Random Irritations

I think people started doing this after they saw it on the Apprentice. They only do it on there so that the camera can hear both ends of the phone call though, I think, and people just copied them because they're idiots.

They did it on shows like XFactor as well when it was sponsored by Carphone Warehouse so as they could get the whole phone on screen and plug them better.
 
They did it on shows like XFactor as well when it was sponsored by Carphone Warehouse so as they could get the whole phone on screen and plug them better.
Yeah, all of those junk programs, Apprentice was just the one that stuck in my mind. There's a clear tandem between people who mis-use their phones in this way and the sort of people who watch that claptrap anyway so it must be true.
 
Funnily enough I noticed this only recently, never seen it before. Why do they do it? Is it back to the days of thinking a mobile would fry your brain?

As @Orikoru posted - the first time I saw this was on The Apprentice - maybe 11 years ago - when a team was split into sub-teams, and one sub-team was on the phone to another. Holding the phone out in front and not to the ear was the way the sub-team leader shared the conversation with the rest of those present. And that is fine if all around want or have a need to hear...

And there's the rub...
 
Aylesbury and Roadworks and County Shows
3 separate sets of traffic lights causing complete gridlock to 1/2 the Town
Packed up work at 1 - couldn't get to lessons and then all they'd so is sit still for an hour..
And on Thursday we have the County show to contend with - the other side of town will be like the M25 at "rushhour" while the other half stands still in roadworks...
Might just take the rest of the week off....
 
Idiots on bikes that almost knock you down as they go hurtling through red lights and the other idiots on bikes who ignore the hugely expensive cycle lane that runs outside my office
 
Other people. As I get older I'm becoming less and less tolerant of other people. It doesn't matter who they are or what they are doing they just seem to annoy me. Drivers of all German saloon cars, cyclists, old people walking slowly in front of me, other people's kids, my own kid's. Mrs Colch, people in supermarkets that leave thier trolley in front of the shelf you want to look at and wander off, football fans who can't or won't accept any negatives about their club without replying with "Yes but X did Y", spiders (what's the point in them?).

In fact I think that as I get older it's not just other people but it is actually everything that annoys me.
 
Other people. As I get older I'm becoming less and less tolerant of other people. It doesn't matter who they are or what they are doing they just seem to annoy me. Drivers of all German saloon cars, cyclists, old people walking slowly in front of me, other people's kids, my own kid's. Mrs Colch, people in supermarkets that leave thier trolley in front of the shelf you want to look at and wander off, football fans who can't or won't accept any negatives about their club without replying with "Yes but X did Y", spiders (what's the point in them?).

In fact I think that as I get older it's not just other people but it is actually everything that annoys me.

Are we related?:clap:

A Grumpy Old Man and proud of it!:thup:
 
Other people. As I get older I'm becoming less and less tolerant of other people. It doesn't matter who they are or what they are doing they just seem to annoy me. Drivers of all German saloon cars, cyclists, old people walking slowly in front of me, other people's kids, my own kid's. Mrs Colch, people in supermarkets that leave thier trolley in front of the shelf you want to look at and wander off, football fans who can't or won't accept any negatives about their club without replying with "Yes but X did Y", spiders (what's the point in them?).

In fact I think that as I get older it's not just other people but it is actually everything that annoys me.

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I own this tee shirt

Enough said 👍
 
That moment when you realise that, in the rush to catch up after a week off, the one thing you're not checking because you assume the person doing the work knows which date to enter is the one thing that is wrong on the pile of invoices you validated yesterday. :temper:
 
Waking up at 6am to get an 18 holes in before work only to find that it is sheeting down and the guy over the road is building his ark. Oh well, the course needs it.
 
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