Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

markhewitt1978

SmoggySteve wrote:

^^ Quote from someone who has obviously never tried to juggle a shopping trolley and two screaming infants on a Saturday lunchtime in the wind and rain.

Ooh very much this! However the P&C spaces are *always* full, whenever you go.

Pross

SmoggySteve wrote:

Pross wrote:

wannabecyclist wrote:

People without kids parking in child bays at supermarkets. We don't want the parking space because we are lazy and want to park close to the supermarket, it is because you have more room to get child seat out from the side, hard to do in a normal bay.

The easy solution then is to make the P&T bays the furthest from the store. I have no idea why they make them the second closest.

^^ Quote from someone who has obviously never tried to juggle a shopping trolley and two screaming infants on a Saturday lunchtime in the wind and rain.

Some of us were doing that before P&T spaces were invented Even when they were with our second child I can't recall ever using one. Also, at what point are parents supposed to stop using them? Can they still park there with a 5 year old? They seem a pointless invention because, as pointed out, no one respects them and the people who 'need' them often can't get in one in any case.

Peddle Up!

Pross wrote:

Some of us were doing that before P&T spaces were invented Even when they were with our second child I can't recall ever using one. Also, at what point are parents supposed to stop using them? Can they still park there with a 5 year old? They seem a pointless invention because, as pointed out, no one respects them and the people who 'need' them often can't get in one in any case.

As one of my grown up children put it, "You're a parent, I'm your child. Let's park!"

wannabecyclist

I think they also keep the bays close to store as it means there are less kids walking around a busy car park. Hard to see small people through your mirrors when reversing which is why they are not called parent and toddler bays.

cornerblock

Laughter in songs.

wannabecyclist

Celebrities that get their large tax debts written off when going bankrupt. Then 3 months later live in a huge house again

Sirius631

wannabecyclist wrote:

Celebrities that get their large tax debts written off when going bankrupt. Then 3 months later live in a huge house again

The house is probably legally owned by the missus or some shadowy offshore corporation, which takes their earnings, deducts expenses and pays them minimum wage.

wannabecyclist

Drivers that don't signal at roundabouts/junctions, just because you know where you are going, doesn't make it easier for everyone else.

markhewitt1978

Cornerblock wrote:

Laughter in songs.

Sirens in songs. How many times am I look around to see where that police car / ambulance is!

gmb

markhewitt1978 wrote:

Cornerblock wrote:

Laughter in songs.

Sirens in songs. How many times am I look around to see where that police car / ambulance is!

Chris Martin in songs.

seanoconn

Comedy songs. Get right on my tits

secretsam

Cornerblock wrote:

Laughter in songs.

No. You're wrong. I point you towards "Crab Town" by the Throwing Muses, "I want you" by The Inspiral Carpets/Mark E Smith, and others by the likes of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, that are utterly ace and in which the laughter is appropriate.

Giraffoto

Single foil-wrapped portions of butter, which can go wrong in so many ways. . . .
They're never big enough to do a whole slice of toast properly
They're almost never the right consistency
They're very difficult to unwrap without getting butter on your fingers
Once they've gone soft you have even less butter to try to spread on your toast - it tends to want to stay in the wrapper
If you grab an extra one, plenty of places levy a charge for them that's more akin to a fine for stealing it than a realistic price for about 5g of butter

markhewitt1978

Giraffoto wrote:

They're never big enough to do a whole slice of toast properly

This is always my issue! You're given 1 per slice of toast, and it's not enough so you get a covering over half your toast at the most or you have virtually dry toast.

They're almost never the right consistency

Usually rock hard straight out of the fridge and unspreadable.

I've never encountered any problems with just taking a couple more however.

PerformingMonkey

People who ring me at work immediately after sending me an email. What are they after? A pat on the back that they managed to send an email? My comments on the 12mb spreadsheet that I have had all of 20 seconds to review?

oblongomaculatus

The "Live" logo in the corner of the screen on BBC news items that feature a politician flapping their mouth, because you know you won't get a weather forecast until they have finished talking.

mm1

oblongomaculatus wrote:

a politician flapping their mouth

^This^ The best thing about taking "voluntary" early retirement after 29 years in the civil service is being able to ignore these fec*ers for evermore.

VmanF3

Safety Nazis...

desweller

The BBC's use of 'overtake' as a verb in their now-castrated F1 coverage. What's wrong with 'pass'?

capt_slog

Pross wrote:

SmoggySteve wrote:

Pross wrote:

wannabecyclist wrote:

People without kids parking in child bays at supermarkets. We don't want the parking space because we are lazy and want to park close to the supermarket, it is because you have more room to get child seat out from the side, hard to do in a normal bay.

The easy solution then is to make the P&T bays the furthest from the store. I have no idea why they make them the second closest.

^^ Quote from someone who has obviously never tried to juggle a shopping trolley and two screaming infants on a Saturday lunchtime in the wind and rain.

