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Fage yoghurt that has a foil lid and a transparent plastic cover on the yohurt that you need to pick off with your fingers so you get yoghurty fingers and takes a spoonful of yog with it when you peel it off...Do I scape it, lick it, just bung it in the bin?

bra straps that don't stay on your shoulders


 
Posted : 11/04/2015 8:35 pm
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bra straps that stay on the shoulders


 
Posted : 11/04/2015 8:38 pm
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People who give crap examples.


 
Posted : 11/04/2015 8:42 pm
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lift in the supermarket ๐Ÿ˜ฏ

Yep ours has a 3 floor underground car park so you need to use the lift unless you fancy pushing a trolley up ramps with cars coming down


 
Posted : 11/04/2015 8:42 pm
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"London Underground is running a good service on all lines"

Colin Montgomery on sky's masters coverage


 
Posted : 11/04/2015 8:45 pm
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Android apps that only work in portrait.


 
Posted : 11/04/2015 8:49 pm
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My Friday's gripe is simply poor lane discipline on the M5, M42 and M6 made more infuriating by no chuffing vehicles in the near side lane.......and the knob wits that accelerate with you when you try to overtake them in the centre lane using the correct lane. Bring on compulsory re-tests!


 
Posted : 11/04/2015 8:52 pm
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People who use the word literally incorrectly....and frequently.

+1

Recently was in a meeting with a fairly senior manager telling everyone present that when he got the email, he "literally crapped himself".
Cue another politely saying, "I'm sure you don't mean that literally."
"No, no, honestly, I crapped my pants...."

There is no helping some people.


 
Posted : 11/04/2015 9:02 pm
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Fat blokes who dress up in their sons tight suit and then go on mass to watch a gang of horses run round afield, jumping hedges, and shout haaaaaaa as then horses pass.

on mass?


 
Posted : 11/04/2015 11:55 pm
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Yep ours has a 3 floor [b]underground[/b] car park so you need to use the lift unless you fancy pushing a trolley [b]up[/b] ramps with cars coming down

Que?

Cougar - you don't want to see it, I don't want to write it. Company policy dictates otherwise (email sigs).


 
Posted : 12/04/2015 2:16 am
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People who bang on about other groups of people holding them back on my Facebook feed, when in reality it's the corruption of their own people that is a much bigger problem.

But problems are only problems if it affects you personally, so forget all your countrymen....the most important thing is all these Americans holding you back from earning hundreds of thousands in New York!

Lazy Entitled Private School Educated Cockwomble thats forgotten where they came from deleted. Stupid bint should have studied a proper subject instead of Publishing at Boston if she wanted to be taken seriously.


 
Posted : 12/04/2015 2:18 am
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Luggage carousel idiots with trolleys in airports.

Never mind the trolleys, it's the innate need to have their knees brushing the damn thing so nobody else can get a look in that endears them to me.


 
Posted : 12/04/2015 2:28 am
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Getting stuck behind someone at checkout with a handful of those bloody supermarket loyalty vouchers.

Supermarket loyalty vouchers and money off next shop coupons - just price it properly in the first place muppets.

People who seem surprised or dither around when asked by airport security staff to remove via laptop, contents of pockets etc, delaying the rest of us in the process.

Airport security staff who despite me emptying my life into the plastic box then ask, "anything in your pockets" - I've already bloody done it you asshat!

People in 'fashion' 4x4's. Their over inflated levels if self importance, tw*ttishness and vulgarness can be directly measured by however many bodywork extras they selected from the showroom catalogue.


 
Posted : 12/04/2015 6:45 am
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Some rather good choices in here...

Mine ?

A simple one.

Credits. I mean credits at the end of Films/TV shows/Radio Programmes and such. I really don't care who made it, wrote the script, did the sound, fetched the tea.. I am really not bothered and I'd say the only people that are are the people involved in producing the entertainment media.


 
Posted : 12/04/2015 6:59 am
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Me.

Why do I always have a [b]tiny[/b] bit of sugar in first coffee of day?

Just grow up and have at least half a spoon, or none.


 
Posted : 12/04/2015 7:05 am
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People who instant message me at work with just the word 'Hi' or 'Hello', then nothing.

Just ask the the bloody question you want me to answer!

I ignore these people now. There's one bloke in particular who will not do anything until he's had a 'hello' back. Longest I've strung it along is 8 days before he gave up and he never said what he wanted!


 
Posted : 12/04/2015 8:40 am
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People in the sales department who ring to say they are going to send an email and then tell me that when I've read it they are coming down to talk me through it.

My librarian did that to me a few weeks ago, I was already pissed off with her, as I knew the email was her telling me she was leaving, already a shit day, I may have been a bit more curt with her than I needed, and she lost it.

Turns out she was bipolar and just about holding it together for the past few days.....ah well, the call blocking feature on my phone is working well just now, down to 20 calls a day just now.


 
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Yep ours has a 3 floor underground car park so you need to use the lift unless you fancy pushing a trolley up ramps with cars coming down

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Que?

Sorry I didn't explain that very well (I blame red wine)

If you park in the lower levels of the car park you could walk up the ramps to get to the store level having first collected a trolley, but its far easier to use one of the 3 lifts that take you to store level.
To make it even more complicated the main entry/exit is at the lowest level but you can exit on level 2 in a car but at any level on a bike ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 12/04/2015 11:05 am
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but at any level on a bike

Is this where the 'drop off' thread would be useful?


