What really GRINDS YOUR GEARS?

[W.C.]

People who stand in front of lift/train doors waiting to walk in when there are clearly people who need to get out first.

They'll be first up against the wall when MY revolution happens.

People slagging off other people's kids all the time.

 

[Butch Willykins]

Pretentious shit on restaurant menus. Specifically:

-any kind of "foam", for example "accompanied by an organic aubergine, Languedoc speckled black truffle & minted pea foam". Call it what you like: it looks like spit on a plate.

-the expression "pan fried". What else would you fry something in?

-"vine-ripened" tomatoes. Did anyone think they grew in a box or something?

-"jus". SAUCE.

-"reduction". SAUCE'

-"coulis". SAUCE.

etc

Purée = Mashed

Artisan = homemade

 

[Nibble]

Pretentious shit on restaurant menus. Specifically:

-any kind of "foam", for example "accompanied by an organic aubergine, Languedoc speckled black truffle & minted pea foam". Call it what you like: it looks like spit on a plate.

-the expression "pan fried". What else would you fry something in?

-"vine-ripened" tomatoes. Did anyone think they grew in a box or something?

-"jus". SAUCE.

-"reduction". SAUCE'

-"coulis". SAUCE.

etc

With you mostly but to be fair a lot of tomatoes are picked when about to blush and ripened in special temp controlled warehouses. Picking them to ripen makes the plant produce more fruit , good for commercial use. If you leave them to ripen on the vine they get much more nutrition and flavour but you get less fruit.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Dog owners who say "Oh, he's just being FRIENDLY!" whilst their Rottweiler leaps up at you, drooling all over your clothing and sniffing in areas you'd really rather it didn't.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Purée = Mashed

Artisan = homemade

"Home-made"= cooked in our industrial restaurant kitchen by the spotty work experience kid.

 

[Prince Monolulu]

The trendy thing with TV programmes where they spend the first 5 minutes running through clips/excerpts from the next hour. Then like watching football where you know the score.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

As an adjunct to this point:

People who perch their toddlers on the counter at a coffee shop, etc whilst they are paying. "There you go Harry, you sit there while I pay the lady" #pops Harry's soiled-nappy wrapped backside on the worktop, between the pains au chocolat and the blueberry muffins#

Almost certainly the same people who publish almost daily photographs of said offspring on Facebook, doing such hilarious, rare, and unspeakably cute activities as walking, going down a slide, or wearing a hat. I pity the Harrys of this world, whose entire lives have been meticulously documented, hour by hour, since birth, and who will die of embarrassment as a result once they reach their teens.

 

[Gazwag]

* People who think its completely safe to text/facebook/twitter while driving

* School children with no knowledge of the highway code

* Parent who believe their children will die a horrible death by zombies unless they drop then at the school gate

* Drivers who do not acknowledge you if you let them through

* Dustmen/delivery men who block the road despite there being a suitable place to drive into 10 yards away

* Drivers who cannot hold a conversation with somebody in the passenger seat without turning their head to look at them

* Kicking the ball out for an injured player

* Having to give the ball back to an opposing team who have kicked the ball out for the above reason

* People who receive an email about a virus or scam who immediately send the message to everybody in their address book despite the fact that the message originated in 1988

 

[Nibble]

Eating in restaurants alone, which I did a lot of last year, unless you speak up they automatically lead you to some wobbly, child's table too small to sit comfortably at next to the toilet or kitchen doors. I like a window seat when dining alone so I can people watch.

 

[Gullflyinghigh]

Dog owners who say "Oh, he's just being FRIENDLY!" whilst their Rottweiler leaps up at you, drooling all over your clothing and sniffing in areas you'd really rather it didn't.

Absolutely this, as an addition;

The wounded/offended expression dog owners get when you, politely, point out that no-one other than them cares about Mr Paws and actually, no he's not 'just a naughty boy', he's bloody annoying.

 

[Guinness Boy]

"Aw Snap"

Grrrrrrr

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Footballers who, having conceded a free kick, "accidentally" run over the ball to block it just as an opponent is trying to take it quickly, inevitably with hands in the air in a sort of "Oh, goodness me, sorry ref, I had no IDEA" gesture.

Players refusing to celebrate goals they've scored against teams they played twelve games on loan for in 2008.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Inane/imbecilic threads about hardest animals that go on and on for weeks - get a frickin' grip for fark's ache!

 

[hans kraay fan club]

* People who think its completely safe to text/facebook/twitter while driving

This, but so much more so.

the things I've listed on this thread are stuff that is irritating, or rude, and basically annoying.

The texters at the wheel are every bit as bad as drunk drivers in my book, and it needs to become far more socially unnacceptable. I'd ban them from driving for life - seriously. there is literally NO excuse for it. Zero tolerance.

 

[seagully]

The trendy thing with TV programmes where they spend the first 5 minutes running through clips/excerpts from the next hour. Then like watching football where you know the score.

On a similar note, a new pet hate of mine is programmes that do a 'recap' after an ad break- explaining what was going on in the programme prior to the break in case you forgot in the 3 minutes the adverts were on. HATE IT

 

[Prince Monolulu]

The pre match love-in at football nowadays with shaking hands and hugging and alike. Do all that at the end, just warm-up, come out and get on with it.

 

[tinycowboy]

1. People who press the button at pedestrian crossings when it's already been pressed
2. Getting to a pedestrian crossing with people waiting at it and discovering that no-one has pressed the button
3. Number 2, followed by you pressing the button and realising that the "Wait" sign isn't working and that you are in fact number 1.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

On a similar note, a new pet hate of mine is programmes that do a 'recap' after an ad break- explaining what was going on in the programme prior to the break in case you forgot in the 3 minutes the adverts were on. HATE IT

It's not really about you forgetting though is it? It's about cheap/easy programming - the more you can repeat things in the form of recaps and glimpses of what's coming up later on the show the less you need to film. Come Dine With Me are the masters of this technique.

 

[KZNSeagull]

And me! The kids-standing-in-supermarket trolleys thing really pisses me off.

I'm talking about when they're actually standing in the bit of the trolley you put your purchases in, you know, parents: the place where I put my FOOD, and you're allowing your little darlings to jump around in, wearing shoes that quite possibly have trodden in dogshit, mud, piss, vomit and whatever else was on the pavement the last time you actually made them walk anywhere. Well done, mummies. Well done

Yesterday a little girl decided that the floor of my shop was a toilet and started peeing on it. Her mother, on seeing this, decided that "perhaps it would be better if you went and did that on the grass outside". Another fine example of parenting in the modern era..

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

Talking of pedestrian crossings...

The STUPID new ones where the red/green man is inexplicably placed at chest height so if anyone is standing next to them nobody can ****ing see it.

Also, the fact that some even have two boxes right on top of eachother for absolutely no reason I can fathom.

Put them on the other side of the road like they do in every other country in the world.