just to satisfy you here’s the original article I read it on. From the BBC
He's talking about DMR (dry mixed recycling) and the difficulty in sorting it out again. If like most domestic recycling it's already separated by the consumer then it's a moot point.
People who start threads that keep me up when I should be in bed.
To be fair, I started it 21 hours ago. With all due respect, I'm not accepting being held accountable for your sleep patterns almost a full day later.
Buying a brand new phone and having multiple software updates. I’m on about fifteen in the past 24hrs.
Is your 'brand new phone' technically new but a 5 yo model that's been sat in the corner of a warehouse for the last 5 years? 🙂
Adults saying “Hospickle”. Have ooh godda poorwy tum tum? Do ooh wanna bwokeded noseywose?
I think someone needs to go on a nice, relaxing holibobs.
@mattyfez- 2019 release, so yup, probz true 🙁
But surely it can just update to the most recent/ current software in one hit?
People who sign each of their posts with their username, like we cant see the friggin thing at the top.
He’s talking about DMR (dry mixed recycling) and the difficulty in sorting it out again. If like most domestic recycling it’s already separated by the consumer then it’s a moot point.
Mine's not, we have a single large wheelie bin for plastics, glass, tins and cans and paper all going into it. How many bins do you have to split to?
Humanity.
But surely it can just update to the most recent/ current software in one hit?
Technically possible but can be problematic. Microsoft do cumulative windows updates sometimes, for example, so it just 'boshes' it all at once.
Not so common with mobile phones.
The "need" to fill every. single. cupboard to its maximum capacity. Everytime. Stuff on top of stuff, so accessing anything becomes a jenga challenge. And reloading the cupboard like a game of bucking bronco.
Mine’s not, we have a single large wheelie bin for plastics, glass, tins and cans and paper all going into it.
Yeah, that's DMR.
I split out glass, plastic and paper. Glass I take manually to the tip recycling centre because the kerbside collection can't cope.
I knew someone who's other half would open the front door during a thunderstorm to let the lightning out if it came down the chimney....
And we were amazed at the Brexit vote.
Hazard lights on when parked inconsiderately. But as a driver you only see the right hand light (left being obscured by another car or similar), so slow down to let them out. Rrrr
Supermarkets:
People who stop in the supermarket aisle and put their trolley next to them, at an angle, so that others can't get past. Also stopping for a social chat across the same aisle
Worse than "Tescos" is "Markses"
Ignoring the shopping list and buying more milk than we need so that you can't fit everything in the fridge. Then complain about the size of the fridge
See also buying salad items that aren't on the shopping list because we already have them
My 48yo sister calling my mum "mummy" then slouching all over the sofa like a soporific teenager while my parents entertain her spoilt brat and walk her untrained vizsla.
The “need” to fill every. single. cupboard to its maximum capacity. Everytime. Stuff on top of stuff, so accessing anything becomes a jenga challenge. And reloading the cupboard like a game of bucking bronco.
Oh dear God, this. New kitchen last October, you wouldn't know it if you opened a cupboard or a drawer. All my fault for having three water bottles for cycling, apparently.
The “need” to fill every. single. cupboard to its maximum capacity. Everytime. Stuff on top of stuff, so accessing anything becomes a jenga challenge. And reloading the cupboard like a game of bucking bronco.
Oh yes! Especially the cupboard which has jam jars stacked on top of condiment jars and sauce bottles of every description jammed into every available space, most of which are never used but apparently can't be thrown out. Guaranteed just opening it to retrieve the brown sauce will result in a ten year old jar of organic artisan marmalade braining me or smashing spectacularly on the counter top or floor!
An inability to avoid populating every flat surface in the house with 'stuff'. Plant pots, picture frames, chintzy bits of tat, ornaments, whatever! I am very definitely a minimalist at heart and my OH is the polar opposite. I conceded on this point early in our relationship and mostly I have learned to be zen about it, but every now and then I lose it when merely walking past a bookcase results in things falling over.
Digital devices taking an age to start up. Our "smart" TV is still considering what to show on the guide minutes after I've turned it on. Why ???
Surely everything should be instantaneous ? It's not like it's a #@@&#ing steam engine waiting to come up to temperature.
Can't believe the boffins haven't sorted this out yet. ****s.
