Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

pedrojake

BBC Sport Article on Roberto de Matteos sacking from Chelsea, inviting viewers comments, where every couple of pages you get:….

Comment: BBC any updates on aid to the children on Gaza? No?

I may be speculating, but my thoughts are that it may be different people dealing with the stories

CiB

Cars that have fog lights that come on in sympathy with the corresponding indicator because the indicator can't be seen in the dark / bad weather due to it being integrated into the same bit of the car as the enormous halogen headlamp, rendering it invisible to oncoming traffic. Having a soft on / soft off fog light is a crap solution. How about moving the indicators away from the h/lamp so that we can see them?

pollys_bott

BelgianBeerGeek wrote:

Ron Stuart wrote:

Pollys Bott wrote:

Wunnunda wrote:

Get used to DRLs. I believe that they will be mandatory on all new cars soon.

I heard that too - but why? What is the logic behind and justification for them? Has homo sapiens regressed to a point where he is now unable to see a feckin' great Discovery / X5 / Q3 etc etc unless it's lit up like a Christmas tree? Not trying to start an argument, am just genuinely curious as to why they have suddenly been deemed essential..? :?

Try this..... http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/sa ... ights.html

Cos if it prevents maybe just one RTC then that's the justification, right there. This isn't really trivial, but it is really annoying and a pervasive feature of modern life. If something can maybe prevent one accident or injury then this is the course we must all take! Grrr :x

Get that all the time from the H&S storm-troopers at work: "Yes, we know it's never happened here and the odds on it happening are 15 gazillion-to-one, but we'll do x/y/z just in case; and in the process treat you all like a bunch of retarded half-wits"

verylonglegs

The media still not acknowledging the fact Abramovich is so wealthy he can do whatever what he likes with Chelsea, he's like a 14yr old playing Championship Manager and also does not give interviews. So I wish they'd stop wasting hours of air time trying to read his thoughts and pretending he gives a fark what the fans want. It's a game to him and I don't care to hear about it :x

Simmotino

Was reminded of another last night - the Enterprise Rent-a-Car advert.

He doesn't say 'aluminum' because he misses the 'u' you idiot!

ben@31

BelgianBeerGeek wrote:

Ron Stuart wrote:

Pollys Bott wrote:

Wunnunda wrote:

Get used to DRLs. I believe that they will be mandatory on all new cars soon.

I heard that too - but why? What is the logic behind and justification for them? Has homo sapiens regressed to a point where he is now unable to see a feckin' great Discovery / X5 / Q3 etc etc unless it's lit up like a Christmas tree? Not trying to start an argument, am just genuinely curious as to why they have suddenly been deemed essential..? :?

Try this..... http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/sa ... ights.html

Cos if it prevents maybe just one RTC then that's the justification, right there. This isn't really trivial, but it is really annoying and a pervasive feature of modern life. If something can maybe prevent one accident or injury then this is the course we must all take! Grrr :x

The problem is when to put on lights is subjective. Some cars have no lights on at all as its getting dark. Daylight running lights solve this.

H&S is also there to protect people from themselves as some idiots can't be trusted. But if it was upto me I'd leave them to it and let natural selection happen.

de_sisti

People using abbreviations in forums (for example) without any reference to what it actually stands for.

Teenagers who deliberately wear their trousers/jeans so low as to expose their underwear or buttcrack.
Even worse are those you see adjusting their trousers/jeans to make the garments sit lower on them.

[edit: can't spell. 4th word, 2nd line) :oops:

TakeTurns

Electric bikes.

People who go up hill using electric bikes but still look like they're tackling a cat1 hill in the TDF.

d87heaven

People who are intolerant of others peoples cultures.



and the dutch.

ManOfKent

Getting to work and then finding out I've missed a bit when shaving.

DesB3rd

Human interest interludes on the news (typically an interview with some random woman who didn't actually see a great deal but was in the area and might know someone involved, so feels the need to be hysterical) that add nothing to further inform the viewer. Mercifully light in UK news but form the bulk of CNN reports.

But this AM it's architect's descriptions e.g. "Stringers, 2no. Include allowance for treads, risers & handrail" - for those not in the know that could be reduced to "staircase."

Ben6899

DesB3rd wrote:

But this AM it's architect's descriptions e.g. "Stringers, 2no. Include allowance for treads, risers & handrail" - for those not in the know that could be reduced to "staircase."

Not much of a staircase with only two stringers!

dylanfernley

Ben6899 wrote:

DesB3rd wrote:

But this AM it's architect's descriptions e.g. "Stringers, 2no. Include allowance for treads, risers & handrail" - for those not in the know that could be reduced to "staircase."

