[Closed] Little things that annoy you a lot

People who pick up their dog's shit, put it in a plastic bag and then tie it to a nearby tree.

Never seen that in my life, is it a northern thing or something?

I tend to get really annoyed at people who are not courteous on the road. You know, when you stop at a "Give Way" or behind a load of cars on a residential road and let a load of cars through, and _no one_ thanks you or even acknowledges your existence, even though you've been waiting for minutes to let their shitty cars through the gap.

It really pisses me off that people can be that rude.

Ah shit fairies, I really want to catch one of those bastards and ask them exactly who they think will pick them up.

People who let their dogs shit around the edge of parks/playground get my goat as well, went out with my nephew on the weekend and he was having to do the dog shit slalom on his new bike to avoid all the packages everywhere.

People who don't 'kin indicate when driving - how difficult is it to flick a little switch with your finger?

The not saying thanks on the road gets me as well.
There's a set of lights where two lanes come into one on my way to work. People jump the queue by going down the outside lane and then drift in straight after the lights. No problem there, they have no life and so want to get into work really quickly. However, it takes absolutely no effort whatsoever to just raise their hand in thanks when people let them in. I could block you, my car is quite quick, I could stop you getting in, but I don't. You don't get in because you're simply ace or because you're a DRIVIUNG GOD! You get in because I let you and all I'm asking for is a quick wave of the hand to say thanks.

It's not much and it will make your life a lot easier because I won't then follow you to the motorway and spend all my time alongside you in the outside lane stopping you from getting in.

almost everything 😥

People who say things are "quite unique" or similar, It's either unique or it ain't. Does my head in but don't know why.

that's because you are [i]literally[/i] the worlds biggest pedant

not much get's my goat..... 8)

There would appear to be some crap driver attitudes in here. Crap driver attitudes get on my tits.

drivers who, sit on the clear side of the road calling you through as you sit behind the parked car you've stopped at because it's their right of way, if everyone just stuck to the rules things would be much smoother on the roads

I am usually pretty mellow, but people cutting to the front of queues on dual carriageway or motorway contraflows really hack me off, especially when they drive right up to the cones then try and pull in at the last minute ****ing up the flow of traffic and making the queues worse.

Mind you I did once manage to block one so he went into the cones, irresponsible but might teach the BMW driving **** to at least slow down before he tries to force his way into traffic.

oh and people who can't be bothered to say 'it's my fault' and have to use 'my bad' instead

People saying "bless" when there not a priest.

People saying He/she is "strong" when not in a fitness context.

People saying "take care" when they don't even know you.

People saying "see you later" when they obviously wont.

People in general 😐

rocketdog - what rules would these be?

whoever parked next to my car on saturday and scraped all down the bumper and then left without leaving a note to apologise.

B*strds.

Cyclists riding 2 abreast on narrow country lanes totally ignoring the queue of other traffic behind them.
No need for it & it just enforces the opinions a lot of car drivers have of us

In other words, you lot would be much calmer and happier if you didn't drive.

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People not realising brought and bought are different words. People who say Haitch.

when a motorway or A road narrows from 3 to 2 lanes and every one filters into the lanes without needing to brake, then some imbecile speeds down the lane and right where it disappears, jams themselves in right at the front causing everyone to brake.

Some clever clogs will surely be along to inform me that this is what you're meant to do - I DONT CARE

Another thing that annoys me is when people pull out of a side road too close to you, then don't bother to accelerate. Fine, you misjudged that distance but don't make me come to a complete stop.

They make very little difference to my journeys in reality but it's the selfishness that other people assume that people should wait for them which annoys me.

casual relgiousness
If you have faith and abide by it, fine, Ill just mark you down as a nut and question your judgement.
BUT if you go to church, just because its the middle-class, middle England thing to do, then you're a hypocrite, and that's worse than being a nut.

People walking slowly on pavements

People unable to walk in a straight line on the pavement

People who make disgusting noises when they eat

People who leave public toilets sprayed with piss or splattered with sh1t

People not realising brought and bought are different words. People who say Haitch.

Yeah, I hate northerners too.

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LOL @ Stoners' anger!

I agree with you 100%. Even more annoying is the fact that they all park right outside the Church, blocking the road for two hours. When I leave my car for two minutes to buy a book (that isn’t a made up storey about a thing, some stuff and a cross), some fish and wine on a similar stretch of road; I get a ticket!

