Things that piss you off that shouldn't

[Ingram85]

6 minutes ago, Rodders said:

Ha, yes, the crafty smash it unnecessarily hard out of play to get a breather, I think we've all done that  I've seen people aim for rivers before. 

One today, (fellow) pedestrians who slow down and pause as they approach a zebra crossing. I mean I understand it from a reflexive "hang on a minute there are cars about" survival attitude, but surely you know it's your right of way - this is compounded in this example by the fact the roads are a slow one way system where cars are travelling no more than 5-10 miles an hour at this point, and I can see the car approaching slowing down, in expectation that the human would keep on walking. I suspect it should annoy the car driver more than myself, but I just feel irrationally annoyed on their behalf. Keep going mate! 

 

 

I had a car go straight across the crossing before even though he saw me approach and stop. If I’d carried on walking without stopping I’d be dead. Reported him to the police. In brum you’ve got a deathwish if you don’t pause at a crossing.

[tom_avfc]

2 minutes ago, Ingram85 said:

I had a car go straight across the crossing before even though he saw me approach and stop. If I’d carried on walking without stopping I’d be dead. Reported him to the police. In brum you’ve got a deathwish if you don’t pause at a crossing.

Yeah I think crossing without looking is making an assumption that any car coming has seen you and is going to stop. Not an assumption I'd really want to make with the potential consequences.

[Rodders]

Perhaps it's just the one where I am, and speeds being all naturally very slow, that combination of waiting for the car to stop at the same time as the car is evidently slowing down for you. I can see that at 'fast' crossings, pausing is an eminently sensible option.  But then again it is the things that shouldn't piss you off thread  

[bannedfromHandV]

16 hours ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

Alcohol brings out the worst in people. I made such at scene at a company wide dinner several years ago (and said some home truth to senior directors) that when I come in to work after the weekend the manager took my badge and escorted me out of the building! 

Beat that! 

Edit: I should add I was leaving in 2 weeks anyway. I was just allowed to leave earlier with some garden leave. Result! 

Here are my best two:

Around 8 years ago I was ejected from a huge company conference in a Novotel in West London after consuming 3 bottles of red wine before it had even hit 9pm, this was after drinking whiskey on the train down, believe it or not I kept my job,

I spent a summer in Puerto Banus and worked on a bar for a few weeks, kind of like a working holiday I guess. Anyway, turns out the owner of this bar was English and a frickin blose fan! He was actually okay to be fair to him, it was mainly English staff he employed and you were allowed to drink whilst working provided you did not drink too much, this worked fine for the first few weeks but one evening I had too much, to this day I only have sporadic memories of what ensued but anyway, I awoke the next afternoon and didn't remember a thing, I had the hangover dread but didn't read too much into it as often wake up with hangover dread after a heavy sesh. So later that evening I walk down to the bar and help to set things up, everyone was on edge around me, we were about to open up and I was about to walk behind the bar when the owner stopped me, 'what do you think you're doing mate?', he asked, 'just getting ready to start mate', I replied.

To which he uttered the immortal line, 'we sacked you last night, you were a f**king pissed up nightmare, we had to physically restrain Peyman (6ft6 Spanish doorman) from ripping your head off'.

Without doubt my most embarrassing moment, which is some feat given the situations I've found myself in oft times.

[choffer]

45 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

I once got booked in a 5 aside game and I'm livid about it to this day.

I have a similar ref-related issue that I still carry around 30 years later. 

We had one ref that regularly used to cover our matches on the windswept tundra that was (is) Billesley Common. He was a short, pot-bellied man who could always be guaranteed to be half a pitch behind the game. Nobody could ever question his decision even when both team captains approached him to tell him he was wrong and we always groaned when we saw it was him who was going to ref a game. It got so bad that when we saw him arrive, our captain would go and speak to the opposition captain to fill him in on how awful a ref he was and how we would undoubtedly ruin the game one way or another. 

