Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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The incessant crap music in clothes stores.
Spike Milligan called the piped stuff in lifts and shopping stores 'Musak' and put it into Room 101.
Buying a hoodie were you?
Traipsing around said shops with the missus. A living death.
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The incessant crap music in clothes stores.
Spike Milligan called the piped stuff in lifts and shopping stores 'Musak' and put it into Room 101.
Buying a hoodie were you?
Traipsing around said shops with the missus. A living death.
Too right. Spent 6 hours wandering around Stockholm shopping with the ex once. 'Does my bum look big in this?' 'No it's perfect' (which it was) . 'Your just saying that so that we can go home'. You can't win. She didn't buy a thing. Took 5 pints of genuine Dublin Guinness at the Limmerick in Tegnérgatan to ease the mutual stress.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
The way some folk make the application of mastic look soooooo easy and don't have to resort to the wet finger. :evil:
Use detergent (Fairy Liquid or similar) to smooth it out, then it won't stick to your finger and makes it easy.
...And always keep the nozzle at 45 degrees ( angle not temperature!) go half way down lift off and start again at the bottom and go back up, never go full length and end at a corner, if you cut the nozzle at the right point to get the correct width and correct angle there should be no need to use you fingers, once you get the knack it's like a thing you never forget that I can't quite remember
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People who feel the need to beep their horn when they are driving off from visiting other people, they know you are leaving you are waving at them from an open window as you drive off!
This forum, every time I position my pointer over something I want to go to just as I click the whole page moves up and I end up going somewhere I didn't want to go.
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Pebble In The Shoe Cars.0
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When people chuckle at the meerkat adverts.0
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Bikes with excessively wide handlebars that take up three spaces in the bike racks at work.0
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Going on to the BBC website to watch Chelsea get a mauling, only to find out that you can't watch Match of the Day on iplayer these days. :roll:0
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The Evans website not automatically returning to the top of the page when you go from page 1 to page 2 etc0
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drivers who a) barge into outside lane from slip road without waiting for a safe gap
b) drivers who leave until after the 100 yards to go sign before barging into slip road from outside lane.
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Footballs.
Not the game (although I also hate that with a passion), but the actual balls in the hands of cretins.
Who are these people who just have to carry a football with them? And at any opportunity, they have to bounce it or play 'keepy up' or start heading it or having a kick about with a fellow cretin. This can be in the middle of queue, outside the pub where you're trying to sit and have a quiet drink or just walking through a shopping street. What they all have in common is the fact that their ability to control said ball is way below their enthusiasm. They seem to think that I'll be impressed by their skills but it's me that has to get out of the way when it goes breasts vertical. 'Koff to a field, moron.
The older I get, the better I was.0 -
F*cking flying ants. The little bastards thinking it cool to emerge from behind the skirting board. Dyson or Henry on the case.0
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Women (invariably) dawdling along the path in front of you while carrying a huge umbrella that makes it impossible to overtake without risking an eye or two.
People who put up an umbrella on one of those hot summer days where the amount of 'rain' falling is about one-fifth of the weekly total precipitation of the Atacama Desert.
Men with umbrellas. Either man the fck up, or if there's really no alternative, wear a hat.
Umbrellas in general, I suppose.Job: Job, n,. A frustratingly long period of time separating two shorter than usual training rides0 -
More creeping Americanisms:
"Off of..." Eg "the blameless cyclist bounced off of the moronic motorist's bonnet" When I first heard British people use this, it made me laugh - I thought they were deliberately using it to talk like a four-year-old for comic effect.
"Light it on fire..."
"yeah, no..." Make your mind up, you indecisive pr1ck...
Hasn't reached these shores yet, but the inability to pronounce the names Craig and Graham (Creg and Gram) is bile-inducing.Job: Job, n,. A frustratingly long period of time separating two shorter than usual training rides0 -
Oh aye, and the over (and incorrect) use of "literally". A few years ago, BBC News 24 interviewed some guy who'd experienced one of your occasional lame UK 'earthquakes' and asked him what had happened. "The earthquake literally telegraphed its arrival..." the bellend began.Job: Job, n,. A frustratingly long period of time separating two shorter than usual training rides0
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Heard some woman in BBC Radio 2 who added "...you know..." every 6 words or so constantly. Bloody annoying. Switched the radio off.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19682564#p19682564]steadyrollingman[/url] wrote:Oh aye, and the over (and incorrect) use of "literally". A few years ago, BBC News 24 interviewed some guy who'd experienced one of your occasional lame UK 'earthquakes' and asked him what had happened. "The earthquake literally telegraphed its arrival..." the bellend began.
not incorrect anymore I'm afraid
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23729570
you literally couldn't make it upwww.conjunctivitis.com - a site for sore eyes0 -
[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19682564#p19682564]steadyrollingman[/url] wrote:Oh aye, and the over (and incorrect) use of "literally". A few years ago, BBC News 24 interviewed some guy who'd experienced one of your occasional lame UK 'earthquakes' and asked him what had happened. "The earthquake literally telegraphed its arrival..." the bellend began.
