Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

mrfpb

keef66 wrote:

Dinyull wrote:

Being asked to review kit I've bought before it's even arrived. It was only ordered on Tuesday.

Being asked to review everything I buy. Even if I could be @rsed, who is going to be reading my detailed review of a replacement microwave turntable or a 5 pack of innertubes??

Hotels and restaurants, fair enough, but trivial, banal everyday crap? What's that all about?

People who respond to every request for a review, eg the thousands of reviews on Amazon along the lines of "I bought this for my husband, he loves it" 5 stars!

capt_slog

Robbie Williams.

kingstongraham

Google asking me to put a photo of everywhere I go. Why would I want to post a photo of the chip shop I went to for lunch?

diamonddog

Adverts advertising the prog you are watching during the ad break.

dinyull

Google fat shaming.

dinyull

Royal Mail leaving signed for items in the office porch, without any attempt for a signature. Any Tom, Dick or Harry could have walked past and snatched my orders from Wiggle and Planet X.

TheBigBean

Google.

pinno

HaydenM wrote:

Pinno wrote:

team47b wrote:

Capt Slog wrote:

HaydenM wrote:

Sciencemike wrote:

People who say excape for escape

Not sure if I have posted it before but it's similar to this...

Yeh, that annoys me too, capital letters in the middle of words

I'd just be annoyed at the prices :shock:

They are definitely not London prices...

Maybe I've become too used to paying ~£3 for poor coffee but they seem cheap to me! It was in a pub/restaurant/cafe in Kirkudbright, it was very average iirc.

Never! Not the Kircudbright Bay Hotel shurely? If it is, it's because the old man and his daughter is Irish - make sense given spelling it verbatim. The colour of the wall suggests it was the Selkirk Arms.

We had bring banks at the Harbour.

Alain Quay

Cycle commuters who sit on your back wheel. Grrr.

Gromson

Waste of DNA dinky dogs that are no more than "rats on strings"

dinyull

People talking with their mouths full.

People with verbal diarrhea.

People who say something for a reaction.

People who talk over others.

(These people are all the same person)

haydenm

Pinno wrote:

HaydenM wrote:

Pinno wrote:

team47b wrote:

Capt Slog wrote:

HaydenM wrote:

Sciencemike wrote:

People who say excape for escape

Not sure if I have posted it before but it's similar to this...

Yeh, that annoys me too, capital letters in the middle of words

I'd just be annoyed at the prices :shock:

They are definitely not London prices...

Maybe I've become too used to paying ~£3 for poor coffee but they seem cheap to me! It was in a pub/restaurant/cafe in Kirkudbright, it was very average iirc.

Never! Not the Kircudbright Bay Hotel shurely? If it is, it's because the old man and his daughter is Irish - make sense given spelling it verbatim. The colour of the wall suggests it was the Selkirk Arms.

We had bring banks at the Harbour.

It was! I think I was in a bad mood because the only proper beer they had had just finished though

dinyull

The reporting of The End of Selfie Sticks/Smartwatches etc, because sales have started to decline.

Nope, it's because the folk (read morons for selfie sticks) who want one now have it.

awavey

neighbours have started putting up chrismas decorations.

its a christmas tree shaped light so not some halloween thing

Only a Ginger

Signs left up after the event...

especially those tht have been repeatedly moved in (overnight) and back out the next day - a local pub continues to put a blackboard up outside advertising its "Family Fun Day" from September!

hantstooflat

People who call exhausts, "cans"

webboo

Sportives that don't take their direction arrows down.

dinyull

This will probably make me sound a right miserable tw@

Random people gathering/lighting candles/laying flowers etc for strangers where an accident has taken place.

Triggered by a pic on the beeb of a group consoling each other outside the Aussie theme park where that accident occurred.

Garry H

Webboo wrote:

Sportives that don't take their direction arrows down.

On a similar note, sportive riders who don't take their numbers off once they are done.

Bobbinogs

Dinyull wrote:

This will probably make me sound a right miserable tw@

Random people gathering/lighting candles/laying flowers etc for strangers where an accident has taken place.

Triggered by a pic on the beeb of a group consoling each other outside the Aussie theme park where that accident occurred.

...perhaps it isn't just a pointless gesture but helps the relatives and survivors feel some comfort that their loss/suffering has not gone unnoticed? If so, even if it helps to a small degree, it surely has to be commended? Don't get me wrong, I am a pragmatist but I would find it very hard to criticise these events; the sight of Anfield filled with floral tributes after Hillsborough probably helped to reshape a nation's reaction to the loss, which went from one of initial condemnation in some areas to one of sympathy and an associated criticism of the certain officials that were previously seen as beyond reproach.

dinyull

Bobbinogs wrote:

Dinyull wrote:

This will probably make me sound a right miserable tw@

Random people gathering/lighting candles/laying flowers etc for strangers where an accident has taken place.

Triggered by a pic on the beeb of a group consoling each other outside the Aussie theme park where that accident occurred.

...perhaps it isn't just a pointless gesture but helps the relatives and survivors feel some comfort that their loss/suffering has not gone unnoticed? If so, even if it helps to a small degree, it surely has to be commended? Don't get me wrong, I am a pragmatist but I would find it very hard to criticise these events; the sight of Anfield filled with floral tributes after Hillsborough probably helped to reshape a nation's reaction to the loss, which went from one of initial condemnation in some areas to one of sympathy and an associated criticism of the certain officials that were previously seen as beyond reproach.

National/major tragedies I get.

But if you want to make a gesture I don't see why you wouldn't send flowers/attend the funeral instead of turn up at the theme park and embrace in front of the cameras. I see that and as an extreme cynic think they've done it for the attention.

prhymeate

housemates and the idea of shared chores and the purchasing of items everyone uses. I'll leave it at that or It'd turn into an essay.

haydenm

Prhymeate wrote:

housemates and the idea of shared chores and the purchasing of items everyone uses. I'll leave it at that or It'd turn into an essay.

I do not envy you.

bompington

For years I've been mildly annoyed that sandwich bags are always bigger than they need to be.

Finally I found smaller ones in Lidl... which turn out to be too small.

finchy

People like this:



(Er, not Jews. Just people who take their religion slightly too far)

haydenm

As in suffocating themselves? That is commitment

dinyull

What's that all about?

Frank Wilson

HGV and tractor drivers who won't pull into a lay by to allow the tailback they have caused to pass them.

chris_bass

People who pronounce moustache as moustosh.

Tashman

Frank Wilson wrote:

HGV and tractor drivers who won't pull into a lay by to allow the tailback they have caused to pass them.

I know a lot of drivers who would say this about cyclists