Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

rjsterry

CiB wrote:

I see the Chrome browser has suddenly changed and after 20 years or more of pressing Backspace to go back a page, I now either have to mouse all the way to the top left to press the back arrow, or let go of the mouse and use both hands to press Alt + left arrow. Who thought that was a good change to apply, and how many people have clamoured for it to happen? Ridiculous.

Can't you set one of your auxiliary mouse buttons to 'Back'?

jawooga

Garry H wrote:

Wood Pigeons

Cu cu... cooouw...

Bastards.

orraloon

jawooga wrote:

Garry H wrote:

Wood Pigeons

Cu cu... cooouw...

Bastards.

Bang!

pinno

orraloon wrote:

jawooga wrote:

Garry H wrote:

Wood Pigeons

Cu cu... cooouw...

Bastards.

Bang!

Chomp.

crumbschief

Ripple

pinno

Wrong thread crumbschief.

mrb123

mfin wrote:

People who let their kids scan the items at supermarket checkouts when other people are waiting.

People who take ages getting their wallet/purse out at the supermarket checkout as if it's a huge surprise to them that they've actually been asked to pay for their shopping.

mrb123

BBC constantly changing the channel for their Olympic coverage. I appreciate that they want to keep the 10pm news on BBC1, but does the coverage then really need to switch back from BBC2 to BBC1 later on?

dinyull

Petty thieves.

We've just had 2 blokes walk into our office and swipe the office managers brand new uninsured phone. For smack no doubt and it's worthless seeing as O2 have just barred it.

IanWhite

The fact that I can not find the bloody multi tool , lol

pinno

Dinyull wrote:

Petty thieves.

We've just had 2 blokes walk into our office and swipe the office managers brand new uninsured phone. For smack no doubt and it's worthless seeing as O2 have just barred it.

Not difficult to get them unlocked.

thestrand

The recent trend for interviews with footballers or rugby players as they are walking off for half time. I'm yet to see one where any of them have said anything even remotely insightful. Just leave them in peace to get their half-time oranges for goodness sake.

mfin

Those BBC Olympic sh1t poetry slow motion montages that are supposed to be moving or romanticise the particular sport or person. What a load of sh1t.

Oh, and anyone who'd disagree. There should be a zero tolerance policy to sh1t poetry on TV montages.

FishFish

Professor Brian Cocks.

mfin

Bald 50 somethings that only get let out to drink on the sundays of bank holiday weekends and set about proving they are still the c***s they probably were when they were 20.

mfin

Anyone fat that also wanders about thinking they're cool.

mfin

Anyone that wears Prada glasses or sunglasses.

mfin

People who call small coloured anodised bits and bobs they buy for their bikes 'bling'. Oh, and this stuff makes the bike look shitter too.

mfin

People who think covers bands in pubs are amazing. Invariably they're pretty crap and most of them either play sh1t songs or murder good ones.

Pross

Having spent a week camping I have some new ones:

We invested in a new tent, it comfortably accommodated 3 teenagers, 2 adults and a dog with a separate area for cooking / eating / chilling out when the weather was bad plus a sun canopy for the same while the weather was good. We had all the equipment we needed for a comfortable holiday and whilst my one daughter and her friend drove themselves down we managed to get all the gear, daughter 2 and dog in a Focus estate with reasonable ease. Our tent would have been classed as large a few years ago but it was dwarfed by virtually every other tent on the site. People were needing a large estate car with trailer and roof box just to get a family 4 and all their kit on holiday. Camping used to be a simple and cheap holiday option now it seems like people have to take the whole house with them. A family of 4 turned up this morning with a people carrier towing a large trailer and still needed a second car. Their tent must have been three times the size of ours and they also had a 3m X 3m gazebo!

On top of that, why do people now feel the need to erect a 20' tent pole and more flags than HMS Victory flew at Trafalgar outside their tent or caravan? It's a trend I've also noticed at bike races recently too.

Finally, people staying in a tent who think allowing their kids to get up and shout / argue / fight / cry at 5.45 am every morning is acceptable.

Pross

mfin wrote:

Those BBC Olympic sh1t poetry slow motion montages that are supposed to be moving or romanticise the particular sport or person. What a load of sh1t.

Oh, and anyone who'd disagree. There should be a zero tolerance policy to sh1t poetry on TV montages.

So Eddie Butler then? He's doing a nice one on Mo at the moment

awavey

Pross wrote:

mfin wrote:

Those BBC Olympic sh1t poetry slow motion montages that are supposed to be moving or romanticise the particular sport or person. What a load of sh1t.

Oh, and anyone who'd disagree. There should be a zero tolerance policy to sh1t poetry on TV montages.

So Eddie Butler then? He's doing a nice one on Mo at the moment

yeah he started it for the London 2012 closing highlights piece, and the Beeb just go to town with it, it is annoying, as is the commentators always talking about "the journey", athletes dont dedicate hours to train to win anymore, they go on a journey of self discovery...sigh... :roll:

mfin

awavey wrote:

Pross wrote:

mfin wrote:

Those BBC Olympic sh1t poetry slow motion montages that are supposed to be moving or romanticise the particular sport or person. What a load of sh1t.

Oh, and anyone who'd disagree. There should be a zero tolerance policy to sh1t poetry on TV montages.

