Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • RDW
    RDW Posts: 1,900
    Blu-ray TV boxed sets with exactly the same menu on every disc which, when you select an episode that isn't actually on that disc, 'helpfully' tells you to insert the next disc. This is annoying because there's no other way of knowing whether the episode is actually on the disc without digging out the inlay card, and my old BD player takes ages to go through the ritual of telling me I need to change disc.
  • neeb
    neeb Posts: 4,473
    Words with meanings that are effectively opposites but that sound almost the same, so you can never remember which is which. Like stalactite and stalagmite.
  • graham.
    graham. Posts: 862
    neeb wrote:
    Words with meanings that are effectively opposites but that sound almost the same, so you can never remember which is which. Like stalactite and stalagmite.

    "Tites" come down. :D
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  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    verylonglegs wrote:
    People wanting sponsorship for giving up alcohol for a month. Really?!

    "Dry Athletes"! People come into the office and say they didn't have anything to drink last night / over the weekend. Wow.
  • smoggysteve
    smoggysteve Posts: 2,909
    neeb wrote:
    Words with meanings that are effectively opposites but that sound almost the same, so you can never remember which is which. Like stalactite and stalagmite.

    Tried many a time to explain the very important difference between hyperthermia nd hypothermia. Some people just don't get it
  • smoggysteve
    smoggysteve Posts: 2,909
    markhewitt1978 wrote:
    verylonglegs wrote:
    People wanting sponsorship for giving up alcohol for a month. Really?!

    "Dry Athletes"! People come into the office and say they didn't have anything to drink last night / over the weekend. Wow.

    I have an athlete friend who tried to tell me he had been dry for 6 months. I know he's lying, he's a swimmer!! ;-)
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    "Internet" and "Intranet"

    For diabetes sufferers a "hypo" and a "hyper"
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    Non News. ie; Jessica Ennis is Pregnant.......... who gives a flying wotsit?
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  • FatTed
    FatTed Posts: 1,205
    Mr Goo wrote:
    Non News. ie; Jessica Ennis is Pregnant.......... who gives a flying wotsit?

    Jessica?
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    neeb wrote:
    Words with meanings that are effectively opposites but that sound almost the same, so you can never remember which is which. Like stalactite and stalagmite.

    c for ceiling and g for ground.

    If we're going down this path, then people who use the word that SOUNDS like the one they want but is nothing like it.

    Classic example: got an email yesterday where the author said this person was trying their upmost to achieve the result.

    Siiiiiiiiigh....
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    edited January 2014
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    neeb wrote:
    Words with meanings that are effectively opposites but that sound almost the same, so you can never remember which is which. Like stalactite and stalagmite.

    c for ceiling and g for ground.

    If we're going down this path, then people who use the word that SOUNDS like the one they want but is nothing like it.

    Classic example: got an email yesterday where the author said this person was trying their upmost to achieve the result.

    Siiiiiiiiigh....
    You should 0f got used to it by now

    (EDIT: to get around the stupid grammar corrector!)
  • k-dog
    k-dog Posts: 1,652
    edited January 2014
    double
    I'm left handed, if that matters.
  • k-dog
    k-dog Posts: 1,652
    bompington wrote:
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    neeb wrote:
    Words with meanings that are effectively opposites but that sound almost the same, so you can never remember which is which. Like stalactite and stalagmite.

    c for ceiling and g for ground.

    If we're going down this path, then people who use the word that SOUNDS like the one they want but is nothing like it.

    Classic example: got an email yesterday where the author said this person was trying their upmost to achieve the result.

    Siiiiiiiiigh....
    You should have got used to it by now

    You missed the obvious joke there - should of! Amazing, this board corrects grammar. I'm trying to write 'should o f' and it won't let me. Maybe you did make the joke and it won't let you.

    That's only going to get worse I think - I'm on another large board mostly perused by teenagers and sometimes you have to say it out loud to work out what they were saying - they obviously haven't read or written enough to learn properly - they just write what they hear which when you know what the words mean doesn't make any sense.
    I'm left handed, if that matters.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    k-dog wrote:
    Amazing, this board corrects grammar. I'm trying to write 'should o f' and it won't let me. Maybe you did make the joke and it won't let you.
    Have course I did make the obvious joke, it's what I do. A bit scunnered at the grammar correction!
  • k-dog
    k-dog Posts: 1,652
    Ah, splendid. I've never noticed before that spelling gets corrected - doesn't effect me much you sea!
    I'm left handed, if that matters.
  • Cygnus
    Cygnus Posts: 1,879
    Ladettes.
  • Ber Nard
    Ber Nard Posts: 827
    People who post on forums just to publicise their blog.

