Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    team47b wrote:
    Actually I lied, I don't have a dashboard :D

    Who needs a dashboard eh, bloody annoying things anyway.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,398
    Other people who think they can sell your posessions for nominal amounts :wink:
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    People who won't part with anything even though it is for charity whilst providing entertainment.








    (You're snookered BTW. How are you going to wriggle out of this one?)
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  • k-dog
    k-dog Posts: 1,652
    I've gone one better - in the same way that I have daylight running lights I now have non-rain wipers (NRWs). They're on all the time, just in case.
    I'm left handed, if that matters.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    k-dog wrote:
    I've gone one better - in the same way that I have daylight running lights I now have non-rain wipers (NRWs). They're on all the time, just in case.

    The fly smear wipe clean option from those clever boys in Teutonicstein?
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,398
    pinarello001 wrote:
    People who won't part with anything even though it is for charity whilst providing entertainment.








    (You're snookered BTW. How are you going to wriggle out of this one?)
    A slightly mis-spent youth means I'm quite handy at snooker :wink:
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    pinarello001 wrote:
    People who won't part with anything even though it is for charity whilst providing entertainment.








    (You're snookered BTW. How are you going to wriggle out of this one?)
    A slightly mis-spent youth means I'm quite handy at snooker :wink:

    You are going to have to be Ronnie O'Sullivan at his best.
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  • gingaman
    gingaman Posts: 576
    sungod wrote:
    i use mine to hold open something completely different

    file.php?id=12809

    red thing, made of plastic, on top of a coin for size reference

    :twisted:
  • oblongomaculatus
    oblongomaculatus Posts: 616
    Weather forecasters who use the word "autumnal" in August.

    Haven't heard an example yet this year, but I bet it won't be long.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    News presenters that go um...er...um...er...
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  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    Weather forecasters who use the word "autumnal" in August.

    Haven't heard an example yet this year, but I bet it won't be long.
    This. The day I realised I had become a Victor Meldrew was the first time I heard this in August. Detecting the first use of "autumnal" is now an annual event, much like hearing the first cuckoo of spring. :oops:
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  • drlodge
    drlodge Posts: 4,826
    pinarello001 wrote:
    News presenters that go um...er...um...er...

    And everytime they hand over to someone on the scene, that someone will start with the word "Well..."
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    madasahattersley wrote:
    drlodge wrote:
    pinarello001 wrote:
    News presenters that go um...er...um...er...

    And everytime they hand over to someone on the scene, that someone will start with the word "Well..."

    But only after they've thanked the person who just addressed them twice addressed the person

    "And now we go to the weather with Mark, Mark"

    "Thank you Ian, well ... [...] .... Ian"

    "Thank you John" :evil:

    Does that include Sean Kelly on Eurosport? :D
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  • whoami
    whoami Posts: 13
    Trying to get the right amount of beans and sauce out for some beans on toast from a Heinz beans fridge pack is quite tricky.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    madasahattersley wrote:
    pinarello001 wrote:
    madasahattersley wrote:
    drlodge wrote:
    pinarello001 wrote:
    News presenters that go um...er...um...er...

    And everytime they hand over to someone on the scene, that someone will start with the word "Well..."

    But only after they've thanked the person who just addressed them twice addressed the person

    "And now we go to the weather with Mark, Mark"

    "Thank you Ian, well ... [...] .... Ian"

    "Thank you John" :evil:

    Does that include Sean Kelly on Eurosport? :D

    I think ("hoi tink") there needs to be a completely new thread for things Sean Kelly says that are trivial and annoy us :lol:

    The producers of Eurosport must have mentioned the "Well..." beginning of every comment and good old Sean obliged and used the word 'quite' and then the word 'well'. I can out up with our friend SK because of the respect I have for him and the humility he has. He is never arrogant. Paul Sherwen on the other hand is a plonker - now where's that thread?...
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  • oblongomaculatus
    oblongomaculatus Posts: 616
    Alain Quay wrote:
    The selfie stick. Narcissism on a stick

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    I thought so too, until I saw a couple of tourists using one in Cambridge yesterday, and I have to say if you want a photo of yourself in front of a well known landmark - and plenty do, apparently - without leaving anyone out of the picture, it's the very thing.
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    Weather forecasters who use the word "autumnal" in August.

