Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

jawooga

The word 'adjudged' only being used in football journalism eg he was adjudged to have used his hand. I never hear that elsewhere.

Manc33

"He's unplayable" why is he on the pitch then?!

"No real venom on the shot" I didn't know snakes could play football.

qube

The King of Grammar Turds has to be awarded to folk who type "of" when surely they mean "have."

Manc33

Qube wrote:

The King of Grammar Turds has to be awarded to folk who type "of" when surely they mean "have."

"They got beat off West Ham"

"He done good"

Cashew "nuts". Koala "bears".

"If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is" - to me this infers that something sounding too good to be true probably is true. The correct way would be "If something sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't".

"Loose the attitude" (they mean lose).

"Going too the shop" (to)

"I'm going to" (too)

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Get George Carlin on if you think thats bad.

"This country is going down the tubes" what tubes?

"In your own words" fheufng zgeijwjf bwabfhoert.

Carlin's "THESE. ARE. NOT. REAL. NAMES." bit is one of my favourites. "George Carlin - Goofy Boy Names (HQ)" (won't link to it because its full of swearing).

finchy

T-shirt shops that don't know how to spell.

mr_goo

Burger baps with the sesame seeds on them. One bite and hundreds of seeds fly everywhere.

Anonymous

People who say "can I get a ........" to the shop assistant whose job it is to get it for them :evil:

Every cloud has a silver lining though. When in McDonalds a while back, a young woman asked "can I get a spoon". The server replied, "yes, they are around the corner" In my head I added "so go and get one"

mr_goo

Shop assistants, baristas, waiters/waitresses, bar staff et all who insist on addressing a group of people as 'Guys'

'Can I help you Guys ? '
'Is every thing ok Guys ?'
'What can I get you Guys ?'

Exceptionally disrespectful and fuffin annoying.

Anonymous

People who use the words 'Vista' or 'Narrative' in a twatty way :evil:

finchy

Microsoft. I really am close to losing it tonight and putting my fist through the computer monitor. How can they make something as simple as changing a password so f'ing complicated? Pr1cks. :evil:

Manc33

"It is way smaller than the picture"

Source: Feedback on a web page selling a 6x6x6 cube of magnet balls where it clearly states in the title that they are 3mm. A semi-awake gibbon could work out its going to only be a cube measuring 18mm per side. I hate it when cheapskate people complain they didn't quite get what they expected! Don't be a cheapskate and get the 5mm ones.

graham.

Anyone who uses the term "Is it not...." in a debate.
Anyone who uses the term "So called...." in a debate.
They're trying to sound all clever and superior and failing miserably!

Ben6899

Manc33 wrote:

"He's unplayable" why is he on the pitch then?!

He's on the pitch because he's "unplayable". It means that it's extremely difficult (or impossible) for the opposing team to mark him, or mitigate his impact on the match.

bompington

The (apparently) limitless number of cyclists with semantic pragmatic disorder who have difficulty with pretty ordinary everyday idiomatic language.

Ben6899

bompington wrote:

The (apparently) limitless number of cyclists with semantic pragmatic disorder who have difficulty with pretty ordinary everyday idiomatic language.

Give us some examples.

bompington

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earth

Mr Goo wrote:

Burger baps with the sesame seeds on them. One bite and hundreds of seeds fly everywhere.

That calls for criticism of Burger King burgers. One bite and everything flies out of the other side.

Beltaine

The phrase 'Bring it on', most especially when it's used on Internet forums ( or should that be 'forii' ?)

qube

Beltaine wrote:

The phrase 'Bring it on', most especially when it's used on Internet forums ( or should that be 'forii' ?)

Fora.

Worse, is when it's shortened to "Bring It"

team47b

Forums is fine as forum is now an English word so to pluralise it using a Latin set of rules is unnecessary and using fora is pretentious and likely to be a seemingly trivial thing that annoys me

And by the way, the plural of "octopus" shouldn't be "octypi." That comes from a misanalysis of the word as Latin. It's actually Greek, so if you want to get picky, the plural should be "octopodes" :roll:

qube

Nobody's getting picky.... and "octopuses" is well accepted.

I was only answering Beltaines query.

bompington

team47b wrote:

Forums is fine as forum is now an English word so to pluralise it using a Latin set of rules is unnecessary and using fora is pretentious and likely to be a seemingly trivial thing that annoys me

Do you guys have nothing better to do than sit on your ba posting all this stuff?

byke68

Parents uttering the words "come on you guys" to their kids. They are your offspring not your mates...nor are they American!

jawooga

Manc33 wrote:

"If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is" - to me this infers that something sounding too good to be true probably is true. The correct way would be "If something sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't".

Implies?

Ben6899

bompington wrote:

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Ha. Get to f**k.

Bobbinogs

Beverages.

When did a drink become a fecking beverage?

finchy

There's an Olly Murs tribute act playing round here soon. You cannot imagine how much that annoys me.

bompington

You could have a kind of plastic imitation version, Polly Murs

Kieran_Burns

bompington wrote:

You could have a kind of plastic imitation version, Polly Murs

earth

Establishments that hide the mens room in obscure places.