Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

drlodge

I must be similar to you actually, since I prefer to sit down and eat. So I'll add the following:

Buffet events where no seating/tables are provided and you have to eat/balance plate/hold wine glass with just 2 hands.

bompington

drlodge wrote:

I must be similar to you actually, since I prefer to sit down and eat. So I'll add the following:

Buffet events where no seating/tables are provided and you have to eat/balance plate/hold wine glass with just 2 hands.

Problem solved.

drlodge

bompington wrote:

drlodge wrote:

I must be similar to you actually, since I prefer to sit down and eat. So I'll add the following:

Buffet events where no seating/tables are provided and you have to eat/balance plate/hold wine glass with just 2 hands.

Problem solved.

Not if you need a knife and fork to eat the food.

ballysmate

Having a garden full of dead leaves although we have no trees.

pinno

Eating out in Blighty full stop (unless it's a curry house).

finchy

Ballysmate wrote:

finchy wrote:

Did a quick survey of my town today.

1 book shop (relatively small and quiet)
0 music shops (unless you count CEX - and I don't)
0 large music venues or theatres

13 vaping shops
7 payday lenders
11 tattoo studios
6 nail bars
8 bookmakers, 1 bingo hall

That annoys me immensely.

Someone round the corner from us was giving a way a medium-sized box of books for free, just left on the wall of their front garden with a sign saying help yourself. She lives on quite a busy road, people walking by all the time. It took her 2 weeks to give them all away. That also annoys me immensely.

Sounds like you could be my next door neighbour.

Well if I am, could you please finally cut down those 15 ft high blackberry bushes that block all the light out of our garden and overhang it? You've been promising us you'd do it for the last 3 years, you idle tw*t.

finchy

Pross wrote:

finchy wrote:

Did a quick survey of my town today.

1 book shop (relatively small and quiet)
0 music shops (unless you count CEX - and I don't)
0 large music venues or theatres

13 vaping shops
7 payday lenders
11 tattoo studios
6 nail bars
8 bookmakers, 1 bingo hall

That annoys me immensely.

Someone round the corner from us was giving a way a medium-sized box of books for free, just left on the wall of their front garden with a sign saying help yourself. She lives on quite a busy road, people walking by all the time. It took her 2 weeks to give them all away. That also annoys me immensely.

You missed out a vital statistic of how many Greggs.

Only 1. It's always got a queue out to the pavement though.

webboo

bobmcstuff wrote:

Webboo wrote:

people who refer to the Peak District as the "The Peaks" There is only one peak so it's The Peak.

Not necessarily...

"The name ‘Peak’ does not relate to mountains (there are none) – it is thought to derive from the Pecsaetan, an Anglo-Saxon tribe who settled the area."

http://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/learning ... entrefacts

That may be the case but it's still not the sodding Peaks district what ever the origins of the name.

Pross

Ballysmate wrote:

Having a garden full of dead leaves although we have no trees.

Unless it's someone else's cannabis stash!

secretsam

People who talk REALLY LOUDLY

shut the feck up

Pross

Ballysmate wrote:

Having a garden full of dead leaves although we have no trees.

Having given this some consideration I'm not sure this is a trivial matter. The trees have almost certainly been planted by some sanctimonious lefty who spends his time boring everyone on how he is saving the planet and protecting against flooding by planting trees. In reality he's actually causing flooding by blocking all the drains and creating a burden on the over-stretched NHS with all the old people slipping on his wet, fallen leaves. No doubt he would be incandescent if people were to throw recyclable waste all over his garden and the street or if someone's dog left some biodegradable gifts on the pavement outside his house so he's also a hypocrite!

secretsam

Veronese68 wrote:

I went to the Moto GP at Donnington a few years back on a horrible wet and rainy day, we drove as the weather was foul and my son was with us. During the hours spent queuing to get out of the car park I saw scores of people walking across the car park in full leathers and motorcycle boots, which are not much better than ski boots. When they got to their car they took off the leathers as they had normal clothes underneath and put some shoes on to drive home. What is wrong with these people?

