Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

kingstongraham

awavey wrote:

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:

Roy and HG have declared this the games of the journey. It's taken over from the dream.

They've also rightly mourned the decline of the battered sav due to health and safety concerns.

Pross

Alain Quay wrote:

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.

France was originally the plan this year but for various reasons we couldn't get 2 consecutive weeks away so stayed in the UK. I've done the Highlands (Glen Nevis) in the past too with a two man ridge tent and single ring stove for two weeks. We got really lucky with the weather that year but it was peak midge season! The irony of our experience last week was that we wanted to use a small two man tent for my elder daughter and her friend but were told we could either have two tents and a car or one tent and two cars on the pitch to prevent clutter - at least 75% of our pitch was still grass whilst the majority of the others probably had 80% or more of the pitch in use.

pinno

Glen Nevis is gorgeous. I knew a couple who were employees on that estate. 5 years of no life and they decided to find something else to do. Weren't even allowed pets. Took my camper van up there a few times.
Mind you, shifting those Highland longhorn's off that road was a flaming nuisance. Cute and docile but annoying and stubborn.

Garry H

If you want to see midges, go to the red squirrel camp site in Glencoe. Jesus wept!!

pinno

Garry H wrote:

If you want to see midges, go to the red squirrel camp site in Glencoe. Jesus wept!!

Loch Maree: One of the most stunning places i've seen in the UK but midge hell.

Garry H

Or that place in Galloway that I took the kids to this last weekend. Loch Ken.

Anyway, suffice to say that midges can be added to the list.

BelgianBeerGeek

Pross: We have camped (and still do, cos I am a tightwad) all over Europe. Favourite place to camp is Denmark, least fave is Ireland. Mainly 'cos the Irish let their little uns go mental. It's cute until they are bouncing a football off your tent at 1am whilst the parents get pissed around the BBQ.
Western Jutland is amazing. Why the Danish don't spend more time there beats me. Watch out for naked Germans though.
I recently spent good money to camp in a field in Norfolk. There was a hook up if you wanted one. We had the place to ourselves for a week and watched the hares streak around everyday and lots of bird life. Great.

Pross

Intending to do the Dordogne next year with maybe a few days on the Ardeche to for nostalgic reasons (did a PGL camp there the year I left school). I've camped in Ireland (Kilarney) but didn't have any issues there which was just as well as the wife was 7 months pregnant at the time. I fancy Denmark at some point, would quite like to live there too.

BelgianBeerGeek

Pross wrote:

Intending to do the Dordogne next year with maybe a few days on the Ardeche to for nostalgic reasons (did a PGL camp there the year I left school). I've camped in Ireland (Kilarney) but didn't have any issues there which was just as well as the wife was 7 months pregnant at the time. I fancy Denmark at some point, would quite like to live there too.

I think we went to County Kerry on an (Irish) BH weekend, it was bedlam. Hey ho.
A few years since I was in Denmark. A really great place. Bread can be expensive, but beer is cheap. Wonderful for cycling as there are no real hills and the countryside is surprisingly like the UK. But you can grill some bacon on a deserted beach anywhere. Thoroughly recommend it.

mrb123

People starting their reply to a question with the word "so". See also "look", a particular favourite of international cricketers.

dodgy

"do the Dorgogne", is that some kind of dance?

Adds to list:

People who say they've 'done' or will be 'doing'<insert country name>

figbat

MrB123 wrote:

People starting their reply to a question with the word "so". See also "look", a particular favourite of international cricketers.

Other overused redundant sentence prefixes include:

- basically
- obviously

...often used when whatever is being mentioned is neither basic nor obvious. It comes across as patronising - "to me, this is basic or obvious and I need you to know that".

drlodge

MrB123 wrote:

People starting their reply to a question with the word "so". See also "look", a particular favourite of international cricketers.

News readers who hand over to the man/woman in the location who always start their talk off with "Well, ..."

Garry H

figbat wrote:

MrB123 wrote:

People starting their reply to a question with the word "so". See also "look", a particular favourite of international cricketers.

Other overused redundant sentence prefixes include:

- basically
- obviously

...often used when whatever is being mentioned is neither basic nor obvious. It comes across as patronising - "to me, this is basic or obvious and I need you to know that".

