Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Progress bars, esp on Windows installers, that get to 100% / 1 second remaining, then spend another minute buggering about before it's all done & raring to go. Application programmers should spend 84% of their development effort getting this bit right; the functionality should work first time with minimal rework & testing.
  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    izza wrote:
    Eating
    - The eating of apple cores; there's a reason the seeds are in hard cases. they are inedible.
    That is the point of them surely? Evolution has made the seed resistant to digestion.

    Of course if you are going to eat apple cores you should at least do the right thing and later go for a sh*t in the woods. :mrgreen:
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  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    People who fling their shopping trolley into the trolley park in a random manner, thus reducing the capacity to a tenth of what it should be.

    Shopping trolleys are designed to nest for a reason, to save space.
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  • Cygnus
    Cygnus Posts: 1,879
    Traffic lights that are on green for 3 seconds.
  • CHRISNOIR
    CHRISNOIR Posts: 1,400
    People on buses with garlic-breath. Seriously, one person can gas the entire top deck of a bus within a minute.
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    Photos where the frame has been deliberately tilted off the vertical. For some reason this is especially annoying when it's a photo of a room, like this....
    Best-Western-Plus-Wroxton-House-Hotel-Stylish--Bedroom-Banbury-GB_b.jpg

    Do they think I will be attracted by subsidence?

    I get the feeling that the numpty who takes pictures like this is incapable of holding the camera straight, and so purposely puts it miles off to make look like a 'art'.


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  • RDW
    RDW Posts: 1,900
    CiB wrote:
    Progress bars, esp on Windows installers, that get to 100% / 1 second remaining, then spend another minute buggering about before it's all done & raring to go. Application programmers should spend 84% of their development effort getting this bit right; the functionality should work first time with minimal rework & testing.

    estimation.png

    http://xkcd.com/612/
  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    Cereal that floats. You get what seems like a reasonable amount of the stuff in the bowl - i.e., as high as you can possibly pile it - pour the milk on and the top third of your cereal makes a break for it over the side of the bowl. Rice Krispies are one of the most buoyant.
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  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    Capt Slog wrote:
    Photos where the frame has been deliberately tilted off the vertical. For some reason this is especially annoying when it's a photo of a room, like this....

    Or when a place just has a close up of a vase of flowers or some sandwiches

    cafe_728_200.jpg
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    Giraffoto wrote:
    Cereal that floats. You get what seems like a reasonable amount of the stuff in the bowl - i.e., as high as you can possibly pile it - pour the milk on and the top third of your cereal makes a break for it over the side of the bowl. Rice Krispies are one of the most buoyant.

    I put my milk in first ;)
  • Dog Breath
    Dog Breath Posts: 314
    Giraffoto wrote:
    Cereal that floats. You get what seems like a reasonable amount of the stuff in the bowl - i.e., as high as you can possibly pile it - pour the milk on and the top third of your cereal makes a break for it over the side of the bowl. Rice Krispies are one of the most buoyant.

    How old are you ?? You need to have proper man's cereal.
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Dog Breath wrote:
    Giraffoto wrote:
    Cereal that floats. You get what seems like a reasonable amount of the stuff in the bowl - i.e., as high as you can possibly pile it - pour the milk on and the top third of your cereal makes a break for it over the side of the bowl. Rice Krispies are one of the most buoyant.

    How old are you ?? You need to have proper man's cereal.
    Quite right, and the milk always floats on top of the porridge, although you shouldn't really have milk on it anyway.
  • PerformingMonkey
    PerformingMonkey Posts: 218
    markhewitt1978 wrote:
    Capt Slog wrote:
    Photos where the frame has been deliberately tilted off the vertical. For some reason this is especially annoying when it's a photo of a room, like this....

    Or when a place just has a close up of a vase of flowers or some sandwiches

    cafe_728_200.jpg

    What if it is a sandwich shop?
  • MartinGT
    MartinGT Posts: 475
    Fat people and the way we have to seem to tip toe around them. f@ck off, they're greedy b@stards!
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    Shop signage that has photographs of the wares sold within. ie; kebabs, fish and chips, curries, burgers, fried chicken, shoes, herbs, drink, etc, .... the list is endless. It puts me off using the shops as it looks cheap and tacky, but more importantly down grades the high street image.
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  • fatsmoker
    fatsmoker Posts: 585
    MartinGT wrote:
    Fat people and the way we have to seem to tip toe around them. f@ck off, they're greedy b@stards!

