Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • arran77
    arran77 Posts: 9,260
    team47b wrote:
    A fire station is not, generally, where the fire is so it is not a train station but a railway station, for trains.

    Do you mean a bus terminus?

    No, I think he means a road terminus for buses :P
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    team47b wrote:
    A fire station is not, generally, where the fire is so it is not a train station but a railway station, for trains.

    Do you mean a bus terminus?

    A terminus is surely the end of the line, not necessarily always the case with a bus station.
    Take your point with the fire station though. :wink:
  • rallyman1978
    rallyman1978 Posts: 43
    The twunt at work who asks if I've seen such and such a film, No says I but its on the list to watch this week/weekend/ASAP, only for him to tell me how it ends or a plot spoiler


    Aaaaaaarrrrgh the prick does it all the effing time
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    team47b wrote:
    A fire station is not, generally, where the fire is so it is not a train station but a railway station, for trains.

    Do you mean a bus terminus?

    Following your line of reasoning it should rightly be called a "Litter, tramps and pools of vomit station", as this is generally what is there. And as others have pointed out, it's only a terminus if the bus route finishes there. :lol:


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  • fatsmoker
    fatsmoker Posts: 585
    People who leave their rear windscreen wiper on when it's not raining.
  • slowmart
    slowmart Posts: 4,516
    People who drive around with their fog lights on when its clear or even daylight.
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Slowmart wrote:
    People who drive around with their fog lights on when its clear or even daylight.

    That's not trivial. That's grounds for justifiable homocide.
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  • owenlars
    owenlars Posts: 719
    People who write "should of" or "could of" instead of "should have" (or the abbreviated version should've).
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    People who don't spell check their posts :D
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  • k-dog
    k-dog Posts: 1,652
    Homocide? That doesn't sound right.
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  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    Homogenise sounds smart though :D
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  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    Acho que eu deveria ter tentado isso primeiro para ver por mim mesmo :oops:
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    k-dog wrote:
    Homocide? That doesn't sound right.

    :oops:
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  • FatTed
    FatTed Posts: 1,205
    team47b wrote:
    Acho que eu deveria ter tentado isso primeiro para ver por mim mesmo :oops:

    sim, você deve
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    k-dog wrote:
    Homocide? That doesn't sound right.


    Dennis Nielson? Colin Ireland?
  • oblongomaculatus
    oblongomaculatus Posts: 616
    The way news broadcasters and journalists insist on using the suffix -gate when referring to any political scandal, eg Plebgate. Though in that case there was an actual gate involved; so maybe it should have been called Gategate.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    The increasing habit of using some contentious statement as the actual headline in a news bulletin, declaimed in a serious, declarative way, as if the objective truth, e.g.

    "The Royal Family are a bunch of alien lizards from outer space"
    ...

    ...

    ... "that's what David Icke is saying in an interview today"

    but then the list of annoying habits of today's tabloid news programmes could probably fill a thread of its own.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Also, while I'm in a suitably grumpy mood, why is this forum getting taken over by firearms enthusiasts who seem to delight in telling use whenever they've been out shooting? At least I assume that's what "just pulled the trigger" means?

    All these internet clichés are making me as sick as a parrot, IMHO.
  • k-dog
    k-dog Posts: 1,652
    ^ this will be up your street then http://youtu.be/vB9JgxhXW5w
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  • oblongomaculatus
    oblongomaculatus Posts: 616
    k-dog wrote:
    ^ this will be up your street then http://youtu.be/vB9JgxhXW5w

    Lovely! My point exactly, perfectly made by Mitchell & Webb.

    To go back to Plebgate (or Gategate), amidst all the fuss about who did or didn't say what, the real issue gets ignored: Why was the cyclist MP (can't remember his name) so insistent on having the main gates opened for him to cycle through when it must have been quicker and easier to use the smaller side gate, as the copper involved told him to? As far as I know, no-one ever asked him that. Could the reason be he's a self important little wazzock?
  • graham.
    graham. Posts: 862
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    The way news broadcasters and journalists insist on using the suffix -gate when referring to any political scandal, eg Plebgate. Though in that case there was an actual gate involved; so maybe it should have been called Gategate.

    What annoys me is when broadcasters refer to things as the "So called" whatevergate. It's only "So called" because you dickhead lazy journalists called it so!
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  • Alain Quay
    Alain Quay Posts: 534
    Losing to the Netherlands at cricket

    :lol:
  • bennett_346
    bennett_346 Posts: 5,029
    Alain Quay wrote:
    cricket
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    bennett_346 wrote:
    Alain Quay wrote:
    cricket


    :D:D
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  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    Alain Quay wrote:
    Losing to the Netherlands at cricket

    :lol:

    Nearly posted the same thing earlier. Stuard Broad will not make a good captain and Ashely Giles should not be allowed anywhere near the top job coaching the test team.
  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    The way news broadcasters and journalists insist on using the suffix -gate when referring to any political scandal, eg Plebgate. Though in that case there was an actual gate involved; so maybe it should have been called Gategate.

    On that basis I'm looking forward to an MP getting nobbled for putting in a claim for turfing a lawn.
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  • oblongomaculatus
    oblongomaculatus Posts: 616
    Manager-speak. You know the sort of thing. Leverage. Paradigm shift. (anyone have a clue what those mean?) Team Leader. When I worked in an office I used to hate being asked to "action" something. I also used to make a point of correcting managers who referred to "leave" instead of holiday, pointing out that it was neither the army nor prison, even if it managed to combine the worst aspects of both. And I didn't much like "Human Resources", because, paradoxically, those in charge there didn't seem to be human (best guess: some sort of life force sucking space vampires). But that's another story... The one which wasn't around then, and which I now hate with a passion, is of course "going forward". What's wrong with "in future" or "from now on"?
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    edited April 2014
    I want to see an advert on the TV. It will feature a group of young men sitting on a hillside watching a really fit woman mowing the grass. One of them will then roll a can of soft drink down the hill towards the woman, he will have to motion her to open the can, because of course, she's too thick to do this without prompting. She is also too dim to realise that when she does open the can, it will go all over her and the men think this is a great laugh. She then takes her top off so that the blokes can get a good look at her and carries on mowing the grass.

    What? I can't have that? Oh, it's sexist, I see.

    What about a famous celeb dressed up as king and he advertises an online bingo site. At the end of the ad he gropes the arses of his two female escorts who are half his age.

    That's unacceptable too? well well.


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  • paultheparaglider
    paultheparaglider Posts: 123
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    Manager-speak. You know the sort of thing. Leverage. Paradigm shift. (anyone have a clue what those mean?)

    Leverage is what you have when you have photos of your boss in a compromising position with his secretary. Paradigm shift is what he will do to try to get those photos from you.
  • wannabecyclist
    wannabecyclist Posts: 149
    Residential parking. It is becoming almost impossible for me to park near my house. workers from neighbouring shops park on our street all day every day and local car mechanics leave their cars waiting for parts here as well. Council won't put any parking control/permit measures in place. think this problem is spreading around the country. Why would commuters etc pay to park when they can leave their car for free in residential areas.

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