Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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B.M.R. wrote:People who can't see that Karl Pilkington is an actor playing an idiot... very cleverly done Gervais.
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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.
Thats a good combo there fella.Cheers, mind if I join you.(Leans on bar and uses hands to help self to peanuts).
Whats the solution? Just pedal faster you baby.
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The standardisation of snack chocolate bars to be 99 calories.Mañana0
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Dog owners who can't control their dogs in parks, letting them off the lead, tearing around sh1tt1ng, sticking their noses into prams, barking and jumping up at people. Then saying, "It's alright, he won't bite".
Damn right he won't, I'll kick its fkcn head off first.0 -
Stealth price increases by the reduction of contents of boxes, packets etc. :xPurveyor of "up"
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Going into Asda and seeing they have Haagan Daz Belgian chocolate ice cream for £3, buying some and then going in two days later to find they have dropped it to £2 and having to buy some more."Let your life rule your job, not your job rule your life"
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People (which seem to be most) who just get up and go as soon as the credits start to roll at the end of a film in the cinema. If you think about it its quite insulting and ignorant to take no interest in who directed, starred, locations, music, etc. Though its a rare experience for me to go to the theatre or an opera (almost never!)I just can't imagine the audience just buggering off at the end of a performance without acknowledging the efforts of the cast.Giant XTC Pro-Carbon
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Ginjafro wrote:People (which seem to be most) who just get up and go as soon as the credits start to roll at the end of a film in the cinema. If you think about it its quite insulting and ignorant to take no interest in who directed, starred, locations, music, etc. Though its a rare experience for me to go to the theatre or an opera (almost never!)I just can't imagine the audience just buggering off at the end of a performance without acknowledging the efforts of the cast.
Strange one - you could say the same about going to a restaurant and not asking the names of all the cooks, suppliers and origins of the ingredients.0 -
Ginjafro wrote:People (which seem to be most) who just get up and go as soon as the credits start to roll at the end of a film in the cinema. If you think about it its quite insulting and ignorant to take no interest in who directed, starred, locations, music, etc. Though its a rare experience for me to go to the theatre or an opera (almost never!)I just can't imagine the audience just buggering off at the end of a performance without acknowledging the efforts of the cast.
Cinema is not a live performance. Do you watch the credits for every TV programme you enjoy, or gave a round of applause for a good CD?- - - - - - - - - -
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I do occasionally say thank you to the cash machine. :oops:DesWeller wrote:Ginjafro wrote:People (which seem to be most) who just get up and go as soon as the credits start to roll at the end of a film in the cinema. If you think about it its quite insulting and ignorant to take no interest in who directed, starred, locations, music, etc. Though its a rare experience for me to go to the theatre or an opera (almost never!)I just can't imagine the audience just buggering off at the end of a performance without acknowledging the efforts of the cast.
Cinema is not a live performance. Do you watch the credits for every TV programme you enjoy, or gave a round of applause for a good CD?0 -
The older I get, the less worried I am about social injustice, poverty, politics, and big stuff, in favour of being annoyed by the niggly little things in life;
Toothpaste Adverts in the shaky camcorder voxpop style with actual pretend dentists telling you how great this particular brand is. Whether it's the deliberately misleading style or just the insult to the viewers intelligence I don't know, but just annoys. Especially since everyone I've ever known seems to have selected toothpaste either entirely randomly, or on the basis of what it tastes like.
People, usually women, who put the card in the ATM, faff about with the PIN number, View Balance, then Print Balance, look at balance slip, put card back in machine, faff about with the PIN, withdraw money, cock about in front of machine putting money in purse/wallet, take transaction receipt, stare at it, put it in the little bin thing, then finally walk away. Why? WHY?
Banging my head. I'm 6'4" so this is a fairly frequent occurence, but even a mild self-inflicted knock instantly transforms me from my usual mild-mannered self into a tourettes nutter with a penchant for kicking inanimate objects.0 -
I get annoyed everytime i get in the car after the wife has driven it cos she never bloody puts the seat back. I then have to squeeze in to the seat in order to put the desired weight that it requires to be in place before allowing itself to run backwards on the runners.
i'm 6'2" and this has annoyed me for the past 17 years!!
