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For me it's washing machines. Why does the little screen say 'Finished' then it won't let you open the ****in door for another 5 mins ......... argghhhh 👿
Traffic lights angled so that when you actually stop at the line, you need to be a contortionist midget to see when they change! Grrrr
oh, another one........ petrol pumps that click off every other second...... ****ers
pulling out to let someone out on a dual carriageway, then not getting thanked, or being undertaken by them...
Saying a cheery hello to other bikers or walkers and just getting a grudging grunt in reply
oh, another one........ petrol pumps that click off every other second...... ****ers
Don't stick your hose so far in 😯
pulling out to let someone out on a dual carriageway, then not getting thanked, or being undertaken by them...
? you mean to let them off the sliproad onto the main carriageway?
Leaving bread open
Leaving the top off milk,
Leaving jar tops undone
Unpluging my mobile to charge yours up
I could kill for that
Hora
Apostrophes in the wrong place, or missing entirely.
Especially on this forum!
The incorrect use of loose and lose.
luked2 - you should go to one of the other forums where it annoys you less 🙂
People who leave dirty dishwater in the wash basin. It's just wrong.
Noises coming from my bike (including pad rub or fork squelch).
oh, another one........ petrol pumps that click off every other second...... ****ers
I have this problem every time with my Micra. Takes a few goes for it to get "seated" right or something like that.
Walkers that don't acknowledge you when you let them pass, drivers that do the same, cyclists that do the same - HOW MUCH EFFORT DOES IT TAKE TO SAY THANK YOU?!!
Usually tourists - locals are a friendlier bunch.
The incorrect use of 'off', instead of 'from'.
Leaving used teabags on the side of the sink.
People driving at 30 in a 40mph zone that has plenty of visibility
Lorries pulling out to overtake another lorry going 0.000005mph slower at the bottom of long hills on dual carriageways.
People assuming just because they indicate to overtake they automatically have right of way to swing out and cut you up
People that own dogs that are more like rats and yap all the time, ffs at least get something that barks if it's going to be making a noise in the garden all the time.
Tesco rationing carrier bags (they seem to work on the formula of how many bags you need / 2 so you have to beg for more). And yes I normally take reusable bags but sometimes forget :p
I can't be bothered with any more right now :p
Oh, and tautological thread titles 🙂
People that own dogs that are more like rats and yap all the time
Rats yap?
I've become rather laid back in my old age. Oh for sure things wind me up but you know, I couldn't give a toss ten minutes later.
If I had to nail something down, I'd say drivers who don't give cyclists the same amount of respect they give car drivers bothers me quite a bit. Shooting level bothers me. But I'm fine after another mile or so.
Outsourcing call centres to the sub-continent.
Yes i know they work hard probably for little pay but that doesn't make it easy for teh customer.
This morning TV and broadband went down phoned 150. THe guy at the other end had real problems diffrentiating between error, area, and ariel. Managed to book and technician only to have it canceled by text 25minutes later.
My mother in law's insistence on letting herself into my house and changing the bed.
This ought not to be a problem, but two minor things really grate:
1. She puts the duvet cover the wrong way round on the bed - the open end is always placed at the top. Why? It's not a sleeping bag FFS.
2. She remembers to set the house alarm, but never locks the mortise. Thanks - we're not insured..!
People who leave their engine running at the level crossing.
Or who sit in the car park with the engine runnign while their wife does the shopping - just so they can read the paper in air-con comfort.
I can't help it, these people just MAKE ME FUME!
My current one is people at work who steal my mugs from the crew room. I have a 3 mug system that works perfectly. My name is on all my mugs. Rack off.
(the next post will be "people who name their mugs")
Outsourcing call centres to the sub-continent.
insignificant ??
people who put their name on mugs
litter and the lazy people that cause it.
Using the word disinterested to mean uninterested. Pedants corner is alive and well.
'Vaguebooking' - attention whores 👿
Internet forum attention whores, you know the ones that turn every thread they post on onto themselves also people who 'have' to live their entire lives through the forum.
Actually the above don't really annoy me, they are just a little sad I guess.
Scott Mills
My mother in law's insistence on letting herself into my house and changing the bed.
I'd say that was deeply disturbing, not insignificant.
people saying brought instead of bought, and borrow instead of loan
everything else in life makes me weep with joy
people who 'have' to live their entire lives through the forum.
How does one live ones life through a forum?
My mother in law's insistence on letting herself into my house and changing the bed.
Just the sheets or does she remove the entire bed and replace it with a new one?
How does one live ones life through a forum?
They post 'everything' that's happening to them in their personal lives and have to ask continual questions about relatively simple matters (not bike related).
To be fair there are only a couple or so on STW that are like this.
The crumbs that always explode out of the box and all over the work surface no matter how careful you are when taking the Weetabix out.
Little splashes of water on my face/glasses when washing up.