    Haven't heard an example yet this year, but I bet it won't be long.
    This. The day I realised I had become a Victor Meldrew was the first time I heard this in August. Detecting the first use of "autumnal" is now an annual event, much like hearing the first cuckoo of spring. :oops:
    First one? F***er on BBC yesterday. 9th August 2014 1128. Describing some wind and rain for today: "Autumnal"
    Utter, utter w***er.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    ...and in that vein:

    Weathermen who smile at the end of a terrible forecast.
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    In fact, all editorialising in weather forecasts. Cut the crap and just tell us the weather! Do you have any idea how annoying it is for skiers when they say cheerfully "there'll be heavy rain tomorrow but the good news is that it's going to be lovely and mild"?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    bompington wrote:
    In fact, all editorialising in weather forecasts. Cut the crap and just tell us the weather! Do you have any idea how annoying it is for skiers when they say cheerfully "there'll be heavy rain tomorrow but the good news is that it's going to be lovely and mild"?

    I didn't know they did skiing in Uganda :wink:
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    pinarello001 wrote:
    bompington wrote:
    In fact, all editorialising in weather forecasts. Cut the crap and just tell us the weather! Do you have any idea how annoying it is for skiers when they say cheerfully "there'll be heavy rain tomorrow but the good news is that it's going to be lovely and mild"?

    I didn't know they did skiing in Uganda :wink:
    Well, in a couple of months I will be in the only sub-saharan country with a proper ski resort, I do intend to cycle to it some time via the Mahlasela pass at a cheerful 3222m, but it's Lesotho, not Uganda - there is in fact fairly decent snow in the Ruwenzori mountains between Uganda and Congo, glaciers even, but not a lot of skiing.
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    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.

    Haha reading this post while sorting mine out! Word ;)
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    The selfie stick. Narcissism on a stick

    Which is nonsense of course. I look through our photo collection on flickr, and there's loads of my wife and daughter, but very few of me, because I'm mostly the one taking the photos.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    markhewitt1978 wrote:
    oblongomaculatus wrote:
    The selfie stick. Narcissism on a stick

    Which is nonsense of course. I look through our photo collection on flickr, and there's loads of my wife and daughter, but very few of me, because I'm mostly the one taking the photos.

    Err...they did invent the shutter delay timer back in nineteen seventy eleventy two.
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  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    Flame wars in unrelated threads, especially RIP ones. As unstylish as starting a fight at a funeral. "Oh no, some faceless entity on the interweb doesn't agree with me/envy me/believe me/like me" - GTFU!
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  • Peddle Up!
    Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
    Vowing

    Why is everyone suddenly "vowing" to do things? :|
    Purveyor of "up" :)
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    My cold!!!


    Eight days of unending snot........I'm really bored of it now and I wish it would just bugger off.
  • oblongomaculatus
    oblongomaculatus Posts: 616
    crispybug2 wrote:
    My cold!!!


    Eight days of unending snot........I'm really bored of it now and I wish it would just bugger off.

    It's taken you eight days to get bored of snot?! Your boredom threshold must be sky high...
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    Threads that won't die...?
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  • blackpoolkev
    blackpoolkev Posts: 474
    edited September 2014
    This is trivial and it annoys me. You know when you are faced with a brand new roll of toilet paper. As you tear at the lump of glue holding the first sheet of your two ply luxury toilet roll, the first couple of sheets are a bit tatty, but hey, you expect that.
    As you use the roll, you find that the perforations on the two-ply paper do not quite line up. If an odd number of layers of paper is unrolled when opening the roll, the two ply-paper becomes misaligned.So,what to do?
    Carry on using the roll with the wonky perforations? or go to the trouble of unwrapping one ply for half a turn to even up the perforations?
    I always unwrap the half turn, but feel unreasonably irritated that the roll was opened with an odd number of layers in the first place.

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