Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

jawooga

That <Alt> key and the arrows are on opposite sides of my laptop keyboard. Means I can't <Alt> ← → browser navigate with one hand. (no rude jokes please)

pinno

jawooga wrote:

That <Alt> key and the arrows are on opposite sides of my laptop keyboard. Means I can't <Alt> ← → browser navigate with one hand. (no rude jokes please)

Can't you just concentrate on 1 image?

jawooga

Pinno wrote:

jawooga wrote:

That <Alt> key and the arrows are on opposite sides of my laptop keyboard. Means I can't <Alt> ← → browser navigate with one hand. (no rude jokes please)

Can't you just concentrate on 1 image?

Well it is only trivial!

ben@31

SecretSam wrote:

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

There were a surprisingly low number of people in leathers at last weekends MotoGP. Maybe more camped over for the weekend? We did joke about driving down in the car dressed up in motorbike leathers but I never imagined people would do this for real.
Took 2 hours to get out the carpark.
But the most annoying thing was the food stalls inflating the prices for a coffee and ripping off the captive audience.

ben@31

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.

You should go to Scotland.
There is no private land and its perfectly legal to walk across a famers field or cycle down any track. I think its nicknamed the Right to Roam

Ben6899

ben@31 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.

You should go to Scotland.
There is no private land and its perfectly legal to walk across a famers field or cycle down any track. I think its nicknamed the Right to Roam

I have no gripes with people having private land, it's just the aggressive/borderline paranoid signs that often come with it. If the gate's shut and locked then law-abiding people won't go in the field. A sign won't stop a scrote.

veronese68

Had to drive in today which is bad enough. But the thing that irritates me is people that dawdle along much slower than everyone else, then as they approach a traffic light that changes they breeze through after it's changed to red without a care in the world. If they'd been moving with the flow another couple of cars could have got through without jumping a red.

k-dog

My particular favorite is a driveway in the middle of nowhere with a large "no turning" sign. Was it really that much of a problem that you had to go out and commission a sign to put up? I feel like turning just for no reason.

This morning I cycled past a sign that said "large car reversing from drive. park opposite at own risk". Yeah, I'm sure that's legally enforceable when you back your barge into someone legally parked.

veronese68

k-dog wrote:

This morning I cycled past a sign that said "large car reversing from drive. park opposite at own risk". Yeah, I'm sure that's legally enforceable when you back your barge into someone legally parked.

Could you amend it to "incompetent driver that doesn't give a flying f@ck about anyone else reversing with unnecessarily large car because it makes them feel important."

pinno

The end of my drive is often used for turning. I wouldn't mind except they take the opportunity to chuck some litter out of the window and often (because of the proximity) to the roundabout, floor it on departure so that the back wheels spin and leave the gravel in a constant state of disrepair.
On one occasion, I was attempting to turn left into my own drive and there was a couple there munching on the whatever they had. I had to stop and await whilst being looked at as if I was being unreasonable and as if it weren't plainly obvious that it was someone's drive. Meanwhile, cars were beeping their horns at me wondering why I had inexplicably stopped on the road (I was in my van - no visibility). Not a single apology or acknowledgement (a wave, an apologetic shrug) from them as they eventually pulled out after faffing around putting their picnic away.
I would consider putting my gate near the bottom of the drive except that cars following you coming round the roundabout (often too fast) would probably go into the back of you and positioning the gate so that no one can use it as a picnic spot/litter bin/emptying of ashtray or turning area would also mean that the back end of the car was in the road.
Whilst I do not have a sign (as I don't think it necessary), you have to see things from the other perspective. What it boils down to is that we live in an increasingly hedonistic and inconsiderate age.

Whilst I am at this 'ere Tuesday rant. The same said roundabout is used as the turning point for a racetrack. Friday and Saturday night from 9pm till 3am on a dry evening is boy racer time. The other problem is that Mr and Mrs Farmer with their RS Audi's and BMW's hit the throttle hard as soon as they come around the roundabout knowing full well there won't be a snowflakes chance in hell there will be any cops. After numerous complaints from myself and the handful of neighbours to the police, they finally positioned a cop car in a particular spot, large as life and low and behold, all the cars were flashing each other up warning each other about the cop car. We got a follow up report saying that 'there didn't appear to be a problem'.
Then, my (very streetwise) cat was killed late one summer evening despite my best efforts to keep her in at night. Within a few days, I heard a car doing doughnuts around this roundabout. I grabbed a crowbar and ran to the bottom of the drive and proceeded to chuck stones at the car with my spare hand. After twanging a stone or two off his boot and one of the windscreen, boy Clarkson stopped, looked around and then spotted me. I gesticulated an 'invite', crow bar at the ready. He f*cked off.
Same said boy racer on his own in his puke green bastardised VW polo pulls up and parks right next to me at Morrison's in a parent and child spot. Mrs P was in with toots 2 getting shopping. I pointed this out to a parent that I knew who happened to be passing. I have mentioned this habit to manglement but they basically don't give a fook. I asked my acquaintance to keep a look out and I promptly let both of the offside (blindside) tyres down much to her stifled excitement and surprise at normally laid back, sanguine me. My accomplice still smiles at me with a twinkle in her eye when I see her occasionally.

