Small things that irritate you.....

[Lenny Rider]

Emails with pro nouns.

I was a school governor until recently and all the staff and fellow governors put theirs on every communication I had a light hearted ticking off from the head after signing off Ian, just Ian.

 

[Dorset Seagull]

Emails with pro nouns.

I was a school governor until recently and all the staff and fellow governors put theirs on every communication I had a light hearted ticking off from the head after signing off Ian, just Ian.

Shame your name is not Bill as you could have signed Just William. ( One for the mature members if NSC )

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Bacofoil - you only get one shot at the initial peeling process. Get it even slightly wrong and it's unrecoverable, you're just generating metres of uselessly thin silvery ribbons til you finally admit its futile and sling the whole lot in the bin. Bastard Bacofoil!

 

[Badger]

Emails with pro nouns.

I was a school governor until recently and all the staff and fellow governors put theirs on every communication I had a light hearted ticking off from the head after signing off Ian, just Ian.

Just say you identify as a non pronoun user. You take offence at being asked to use a pronoun.

 

[Is it PotG?]

People using butter with cheese and bikkies.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Poor quality bread. It's the single food that I throw a big ol' strop over if it's not deliciously soft with an excellent crust. Nothing worse than being hugely excited about a sandwich and the bread being PATHETIC. I watched my wife fold a slice of tiger bread and it BROKE at the fold. That's instantly a sign it's not right and should be only good for toast.

 

[Sea Cider]

It isn't.

Nice example of someone posting a useless opinion on something they clearly know nothing about.

My team have started to use it in the field of scientific research and it is proving quite powerful even in our basic implementation case.

 

[Sea Cider]

Trucks choosing to overtake other trucks on busy dual carriageways at the start of an incline, inevitably both ending up roaring uphill side by side at 42mph, neither prepared to back down.

Should be an immediate jail sentence.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I’ve been reminded today of two things that annoy me. We are away on holiday in our Motorhome and:

1. People who park in places where they shouldn’t and it messes things up for other people. Charnock Richard’s service station on the M6. Head for the Caravan and Motorhome parking. Not many spaces, but numbers of them taken by ordinary cars, and the ordinary parking was by no means full. We were forced to go on to the next services. (It seems to be often late reg electric BMWs and Mercedes.
2. people “undertaking” when the only reason I am still in an outer lane is because I could see they were going to be lazy and stupid. Had I moved in with them steaming up inside me, there would have been an accident.

 

[Easy 10]

Or if you're an Aussie, it's "Look..."

(particularly cricketers)

Even more maddening are the GUMBO'S who begin their sentences with "listen..."

Its annoying enough in person, but when someone says it on the radio, or on a podcast (yes Troy Townsend on Guardian Football Weekly I mean YOU), WTF do they THINK we're doing ? Yes. I. am. Listening. You don't have to give me INSTRUCTIONS.

OK, I need a few deep breaths. That little vein on my temple is throbbing again.

 

[The Clamp]

When fictional characters are interviewed as if they are real people/in character. In any medium.

Miss Piggy seems to do a lot of these.

 

[MJsGhost]

Even more maddening are the GUMBO'S who begin their sentences with "listen..."

Its annoying enough in person, but when someone says it on the radio, or on a podcast (yes Troy Townsend on Guardian Football Weekly I mean YOU), WTF do they THINK we're doing ? Yes. I. am. Listening. You don't have to give me INSTRUCTIONS.

OK, I need a few deep breaths. That little vein on my temple is throbbing again.

We just need MC Hammer and we've got the set...

 

[MJsGhost]

I’ve been reminded today of two things that annoy me. We are away on holiday in our Motorhome and:

1. People who park in places where they shouldn’t and it messes things up for other people. Charnock Richard’s service station on the M6. Head for the Caravan and Motorhome parking. Not many spaces, but numbers of them taken by ordinary cars, and the ordinary parking was by no means full. We were forced to go on to the next services. (It seems to be often late reg electric BMWs and Mercedes.
2. people “undertaking” when the only reason I am still in an outer lane is because I could see they were going to be lazy and stupid. Had I moved in with them steaming up inside me, there would have been an accident.

Surely, the only reason to be in the outer lane is that there wasn't room to safely move to the left?

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Surely, the only reason to be in the outer lane is that there wasn't room to safely move to the left?

Exactly. Had they not been doing what they were doing, I would have been in the inside lane…..

 

[MJsGhost]

Exactly. Had they not been doing what they were doing, I would have been in the inside lane…..

My point is actually that in the scenario you describe, it sounds like you should already have moved over. If there's room for undertaking, is there not room for you to have moved over?

Why do you (apparently) wait for someone to come up behind you before thinking about getting out of the right hand lane?

I'm not advocating undertaking by the way, I just don't get why people sit in the right hand (or middle) lane when the one(s) to their left are clear.

 

[Weststander]

Surely, the only reason to be in the outer lane is that there wasn't room to safely move to the left?

Not for countless drivers heading north between Hickstead and Pease Pottage. The inner lane is a desert.

 

[Flounce]

Exactly. Had they not been doing what they were doing, I would have been in the inside lane…..

It’s not an Audi or BMW motorhome is it? You know one of those vehicles that comes without indicators

 

[FamilyGuy]

People using butter with cheese and bikkies.

People who cut the nose off cheese.

 

[Rambo]

People calling each other ‘bro’ or ‘brother’.

Just stop it.

 

[Peppermint Tea]

Quite simply: Dougie and his posts.