Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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No. I thought you were astride a fine stallion, decked out in your hunting finery. You could give me a blast of your hunting horn. Tally Ho!seanoconn wrote:
So I've got to buy a bike horn to get you to acknowledge me!Ballysmate wrote:seanoconn wrote:People that dawdle across zebra crossings without giving any acknowledgement to the person who's stopped to let them cross.
Next time, give me a few blasts of the horn and I will give you a cheery wave.
Or the Norse god, Heimdallr 0 -
The endless number of "What Wheels" should I buy threads on this forum, that really annoys me!0
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That's not the first time I've been likened to a Norse God or been told I have a big hornBallysmate wrote:
No. I thought you were astride a fine stallion, decked out in your hunting finery. You could give me a blast of your hunting horn. Tally Ho!seanoconn wrote:
So I've got to buy a bike horn to get you to acknowledge me!Ballysmate wrote:seanoconn wrote:People that dawdle across zebra crossings without giving any acknowledgement to the person who's stopped to let them cross.
Next time, give me a few blasts of the horn and I will give you a cheery wave.
Or the Norse god, Heimdallr Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי0 -
people who have there umbrella up when its not raining any longer. you can clearly hear its not raining by the lack of spatter on your brolly, and the fact others around you no longer have theirs up.0
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Giraffoto wrote:the playing mantis wrote:Fat people on zebra crossings. Waddle on even slower, you weebling lardarse[!] And [then they] have the temerity to walk off it at an angle[, out] of the confines of the black and white, taking even longer to clear the way.
Phew, you don't punctuate much when you're upset, do you? My trivial annoyance with people on crossings is that strange shambling half trot that people do. It's meant to look like they're hurrying - they may even believe that they are hurrying - but it's slower than a regular walk. And the Green Cross Code tells you to walk. Don't run! Walk!
if they refuse to put a spell/grammar checker function in, im not going to do the job for them!0 -
The Mantis once opened a post using an upper case letter. Now it appears he has mastered the exclamation mark. Perhaps one day he will discover the comma and full stop. One day, in the distant future, he may well use all of these new tools at his disposal, in the one post.0
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people in trilby hats, unless they are over the age of 60 or maybe 50. basically young blokes in trilby hats. you know what kind of person they are going to be.
Likewise young blokes (unless you are northern and own a whippet, on a shoot, live on a farm, or invloved in (work or leisure) another country type pursuit/activity or are in the countryside) wearing flat caps. people in london or other urban areas (unless its market day and you are driving your cattle in or some cockney fruit and veg seller) wearing them. again you know what type of person they are going to be.
i wear one on occasion, when im in the countryside, in my barbour and hunters...but i come from a farming background, and im in the country so its ok, but i wouldnt wear one in town or on a train commute, (unless i was on a countryside alliance march which i wouldnt be cos they are bell ends), as i would look a twat.
***i didnt write fool, i wrote twit, but with an a in place of the i.***0 -
Staff in newsagency chains who try to coerce customers into buying a Galaxy bar with their newspaper.
These people should be required to wear a badge "Obesity Advocate".0 -
When you pull on to a main road from a side junction, with due consideration and respect for oncoming traffic etc. You exhibit some skillful acceleration and 'going through the gears', and are up to speed of the main road traffic within seconds. Yet the guy 100m down the road decides that he should be put out by your manoeuvre and accelerates to right up our arse to prove that you were out of order. Fck'ing muppet.0
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jawooga wrote:When you pull on to a main road from a side junction, with due consideration and respect for oncoming traffic etc. You exhibit some skillful acceleration and 'going through the gears', and are up to speed of the main road traffic within seconds. Yet the guy 100m down the road decides that he should be put out by your manoeuvre and accelerates to right up our ars* to prove that you were out of order. Fck'ing muppet.
I find these are the same twats that spend 99% of the time middle land hogging only to move into the insode lane to do just what you say. Cunch of bunts the lot of them0 -
junglist_matty wrote:The endless number of "What Wheels" should I buy threads on this forum, that really annoys me!
When somebody posts such a question (or any 'What XYZ?' question) and gets the answer "lose weight".
Maybe I'm just no good at spotting the inference that "Should I buy Campag Zondas or Fulcrum Racing 3?" means "I'm a bit of porker, how can I go faster?"
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When people refer to Tomato Ketchup as 'Red Sauce'
Does my head in!!!0 -
Those silly Halifax ads with the choir. Is singing a pre-req. for getting a job there? Daft.0
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When someone refers to their bike as a 'steed'. Or 'machine'. Or 'rig'. Or 'cycle'. Like my local CTC group, which has a page telling you to 'maintain full control of your cycle'. Which sounds like sound advice for someone suffering from lycanthropism.