Also the wife, it pisses me off when she makes herself a brew and leaves the teabag in the cup post drink. I then wash said cup with the offending tea bag still in the bloody cup. grrr. we have recently started to lose cups due to high speed impacts with the kitchen wall as i behave like a brat because she can't carry out the simple task of putting the tea bag in the bin.
duvet hogs! it's a fucking king size yet i still wake up with none of it because she carries out the hug and roll technique to perfection every night.
post sex cuddles.
people at work who say - "let's throw it at the wall and see if it sticks"
people who misuse tools or equipment cos they are thick as shit or can't be arsed.
people who damage tools or equipment and then put it back for someone else to find.0 -
ktuludays wrote:...i behave like a brat...0
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Novice cyclists (yeah we all were once) who post threads asking for advice on how to adjust the gears on the bike and then insist that it's too difficult so need to take it to the shop to have it done properly.0
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Seems like you have to tell her then.ktuludays wrote:I get annoyed everytime i get in the car after the wife has driven it cos she never bloody puts the seat back. I then have to squeeze in to the seat in order to put the desired weight that it requires to be in place before allowing itself to run backwards on the runners.
i'm 6'2" and this has annoyed me for the past 17 years!!
Also the wife, it pisses me off when she makes herself a brew and leaves the teabag in the cup post drink. I then wash said cup with the offending tea bag still in the bloody cup. grrr. we have recently started to lose cups due to high speed impacts with the kitchen wall as i behave like a brat because she can't carry out the simple task of putting the tea bag in the bin. 0 -
"The proof is in the pudding"
NO ITS NOT - The proof of the pudding is in the eating you dick :evil:
Oh, and mentioned before, but quite, almost, very unique. It either is, or isn't, unique.Ragley mmmBop
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ktuludays wrote:people who misuse tools or equipment cos they are thick as shoot or can't be arsed.
I'll call you out on this one.
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Amateur pedants who complain about 'almost unique' as though it were as invalid as 'very unique'. Likewise, people who think they're clever when they correct others for using 'Union Jack' with some apocryphal BS about jack sprits on ships. Or for using split infinitives. The pernicious replacement of 'have' by 'have got'. Calling self-propelled guns and armoured cars 'tanks'. Anyone who's ever cold-called me about payment protection insurance, the pox-addled harlots who whelped them, their spouses, pets and their children unto the seventh generation. USB plugs that won't go in until they've been rotated 180 degrees twice. The old gamekeeper in Skyfall who says to James Bond "here's your father's old hunting rifle" and hands him a double-barreled shotgun. Bond, for not shooting him in the face with it. Anything described as 'free' when they really mean 'included in the price'. Part-works. Officials who apply health and safety in a way that puts others in real physical danger while supposedly protecting said official from some hypothetical litigation risk. Dog-owners who exercise their dogs on playing fields, even if they do pick up the cr4p; how about I come round your place, $hit on your children's beds, and then go "it's alright, I'm scooping most of it into a little bag"? Payday loans companies offering four-figure APR's. 'Cyclists Dismount' signs. TV series where the central plot (e.g. the main character is lost in space/time/is accused of a crime he didn't commit, etc) never moves on from one episode to another, then has some rushed, half-ar$ed resolution in the very last episode because the script-writers weren't told until too late that no-one would commission another series. Women who complain about men leaving the toilet seat up; when did we ever complain about you lot leaving it down? Software that uses the american MMDDYYYY format by default. Goods sent by courier that I have to drive forty miles to pick up from some depot in an industrial estate at the ar$e end of nowhere because I wasn't in when the courier came, when if it had been sent by post I could have walked to the post office at the end of the road to get it. People who write their addresses with about three different village/town names one after another: it's an address, not directions to your house for f***'s sake, what do you think the postcode's for? Bloggers and forumites labouring under the illusion that SPOTY is about anyone's personality. Cars with the indicator stalk on the left side of the wheel. Designers of electronic goods who put full functions on the remote control (which is battery dependent and gets lost easily) and only basic controls on the device itself (which isn't and doesn't). Vegans. Alcohol-free lager. Chinese companies that are too cheap to employ a native English-speaker to translate their instruction manuals ("first locate the auspicious nipple..."). Tabloid newspapers that give 90% of their sports coverage to football, even in the off-season. People who make up their own phonetic alphabets as they go along. Those cheap disposable biros where the ink tube goes in from the top end with a little screw cap, instead of from the bottom, so that if someone's chewed it even a bit the nib will go up into the barrel when you try to write with the damn thing. Saying 'doubleyou doubleyou doubleyou dot', even though it has three times as many syllables as 'world wide web dot'. Gift vouchers. People cycling without lights at night. Razors with more than one blade. People who pronounce 'Ye Olde Shoppe' as though the first letter were a 'Y'; it's not, it's the letter thorn and it's pronounced 'th'. Not being asked for proof of age anymore when I buy alcohol. People using txt spk when you know they have a full-sized qwerty keyboard in front of them. Yorkshire.