 
Posted : 12/04/2015 2:05 pm
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Overuse of "Stellar". There were apparently Stellar performances at the Chinese Grand Prix and a Stellar cast in a Radio 3 opera this weekend. At least it got used properly on The Sky at Night.


 
Posted : 12/04/2015 10:32 pm
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[i]My librarian[/i]

You have your own librarian?

Now that *is* irritating.


 
Posted : 13/04/2015 7:32 am
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overuse of the word 'awesome'.

i heard edith bowman on the radio some time ago now talking to a teenager that had called in to the show.

"and what school do you go to?"
"st johns secondary school"
"awesome!"

er....no, its not really is it.


 
Posted : 13/04/2015 8:09 am
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Wow,four days on and you're still going. You lot are a bunch of whingey bastards ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 13/04/2015 9:04 am
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Lisa Tarbuck

Actually this is is in the wrong thread - she is not a petty irritation is she?


 
Posted : 13/04/2015 9:40 am
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I think she's great. ๐Ÿ™‚

Elaine Paige and Vanessa Feltz, on the other hand....


 
Posted : 13/04/2015 9:56 am
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Surely already mentioned but fit and able bodied people that stand still on escalators. Lazy oafs!

(caveat: yes of course someone may not be obviously unfit and unable, but as 99.9% of the mouth breathing population stand still on them, that's a lot of unfit and unable people!)


 
Posted : 13/04/2015 4:03 pm
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People who dont drive up to the stop line at traffic lights but crawl forward waiting for them to change ,along with anyone in traffic who doesnt react when the lights change so only about two cars get through before they change again


 
Posted : 13/04/2015 4:14 pm
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"Child in Car" notices - thank the Lord you told me, I was just about to deliberately rear end your car!


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 8:48 pm
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The knobber that changes the WiFi password I use at work. Wouldn't mind but its thrice (don't get me started on the use of "two times" instead of twice) a week because "people keep logging into it". What, the public access WiFi for the public? People log into it? What the **** did you think they were going to do?


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 10:40 pm
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Being called 'Boss' - no I am not, I do not know you, employ you or manage you.

Awful sports pundits / presenters (here's looking at you Chiles, Townsend, Motson)

Ditherers


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 10:03 am
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People who leave drinks bottles on the mats at the bouldering wall - right where people can fall off on to them. Death's too good for 'em I say.


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 10:10 am
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"thrice a week" ? Now that sounds very odd vs "three times a week".

So it has to be people who use the word thrice.

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Posted : 15/04/2015 10:13 am
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It's been done somewhere on an earlier page, but the overuse of the word 'like' As commonly used by my daughter.

Daughter: "Please may I have, um, like, some orange juice."
Me: "Here's a coffee. It's a bit like an orange juice...."


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 10:25 am
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[i]It's been done somewhere on an earlier page, but the overuse of the word 'like' As commonly used by my daughter.

Daughter: "Please may I have, um, like, some orange juice."
Me: "Here's a coffee. It's a bit like an orange juice...."[/i]

Its been done like twice before, but as its soooo like annoying, lets make it four!

(apologies to the person who mentioned the quote button)


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 10:35 am
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Michael Owen as a commentator.

Excellent footballer, but that does not give you right to assault my ears with your banality every time a game is on BT.

He should really stick to doing voiceovers for helicopter tours of Dubai.


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 10:38 am
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๐Ÿ˜ณ ๐Ÿ™‚
I imagine someone has also picked up on folk not reading all the thread too.......


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 10:38 am
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"Child in Car" notices

+1, especially when these cars fail to show any courtesy to me on my bike. Twunts.


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 10:46 am
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Fair weather cyclists. Mid-December there was no queue for the shower at work. Now it appears everyone in the building has decided to ride in and my leisurely breakfast and shower routine is but a distant memory.


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 10:48 am
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bought vs brought etc, misspelling or using the wrong words in general which make the writer look fick when they are sensible and intelligent.


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 11:00 am
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[i]bought vs brought etc, misspelling or using the wrong words in general which make the writer look fick when they are sensible and intelligent. [/i]

See also:

'off' vs 'from' (and, for maximally heated pi$$, 'off [b]of[/b]' vs 'from')
'should of' vs 'should have'

Grr.


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 11:06 am
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People who needlessly print e-mails and spend half the day wandering to the printer to collect them when they could quite easily transfer information between windows on their computer screen. Copy and paste is there for a reason.


 
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bought vs brought etc, misspelling or using the wrong words in general which make the writer look fick when they are sensible and intelligent.

In a cycling context the number of people who get their brakes confused with 'breaks' ๐Ÿ™„


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 11:40 am
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People who feel the need to comment on what I'm eating just because they go to the gym once in a blue moon. I ride between 150 and 200 miles a week and weigh around 11 stone. I'll eat whatever the heck I want thanks!


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 11:57 am
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People who don't shower before using the swimming pool, or even worse, the bloke who was shaving in the sauna the other week - WTF, the dirty bar steward!


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 12:06 pm
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"thrice a week" ? Now that sounds very odd vs "three times a week".
So it has to be people who use the word thrice.

How about "thrice weekly"?


 
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