Whenever I hear someone starting a sentence with "basically", I just think "Hmm, do they really know what they're talking about?". Answer is usually "no".

finchy

Garry H wrote:

figbat wrote:

MrB123 wrote:

People starting their reply to a question with the word "so". See also "look", a particular favourite of international cricketers.

Other overused redundant sentence prefixes include:

- basically
- obviously

...often used when whatever is being mentioned is neither basic nor obvious. It comes across as patronising - "to me, this is basic or obvious and I need you to know that".

Whenever I hear someone starting a sentence with "basically", I just think "Hmm, do they really know what they're talking about?". Answer is usually "no".

C.f. people that say "stands to reason".

Gromson

DorsetKnob wrote:

Fellow cyclists who refer to their bike as 'steed' or even worse 'trusty steed'!
Don't know why, and I know it shouldn't, but it really gets on my pip.

Even more annoying is when people type STEAD. Stupidity on more than one level at the same time.

Garry H

"Pre Madonna"

laurentian

"Cycling's Golden Couple"

Obviously Kenny and Trott are top notch people but this saccharine moniker will follow them around forever . . .

dodgy

(usually) blokes who stride around you while taking a phone call on their mobile. Happened to me at Eureka cafe this afternoon, the bloke was literally striding circles around me for a good 10 mins*.

* I'm British, so I just imagined him having a terrible accident with his cup of tea and didn't actually complain

ben@31

When at the checkout of the supermarket and the cashier gives me step by step instructions on how to use the card reader, like I've never seen one before.

pinno

"It's ready for your pin"

D'oh.

Oh and whilst I am at it, fat f*cking tourists who drive their 4 by 4's (carting their atrophied legs around) and driving like idiots down narrow country lanes. Them, they expect you to reverse when there'a a passing place not 20 yards behind them and when you do concede, you don't even get a cursory nod or a finger to acknowledge your existence.

Pross

Perri Shakes-Drayton being interviewed and ending each sentence with 'and stuff', it made want to reach through the TV screen and grab her by the throat and stuff!

crispybug2

Filling your diesel van with petrol !!

Not trivial and bloody expensive!

mr_goo

Fuffing tourists in the New Forest who suddenly stop their car to wind down window or get out and take photos of the NF ponies.
'It's a fuffing horse!, have you never seen one before?'

Garry H

Mr Goo wrote:

Fuffing tourists in the New Forest who suddenly stop their car to wind down window or get out and take photos of the NF ponies.
'It's a fuffing horse!, have you never seen one before?'

People stop to take photos of sheep around here. Farkin' townies!

Ber Nard

Garry H wrote:

Mr Goo wrote:

Fuffing tourists in the New Forest who suddenly stop their car to wind down window or get out and take photos of the NF ponies.
'It's a fuffing horse!, have you never seen one before?'

People stop to take photos of sheep around here. Farkin' townies!

People stop and point at planes around here.

Anonymous

Fashionable facial hair (or weird beards as I call them)!!!

WTF. Clothing and stuff you have to buy (ie subject to availability) is one thing, but can people not just decide if they want a beard or not themselves?

You can kind of tell the people that have 'weird beards' as opposed to genuine ones.

I know a couple of people with longtime beards that have shaved them off recently.
Guessing it's because they do not have a monopoly on them these days, and proving why they had it in the first place.

Add to them the people who have a beard to create a chin and it pretty much confirms that beards are sad as fcuk.

Women that marry men with beards are odd too.
They are marrying someone that they do not properly know what they look like.

Alain Quay

Cycle jersey sizes
______________

When you buy a t shirt anywhere in the EU, it's S, M, L, XL, etc.

When you buy a cycle jersey it varies from manufacturer to manufacturer,
then you have to read the reviews, then usually you have to send the item back.

dinyull

"Quirky" fashion sense.

In the lead up to our wedding we had a few meetings with photographers. One came dressed as a pirate. I thought it was a bit strange but apparently this is how he dresses day in day out - confirmed when we next saw him setting up for a wedding at our venue the day after ours.

Alain Quay

crispybug2 wrote:

Filling your diesel van with petrol !!

Not trivial and bloody expensive!

Ouch! I dread the prospect of ever doing that - especially after a late night.