But above all these, the braindead eejits who use their sidelights as daytime running lights in dull rainy conditions. The error might be forgivable if it weren't for the fact that literally thousands of equally stupid individuals are driving in the opposite direction and clearly demonstrating that in daylight hours most sidelights are about as visible as the glow from a cigarette butt. Anyone that incapable of learning shouldn't be allowed to breed, let alone operate a motor vehicle.I have a policy of only posting comment on the internet under my real name. This is to moderate my natural instinct to flame your fatuous, ill-informed, irrational, credulous, bigoted, semi-literate opinions to carbon, you knuckle-dragging f***wits.0 -
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People who verb nounsbaldwin471 wrote:0 -
aye , never dis de nouns !0
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BBC newsreaders & reporters in the studio on the 6 & 10 o'clock news who discuss a subject between themselves so that the viewer is left looking in on what appears to be a private conversation. You're on TV for my benefit, not Fiona Bruce's. Address the camera; talk to me.
And the weather reporter on Look East who stands over our part of the world when she's wafting her arms about explaining how windy & wet it'll be, because although we're in that region we're just that bit too far to the west to bother with.0 -
Cubic wrote:
There's plenty more where that came from. How about:
Fat people who blame everything and everyone but themselves. People whose response to any remotely surprising picture is that it's; "obviously photoshopped" even when said picture is old enough that Photoshop would have to have been running on a feckin sliderule. Rail ticket pricing algorithms. Moon landing hoax theorists. Anyone who actually appears to think I should be impressed that they're pickling their brain in cannabinoids. Passwords at work that have to be changed every few weeks, despite the fact that it just makes everyone use simpler, less secure passwords. Smartphone batteries that last less than 24hours. The continuing existence of fax machines. Ebay bidders who push the price of second-hand goods beyond what you'd pay for brand new ones if you just shopped around a bit. Fixies. People complaining about parking charges at hospitals - you're getting a hundred grand's worth of treatment for your self-inflicted illness and you will never see a bill, but you think it's an outrage that your visitors have to stump up a quid or two to park their BMW? Feck you. Browning controls on toasters that go from 'slightly dried out' to 'carbonised' when you turn them a couple of nanometres. Local radio stations that take a song I actually quite like, then play it six times a day for two years so I can't stand the sound of it. Toys and games that come over-packaged in crappy cardboard boxes that are no use for actually storing all the bits and pieces - if I have to dig out a biscuit tin to keep it in, why can't the manufacturer sell it in one to start with? Writing a memo on a post-it note and then finding I've written on the glue side of the block. Dentists that look at you like you're from another planet when you ask them exactly what it is they're proposing to do in your mouth and what your treatment options are. Homeopaths. Drivers who go at 40mph for miles down national speed limit country roads, then when they get to a 30mph zone through a village go at... 40mph. Hand driers. Lukewarm milk. The inefficient shape of Marmite jars.The low angle of the sun in the sky when driving to and from work in the winter months - whose idea was that? The NHS buying hundreds of computers pre-loaded with Windows 7, then taking it off all of them and loading XP & ie6.0, because the techs can't be ar$ed to familiarise themselves with a new operating system; Hey Mr IT man, how about when you get sick, we prescribe you some meds from the 1970's because we couldn't be fagged to learn anything new?I have a policy of only posting comment on the internet under my real name. This is to moderate my natural instinct to flame your fatuous, ill-informed, irrational, credulous, bigoted, semi-literate opinions to carbon, you knuckle-dragging f***wits.0 -
I know this guy Churchill....
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Ron Stuart wrote:I know this guy Churchill....
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Brain the size of a planet, and they ask me what I find annoying...I have a policy of only posting comment on the internet under my real name. This is to moderate my natural instinct to flame your fatuous, ill-informed, irrational, credulous, bigoted, semi-literate opinions to carbon, you knuckle-dragging f***wits.0 -
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