Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Tyred&weary wrote:
    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.


    Similarly, using "super" as a prefix: super-excited, super-tired etc....
    It's the new "like".... :roll:
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    People who name their house when its just a normal house with a number.

    Even more annoying when its a terrace/end of terrace/semi and they remove the number, expecting people to use their neighbours numbers to work out what number they are.

    Get a better job and buy a big detached house with a name if thats what you really want.
  • andy9964
    andy9964 Posts: 930
    People who say "I know", after you've just explained something........
    You didnt know until I explained it to you, now feck off !!!!!!!
  • Manc33
    Manc33 Posts: 2,157
    Andy9964 wrote:
    People who say "I know", after you've just explained something........
    You didnt know until I explained it to you, now feck off !!!!!!!

    lol, reminded me of a conversation with my dad one time:

    Dad: "Did you know if it wasn't for Jupiter and Saturn, loads more meteors would have probably hit Earth?"
    Me: "Yes"
    Dad: "No you don't"

    :shock:

    I did know, because I saw it on a programme a few days before, which is I guess why my dad knew it and was telling me it. :lol: :roll:
  • Gazzetta67
    Gazzetta67 Posts: 1,890
    New year resolutions - Not to blow a gasket when someone says CAMPY or CLINCHERS bloody americanisms 8)
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    The media portraying Darts as top level sports. Don't get me wrong, I once played it a fair bit myself, to the point where I actually hit a handful of 180's, so I know it needs a lot of hours put into it. But that's all it is, lots and lots of practice with little wilful exertion.

    We have this http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/darts/30659367 look at the pictures, two old badly dressed overweight men. It's not the pinnacle of sporting achievement or anything even close.
  • graham.
    graham. Posts: 862
    If the people playing are generally fitter than the people watching...............Sport.
    If the people watching are generally fitter than the people playing...............Game.
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  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    verylonglegs wrote:
    The media portraying Darts as top level sports. Don't get me wrong, I once played it a fair bit myself, to the point where I actually hit a handful of 180's, so I know it needs a lot of hours put into it. But that's all it is, lots and lots of practice with little wilful exertion.

    We have this http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/darts/30659367 look at the pictures, two old badly dressed overweight men. It's not the pinnacle of sporting achievement or anything even close.

    and why have two competing competitions played around the same time ?!? at least the pdc lot do seem to have practiced alot more than the bdo lot, which just seems to be like watching a couple of people playing darts in the pub.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    pottssteve wrote:
    It's not a weather "bomb", it's just weather.......

    Isn't it just a play on the technical term i.e. an explosive cyclogenesis?
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Apologies if this one has already been done but the trend towards announcing what someone is going to announce in a press conference / speech at some point in the future. What's the point in having the press conference / speech when we already know what is going to be said? Even worse is people sending tweets to let you know they are going to make a big announcement on Twitter.
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Pross wrote:
    Apologies if this one has already been done but the trend towards announcing what someone is going to announce in a press conference / speech at some point in the future. What's the point in having the press conference / speech when we already know what is going to be said? Even worse is people sending tweets to let you know they are going to make a big announcement on Twitter.

    Pre-meeting meeting? Which is time taken to save time taken in the meeting.
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Apologies if this one has already been done but the trend towards announcing what someone is going to announce in a press conference / speech at some point in the future. What's the point in having the press conference / speech when we already know what is going to be said? Even worse is people sending tweets to let you know they are going to make a big announcement on Twitter.

    Pre-meeting meeting? Which is time taken to save time taken in the meeting.
    Surely the point of a pre-meeting meeting is to stitch up the decisions in advance - it's nothing to do with time, it's all about who you want to cut out.
  • Manc33
    Manc33 Posts: 2,157
    On the weather the other night "Fresh wind". :shock:

    NOT FOR CYCLISTS

    It wasn't just read out either, it said it on the screen along with normal things.

    Now its normal to "market" the wind to us?!

    What next, invigorating rain?

    You can't put perfume on a pig, we know the weather here is a joke, trying to dress it up only makes it worse, brings attention to it.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,814
    British Cycling, or more to the point Scottish Cycling and Welsh Cycling. I'm a member of British Cycling in England, I don't need English Cycling. Why do the Scots and the Welsh need a special subset any more than England or Northern Ireland?
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Veronese68 wrote:
    British Cycling, or more to the point Scottish Cycling and Welsh Cycling. I'm a member of British Cycling in England, I don't need English Cycling. Why do the Scots and the Welsh need a special subset any more than England or Northern Ireland?

