Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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neeb wrote:Looks like this was briefly touched on a few pages back, but I really have to have a proper rant about it...
ESCALATORS... 1) People who block them by standing two abreast. Usually couples. 2) people who think that slightly narrower escalators are not wide enough for someone to pass, and so stand right in the middle blocking the way, when in fact there is plenty room to pass (even if you are as fat as such people generally are). 3) Any fully able-bodied person who ever stands going down an escalator. Ok, I know this seems to be about 95% of the population and so I am not making a lot of friends here, but WTF?? I just don't get why anyone would want to spend 30 seconds of their life standing like an idiot on a moving stair going down when you can run down in 5 seconds with a minimal expenditure of energy. And these people are often also guilty of 1) or 2) as well. 4) People who walk/run up or down an escalator, thus blocking the "fast" lane, but do so incredibly slowly. Pull into the standing lane and let me pass, for F's sake!! 5) People who commit any of the above sins and then have the temerity to appear displeased or unhelpful when you politely ask to get past, as if you are somehow at fault for not wanting to spend 30 seconds or a minute staring at their fat ars*.
The cumulative effect of all this is that about 70% of the time I use an escalator, I am needlessly obstructed, which is often several times a day. Perhaps a machete is the answer.
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neeb wrote:
Aaarggh, tell me about it. I often give them a fright by jumping clean over their luggage, which they have helpfully positioned on the other side of the travelator instead of in front or behind them.Ballysmate wrote:
Don't forget people who block travelators at airports etc. They stand blocking your path and you have to stand and watch people on the concourse walking past you. These moving pavements are brilliant for moving people quickly, but every time people see a moving pavement or escalator, they seem to lose control of their legs.
And then there are these arrival gates at heathrow where there is only an escalator (invariably blocked by people and their carry-on luggage) and no stairs.
not this, when im using them im just going the gate that usually still has ages left, so getting there quicker means bordom at the gate...the travelling kills a tiny bit of time0 -
Things that annoy me when driving:
Following a car down a lane when you come up to a row of parked cars on your side with a car coming the other way which means that you and the car in front have to stop until it's clear to pass the parked cars. Why does the car in front then indicate right to show that they are pulling out to pass the parked cars? Do they think that I think they are suddenly going to park in the middle of the road behind the parked vehicles or drive straight into them!
Then probably the same drivers going round the roundabouts in the city of dreams that is Milton Keynes who do not indicate at all to show what exit they are taking or where they are going.
And then when driving in the outside lane of a motorway or dual carriageway, just as you come up to the rear of a car on the inside lane they suddenly indicate to come out, so you don't know if they are going to pull out and cut you up or will wait until you pass. Why don't they wait until the outside lane is clear and just pull out?
And finally, when on my bike down a country lane and a car overtakes with no other cars about when they are about 50 yards ahead they indicate left to show they are coming back over to the left hand side of the road- do they think I am suddenly going to accelerate up to 40MPH and come up the inside of them!0 -
The non-indicating points I accept, but to criticise when people DO indicate is wrong. All drivers should indicate every change of direction/lane and it's good practice to be able to do this automatically at all times. I even find myself indicating when I'm coming out of my driveway
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Christmas is nearly upon us, and there's one thing about Christmas that annoys me - miserable g!ts that say they hate Christmas, then reel off a list of things about Christmas that they hate, and then when you say something reasonable like, "Well, just don't do those things you grumpy b@$st@rd" they say, "but you've got to, it's Christmas".
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Giraffoto wrote:Christmas is nearly upon us, and there's one thing about Christmas that annoys me - miserable g!ts that say they hate Christmas, then reel off a list of things about Christmas that they hate, and then when you say something reasonable like, "Well, just don't do those things you grumpy b@$st@rd" they say, "but you've got to, it's Christmas".
Scrooge picked out the wrong people to bury with a stake of holly through their heart . . .
