Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

de_sisti

SecretSam wrote:

"Seat guarders"
You know, people who sit in the outside seat of a pair and dump their bag on the inside seat, hoping noone will sit in it
I always go out of my way to find these arseholes and sit next to them. Especially when I'm hot and sweaty from a ride

Well done. I do the same.

Pross

Webboo wrote:

People who run with water bottles. Most of them run at a speed which if they kept at it for days they wouldn't even break a sweat.

Good call. I did a morning run in Central Park on a cool morning back last October and (despite being slow myself) overtook someone running with a full hydration pack! FFS, it's central Manhattan with cafes and drink stands every few hundred metres not the Marathon des Sables. You aren't going to die of dehydration.

Ben6899

Pross wrote:

Webboo wrote:

People who run with water bottles. Most of them run at a speed which if they kept at it for days they wouldn't even break a sweat.

Good call. I did a morning run in Central Park on a cool morning back last October and (despite being slow myself) overtook someone running with a full hydration pack! FFS, it's central Manhattan with cafes and drink stands every few hundred metres not the Marathon des Sables. You aren't going to die of dehydration.

You only need to worry about having access to hydration at anything over half-marathon distance. Anything less than that and you'll be fine waiting til you get home. And even then, it really depends on the climate; in this country, you could probably go to 16/17miles without a slurp (unless you've just paid the Fat Bastard surcharge on a recent flight).

de_sisti

In a queue waiting to be served; the person behind the counter has clocked you as the next person to be served.
No sooner as the finish with the customer they look straight past you to the people behind you as say "Next".

Pross

This new trend for televising groups of people being turned into choirs by Gareth bloody Malone and, worse, the fawning media then telling us how brilliant they are when they are actually just a mediocre amateur choir that has been given resources many established professional choirs would love. I have to turn Radio 2 off in the mornings when Chris Evans has that NHS choir on!

capt_slog

Pross wrote:

This new trend for televising groups of people being turned into choirs by Gareth bloody Malone and, worse, the fawning media then telling us how brilliant they are when they are actually just a mediocre amateur choir that has been given resources many established professional choirs would love. I have to turn Radio 2 off in the mornings when Chris Evans has that NHS choir on!

The one's belting out "Oh what a beautiful morning"? Yup, those buggers can go, far to strident for that time in the morning.



People who drive down the slip road and then head across the motorway at nearly 90 degrees in their haste to join lane 3.

Despite the fact that the motorway is at near standstill, this happens regularly at the junction I use in the morning. I can't understand the mentality or the logic, because at this point lane 3 is usually the most congested and they have to bully their way into.

I shouldn't really complain, because it leaves the other lanes free for me and the lorries to travel along at 20 mph for a couple of miles, and I rarely see the idiots again before I leave at the next junction. But WHY? is it something specified in the BMW/Audi/merc handbooks?

drlodge

Capt Slog wrote:

I shouldn't really complain, because it leaves the other lanes free for me and the lorries to travel along at 20 mph for a couple of miles, and I rarely see the idiots again before I leave at the next junction. But WHY? is it something specified in the BMW/Audi/merc handbooks?

I think its the alpha-male "I must win" mentality. Even though they lose, they have to be seen to be beating everyone at their own game. Pathetic. More common down south and in expensive cars. Bankers.

Pross

Capt Slog wrote:

Pross wrote:

This new trend for televising groups of people being turned into choirs by Gareth bloody Malone and, worse, the fawning media then telling us how brilliant they are when they are actually just a mediocre amateur choir that has been given resources many established professional choirs would love. I have to turn Radio 2 off in the mornings when Chris Evans has that NHS choir on!

The one's belting out "Oh what a beautiful morning"? Yup, those buggers can go, far to strident for that time in the morning.

Ah that lot are just embarrassing, I remember them singing that live in the studio and some of them were out of tune. They must be mortified that he chose to use a clip to play regularly!

veronese68

Pross wrote:

Gareth bloody Malone,Chris Evans

Capt Slog wrote:

BMW/Audi/merc

drlodge wrote:

in expensive cars

The previous few posts could have been abbreviated to this as far as I'm concerned.

webboo

Adverts for Just Eat
Adverts for panty liners that keep the moisture in.
In fact fucking adverts.

Wheelspinner

Clothing retailers who have an entire rack of identical garments, each with half a dozen dangly labels attached describing the fabulousness of the fabric, the environmental cred of the company, the mood the designer was channeling when this particular masterpiece was created and more, but not one of them has the sodding price tag.

You have 100 of them on a rack. They're not unique, bespoke tailored things. They're mass produced in a sweat shop in Bangladesh most likely. Even if you're embarrassed by the price you want to charge, (and you should be) it is still monumentally irritating to have to find some spotty teenage shop assistant who has no idea, has to remember their log on password to the POS terminal, find which of the tags is the right one to scan then look puzzled before telling you "Yes, this flimsy piece of fully synthetic recycled drink bottles with a huge logo all over it is priced at only $163.75, today only!"

veronese68

In a similar vein to Spinner's moan, the trendy clothes shop that looks like a Chinese restaurant that I can't remember the name of. A mate of mine said it was so dark in there when he went in with his daughter he got his phone out to use the torch to look at the price, he was asked to leave.
Could be Hollister, I'm not sure and I don't really care.

philcubed

Yes, Hollister! Only good thing about that shop is that it had a comfy chair I could sit in whilst my family tried to shop in the gloom.

earth

People who spend too long in the toilet - especially public toilets. There should be a timer on the door. If you have not finished when the timer runs out then the toilet goes into superflush mode and sucks you down the u-bend before automatically unlocking the door.

briantrumpet

Less/fewer. But not in the way you might think.

