Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    TV news programmes going to an OB for a weather report. Do they think I don't know what weather looks like.
    In a similar vein, reporters stood outside the MOD in London to report on a defence story for example. It adds FA to the story.
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    The Americanism where some campaigner will ask people to "Write your congressman" about some issue or another, when what they should be saying is "Write to your congressman".

    I always have this mental image of 1000's of people writing "your congressman" on a piece of paper and wondering how this will help!


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  • Peddle Up!
    Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
    Capt Slog wrote:
    I always have this mental image of 1000's of people writing "your congressman" on a piece of paper and wondering how this will help!

    1000's of people? Surely not? Just do the math. :)
    Purveyor of "up" :)
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Village fete organisers who print their announcements on A4 and put them on multiple small signs at the side of a main road, carefully spaced at 10 feet intervals. I can't read them on a bike at 20mph. In a car doing NSL I've got less than no chance. Village fete people - why not co-opt someone with a bit of brain onto your committees?

    And the day after your fete, have someone drive around collecting the signs instead of leaving them at the roadside well into the Autumn.
  • k-dog
    k-dog Posts: 1,652
    There are still signs advertising "Christmas Tree's" [sic] near my house. The grammar irritates me almost as much as the fact that they're still there!
    I'm left handed, if that matters.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    the playing mantis wrote:
    people who fail to move down the platform at tube stations. yes lets all sta ond where we joined the platform, that makes sense, it doesnt cause a aback up of people onto the platform or meant the section of the train by the doors is overly crowded when the far ends are empty

    You mean Spanish people?
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Peddle Up! wrote:
    Capt Slog wrote:
    I always have this mental image of 1000's of people writing "your congressman" on a piece of paper and wondering how this will help!

    1000's of people? Surely not? Just do the math. :)

    Gnnnnnnnnnnn.........
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  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Ballysmate wrote:
    TV news programmes going to an OB for a weather report. Do they think I don't know what weather looks like.
    In a similar vein, reporters stood outside the MOD in London to report on a defence story for example. It adds FA to the story.
    And the weather people have to give you advice. "Wrap up warm", "Take an umbrella" etc.
    No. I'll decide what to wear outdoors and what to take, thanks. I'm not five years old, and you're not my mum.
    Stick to the weather forecasting, particularly the bit about "the overnight period" (what's wrong with "overnight"?). And try not to stand in front of the map.
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  • the playing mantis
    the playing mantis Posts: 2,129
    haha. they just dont give a toss do they! i can excuse tourists, but its the 'local' commuters that do it that wind me up. they do the same thing daily surely they realise.
  • lurcher lurking
    lurcher lurking Posts: 4
    Brakeless wrote:
    WH Smiths ' Would you like this chocolate for a pound ?' aaaaaggghhhh! If I wanted some *^king chocolate I'd have handed it to you with my magazine, take my money, give me my change f"ck off.

    Yes, completely agree - though I do feel sorry for the staff who are made to say it EVERY time they serve a customer. They probably feel the same way....at least I hope they do....
  • Peddle Up!
    Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
    The stupid system for securing DVD discs in their cases.
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Every time I go to the bank now they ask me how I am. They don't give care how I am and I'm quite happy with the situation as long as they handle my money well, so why do the banks make the staff ask?
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Peddle Up! wrote:
    Just do the math. :)

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  • CambsNewbie
    CambsNewbie Posts: 564
    johnfinch wrote:
    Every time I go to the bank now they ask me how I am. They don't give care how I am and I'm quite happy with the situation as long as they handle my money well, so why do the banks make the staff ask?

    Or they ask if there's anything else they can help me with at the end of the conversation (when telephone banking). I know they are being polite and following a script but it does bug me.
  • the playing mantis
    the playing mantis Posts: 2,129
    CambsNewbie wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    Every time I go to the bank now they ask me how I am. They don't give care how I am and I'm quite happy with the situation as long as they handle my money well, so why do the banks make the staff ask?

    Or they ask if there's anything else they can help me with at the end of the conversation (when telephone banking). I know they are being polite and following a script but it does bug me.

    or when i happen to have a large balance in my account and they bring this to my attention with the aim of cross selling. im well aware of my account balance barclays, and im damned if im going to invest it in any of your products or services and earn a pitiful interest rate.

    these people are bank tellers not salesman. they are not qualified to cross sell so dont try.
  • Peddle Up!
    Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
    johnfinch wrote:
    Peddle Up! wrote:
    Just do the math. :)

    s
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  • careful
    careful Posts: 720
    Fellow cyclists who refer to their bike as 'steed' or even worse 'trusty steed'!

    +1 although I don't think I have ever heard "steed" without "trusty" preceeding it.