So, on one particularly miserable day, we are nil nil with five minutes to go in a nothing friendly. I challenge for the ball just inside the opposition half, nick the ball away from their defender and see their goalie off his line. I give it the obligatory deft caress (hoof), the ball clips the underside of the crossbar and drops neatly over the line. We all go nuts, turn around and see the ref with his arm in the air. He's waited until the ball is in the goal before blowing up to award me a free kick for the high boot from the opposition player I'd beaten the ball to. The fact that he'd barely challenged for it and the ball had been on the ground when I took it away from him was neither here nor there. Despite protestations from both sides, he refused to be moved and when I uttered "that's just ridiculous" within his earshot, out came the red card. Still drives me mad when I think about it all these years later. 

Still I did win the trophy for Goal (non-goal) of the season at the team's year-end awards.

[Vive_La_Villa]

15 hours ago, StefanAVFC said:

I play 6 a side futsal with some people from work. Random teams.

There's a guy who comes and I have no idea why he comes.

You can be totally crap and love football; cool whatever, have fun.

But this guy...

- Runs away from the ball
- Doesn't mark anybody
- Doesn't run (my biggest pet peev, especially in futsal)
- When he gets the ball, boots it away immediately in no particular direction
- Looks at your blankly when you give him any sort of direction
- Stands in your space
- Chases men who have the ball

What's the point? It's worse than playing 5v6. Even when we stick him in goal, he gets the ball and just boots it forward even with a simple pass next to him.

We had a guy like that at a place where I worked. He only played once but he was shocking. I don't think he had ever played before in his life. After that we had to always make sure we already had 10 without him or it was off. Sounds harsh but with him playing it completely ruined the game as the standard was pretty good. 

[Stevo985]

Another ref one.

Sunday league when I used to play in goal. We were 1-0 up with about 5 minutes to go.

When the ball came to me I was doing that annoying thing of waiting for the opposition to get right next to me before picking it up to waste time.

Or instead of catching it I'd parry it down and then wait to pick it up.

 

I'd done it a couple of times and the opposition had another shot. I dived to save it. Wasn't a very difficult save so I made sure I just parried it sideways, then got up and did the same thing. Just stood next to the ball until the attacker ran in, then picked it up.

This time the ref gave an indirect free kick. He said I'd "controlled the ball enough" that it counted as catching it, dropping it, and picking it back up which obviously you can't do.

To this day I think he's wrong. It pissed me off. We still won, but easily couldn't have.

[lapal_fan]

I used to play on a concrete pitch when I was younger.  We played with mates (I was the youngest by a few years!) but on a couple of ocassions, one of the team brought along this little American fella.  

He looked like a nerdy american teenager.  Really baggy, long shorts, a little white vest, a head band and actual tanned glasses with a rope around his neck so they wouldn't fall off  

He was absolutely awful, which was expected, but he tried really hard and mucked in with defending "THAT'S GREAT DE-FENCE BRAH" was said once. 

Good lad though man.  

The group I play with now are pretty good, but there are clear weak players, who never get picked on the same side.  One's 60 and the other is in his 20s, but built like a small child and is so timid in nature it's painful.  I keep telling him he's doing well and to be more assertive, and he's a really good lad, but I imagine he hates me   

[El Zen]

Back when you were still required to kick forwards for kick off, my mate scored directly from kick off. The ref disallowed it! Did’t know the rules. This was a men’s league game, albeit lower level. Made the news, actually. 

[rodders0223]

2 hours ago, Rodders said:

Ha, yes, the crafty smash it unnecessarily hard out of play to get a breather, I think we've all done that  I've seen people aim for rivers before. 

One today, (fellow) pedestrians who slow down and pause as they approach a zebra crossing. I mean I understand it from a reflexive "hang on a minute there are cars about" survival attitude, but surely you know it's your right of way - this is compounded in this example by the fact the roads are a slow one way system where cars are travelling no more than 5-10 miles an hour at this point, and I can see the car approaching slowing down, in expectation that the human would keep on walking. I suspect it should annoy the car driver more than myself, but I just feel irrationally annoyed on their behalf. Keep going mate! 

 

 

I was thinking about this the other day whilst stopped at one of these things. Now if I was walking along, approaching a crossing myself and saw a car already stopped letting someone across, I would do a little jog across the road as to not inconvinience the driver further. Not this little ****, sees I have been stopped letting people across and just casually (slow as ****) decides to cross himself at his tempo.

