Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

seanoconn

hulla the hulla wrote:

people who can't say ask or specific

"he axed me"...

Racist!

And to be fair, specific is a tricky one

mfin

Cyclists

oblongomaculatus

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yes, compensatory behaviour. "I am important, it's just that the corporation I head is
having a little economy drive this week.

Alain Quay

The way that bloke says "Wicks". Annoying.

peat

WWwwwwwwix

bugsrabbit

the 'switcheroo' box that keeps popping up on this years eurosport tdf coverage.

mogrigg

Guy in the office who always responds, after his questions have been answered, with 'perfect' (with a double thumbs up) or 'awesome'!!!!

Philly8mt

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 .....

k-dog

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?

AchillesLeftKnee

"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!

verylonglegs

Pro race forum now reading like a football forum with all the bickering. Sad.

ballysmate

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

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!

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:

Giraffoto

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

AchillesLeftKnee

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?

finchy

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

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.

Giraffoto

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

Kieran_Burns

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....

mfin

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

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

arsene wenger and his penny pinching tightarse ways

alihisgreat

the playing mantis wrote:

arsene wenger and his penny pinching tightarse ways

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

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