Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

peat

awavey wrote:

but maybe if that happened,the council would be then forced to fix the issues causing that, which is no doubt they allowed an estate to be built and didnt bother with planning the impacts of the extra traffic or put in adequate provision of alternate means of transport

Indeed, If it weren't for people 'flouting' the Highway Code and letting me out of my side-road, I would effectively be land-locked between the hours of 7-9am and 3-6pm every weekday.

oblongomaculatus

Newspapers, TV reporters etc referring to "poisonous" snakes or spiders. Wrong word. Snakes and spiders (including all the 400 + British species, by the way) are venomous, meaning they inject venom into their prey by means of a bite, or a sting in he case of wasps and bees. Anything poisonous is ingested, eg the berries of the deadly nightshade shrub.

And while we are in the area, newspaper reporters who think they are being clever by using the scientific name of a species they are reporting on, but get the capitalisation wrong. For example, the robin, the bird popular on Christmas cards since the 19th century, is Erithacus rubecula. Newspapers nearly always capitalise both names, or neither; Erithacus Rubecula or erithacus rubecula. If you've gone to the trouble of looking up the scientific name of the creature in question, how hard is it to get that part right too?

Both of those things have been bothering me for years.

FatTed

Being an Oblong-spotted Birdwing Butterfly I guess it would. I hate Hyperthermia when they mean Hypothermia.

ukiboy

Tony Bliar, Harriet Harperson, Nick Clogg, Ed Millipede, Ed Bullshit, Diane Abbot, David Cameron, Alex Salmond etc etc etc.. These are a few trivial things that annoy me and make me throw heavy objects at the television screen.....

Giraffoto

oblongomaculatus wrote:

And while we are in the area, newspaper reporters who think they are being clever by using the scientific name of a species they are reporting on, but get the capitalisation wrong. For example, the robin, the bird popular on Christmas cards since the 19th century, is Erithacus rubecula. Newspapers nearly always capitalise both names, or neither; Erithacus Rubecula or erithacus rubecula. If you've gone to the trouble of looking up the scientific name of the creature in question, how hard is it to get that part right too?

Both of those things have been bothering me for years.

If you're going to be that fussy, surely you'd insist on the term "Linnaean" rather that "Scientific" name.

My favourite, by the way, is the Hoopoe - Upupa epops

oblongomaculatus

Giraffoto wrote:

oblongomaculatus wrote:

And while we are in the area, newspaper reporters who think they are being clever by using the scientific name of a species they are reporting on, but get the capitalisation wrong. For example, the robin, the bird popular on Christmas cards since the 19th century, is Erithacus rubecula. Newspapers nearly always capitalise both names, or neither; Erithacus Rubecula or erithacus rubecula. If you've gone to the trouble of looking up the scientific name of the creature in question, how hard is it to get that part right too?

Both of those things have been bothering me for years.

If you're going to be that fussy, surely you'd insist on the term "Linnaean" rather that "Scientific" name.

My favourite, by the way, is the Hoopoe - Upupa epops

Quite right. I stand corrected. I like Troglodytes troglodytes, the Eurasian wren, so called because people believed they were cave dwellers. Or how about Boa constrictor, the only species whose Linnaean name is exactly the same as its common name?

Alain Quay

The selfie stick. Narcissism on a stick

capt_slog

Kids on those crappy moped things who ride along trailing their feet.

Pretty women marred by tattoos.

Coachb

Carbon specks getting into my skin.

pinno

Automatic windscreen wipers.

ballysmate

Capt Slog wrote:

Kids on those crappy moped things who ride along trailing their feet.

Pretty women marred by tattoos.

THIS!!!!!
A thousand times THIS!!!
WTF do they think they look like. But on reflection this is probably not trivial.
Nothing worse than a tramp stamp.

symo

Capt Slog wrote:

Kids on those crappy moped things who ride along trailing their feet.

Pretty women marred by tattoos.

second doesn't bother me. Some girls look great with them; right now. My wife doesn't have any.

homers_double

Capt Slog wrote:

Kids on those crappy moped things who ride along trailing their feet.

