Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

FishFish

jawooga wrote:

Trying the wine when it's brought out to a restaurant table when it's a screw cap. There's no chance of it being corked. Could I legitimately say "hmm, maybe I'd prefer the house red seeing as I'm having steak".

If I was the Somellier then I would have you thrown out for saying 'hmm', for saying 'seeing as' and not getting the fact that you choose you wine first then the meal to suit. What Regiment were you in? Clearly not The Guards.

FishFish

pinarello001 wrote:

FishFish wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

Ugg boots and the ilk, it's that time of year and they are back. Awful things , look so slovenly as people drag their heels around in them. Vile things.

I believe that the genesis of these boots was that welsh people could put the back legs of sheep in them whilst copulating with them.

That's bollox - we already have Wellington boots for that. Tried and tested by sheep shaggers the world over.

..the correct spelling in 'bollocks' in Morse Code it is BLX. But seriously Ugg boots are much better because they are more comfortable and warm for your paramour...

pinno

FishFish wrote:

pinarello001 wrote:

FishFish wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

Ugg boots and the ilk, it's that time of year and they are back. Awful things , look so slovenly as people drag their heels around in them. Vile things.

I believe that the genesis of these boots was that welsh people could put the back legs of sheep in them whilst copulating with them.

That's bollox - we already have Wellington boots for that. Tried and tested by sheep shaggers the world over.

..the correct spelling in '****' in Morse Code it is BLX. But seriously Ugg boots are much better because they are more comfortable and warm for your paramour...

You must be posh.

bompington

My occasional part-commute (45 miles is a bit too far for me) takes me into Dunfermline on Route 1. As you come down the hill into the town, there is a cycle path of the disused railway type. It is everything you could want in a cycle path - it is shorter and has less junctions than the road, better surface, easily faster.
But why, oh why, do you have to access it by braking from a 30+mph descent then climbing a high, perpendicular kerb?

veronese68

bompington wrote:

But why, oh why, do you have to access it by braking from a 30+mph descent then climbing a high, perpendicular kerb?

Better that than a dropped kerb that leaves a slight ridge so you get more and more confident until one damp morning you hit it at speed and too shallow an angle and it takes your front wheel form under you.
Actually ignore all of the above. Not reading posts properly and assuming it said parallel not perpendicular is mildly irritating. As you were...

Giraffoto

Veronese68 wrote:

Ugg boots and the ilk, it's that time of year and they are back. Awful things , look so slovenly as people drag their heels around in them. Vile things.

I find them very, very funny. Ugg boots, in their native Australia, were the go-to choice for slobbing around the house. To be seen outside in them was on a par with going to the supermarket in your pyjamas, yet over here they're considered fashionable.

Ben6899

Giraffoto wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

Ugg boots and the ilk, it's that time of year and they are back. Awful things , look so slovenly as people drag their heels around in them. Vile things.

I find them very, very funny. Ugg boots, in their native Australia, were the go-to choice for slobbing around the house. To be seen outside in them was on a par with going to the supermarket in your pyjamas, yet over here they're considered fashionable.

Raquel Welch looked good in 'em, but she was neither 5ft fuck all and 11st OR from Tamworth.

ben@31

I walk into a cafe.

There's a long cue waiting to be served, so as I am a well mannered civilised person, I patiently join the end of the cue and wait a few minutes for my turn to be served.

Then some pikey enters the cafe and despite there is several people who entered the cafe before her. The pikey makes a bee line for a empty seat instead of taking her turn in the cue like everyone else.

It disgusts me everyone else is polite enough to take their turn and some trashy person waltzes in and ****'s over everyone else.

ballysmate

People who write this


when they mean

seanoconn

Ballysmate wrote:

People who write this


when they mean

Too true, the amount of times I've misspelt green baize when I meant concrete.

oblongomaculatus

People who get the words principal and principle confused. I used to work for an exams board, where part of my job was to process applications for Principal Examiners (who write the exam papers for GCSE, A Level etc). These always came from teachers. A large number of these supposedly well educated people would state that they wished to be a Principle Examiner. This was despite the question on the application form reading "State which position you are applying for; eg Principal Examiner, Assistant Examiner..." I used to regularly argue that anyone who did this should have their application instantly binned on the grounds that they were clearly illiterate, but I was always overruled.

arran77

seanoconn wrote:

Ballysmate wrote:

People who write this


when they mean

Too true, the amount of times I've misspelt green baize when I meant concrete.

