Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

MountainMonster

I hate Morissons self service checkout with a passion, they are terrible compared to waitrose or Tescos

jjsh

People who call tomato ketchup 'red sauce'. I know there is a condiment called 'brown sauce' that is also brown, but the red coloured condiment, famously manufactured by Heinz, et al, is called tomato ketchup. TOMATO KETCHUP.

Just because it's red, doesn't mean it is called 'Red Sauce'. OK? :evil:

markhewitt1978

MountainMonster wrote:

I hate Morissons self service checkout with a passion, they are terrible compared to waitrose or Tescos

Most shops, M&S, Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury's, all use the NCR self checkouts, and they work fine. Morrisons use Siemens, and as you say, they are terrible and hardly work

andi1363

Commuters who think the're roadies.

desweller

Use of the word 'guesstimate'.

People who add 'pre-' in front of 'warning'. Well, that's a warning then, isn't it?

marylogic

When people add "back" after "re" words:

Revert back
Regress back
etc...

Giraffoto

DesWeller wrote:

People who add 'pre-' in front of 'warning'. Well, that's a warning then, isn't it?

I'm fairly sure that putting "pro" in front of "active" is pointless, too. If you're not being reactive, you're just being active aren't you?

markhewitt1978

Giraffoto wrote:

DesWeller wrote:

People who add 'pre-' in front of 'warning'. Well, that's a warning then, isn't it?

I'm fairly sure that putting "pro" in front of "active" is pointless, too. If you're not being reactive, you're just being active aren't you?

I'd say proactive has it's place, it means you are dealing with the problem before it occurs.

Giraffoto

markhewitt1978 wrote:

Giraffoto wrote:

DesWeller wrote:

People who add 'pre-' in front of 'warning'. Well, that's a warning then, isn't it?

I'm fairly sure that putting "pro" in front of "active" is pointless, too. If you're not being reactive, you're just being active aren't you?

I'd say proactive has it's place, it means you are dealing with the problem before it occurs.

That's pre-emptive. My theory is that most of this workplace language came about in one of two ways: one was that people with very poor vocabularies weren't aware of their poor vocabulary, and so thought that a word had to be invented if they couldn't think of one (proactive, for example). The other was people not having the confidence to believe that the way they spoke could be right, and so coming up with a more convoluted version of it to sound more formal (always saying "utilize" instead of "use", and the extraneous -self)

thomthom

Tennis in general is pretty f'ucking annoying.

MountainMonster

One of my new ones from today:

People in lines who don't pay attention at all when waiting and despite 4 different people saying "that line is open, go to number 6" they finally after 30 seconds of brain dead.

k-dog

People in lines who as soon as you move bump into you. You move forward a little to get some space and they move up so they're touching you again.

FatTed

K-Dog do you mean Frotteurism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frotteurism

Giraffoto

I was recently queueing at a supermarket when the guy in front moved forward a couple of paces, and the one behind me said, "there's space to move now" when I didn't step forward to fill the gap. And it's not like . . .
(1) Anyone else would have jumped in front of me
(2) Anyone behind me needed to get out of the way
(3) It made any difference whatsoever
(4) I hadn't already put my couple of milk bottle on the conveyor belt
. . . so I beat him senseless with a giant Toblerone and left him bound and gagged in the freezer under a pile of oven chips. Or did I just fantasize that?

jordan_217

Using terms such as "break away", "chasing down" and "lead out" when talking about a 40 mile H4H charity sportive. You tubby all the gear, no idea wannabe. YOU ARE NOT IN THE PRO PELETON - ARRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!

dee4life2005

Cars - usually 4x4's or BMW's, that insist on joining a queue of traffic to the point of blocking a roundabout (or side-road) to the inconsideration of other motorists. Or folk that don't bother to indicate, especially if the only other traffic is a cyclist (me) ... do they think we're psychic ?

marylogic

Bring back the lost art of indicating!