    It's just the equivalent of a division (therefore the Welsh Cycling road race champion isn't recognised as a national champion). :wink:
  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    People who post "is it 1st April" after a story, usually posted on any other day than 1st April, as a comment to a story that is mildly amusing/interesting/unusual.

    For instance: http://road.cc/content/news/140018-shav ... ide-faster

    Hilarious.
  • earth
    earth Posts: 934
    People that walk diagonally.

    Closely followed by people who walk in the same direction as traffic.
  • peat
    peat Posts: 1,242
    People who make faux noises of excitement.

    eg. Someone on theme park ride shouting "Wooohooo!"
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Holland and Barrett.
    My missus is always in there spending money on what mostly appears to be quackery.

    On reflection, it is not trivial as she spent a fortune in their 'Penny Sale' Grrr :evil:
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Peat wrote:
    People who make faux noises of excitement.

    eg. Someone on theme park ride shouting "Wooohooo!"


    Good shout. The screaming on rides really bugs me, I love 'thrill rides' but I've never felt the urge to scream on them!
  • Manc33
    Manc33 Posts: 2,157
    Kids that stand fully in the road with both feet (with heels touching the kerb) when its quite a squeeze already to fit the car through without him standing there. Get back on the pavement you stupid little chit! Wait!

    Related to that:

    People that stand on the edge of the pavement but the entire time you're approaching them they are looking down the road the other way and you're thinking "Come on turn your head FFS" but they don't. One hasn't stepped right into my path just as I go past but I can see a lot of potential for it. As long as they can't hear a vehicle coming it "must be OK" :roll: The last time that happened I shouted BOO! at the woman as I went past, luckily she saw the funny side of it but I didn't only do it to be funny. Some people are literally asleep walking around, probably overworked etc, I hardly blame them.
  • andy9964
    andy9964 Posts: 930
    The pedestrian 2-Step-Sprint.
    Whether you're in a car or on a bike, the ped's take a couple of quick steps, to "claim" the road then meander at a snail's pace, forcing you to slow down/stop. Happens mostly >10 yards from a safe crossing point.

    People in supermarkets, who hold the trolley at full stretch, while looking at something as far away as possible, taking up about 20 feet
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    Andy9964 wrote:
    The pedestrian 2-Step-Sprint.
    Whether you're in a car or on a bike, the ped's take a couple of quick steps, to "claim" the road then meander at a snail's pace, forcing you to slow down/stop. Happens mostly >10 yards from a safe crossing point.

    People in supermarkets, who hold the trolley at full stretch, while looking at something as far away as possible, taking up about 20 feet


    Somewhat similar to this?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-v7w5CL6EU
  • Manc33
    Manc33 Posts: 2,157
    Sounds like you need Mike Strutter's Strutter Bubble. :twisted:
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    pubs where the bar staff spend at least a minute trying to outstare each other into stepping up to ask what you want to order.
  • Manc33
    Manc33 Posts: 2,157
    awavey wrote:
    pubs where the bar staff spend at least a minute trying to outstare each other into stepping up to ask what you want to order.

    Join date: April 1st - OMG are you joking?

    Just kidding, it ties into an earlier comment...
    dodgy wrote:
    People who post "is it 1st April" after a story, usually posted on any other day than 1st April, as a comment to a story that is mildly amusing/interesting/unusual.

    For instance: http://road.cc/content/news/140018-shav ... ide-faster

    Hilarious.
  • RDW
    RDW Posts: 1,900
    (1) F l i c k i n g* through the less popular channels on Freeview looking for something interesting, and finding that every single programme you click on is in the middle of an ad break.

    Edit:

    (2) *Using a forum that auto-censors your language and has ridiculous rules about 'bad' words.
  • jawooga
    jawooga Posts: 530
    earth wrote:
    People that walk diagonally.

    I agree with this, especially when they're someone you're walking with, and they invade your space by walking diagonally towards you. You both end up veering in one direction as you try to step away and reclaim space.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Doing the washing up and cleaning the kitchen after my wife has decided to do some of her Hungarian or Slovak cooking. :x :x

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  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    Anyone with more than one autobiography edition. All this 'updated' or 'revised' edition nonsense. Tossers.

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