Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    edited April 2017
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Chris tw@tting Evans and James f@cking Blunt. The EPO likes to have Radio 2 on in the morning, I only hear about 5 minutes worth of it from 6.37 to 6.42. Twice this week in those 5 minutes I've been subjected to that sh!t.

    I think you should add Gary Barlow to this. Only oaps like him, and that's only because they think he's polite and nice like some reboot of Daniel o'Donnell.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    The plastic wrappers on newly bought CDs and Blurays.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    People who have the colour turned up too much on their TV so that green grass for example looks completely unrealistic like it's from a kids cartoon and burns your eyes out. TVs aren't hard to adjust properly.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,185
    mfin wrote:
    People who have the colour turned up too much on their TV so that green grass for example looks completely unrealistic like it's from a kids cartoon and burns your eyes out. TVs aren't hard to adjust properly.
    Sure you haven't been watching In the Night Garden?
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Going to the hairdressers / barbers for a trim hoping to be attended to by one of the girls but always seem to end up with the young fat gay guy !
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    Folk who post" thinking of getting a first road bike and I've got 3 grand to spend. What do you think of Trek, Giant or Canyon as I have never heard of these brands" Someone replies have you ever tried using Google and they get arsey
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    its freezing cold and cycling in sleet and hail at this time of year isnt much fun, but what I hadnt accounted for whilst trying to dry my kit out this morning, theyve replaced the hand dryers in the loos from the hot air hand dryers, which were great for drying out slightly damp kit, to the noisy just blow air ones...which dont.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    awavey wrote:
    its freezing cold and cycling in sleet and hail at this time of year isnt much fun, but what I hadnt accounted for whilst trying to dry my kit out this morning, theyve replaced the hand dryers in the loos from the hot air hand dryers, which were great for drying out slightly damp kit, to the noisy just blow air ones...which dont.

    Here's the solution -- tell them the new dryers promote bacteria like Legionaries disease because the extreme force of the air makes water off your hands rebound up into the dryer then as the blower accelerates air for the next victim the bacteria from the previous client gets thrust into the hands of the user. -- I opened a faulty one and found all this gunge on the inside of the machine. -- pull the old HEALTH AND SAFETY card out.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,231
    mfin wrote:
    The plastic wrappers on newly bought CDs and Blurays.
    Who buys CDs these days? This ain't the 1990s daddio.
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    Non-American people who use the word 'mad' when they really mean 'angry'
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,185
    HaydenM wrote:
    Non-American people who use the word 'mad' when they really mean 'angry'
    I can't stand the selection of any synonym that I wouldn't have chosen myself.

    I'm also averse to young people's predilection for using antonyms synonymously.
  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    Not at all trivial.

    Local police issuing a press release saying they did all they could do, the morning after a murder trial.

    Local lass was killed by her ex-bf. She had contacted the police numerous times saying he had threatened to kill her and the flatmate who found her body said on the 999 call to the police they they knew this was going to happen.

    Even if the police had done everything in their power, I'd think a lot more of them for not trying to clear their names the morning following a murder trial.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Colleagues in an open plan office having the ring tone on their mobile set loud then leaving the phone unattended while they go out of the office so it rinds constantly disturbing everyone else.
  • burnthesheep
    burnthesheep Posts: 675
    I get one night a week to leave home early in good weather and summer daylight to ride longer. I've chosen recently to ride to a group ride and do the route, then ride home. It is a pub crawl type of ride, just a way to enjoy other rider's company.

    They say they leave at 630, so I leave home to get there in time for a small beer then leave with them at 630. They NEVER leave on time.

    It started at 10 min late, sure, ok. Last night they didn't leave until about 7:10.

    I don't want to waste my nights as I came to ride with a group, not sit at the pub all night.

    Is it unreasonable to expect them to leave within 5 to 10 min of the expected time?
  • type:epyt
    type:epyt Posts: 766
    Boxing ... In a world where calling someone names is a criminal offence, why is 2 adults punching the crap out of each other acceptable ... oh yeah, money ...

    (add every other hand to hand combat sport to the list, except WWE, 'cause, y'know)
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  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    Pross wrote:
    Colleagues in an open plan office having the ring tone on their mobile set loud then leaving the phone unattended while they go out of the office so it rinds constantly disturbing everyone else.

    We had a repeat offender till we started putting the phone in an airtight tin stuffed with foam and then hiding it.
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    burnthesheep wrote:
    I get one night a week to leave home early in good weather and summer daylight to ride longer. I've chosen recently to ride to a group ride and do the route, then ride home. It is a pub crawl type of ride, just a way to enjoy other rider's company.

    They say they leave at 630, so I leave home to get there in time for a small beer then leave with them at 630. They NEVER leave on time.

    It started at 10 min late, sure, ok. Last night they didn't leave until about 7:10.

    I don't want to waste my nights as I came to ride with a group, not sit at the pub all night.

    Is it unreasonable to expect them to leave within 5 to 10 min of the expected time?

    Come Brexit you can expect, nay demand an end to their Southern European laissez-faire attitude to prompt departure.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    type:epyt wrote:
    Boxing ... In a world where calling someone names is a criminal offence, why is 2 adults punching the crap out of each other acceptable ... oh yeah, money ...

    (add every other hand to hand combat sport to the list, except WWE, 'cause, y'know)

    Probably because it's done by mutual consent, under rules in a controlled environment?