I looked at that and thought the 'pink' and the 'back door' but then I realised Sean would never confuse those two

Pross

One I've meant to add before. People who drive to the gym and park as close as possible to the entrance (I've even seen then use the disabled parking). In many cases these people spend the whole time in the gym running (or worse, walking) on the treadmill. Am I missing something?

capt_slog

ben@31 wrote:

I walk into a cafe.

There's a long cue waiting to be served, so as I am a well mannered civilised person, I patiently join the end of the cue and wait a few minutes for my turn to be served.

Then some pikey enters the cafe and despite there is several people who entered the cafe before her. The pikey makes a bee line for a empty seat instead of taking her turn in the cue like everyone else.

It disgusts me everyone else is polite enough to take their turn and some trashy person waltzes in and ****'s over everyone else.

The mere fact that she was a pikey would piss me off.

But I'm missing the point somewhere I think, because if she just went and sat in an empty seat then presumably she did this without the benefit of coffee or food?

veronese68

Pross wrote:

One I've meant to add before. People who drive to the gym and park as close as possible to the entrance (I've even seen then use the disabled parking). In many cases these people spend the whole time in the gym running (or worse, walking) on the treadmill. Am I missing something?

Girl that lived next door to me would drive to a gym in the middle of Kingston and pay to park in the multi story. It's less than a mile and with the one way system around there it's always quicker to walk, let alone jog or cycle.

PerformingMonkey

Veronese68 wrote:

Pross wrote:

One I've meant to add before. People who drive to the gym and park as close as possible to the entrance (I've even seen then use the disabled parking). In many cases these people spend the whole time in the gym running (or worse, walking) on the treadmill. Am I missing something?

Girl that lived next door to me would drive to a gym in the middle of Kingston and pay to park in the multi story. It's less than a mile and with the one way system around there it's always quicker to walk, let alone jog or cycle.

Just walking for an hour on a treadmill seems fairly pointless to me...

ben@31

Pross wrote:

One I've meant to add before. People who drive to the gym and park as close as possible to the entrance (I've even seen then use the disabled parking). In many cases these people spend the whole time in the gym running (or worse, walking) on the treadmill. Am I missing something?

I find it in every car park. Where people are too lazy to walk from one side of the car park to another. Because I want to prevent my car from getting scratched or dented by some pond life, I always park as far away from the door of the supermarket as possible.

Regards, walking on the treadmill... Maybe they're injured, unfit / just starting out, warming up or doing intervals? Here's one for you to try, try ramping up the incline to 15% and walking backwards on the treadmill.

anonymousblackfg

Pross wrote:

One I've meant to add before. People who drive to the gym and park as close as possible to the entrance (I've even seen then use the disabled parking). In many cases these people spend the whole time in the gym running (or worse, walking) on the treadmill. Am I missing something?

Of a similar ilk, people who believe Yoga is exercise, I have no issue with yoga itself, just people who somehow think it will hellp them stay trim when the pressence of a couple of stone of fat is clearly the issue.

graham.

Whenever there's some cheep, $hitty "documentary" on telly' and there's a "Sad Bit" some daft sod starts playing a piano in a minor key.
As though we're too bloody stupid to recognize the mood of the piece.






And spell check that keeps insisting I become an "American"!






And people who misuse "Quotation" marks!

bompington

Graham. wrote:

And spell check that keeps insisting I become an "American"!

People who don't know how to change their spelling checker settings...

bompington

Too-bright lights, number 73: there was a police car at a minor accident as I was driving to work this morning - police, ambulance and car in ditch, all off the road so no obstruction.
Not that you could tell there was no obstruction, because of the painfully bright flashers on the back of the police car, they really were something like full beam headlights. Completely dazzling, to the point of being dangerous.

graham.

bompington wrote:

Graham. wrote:

And spell check that keeps insisting I become an "American"!

People who don't know how to change their spelling checker settings...