Not much of a staircase with only two stringers!

oh, you bitch !

dylanfernley

so you can't say Ditch with a B on this site-- well thats pretty frigging petty !

beams87

De Sisti wrote:

People using abbreviations in forums (for example) without any reference to what it actually stands for.

Teenagers who deliberately were their trousers/jeans so low as to expose their underwear or buttcrack.
Even worse are those you see adjusting their trousers/jeans to make the garments sit lower on them.

You know why this is yeh? Apparently, years ago in the states, prisoners were relieved of their belts so as not to use them as weapons on other prisoners and staff. This carried through to today’s culture, where those with the “pants round their arse” had supposedly been to prison (and were used to not wearing belts) and were hard as nails, and accordingly feared.

beams87

Slow walking groups of tourists

TMR

I'm a right grumpy pr*ck. Everything and everyone irritates me.

dylanfernley

The Mad Rapper wrote:

I'm a right grumpy pr*ck. Everything and everyone irritates me.

absolutely !

Widgey

Smokers! Polluting the air with their cigarettes. It smells, don't do it near me.

dylanfernley

Widgey wrote:

Smokers! Polluting the air with their cigarettes. It smells, don't do it near me.

Absolutely !

finchy

beams87 wrote:

De Sisti wrote:

People using abbreviations in forums (for example) without any reference to what it actually stands for.

Teenagers who deliberately were their trousers/jeans so low as to expose their underwear or buttcrack.
Even worse are those you see adjusting their trousers/jeans to make the garments sit lower on them.

You know why this is yeh? Apparently, years ago in the states, prisoners were relieved of their belts so as not to use them as weapons on other prisoners and staff. This carried through to today’s culture, where those with the “pants round their ars*” had supposedly been to prison (and were used to not wearing belts) and were hard as nails, and accordingly feared.

Why not just give the prisoners trousers that fit?

B.M.R.

People who can't see that Karl Pilkington is an actor playing an idiot... very cleverly done Gervais.

Ben6899

B.M.R. wrote:

People who can't see that Karl Pilkington is an actor playing an idiot... very cleverly done Gervais.

He's actually a Producer.

cornerblock

Asking for a bottle of Corona or Sol and the bar staff pushing the piece of lime right down in to the top of the bottle with their fingers. The same dirty fingers that have been handling money given to them by god knows f'kin who! Use some tongs or don't bother.

Ben6899

Cornerblock wrote:

Asking for a bottle of Corona or Sol and the bar staff pushing the piece of lime right down in to the top of the bottle with their fingers. The same dirty fingers that have been handling money given to them by god knows f'kin who! Use some tongs or don't bother.

I think you're on a losing streak as soon as you decide - out of all the drinks available - that you'll go for a bottle of the blandest lager you can get your hands on.

cornerblock

Ben6899 wrote:

Cornerblock wrote:

Asking for a bottle of Corona or Sol and the bar staff pushing the piece of lime right down in to the top of the bottle with their fingers. The same dirty fingers that have been handling money given to them by god knows f'kin who! Use some tongs or don't bother.

I think you're on a losing streak as soon as you decide - out of all the drinks available - that you'll go for a bottle of the blandest lager you can get your hands on.

PM me your number so the next time I'm ordering a drink I can give you a call and ask you what you think I should have. :roll: I'm thinking half a Staropramen with a little nip of Oban as a chaser next. I'd better run it by you first though.

Ben6899

Cornerblock wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

Cornerblock wrote:

Asking for a bottle of Corona or Sol and the bar staff pushing the piece of lime right down in to the top of the bottle with their fingers. The same dirty fingers that have been handling money given to them by god knows f'kin who! Use some tongs or don't bother.

I think you're on a losing streak as soon as you decide - out of all the drinks available - that you'll go for a bottle of the blandest lager you can get your hands on.

PM me your number so the next time I'm ordering a drink I can give you a call and ask you what you think I should have. :roll: I'm thinking half a Staropramen with a little nip of Oban as a chaser next. I'd better run it by you first though.

I don't have a number. Mobile phones are so 90s.

verylonglegs

If you think Corona or Sol is the blandest you've clearly never tasted Brahma...damn awful stuff.

Ben6899

verylonglegs wrote:

If you think Corona or Sol is the blandest you've clearly never tasted Brahma...damn awful stuff.

Well that's like saying Stalin is the biggest wanker and asking "Adolf who?"...

crom7

When people say pacifically instead of specifically!