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  • Unimportant things that REALLY get your goat
  • BenHouldsworth
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    For me it’s going to a petrol station and finding people queing, often for 5-10 mins, just so they can use a pump the same side as their fuel cap, despite the fact the opposite pump is free.

    Why not just pull the hose round the back of the car????

    miaowing_kat
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    I tried to do this once (pull the hose round the back of the car) and I couldn’t make it reach! I drove away with no petrol, too embarrassed to go round again 😳

    deadlydarcy
    Free Member

    The hose from my Henry was getting my goat this afternoon.

    BenHouldsworth
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    Sure it wasn’t choking your chicken DD?

    LoCo
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    The bit of dirt that gets stuck between the air valve and the adjuster eyelet on Fox rear shock (floats) 👿

    CaptJon
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    When groups of people walk 3 or 4 abreast along the street, taking up all the pavement, and none of them think of moving across slightly so other people walking in the opposite direction can pass. It is worse then buggies and prams are involved.

    LoCo
    Free Member

    @capt you need a bigger pram, watch them scatter as junior loco’s ‘rig’ rolls towards them 😆

    BenHouldsworth
    Free Member

    or when people just stroll across the round in rush hour like its a footpath

    chakaping
    Free Member

    I think I may have started a similar thread about this previously, but people who leave their engines running while stopped at level crossings MAKE MY BLOOD BOIL.

    deadlydarcy
    Free Member

    Sure it wasn’t choking your chicken DD?

    I’ve just thrown your coat at you. Get out!

    emma82
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    people who hold hands and take up the whole pavement. I’m a miserable old cow though, I usually just bust through the middle of them. My husband wont hold my hand in public so I’m bitter. If I can’t have it, no-one should 👿

    phiiiiil
    Full Member

    People who double click on links in web browsers. You only have to do it once, stop it!

    brakes
    Free Member

    goat hunters

    crazy-legs
    Full Member

    People who sit in traffic with their foot on the brake pedal, dazzling everyone behind with their brake lights.

    Yes, it’s a lovely array of super-bright LEDs Mr BMW Man, now PUT THE **** HANDBRAKE ON!!

    LadyGresley
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    People who write ‘should of’ instead of ‘should have’.
    Apostrophes in the wrong places or missing.
    I could keep going, but I think you get the idea.

    Pedant? Moi? Hell, yes!

    zippykona
    Full Member

    When traffic goes from 2 lanes to 1 I always leave a gap for a car in front of me. If everyone did this there wouldn’t be a queue. Does anyone ever go in my lovely gap ( ooer missus) no. They go as far as they can till they have to stop and then have to force their way into the nearside lane. Killing is too good for them.

    Bregante
    Full Member

    People (specifically my sister in law) who says “Can I get a vodka tonic?”

    It’s “Could I HAVE a vodka AND tonic” you pretentious halfwit. Just because you live in that London you think it’s much cooler to speak like some hooray Henrietta!

    You’re from bloooooddddy Birkenhead you jumped up little cow!!!

    Aaaaaaaggggghhhhhh gggrgrrhnrnr.

    And breathe…..

    And breathe….

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    It’s niche, not nitch you idiotic American!

    ton
    Full Member

    wendyball. 😀

    michaelmcc
    Free Member

    Walking down a busy pedestrian street and wanting to punch people in the back of the head because they are walking SOO SLOW!!!!!!

    michaelmcc
    Free Member

    People that type “whether” instead of “weather”… unless it was just my ex.

    People who get mixed up with their, there, they’re.

    MarkyG82
    Full Member

    On the subject of vocabulary:

    People who dont know the difference between ‘then’ and ‘than’. Really? They are two different words FFS!!

    Kryton57
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    There’s a guy at work that waves his arms about a lot when talking. Thing is, he does it with his elbows pinned to his sides.

    Annoys me a lot, but i dont know why.

    iDave
    Free Member

    economists

    flight pricing algorithms

    stgeorge
    Full Member

    Could I HAVE a vodka AND tonic

    No its not, its “May I have a Vodka and Tonic please”

    😀

    chakaping
    Free Member

    Not being confrontational with the posters above, but I get a bit wound up when people criticise strangers’ spelling, grammar and punctuation on the internet.

    OK, some people didn’t pay as much attention during English as you – but you wouldn’t pick them up on it if they used the wrong word in real life and if somebody has a problem like dyslexia then they probably don’t need you making them feel bad about it.

    project
    Free Member

    People who want let a thread die,

    Motorists who dont indicate,

    motorists who smoke while driving,

    cyclists with no lights,

    Threads over 5 pages long,

    people who are so jkeen on punktuationing other peeples sentances

    Bregante
    Full Member

    Could I HAVE a vodka AND tonic
    No its not, its “May I have a Vodka and Tonic please”

    🙂
    It could be many things, just not “could I get a vodka tonic”

    Oh you’ve set me off again now…….

    Kryton57
    Full Member

    chakaping – Member
    Not being confrontational with the posters above, but I get a bit wound up when people criticise strangers’ spelling, grammar and punctuation on the internet.

    OK, some people didn’t pay as much attention during English as you – but you wouldn’t pick them up on it if they used the wrong word in real life and if somebody has a problem like dyslexia then they probably don’t need you making them feel bad about it.

    That last sentence could do with breaking up with a comma after “life” tbh. 😉

    MarkyG82
    Full Member

    @Chakaping

    I hear you. Totally get it but I got a D @ GCSE english. I crap and I know it. There is one thing getting spelling wrong, or confusing things, I understand that more than many (GF is a special needs teacher). But then/than is such a fundamental thing that it gets my goat. Sorry if it offends.

    kayak23
    Full Member

    Folk who don’t know their loose from their lose.

    Espresso said or spelled out as Expresso.

    people who say soya sauce, its soy sauce damn you!

    LadyGresley
    Free Member

    Makes me wonder – do people in other (non-English speaking) countries make similar mistakes with their written language?

    druidh
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    People who post a “look at me” thread when deciding not to visit a forum anymore.

    steve_b77
    Free Member

    Bregante – Member
    People (specifically my sister in law) who says “Can I get a vodka tonic?”

    It’s “Could I HAVE a vodka AND tonic” you pretentious halfwit. Just because you live in that London you think it’s much cooler to speak like some hooray Henrietta!

    You’re from bloooooddddy Birkenhead you jumped up little cow!!!

    Couldn’t agree more, my brother-in-law does this and he’s a half breed scouser 😆

    Another thing that annoys me is people who feel the need to flounce around when they’re giving a speech/talk, stay still numpties it’s not an audition for Priscilla Queen of the Desert

    chakaping
    Free Member

    I think the “can I get a” thing is mainly people who watch too much American TV.

    HermanShake
    Free Member

    All of the little things that annoy me are important. Therefore I have nothing for this thread.

    Wait a sec; people’s shoelaces laced in different patterns by accident. There, I have one. I can see the smallness of this.

    michaelmcc
    Free Member

    Makes me wonder – do people in other (non-English speaking) countries make similar mistakes with their written language?

    I’ve heard the English language is one of the hardest to learn because of all the different grammer changes.

    Not sure about that though.

    bigyinn
    Free Member

    People who walk with children or a pushchair smoking a fag in front if their child.
    Women who speak like blokes and call their female friends “mate” all the time.
    Parents who insist on driving their spawn to school and park up in the teacher’s car park. DESPITE being told by the school not to!

    I could go on….

    mattmbk
    Free Member

    Anybody who wears a vest in public. Unless involved in an amateur boxing bout.

    kaiser
    Free Member

    calling girls and boys or men and women “GUYS”
    saying Pacific instead of specific.

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