Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

Mettan

The ergonomics of dairylea triangle packaging - the red pull tab is an improvement over previous 'versions' - although the end result is much the same.

k-dog

I bought some new shirts recently and they're very nice. I'm 6'1" so I got long length ones - the sleeves are just right and the body is nice and long.

But, they have the same buttons as regular ones so the last one is about 3" above my belt. Very annoying as its easy for the 2 halves to separate and untuck.

Bunneh

People in the town centre mithering me for a 'moment of my time' when it's clear I have plenty and I ain't giving them shit.

People who block the aisles in supermarkets chatting with their friends... move the hell out of my god damn way!

Politics (it's trivial to me, stfu...)

Cheap cakes at corner shops.

Cotton wool buds that fall apart in my ears!

Turkey, for no apparent reason.

Taking tablets every day to stop myself getting fat, stupid under-active thyroid.

My 5.1 sound card not running the 5.1 speakers, ever.

Wasps - feck off out of my house to buzzy bastards!

Dirty windows.

Bushes not trimmed meaning I have to swerve around them on the bike.

Whiny people complaining about things.

Badgers, because they're fake cats!

People who don't like cats, wtf is wrong with you?

Toadstools! Stop tricking me!

...and relax...

I feel better now!

team47b

Pedantry.

I am usually the one being pedantic and it really annoys me.

I say "usually" but I actually mean habitually, I say "really" but...

dylanfernley

financial products and financial instrument-- WTF-- blow me some smoke !!

Peddle Up!

Perfume adverts at Christmas. Glossy, but ultimately empty. Just like the bottle of scent.

Peddle Up!

The two-speed nervous system in my legs. Bang toe - fast nerves tell you you've banged your toe :roll: . What seems like a second later slow nerves deliver the pain from banging toe.

rob churchill

Bunneh wrote:

Bushes not trimmed meaning I have to swerve around them on the bike.

Indeed. Can't be doing with untrimmed bushes.

nunowoolmez

Helping a couple with getting from Edgeware Rd to Westminster tube giving clear conscise tube line & station directions & showing them on the tube map. Twice, no 3 times! Then asking them if they have understood they sais yes. I then checked & asked them to run me yhrough the journey. They couldn't, & then said thanks they would ask someone else. What! Not only had had i gone out of my way to help these people, going through the route 3 times, i had also missed a tube doing so. I lost it a bit. I told them i had just showed you 3 times, & if they wern't prepared to listen they would never get there. Grrrr

pauldavid

nunowoolmez wrote:

Helping a couple with getting from Edgeware Rd to Westminster tube giving clear conscise tube line & station directions & showing them on the tube map. Twice, no 3 times! Then asking them if they have understood they sais yes. I then checked & asked them to run me yhrough the journey. They couldn't, & then said thanks they would ask someone else. What! Not only had had i gone out of my way to help these people, going through the route 3 times, i had also missed a tube doing so. I lost it a bit. I told them i had just showed you 3 times, & if they wern't prepared to listen they would never get there. Grrrr

Next time speak more clearly and give good concise instructions, it'll be fine

seanoconn

Staying at your parents house, in the bedroom next to theirs. Feeling romantic with your girlfriend and the bed is REALLY ****ing creaky! In any position!!!

dynamicbrick

Indian call centres that think using anglicised names will somehow fool you into thinking they're in Swindon.

chrisaonabike

Bunneh wrote:

Taking tablets every day to stop myself getting fat, stupid under-active thyroid.

You idiot, you've done it now. Let's hope Soni's asleep.

Gizmodo

dynamicbrick wrote:

Indian call centres that think using anglicised names will somehow fool you into thinking they're in Swindon.

Sorry, you've got 14 too many words in that post. What you should have said is:

"Indian call centres."

FTFY

mfin

Microsoft and their out of touch view on what people want from their PC products.

mfin

Pedestrians who don't seem to acknowledge in their heads that other people might want to get round the shops in less than a week. Especially slow walking side by side couples blocking the pavement.

...same with drivers, drivers who live in their own little world where nobody's in a rush and nobody should ever be in a hurry to get anywhere.

mfin

3D films.

More and more of the things, not enough screens showing 2D versions.

RDW

Books on Amazon with long introductions, often by a completely different author, where the online sample runs out before the actual text starts ('Enjoyed the preview?').

alihisgreat

mfin wrote:

3D films.

More and more of the things, not enough screens showing 2D versions.

Yes! I watched one the other day which had loads of shots with someone's blurry shoulder or hair in the foreground just in case you forget its in 3D.

It really can be painfully bad.

insella

swallowing flies: its nourishing, but i am not an old woman and i cannot compensate by having a further 12 courses of farmyard animals

baldwin471

People breathing heavily when they are just sat watching the tv or something. Unbelievably annoying.

CiB

Bikeradar. It's become a place for the self-righteous, preachy know-it-alls to tell us how to live.

Shame. It used to be nice here. Ho hum.

team47b

repetition, repetition, I hate 'kin repetition, if I've said it once then I probably have.

mfin

People who have a 'telephone voice', who you know and you watch them answer a phone and their whole voice changes (and their personality to an ultra-polite version that seems fake and unreal). Normally they have to put down the Daily Mail to answer the phone as well.

Oh, and the Daily Mail, cos its a tw*t's paper.

ballysmate

baldwin471 wrote:

People breathing heavily when they are just sat watching the tv or something. Unbelievably annoying.

You watchin' the latest offering from Vivid or something, with all that heavy breathing going on?

ben@31

baldwin471 wrote:

People breathing heavily when they are just sat watching the tv or something. Unbelievably annoying.

Are you watching tv while sat next to Darth Vader?

Brakeless

Old people in the supermarket at weekends. You're retired, you can go anytime in the week when it's quiet, why go at the weekend when it's busy anyway and you're just making it busier.

CambsNewbie

Old people driving. Normally it's in a 5 yr old Korean car ( Hyundai Atoz always seem popular). They drive at 40mph on good country roads, causing a huge build up of traffic they seem oblivious too. Then when they get to a village or built up area still do 40mph through a 30mph zone and past the village school..

the playing mantis

Brakeless wrote:

Old people in the supermarket at weekends. You're retired, you can go anytime in the week when it's quiet, why go at the weekend when it's busy anyway and you're just making it busier.

this.

also people who have no idea what they are buying and look as though they have never been in a shop in their lives.

ballysmate

Brakeless wrote:

Old people in the supermarket at weekends. You're retired, you can go anytime in the week when it's quiet, why go at the weekend when it's busy anyway and you're just making it busier.

I honestly don't know why anybody insists on visiting a supermarket on a weekend. It's a living death.
Most supermarkets have extended hours, and in some cases 24 hour opening. Go early in the morning, doesn't have to be in the middle of the night, 6ish is fine, and the place is empty. Get round in 10 mins.
I think a lot of it is because people have always shopped at weekends and it is a hard habit to break.