Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    tuneskyline wrote:
    The specks of sadness that infiltrate my mind when life feels awesome.

    :cry:

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  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    Lithium? Was that the grease or the batteries you were takin'?
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    People who stalk you on internet forums. :wink:
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  • jawooga
    jawooga Posts: 530
    madasahattersley wrote:
    jawooga wrote:
    Coffee again - how I can order a large americano, large latte, large cappuccino etc. But when I order a large espresso I get corrected, "a double?"

    What do you want them to do, add hot water? That would make it an americano.

    No, but I thought a large Americano was a double shot, not just additional water. A large scotch is a double shot etc.
  • jawooga
    jawooga Posts: 530
    People who invade your space. Particularly when paying for groceries or somewhere where you cue up to pay and the person behind tries to slide their basket along so it is practically under your nose. In fact I lie it's my work canteen. I like to take my time putting change back in my wallet.
  • oblongomaculatus
    oblongomaculatus Posts: 616
    When the first thing mentioned in a TV weather forecast is the pollen count. I know a lot of people suffer from hay fever, but the way forecasters make it their headline implies that a high pollen count affects absolutely everyone, which is not the case.
  • symo
    symo Posts: 1,743
    Can ring pulls
    +++++++++++++++++++++
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  • badly_dubbed
    badly_dubbed Posts: 1,350
    football and the world cup are annoying me right now.
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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    badly_dubbed wrote:
    football and the world cup are annoying me right now.

    This is not a sentence.
  • badly_dubbed
    badly_dubbed Posts: 1,350
    ThomThom wrote:
    badly_dubbed wrote:
    football and the world cup are annoying me right now.

    This is not a sentence.

    And?
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  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    symo wrote:
    Can ring pulls

    Cans in general, you open it and you can't close it again, wtf? In any case I require my keys with me to lever open a can, if I haven't got any keys I can't open them at all!
  • oblongomaculatus
    oblongomaculatus Posts: 616
    ThomThom wrote:
    badly_dubbed wrote:
    football and the world cup are annoying me right now.

    This is not a sentence.

    Apart from not beginning with a capital letter, it is a sentence, isn't it?
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    When the first thing mentioned in a TV weather forecast is the pollen count. I know a lot of people suffer from hay fever, but the way forecasters make it their headline implies that a high pollen count affects absolutely everyone, which is not the case.
    I do suffer from hay fever, and I agree. Those who get hayfever sort of know which days are going to be worse than others. It's generally the warm, dry ones. And if you don't take anything for it, shut up about it. Anyone else noticed the number of hayfever "sufferers" who think one sneeze means the end of the world? It's only an allergy ffs.
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  • graham.
    graham. Posts: 862
    The term "Methinks".
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  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    It doesn't even mean 'I think' it means 'it seems' so most people don't even know how to use it correctly methinks :D
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  • oblongomaculatus
    oblongomaculatus Posts: 616
    Ties. For some reason having a useless strip of fabric flapping around the front of your shirt is considered "smart." Why?!
    Don't own a single one. Likewise, suits. You meet someone in a suit and tie, you think, this guy could be a politician. Is it too late to run?
  • Peddle Up!
    Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    Is it too late to run?

    For office? Or away? :)
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  • oblongomaculatus
    oblongomaculatus Posts: 616
    Peddle Up! wrote:
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    Is it too late to run?

    For office? Or away? :)

    Away, of course. Can't run for office. Haven't got a tie.
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    Ties. For some reason having a useless strip of fabric flapping around the front of your shirt is considered "smart." Why?!
    Don't own a single one. Likewise, suits. You meet someone in a suit and tie, you think, this guy could be a politician. Is it too late to run?
    Wear a bow tie. They don't flap in the wind. And all the ladies go wild for a chap in a tie.
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  • Majestic 12
    Majestic 12 Posts: 63
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    Ties. For some reason having a useless strip of fabric flapping around the front of your shirt is considered "smart." Why?!
    Don't own a single one. Likewise, suits. You meet someone in a suit and tie, you think, this guy could be a politician. Is it too late to run?
    Wear a bow tie. They don't flap in the wind. And all the ladies go wild for a chap in a tie.

    I have stopped wearing a tie to work. I'm a rep on the road. As stated above, a strip of fabric, that in general is never aligned correctly, gets grubby over time (who ever washes a tie?) looks awful. Also I have noticed over the last few years my clientelle (all office based staff) are dressing down, and in summer many are wearing beach attire including the flip flops.
  • oblongomaculatus
    oblongomaculatus Posts: 616
    Have you noticed that when a politician chooses to discard his tie, because he wishes to seem more accessible, informal, "one of us", etc, despite the open neck shirt, mysteriously, somehow the tie is still there?

    As well as being useless, untidy and the very opposite of smart, ties are a symbol of evil. Someone once pointed out that places that require them as part of a dress code would have excluded Jesus - beard, long hair, sandals, no tie - but would happily have admitted Hitler.
  • smoggysteve
    smoggysteve Posts: 2,909
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    Have you noticed that when a politician chooses to discard his tie, because he wishes to seem more accessible, informal, "one of us", etc, despite the open neck shirt, mysteriously, somehow the tie is still there?

    As well as being useless, untidy and the very opposite of smart, ties are a symbol of evil. Someone once pointed out that places that require them as part of a dress code would have excluded Jesus - beard, long hair, sandals, no tie - but would happily have admitted Hitler.

    You must admit them Nazi SS uniforms did look ever so smart though ;-)
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    Ties. For some reason having a useless strip of fabric flapping around the front of your shirt is considered "smart." Why?!
    Don't own a single one. Likewise, suits. You meet someone in a suit and tie, you think, this guy could be a politician. Is it too late to run?

    Also makes me think of those daft runners which some hotels have along the bottom of beds, you have to take them off before you get into bed, so why are they there at all? Same as cushions on the bed, take them away!
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    SmoggySteve wrote:
    You must admit them Nazi SS uniforms did look ever so smart though ;-)

    The Germans did have the best uniforms by far. Just as well for the rest of the world their overall strategy wasn't as well planned.
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    What sort of deranged prat thinks that the headlights of their car need eye lashes?


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • drlodge
    drlodge Posts: 4,826
    Capt Slog wrote:
    What sort of deranged prat thinks that the headlights of their car need eye lashes?

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  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    And why??????????????


    Do all the new VW Beetles (Shoite car BTW) have fake flowers on the dashboard?
  • graham.
    graham. Posts: 862
    crispybug2 wrote:
    And why??????????????


    Do all the new VW Beetles (Shoite car BTW) have fake flowers on the dashboard?
    I always wonder that!
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  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    drlodge wrote:
    Capt Slog wrote:
    What sort of deranged prat thinks that the headlights of their car need eye lashes?

    My OH, and her daughter :roll:

    Throw them out, it's for the best ;)
  • PerformingMonkey
    PerformingMonkey Posts: 218
    Capt Slog wrote:
    What sort of deranged prat thinks that the headlights of their car need eye lashes?

    Equally annoying are the "Powered by Fairy Dust" stickers.

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