Historically 'less' could mean 'fewer', and there's no logical reason for the pedantic proscription of "10 items or less". I know this, I'm trying to teach myself not to flinch, but I still flinch. Grrr, with myself.

pinno

BBC, talking in essences:

"The Whitehouse said..."
"10 downing street said..."
"He was found hanging from his cell..."

...and general condescension.

Worse, the inordinate amount of detail and repetition of the court proceedings in say the death of a toddler (BBC Scotland recently).

Let's feed everybody on a diet of fear.

veronese68

Pinno wrote:

Let's feed everybody on a diet of fear.

Politicians and the meeja have a vested interest in feeding everyone on a diet of fear. Politicians claim they are the ones that can do something to protect you, the meeja claim they are there to keep the great unwashed informed about the imminent danger they are in. Ignorance is bliss in some cases, it'll probably never happen to you anyway so why worry?

pinno

Veronese68 wrote:

Pinno wrote:

Ignorance is bliss in some cases, it'll probably never happen to you anyway so why worry?

Yes I quite agree but we have to live amongst people who become more and more sceptical, cynical, isolated, suspicious. In fact, I think part of the Brexit campaign smacks of intolerance and resentment so decisions are made in that backdrop that are important and affect us.

briantrumpet

Veronese68 wrote:

Pinno wrote:

Let's feed everybody on a diet of fear.

Politicians and the meeja have a vested interest in feeding everyone on a diet of fear. Politicians claim they are the ones that can do something to protect you, the meeja claim they are there to keep the great unwashed informed about the imminent danger they are in. Ignorance is bliss in some cases, it'll probably never happen to you anyway so why worry?

Wrong thread - this isn't trivial.

Terrorism relies on fear, and that fear is whipped up by the media to sell papers/get clicks. We buy into it. One person gets beheaded by ISIL and it's all over the news. If it weren't reported, there would be no point in doing it. Yiu can't not report it, but how the media whips it up makes them 100% complicit in the terrorism. And if you've ever clicked on an ISIL video, you're complicit too.

Meanwhile about 40 people are killed on Britain's roads every week, at it hardly warrants a flicker of recognition.

Sorry, as I said, not trivial. And 'annoyance' rather understates it too.

veronese68

briantrumpet wrote:

Wrong thread - this isn't trivial.
...
Sorry, as I said, not trivial. And 'annoyance' rather understates it too.

You are completely correct there, snipped for brevity.

arthur_scrimshaw

briantrumpet wrote:

Meanwhile about 40 people are killed on Britain's roads every week, at it hardly warrants a flicker of recognition.

Sorry, as I said, not trivial. And 'annoyance' rather understates it too.

And in the same period nearly 600 die from the effects of air pollution, a lot of it pumped out from diesel vehicles.

briantrumpet

Arthur Scrimshaw wrote:

briantrumpet wrote:

Meanwhile about 40 people are killed on Britain's roads every week, at it hardly warrants a flicker of recognition.

Sorry, as I said, not trivial. And 'annoyance' rather understates it too.

And in the same period nearly 600 die from the effects of air pollution, a lot of it pumped out from diesel vehicles.

Indeed, all these things that the media (and then we) take as 'normal'... give us a beheading to take our minds off the things we should really be doing something about.

bobmcstuff

Webboo wrote:

Adverts for Just Eat

Chicken madras my hairy arse.

Hate that fcking advert. Deleted Just Eat from my phone because of that.

Wheelspinner

Local pool / gym / sauna / steam / spa place.

If you want to continue your exercise routine, stay in the gym. Not in the steam room.

Likewise, if you really *must* chat with your mates, do it at the pub. Not in the steam room.

It's a place to sit quietly, relax and sweat. That's it.

pinno

Wheelspinner wrote:

Local pool / gym / sauna / steam / spa place.

If you want to continue your exercise routine, stay in the gym. Not in the steam room.

Likewise, if you really *must* chat with your mates, do it at the pub. Not in the steam room.

It's a place to sit quietly, relax and sweat. That's it.

You miserable, anti-social basket.

BelgianBeerGeek

Pinno wrote:

Wheelspinner wrote:

Local pool / gym / sauna / steam / spa place.

If you want to continue your exercise routine, stay in the gym. Not in the steam room.

Likewise, if you really *must* chat with your mates, do it at the pub. Not in the steam room.

It's a place to sit quietly, relax and sweat. That's it.

You miserable, anti-social basket.

Yeah. They are also probably clothed. In swimwear, towels, whatever. Saunas, steam rooms etc are places where you should be only in your birthday suit.

pinno

BelgianBeerGeek wrote:

Pinno wrote:

Wheelspinner wrote:

Local pool / gym / sauna / steam / spa place.

If you want to continue your exercise routine, stay in the gym. Not in the steam room.

Likewise, if you really *must* chat with your mates, do it at the pub. Not in the steam room.

It's a place to sit quietly, relax and sweat. That's it.

You miserable, anti-social basket.

Yeah. They are also probably clothed. In swimwear, towels, whatever. Saunas, steam rooms etc are places where you should be only in your birthday suit.

When in Rome... When I was in Sweden...

cornerblock

The cap on Oral-B toothpaste that needs to be unscrewed then removed thus requiring both hands.

Pross

Cornerblock wrote:

The cap on Oral-B toothpaste that needs to be unscrewed then removed thus requiring both hands.

The worst toothpastes are the pump ones where first have to get the plastic covering off then you have to press the pump down and try to get the foil seal off and the little tab on it invariably snaps off.

Pross

bobmcstuff wrote:

Webboo wrote:

Adverts for Just Eat

Chicken madras my hairy ars*.

Hate that ******* advert. Deleted Just Eat from my phone because of that.

Don't know that ad but the Dominos one that I've seen twice now has almost driven me to smash the TV. It has to be the worst advert I've ever seen and that takes some doing!