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People who start their reply to a question with; "Yeah, no..." Is beginning to bug me.

Riders that say they thrash their bikes....how queer!

in honour of nickc

things that don't work but should ie:

UST, perhaps the most consistently inconsistent technology introduced to bicycles yet. it's not hard people, the standards are defined. WHY CAN'T YOU JUST MAKE IT WORK

oo, sofa has reminded me of another one...

you bugger's on here (and redsox) that are too tight to pay the £2 to park in the Malvern Hills car parks on my road on a weekend so instead park right outside my house (the car park entrance is only 5 yrds away FFS!) while i've popped to the shops for the weekly so me/mrs stoner & stoner Jr have to park halfway up the hill and carry the shopping/stoner Jr in.

£2 you tight wnakers!

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Do you want to borrow my stinger Stoner? 😆

nah, Ill just key any cars with bike racks from now on!

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blokes who can't drive big 4x4's with the registration **58 ULU who reverse them into people's cars parked in Llandegla car park at the weekend and then drive off without even noticing or caring what they've done. Get a smaller car! That one is too big for you no matter how macho you think it makes you look.

People who are uptight and should just chill the f*ck out.

People who sit in the inside lane on a Dual carriageway where it narrows and queue back for miles, instead of using both lanes and merging in turn as per the highway code, and then try to block you because you had the sense to use the road as it is meant to be used.

[i]People who are uptight and should just chill the f*ck out. [/i]

there's all was one superior person on here....

allow people to vent.

Wow, so many driving issues.

Glad I only get in the car about once a week, or I'd probably have high blood pressure.

When you get to my age, the number of things that annoy you increase logarithmically each year, but you also tend to get a more mellowed out/can't be f**cked attitude, so they kind of cancel each other out

People in general (gaaaahhhhh i hate the great british public)

ALL drivers!
non indicators, people indicating when thier not about to move (its not a request, its information!)
people driving faster than me, people driving slower than me,
people beng pushy, people dilly dallying,
people not saying thanks, people saying thanks when theyve barge arsed in and didnt leave you with the choice,
people not getting in a queue of traffic, shooting to the front, blocking the lane they shoot up in when they do reach the junction and then getting arsey when you dont let them in!! coffeeking!!! i seem to recall, you should "get in the appropriate lane at the earliest safe oppertunity"

(not easy to please me, im a very vocal driver)

dog shit faireies, good call, ive noticed that before and it winds me right up.

litter bugs on trails

pedestrians PLEASE learn to LOOK in the direction of travel
meandering pricks

i dont know if i hate pedestrians or drivers more
im only happy on a bike 🙁

christ im an angry bugger arnt I!!!

people who drop litter, and people (often women) who spit, it makes me want to nut them!

I know it's culturally acceptable in other countries but ffs the amount of somali women who gob in the street is ****in disturbing!!

people (oiks, chavs etc, you know who I mean 🙂 ) who play crappy "Music" out of their 'phone speaker in public. Especially on public transport. Number of times I've had to get all Victor Meldrew on their inconsiderate arses. But then out here in the sticks they dont carry knives/guns/loaded hypos. Wouldnt do it in the cities ...

people (oiks, chavs etc, you know who I mean [:)] ) who play crappy "Music" out of their 'phone speaker in public. Especially on public transport.

That's not a little thing, the culprits should be subjected to Clockwork Orange style aversion therapy.

Wouldn't mind so much if the sound quality was acceptable, back in my day you'd have got laughed out of town if you turned up for a breakdance "burn" with a mobile phone to provide the sounds.

Mrs told me of a lady she meets every day down a country lane driving a Blue Ford KA.

The lane is narrow, only space for one car at a time, there are pull ins all along the lane to allow traffic to pass.

My Wife moans about how this Blue Ford KA never gives way, never pulls in to allow traffic to pass and never acknowledges you when she passes! Been going on for years!

Obviously my Wife is no good at the car chicken game and I did not think too much about it, until two weeks ago she gave me a lift, I was driving 😉

Sure enough, nice quiet 400 yard straight single lane, with me in a battered Mazda at one end and at the other, a Lady in a Blue KA.

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What would you have done?
Remember I am a bit childish.

I pulled into the nearest pull-in, stopped the car, jumped out of the car and whiped off my work shirt, stood in the road like any childish 40 year old and did my matador impression with my shirt!