    New thread required. Things that made you guffaw. :lol:
  • djfleming22
    djfleming22 Posts: 116
    MartinGT wrote:
    Fat people and the way we have to seem to tip toe around them. f@ck off, they're greedy b@stards!

    Another one

    The fat people at work that come in with the small salad bowl at lunch time saying they have only lost a 1lb that week

    Things your doing wrong..... one is probably cheating in other words stuffing your face at night

    The other ......no exercise.. it wont just disappear
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    The over-use of the phrase "ticks all the boxes". This car ticks all the boxes. This house ticks all the boxes. Current girlfriend ticks all the boxes. FFS, if your life is simply ticking f***ing boxes then feck off.

    I hear this all the time at work, TV etc. Does my head in. :x
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  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
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  • davegore2005
    davegore2005 Posts: 87
    parents who lead their children around on reins.....or even worse, the ones that are attached to a single arm...if you like that kind of thing then get a dog

    Dave
  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    Dog Breath wrote:
    Giraffoto wrote:
    Cereal that floats. You get what seems like a reasonable amount of the stuff in the bowl - i.e., as high as you can possibly pile it - pour the milk on and the top third of your cereal makes a break for it over the side of the bowl. Rice Krispies are one of the most buoyant.

    How old are you ?? You need to have proper man's cereal.

    44, but I haven't yet reached that venerable age at which my cereal's density exceeds that of milk.
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  • Ringpeace
    Ringpeace Posts: 105
    The way that my mum's stomach gurgles and groans.

    It really interrupts the Winter Olympics.

    Then we remember that she has terminal cancer with only weeks to live.

    Puts things in perspective a bit.

    Sorry for any buzzkill. Just need a bit of a distraction.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Shops that call their sales "events".
  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    People (usually MAMILs) who don't know how to stop their Garmin from beeping on entering the cafe. Hit the stop button ffs.

    Also, same MAMILs who order food, sit down, eat food - all the time continuing to wear their helmets.

    In summary, MAMILs.
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    This one may already be in here but even so it's still worth another mention...adverts shown before the film in the cinema that tell you how great an experience the cinema is. Err, I know, I've already paid to get in here so you don't need to waste my time telling me. Is there any other product where you have to endure adverts for it after you've already paid for it??
  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    The clips at the end of a programme showing you a preview of what is on the next episode - I do not want to know the critical bits of the next episode, I want to watch the next fcuking episode without knowing what is going to happen!!!!!.
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  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    verylonglegs wrote:
    This one may already be in here but even so it's still worth another mention...adverts shown before the film in the cinema that tell you how great an experience the cinema is. Err, I know, I've already paid to get in here so you don't need to waste my time telling me. Is there any other product where you have to endure adverts for it after you've already paid for it??

    Not as annoying as adverts before DVD's. It's the goddam 50th time my daughter has wanted this DVD on, not only have I seen all the adverts, I just want to skip through them. But not only that it proceeds to tell me how they've now made it "fast play" so you can get to the film faster, but then block the fast forward function so it takes longer than normal!

    It's my film, I've paid for it, I don't want to watch adverts first.
  • Peddle Up!
    Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
    verylonglegs wrote:
    This one may already be in here but even so it's still worth another mention...adverts shown before the film in the cinema that tell you how great an experience the cinema is. Err, I know, I've already paid to get in here so you don't need to waste my time telling me. Is there any other product where you have to endure adverts for it after you've already paid for it??

    Not as bad as those "Piracy is a crime" advents that lectured the audience on why pirating films is wrong AFTER THEY'VE PAID THE PRICE OF A TICKET! :roll:
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  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    smidsy wrote:
    The clips at the end of a programme showing you a preview of what is on the next episode - I do not want to know the critical bits of the next episode, I want to watch the next fcuking episode without knowing what is going to happen!!!!!.

    Yes, what's the point! I always try and stop it before it gets there as it spoils it. Same with a film I know I'm definitely going to see, I don't want to watch the trailers, particularly as some trailers are very good at giving away the entire plot.
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    Peddle Up! wrote:

    Not as bad as those "Piracy is a crime" advents that lectured the audience on why pirating films is wrong AFTER THEY'VE PAID THE PRICE OF A TICKET! :roll:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg :D

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