    I'm not a huge fan but I feel it does offer a chance for people to work out aggression that they may otherwise take out on people in the street. I suspect that, rather than money, is what initially attracts people into starting.
  • ayjaycee
    ayjaycee Posts: 1,277
    Sorry if this one has been done before, but I get really peed off with people who insist on starting almost every sentence with 'So'. It seems to have been slowly creeping into general use over the last few years and I have also begun to notice a few posts her on BR doing the same. That's it, old gits rant over!
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  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    ayjaycee wrote:
    Sorry if this one has been done before, but I get really peed off with people who insist on starting almost every sentence with 'So'. It seems to have been slowly creeping into general use over the last few years and I have also begun to notice a few posts her on BR doing the same. That's it, old gits rant over!

    Me too, I find that incredibly irritating for some reason. And my boss has started doing it :evil:

    A couple of days ago I heard an interviewee on the radio starting a lot of his sentences with "So, here's the thing..."

    I thought I'd blundered into a pilot of 2012 or SW1
  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    People who bang on and on about needing to go on a diet or loose a bit of weight.......and then pick up a biscuit every time they pass them in the office.

    Still, will never top an ex-colleague who came back from a skiing holiday. 1st day back he was waxing lyrical about how they'd been full board and all the meals cooked had been super healthy which had really motivated him to keep eating clean and loose a bit of weight.

    Less than 2 hours later he came back to the office with fish and chips.
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    Pross wrote:
    type:epyt wrote:
    Boxing ... In a world where calling someone names is a criminal offence, why is 2 adults punching the crap out of each other acceptable ... oh yeah, money ...

    Probably because it's done by mutual consent, under rules in a controlled environment?
    .

    What about when it happens in a sport other than boxing? It would be fun if police were able to walk onto the pitch and arrest players :lol:

    I've heard it's happened , a bobby on ground duty has gone to have words with a player. The ref came and told him to "get off the pitch, we're in the middle of a game!", the plod reply was "go away, this has nothing to do with you", just as if it was any other location.

    Same applies to language. I lived near to a sports ground once, and it was not uncommon to hear something like "go for the effing ball not the player you effing barsteward" from spectator at a Sunday morning game half a street away. Language which could have you arrested if you said it in ear-shot of the police in the street.


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  • schlepcycling
    schlepcycling Posts: 1,614
    Capt Slog wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    type:epyt wrote:
    Boxing ... In a world where calling someone names is a criminal offence, why is 2 adults punching the crap out of each other acceptable ... oh yeah, money ...

    Probably because it's done by mutual consent, under rules in a controlled environment?
    .

    What about when it happens in a sport other than boxing? It would be fun if police were able to walk onto the pitch and arrest players :lol:

    I've heard it's happened , a bobby on ground duty has gone to have words with a player. The ref came and told him to "get off the pitch, we're in the middle of a game!", the plod reply was "go away, this has nothing to do with you", just as if it was any other location.

    Same applies to language. I lived near to a sports ground once, and it was not uncommon to hear something like "go for the effing ball not the player you effing barsteward" from spectator at a Sunday morning game half a street away. Language which could have you arrested if you said it in ear-shot of the police in the street.
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  • schlepcycling
    schlepcycling Posts: 1,614
    keef66 wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Colleagues in an open plan office having the ring tone on their mobile set loud then leaving the phone unattended while they go out of the office so it rinds constantly disturbing everyone else.

    We had a repeat offender till we started putting the phone in an airtight tin stuffed with foam and then hiding it.

    We had one too, so we borrowed the phone and took out the SIM card....didn't ring at all after that!
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  • burnthesheep
    burnthesheep Posts: 675
    ayjaycee wrote:
    Sorry if this one has been done before, but I get really peed off with people who insist on starting almost every sentence with 'So'. It seems to have been slowly creeping into general use over the last few years and I have also begun to notice a few posts her on BR doing the same. That's it, old gits rant over!

    In the south in the US, people don't speak English, they speak 'southern'.

    An example is one which the wife has broken me of:
    Wife: "Did you hear about the new restaurant in town that serves chicken and waffles?"
    Self: "Where is that at"

    The failure in speech is adding the unnecessary and grating "at" to the end of the sentence.

    She broke it by pointing it out every single time for about 2 months.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    ayjaycee wrote:
    Sorry if this one has been done before, but I get really peed off with people who insist on starting almost every sentence with 'So'. It seems to have been slowly creeping into general use over the last few years and I have also begun to notice a few posts her on BR doing the same. That's it, old gits rant over!
    Cowsham wrote:
    People that start every answer with "So"

    Just me and about a dozen other people it annoys
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    People who don't like the way the English language has developed outsie the UK.
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    ayjaycee wrote:
    Sorry if this one has been done before, but I get really peed off with people who insist on starting almost every sentence with 'So'. It seems to have been slowly creeping into general use over the last few years and I have also begun to notice a few posts her on BR doing the same. That's it, old gits rant over!



    Also people who end every sentence with "yeah?"

    If you are making a valid point you don't need to check at the end of every f*cking sentence!!!!!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    crispybug2 wrote:
    ayjaycee wrote:
    Sorry if this one has been done before, but I get really peed off with people who insist on starting almost every sentence with 'So'. It seems to have been slowly creeping into general use over the last few years and I have also begun to notice a few posts her on BR doing the same. That's it, old gits rant over!



    Also people who end every sentence with "yeah?"

    If you are making a valid point you don't need to check at the end of every f*cking sentence!!!!!

    That's my boss. Either 'yeah' or 'right' but I think it's his way of keeping you involved in the conversation because he certainly doesn't let you speak.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Garry H wrote:
    People who don't like the way the English language has developed outsie the UK.

    Developed -- outsie ? Might be French that's outside the uk

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