Told you I was childish, Mrs nearly wet herself, she had no idea what I was doing at first. The driver of the KA, at first looked worried, then puzzled then smiled and then.....

Waved

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The general lack of respect people have for "stuff"

Taking Glentress on Saturday as an example. I went into toilet/ shower block after my ride and discovered in one of the cubicles that someone had ripped the toilet roll holder off the wall and there was toilet paper all over the toilet and floor.

Why would anyone think that's acceptable? You're provided with excellent facilities and amenities and you see fit to trash them.

1, People who drive in front of you down motorway slip roads at 40mph and then brake when they can't merge with the traffic doing 70
2, People who stop and stand still in the middle of doorways, corridors, at the bottom of escalators etc
3, Inanimate objects behaving with a mind of their own
4, Moaning (irony alert)

"4. Moaning"

Depends on the context i would have thought 😉

Bernie Ecclestone

I was reading this thread thinking everyone is a bit uptight and needs to just accept that people will drive badly / use bad grammar etc when I saw this:

3, Inanimate objects behaving with a mind of their own

YES!

Bloody cling film! Bloody bastard vacuum cleaner! I shout at inanimate objects that are clearly conspiring against me. I also (occasionally) throw them down and leave them as a punishment, before returning some time later to see if they've had time to think about their behaviour.

[i]also (occasionally) throw them down and leave them as a punishment, before returning some time later to see if they've had time to think about their behaviour. [/i]

I do that. Henry the hoover gets a time out on the naughty step to think things over if he keeps rolling over when I pull on his nozzle.

Henry the hoover gets a time out on the naughty step to think things over

Our Henry still carries the scars of the previous times I've had to punish him.

richc - Member
I am usually pretty mellow, but people cutting to the front of queues on dual carriageway or motorway contraflows really hack me off, especially when they drive right up to the cones then try and pull in at the last minute **** up the flow of traffic and making the queues worse.

Mind you I did once manage to block one so he went into the cones, irresponsible but might teach the BMW driving **** to at least slow down before he tries to force his way into traffic.

WTF! You're supposed to merge by the time you get to the cones - ideally merge the lanes at the point of the cones, one car from each lane at a time; works nice and smoothly. Unfortunately some in this country don't understand that and works better in other places.

Traveling at 50mph, merging one car frome each lane in turn, with no room to play with because your stuck up to the cones?
it would end up with a stoppage surely?
you move in to lane where the sign asks you to surely?
thats what the signs for?
its not a "suggestion"

im with richC, if your front axel is forward of thier front axel, turning your car closes them down, therefore, no matter how big thier tank, youve won.
muHA!

206: 1 - fat pompus L200: NIL!

Those special screws, you know the ones Homebase and the likes supply with everything they sell.
The ones with no thread or soft cheese heads.

So basically anything that's a token effort. Either do/make it properly or don't bother.

allen keys - no matter how many sets I buy and how careful I am with them, I never have a complete set

and why do I never lose the f'ing useless 5.5 mm ones?

mudshark - unfortunately it seems a vast majority of the driving population are unaware of that fact. It seems the NZ transport people also had the same problem and ran a recent "merge like a zip" campaign, and when I was in Bristol some time ago I saw a sign at the side of one of the sets of cones reminding people to merge in turn.

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Unfortunately it still escapes people, and they assume that you're trying to "race" them to the merging point, or somehow threatening their manhood by getting in front. If they'd only learn to use the road correctly they wouldnt be sat miles back from the narrowing in a single line of traffic. What annoys me most is when stupid brain-dead wagon drivers then block all following traffic by pulling out half way. I've started coming to a halt and taking photos to send to their employers - drives me nuts!

You're supposed to merge at the narrowing, one at a time people. This is how the roadworks and roads are designed so that you dont end up with massive tailbacks and so everyone gets through smoothly.

People who drop the 's' from plurals,

eg. it's about 3 mile down the road, or it cost me 6 pound.....

....and worst of all I'm gonna get a packet of crisp FFS kill 'em all

Coffeeking - a few Guardian readers agree with us...

[url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,,-197042,00.html ]Merging lanes[/url]

Olly - We're talking about queuing traffic here - at merging earlier as appropriate seems more sensible.

mudshark - looks like all the people who know and practice this method are on that page, as they certainly arent out on the road! 🙂 Glad to see common sense is visible somewhere!