What's wrong with those people is that they go and watch Moto GP in the first place

seanoconn

People on pavements who have the same walking pace as you, forcing you out of your comfort zone with an increase or decrease of pace so you don't end up weirdly walking beside them.

jawooga

If I stream Amazon films from laptop to Chromecast over WiFi it is slower than with laptop plugged in to ethernet cable. Or rather, it occasionally judders. AFAIK the content is delivered straight to Chromecast rather than going via laptop. I guess the laptop must play a role but thought it'd be minimal. Anyway it is irritating to have to plug in power and ethernet down by the tv!

Bobbinogs

jawooga wrote:

If I stream Amazon films from laptop to Chromecast over WiFi it is slower than with laptop plugged in to ethernet cable. Or rather, it occasionally judders. AFAIK the content is delivered straight to Chromecast rather than going via laptop. I guess the laptop must play a role but thought it'd be minimal. Anyway it is irritating to have to plug in power and ethernet down by the tv!

Direct ethernet connections are usually quicker than wifi, less chance of interference, etc. A fairer comparison would be wifi from laptop to router against the Chromecast. I find it works pretty good, although I am lucky to be on a very good fibre broadband and reasonably close to the wifi router.

jawooga

Bobbinogs wrote:

jawooga wrote:

If I stream Amazon films from laptop to Chromecast over WiFi it is slower than with laptop plugged in to ethernet cable. Or rather, it occasionally judders. AFAIK the content is delivered straight to Chromecast rather than going via laptop. I guess the laptop must play a role but thought it'd be minimal. Anyway it is irritating to have to plug in power and ethernet down by the tv!

Direct ethernet connections are usually quicker than wifi, less chance of interference, etc. A fairer comparison would be wifi from laptop to router against the Chromecast. I find it works pretty good, although I am lucky to be on a very good fibre broadband and reasonably close to the wifi router.

I guess there could an interference question.

Chromecast takes signal from WiFi, so I was just a little surprised that moving laptop between WiFi and ethernet would be a limiting factor. It's not as though Chromecast is directly connected to the router.

Ben6899

"PRIVATE" / "NO TRESPASSING" / "NO ENTRY" / "KEEP OUT" / "PRIVATE LAND" signs and placards, everywhere in the countryside.

Are country folk really so paranoid? My garden is private, people don't let themselves in. In turn, I have no interest in letting myself into some big-eared tw@t's shit-covered field.

Unless it's a PROW. Then I might want to enter their field.

Landowners who'll happily fire at anyone daring to use a PROW which goes over their land. These w@nkers get extra points, if there's a "PRIVATE" sign next the the PROW.

bobmcstuff

The fact they're made a film called Deepwater Horizon. Unspeakably tacky.

finchy

Shops that employ somebody to stand staring gormlessly into empty space while a large queue builds up and there are tills going spare.

Teenage boys who walk around with their crappy smartphones vomiting out crappy R&B music for pussies.

jawooga

Claudia Winkleman. I used to find her quite hot ( >3 years ago ) and mildly amusing ( >5 years ago ). I now just find her annoying

BelgianBeerGeek

Ben6899 wrote:

"PRIVATE" / "NO TRESPASSING" / "NO ENTRY" / "KEEP OUT" / "PRIVATE LAND" signs and placards, everywhere in the countryside.

Are country folk really so paranoid? My garden is private, people don't let themselves in. In turn, I have no interest in letting myself into some big-eared tw@t's shit-covered field.

Unless it's a PROW. Then I might want to enter their field.

Landowners who'll happily fire at anyone daring to use a PROW which goes over their land. These w@nkers get extra points, if there's a "PRIVATE" sign next the the PROW.

Sorry Ben, but friends of mine have been caught out by encampments on their land.
Wot you gonna do, shrug it off?

pinno

jawooga wrote:

Claudia Winkleman. I used to find her quite hot ( >3 years ago ) and mildly amusing ( >5 years ago ). I now just find her annoying

She was fine when she was covering the Arts and Film. Now she seems to have spread her net (and especially on R2 on a Friday night), I find her dull.

