Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,327
    figbat wrote:
    The whole Black Friday thing.

    Firstly, it has no heritage here - it's for the USA.
    Then, having accepted that OK, maybe there could be a decent bargain out there before Christmas, I now have to suffer Black Friday events that start at the beginning of November. No longer a one-day bun-fight, but a 4 week long ram-it-down-your-throat fest.
    And the 'bargains' are often few and far between.

    Apple turnovers at Lidl - 3 for £1. What more do you want?
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    People who clap themselves.

    So, someone is receiving an applause and they themselves join in clapping.
  • earth
    earth Posts: 934
    Garry H wrote:
    earth wrote:
    People who put the red light on the front of their bikes.

    What if they're cycling backwards? :wink:

    If they were cycling backwards that would not be so bad but then they would be sitting the wrong way round.

    Either way they are a hazard.
  • bbrap
    bbrap Posts: 610
    Dinyull wrote:
    People who clap themselves.

    So, someone is receiving an applause and they themselves join in clapping.



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    Ribble Gran Fondo, Campagnolo Centaur (winter bike)
    Van Raam 'O' Pair
    Land Rover (really nasty weather :lol: )
  • diamonddog
    diamonddog Posts: 3,426
    Shpock, Zook etc stupid app names.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,154
    bbrap wrote:
    Dinyull wrote:
    People who clap themselves.

    So, someone is receiving an applause and they themselves join in clapping.



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    Is that the seal of approval?
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,154
    People who record rides as runs on Strava.
  • figbat
    figbat Posts: 680
    Pinno wrote:
    figbat wrote:
    The whole Black Friday thing.

    Firstly, it has no heritage here - it's for the USA.
    Then, having accepted that OK, maybe there could be a decent bargain out there before Christmas, I now have to suffer Black Friday events that start at the beginning of November. No longer a one-day bun-fight, but a 4 week long ram-it-down-your-throat fest.
    And the 'bargains' are often few and far between.

    Apple turnovers at Lidl - 3 for £1. What more do you want?

    A spot of whipped cream and a mug of tea.
    Cube Reaction GTC Pro 29 for the lumpy stuff
    Cannondale Synapse alloy with 'guards for the winter roads
    Fuji Altamira 2.7 for the summer roads
    Trek 830 Mountain Track frame turned into a gravel bike - for anywhere & everywhere
  • hantstooflat
    hantstooflat Posts: 122
    News websites using reddit threads as news articles.
    “Jij bent niet van suiker gemaakt”
  • hantstooflat
    hantstooflat Posts: 122
    Just seen someone congratulate a friend of a friend on their "new arrival"... They've just got a new dog!
    “Jij bent niet van suiker gemaakt”
  • hantstooflat
    hantstooflat Posts: 122
    People who feel the need to prepare what I can only assume is a 3-course meal in the tiny shared kitchen we have. All I want is to get my lunch out of the fridge but it sounds like there is a small team of chefs at work in there.
    “Jij bent niet van suiker gemaakt”
  • vimfuego
    vimfuego Posts: 1,783
    Ladies - if you are in a hurry to get somewhere either just walk quickly or run, but please stop doing that thing where you walk along at a brisk pace, then break into a little jog....for about 3 and a half yards, then walk again..... and repeat. Especially when you do it next to me. Annoys the living sh1t out of me.
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  • Bobbinogs
    Bobbinogs Posts: 4,841
    I'm not sure that cyclists can throw any criticism on funny walks!
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    spending alot of today searching online web stores for "bargains" and thinking heck these black friday deals arent up to much...oh its next week :oops:
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,327
    vimfuego wrote:
    Ladies - if you are in a hurry to get somewhere either just walk quickly or run, but please stop doing that thing where you walk along at a brisk pace, then break into a little jog....for about 3 and a half yards, then walk again..... and repeat. Especially when you do it next to me. Annoys the living sh1t out of me.