And while we're at it pavements and cycle lanes are NOT carparks.

markhewitt1978

marylogic wrote:

Bring back the lost art of indicating!

And while we're at it pavements and cycle lanes are NOT carparks.

Like on this road http://goo.gl/maps/C8UYp in the evening the cycle lane there is *full* of cars parked, it would be better if didn't exist at all.

BelgianBeerGeek

JJSH wrote:

People who call tomato ketchup 'red sauce'. I know there is a condiment called 'brown sauce' that is also brown, but the red coloured condiment, famously manufactured by Heinz, et al, is called tomato ketchup. TOMATO KETCHUP.

Just because it's red, doesn't mean it is called 'Red Sauce'. OK? :evil:

Or people who call it "Tommy K". ****ers

markhewitt1978

JJSH wrote:

People who call tomato ketchup 'red sauce'. I know there is a condiment called 'brown sauce' that is also brown, but the red coloured condiment, famously manufactured by Heinz, et al, is called tomato ketchup. TOMATO KETCHUP.

Just because it's red, doesn't mean it is called 'Red Sauce'. OK? :evil:

Are you American? It's TOMATO SAUCE.

Alain Quay

Women who purchase a large black or white 4 x4 then dress in a way that co-ordinates with their car.

Alain Quay

The re-working of popular history e.g. in the 1970s everybody listened to Abba and went to discos.

Any article in the Telegraph, where in the reader comments section, the most xenophobic
comments get the most 'recommends'. And they think they are custodians of all that is respectable.

Mr Guardian cliche, i.e. the guy who no matter what the current global crisis is, will always
blame it on the USA.

finchy

BelgianBeerGeek wrote:

JJSH wrote:

People who call tomato ketchup 'red sauce'. I know there is a condiment called 'brown sauce' that is also brown, but the red coloured condiment, famously manufactured by Heinz, et al, is called tomato ketchup. TOMATO KETCHUP.

Just because it's red, doesn't mean it is called 'Red Sauce'. OK? :evil:

Or people who call it "Tommy K". ****ers

And people who call McDonald's "Maccy D's". And French people who call it "McDo". Which is all of them, so basically the French.

Giraffoto

johnfinch wrote:

And people who call McDonald's "Maccy D's". And French people who call it "McDo". Which is all of them, so basically the French.

Is "Maccas" OK? It's a habit I picked up in Australia and, to be honest, suits them better than their proper name

team47b

people here eat at muc doo?

RDW

Going into a shop on a hot day and reaching for a can or bottle in the drinks fridge, only to find it's only been in there for 5 minutes and is still at room temperature. Less annoying if you can find a cold one at the back (but then why didn't they re-arrange them when re-stocking the fridge?). Most annoying of all if you excavate to the back of the fridge and they're all warm.

finchy

Giraffoto wrote:

johnfinch wrote:

And people who call McDonald's "Maccy D's". And French people who call it "McDo". Which is all of them, so basically the French.

Is "Maccas" OK? It's a habit I picked up in Australia and, to be honest, suits them better than their proper name

No, it's not OK. Don't do it again. And neither is calling Wilkinson's (the shop) "Wilko's".

ballysmate

johnfinch wrote:

Giraffoto wrote:

johnfinch wrote:

And people who call McDonald's "Maccy D's". And French people who call it "McDo". Which is all of them, so basically the French.

Is "Maccas" OK? It's a habit I picked up in Australia and, to be honest, suits them better than their proper name

No, it's not OK. Don't do it again. And neither is calling Wilkinson's (the shop) "Wilko's".

Take it you never shopped at 'Woollies' then?

finchy

^^^ No

Daz555

johnfinch wrote:

No, it's not OK. Don't do it again. And neither is calling Wilkinson's (the shop) "Wilko's".

This is how the company commonly refers to itself. http://www.wilko.com/

I don't think I've ever heard people use the full name to describe Wilko.