    Rob
  • gingaman
    gingaman Posts: 576
    People that pronounce Sram as ES-Ram
  • BillyMansell
    BillyMansell Posts: 817
    People who go jogging in all the lurid gear stretched to its elastic limit over their bloated bodies but are too busy playing with their music or chatting to another "jogger" to actually be jogging any quicker than I can walk.
  • k-dog
    k-dog Posts: 1,652
    ^yes. That and people who go to the gym (and especially the circuit classes) and them in the locker room say that they'll stay for the next class too.

    If you could do it again you didn't do it properly the first time.
    I'm left handed, if that matters.
  • gingaman
    gingaman Posts: 576
    People that choose to wear their shoes like this D1F8F8EF-178F-4E33-BEE8-A04259CD84BA_zps1iqzw1sc.jpg
  • dov2711
    dov2711 Posts: 131
    Socks that are sized 6-11 as if it's one size fits all. If they fit a size 11 foot they are size 11 socks. Stop trying to pretend they will neatly fit smaller feet without the heel being half way up my calf. :evil: trivial yep, annoy me to the point of ranting regularly yep.
  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    dov2711 wrote:
    Socks that are sized 6-11 as if it's one size fits all. If they fit a size 11 foot they are size 11 socks. Stop trying to pretend they will neatly fit smaller feet without the heel being half way up my calf. :evil: trivial yep, annoy me to the point of ranting regularly yep.

    Shoes that are available as 6-11, and a shelf right at the back of the shop with the one or two styles that are available in a 12
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  • Peddle Up!
    Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
    Giraffoto wrote:
    dov2711 wrote:
    Socks that are sized 6-11 as if it's one size fits all. If they fit a size 11 foot they are size 11 socks. Stop trying to pretend they will neatly fit smaller feet without the heel being half way up my calf. :evil: trivial yep, annoy me to the point of ranting regularly yep.

    Shoes that are available as 6-11, and a shelf right at the back of the shop with the one or two styles that are available in a 12

    One or two. Think yourself lucky. My opening question is usually "do you have anything in a twelve?" :?
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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    When you've been queuing for half an hour to get through a set of temporary traffic lights at some roadworks and you get there to find that the ONLY thing causing an obstruction for you to drive around is the 30 metres of cones protecting the box that controls the traffic lights.


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    When someone precedes some utterly minor hardship with the phrase, 'There's nothing worse than...'
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  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    DesWeller wrote:
    When someone precedes some utterly minor hardship with the phrase, 'There's nothing worse than...'

    Or when someone starts with, 'I'm sure everyone agrees that . . ." and then comes out with a statement that would raise eyebrows at a cross burning.
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  • izza
    izza Posts: 1,561
    Eating
    - The eating of apple cores; there's a reason the seeds are in hard cases. they are inedible.
    - People who keep their mouth open; once a mouthful of food is in, there is no need to show me puree.

    Listening
    - Nick Grimshaw; if I want hospital radio I'd break my legs on purpose, so why broadcast him nationally

    Speaking
    - If you don't hide your number and leave a voice message of "It's me, call back" - don't. I'll see the missed call and will phone anyway.

    Bruce Forsyth
    - Enough said

    Shopping
    - No discount for scanning your own goods; I pay a shop to display, provide, price and pack the goods. If I'm doing the latter on their behalf then I am owed money for my time.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    This f**king chess software is really starting to annoy me now. If it beats me once more, I'm taking my computer for a swimming race.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Coffee culture. You go in somewhere for a cake, pastry or pie or something and you have to stand there for 10 minutes waiting for the staff to serve a almond frappucino latte with steamed milk and a dusting of freshly grated nutmeg to some metrosexual ponce wearing a t-shirt that is a print of some 1920's ferry ticket or something.

    Sometimes I really feel like pulling their heads of their shoulders and seeing if I can spit down their necks before their bodies hit the ground. :evil: :evil: :evil:

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