Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Ed Sheeran is still really annoying me.
  • Manc33
    Manc33 Posts: 2,157
    The "Toys R Us" theme song in every single commercial break, every single day from December 1st.

    Its called Toys R Us Toys R Us Toys R Us!

    Yep, you told me 50Bn times.

    But just in case I forget in the next 23 minutes that there is a Toys R Us store within 3 miles of my house, why not put an advert on to remind me, just in case. :roll:
  • FatTed
    FatTed Posts: 1,205
    Manc33 wrote:
    The "Toys R Us" theme song in every single commercial break, every single day from December 1st.

    Its called Toys R Us Toys R Us Toys R Us!

    Yep, you told me 50Bn times.

    But just in case I forget in the next 23 minutes that there is a Toys R Us store within 3 miles of my house, why not put an advert on to remind me, just in case. :roll:

    Stop watching adverts, use a Tivo or My Sky or whatever.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,814
    FatTed wrote:
    Manc33 wrote:
    The "Toys R Us" theme song in every single commercial break, every single day from December 1st.

    Its called Toys R Us Toys R Us Toys R Us!

    Yep, you told me 50Bn times.

    But just in case I forget in the next 23 minutes that there is a Toys R Us store within 3 miles of my house, why not put an advert on to remind me, just in case. :roll:

    Stop watching adverts, use a Tivo or My Sky or whatever.
    Alternatively, stop watching kids TV. I don't remember seeing a Toys R Us ad in ages.
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  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    Veronese68 wrote:
    FatTed wrote:
    Manc33 wrote:
    The "Toys R Us" theme song in every single commercial break, every single day from December 1st.

    Its called Toys R Us Toys R Us Toys R Us!

    Yep, you told me 50Bn times.

    But just in case I forget in the next 23 minutes that there is a Toys R Us store within 3 miles of my house, why not put an advert on to remind me, just in case. :roll:

    Stop watching adverts, use a Tivo or My Sky or whatever.
    Alternatively, stop watching kids TV. I don't remember seeing a Toys R Us ad in ages.

    Alternatively stop watching TV, I don't remember seeing a TV advert for the last 10 years :D
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,814
    That I thought of something that belongs on here today, forgot what it was. D'oh!
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  • dodgy
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    The only adverts I see are the 3 seconds at the start and end of the advert break. Depends how quick I am on the remote control. Haven't watched live TV in 14 years (bought TiVo in 2000 and since then, various other PVRs).

    If there are any particularly amazing adverts, they will surface on social media.
  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,694
    dodgy wrote:
    The only adverts I see are the 3 seconds at the start and end of the advert break. Depends how quick I am on the remote control. Haven't watched live TV in 14 years (bought TiVo in 2000 and since then, various other PVRs).

    If there are any particularly amazing adverts, they will surface on social media.
    Actually you have likely watched thousands of adverts on TV, you just haven't realised it. Product placement, mentions of sponsor's products, billboards in the background of shots... It's all advertising, and aimed at reaching you, the viewer.
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Going to the park, seeing parents ignoring their toddlers for ages while they mess about on their smartphones, then when said toddler does something (s)he shouldn't, parent getting angry.

    Some people really would be better sterilised.
  • FatTed
    FatTed Posts: 1,205
    dodgy wrote:
    The only adverts I see are the 3 seconds at the start and end of the advert break. Depends how quick I am on the remote control. Haven't watched live TV in 14 years (bought TiVo in 2000 and since then, various other PVRs).

    If there are any particularly amazing adverts, they will surface on social media.
    I haven't used Tivo for a long time, but what I liked was the hack that meat you could skip in 30 second bits
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    England's one day cricket side, it's pants with poor leadership and we shouldn't bother sending them to the World cup.
  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    Wheelspinner wrote:
    dodgy wrote:
    The only adverts I see are the 3 seconds at the start and end of the advert break. Depends how quick I am on the remote control. Haven't watched live TV in 14 years (bought TiVo in 2000 and since then, various other PVRs).

    If there are any particularly amazing adverts, they will surface on social media.
    Actually you have likely watched thousands of adverts on TV, you just haven't realised it. Product placement, mentions of sponsor's products, billboards in the background of shots... It's all advertising, and aimed at reaching you, the viewer.

    Well yes, but you obviously know I'm talking about the enforced intermission every 12 minutes or so on commercial channels.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Here's another in my list of unreasonable and petty (hey, that's what this thread is for, right?) motorway annoyances. Heck, I need a bike-commutable job so badly...

    ... when drivers sitting in the slow lane indicate their desire to pull out by signalling right.
    Does it mean
    a) please will you let me out even though you have priority?
    b) I'm thinking that at some point in the future, it would be nice to overtake this lorry, but hey, no hurry?
    c) I vaguely remember from driving lessons years ago that you should signal before pulling out, but don't ask me why
    d) Cutting people up is fine as long as you indicate

    Actually, is there any point in signalling at all? Either there's space to pull out, in which case no-one is going to be affected by your manoeuvre so you don't need to, or there's not, in which case you shouldn't be moving.

