Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    Pross wrote:
    Revolving doors or rather people that can't grasp the concept that if you get close to them or try to get into the opening just before is disappears the whole lot gets jammed.

    Also, having a lovely big hotel room the other night, going in for a bath and discovering that rather than making use of the available space for a wardrobe in the bedroom area they had pushed it into the bathroom and fitted a 4 foot long bath into the remaining space.

    Yes, but what an amazing idea. Mrs Slog really likes the look of those "built in wardrobes", I just need to have a word with next door. :lol:


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  • trivial_poursuivant
    trivial_poursuivant Posts: 1,136
    The latest kids craze. Fidgit Spinners. I would understand it if they could actually do something skilful or reasonably cool but all you do is spin it and hold it. Look on YouTube and the extent of 'tricks' are people throwing it and erm catching it while it spins. Really? Is that it? What a complete load of horse sh1t!! This is the limit of kids imagination these days? At least with something like a yo yo tricks looked quite complicated and difficult to master. All these things are are a spinning bearing and nothing more. Utter madness the attention they get.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,333
    Trivial poursuivant wrote:
    The latest kids craze. Fidgit Spinners. I would understand it if they could actually do something skilful or reasonably cool but all you do is spin it and hold it. Look on YouTube and the extent of 'tricks' are people throwing it and erm catching it while it spins. Really? Is that it? What a complete load of horse sh1t!! This is the limit of kids imagination these days? At least with something like a yo yo tricks looked quite complicated and difficult to master. All these things are are a spinning bearing and nothing more. Utter madness the attention they get.

    I thought, given your ID, that would be right up your street.
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  • ben@31
    ben@31 Posts: 2,327
    Mr Goo wrote:
    Artisan - commonly used instead of home made and thus used as an excuse for charging £4 for a small loaf of bread at markets.

    Vintage - A bag of old sh!te on ebay
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  • ben@31
    ben@31 Posts: 2,327
    Bobbinogs wrote:

    Latin, full stop. It appears to be a language simply for posh smug asreholes. Oh, and the Vatican inhabitants but less said about them lot the better!

    Mmmm guess where the world bicycle comes from !

    Then other latin words you definitely use are

    - cursor
    - media
    - memo
    - sub
    - major
    - ultra
    - intra
    - ex
    - interior
    - exterior
    - apex
    - infra
    - lunar
    - solar
    - aqua
    - agenda
    - campus
    - pass
    - maternity
    - alter ego
    - renegade
    - post mortem
    - consensus
    - vice versa
    - almost every science / anatomy / medical term imaginable !
    - naive
    - etc (et cetera)
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Trivial poursuivant wrote:
    The latest kids craze. Fidgit Spinners. I would understand it if they could actually do something skilful or reasonably cool but all you do is spin it and hold it. Look on YouTube and the extent of 'tricks' are people throwing it and erm catching it while it spins. Really? Is that it? What a complete load of horse sh1t!! This is the limit of kids imagination these days? At least with something like a yo yo tricks looked quite complicated and difficult to master. All these things are are a spinning bearing and nothing more. Utter madness the attention they get.

    They weren't really designed as a kids toy though, they were intended to help attention deficit disorder.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Yep, enjoyed by badly behaved kids too.
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  • joncomelately
    joncomelately Posts: 660
    ben@31 wrote:
    Mmmm guess where the world bicycle comes from !

    There is a good argument to say originally Greek.
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    It's from Greek and Latin.
  • ben@31
    ben@31 Posts: 2,327
    The cafe doesn't close until 17:00
    But the staff act like it's closed at 16:40, to the point they were refusing customers and putting chairs away.

    I wish I could say that at my work, "sorry boss I'm not doing anything as there's 20 minutes left but I'd still like to be paid for the full hour if that's ok"
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  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    thunderflies, what purpose do they serve other than to be annoying, rode through clouds of the darn things today, I was absolutely covered in them with them on my jersey,shorts, my arms, my forehead was comically covered in them, in my hair, yuck makes my skin itch just thinking about it.
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    Those 'Watchfinder' ads that are being at every break in ITV's Tour de France coverage, they are getting right on my tits!!
  • bbrap
    bbrap Posts: 610
    crispybug2 wrote:
    Those 'Watchfinder' ads that are being at every break in ITV's Tour de France coverage, they are getting right on my tits!!

    +1, who in their right mind would go cycling in an expensive dress watch?
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    People who leave the sound on for button presses on their mobile phone and spend two hour train journeys constantly texting. One day, I will find you and ram your electronic piece of crap and all the inane chat contained on it down your moronic throat!

    Actually, it is really the manufacturers I hate for a) making noises on by default and b) having the noises available as an option. It's not necessary; don't do it.
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,232
    After a weekend of alcoholic excess and on an At Home day, while prepping for a nice blast ride finding you broke a spoke last time out without noticing. Change of plan.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    ben@31 wrote:
    Mr Goo wrote:
    Artisan - commonly used instead of home made and thus used as an excuse for charging £4 for a small loaf of bread at markets.

