Little things that irritate you

[Cockneyboy311]

A blocked drain. I live in a ground floor flat and water is coming back up into the bath.

I've tried several brands of kitchen / bathroom drain unblocker, boiling water, plunger and even a drain snake. Nothing has made any difference.

Before I call in a plumber, is there anything else I could try? Tempted to try caustic soda but not sure if it will damage the pipe work?

Haven't got a Scottish bloke with glasses called Dennis living in your block have you?

[mushy]

Keep turning clockwise, keep turning clockwise, keep turning clockwise. Oh ****.

Definitely this.
And rodding is good for you.

[screech]

Driving down the A127 yesterday and noticed 2 x Esso petrol garages on opposite sides of the road to each other both selling petrol at different prices. How the F is that allowed they are basically 50 yards apart with traffic going in different directions but both the same company.

[mushy]

Driving down the A127 yesterday and noticed 2 x Esso petrol garages on opposite sides of the road to each other both selling petrol at different prices. How the F is that allowed they are basically 50 yards apart with traffic going in different directions but both the same company.

Might well be franchises screech.

[Kludgehammer]

A blocked drain. I live in a ground floor flat and water is coming back up into the bath.

I've tried several brands of kitchen / bathroom drain unblocker, boiling water, plunger and even a drain snake. Nothing has made any difference.

Before I call in a plumber, is there anything else I could try? Tempted to try caustic soda but not sure if it will damage the pipe work?

Any large trees in the vicinity of your drains? We''ve had ours blocked by invading roots on two separate occasions, and if that's what yiou've got they ain't going to get shifted by drain rods and caustic soda

[btajim - mcfc]

People who walk incredibly slowly down the middle of a narrow pavement so you can’t get past them. I politely said excuse me this morning and the lady almost had a heart attack.

[S-H]

People who walk incredibly slowly down the middle of a narrow pavement so you can’t get past them. I politely said excuse me this morning and the lady almost had a heart attack.

Yeah, but you didn't need to whisper it in her ear.

[irons88]

People who say ‘I’m not gonna lie’. Or NGL for short when writing it out.

[Toulouse_Iron]

People who say ‘I’m not gonna lie’. Or NGL for short when writing it out.

I had to google it when a (much) younger woman texted it to me recently. It was quite cute in context, so for me, it would go in the smile thread

[Arnold Layne]

Only to be told that you've been selected for your shopping to be checked, by the extra slow halfwit that the store manager has put on self scan duty today.

I’m guessing you probably look a bit shifty, this doesn’t happen to me.

[djclipz]

The coconut eclair in a box of Quality Street. What an abomination of a sweet.

ps. A Bounty is far superior.

[Arnold Layne]

The coconut eclair in a box of Quality Street. What an abomination of a sweet.

ps. A Bounty is far superior.

Christmas leftovers? I just finished eating the Christmas cake yesterday.

[djclipz]

Yep, did the hosting this year so had a ton of choclates left over. This is the last big box of Quality Street.

haha christ, I'd of given up on the christmas cake.

[southbrishammer]

Christmas leftovers? I just finished eating the Christmas cake yesterday.

I've just started the big bag of dry roasted peanuts we bought for Christmas

[pablo jaye]

Any large trees in the vicinity of your drains? We''ve had ours blocked by invading roots on two separate occasions, and if that's what yiou've got they ain't going to get shifted by drain rods and caustic soda

Tree roots don’t break through drains themselves but if there are any cracks that allow moisture to escape, then that will make a bee-line for those.

[WHU Independent]

The artifical and false "drama" that is built up round the transfer seasons' deadline day.

[southbrishammer]

Very much at the littler end of the Little Things That Irritate You, but Mrs SBH came back from the shop earlier and excitedly told me she had bought some lemon and blueberry flavour hot cross buns.

She can't get her head around the idea that I prefer hot cross bun flavour hot cross buns. They seem now to just be a base for any flavour - salted caramel, triple chocolate, apple. Just give me a bun.

[Cockneyboy311]

lemon and blueberry flavour hot cross buns.

Sound the b*llocks tbh.

[Jennings]

Just give me a bun.

There's an App for that.

It's called Grindr.

[mushy]

She can't get her head around the idea that I prefer hot cross bun flavour hot cross buns.

Where do you stand on Cinnamon?