not incorrect anymore I'm afraid
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23729570
you literally couldn't make it up
"If enough [stupid] people use a word in a particular way... it will find its way into the dictionary [because we are too spineless to tell them they are being stupid and to stop]."Senior OED editor Fiona MacPherson wrote:0 -
[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19682564#p19682564]steadyrollingman[/url] wrote:Oh aye, and the over (and incorrect) use of "literally". A few years ago, BBC News 24 interviewed some guy who'd experienced one of your occasional lame UK 'earthquakes' and asked him what had happened. "The earthquake literally telegraphed its arrival..." the bellend began.
not incorrect anymore I'm afraid
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23729570
you literally couldn't make it upSenior OED editor Fiona MacPherson wrote:
"If enough [stupid] people use a word in a particular way... it will find its way into the dictionary [because we are too spineless to tell them they are being stupid and to stop]."0 -
[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19682564#p19682564]steadyrollingman[/url] wrote:Oh aye, and the over (and incorrect) use of "literally". A few years ago, BBC News 24 interviewed some guy who'd experienced one of your occasional lame UK 'earthquakes' and asked him what had happened. "The earthquake literally telegraphed its arrival..." the bellend began.
not incorrect anymore I'm afraid
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23729570
you literally couldn't make it up:"If enough [stupid] people use a word in a particular way... it will find its way into the dictionary [because we are too spineless to tell them they are being stupid and to stop]."
So, Senior OED editor Fiona MacPherson not only has the job of seeing that the OED gets properly edited, she's in charge of roaming the streets and slapping people around the head with a copy of the concise edition if they misuse the language? You should apply for that job, it'd be a chance to vent some of your frustration with people who use "literally" in the wrong placeSpecialized Roubaix Elite 2015
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I would literally be totes amazeballs at that job. She should send her minions, I'm sure its not just her doing the job...0
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The daily commute, 30 limit, 40 limit, 30 limit, slurry tractors, school mums, HGVs that take an age to pull off and pick up speed from the numerous roundabouts on said commute, another roundabout just 400 yards from the last forcing said HGV to stop again and restart the tortuous task of getting up to 40 mph just in time to start slowing down for the next roundabout. Retired people who feel the need to go round the paper shop at 7.30 in the morning clutching their paper coupon and wanting to talk sh-te to the shopkeeper whilst working people behind them just want to make their purchase and get on their way to work. The police on said commute who think you need to close half of Britain's roads cos somebody is changing a tyre. The self inflicted over weight bloke who lives in our street with his new pebble in the shoe car, full sky package and all the other associated benefits you get for being a lazy basta-d, yes mate I'll sit through the daily commute so I can pay a load of tax to keep you in the life to which you have become accustomed.0
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The daily commute, 30 limit, 40 limit, 30 limit, slurry tractors, school mums, HGVs that take an age to pull off and pick up speed from the numerous roundabouts on said commute, another roundabout just 400 yards from the last forcing said HGV to stop again and restart the tortuous task of getting up to 40 mph just in time to start slowing down for the next roundabout. Retired people who feel the need to go round the paper shop at 7.30 in the morning clutching their paper coupon and wanting to talk sh-te to the shopkeeper whilst working people behind them just want to make their purchase and get on their way to work. The police on said commute who think you need to close half of Britain's roads cos somebody is changing a tyre. The self inflicted over weight bloke who lives in our street with his new pebble in the shoe car, full sky package and all the other associated benefits you get for being a lazy basta-d, yes mate I'll sit through the daily commute so I can pay a load of tax to keep you in the life to which you have become accustomed.
9/10 needs more caps and muted swearing. Good rant though
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What's a "pebble in the shoe car"? Please be aware that if your explanation is not grammatically correct you'll be in line for an assault with a deadly Oxford Concise from our friend above^Specialized Roubaix Elite 2015
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Poor toilet etiquette. This is aimed at chaps, as I have no experience of female loos... :oops:
The (unwritten) rules are:
- No talking. This is not the place for polite conversation
- Taking a call when on the throne...I mean, really?
- If a stall is taken, do not go into the one adjacent unless absolutely necessary. Why is it that people who always park next door always then proceed to unleash unutterable bowel horrors, with accompanying stench and grunts/groans?
It's just a hill. Get over it.0 -
What's a "pebble in the shoe car"? Please be aware that if your explanation is not grammatically correct you'll be in line for an assault with a deadly Oxford Concise from our friend above^ 0
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Rugby League is an embarrassment.
FTFY
It's just a hill. Get over it.0 -
What's a "pebble in the shoe car"? Please be aware that if your explanation is not grammatically correct you'll be in line for an assault with a deadly Oxford Concise from our friend above^
Motor trade slang for a Mobo car, which in turn is Motor trade slang for a Motability car.0 -
People who say borrow when they mean lend. "Can someone borrow me a tenner" for examplewww.conjunctivitis.com - a site for sore eyes0
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Trailers mid tv programme showing what is coming up later in the show. Just show the effing programme!!0
