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Put it In the bin (bit of fun) put your pet hates in the bin

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calamitycarrie Tue 26-Feb-19 22:01:49

If you could put something in the bin
What would it be ?
I’ll start
Being called love by a shop assistant who is 30 years younger than me !!
IN THE BIN

Witzend Thu 28-Feb-19 11:09:53

So many of these.

Plus, 'there is' with a plural. It's everywhere and it really irritates me.

I have to take issue with the library and internet lessons for older people, though. I used to work in a library and believe it or not even a few years ago there were plenty who hadn't a clue.

Outside the actual lessons they ran now and then, we would help them if we had time - sometimes people needed an email address for something and didn't know where to start.

And I still remember the old chap who must have been 80+, who came in with a newspaper cutting with a website about something he was very interested in.

He had never even touched a computer before, but I showed him the basics, how to click on something, go back, etc.,- he took to it immediately and went off very chuffed, saying he was going to buy a computer straight away!

Sadly many were not nearly so quick to learn, or wouldn't listen. There was a woman who wanted to set up email, and proposed a very complicated password which she refused to write down, although I emphasised that she would have to enter it exactly or it wouldn't work.

Lo, once the email was supposedly set up - I sat with her for ages - she couldn't remember it exactly, so it wouldn't work.

She had to start again - on her own - it wasn't a formal lesson and I had other stuff to do..

Nannyelhappyo Thu 28-Feb-19 11:10:47

People who blame immigrants for everything from world peace to less icing on Mr Kiplings cakes!

MargaretinNorthant Thu 28-Feb-19 11:11:46

messages after I have bought something asking how pleased I am with it. Thank you, I was ecstatic about my hearing aid batteries!!

gillybob Thu 28-Feb-19 11:15:31

Oh I always thought it was the late Margaret Thatcher who was to blame for less icing on Mr Kiplings cakes Nannyyelhappyo ....along with shrinking Mars Bars, the weather and every other world problem wink

Zsarina Thu 28-Feb-19 11:22:59

LIARS

Jessity Thu 28-Feb-19 11:26:14

Along with the idiots whose indicators don't work, I'd add those morons who are in a right-turn only lane but still indicate.

What else were you planning to do I shout.

And all politicians - they couldn't organise a p**s up in a brewery.

gillyjp Thu 28-Feb-19 11:27:23

Boy racers when you are side by side with them at traffic lights. You can hear their engines revving (along with their inflated egos). I have a powerful car and could probably take them on but do I? Nope I just catch them up at the next set of traffic lights or pedestrian crossing.

Milly Thu 28-Feb-19 11:30:32

Ha ha Gillybob you remind me of my mother who used to do that. I tried it with s fizzy drink grin and - you've guessed it, it went everywhere shock

Helennonotion Thu 28-Feb-19 11:34:59

People who start almost every sentence with - "I'm not being funny but"......It usually means they are about to say something rude or personal, but they think by stating "they aren't being funny" beforehand makes it all ok!

Lindylou57 Thu 28-Feb-19 11:38:53

Football pundits on TV say ' He done well' instead of 'He did well'. Ian Wright I'm talking about you in particular!

nipsmum Thu 28-Feb-19 11:43:15

Definitely litter louts and people who can't, won't or refuse to pick up their dogs poo. They should be hung drawn and quartered. The bin is too good for them.

BRedhead59 Thu 28-Feb-19 11:43:39

dog owners who pick up the poo and then leave the bag of poo secreted somewhere.

Mapleleaf Thu 28-Feb-19 11:49:22

I must agree I hate the phrase "you guys" , commonly expressed in restaurants. I feel sorely tempted to reply "We're not flippin' effigies and we don't wish to be burned on top of a bonfire, thank you very much". I fear that response might be lost on them, though! ??

Neti Thu 28-Feb-19 11:53:50

Use of business language in every day conversations:

Issue,
Going forwards,
Reaching out,
Etc.

Drives me up the wall

gillybob Thu 28-Feb-19 11:55:58

I don't mind "you guys" (just saying)

Ha ha Gillybob you remind me of my mother who used to do that. I tried it with s fizzy drink and - you've guessed it, it went everywhere

Yes me too Milly grin

Lorelei Thu 28-Feb-19 11:58:52

British or European people that pick up terrible American habits, like high-fiving each other for every minor achievement. Rap music can also go in the bin.

Mapleleaf Thu 28-Feb-19 12:00:11

That's alright, gillybob. It wouldn't do for us all to be the same. grin

fluttERBY123 Thu 28-Feb-19 12:01:50

Everything mobile that has a screen. Would solve most of the cyber bullying and knife crime.

1inamillion Thu 28-Feb-19 12:05:17

Amagran ?
DH Selective hearing - especially behind a newspaper.

Saggi Thu 28-Feb-19 12:06:54

Car drivers who open their doors without look8ng to see if me ( a cyclist) is riding past at that moment. I can’t always give them the ‘ wide berth’ they expect of me. What hasn’t the ‘Dutch open’ been instigated in Britain yet.

dogsmother Thu 28-Feb-19 12:16:12

Intolerance!

Legs55 Thu 28-Feb-19 12:21:48

Cars with no indicators, it helps me to know where you're intending to go

Drivers who don't "say thank you" when I've stopped to let them through

Additionally people who don't say "thank you" when I've held a door open

Bad manners in general

You guys, you can call me love I will definitely call you love, blame my Yorkshire upbringing my lovely not too keen on my lover I'm not but will tolerate as I do when called hun, comes from living in the West Country, I really like my lovelysmile

Pregnant women with bare bellies & men with beer bellies - yuk too much flesh

Sure I can think of a few moregrin

b1zzle Thu 28-Feb-19 12:34:46

People who walk down a busy high street with their dogs on an extending lead. One day I'll use it as a skipping rope. And people who walk in groups of three or four very slowly in the same high street so that you have to step into the road to get past them!

Lilyflower Thu 28-Feb-19 12:41:28

Virtue signallers and the sanctimonious generally. Into the skip with them all. I am sick of listening to their inverted boasting when I know they are urging others to do and be what they are not prepared to do themselves.

Newyorker6 Thu 28-Feb-19 12:52:37

People who call me "my lovely"!!