Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    Every time i post something here, I have to look at George Michael's horrifying last image.....
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    People who stand around talking on a handsfree kit. I'm sure it's better in many ways than holding a phone to your ear but it always makes me think the person is a c0ck who dreams of being on The Apprentice one day.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Pross wrote:
    People who stand around talking on a handsfree kit. I'm sure it's better in many ways than holding a phone to your ear but it always makes me think the person is a c0ck who dreams of being on The Apprentice one day.
    Most entertaining when they're in Tesco asking their other half which type of yoghurt they should buy.
  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    People who pace about purposefully when on a mobile phone in a public place, such as a cafe. I had to tell one bloke he was getting on my tits a few years back in Starbucks (a particular outlet popular with cyclists in Deeside). He kept walking behind my back, gobbing off, they striding off into the distance again only to return like a stupid talking boomerang.

    Arse.
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    I have no clue who honey boo boo is, i have not the slightest interest in what she looks like when she is grown up. And i will not be shocked ok?
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    Mikey23 wrote:
    I have no clue who honey boo boo is, i have not the slightest interest in what she looks like when she is grown up. And i will not be shocked ok?

    I got neo classical architecture...swap? :D
    my isetta is a 300cc bike
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    when did acting in tv dramas using the gravelly Batman voice become an accepted style :roll:
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    awavey wrote:
    when did acting in tv dramas using the gravelly Batman voice become an accepted style :roll:

    Have you been watching SS-GB?
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    Pross wrote:
    awavey wrote:
    when did acting in tv dramas using the gravelly Batman voice become an accepted style :roll:

    Have you been watching SS-GB?

    Most likely. I thought the same when I watched it. The other thing that struck me was that the chap never just talks, he declaims, and once you notice this it sounds absolutely ridiculous and spoils what could be a good program.


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    First Aspect wrote:
    Is 180bhp a lot then?

    Good point, that in isolation is not actually the main reason I liked the car, my truck has similar but does 0-60 in nearly double the time. The idea of a tiny hatchback doing 0-60 in 7.1 seconds is a delight when you do 40k miles in a pickup during a year :(
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,562
    Mikey23 wrote:
    I have no clue who honey boo boo is, i have not the slightest interest in what she looks like when she is grown up. And i will not be shocked ok?
    Indeed. I may not believe it, but primarily because it is mindless clickbait, rather than because someone looking a bit older than they used to is in any way surprising.
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    rjsterry wrote:
    Mikey23 wrote:
    I have no clue who honey boo boo is, i have not the slightest interest in what she looks like when she is grown up. And i will not be shocked ok?
    Indeed. I may not believe it, but primarily because it is mindless clickbait, rather than because someone looking a bit older than they used to is in any way surprising.

    There's a recent spate of people who disappeared 6 or 7 years ago and only now the police have discovered the truth! (presumably that they are alive and well, living in Nebraska following gender realignment surgery)
    And I'm heartily sick of being implored to read about the best / worst / richest / poorest American football, baseball, basketball or ice hockey players. I won't be shocked, amazed or find it jaw dropping; I really don't give a sh1t!
    Nor am I interested in the price of millionaires' properties, or the thousands of tenuous links to anything Irish, or the unintelligible and incongruously highbrow links to genome research.
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    My GF's bloody dad who uses the stupid f****** phrase 'Loony lefties' in every conversation and thinks that Trump banning muslims is a good idea.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    HaydenM wrote:
    My GF's bloody dad who uses the stupid f****** phrase 'Loony lefties' in every conversation and thinks that Trump banning muslims is a good idea.

    He sounds like a bit of a c**t.
    Ben

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  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    Ben6899 wrote:
    HaydenM wrote:
    My GF's bloody dad who uses the stupid f****** phrase 'Loony lefties' in every conversation and thinks that Trump banning muslims is a good idea.

    He sounds like a bit of a c**t.


    Nah!!

    He's probably just a product of his time, my F-I-L says some pretty off colour stuff at times not because he's deliberately offensive but as a result, I suggest, of a 1950's Irish catholic upbringing and a narrow world view, I disagree with him on that subject but it doesn't stop me thinking he's an alright fella!! He did allow me to marry his daughter after all.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,329
    Having a lovely shower. Getting out, drying off, slipping in to some nice clean clothing (and underwear) and then remembering to go back into the bathroom to pull the extractor fan chord and then stepping in a wet patch thereby making your sock soggy - only the right one but still, it's soggy.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    Capt Slog wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    awavey wrote:
    when did acting in tv dramas using the gravelly Batman voice become an accepted style :roll:

    Have you been watching SS-GB?