I feel better now, must go out and do some pedalling.

hantstooflat

Pinno wrote:

The end of my drive ... some pedalling.

Wow, and there was me about to complain about my GF's restless leg when she sleeps....

veronese68

HantsTooFLat wrote:

Pinno wrote:

The end of my drive ... some pedalling.

Wow, and there was me about to complain about my GF's restless leg when she sleeps....

That would be more in keeping with the tone of this thread.

hantstooflat

Don't say in your email "any problems give me a call" when you have no intention of answering your phone when I do call.

step83

Keeping in the trivial tone, my kitchen tap overruns slightly, so you think you have the right amount of water, then nope it gives you a dollop more. Annoyingly its only that tap and only on the cold part of the mixer.

bobmcstuff

ben@31 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.

You should go to Scotland.
There is no private land and its perfectly legal to walk across a famers field or cycle down any track. I think its nicknamed the Right to Roam

A gamekeeper tried to move us along when we'd found a perfect camping spot near Loch Hope. Never mind the fact there wasn't another camping spot that good within 10 miles in either direction, and it was 7pm in April (and we'd already done 70-80 miles that day)...

Got to the point where I just asked him if we were breaking any laws at which point he had to admit we weren't and he left in a bad mood.

pinno

bobmcstuff wrote:

ben@31 wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

"PRIVATE...PROW.

You...Roam

A gamekeeper tried to move us along when we'd found a perfect camping spot near Loch Hope. Never mind the fact there wasn't another camping spot that good within 10 miles in either direction, and it was 7pm in April (and we'd already done 70-80 miles that day)...

Got to the point where I just asked him if we were breaking any laws at which point he had to admit we weren't and he left in a bad mood.

Good for you. Did you call him a miserable, ticht chookta?

Matthewfalle

verylonglegs wrote:

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.

Lauren Laverne and her shit choice in music, her shit desert island section every Friday when wannabe music heads send in their crap mix tapes and her harping on about her husband who "is also a du".

Postal sack/pick elf interaction required methinks.

Pross

When I pass people on my commute and they just jump on my back wheel for miles without a single word then, rather than taking a turn when I start to tire literally sprinting off and opening a 50m gap before reverting to the speed they were doing when I caught them in the first place. I think in future I'll do a last second bunny hop over any potholes I see, that'll learn them.

I reckon the vast majority of the issues raised on this thread could effectively be summarised by lack of manners!

capt_slog

Pinno wrote:

The end of my drive is often used for turning................ when I see her occasionally.

Most of this would really boil my p1ss.

Have you considered an electric bollard?
or better still, an electric version of these? :twisted:

veronese68

Pross wrote:

I reckon the vast majority of the issues raised on this thread could effectively be summarised by lack of manners!

Nail gets hit squarely on the head.

webboo

Twatting farmers who think it's ok to spray thorns in to the road as they are cutting the hedges.

pinno

Veronese68 wrote:

Pross wrote:

I reckon the vast majority of the issues raised on this thread could effectively be summarised by lack of manners!

Nail gets hit squarely on the head.

What? That nail got hit on the head previously but you never read my post properly which is a damn cheek and makes my 'pi$$ boil' even more considering the 3 page diatribe (with biscuits) you subject the good Bracketeers to every morning. I'll have you VN.

Pinno wrote:

.... What it boils down to is that we live in an increasingly hedonistic and inconsiderate age....

Ben6899

Pinno wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

Pross wrote:

I reckon the vast majority of the issues raised on this thread could effectively be summarised by lack of manners!

Nail gets hit squarely on the head.

What? That nail got hit on the head previously but you never read my post properly which is a damn cheek and makes my 'pi$$ boil' even more considering the 3 page diatribe (with biscuits) you subject the good Bracketeers to every morning. I'll have you VN.

Pinno wrote:

.... What it boils down to is that we live in an increasingly hedonistic and inconsiderate age....

I think the big words did him.

veronese68

Ben6899 wrote:

I think the big words did him.

Partly that, but mostly I get bored easily and Pross was more succinct.

Garry H

People that put their hazard lights on when they park on double yellows.

People who say "I seen...", instead of "I saw..."

People (usually Scots) who say "I telled him", instead of "I told him".

Parcel tape

pinno

Garry H wrote:

People that put their hazard lights on when they park on double yellows.

People who say "I seen...", instead of "I saw..."

People (usually Scots) who say "I telled him", instead of "I told him".

Parcel tape

I telt ye I wud gie yew a slap roon the lugs fae taakin to me lak tha' - an yew be fair skunner'd. Huisht noo an' gie me some piece.

Garry H

Wit? Yoos wanting ma sangwich?

pinno

Fu o shyte yew. Jis yew keep te yer Concorde an nane o yer cheek.

secretsam

Drunk. Get on train to Aylesbury.
Halfway home realise it goes via sodding Wycombe.
Not Stoke Mandeville.where your bike is.
C0ck

pinno

SecretSam wrote:

Drunk. Get on train to Aylesbury.
Halfway home realise it goes via sodding Wycombe.
Not Stoke Mandeville.where your bike is.
C0ck

The walk will do you good. Shall I get a weather report for you?