    Heck, I need a bike-commutable job so badly...
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104
    If I phone my parents up and my dad answers the phone - if I say "hi dad is mum there" instead of putting her on he'll always answer yes, then a pause, why...do you want to speak to her?...as if there would be some other reason I'd phone up and ask if she's there.
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  • southdownswolf
    southdownswolf Posts: 1,525
    DeVlaeminck wrote:
    If I phone my parents up and my dad answers the phone - if I say "hi dad is mum there" instead of putting her on he'll always answer yes, then a pause, why...do you want to speak to her?...as if there would be some other reason I'd phone up and ask if she's there.
    perhaps he thinks you are going to tell him a secret and he thinks that you wouldn't want your Mom to overhear?
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  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    DeVlaeminck wrote:
    If I phone my parents up and my dad answers the phone - if I say "hi dad is mum there" instead of putting her on he'll always answer yes, then a pause, why...do you want to speak to her?...as if there would be some other reason I'd phone up and ask if she's there.

    Maybe he just wishes you'd like to talk to him instead.
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  • hamish_mctavish
    hamish_mctavish Posts: 142
    bompington wrote:
    Actually, is there any point in signalling at all? Either there's space to pull out, in which case no-one is going to be affected by your manoeuvre so you don't need to, or there's not, in which case you shouldn't be moving.
    Car pulling out from inside to centre; car pulling in from outside to centre. Neither indicate. BOOM!!!
  • savethemamil
    savethemamil Posts: 35
    Bobbinogs wrote:
    Beverages.

    When did a drink become a ******* beverage?

    Did you never get the bevvies in at the pub then?
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    The fact that Kenneth Williams, a very talented comedian, will mainly be remembered for saying "oooooooh matron".
  • Manc33
    Manc33 Posts: 2,157
    Kenneth Williams was a genius IMO. His "best quote ever" on YouTube, check out his face, you can tell he means it, amidst all the laughing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdDtwc9HA7s

    People correcting a phrase you said when they know full well what you mean. You could just say "If you're correcting me then you obviously did understand it".

    For example some guy in the Army...

    "Why are you shouting as loud as you can when I am only stood two feet away?"

    "You mean standing, stood is past tense"

    Right. :roll:
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104
    Sirius631 wrote:
    DeVlaeminck wrote:
    If I phone my parents up and my dad answers the phone - if I say "hi dad is mum there" instead of putting her on he'll always answer yes, then a pause, why...do you want to speak to her?...as if there would be some other reason I'd phone up and ask if she's there.

    Maybe he just wishes you'd like to talk to him instead.

    I'm far too busy.
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  • Beltaine
    Beltaine Posts: 166
    The phrase 'old school'. The annoyance factor is to the power of ten if it is spelled 'old skool'.

    Just feck off...
    ....I don't know why; It's a perfectly cromulent word....
  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    Manc33 wrote:
    People correcting a phrase you said when they know full well what you mean. You could just say "If you're correcting me then you obviously did understand it".

    For example some guy in the Army...

    "Why are you shouting as loud as you can when I am only stood two feet away?"

    "You mean standing, stood is past tense"

    Right. :roll:

    Extra demerits if the "correction" is unnecessary or wrong. Would this person object to the idea of a house being "situated" somewhere when its situation is an on going . . . er . . . the hell with it, situation?
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  • Bucksspeedyboy
    Bucksspeedyboy Posts: 59
    ... when drivers sitting in the slow lane indicate their desire to pull out by signalling right.
    Does it mean
    a) please will you let me out even though you have priority?
    b) I'm thinking that at some point in the future, it would be nice to overtake this lorry, but hey, no hurry?
    c) I vaguely remember from driving lessons years ago that you should signal before pulling out, but don't ask me why
    d) Cutting people up is fine as long as you indicate

    Actually, is there any point in signalling at all? Either there's space to pull out, in which case no-one is going to be affected by your manoeuvre so you don't need to, or there's not, in which case you shouldn't be moving ..[/quote]

    I agree with this entirely! Also drivers who pull up behind parked cars when I'm following behind them and we both have to wait to give way to cars coming the other way, then when they can go past the parked cars they indicate right before they pull out. What the feck are they doing? Are they actually about to turn right or are they just passing the parked cars? If it's the latter, why are they indicating - I know they are going to pass the cars and not drive straight into them!
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,814
    Hazard lights. They aren't called "Turn these on and park wherever the fark you like" lights you f'ing ignorant cockwombles.
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  • Beltaine
    Beltaine Posts: 166
    People who start a sentence with the word "So...".
    ....I don't know why; It's a perfectly cromulent word....
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,814
    People not reading out of office messages.
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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    Astrology and horoscopes.

    They regularly have a bit on radio 2 in an afternoon, I think it's Monday with Steve Wright (a bell end but entertaining). You get people phoning in to ask the astrologer's advice and it generally goes something like..."I'm 35 and Gemini, is now a good time to re-mortgage my house and use all the money to set-up a business farming fruit flies for research institutes?" :shock:

    The answer can only ever be NO, if you've got to phone up a charlatan on a radio program for advice, you're going to fail.


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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    It's not a weather "bomb", it's just weather.......
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  • tyred&weary
    tyred&weary Posts: 243
    pottssteve wrote:
    It's not a weather "bomb", it's just weather.......

    Absolutely. It's a tendency of the Americans to view anything as hostile and sinister. Weather can't be just weather, it has to be something aggressive turned against them. The media just lap it up - a new hype word.

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