People who are habitually 20 mins late
If you can be constantly late - you can be constantly on f***ing time grrrrrrrrrrrrr !!!!!!!! 🙂
cars that mount the pavement as you're walking by and give you evils for getting in their way
txtspk. u no wot i mn?
People who stop in the most awkward places to have a conversation (at the front door of a shop etc)and people who do not even acknowledge you when you hold a door open for them.
People who are habitually 20 mins late
Hands up to that one. I just underestimate the time it takes me to do stuff and try to fit too much in a day. Most friends and family now just tell me a time 30 mins earlier than they mean and everyone is happy, but that's probably a self-reinforcing system!
that vast number of advertisements for cleaning products, suggesting that i need 24hr protection from my toilet bleach. who the hell bleaches their toilet EVERY DAY?!
that 'man' who gave birth a couple of years ago, and the associated media hoohar - IT WAS A WOMAN WHO HAD HER TITS LOPPED OFF AND INJECTED HERSELF WITH TESTOSTERONE. IT WAS NOT A REAL MAN YOU FOOLS.
my housemates loudspeaker at 2am
fixing bikes.
People who get to the top of escalators then stop whilst deciding which way to go.
People who drop litter on the trails
Punctures
Football
Actually, I've just thought of something.
Next door. They're really getting on my wick.
nimrod2410 - MemberPeople who get to the top of escalators then stop whilst deciding which way to go.
I travel to and from the isle of wight - theres a smilar hing on the yarmouth ferry. People have a whole ferry ride, presumably know their destination then have to drive past a big sign saying (basically) West or East, and then still cant work out which of the two roads to take as they exit the tiny little ferry terminal.
Always fun after driving back miles from somewhere.
People who wait in a queue for ten minutes at a checkout / ATM / fast food takeout, then when they finally get to the front, *then* start looking for their cash card, in their wallet, in their bag...
Last time I was in a fast food place there was a hefty queue, I must've stood there surrounded by the great unwashed for fifteen minutes or more. Got right to the front of the queue and the woman in front of me getting served at the till turns to her kid and goes "right, what do you want?" AAARGH!!
People who shop in supermarkets by dragging their trolley round at arm's length sideways, blocking off the entire aisle in both directions. I have a theory that these are the same people you often find in the middle lane of an otherwise empty M62, and walking 37-abreast in mixed use trail centres.
Soluble people who wait till they're blocking off a doorway before doing up their kids' coats, looking for umbrellas or otherwise ****ing about.
Actually, people.
*dog poo on the pavement
*people who put their rubbish in the recycle bin cos they cant walk 10m to the rubbish
*people who think that that paying a bit of car tax gives them the divine right to park anywhere, have cheap petrol, not be troubled by other traffic, say that cyclists shouldn't use the road cos they don't pay tax etc etc
At the end of programs on BBC, the credits get reduced into a smaller window so they can advertise other stuff. As it shrinks there's a jump in the scrolling of the text. Does my head in.
People who drop stuff into the bowl when I'm doing the washing up. Utterly insignificant, yet it seems to really hack me off.
People who think those wooden things you put things in are called "Draws". - No, they are Drawers you dolt!
Spoilerific previews of next week's episode at the end of a TV show. Stop it!!
Really fat people. Its prejudice, but I can't stand them. Horrible to look at, take up too much space, move as slowly as humanly possible, usually smell pretty bad, cost the NHS money and they're just never happy or friendly.
Surely when they got half as fat as they are now, they must've thought, "hmm, better watch what I eat", not "better super-size that big mac".
"draws" - that's up there with "gotten" and "Legos" in the red mist stakes.
You lot 😉
and Audis.
and the fact that if you live in Devon you get your driving liscence out of a bloody CRACKER.
Women who address one another as "missus" - eg "how are you this morning missus?" - especially if they're the annoying bastards I work near.
[i]and the fact that if you live in Devon you get your driving liscence out of a bloody CRACKER. [/i]
eh?
I with you on Audi's though, my wife drives ones. GRRR!
Petrol station price boards where the '8' is put in upside-down. Shows a distinct lack of pride in one's work.
peddle/pedal break/brake
When I remember something I'm supposed to do/get/bring then 5 minutes later forget.
"Did you bring that..?"
"Bollox!"
[i]people who wait till they're blocking off a doorway before doing up their kids' coats, looking for umbrellas or otherwise ****ing about.[/i] and that.
People who assume they have an automatic right to join motorways from the slip road at whatever speed they choose. I am doing YOU a favour by moving over; the dashed white line means give way.
James Corden
People who use axel instead of axle. Mistake made lots in this forum. Sort it out.
Its a SW phenomenon (they have many unique traits though): I went into the local tesco on sunday to get some Diesel, and in the GARAGE of the 24HR TESCOS there were people with TROLLEYS!!