I am one that detests Xmas, but I realise that there is a minimum expectation/requirement to be met in our household, if there is to be anything approaching domestic harmony. ie I do just enough to keep the missus happy.0 -
I like Christmas, I just hate the way that retailers and the media start it off at the beginning of November, so that by the time it actually arrives you are already sick of it... There are only supposed to be 12 days of Christmas, and the first one isn't until 25th December!
When dealing with the usual excesses of the season, I find it helps to remember that it is actually a pagan solstice festival of eating and drinking, not an austere Christian festival that has been subsequently corrupted. The eating, drinking and partying came first (along with Christmas trees, holly, mistletoe etc), it's the Christians who corrupted it!0 -
the day in the lead up to Christmas when someone discovers it was originally a pagan festival.
happens every year.0 -
The more people who discover it the more it will be general knowledge and the fewer people will need to discover it, thus decreasing your annoyance levels over time..florerider wrote:the day in the lead up to Christmas when someone discovers it was originally a pagan festival.
happens every year.
It's generally not a problem in Finland where I am, because the word for Christmas is still Joulu (same roots as the Germanic Yule), so it doesn't take much discovering. Oh, and the Finns certainly know how to drink and party at this time of year...
<edit> But the point is that it is STILL a pagan festival, not that it originally was. Most of the things that we do at Christmas have more to do with the pagan concept of the festival than the Christian one.0 -
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Painting over hinges/handles/hooks on doors. Drives me nuts.
I don't mind when they're old and scruffy but my dad's been helping me paint recently - at home and at work. Just paints everything gloss white. They were brand new doors with new chrome hinges and handles. Not any more for the sake of a few minutes taping or unscrewing.I'm left handed, if that matters.0 -
And any other time of year. I saw two blokes crawling on hands & knees somewhere near Jyväskylä when I was there a few years ago, being led by what turned out to be their wives. By all accounts lone farmers meet up in a mutually acceptable location and drink until they can drink no more, then they drink a shed load more and have to be guided home in a bit of a state. Marvellous.florerider wrote:the Finns certainly know how to drink and party at this time of year...0 -
I need to go to Finland, kindly direct me to the nearest airport.CiB wrote:
And any other time of year. I saw two blokes crawling on hands & knees somewhere near Jyväskylä when I was there a few years ago, being led by what turned out to be their wives. By all accounts lone farmers meet up in a mutually acceptable location and drink until they can drink no more, then they drink a shed load more and have to be guided home in a bit of a state. Marvellous.florerider wrote:the Finns certainly know how to drink and party at this time of year...0 -
CiB wrote:
And any other time of year. I saw two blokes crawling on hands & knees somewhere near Jyväskylä when I was there a few years ago, being led by what turned out to be their wives. By all accounts lone farmers meet up in a mutually acceptable location and drink until they can drink no more, then they drink a shed load more and have to be guided home in a bit of a state. Marvellous.florerider wrote:the Finns certainly know how to drink and party at this time of year...
Florerider did not actually say this,
But he has been to Finland a few times and can attest it is true 0 -
Yeah, I'm in Helsinki, but in the sticks they're even worse. There's a wonderful tradition in Lapland, where the mosquitoes are a complete nightmare during the summer. You always react worst to the first few bites of the year until your immune system gets used to it again, so some people wait until the beginning of the mosquito season, drink enough vodka to be completely senseless, and then go and lie in a bog for a few hours just to get it over with...CiB wrote:And any other time of year. I saw two blokes crawling on hands & knees somewhere near Jyväskylä when I was there a few years ago, being led by what turned out to be their wives. By all accounts lone farmers meet up in a mutually acceptable location and drink until they can drink no more, then they drink a shed load more and have to be guided home in a bit of a state. Marvellous.