    One that annoys me is people using the word "incredible" to describe something that has impressed them. If it is truly beyond belief , absurd, improbable and preposterous etc. why are they so impressed?
  • graham.
    graham. Posts: 862
    Me too with regards the "Steed" thing.
    Anyway. The next waiter/ess who, when proffering my food, says "Enjoy!" can expect to walk away wearing it.
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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Tesco shops that have misleading offers, such as tonight's escapade where the diddy Tesco that I dropped into has bright yellow labels all over the wine shelves shouting 'any two for a tenner'. I fancy some of that so arrive at the till with a couple of bottles and find they want over twenty quid for them. Brief discussion centred on 'what exactly does any two for a tenner mean then in your world?', followed by me wandering off empty handed and the manager still trying to explain how any two doesn't mean any two.
  • k-dog
    k-dog Posts: 1,652
    Top of my list would be people calling it "Tescos".

    I just don't get it. It's stupid and slovenly and pointless.
    I'm left handed, if that matters.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Ballysmate wrote:
    TV news programmes going to an OB for a weather report. Do they think I don't know what weather looks like.
    In a similar vein, reporters stood outside the MOD in London to report on a defence story for example. It adds FA to the story.
    And the weather people have to give you advice. "Wrap up warm", "Take an umbrella" etc.
    No. I'll decide what to wear outdoors and what to take, thanks. I'm not five years old, and you're not my mum.
    Stick to the weather forecasting, particularly the bit about "the overnight period" (what's wrong with "overnight"?). And try not to stand in front of the map.
    Editorialising weather forecasters get my goat - "at least it should be a lovely mild day tomorrow" is really annoying when you're planning on going skiing and what they mean is that the snow is washing down the hillside in pishing rain.
  • the playing mantis
    the playing mantis Posts: 2,129
    badge delete bmw's. why. simply why. if you are embarrassed of the model car you bought and thus remove the spec badging, buy a differnet car....
  • CambsNewbie
    CambsNewbie Posts: 564
    the playing mantis wrote:
    badge delete bmw's. why. simply why. if you are embarrassed of the model car you bought and thus remove the spec badging, buy a differnet car....

    Even worse are those with a BMW 520d for example and put 'M' badges on it or even worse M5 badges. Sad.
  • the playing mantis
    the playing mantis Posts: 2,129
    wheres the M on them?

    our 330, has 'M' sport trim level (basically as u get the nice 'M' sport blue and nicer alloys, plus its got slightly 'sportier' styling), but it only has really small 'M' decals inside, like on the bottom of where the door shuts (cant think what that part is called!!) and on the steering wheel (that i can think of without going out to the garage and looking!)

    i didnt think u could get M sport trim on the more basic models (ie 520, 318, 320) only on the higher end of the range, before you actually get to the M3/5 etc. maybe it changed in the last couple of years, maybe i am wrong.

    M is overated anyway. give me an alpina equivalent anyday - b3 bi turbo...m3 killer!
  • CambsNewbie
    CambsNewbie Posts: 564
    the playing mantis wrote:
    wheres the M on them?

    our 330, has 'M' sport trim level (basically as u get the nice 'M' sport blue and nicer alloys, plus its got slightly 'sportier' styling), but it only has really small 'M' decals inside, like on the bottom of where the door shuts (cant think what that part is called!!) and on the steering wheel (that i can think of without going out to the garage and looking!)

    i didnt think u could get M sport trim on the more basic models (ie 520, 318, 320) only on the higher end of the range, before you actually get to the M3/5 etc. maybe it changed in the last couple of years, maybe i am wrong.

    M is overated anyway. give me an alpina equivalent anyday - b3 bi turbo...m3 killer!

    You can get the M Sport pack on any model now.. Charge a lot more for different alloys and slight body kit.
  • k-dog
    k-dog Posts: 1,652
    People also just buy the M on eBay and stick them on - you can't order them from the factory like that.
    I'm left handed, if that matters.
  • the playing mantis
    the playing mantis Posts: 2,129
    the dead giveaway is either the lack of 2 exhausts, unless they have a model with 2 on anyway or have retro fitted one, or when they are left at the lights in there fake 'M',

    by all accounts the best M car is the one series version.

    i cant see the points sticking one on when it isnt what it is, you know it, even if you fool some people its a bit of a silly thing to do, maybe its excusable for a young teenage 'max power' chav to do it to impress there m8s as there all at it, but hopw many of them are driving around in BMWs anyway unless they have a rich daddy to pay for the insurance (and if they had that they could probably afford the real thing and asscoiated costs). thats on par with taking the badges off completely on lower end models.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    People who think that anyone cares what kind of BMW they drive, when the fact that they drive one at all is all we need to know ;-)
  • the playing mantis
    the playing mantis Posts: 2,129
    :shock:

    haha

    i was merely using it as an illustration to cambsnewbies point, but appears ive come across all vtechish (this is a joke btw) ..i shall hang my head. :shock: :(:lol:
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    And so you should. For penance, you must read through every post of the classic Audi drivers - the new swines of the road? thread. Twice.

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