FFS!!
i was queueing for 20 minutes because there were people who had decided to do thier weekly shop as part of the fuel run, rather than buy fuel, then continue to the full size tescos on the other side of the car park.
TROLLEYS!!! I SWEAR!!
When in King, fuel stations will sell FUEL, nothing else, Petrol, Diesel, and LPG. NOTHING ELSE!
James Corden
He's not little.
When in King, fuel stations will sell FUEL, nothing else, Petrol, Diesel, and LPG. NOTHING ELSE!
When you're king you'll need a kings ransom to buy your fuel! As expensive as fuel is these days the margin that the fuel station makes in just a few pennies a tank, if they didn't sell patio sets, triples size bounty bars and Nuts magazine your local (non supermarket) fuel station would close tomorrow. You'll notice its only the supermarket fuel stations (who've been driving the margins down) are the only ones who give you the option to pay at the pump.
The thing that gets on my wick is whenever I leave the work early to watch the football the next morning all the pencils in the office smell a bit 'urethral'
People that say things like "enter your PIN number". FFS, PIN stands for Personal Identification Number! Do you want me to enter my personal identification number number? Do ya? Same thing with the ATM Machine.... Grrrrr...
It's almost as bad as people asking me to input my "special" or "magic" number... What's so special about it? Is a PIN pad machine so alien and futuristic that you think I am some sort of frikking magician or time traveler to use it?
Oh, and incorrect use of the apostrophe.
Drivers who join the motorway before those ahead of them, therefore blocking the lane and view of those trying to join correctly from the sliproad.
My local Tesco petrol station (lewes). I only go there once every few months, but each time I pull up at the self-service pump, forgetting that when I've finished it won't give me a receipt of any sort as they never bother filling it with till roll. I then walk in expecting them to be able to print one off, and I have to wait and hold up everyone else whilst they hand write a receipt in a special book and expect me to be able to remember how many litres I've put in, and recite all my card details. I'll then queue for the screenwash after checking that it doesn't still have the out of order sign on it, only to find a much smaller sign saying 'sorry its very slow' and the nozzle literally dripping. No wonder the lady in front drove off with a litre of neat screenwash in the reservoir and nothing else...
Finally;
Sidelights. They should only work when the engine is off...it was OK when cars had to have dim dip, but now half the country drives round with crappy little sidelights in poor visibility instead of turning on headlights that actually help you be seen.
people who saw draw when they mean drawer, pacific when they mean specific, etc, etc, etc
People who don't even make a stab at bike brand, shimaninio, scram, truvantittive, ridgeway when they mean ridge back, etc etc, etc
people who call our shop and ask if we have a tube for a "insert supermarket bike brand here" and wonder why we don't know what size it needs (also applies to seatposts, bottom brakets, seat clamps etc, etc, etc)
marketing speak, blue sky thinking, off sheet, outside the box, etc, etc
people who say etc, etc at the end of everything
Drivers who join the motorway before those ahead of them, therefore blocking the lane and view of those trying to join correctly from the sliproad.
I do that, but then hold speed and position to give the quivering old dear who wouldnt pull out some cover so they can get off the sliproad before it turns into grass.
though people who think its ok to cut across the paint hatching wind me up.
My kids
Yep I agree- your kids really get on my wick. Can't you lock them up somewhere, give us all some peace. 🙂
Everyone who drives a car. Especially in a city or town.
Plastic bags: ban them already FFS
Using the word disinterested to mean uninterested. Pedants corner is alive and well.
Surely you mean:
.Pedants' corner is alive and well
I reckon there are at least two pedants, hence apostrophe at the end.
ah but does the corner belong to the pedants or is it just somewhere to keep them?
people who seem to think you need headlights in anything other than bright daylight conditions
the woman at work who parks, not *in* the diabled spot outside her off door, but off to the the side: half on the grass and half on the hatching next to the diasbled spot thsu making it useless since that is there to allow the diabled driver's door to open fully and for them to manoeuvre.
shouldn't let it get to me, but it leaves me feeling like [b]she is the worst sort of cretin[/b]. i'm sure she'd get all uppity if i ever catch her, and insist she was leaving the disabled space clear etc etc...
pretty much all bad or thoughtless parking pisses me off: yes, i too could park that badly or inconvenience all those round me. i don't, and usually have to walk about 50 or so yards more as a result. is that so hard...?
[wanders off grumbling]
The (New) Labour Party
Reality television
Endemol
people who seem to think you need headlights in anything other than bright daylight conditions
If it's a Volvo they don't have a choice do they?
oh, and the fact that i don't seem to be able to find a nice teapot that pours without dripping.
and people who kick litter.
i don't see dropping litter as trivial, so those that do the dropping don't make it into this list. it's those that kick it - you could as easliy have left it or, better, done the decent thing and picked it up and put it in a bin. the difference to our towns, cities and countryside that being litter free would make is massive.