"I don't think London's particularly rude."
"Oh yeah? Well I was in Primark down there once and this woman was stood by the pyjamas not moving and I couldn't get round so eventually I had to just reach over her to get what I wanted and she turned round and kicked off at me!"
"Did you say excuse me?"
"No but she got really rude towards me!"
"Yeah but you were rude first by not giving her a proper chance to move..."
[Yaddayadda changes subject to old people apparently not saying thank you when given a seat on the Tube - again, doesn't sound like London to me.]

The whole "rude Londoners" thing is a real bore...

In London, tell me what happens if you greet a stranger as you pass by them.

Dowbocop wrote:The whole "rude Londoners" thing is a real bore...

It's the same stereotype that gets pinned on every big tourist destination, but I don't think it holds much water. They have their fair share, I'm sure, but then I'd be pretty irritable if I had to navigate around swaths tourists on a daily basis, too.

The people who talk into their mobiles as if they're about to eat a slice of pizza. Just why?

Somebody Else's Problem wrote:

Dowbocop wrote:Conversation with a colleague today:

"I strawberry floating hate London, everyone's so rude!"
"I don't think London's particularly rude."
"Oh yeah? Well I was in Primark down there once and this woman was stood by the pyjamas not moving and I couldn't get round so eventually I had to just reach over her to get what I wanted and she turned round and kicked off at me!"
"Did you say excuse me?"
"No but she got really rude towards me!"
"Yeah but you were rude first by not giving her a proper chance to move..."
[Yaddayadda changes subject to old people apparently not saying thank you when given a seat on the Tube - again, doesn't sound like London to me.]

The whole "rude Londoners" thing is a real bore...

In London, tell me what happens if you greet a stranger as you pass by them.

Are you just after a random sample of my hypothetical/fictional interactions with up to seven million people, or do you want them all listed? Some will respond, some won't, and it depends on many things, such as how I've greeted them, where it's occurred, how busy the person is, how urgently they need to get where they're going, who I'm with, who they're with, how safe they feel interacting with strangers, their command of English, their mental health, and much more besides, including, and I don't dispute this factor at all, whether or not they are a bit rude! But that doesn't mean that all Londoners are rude, does it?

What happens in Sunderland?

Life moves slowly in other places. Thus they are more likely to interact face to face with about 5-10 people max per day without being deliberately awkward.

That doesn't happen in London. You have to avoid literally thousands of people.

Dowbocop wrote:What happens in Sunderland?

They greet you back.

Statistically there probably is a good chance that you're more likely to encounter rude people in somewhere like London, but that has more to do with things like population density and the massively higher number of interactions you are likely to have with random people in any one day than it does the people themselves.

People are arseholes everywhere you just aren't as likely to find it out!

Dowbocop wrote:Conversation with a colleague today:

"I strawberry floating hate London, everyone's so rude!"
"I don't think London's particularly rude."
"Oh yeah? Well I was in Primark down there once and this woman was stood by the pyjamas not moving and I couldn't get round so eventually I had to just reach over her to get what I wanted and she turned round and kicked off at me!"
"Did you say excuse me?"
"No but she got really rude towards me!"
"Yeah but you were rude first by not giving her a proper chance to move..."
[Yaddayadda changes subject to old people apparently not saying thank you when given a seat on the Tube - again, doesn't sound like London to me.]

The whole "rude Londoners" thing is a real bore...

My favourite are the people who are convinced that London isn't safe, and if they travel there for a day out, they're going to die in a variety of terrible ways.

"Ooh, I wouldn't want to go to London, I just wouldn't feel safe, you know?"
"Why not?"
"Well, there's always people getting stabbed, or there's a terrorist attack, it's just not a safe place to be."

Somebody Else's Problem wrote:

Dowbocop wrote:What happens in Sunderland?

They greet you back.

London's just like any major city. You could pass thousands of strangers in a day when you're out and about. Nobody has time to stop and say hello to everyone they pass, so they just don't do it, which becomes the norm for the area, so then people find it odd when strangers do start saying hi, or they'll just assume you're a charity mugger and veer across the pavement to avoid you.

Somebody Else's Problem wrote:

Dowbocop wrote:What happens in Sunderland?

They greet you back.

So if you walked down the main shopping street(s) of Sunderland on a busy Saturday afternoon and said hello to every random stranger you walked past, and I mean everyone, little old ladies, scallies/chavs/neds, hard men, Big Issue sellers, black, white, whatever, every single one would say hello, and you'd get no funny looks, no blanks, no firm recommendations that you mind your own business, and no polite enquiries as you why you are speaking to one's significant other?

Because that's essentially what you're saying, and I find that very hard to believe.

Somebody Else's Problem wrote:In London, tell me what happens if you greet a stranger as you pass by them.

If it's me, you'll be ignored as i continue on my way.

Talk to random strangers in Central London? Ain't nobody got time for that.

Jenuall wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Jenuall wrote:take his massive lorry down the country lane

The massive lorry = his penis

The country lane = your anus

You don't want to know where he delivered his package

Who tits this time?

Another day, another bloody great Modern Warfare update file to download.

The game already takes up 130GB of my 500GB PS4 hard drive, how much more does it want?!

Vermilion wrote:Another day, another bloody great Modern Warfare update file to download.

The game already takes up 130GB of my 500GB PS4 hard drive, how much more does it want?!