Trivial Things That Really Shouldn't Annoy You, But Do!

[Cobra]

He's just playing overtaking tennis.

I thought he was playing pocket billiards TBH

 

[ancient_mariner]

I thought he was playing pocket billiards TBH

One who throws things a short distance?

 

[Cobra]

One who throws things a short distance?

Something like that yeah

 

[Tringa]

TV presenters (I have only seen this with female presenters) who, when doing an outside broadcast, walk as if they were on a catwalk - one foot directly in front of the other. It just look silly to me, but then when it is done on a catwalk I think it looks silly.

Dave

 

[Yellowbelly]

People eating crisps noisily on public transport. Fair sends shivers down my spine. When I'm Prime Minister I will jail them for life.

 

[AJQS]

Puns, especially when a forum post degenerates into pun slinging. I have no idea why it annoys me so much but it does!

 

[dan_yorkshire]

People who butter toast and then wipe the knife and toast crumbs on the edge of the butter container.

 

[ancient_mariner]

People who use the sugar spoon to stir their drink, then place it back in the sugar bowl.

 

[Cartus]

In a similar vein...It 'gets' me when drivers who will only use the third lane to drive at 90mph+ will sometimes pull up behind a 60mph lorry at the first sign of their exit, say 3/4m back from their actual junction. Meanwhile I'm trundling along at 75 heading for the same exit and end up half a mile ahead of them by the time we both leave the motorway.

 

[Dale.]

When the Sky box locks up and you have to unplug it, then wait for the whole thing to re-set.

 

[noneforit]

When the Sky box locks up and you have to unplug it, then wait for the whole thing to re-set.

How old is your box?

Ours is maybe 18 months and has not locked up once. Could be a software bug, although unsure if you can update them?

 

[Dale.]

How old is your box?

Ours is maybe 18 months and has not locked up once. Could be a software bug, although unsure if you can update them?

I'd guess 4 years or so. It's a Sky+ box and has been temperamental since we got it new. Maybe time for a Q Box. ;-)

 

[viv1969]

I'd guess 4 years or so. It's a Sky+ box and has been temperamental since we got it new. Maybe time for a Q Box. ;-)

Heard some VERY mixed opinions of Q from those who have (or have attempted to have) it.

 

[chris954]

people who dawdle walking into public toilets,especially in motorway services. hurry up will you my bladders about to explode.

 

[Tringa]

The warnings given before news items on TV and the Web that some might find the images/content upsetting.

For goodness sake we are grown ups and if the item is from a major accident, terrorist attack, war zone I think we can work out for ourselves that the images are likely to be unpleasant.

Dave

 

[ancient_mariner]

This morning, the driver doing 32mph in a national speed limit area, on a straight bit of road with excellent visibility and no other cars in evidence.

 

[Nod]

Probably only had a letterbox sized area of demisted screen to peer through!

 

[Swissy]

When you're in your car at a junction, waiting to turn right, there are no other cars other than the one approaching from the right, no indicators, you wait and wait and then just as they get to you they turn down the junction you're waiting at

And Americans saying aloominum instead of aluminium GTFOH

 

[ancient_mariner]

Probably only had a letterbox sized area of demisted screen to peer through!

Had a cloud of white hair to peer through.

 

[Graham W]

When you're in your car at a junction, waiting to turn right, there are no other cars other than the one approaching from the right, no indicators, you wait and wait and then just as they get to you they turn down the junction you're waiting at

And Americans saying aloominum instead of aluminium GTFOH

And Americans saying "Dat cam" instead of "Dot com"!

 

[viv1969]

And Americans saying aloominum instead of aluminium GTFOH

Well, it was named Aluminum before it was changed to Aluminium (and after it was called Alumium).

 

[Swissy]

Well, it was named Aluminum before it was changed to Aluminium (and after it was called Alumium).

No doubt, still annoys me though.

 

[nickEnackEnoo]

No doubt, still annoys me though.

but it shouldn't, but that's the point of the thread

 

[joxby]

queuing in greggs behind dingbats on their phones with no idea what they want by the time they get to the till
in fact greggs is turning in to a right dingbat magnet

actually people on the phone when they should be paying attention to what they are doing, smashes me to pieces...

 

[Ricardodaforce]

I'd guess 4 years or so. It's a Sky+ box and has been temperamental since we got it new. Maybe time for a Q Box. ;-)

LOVE my Sky Q. Awesome bit of kit.

 

[Swissy]

but it shouldn't, but that's the point of the thread

The point of the thread is what annoys you, and that annoys me, but you're right it shouldn't

queuing in greggs behind dingbats on their phones with no idea what they want by the time they get to the till
in fact greggs is turning in to a right dingbat magnet

actually people on the phone when they should be paying attention to what they are doing, smashes me to pieces...

Greggs is bloody expensive now, £2.10 for a cheese pasty and a sausage roll, pound bakery for me from now on

 

[Graham W]

The point of the thread is what annoys you, and that annoys me, but you're right it shouldn't



Greggs is bloody expensive now, £2.10 for a cheese pasty and a sausage roll, pound bakery for me from now on

The cheese and the veg pasties used to be under a pound. What are they now?
Also they've changed the filling of the veg pasty to either baby food or baby sick.

 

[Swissy]

The cheese and the veg pasties used to be under a pound. What are they now?
Also they've changed the filling of the veg pasty to either baby food or baby sick.

85 pence for a sausage roll, £1.25 for a cheese pasty.

 

[Nod]

Also they've changed the filling of the veg pasty to either baby food or baby sick.

They've stolen G**st*rs recipe and improved it then.

 

[ianp5a]

but it shouldn't, but that's the point of the thread

Yes. So many here have posted things that would annoy anyone. Can't they understand the title? It's refreshing that someone posts their own quirks, the aim of the thread.

But I suppose this is TP, after all.

 

[Dale.]

That nampy pampy 'hot sauce' they put on doner kebabs. :banghead: Get the proper suicide sauce on it FGS.

 

[Jesus Quintana]

Bad spelling. lens currently bugs the f*ck out of me.
I hate the phrase "nifty-fifty".
People two or three abreast that make no effort to step aside just a little when they are walking towards you...after I just have.
People that have no manners.
Marijuana smokers

 

[Earley Man]

They've stolen G**st*rs recipe and improved it then.

Given the standard of G**st*rs products, I did eat one of their so called pasty's once, which was once too many, including either baby food or baby sick as a filling would indeed be a vast improvement.

 

[kendo1]

People that borrow a camera battery charger and don't return it.