Some of us were doing that before P&T spaces were invented Even when they were with our second child I can't recall ever using one. Also, at what point are parents supposed to stop using them? Can they still park there with a 5 year old? They seem a pointless invention because, as pointed out, no one respects them and the people who 'need' them often can't get in one in any case.

My late father had a Disabled/Blue Badge in his car because he had difficulty walking very far, and used sticks to do so. He couldn't park in a disabled bay on one visit to the store, so he put it in a P+C space instead. A 'lady' came and gave him a bollocking for doing so, finishing off with "Some of us have children you know!".

My mum just said "you poor thing".

When I was of an age to be in a pram, 55 years ago, we didn't have a car. Mum walked into town with her mum's washing piled on top of me in the pram, and then walked the two miles home with it piled with shopping. I know this will provoke a "four yorkshiremen" type comment, but FFS, does anyone really think they are hard done by if they have to walk a few yards across a carpark?

And what really annoys me about the P+C spaces is that the idiots that use them at my local shop go in forwards into the spaces so that they can then get their buggies out of the boot in the lanes where the cars are trying to pass, instead of reversing in and then doing the above on the walkway behind the car.

oblongomaculatus

Capt Slog wrote:

does anyone really think they are hard done by if they have to walk a few yards across a carpark?

This is the thing about cars, people get so habituated that they resent having to walk at all. The very idea of not using a car to go shopping seems unthinkable. I often see people from my road parking in the local supermarket car park - about a quarter of a mile away - as I walk home with my shopping.

Another example; talking to someone who was complaining it takes them nearly an hour to drive to work, and even longer sometimes to get home in the evening. "Perhaps you'd be quicker walking," I suggested.
"Walk? It must be two miles!" (I checked later on Google maps. It's 1.7 miles)
"How about a bike then? That'd only take you about 15 minutes, tops."
"A bike?! Don't be ridiculous! Far too dangerous. Too many cars!"

mm1

They seem to be astonished that it is possible to move at all without a car. I have never driven and was amused when my sister (who was a consultant gastroenterolgist at the time and, I assume had one or two lazy fat patients) asked me how I managed...well, I have 2 legs and 2 arms...

team47b

DesWeller wrote:

The BBC's use of 'overtake' as a verb in their now-castrated F1 coverage. What's wrong with 'pass'?

Overtake is a verb used in English and pass is an American English term.

In English we overtake moving vehicles and pass stationary ones.




I'll tell you what annoys me...English grammar pedants

veterangaz

When I was of an age to be in a pram, 55 years ago, we didn't have a car. Mum walked into town with her mum's washing piled on top of me in the pram, and then walked the two miles home with it piled with shopping. I know this will provoke a "four yorkshiremen" type comment, but FFS, does anyone really think they are hard done by if they have to walk a few yards across a carpark?


As I said, it is not about the distance to the supermarket from the parking space, parents need these bays because they are wider, therefore if you have a 3 door car you can still get your child out from the side, almost impossible to do if you are parked in a normal bay with oversized cars parked either side of you.

desweller

team47b wrote:

DesWeller wrote:

The BBC's use of 'overtake' as a verb in their now-castrated F1 coverage. What's wrong with 'pass'?

Overtake is a verb used in English and pass is an American English term.

In English we overtake moving vehicles and pass stationary ones.




I'll tell you what annoys me...English grammar pedants

I meant noun, damn you. Look, it was late and I was tired!

Anyway, it's not the grammatics, it just grates for no real reason!

oblongomaculatus

mm1 wrote:

They seem to be astonished that it is possible to move at all without a car. I have never driven and was amused when my sister (who was a consultant gastroenterolgist at the time and, I assume had one or two lazy fat patients) asked me how I managed...well, I have 2 legs and 2 arms...

How true. People shape their lives around the fact that they own a car, not the other way round. By which I mean, if you have a car you choose to live in a certain place, and take a job in a certain other place, and send your children to this school, and shop at that giant Sainsbury's, because owning a car makes all that possible, rather than learning to drive and buying a car because you need one for all those things. This tends to get forgotten with the passage of time, which is why non drivers get asked "how can you possibly manage without a car?"

Like you, I don't drive, though I did learn, and pass the test, but I found the experience of being behind the wheel so stressful I soon gave it up. And all these years later, I don't feel deprived, and I don't have the slightest trouble "managing".

smoggysteve

team47b wrote:

DesWeller wrote:

The BBC's use of 'overtake' as a verb in their now-castrated F1 coverage. What's wrong with 'pass'?

Overtake is a verb used in English and pass is an American English term.

In English we overtake moving vehicles and pass stationary ones.




I'll tell you what annoys me...English grammar pedants

If you did it in a herse is it an overtake or an undertake?

dodgy

Hearse.

team47b

...no, that's called necrophilia

paultheparaglider

I tried that once, but it was dead boring.