    Most likely. I thought the same when I watched it. The other thing that struck me was that the chap never just talks, he declaims, and once you notice this it sounds absolutely ridiculous and spoils what could be a good program.

    yes :cry: Ill stick with it but its trying my patience alot
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    crispybug2 wrote:
    Ben6899 wrote:
    HaydenM wrote:
    My GF's bloody dad who uses the stupid f****** phrase 'Loony lefties' in every conversation and thinks that Trump banning muslims is a good idea.

    He sounds like a bit of a c**t.


    Nah!!

    He's probably just a product of his time, my F-I-L says some pretty off colour stuff at times not because he's deliberately offensive but as a result, I suggest, of a 1950's Irish catholic upbringing and a narrow world view, I disagree with him on that subject but it doesn't stop me thinking he's an alright fella!! He did allow me to marry his daughter after all.

    I don't consider that an excuse, to be honest.
    Ben

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  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    crispybug2 wrote:
    Ben6899 wrote:
    HaydenM wrote:
    My GF's bloody dad who uses the stupid f****** phrase 'Loony lefties' in every conversation and thinks that Trump banning muslims is a good idea.

    He sounds like a bit of a c**t.


    Nah!!

    He's probably just a product of his time, my F-I-L says some pretty off colour stuff at times not because he's deliberately offensive but as a result, I suggest, of a 1950's Irish catholic upbringing and a narrow world view, I disagree with him on that subject but it doesn't stop me thinking he's an alright fella!! He did allow me to marry his daughter after all.

    A bit of both, he is ~60, recently retired and grew up in a bad area but lives in a nice area now and is otherwise fairly intelligent. He was going on about 'good risk management' (buzz words from his previous work) until I pointed out that neither Egypt or Saudi Arabia were banned despite being where the majority of the 9/11 bombers were from. If the US government were remotely interested in 'risk management' they would take a 30 second look at the figures and ban guns. It's nothing more than populist rubbish to suck in idiots. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to want to reduce immigration but doing it because you suspect 1.6 billion people of wanting to murder you is frankly racism.

    *rant over*

    :wink:
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    Saying 'he's a product of his time' as if this is a reasonable excuse for being a tw@t :D
    my isetta is a 300cc bike
  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    The power button on my work computer is exactly the same size and shape as the usb sockets, and all 3 line up along side each other.

    I've lost count of the amount of times I've shut down by trying to charge my lights :oops:
  • burnthesheep
    burnthesheep Posts: 675
    When I sleep, if there is some kind of digital light in the room from a printer, laptop computer, or LED clock then it MUST be covered or turned off. I can't do it.

    A street light, moonlight, or otherwise is fine.

    Hotel rooms are the worst because you don't know where they are. Sit there for 10 minutes not able to start resting just to open your eyes and see some power light LED from the television blinking.

    Grrrrrrrrrrr.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,562
    Dinyull wrote:
    The power button on my work computer is exactly the same size and shape as the usb sockets, and all 3 line up along side each other.

    I've lost count of the amount of times I've shut down by trying to charge my lights :oops:
    Sticky label?
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  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    Good call. Doesn't matter how many times I do it, I will never learn.
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    Idiots with a weird respect for self made, 'lord of the manor' style rich people as if it was the 1800s
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,329
    HaydenM wrote:
    Idiots with a weird respect for self made, 'lord of the manor' style rich people as if it was the 1800s

    I watched the billion pound hotel prog on C4 last night. The opulence and extravagance was nauseating.
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  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    Dinyull wrote:
    The power button on my work computer is exactly the same size and shape as the usb sockets, and all 3 line up along side each other.

    I've lost count of the amount of times I've shut down by trying to charge my lights :oops:

    you can change what pushing the power button does from do nothing, sleep, hibernate and shut down

    it should be in the power settings
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  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    Car park spaces that are placed so close nowadays that you need a tin opener to get in and out.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Shortfall wrote:
    Car park spaces that are placed so close nowadays that you need a tin opener to get in and out.

    It's not the spaces getting smaller, it's cars getting bigger.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,329
    Pross wrote:
    Shortfall wrote:
    Car park spaces that are placed so close nowadays that you need a tin opener to get in and out.

    It's not the spaces getting smaller, it's cars getting bigger.

    So they should space the white lines accordingly?
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