Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,739
    hulla the hulla wrote:
    people who can't say ask or specific

    "he axed me"...
    Racist! :lol:

    And to be fair, specific is a tricky one
    Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Cyclists
  • oblongomaculatus
    oblongomaculatus Posts: 616
    Spending several hours a day cycling in the city of Cambridge, I probably see more than my fair share of annoying things. I will therefore be fitting my bike with phasers, which will enable me to take out:

    * Chelsea tractors on the school run that have seating for 8 adult passengers and contain one tiny child.

    * Open topped busses

    * Motorists who drive onto box junctions when there is clearly no room to drive off the other side, so when the lights change they block the traffic going the other way

    * Taxis that park in cycle lanes

    * Cyclists who ride through red lights at pedestrian crossings while I wait patiently for green

    * White vans

    * Tourists who step backwards off pavements while photographing an old building

    * Jeffrey Archer (well you never know your luck)


    All of the above will vanish in a cloud of blue smoke and a pleasing pfsssszt! sound, except for Jeffrey Archer, who will quack like a duck.
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    People with no situational awareness or consideration of others.

    Tractor ride at a kiddies farm today. Woman gets down from the trailer in front of us and then stops. Standing with her friends. No consideration of people getting off behind her.

    Eventually moves a bit so we get off then she stands right in front of the exit again. Argh. MOVE!
  • jawooga
    jawooga Posts: 530
    markhewitt1978 wrote:
    People with no situational awareness or consideration of others.

    I was going to try and be funny and say "women?" but I guess that would be very unfair :(
  • Essex Man
    Essex Man Posts: 283
    Modern photocopiers.

    When I was at university, quite some time ago now, you put something in the photocopier, pressed the button, and a copy came out pretty much straightaway.

    Now we have a new fancy photocopier at work, I went to copy a single page today. It was in sleep mode to save power. I woke it up, then it calibrated, adjusted colour palette, then allowed me to press the button to copy, which was still incredibly slow. 4 minutes to copy 1 page. WTF! How is Samsung going to give me those 4 minutes of my life back? I'll tell you, they aren't. THEY AREN'T!
  • Essex Man
    Essex Man Posts: 283
    markhewitt1978 wrote:
    People with no situational awareness or consideration of others.

    Tractor ride at a kiddies farm today. Woman gets down from the trailer in front of us and then stops. Standing with her friends. No consideration of people getting off behind her.

    Eventually moves a bit so we get off then she stands right in front of the exit again. Argh. MOVE!

    This is everyone who shops in Waitrose. Leave their trolley wherever is convenient for them.

    Except for me, of course.
  • Frank Wilson
    Frank Wilson Posts: 930
    People who feel the need to switch their mobile phone on the minute the plane lands, take it from me you are on a budget airline to Magaluf or Faro, you are not that important!
  • Alain Quay
    Alain Quay Posts: 534
    :lol: Yes, compensatory behaviour. "I am important, it's just that the corporation I head is
    having a little economy drive this week.
  • Alain Quay
    Alain Quay Posts: 534
    The way that bloke says "Wicks". Annoying.
  • peat
    peat Posts: 1,242
    WWwwwwwwix
  • bugsrabbit
    bugsrabbit Posts: 182
    the 'switcheroo' box that keeps popping up on this years eurosport tdf coverage.
  • mogrigg
    mogrigg Posts: 73
    Guy in the office who always responds, after his questions have been answered, with 'perfect' (with a double thumbs up) or 'awesome'!!!!
  • Philly8mt
    Philly8mt Posts: 552
    Smokers stood outside restaurants in freezing weather, in short sleeves/short dresses, puffing on fags!

    Queue jumpers

    People who don't hold the door open

    Is it really so hard to say please or thank you?

    Mansfield !!!!!

    The gobby tw@t ... Why is there always a gobby tw@t?

    Cold calls!

    I really should stop now .....
    Still thinking of something clever to say!
  • k-dog
    k-dog Posts: 1,652
    Can you spare 15-20 mins to answer some questions about your bank?

    Seriously? At 8:15 on a July Friday evening? Line I've got nothing better to do?