    Perhaps she's thinking "..oh sh1t, he's following me, oh maybe not - he's fallen behind...no, he's caught up again, i'd better hurry up a bit...is he following me?..., I dunno, better hurry up...".

    So it's you. What do you expect when you stalk women?! :roll:
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • mrfpb
    mrfpb Posts: 4,569
    awavey wrote:
    spending alot of today searching online web stores for "bargains" and thinking heck these black friday deals arent up to much...oh its next week :oops:

    Getting Black Friday alerts more than a week before the day.

    Black Friday.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,327
    1. 'Prices from...' and then you look into it and add x, y and z without which it's pointless.

    "Go to Belfast from only £55 pounds...". Yep, one way, return prices are far more and times are in the middle of the night.
    Good job I don't want/need to go to Belfast. Sod Belfast.

    2. Belfast.
    3. Stoke. Pointless bloody place.
    4. Crewe.
    5. Swindon.
    6. Milton Keynes.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    People who record rides as runs on Strava.

    It's better than the other way around, especially when the person is a very slow cyclist. You look at segments and can't work out if the leader is a very fast runner or a slow cyclist as it shows as a low 5 minute mile pace then take a look and see they've gone 30 miles at that pace and speed up on downhill sections.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    People who make stupid statements in arguments. There was an advert on Facebook for a helmet with built in lights - one woman claimed it would trigger her migraine when driving on the same road which was bad enough but in reply someone told her she was being ridiculous and her migraine didn't matter as this product would help save millions of lives.
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    The f**king Mexican wave!!

    I've just been to the England vs Fiji international at Twickenham, basically England were 24-0 up after 20 minutes and the game was effectively over as a contest which does unfortunately have a detrimental effect on the atmosphere , this then prompted a few Mexican waves to presumably build an atmosphere.
    Why not instead watch the f**king game instead of dicking around trying to start a bloody wave!!!!


    Rant over.
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    People who somehow force their way through a queue from behind in order to stand in front of you at the wait for a pelican crossing to turn red despite the fact you already have your toes a couple of inches in the road...and then start backing into you to take your space. Tw*ts.
  • Thick Mike
    Thick Mike Posts: 337
    The rehabilitation of the words "mong" and "spaz". I thought we'd moved past using pejorative words for disabled people in everyday conversation.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Cling film tearing as you unwrap it from the roll and you don't notice and it and it takes you hours to work out where it ripped and to sort it out.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    I love the black friday adverts on telly:

    49 inch 4k tv only £499, reduced from £10,000

    Then at the bottom of the screen in tiny writing *the price of £10,000 on the dates of 11/11 - 12/11 - ie they put the price up for a day and then pretend it was always supposed to be that price.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,154
    Pross wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    People who record rides as runs on Strava.

    It's better than the other way around, especially when the person is a very slow cyclist. You look at segments and can't work out if the leader is a very fast runner or a slow cyclist as it shows as a low 5 minute mile pace then take a look and see they've gone 30 miles at that pace and speed up on downhill sections.

    That's the way round I meant. You can't tell until you look at the whole run and realise they'd have broken the world record.
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    Online retailers where the default page layout is 12 items per page.

    Add to that sites where your search settings and filters are reset once you've looked at an item.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Die Hard films. Complete and utter sh1te, yet still treated as classics of the action genre.
  • FatTed
    FatTed Posts: 1,205
    finchy wrote:
    Die Hard films. Complete and utter sh1te, yet still treated as classics of the action genre.

    Back in the day the 1st one was good
  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    People who stay sat next to you when everyone else in the train carriage has got off.

    Seriously, get lost. Bet you're one of those people who parks right next to someone in an otherwise empty car park.
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • Alain Quay
    Alain Quay Posts: 534
    FatTed wrote:
    finchy wrote:
    Die Hard films. Complete and utter sh1te, yet still treated as classics of the action genre.

    Back in the day the 1st one was good

    Bloke in singlet saves world - and marriage, ffs. A classic of the 'shite' genre.

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