What minor things annoy you

[Badger]

Film awards ceremonies

Specifically:
- "I was just honoured to be nominated alongside such talented actors/actresses" said by the winner
- "Who are you wearing?". Erm, I'd be a bit concerned if you turned up wearing someone
- "I'm going to keep this speech brief" followed by 20 minutes of sobbing
- Recognising all those "behind-the-scenes people" that really should have their own awards

How many other industries have a televised event where they all gather and pat each other on the back to recognise the fact that they are just doing their job?

 

[Nottseagull]

(eg. France is in Europe

Call me a pedant, but that's not strictly true! Bits of France are on other continents, such as Martinique in the West Indies. Uniquely, the nation includes these colonies as France proper, which means we have bits of the EU that are nowhere near Europe.

 

[Spider]

Call me a pedant, but that's not strictly true! Bits of France are on other continents, such as Martinique in the West Indies. Uniquely, the nation includes these colonies as France proper, which means we have bits of the EU that are nowhere near Europe.

Out of the billions of facts I could have chosen, trust it to be one which someone could easily pick holes in!

It's more like if you say "Coldplay are f***ing shit", and someone pipes up with "in your opinion". Oh thanks!

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

When there is a busy road you're trying to cross and there is a gap behind the next car but they seem to slow down just so the rest of the cars catch up..

 

[Estonian Seagull]

Do you get annoyed when someone is eating popcorn really loudly when you are trying to watch a film at the cinema ? Well, one guy in Riga got annoyed by it by last week and complained - so the other guy just turned round and shot him dead in front of his daughter. How ridiculous is that ?

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/man-shot-dead-front-his-daughter-riga-cinema

The translation is a bit iffy, but it is a true story that hit the headlines over here.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Christ. Makes my next point seem a bit tame. How horrific.


People who incapable of paying attention to the road conditions/traffic situation.

I was waiting in lane, parallel to Sussex Uni to get to Esporta. Some idiot whizzed past the queue and then stopped in the lane, indicating to get in, cutting off the lane. Cars then get stuck behind him and it effectively turned the A27 into a one lane road. He was there for a good few minutes. Arrogant and not forgetting to mention, very dangerous. It would be another five minutes of his life to head up towards the round-a-bout and turn around on himself.

 

[Acker79]

"Bedwetters" - that phrase has become overused on here in recent months. Anyone not happy with signings/results/performances/the corporate direction of the club/etc being patronisingly dismissed often by people who refuse to see anything negative about their club rather than by someone who has properly paid any attention to comment/argument being made to determine if it has any merit

"People need to understand we're not a small club any more" - often used in a similar way to bedwetters. As if wanting the employees of the club to be happy in their jobs and not feel like they are being ignored and treated like they are working in a dictatorship is something only small clubs can have. Often uttered by people too lazy or two stupid to actually debate the points being discussed.

 

[strings]

At work today, go into the lunch room. Everyone is talking about work. Seriously, it was like a meeting.

I have half an hour each day to not think about work. Half a ruddy hour. Please don't contrinue your pointless meeting in the lunch room.

Talk about anything; EastEnders, Justin Bieber, the unrest in the Ukraine, the failings of Stephen Hawking's universal theory of everything. I don't ruddy care. Just don't talk work.

In fact, to avoid this 'meeting' I have returned to my desk early.

 

[Petunia]

I was just having a meeting in the lunch room at work when some bloke got up and walked out. How rude

 

[Badger]

At work today, go into the lunch room. Everyone is talking about work. Seriously, it was like a meeting.

I have half an hour each day to not think about work. Half a ruddy hour. Please don't contrinue your pointless meeting in the lunch room.

Talk about anything; EastEnders, Justin Bieber, the unrest in the Ukraine, the failings of Stephen Hawking's universal theory of everything. I don't ruddy care. Just don't talk work.

In fact, to avoid this 'meeting' I have returned to my desk early.

This is the reason I no longer have lunch in the canteen with my work colleagues, I go out instead.

 

[tinycowboy]

People who ask "What can I do you for?" or who say "Yillo" when answering a phone.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Sealed plastic packaging that is IMPOSSIBLE to open without forcibly hacking it to bits with a pair of scissors and then strenuously ripping down the edges to prise it open. If they are making it as DIFFICULT as possible to open the thing and lacerate yourself in the process then they have certainly succeeded.

It's even worse when your replacement scissors are the implement trapped in the plastic prison.

 

[Norman Potting]

"Cheaper Prices"...not wishing to be a pedant but should that be "lower prices"?

 

[symyjym]

People who press the pelican crossing button when the road is clear, then cross the road before they get the green man, and making the next car that comes along stop for no one.

 

[Guinness Boy]

The growing number of people who can't make a verbal point without using the phrase "you know what?".

 

[dougdeep]

The chap on the windscreen ad that says, "All chips crack eventually". No they bloody don't!

 

[surlyseagull]

Signs on the back of cars that say ...princess on board .
Blo*ody fog lights on when good visibility ( popular one )
Owners who let their dogs shite on my lawn .
Parents that swear in front of their kids then reprimand them for bad language.
Women with huuuuge buggies who think they have a total right to run everyone over because they are a Mother .
Twonks who ride their bikes with no lights on .
Women who say "you Men would never be able to give birth " kin ell you dont say .
And last but not least ......people or more accurately morons who say ....Man flu .

 

[Horses Arse]

People who call their cross breed dog a cockerpoo, labradoodal, jackapoo etc rather than admitting they have a cross breed. Whats wrong with.mongrels anyway?

Oh, and.fog.lights because people think it looks cool

 

[hybrid_x]

people who drink tea or any drink loudly.....or do a double gulp/swig.....wrongness.

people who trash the kitchen when they cook knowing full well they are not clearing up.

people who watch alot of football but have very little clue regarding the game (tactics, depth, strategy, pyschology etc).

people who mentally 'need' false illusory cultural comforts; makeup, gadgets, fashion.

cinemas - can't talk, can't press pause, seats are crap, and too many yongsters / first daters around. DOWNLOAD IT LIKE A MAN.

people who need to know what you do and question alot within the first hour of meeting them.....basically trying to mentally pigeon hole someone and status pin them based upon the mental illusions plunged into their tiny minds. Just share some space and be nice.

northern accents....and brummy accents.

people who need to fix every little thing on their cars....and get all anal about such things.

parents who keep their toddlers under the sort of control that the Nazi's SS would have been proud of....chill the f**k out.

anyone who answer a question with "yeah,no" (most footballers).

egotistic people.

people with no compassion or empathy (basically the traits of a pyschopath).

people who get bored.

people who can't find stillness in silence.

people who always come up with reasons "not" to do something / go somewhere / take a risk in life.

those who do anything a letter in the post says, and anything a sign says....just goto an airport and watch how sheeplike people can be.

those who continue to speak at length about a subject matter when you've made it politely and subtley clear you don't give a f*ck.

 

[Dave Armstrong's Hare]

Pubs and Clubs that charge the same price for a Shandy as that of a full Pint of Beer, thus making an even bigger profit on those that have to drive and are try to be social. It's obviously a deterrent.