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People who haven't worked out that "decimated" no longer only means killing exactly 1 in 10.
When did that happen? As far as I am concerned its only changed for people who don't know what it means...
Oh, and people who use 'myself' when they mean 'me'.
CaptainFlashheart - MemberSocialists.
Coucou Flashi!
...oh, and salespeople who try and find a way into a converastion with you by asking after a piece of literaature/survey/brochure they didn't actually send you and may not even exist. 😡 😡
When did that happen? As far as I am concerned its only changed for people who don't know what it means...
It happened when the majority of people started using the word like that. That's how language works.
Anyway, I get annoyed by people saying 'pacific' when they mean 'specific'.
salespeople who try and find a way into a converastion with you
I forgot salespeople. I hate when they start the conversation with "would you like to save some money on your gas/phone/electric bill?". Trying to drag you into a conversation.
Half the time I just want to answer "No, I have more money than I could ever spend. Now leave me alone."
Pointless threads about things that piss you off.
People who don't wave thanks for when you let them pull in front of you when say, the lane ends. Did you get in because you're an amazing driver or an amazing person? No, you got in because I let you, at least have some decency to acknowledge the fact.
People who come into my shop asking for a 'Magneta' printer cartridge!
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneta ]I can't decide if it arouses me[/url], or if I just see red!
B*st*rds that ask for 'Kiane', just make me sad and weepy, and kind of blue. She was the people's print cartridge!
Nothing petty or insignificant really pisses me off. If it did I would be petty (or even insignificant!).
I win.
Saying 'I win' was petty, and may piss you off. It does not piss me off, though, so its pettiness and insignificance are irrelevant for the purposes of this post.
People eating noisily +1, BTW. Just not [i]really[/i]. 😛
95% of the world's population
People who say "literally" when they dont mean "literally"
Excessive use of lol.
Putting numbers in words to make them shorter for texting.
People in front of me in queues who still pay by cheque.
People who can't drive at a constant speed on the motorway and I have to keep on overtaking them.
Grrr.
The way that kids from all over England put on an accent to make them sound that they are black and from south London - innit lyak.
England. 😉
people who complain, but won't do anything to address the issue they're complaining about, and continue to complain - ie, fattys
driving around the M25 yesterday knob in a range rover in the outside lane other 3 lanes empty, decided to undertake, 10 seconds later speeds past me and then sits in outside lane just above the speed i am traveling at. Then ups the anti by slowing down and following me for the next 30 miles.
Home improvement companies who call in the evening and open by saying they're not trying to sell you anything but there's a promotion in my area. You want me to agree to exchange my money for your goods/services, how is that not selling me something?
Far too many locals pronounce hospital as hos-pic-ul.
People who get the the front of the queue and then start looking for their money. We've been stood here for ten minutes and you've only just figured out that you're going to need some form of payment!
people who mix up brought and bought.
" i went to the shop and brought a paper"
why did you bring a paper to the paper shop???!!!
Salesmen that come to my door....
SM, Would you like to save ££££ on your gas/electricity.
ME, No.
SM, We are here on behalf of the governments new whatever.
ME, Right so your not selling me anything, just letting me know something and then going, why don't you just put it in writing?
Salesmen that turn up wearing vests.
People who walk slowly on the high street. People who stop walking on the high street. People who walk out of shops and just... stop. I will always get stuck behind at least one of these people.
Noisy eaters, inconsiderate and arrogant drives and people who write Xmas rather than Christmas.
people (usually from stoke) who ask to lend something from you. or ask you to borrow them something.
