Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    team47b wrote:
    I read this out loud to Mrs T she thought I was on one of my usual rants and only realised I was reading a post because there wasn't any swearing :D

    Feel free to add your own swearing while reading it. Other rants in this series include:
    • Motorists who think they're a persecuted minority
    • Anyone who drops litter
    • People who believe everything they read in the newspapers, especially the Express and Mail. The only insight you'll get from reading the Express is how Der Sturmer would have turned out if the Nazis had subcontracted it to a pornographer
    Dear me, there I go again . . .
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  • nutter_bed
    nutter_bed Posts: 87
    Giraffoto wrote:
    • Anyone who drops litter

    ^^^
    This!
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    edited November 2012
    Giraffoto wrote:
    • Anyone who drops litter

    This is not a trivial matter. Litter can pose a threat to humans and wildlife and really ruin the feel of a place. People who litter are tools who should be whipped with barbed wire.
  • sadlybiggins
    sadlybiggins Posts: 158
    I can feel a rant coming on but will restrain myself to a few:

    - people eating food from certain well-known establishments on public transport as it usually smells like dog food
    - people reading/texting/blackberrying whilst walking and not looking
    - people who think that they can cut across everybody else crossing the road at crossings
    - wheelie bags/suitcases as they're usually piloted by cretins with a sixth sense of how to cause maximum inconvenience to everyone behind/alongside them
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    people being pedantic!

    BTW people don't drop litter do they, mmm :roll:
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  • Ron Stuart
    Ron Stuart Posts: 1,242
    Giraffoto wrote:
    team47b wrote:
    I read this out loud to Mrs T she thought I was on one of my usual rants and only realised I was reading a post because there wasn't any swearing :D

    Feel free to add your own swearing while reading it. Other rants in this series include:
    • Motorists who think they're a persecuted minority
    • Anyone who drops litter
    • People who believe everything they read in the newspapers, especially the Express and Mail. The only insight you'll get from reading the Express is how Der Sturmer would have turned out if the Nazis had subcontracted it to a pornographer
    Dear me, there I go again . . .

    It's called the Express because it is written in a hurry :?
  • chrisaonabike
    chrisaonabike Posts: 1,914
    People that say aks instead of ask.
    Is the gorilla tired yet?
  • john_kline
    john_kline Posts: 2,151
    ChrisAOnABike wrote:
    People that say aks instead of ask.

    This. Also, teenage white kids who when they talk seem to affect that annoying accent, a sort of hybrid between Ali G and Dennis Bovell like day is from de slums of Kingston Jamaica or somtin'.

    Also, on the news when a reporter or a weather girl hands back to the studio and they say thank you very much INDEED - why indeed ?
  • cornerblock
    cornerblock Posts: 3,228
    John Kline wrote:
    Also, on the news when a reporter or a weather girl hands back to the studio and they say thank you very much INDEED - why indeed ?

    Or when the reporter faces camera with the Houses Of Parliament in the background, like this _57737307_andrew_neil_dp.jpg

    across the river, then finishes their report by saying " this is Andrew Neil (or whoever), Westminster"

    Er, no you're not. You're in Lambeth you div!
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    The word "scrumptious".
  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    Capt Slog wrote:
    Somethink, nothink, anythink.

    Where did these come from?

    Sumfing, nuffing, anyfing.

    People who elect to hold their impromptu meetings in front of the door I want to open.
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Cubic wrote:
    When people put the toilet roll on the wrong way round, so that the loose end is pressed up next to the wall and not dangling freely away from the wall.

    +1

    Dear lord what are they thinking, question is do you fix offending toilet rolls even in public places?

    :roll:
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  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    The EDL.
  • sfichele
    sfichele Posts: 605
    badly_dubbed wrote:
    fat friends who try to educate me/others on healthy diets. (one told me nuts were super fattening....so is your fcuking cheeseburger)

    Amen!
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  • crom7
    crom7 Posts: 83
    when celebrities say '...it's been a journey.' when referring to their experience on e.g. a reality TV show.

    People who refer to themselves in the third person.

    people who are intolerant to my 'apparently' heavy breathing.

    Irish people who love the sound of their own voice.

    Trying to get the last rice crispy out of the bowl.
  • cornerblock
    cornerblock Posts: 3,228
    crom7 wrote:
    Irish people who love the sound of their own voice.

    Anybody in particular? Or is it just a racist observation.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    crom7 wrote:
    People who refer to themselves in the third person.

    johnfinch hates that too.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Cornerblock wrote:
    crom7 wrote:
    Irish people who love the sound of their own voice.

    Anybody in particular?

    It's probably Bono.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Stepping in dog sh!t.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    DVD and CD wrappers and their removal tear strips. For years cigarette manufacturers have had similar and they work. CD and DVD case ones seem to never work and always be a pain in the ass.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Orange. A company that try to be very 'Apple' about the way they portray their customer service, all friendly and first namey etc. But whereas Apple are good at what they do, Orange are completely sh1te.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Grab handles at the side of a car (near tops of windows) that don't have a softening, slient action to close when you let go of them and instead just spring back into the car roof with a cheap crappy sound.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    A non-trivial one... (to me anyway)... anyone that is in a Queue at a shop that is buying Lottery Tickets or Scratch Cards, making everyone else have to wait to buy what they want when they are in front buying nothing but a waste of money... I dont mind them buying them, but holding a queue up for them??? Even worse in a Petrol station where people in the queue are trying to get somewhere and that's the reason they've stopped for fuel but get held up by an 'acceptable face of gambling d1ckhead'.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    People who say things like 'Im going to the <whatever it is>, are you coming with?'

    With what? - idiots.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    People who wait at a Bar or Queue at a Fast Food place or Stall or whatever, get to their turn and get asked 'Can I help you?' and whilst they've been in the queue haven't decided what they want, and start their next words by turning to their partner or friends and saying 'What do you fancy?' and begin dilly-dallying around when they could have been courteous enough to everyone waiting behind them to have decided whilst they'd been queueing??
  • Cubic
    Cubic Posts: 594
    Cornerblock wrote:
    crom7 wrote:
    Irish people who love the sound of their own voice.

    Anybody in particular? Or is it just a racist observation.

    People who take themselves just a little bit too seriously...
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  • Peddle Up!
    Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
    Peddle Up! wrote:
    You know the kind of things I mean. Here are a couple of mine...


    Ah! How my baby has grown. {sniff}. Some crackers listed here. Grumpy, or what? :D
    Purveyor of "up" :)
  • metronome
    metronome Posts: 670
    Religion.
    tick - tick - tick
  • john_kline
    john_kline Posts: 2,151
    People who annoyingly shorten simple words such as calling a sandwich a 'sarnie'. Is sandwhich too difficult a word to pronounce? Same goes for calling Coronation Street 'Corrie' or calling Football 'Footie'.
  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    metronome wrote:
    Religion.

    Not very trivial, given the amount of human conflict that's taken place as a result.
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