Mopeds are the vehicle versions of wasps, noisy and frigging annoying.

mm1

Capt Slog wrote:

Pretty women marred by tattoos.

Or unsightly facial piercings that look like errant snot or brewing pustules

pinno

mm1 wrote:

Capt Slog wrote:

Pretty women marred by tattoos.

Or unsightly facial piercings that look like errant snot or brewing pustules

In my previous capacity, an elderly employee with a distinctly cokney accent once commented on a female volunteer with piercings everywhere. He said 'She looks like a scrap yard'.

oblongomaculatus

20 year olds on skateboards. There's a little group that rumbles past most days on their way to the skatepark.
Grow up. You're not Tony Hawks or even Bart Simpson.

oblongomaculatus

madasahattersley wrote:

oblongomaculatus wrote:

20 year olds on skateboards. There's a little group that rumbles past most days on their way to the skatepark.
Grow up. You're not Tony Hawks or even Bart Simpson.

What's wrong with enjoying a sport/lifestyle that makes you happy? That's no better than someone saying cyclists should all grow up and get cars.

I did think of it that way too, and I've a sneaking feeling you might be right. But... people start cycling as kids, usually, and for many it's something that lasts a lifetime; for example, Brian Robinson, Britain's first TDF stage winner, still cycling aged 83 (and recently knocked off his bike, btw). Skateboarding is something that also appeals to the very young, but most grow out of it. Sorry, but it's not quite the same thing. There's just something a bit odd about an adult on a skateboard.

oblongomaculatus

Anyway, it's really just the noise that gets on my nerves. What's that sound? An earthquake? An F1 fighter jet passing overhead? An apocalyptic thunderstorm? A convoy of HGV's passing by? No, just four overgrown kids on skateboards. How can such tiny little wheels on a pavement reverberate through the house like that?

supersonic

TV remote controls.

pinno

supersonic wrote:

Someone hogging the TV remote controls.

FTFY

verylonglegs

How no manufacturer has solved the problem of tongues in trainers from sliding across and down the outside of your foot and requiring them to be repositioned occassionally (it's only my right foot that has this problem usually). It's 2014 ffs, someone get it sorted.

pinno

verylonglegs wrote:

How no manufacturer has solved the problem of tongues in trainers from sliding across and down the outside of your foot and requiring them to be repositioned occassionally (it's only my right foot that has this problem usually). It's 2014 ffs, someone get it sorted.

Have you tried Velcro socks?

finchy

Watching something on 4OD and having to choose the advert I "want" to watch. Why the f**k would I want to choose an advert, especially as they're all for the same product?

secretsam

pinarello001 wrote:

Automatic windscreen wipers.

+1million

How fecking dense do you have to be not to notice that it's raining!!!

team47b

SecretSam wrote:

pinarello001 wrote:

Automatic windscreen wipers.

+1million

How ******* dense do you have to be not to notice that it's raining!!!

The same density as those that open car doors without looking first, pull out in front of bikes, overtake a bike then suddenly turn off, incapable of switching on the indicators, can't get in the right lane on a roundabout, can't leave enough space when overtaking...

Roll on Google cars

FatTed

SecretSam wrote:

pinarello001 wrote:

Automatic windscreen wipers.

+1million

How ******* dense do you have to be not to notice that it's raining!!!

I love my automatic windscreen wipers!

oblongomaculatus

FatTed wrote:

SecretSam wrote:

pinarello001 wrote:

Automatic windscreen wipers.

+1million

How ******* dense do you have to be not to notice that it's raining!!!

I love my automatic windscreen wipers!

There's a new gizmo available soon for your car that will make automatic wipers seem archaic. You press a button on the dashboard and it stops raining.

team47b

I got one of those, they really work

pinno

team47b wrote:

I got one of those, they really work

I bet it doesn't work in Scotland.

team47b

Actually I lied, I don't have a dashboard