FFS its not hard to get it right
and labels stuck to things you buy, that are NOT the reason why you bought the thing, but seem to be glued there with huge gobs of industrial strength uber weld, so you can't get the **** label off
Chavs
shops closed on sundays (thanks Bavaria you stupid catholic state)
religion-christians, jews, hindus, seikhs, and yes MUSLIMS. you really believe that shit written in those books/on stones/made up?
people with **** off expensive dog bollocks bikes and can't ride for squat.
german mentality (i've been here too long); education (despite the school system being pants), flashy cars but shit homes, money money money, slagging off british food despite the fact that most german fayre is dull, officialdom in every aspect of your life, queue jumping, general apathy towards the idea of being polite (it's not impolite, they just don't know any different), electric music ("coming to the bar, they've got an electric DJ playing" "umm, what sort of music?" "electric" "ok, what genre of 'electric' music? electric guitar? drum'n'bass? hip hop? progressive trance? dub-step?" "errrr, electric." "no"), autobahn drivers sitting on their brakes after having come up behind a car at 220km/h.....
lack of any decent chinese or indian restaurants - plenty of Doner kebabs around though (yuk)
airports - do you honestly think your checks will prevent someone blowing up the plane?
celebrity 'culture' - mostly just a load of jumped up got-luckies. why-TF should i give a toss who's divorcing/shagging (who)/snorting/dead?
i'm only 26..... bugger.
think ALPIN is having a go at me and me bikes 😕 can ride them just not as good as some of the young upstarts on the block these days, never rode a bike till i was 30 to poor.
i take it your not sending those pix then dave ? if not no worries just id like to know . thanks mick
99% of adverts. They have got more irritating recently. I'll never ever ever ever give any money to T-Mobile. Oh, and any advert with 'real people' giving me their opinion on something - we know they are actors mr advertiser, drop the facade.
On decimatedgate, the OED says:
a. To kill, destroy, or remove one in every ten of. b. rhetorically or loosely. To destroy or remove a large proportion of; to subject to severe loss, slaughter, or mortality.
😉
mick - photos on their way was locked out of my email. sorry for the delay
no worries mate 😉 ta
People who hold non related conversation in the middle of entertaining threads 😉
Just for JulianA the OED definition of decimate. (note the order)
[b]decimate[/b] [i]v.tr.[/i] [b]1[/b] [i]disp.[/i] kill or remove a large proportion of. [b]2[/b] orig. [i]Mil.[/i] kill or remove one in every ten of. [from Latin [i]decimare[/i] 'to take the tenth man']
so, you don't have to get annoyed any more...
The use of Minerva, Neptune and so on in translations of Greek poetry. Idiots.
Health and ****ing safety.
been said before but salespeople. When will you get it into your thick skulls that if I want to buy something, then I'll go and find the best spec. for the lowest price...on my own...I'm quite capable thank you very much...now **** off... oh and I'm better at psychology than you so I can see your 'tricks' coming a mile off.
People who own dogs and don't stop them barking, just because you want a pet doesn't mean we all want to hear it.
And people who put an n in remember
Those seam welded clear plastic packaging you get on some smaller items from shops to avoid anything coming out of them.
Usually it takes a hacksaw and chisel to cut the 3mm thick plastic and will result in injury in the process.
Oh and whinging/pedantic bastids. 🙂
People who blame things on health and safety or political correctness when its nothing to do with either.
lol@decimatedgate
Double posting gets my goat, too.
[i]Those seam welded clear plastic packaging you get on some smaller items from shops to avoid anything coming out of them.
Usually it takes a hacksaw and chisel to cut the 3mm thick plastic and will result in injury in the process.[/i]
The irony being the items involved are invariably something like a chisel or a hacksaw.
Some of the people on here who gang up on someone asking a fairly innoccuous question and end up being rather offensive in the process, just because "the OP didn't know / understand".
Queue jumpers do my box in!
Bad manners.
Here we go...
entering a motorway at 50 mph
60+ honda drivers doing 45 on a country road
People who say "I aint done nofin"
Mission statments
Managment who justify there jobs by cooking up bullshite rules and prosedures
My daughter not flushing after number two's
white folks who think they are black. Init.!
Cold, Winter and Rain.
Thats it as I'm easy on everything else.
Bad spelling.
idiots who sit in the middle lane of a motorway when not overtaking.
LEARN TOP DRIVE PROPERLY!
Coppers with speed guns
Nissan Almera drivers
people who join a free flowing motorway at 35mph instead of a nice safe 60mph
People who think its funny to quote lines of of films
litter bugs
smokers
people who chew gum
dog owners who don't pick up their dog's 5h1t
BMW drivers in general
Drivers who use a mobile phone
Tax
Stealth tax
fines
sneaky ways of fining you