So Eddie Butler then? He's doing a nice one on Mo at the moment

yeah he started it for the London 2012 closing highlights piece, and the Beeb just go to town with it, it is annoying, as is the commentators always talking about "the journey", athletes dont dedicate hours to train to win anymore, they go on a journey of self discovery...sigh... :roll:

Yep, horse sh1t isn't it. People just train and then try their best, same with any sport. Of course they can be overwhelmed with happiness if they win but the rhetoric used is crap, you didn't used to get this kind of rhetoric years ago. There's no going back now, even some of the athletes are copying it as they hear so much of it.

Blame the x-factor for attaching it to any hopeless karaoke prat, it's now found its way into anything that's a competition.

pinno

BBC commentary is on the whole carp. Chris Boardman whilst commentating on the Olympic road race: "I'm a bit disappointed in such n such rider, I expected more from him".

What?! Who the farq are you? Good on the track including a world hour but apart from a couple of prologues (including one spectacular off), total pants as a road cyclist.

Pross

Harsh! He dominated domestic racing and competed at the height of the doping period at the top level while refusing to even take legitimate medication for a medical condition that prevented his recovery. Sure, he wasn't a top flight pro and the hype that he could be the first British Tour winner was over the top but I feel he played a big part it getting British cycling where it is today.

jawooga

awavey wrote:

Pross wrote:

mfin wrote:

Those BBC Olympic sh1t poetry slow motion montages that are supposed to be moving or romanticise the particular sport or person. What a load of sh1t.

Oh, and anyone who'd disagree. There should be a zero tolerance policy to sh1t poetry on TV montages.

So Eddie Butler then? He's doing a nice one on Mo at the moment

yeah he started it for the London 2012 closing highlights piece, and the Beeb just go to town with it, it is annoying, as is the commentators always talking about "the journey", athletes dont dedicate hours to train to win anymore, they go on a journey of self discovery...sigh... :roll:

Agreed re Eddie Butler. However, I think the BBC started it for FA cup final in the late 90s when everyone had to have a regional accent and gritty poetry was okay because of Billy Elliot, and Jimmy McGovern, Our Friends in The North etc. Eddie obviously put his hand up, trying to diversify. Even worse, he writes in the newspaper in the same way, with any rhythm lost as his words are jumbled around to fit a newspaper column.

Garry H

Pross wrote:

Having spent a week camping I have some new ones:

We invested in a new tent, it comfortably accommodated 3 teenagers, 2 adults and a dog with a separate area for cooking / eating / chilling out when the weather was bad plus a sun canopy for the same while the weather was good. We had all the equipment we needed for a comfortable holiday and whilst my one daughter and her friend drove themselves down we managed to get all the gear, daughter 2 and dog in a Focus estate with reasonable ease. Our tent would have been classed as large a few years ago but it was dwarfed by virtually every other tent on the site. People were needing a large estate car with trailer and roof box just to get a family 4 and all their kit on holiday. Camping used to be a simple and cheap holiday option now it seems like people have to take the whole house with them. A family of 4 turned up this morning with a people carrier towing a large trailer and still needed a second car. Their tent must have been three times the size of ours and they also had a 3m X 3m gazebo!

On top of that, why do people now feel the need to erect a 20' tent pole and more flags than HMS Victory flew at Trafalgar outside their tent or caravan? It's a trend I've also noticed at bike races recently too.

Finally, people staying in a tent who think allowing their kids to get up and shout / argue / fight / cry at 5.45 am every morning is acceptable.

Agreed. It's camping for people that don't like camping.

pinno

Camping is like Boardman on the road: pants; overrated.

laurentian

mfin wrote:

Those BBC Olympic sh1t poetry slow motion montages that are supposed to be moving or romanticise the particular sport or person. What a load of sh1t.

Oh, and anyone who'd disagree. There should be a zero tolerance policy to sh1t poetry on TV montages.

Agreed . . . and in a similar vein, the musical accompaniments to wildlife documentaries and science programmes - I'd sooner hear the birds singing or the crunch of bone

Alain Quay

Pross wrote:

Having spent a week camping I have some new ones:

We invested in a new tent, it comfortably accommodated 3 teenagers, 2 adults and a dog with a separate area for cooking / eating / chilling out when the weather was bad plus a sun canopy for the same while the weather was good. We had all the equipment we needed for a comfortable holiday and whilst my one daughter and her friend drove themselves down we managed to get all the gear, daughter 2 and dog in a Focus estate with reasonable ease. Our tent would have been classed as large a few years ago but it was dwarfed by virtually every other tent on the site. People were needing a large estate car with trailer and roof box just to get a family 4 and all their kit on holiday. Camping used to be a simple and cheap holiday option now it seems like people have to take the whole house with them. A family of 4 turned up this morning with a people carrier towing a large trailer and still needed a second car. Their tent must have been three times the size of ours and they also had a 3m X 3m gazebo!

On top of that, why do people now feel the need to erect a 20' tent pole and more flags than HMS Victory flew at Trafalgar outside their tent or caravan? It's a trend I've also noticed at bike races recently too.

Finally, people staying in a tent who think allowing their kids to get up and shout / argue / fight / cry at 5.45 am every morning is acceptable.

Yep, you're definitely on to something here. Increasingly campsites are resembling the suburbs, where everything needs to be bigger and uglier than ever before. As they sit inside all evening watching TV, why do they even bother leaving home?
The big flags too are just so ridiculous. Who wants to know these people's likes and dislikes? My advice is go to Scotland's highlands outside the midge season or better still to go to France.