    And 15-20 minutes? Do they get any responses?
    I'm left handed, if that matters.
  • AchillesLeftKnee
    AchillesLeftKnee Posts: 713
    "I collect snails, and I collect horses"

    That bloody Samsung advert for whatever telly they're trying to flog now... the cutesy music is just to much! It's vomit-inducing. Stop it... please, please stop it!
    Mangeur
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    Pro race forum now reading like a football forum with all the bickering. Sad.
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,996
    Whatever job I am doing my missus insists on just adding the finishing touch or making a final adjustment. If she had been married to Michelangelo, as he finished the Sistine Chapel she would have grabbed the brush, insisting that he 'had missed a bit' and touched up a bit of paint.
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    Philly8mt wrote:
    Cold calls!

    I never answer the house phone now, although my wife does. Still, 100% of the time it's a cold call, despite being on the TPS. I'm thinking of just setting up an answerphone message which says "please call my mobile"
  • Peddle Up!
    Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
    markhewitt1978 wrote:
    Philly8mt wrote:
    Cold calls!

    I never answer the house phone now, although my wife does. Still, 100% of the time it's a cold call, despite being on the TPS. I'm thinking of just setting up an answerphone message which says "please call my mobile"

    In my experience the TPS is worse than useless. I expect they have a business development arm like the DVLA that is happy to do anything (like taking their company name off the register) for a handful of notes. :evil:
    Purveyor of "up" :)
  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    Funerals – there are serious things that bother me about the whole industry, but the trivial thing that annoys me is how so many people are so utterly ignorant of etiquette that they believe they have to do all sorts of inane things “out of respect” in the presence of a hearse, including (but not limited to)

    Not overtaking it on a motorway at 60mph

    Pulling over to the side of the road when they see it coming in the other direction

    Breaking off from selling me a bacon sandwich to stand to attention, looking sombre, for the ten seconds it took to zip past (without anything in the boot, mind)

    Stopping on bl00dy roundabouts when they see one in the distance, to let it through
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  • AchillesLeftKnee
    AchillesLeftKnee Posts: 713
    Giraffoto wrote:
    Breaking off from selling me a bacon sandwich to stand to attention, looking sombre, for the ten seconds it took to zip past (without anything in the boot, mind)
    He may have merely been currying favour with his supplier. Are you sure it was bacon?
    Mangeur
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    The Da Vinci Code. Even though I've never read it, the book annoys the hell out of me. No idea why.

    Adults queuing up all night to buy a Harry Potter book. You're an adult FFS. Buy a book for grown ups.
  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    johnfinch wrote:
    The Da Vinci Code. Even though I've never read it, the book annoys the hell out of me. No idea why.

    You are right to be annoyed. Reading it was like a sort of personal test of bloody-mindedness - similar to cycling really but without the good bits.
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  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    DesWeller wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    The Da Vinci Code. Even though I've never read it, the book annoys the hell out of me. No idea why.

    You are right to be annoyed. Reading it was like a sort of personal test of bloody-mindedness - similar to cycling really but without the good bits.

    I was particularly exasperated by the various puzzles and riddles that had had stumped the finest minds for centuries, but that I got while I was reading them. If you're going to include that sort of thing as a plot point, they should be more challenging that the Daily Express crossword
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Giraffoto wrote:
    DesWeller wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    The Da Vinci Code. Even though I've never read it, the book annoys the hell out of me. No idea why.

    You are right to be annoyed. Reading it was like a sort of personal test of bloody-mindedness - similar to cycling really but without the good bits.

    I was particularly exasperated by the various puzzles and riddles that had had stumped the finest minds for centuries, but that I got while I was reading them. If you're going to include that sort of thing as a plot point, they should be more challenging that the Daily Express crossword

    I randomly changed the covers on all of his books one time. I couldn't tell which was which afterwards....
    Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    People who say 'are you coming with?' instead of 'are you coming with me/us?' ...and other similar examples.

    Mostly I first heard this from South Africans, but now it's idiots too.
  • Bwgan
    Bwgan Posts: 389
    Toilets with automatic taps, soap dispensers and hand driers and yet you still have to grab the piss dripping door handle to get out!
  • the playing mantis
    the playing mantis Posts: 2,129
    arsene wenger and his penny pinching tightarse ways
  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    the playing mantis wrote:
    arsene wenger and his penny pinching tightarse ways

    Offering £35m for Suarez isn't exactly penny pinching is it :wink:

    (although maybe its just PR and he knows he won't get him, but at least he can say he tried :lol: )

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