Ooh can you do that? Do tell.

mr_goo

Rubber Necking motorists. Whilst it is in the human nature to look at the tragic and misfortune the other day. I was decidedly peeved at the near 1 mile queue at the end of the dual carriageway section of the A35 towards Dorchester the other day. Cars and lorries had slowed down to a crawl simply to look at the wooded animal carvings a gypsy had put out on the grass at the rest stop.

capt_slog

Mr Goo wrote:

Rubber Necking motorists. Whilst it is in the human nature to look at the tragic and misfortune the other day. I was decidedly peeved at the near 1 mile queue at the end of the dual carriageway section of the A35 towards Dorchester the other day. Cars and lorries had slowed down to a crawl simply to look at the wooded animal carvings a gypsy had put out on the grass at the rest stop.

I have this on a bit of road I regularly travel, it can be affected by floods on either side of a raised embankment. The problem happens not because people have slowed down to look, but because they are on the back of a queue where maybe just one person has slowed, often for another reason. The others further back then notice something that they would otherwise have missed and look at it too, thinking "Might as well have a look whilst I'm in this standing traffic". They then look forward to see that there is nothing in front and they are part of the problem.

If you know it's there you can do everyone a favour by leaving a big space between you and the cars in front, and when those have done their rubber necking bit and start to move off, you also accelerate. The cars behind will now follow you and go straight past the whatever-it-is. I speak from experience.

verylonglegs

Mr Goo wrote:

Rubber Necking motorists. Whilst it is in the human nature to look at the tragic and misfortune the other day. I was decidedly peeved at the near 1 mile queue at the end of the dual carriageway section of the A35 towards Dorchester the other day. Cars and lorries had slowed down to a crawl simply to look at the wooded animal carvings a gypsy had put out on the grass at the rest stop.

There was a news story a couple of months ago about Police who were attending an RTA and they noticed motorists crawling past on the opposite carriageway filming the crash scene. The Police decided to in turn to film those motorists with the intention of prosecuting them for using their phones whilst driving. However the main question for me was what kind of weirdo do you have to be to actually want to watch the aftermath of a serious road accident?? Were those morons intending to go home and share their films on facebook with their equally sad, dim-witted chums? It really is baffling how some people think that's ok to do.

veronese68

Helmet threads. More specifically my own inability to keep my nose out of them when irritated by people getting preachy.
Agree to the above rubbernecking comments.

earth

That F**KING menu bar at the top of the BikeRadar web page that slides up and down. It's visibility is such a random event that it must be under the control of a higher intelligence and a very malevolent one at that. It's never there when you want it and then it just slides in when you are reading something and shifts everything around on the screen to make room for itself. If you are reading on a tablet then your in for an age of waiting for the screen to refresh. Then when its all done and you have found your place again - it fucks off!!!

earth

bompington wrote:

Much worse in a slinky.

I never had a slinky. I had part of a slinky, but I straightened it.

Pross

ben@31 wrote:

Pross wrote:

One I've meant to add before. People who drive to the gym and park as close as possible to the entrance (I've even seen then use the disabled parking). In many cases these people spend the whole time in the gym running (or worse, walking) on the treadmill. Am I missing something?

I find it in every car park. Where people are too lazy to walk from one side of the car park to another. Because I want to prevent my car from getting scratched or dented by some pond life, I always park as far away from the door of the supermarket as possible.

Regards, walking on the treadmill... Maybe they're injured, unfit / just starting out, warming up or doing intervals? Here's one for you to try, try ramping up the incline to 15% and walking backwards on the treadmill.

I think you're missing the point. My issue is that they get as close as possible to the front door to avoid walking further than they have to and then spend their exercise time walking on a treadmill. Why not cut out the middle man and save a few quid by going for a walk from home? Or if they really want to go to the gym park at the far side and use the walk to the entrance to increase your activity time.

FishFish

When you are driving - within the speed limit - of course and using the middle lane because it is safer. Well actually it is these great electric blue cab lights in articulated lorry cabs with a Merc symbol or 'Ronnie's Transport' The mentality of the person installing this to give the impression that his lorry is actually a supernova preceeding the arrival of God as opposed to the reality that Ronnie is a stunted burger eating tw@ who wazzes in a lucozade bottle and chucks it out the window like some diabetes bomb.