In the same vein and in the spirit of this thread:

Kirsty Squawk. She was okay doing film, books, theatre and art reviews but she's a PITA on Newsnight.

Jo Wiley. Love her voice and her narrative but does she really enjoy 'this next song' ?! Honestly sweetheart, it's fookin carp and there's no way you can consider that song (whichever the hell song you introduced and then played) was good in any shape or form.

verylonglegs

Mary Anne Hobbs is far worse. She's the only presenter on 6music who I have real issues with and makes me look for another station, always delivering an inane and irritating giggle after everything she says.

pinno

Zoe Ball standing in for Ken Bruce.

Steve Wright in the afternoon. Even the laddettes at mumsnet are sticking the boo... err, stiletto's in. Some good posts here:

http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_ ... ous-Jockin

Ben6899

BelgianBeerGeek wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

"PRIVATE" / "NO TRESPASSING" / "NO ENTRY" / "KEEP OUT" / "PRIVATE LAND" signs and placards, everywhere in the countryside.

Are country folk really so paranoid? My garden is private, people don't let themselves in. In turn, I have no interest in letting myself into some big-eared tw@t's shit-covered field.

Unless it's a PROW. Then I might want to enter their field.

Landowners who'll happily fire at anyone daring to use a PROW which goes over their land. These w@nkers get extra points, if there's a "PRIVATE" sign next the the PROW.

Sorry Ben, but friends of mine have been caught out by encampments on their land.
Wot you gonna do, shrug it off?

I'm not sure travellers give a sh1t about "PRIVATE" signs.

Bikeradar swear filtering. We're all grown-ups for the sake of f_ck.

ballysmate

Yes Pinno, Ken Bruce is on his way to national treasure status.
I confess to only listening to radio in the car so in a similar vein, the disappointment I feel when on a long journey, I hear the annoying Vanessa Feltz instead of Jeremy Vine.
My consolation is that it is radio and not television.

Anonymous

Ben6899 wrote:

BelgianBeerGeek wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

"PRIVATE" / "NO TRESPASSING" / "NO ENTRY" / "KEEP OUT" / "PRIVATE LAND" signs and placards, everywhere in the countryside.

Are country folk really so paranoid? My garden is private, people don't let themselves in. In turn, I have no interest in letting myself into some big-eared tw@t's shit-covered field.

Unless it's a PROW. Then I might want to enter their field.

Landowners who'll happily fire at anyone daring to use a PROW which goes over their land. These w@nkers get extra points, if there's a "PRIVATE" sign next the the PROW.

Sorry Ben, but friends of mine have been caught out by encampments on their land.
Wot you gonna do, shrug it off?

I'm not sure travellers give a sh1t about "PRIVATE" signs.

Bikeradar swear filtering. We're all grown-ups for the sake of f_ck.

RTFQ. Countryside right of way areas are open to the public. Its farmers doing things like chaining gates closed and using the excuse of livestock possibly escaping as a reason to do so. Threatening walkers and law abiding citizens for daring to come near their land.

haydenm

Probably been done before but, people who assume London is the only place on Earth.

Now, I usually stand up for the place when the Scots or Northerners are moaning about London-centric news and all that (being that more people live there than Scotland and Wales combined it's quite reasonable). But, I was at a wedding last week where a crowd of enthralled onlookers and I listened enchantedly to a girl giving an extremely in depth description of where in 'London' she lived as if living in London is somehow merit-worthy and not in anyway a massive depressing sh1thole packed full of insufferable d1ckheads with no money and a rented boxroom.

Obviously when the conversation came to me I was grateful for the standard "oh, my *insert friend/relative/Mel Gibson* lives in Scotland" like the desperate peasant I am. I don't mind that she lives in London but Scotland covers 32% of the UK, surely it is at least worth equal discussion as how close to Kensington and Nottinghill she doesn't actually live...

I must point out that I was born in the home counties and grew up near Bristol so this is not some Scottish nationalist rant

Ben6899

Someone must've asked her...

vimfuego

Bit late I know but....

The whole "If *insert name of town/city/usually Yorkshire* was a country it'd be xth in the Olympics medal table" thing.

It's not.
F*ck off.