Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

bobmcstuff

Webboo wrote:

Bracken, what's the point of it. It just makes walking on the hills hard and unpleasant.

It provides a habitat for ticks and Lyme disease.

figbat

People who pronounce chorizo "choritso". So trivial, much annoying.

Pross

Pinno wrote:

Webboo wrote:

Bracken, what's the point of it. It just makes walking on the hills hard and unpleasant.

It has been put there for photographers, no other reason.

As for the 'defending yourself against Pinno' bit, Pross is one of those men that not only orchestrates surface dressing, he swears that it is not cheap and it is effective. Until he finds another vocation, Pross is in my cross hair and as far as I am concerned, fair game.

Soz Pross.

Fine by me, I haven't specified the stuff in years though now I'm private sector. If I do any work the Council will insist my client digs up that crappy smashed up road network and provides them with shiny new Tarmac at their expense. So I guess I should add to this thread people or organisations who take a 'do as I say, not as I do' attitude :x

Pross

I'm feeling intolerant today so have a few more to add:

People at Parkrun or other mass start running events that insist on starting far further forward then their ability and subsequently get in the way for the first couple of hundred metres (or longer in half marathons!). It's usually compounded by them running alongside their friends and taking up the whole path.

Drivers who block the aisle of a car park trying to squeeze into a really tight space when the car park is virtually empty, especially when it is right by the entry barriers.

The instructor at my gym saying 'two times more' or 'one time more' (but she is seriously fit so I'm forgiving her).

pinno

Pross wrote:

The instructor at my gym saying 'two times more' or 'one time more' (but she is seriously fit so I'm forgiving her).

What's the gym called?

Pross

Can't say. Too many sexist pervs on here, they'll all be down there!

pinno

Pross wrote:

Can't say. Too many sexist pervs on here, they'll all be down there!

Oh I know, this place is crawling with them. It's terrible. Someone should complain. You wouldn't think that in these ultra modern carbon fibre and Assos saturated times they wouldn't exist but they do - lycra clad sexist pervs, who would have thought. MASMIL's :roll:

Giraffoto

figbat wrote:

People who pronounce chorizo "choritso". So trivial, much annoying.

Compared with how our Spanish friends pronounce it, cho-reez-oh and cho-ritz-oh are equally wrong. How do you pronounce paella?

team47b

Giraffoto wrote:

figbat wrote:

People who pronounce chorizo "choritso". So trivial, much annoying.

Compared with how our Spanish friends pronounce it, cho-reez-oh and cho-ritz-oh are equally wrong. How do you pronounce paella?

Rice n peas an tings

People here who say Prosecco really annoy me, you're not in little England now, you want waffles with that?

kiteloopy

People who dont triple check who they are sending mails to; specifically internal emails within large businesses.
On Outlook, double click on the name in the 'TO' bit and it brings up their profile, full contact details and job title.
how can people not triple check this before sending things? its not hard!

figbat

Giraffoto wrote:

figbat wrote:

People who pronounce chorizo "choritso". So trivial, much annoying.

Compared with how our Spanish friends pronounce it, cho-reez-oh and cho-ritz-oh are equally wrong. How do you pronounce paella?

I use context-sensitive pronunciation. Unlike the chorizo example, the Anglo-phonetic "pie-ella" is, at least, based on English rules of pronunciation.

"Choritso" is neither native nor English, but some attempt at a pseudo-foreign pronunciation because, y'know, it's a bit foreign-sounding and I need to say it like I know that. There's no place for the "-ts-" sound for a single 'z' in Spanish, English or even Italian, so why say it here? What is wrong with "choreetho"? And if that sounds a bit pretentious, "choreezo" is at least fully anglicised.

fat daddy

People that complain that you are saying Chorizo or Prosecco or Porsche in correctly because it should be pronounced Choreeeeeeeeth-oh ..... but then say Paris

its not Paris its "ahhhhhh, Parieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" because French

Ben6899

figbat wrote:

There's no place for the "-ts-" sound for a single 'z' in Spanish, English or even Italian...

"ts" is actually the German pronunciation of "z".

Zug becomes Tsuk.

figbat

Ben6899 wrote:

figbat wrote:

There's no place for the "-ts-" sound for a single 'z' in Spanish, English or even Italian...

"ts" is actually the German pronunciation of "z".

Zug becomes Tsuk.

Ich kenne.

bobmcstuff

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05 ... ng-adults/

Morons.

secretsam

awavey wrote:

the guy in my office who keeps taking up a space in the work cycle racks...with his Brompton

+1,000,000

People who ride American cruiser style bikes. It's not ironic, it's not cool. It's just utter t0ss

verylonglegs

A bit of tomato skin stuck to the roof of your mouth that just will not come off.

Pross

SecretSam wrote:

awavey wrote:

the guy in my office who keeps taking up a space in the work cycle racks...with his Brompton

+1,000,000

People who ride American cruiser style bikes. It's not ironic, it's not cool. It's just utter t0ss

Missed that one but had it as one of mine a few posts later. Great minds (or awavey works in the same place as me!).

orraloon

bobmcstuff wrote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/09/can-you-solve-the-simple-maths-exam-question-confusing-adults/

Morons.

'kin newspaper websites which think I will 'subscribe' i.e. give them money just because I follow a link to their site. GTF.

Pross

Flat pack furniture that has a message printed on the packaging to open carefully and retain in case you need to send it back but which is literally (and I do actually mean literally) impossible to open with tearing.

pinno

Pross wrote:

Flat pack furniture that has a message printed on the packaging to open carefully and retain in case you need to send it back but which is literally (and I do actually mean literally) impossible to open with tearing.

Perhaps you need a bit more finesse than a cold planer.

Wheelspinner

Cafes and restaurants that have a "Soup/Fish/Roast of the Day" which is the same thing every single time you go there. Even worse when the signboard advertising it is done in *paint*.

TheBigBean

Windows updates.

figbat

Playstation updates. Always with the massive updates when I just want to have a quickie.

Tashman

Technology in general, always great when it works but so frustrating when it lets you down and nothing seems to remedy it

Pross

figbat wrote:

Playstation updates. Always with the massive updates when I just want to have a quickie.

Usually followed by a software update for the game itself.

TheBigBean

Tashman wrote:

Technology in general, always great when it works but so frustrating when it lets you down and nothing seems to remedy it

I liken it to a bookcase. You build a flat pack bookcase, put books in it and it stands there unchanged for years. The technology equivalent is that someone sneaks into your house in the middle of the night, throws all the books on the floor, breaks a shelf or two and leaves a note to say your bookcase is now more secure, so you should be very grateful, oh and that they've taken all your personal information from the books because they have the right to based on the updated terms and conditions.

Pross

People in an open plan office who talk way louder than necessary. Normally in our office anything outside my immediate team is just a background noise but there is woman who works here part time and sits about 30m away yet I can hear every word she says either to others in the office or on phone conversations.

Ben6899

bobmcstuff wrote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/09/can-you-solve-the-simple-maths-exam-question-confusing-adults/

Morons.

I happily accept that some school kids will struggle with the train question - and the other questions shown on that link - but any adult struggling with the train question or any of the others... get in the fuck1ng sea.

Only a Ginger

People who say 'myself' rather than 'me'.

I don't even know which is the correct English, but the former really gets on my nerves.