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[Paddywhack]

I know this must be very old and boring to you two, but I’ve only just realised there’s 2 Rodders. Mind blown.

edit - it was only until I saw someone else point it out recently but I never realised KSV and KHV were separate posters either.

Edited February 7, 2018 by Paddywhack

[StefanAVFC]

Corporate bollocks.

I can't complain, I got to where I am now; mid management in a big company; by playing in corporate nonsense.

But when it bites you in the ass, it's infuriating.

Got hit twice in the last 3 weeks with it. Really puts you back down in your place, even at management level.

[sharkyvilla]

1 hour ago, rodders0223 said:

I was thinking about this the other day whilst stopped at one of these things. Now if I was walking along, approaching a crossing myself and saw a car already stopped letting someone across, I would do a little jog across the road as to not inconvinience the driver further. Not this little ****, sees I have been stopped letting people across and just casually (slow as ****) decides to cross himself at his tempo.

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Reminds me of this

 

[sharkyvilla]

I never know the etiquette when at a zebra crossing.  When somebody stops the car to let me cross the road in general I give them a wave of thanks, but when at a zebra crossing technically it's my right of way, so shouldn't have to thank them.  I usually wave anyway because I'm nice.

[Xela]

4 hours ago, bannedfromHandV said:

Here are my best two:

Around 8 years ago I was ejected from a huge company conference in a Novotel in West London after consuming 3 bottles of red wine before it had even hit 9pm, this was after drinking whiskey on the train down, believe it or not I kept my job,

I spent a summer in Puerto Banus and worked on a bar for a few weeks, kind of like a working holiday I guess. Anyway, turns out the owner of this bar was English and a frickin blose fan! He was actually okay to be fair to him, it was mainly English staff he employed and you were allowed to drink whilst working provided you did not drink too much, this worked fine for the first few weeks but one evening I had too much, to this day I only have sporadic memories of what ensued but anyway, I awoke the next afternoon and didn't remember a thing, I had the hangover dread but didn't read too much into it as often wake up with hangover dread after a heavy sesh. So later that evening I walk down to the bar and help to set things up, everyone was on edge around me, we were about to open up and I was about to walk behind the bar when the owner stopped me, 'what do you think you're doing mate?', he asked, 'just getting ready to start mate', I replied.

To which he uttered the immortal line, 'we sacked you last night, you were a f**king pissed up nightmare, we had to physically restrain Peyman (6ft6 Spanish doorman) from ripping your head off'.

Without doubt my most embarrassing moment, which is some feat given the situations I've found myself in oft times.

[maqroll]

The trashy adverts at the bottom of random web pages with photographs of ear wax removal or phallic images of unidentifiable oozy origin. Why? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[limpid]

3 hours ago, maqroll said:

The trashy adverts at the bottom of random web pages with photographs of ear wax removal or phallic images of unidentifiable oozy origin. Why? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

What have you been googling? 

[il_serpente]

Clickbait for the morbidly curious.   You know, the crowd that account for all the views of  zit-popping YouTube videos.

[Rugeley Villa]

1 hour ago, limpid said:

What have you been googling? 

Ear aids, by the sound of it. 

[Risso]

On 2/6/2018 at 23:04, StefanAVFC said:

I play 6 a side futsal with some people from work. Random teams.

There's a guy who comes and I have no idea why he comes.

You can be totally crap and love football; cool whatever, have fun.

But this guy...

- Runs away from the ball
- Doesn't mark anybody
- Doesn't run (my biggest pet peev, especially in futsal)
- When he gets the ball, boots it away immediately in no particular direction
- Looks at your blankly when you give him any sort of direction
- Stands in your space
- Chases men who have the ball

What's the point? It's worse than playing 5v6. Even when we stick him in goal, he gets the ball and just boots it forward even with a simple pass next to him.

I play 5 aside on a Tuesday night with a load of other dads from our kids’ school. I’m not the greatest footballer by any stretch of the imagination, so I just try to keep it simple. Make the best pass possible, try and get into space when free and mark somebody on the opposite side when they have the ball. I’ve got a lot fitter and that makes a huge amount of difference in small sided football.