Olly - use the road as you normally would, wait until you reach the narrowing and merge at that point. That way the open lane doesnt become clogged more than necessary with "early darters". The signs way back are warnings that a merge will occur soon, they give you repeated warnings as you approach so you can be signalling and ready to move, not so you can already have merged and then be screaming at the people passing you stationary at the 600 yard mark? I have no idea why you think stoppage would occur if everyoen realised you let on person from the other lane in between each car.

DFS advert, ****ing Dillon family.

People who head at you in their car as you pass parked cars, thinking they have right of way just because the cars are on your side of the road, even though you were heading through the gap before they came along.

When you give way to let cars coming the other way past parked cars through, and people keep coming along and tagging on the back, even though they can see you have been waiting to get through for ages.

People who head for a gap that they cant get through, so instead of waiting back for a space to clear they have just blocked up the whole road with no one being able to move in any direction.

So basically, ignorance and arrogance. 🙂

lol at coffeeking :lol:its the rules man you dont think folks actually read those do you?

So, basically what most of you are saying is that folk cant drive worth shit.

How the **** do you think I feel?

People who make disgusting noises when they eat

god yes. I work with a guy who makes the most disgusting noises when he eats. Bleugh.

Blimey, I'm agreeing with most of this. I'd like to add:

Families who walk 4/5/6 abreast on a pavement forcing you to stop to one side to let the ignorant twunts pass

Lack of politeness, especially in shops. please and thank you cost nothing.

Yoof speak. Innit dumin dahn, like, mate, innit.

People not knowing what 'personal space' is. **** off away from me.

The english language being mauled by people that cannot pronounce words correctly. Free is not a number, fanks? etc

ah.........

the way my back door swells when the sun gets on it.

i do mean the one into my house before you say owt.

Insincere people and I've met a fair few of them, most of which I no longer speak to because I can't be bothered with having people like that in my life 😕

You best stop coming on here then aleigh!

aleigh - Member

Insincere people and I've met a fair few of them, most of which I no longer speak to because I can't be bothered with having people like that in my life [:?]

oh really dear? surely not dear? are you sure dear? nevermind dear?
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The cock who I arranged a meeting with and said its OK to try and get his direct superior on the meeting, too, then when I try he throws his toys out because of my 'manipulation' of the situation. Pipe down you arse.

I had a mug tree once.
It was so woefully inept in its design that if you removed one cup it would fall over. Being single at the time merely compounded the problem.

Early one spring day in 2003 I ended its short & useless existence with a large hammer.

And the chap at work who clips his toe-nails into the office bin.

The girlfrieds twin brother,,, ****er 😡

people who don't realise the petrol pump filler pipe will reach over to the other side of their car hence causing people to wait

people who dont indicate when driving, there should be £500 fix penalty for this. worst offenders are those that come to a roundabout 'turning right' don't indicate until they exit, they should have snipers at roundabouts.

people who take ages at cash points and use about 4 cards to take a tenner out, these should also be taken out by snipers.

people with prams who push it into the road without looking at all.
Closely followed by the above screaming obscenities at me for endangering their child as if I am responsible for their failings.
Closely followed by the above then trying to apologise to me at nursery as they realised who I was and that I had my child on the bike at the time.

takisawa - I have a mug tree that you cant get mugs ON - there's not enough room between the pegs and your end up knocking one off trying to put the others on. I feel your pain but it came with the flat so I might just have to store it until I move!

There's alot I agree with on here, but one thing that pees me off is people who don't look where they are going when walking. Supermarkets and shopping centres are the worst. You know the type - walking foreward, straight toward you, looking left into a shop window or texting or something similar. After a while it pees me off so much that I brace my shoulders and elbows and just let them bounce off me.

Are you taking the p1ss out of me MrNutt? Just remember I know where you live hahahaha! 😆

it really annoys me when drivers queue up the left hand lane to a mini roundabout when all you need to do is drive up the clear right hand lane and do a 540 degree turn on the roundabout to turn left.

bloody pheasant!

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I've never seen a pheasant driving, let alone queuing to turn left.

Middle lane hoggers annoy me - there were many out in force yesterday (idiots!)

takisawa2 - Member

I've never seen a pheasant driving, let alone queuing to turn left.

bloody non-surrealist city dewellers!