    Vintage - A bag of old sh!te on ebay

    'Pre-owned' for second hand as favoured by the annoying watch advert on ITV's Tour coverage.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,926
    Calendar apps that won't let me type in the time, instead there is some sort of convoluted scrolling rotating annoyance.
  • the_hundredth_idiot
    the_hundredth_idiot Posts: 813
    Traffic announcements on national radio.

    I live in Sussex - why the flying foxtrot would I give a toss that some daft numpty has crashed their car and caused a massive tailback on the M8 between Edinburgh and Glasgow. I'm unlikely to give a crap when some numpty has pranged their car on the A27 near Brighton so I really don't give a crap about a fender bender hundreds of miles away.

    Even if I was about to drive up to Scotland, it would be cleared long before I got there.

    Even if I was about to drive along the M8, I could check the internet before I set off or tune in to a radio station specifically for people travelling along roads in that area to update them on current traffic conditions.

    Newsflash for the producers of such pointless radio - when you do traffic announcements you are just wasting the time of 99.99% (estimated) of your listeners and pissing off at least one of them.
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  • k-dog
    k-dog Posts: 1,652
    ^Radio 2 traffic news in the morning is particularly grating for some reason - muppets phoning in giving no more info than if you looked out of your window for the 3 areas where they happen to mention.

    Oh, the M25 is busy at 8:30? Funny that...
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,333
    Having been a truck driver, I covered most of the UK. I love hearing that there's been yet another crash at the Hanger Lane junction or it's chock-a-block on the M4 as it's a bank holiday weekend, Reading has turned into a car park, the Henley Regatta is on and the A34 is a no no, the Dartford crossing is shut because of a light breeze... Makes me chuckle and think about all the T shirt's I have on the metaphorical wall.
    In my previous capacity, driving 3 to 400 miles a week up and down the A75/Solway coast and listening to the traffic news, I was so tempted on so many occasions to call R2 and tell them 2 sheep had delayed me by 30 seconds or that there was a queue of at least 4 cars at the temporary traffic lights in New Galloway.
    But that's just me.
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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    All the new toolboxes cos the manufacturers seem to think we need to see what's below the tote tray by giving us HALF A TOTE TRAY !!!!
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Pinno wrote:
    Having been a truck driver, I covered most of the UK. I love hearing that there's been yet another crash at the Hanger Lane junction or it's chock-a-block on the M4 as it's a bank holiday weekend, Reading has turned into a car park, the Henley Regatta is on and the A34 is a no no, the Dartford crossing is shut because of a light breeze... Makes me chuckle and think about all the T shirt's I have on the metaphorical wall.
    In my previous capacity, driving 3 to 400 miles a week up and down the A75/Solway coast and listening to the traffic news, I was so tempted on so many occasions to call R2 and tell them 2 sheep had delayed me by 30 seconds or that there was a queue of at least 4 cars at the temporary traffic lights in New Galloway.
    But that's just me.

    Surely you posted this in the wrong topic -- should this not be in the ' Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up topic '
  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    BikeRadar on twitter:
    6 Groupset Bargains

    Get a bit excited thinking someone has a banging deal on Ultegra, so click the link.

    Scroll through it to find 105 for £350. Since when is that a bargain? Bought mine when first released for £299, and has been as low as £280. And £350 is the going rate everywhere now thanks to brexit so hardly a chuffing bargain, despite how good it is.

    Fooled by the click bait...
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,333
    Cowsham wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Having ...me.

    Surely you posted this in the wrong topic -- should this not be in the ' Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up topic '

    It was just a response to 'The hundredth idiots'' mini rant but I agree nonetheless. Perhaps he was stuck on the A27 (again) and had to endure looking at signs for Polegate - that place is enough to make anyone a bit ill.
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  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,495
    Pinno wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Having ...me.

    Surely you posted this in the wrong topic -- should this not be in the ' Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up topic '

    It was just a response to 'The hundredth idiots'' mini rant but I agree nonetheless. Perhaps he was stuck on the A27 (again) and had to endure looking at signs for Polegate - that place is enough to make anyone a bit ill.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,333
    Tashman wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Having ...me.

    Surely you posted this in the wrong topic -- should this not be in the ' Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up topic '

    It was just a response to 'The hundredth idiots'' mini rant but I agree nonetheless. Perhaps he was stuck on the A27 (again) and had to endure looking at signs for Polegate - that place is enough to make anyone a bit ill.
    :lol::lol: That's where my parents live

    I had a GF from there. I once got on the train from Eastbourne to Polegate one Christmas. Can't remember why I didn't cycle. Some party goers were smoking funny stuff and drinking tinnies. I may have inhaled and had a tin. When I got off the train, there were these lights in the window of the DIY store, (the other side of the railway lines towards the Horse and Groom). I got mesmerised by the lights. Took a bit of explaining why I was late.
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  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    How come some folk can't manage to wait a minute or 2 to eat dinner whilst talking to someone?

    Twice today in the office, and yesterday, the same person has been talking to the director across the office whilst shoving their breakfast/lunch in their mouth.

    F*cking wait 2 minutes. Absolutely disgusting.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,823
    People eating breakfast in the office. Get up earlier and have breakfast before you leave the house.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Fat people eating salad in public.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Anyone under 25 using the phrase "All my life'.

    Beggars belief if they are under 20 :shock:

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