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On Strava.{/url}0 -
Modern music - I can't stand the amount of songs I hear that, for no reason, rap in the middle of it. Could be a pop, dance or some other genre and half way through, some twunt gets 30 seconds of talking sh!t in the middle of it. WHY? There is plenty of hiphop in the charts without it bleeding into every other bloody song out there.
Examples of worst offenders - Maroon 5 - Payphone, Jessie J - Pricetag. Plus any other song that descends into lyrical dog turd.0 -
crispybug2 wrote:When people refer to Tomato Ketchup as 'Red Sauce'
Does my head in!!!
Calling some of the the products 'Red Sauce' would be more gastronomically correct that saying 'Tomato Ketchup'
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Saw a sign on a restaurant that said Breakfast, any time -- so I ordered French Toast in the Renaissance.0 -
Garden hedges which protrude way beyond where they should so that pedestrians are forced onto the road to get around. Limboing beneath is not an option with my bad back.0
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Doctor House wrote:Garden hedges which protrude way beyond where they should so that pedestrians are forced onto the road to get around. Limboing beneath is not an option with my bad back.
You can get on to the Council about this. They will send a letter to the home owner, and if it's not acted on the Council will cut it and charge the owner.Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
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Proud CX Pervert and quiet roadie. 12 mile commuter0 -
Short hand text speak really winds me up, if I receive a message with bad grammar I will not reply. Can i txt someone? How difficult is it to add an E t(e)xt!
Also, seeing a pretty girl, nice smile, then pulls out a cigarette, now I know people smoke, I just get so dissapointed as i can't bear it or the smell.0 -
dont worry they werent smiling at you....0
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you are right, they were more amused at how ridiculous my beard looks when i tell them i won't shave until it snows0
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people who cant detect sarcasm in forum posts wihout the aide of a smiley.
btw this wasnt aimed at u beardy. this was just in general. ur reaction was fine.0 -
people who take online forums way to seriously and take umbrage at things0
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people who post on internet forums0
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the fact that i dont really know the difference between and when to use correctly. aid and aide. effect and affect. etc
actually i do know about effect and affect. i just couldnt think of any other examples0 -
How about when people use the words "there" "their" and "they're" all incorrectly0
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people who queue up in waitrose (or your chosen supermarket, this happens to be the one nearest my office) at lunchtime (or anytime for that matter) and refuse to use the self service, card payment only machines, and upon payment at the manned tills pay with a card (and dont ask for cash back or anything like that would just about justify such a thing) thus waisting the time of the people in the queue behind them who are paying with cash.0
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MrJoe23 wrote:How about when people use the words "there" "their" and "they're" all incorrectly
yep, and those who cant be ar*ed to check their own postings for such usage. it must be really annoying reading peoples post who dont spell check, use caps etc.0 -
people who park next to you in car parks, when you have deliberately parked out of the way to avoid having someone next to you.
for example, when you have a new car, or a dog that barks whenever it sees someone walk past when its left alone in a car and you are at the supermarket. you park in the emptiest furthest away spot, (be it to stop the dog going mental, or as you have new car syndrome and are trying to do everything you can to keep its body work pristine, until the ineviatble happens and it all goes downhill) and when you come back out of the shop, some pr*ck has parked next to you, despite having myriad other spots to park in.
another example, if you are in a secluded spot, be it beach carpark, forest car park, or some parking area in the countryside at some beauty spot you park out of the way away from other cars, in a nice quiet secluded spot (be it for whatever reason! including adult ones and non adult, such as parking in the corner of a clifftop cornish beach carpark that is a field most of the year, and getting everyone out the car and putting a rug on the grass to have a picnic before decending the many steps to the beach), and some bell end pulls up right next to you 5 minutes later, despite them having plenty of other spots, and (in the non adult cornish beach car park scenario) despite them seeing you and your frineds/family sitting on the grass beside your car in the out of the way spot you chose.0 -
the playing mantis wrote:people who park next to you in car parks, when you have deliberately parked out of the way to avoid having someone next to you.
Even if yours is the only other car in the car park, most people will not be able to park anywhere other than next to you. If you're lucky it will be diagonally 1 space away, most often it is just next to you. And as you glance in the window of their car as you side-step through the impossibly narrow gap they have left you see empty crisp bags, chocolate wrappers, and McD's cartons strewn about their car and you know that car is driven by a very fat person and you know there's no way that very fat person managed to get out of their car without bashing their door against your car. And you know as they lifted their considerable bulk out the seat that their car rose 3 inches while their door was pressed hard against your car and the bare and slightly rusty metal of that door cut deep into your paintwork during its 3 inch journey.
I feel your pain.0