I was moaning in another thread about the very limited racing season here. Basically, there are a few races incredibly early in the season when the snow has barely gone, and then it all stops before the beginning of July because everyone in Finland spends most of the summer in their mökit (country cottages) drinking beer, fishing and going to sauna.0 -
Dog Breath wrote:The non-indicating points I accept, but to criticise when people DO indicate is wrong. All drivers should indicate every change of direction/lane and it's good practice to be able to do this automatically at all times. I even find myself indicating when I'm coming out of my driveway
I completely disagree with this. Most of the 'automatic' indicating that I see is done without any apparent awareness of other road users. If the drivers were really that competent they would wait and indicate when appropriate and not just stick their indicators on without any regard to the position of other drivers on the road. Indicating that you are about to pass parked cars is totally unnecessary and it also means that the driver behind does not know if the driver is actually going to do a sharp right turn into a driveway or something,0 -
Just try 'not signalling' on a driving test and see what happens eh?
As usual on forums, what people say is often mis-interpreted. I in no way said or implied 'just sticking their indicators on without any regard...', as this is total wrong. Everyone should always be aware of everything they are doing in the car at all times. If you see a vehicle ahead of you indicating right, you know they intend to make a manoever and you then drive accordingly in anticipation of that.Planet-X SL Pro Carbon.
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Dog Breath wrote:Just try 'not signalling' on a driving test and see what happens eh?
As usual on forums, what people say is often mis-interpreted. I in no way said or implied 'just sticking their indicators on without any regard...', as this is total wrong. Everyone should always be aware of everything they are doing in the car at all times. If you see a vehicle ahead of you indicating right, you know they intend to make a manoever and you then drive accordingly in anticipation of that.
That's my point, there are an awful lot of drivers who do just stick their indicators on without any regard. I have lost count of the number of times when I have been in the fast lane and just as I'm about to pass someone on the inside lane they stick their right hand indicator on- are they going to come straight out or what?
And I don't need someone who I have been following for a while to signal to tell me that they are going to pass some parked cars - I can work out for myself that they 'intend to manoeuvre ' because otherwise they would drive into the back of the parked vehicles.0 -
I'm not a weak man (aside from when it comes to resisting temptation
) but packets, tins etc., seem to be getting harder to open.
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That funny thing on a car's dashboard that tells you you are always in the wrong gear.0
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People over reacting to the deaths of minor celebs that they didn't even know.0
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People who have their first child and act as if they are the first people in the world to have had this (admittedly precious) experience. Triggered by Robbie Williams!!0
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Folk who write "Stuff" when either selling or describing items they are looking to sell!
If you can't be arsed telling folk what you're selling - you dont deserve to sell it IMO!0 -
People who use the word "like" completely out of context!
It's such an Americanism and it gets right on my chebs! I blame crap Yank TV that all these girls seem to want to watch!!!!
Worst thing is, my best mates wife like says it like all the effing time, and it makes me like want to like slap her in the face, but my mate's like bigger than me and might like smash me up! Although, like personally, I reckon he's not like much of a best mate if he's like prepared to put his like wife before like his best like mate!?!?!?!?!!?Scott CR1 Pro (Build in progress!!)
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Haha! A few years ago, my granddad (bless him, he's sadly no longer with us), decided to help me decorate my living room, I had to go to the DIY shop and get some new rollers or summat, so left him to it.k-dog wrote:Painting over hinges/handles/hooks on doors. Drives me nuts.
I don't mind when they're old and scruffy but my dad's been helping me paint recently - at home and at work. Just paints everything gloss white. They were brand new doors with new chrome hinges and handles. Not any more for the sake of a few minutes taping or unscrewing.
Now, bear in mind that this fella was a very capable "hands on" kind of bloke, he was a welder in the Royal and Merchant navy's for many a year, he decided, in all of his engineering capacity, that he couldn't be a*sed to unscrew the light switches and/or simply paint round them, and thought "I'm just gonna paint straight over them, that'll look really nice"!!! To this day, we still have "Country Willow" green light switches in our sitting room!!
Cheers Noisy granddad! Love you and miss you loads, but please, never do anyone's decorating for them ever again!!! Scott CR1 Pro (Build in progress!!)
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The use of the word 'Bidon'.
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