Hazard lights on when parked inconsiderately. But as a driver you only see the right hand light (left being obscured by another car or similar), so slow down to let them out. Rrrr
Except when I have to park inconsiderately because some other inconsiderate Nob has parked on the dropped kerb & I need to transfer a wheelchair with a person in it onto a council minibus.I
People who sign each of their posts with their username, like we cant see the friggin thing at the top.
& this ^^
Essel.
They have, it's just that "starts quickly" hasn't been deemed a feature that sells TVs, and they can tell people to leave it on standby instead.
People who don't wash their hands 'properly' before cooking or handling food (especially when doing this for others).
People who don't wash their hands 'properly' after a trip to the loo. It's not hard to do.
Yes I know we all have to build up immunity, but some of us haven't got much and getting a simple cold or tummy upset for some is just an inconvenience for others its a good few weeks feeling really unwell, being off work and impacting their lives.
More generally.
We seem to have created a working environment where increasingly there are greater and greater pressures to comply with seemingly more an more intricate and demanding set of legislations that have a disproportional punishment for failure attached to them, while our leadership (both actual political and figurative societal) seem to behave in a way that means they increasingly don't suffer anything like the proportional punishment for their increasingly erratic behaviour . - cf Putin, Trump, Johnson, and more broadly Grenfell etc etc
The “need” to fill every. single. cupboard to its maximum capacity. Everytime.
This was another of The Boy's habits. He'd do a monthly shop every two days, then go to McDonald's.
Our “smart” TV is still considering what to show on the guide minutes after I’ve turned it on. Why ???
This annoys me because in the days of 'standby' rather than 'off' there's no reason for it. The Xbox nails this, it will (as a configurable option) do its updates silently when in standby so that you're good to go straight away when you switch it back on.
People doing baby talk to anything/anyone. Just talk properly. I remember adults talking to me like that when i was very young and it use to make me angry. Just talk properly and lead by example.
Hazard lights on when parked inconsiderately. But as a driver you only see the right hand light (left being obscured by another car or similar), so slow down to let them out. Rrrr
I have thought for some time that lights should flash in a different pattern when in 'hazard' mode (ie, ON – ON – OFF – ON – ON – OFF rather than ON – OFF – ON – OFF). Surely it wouldn't be hard to do.
People moving pens, I leave pens in certain places so when I need a pen, I know where it is. Except I go to write something and the pen has moved! Usually the pen has been moved to where there was already another pen, so now I have two pens where I don't currently need one and none where I do.
Last journalists adding the word -gate to any type of scandal.
Watergate was just a building so it doesn't make any sense anyway.
We seem to have created a working environment where increasingly there are greater and greater pressures to comply with seemingly more an more intricate and demanding set of legislations that have a disproportional punishment for failure attached to them
As a civil servant, this is crippling delivery of public services. The climate of fear around loss of experienced staff, ever more complicated legislation overlaid with the result of legal challenges.
Don't get me started on what would happen if we brought alcohol to a work meeting, let alone during a lockdown
On pens. A different problem from people moving them. People placing them carefully back in the draw or pot where they live. Empty. Devoid of every last drop of ink. WTF? To lie there undiscovered until you need to write down something urgent and it's the only writing implement in a 500 yard radius!
See also people who put dead matches back in the match box.
And people who only partially remove the inner film on a butter/spread tub. Instead of ripping it off and relying on the proper lid thoughtfully provided by the manufacturer for that very purpose. Only to have said film flop greasily into the remnants of spread until empty.
Last journalists adding the word -gate to any type of scandal.
Watergate was just a building so it doesn’t make any sense anyway.
I like it. A simple way of denoting a scandal. Also brings back memories as I took the lead member of the break in team for a curry.
I MAY have mentioned that before.
As a civil servant, this is crippling delivery of public services
i manage a GP practice, the same is happening here as well
Playmobile stuff: THIS IS NOT LEGO!
People placing them carefully back in the draw or pot where they live
Drawer for FFS! AAARGH.
And breath.
Breathe! FFS! Be careful in that glass house mate 😄
I think it's already been mentioned on here, but people who feel the need to correct your spelling/grammar even though they understood perfectly well what you meant.
^^ LOLs ^^
hah
Playmobile stuff: THIS IS NOT LEGO!
The way Americans pronounce Lego. Leygo's! Aargh!!!!
The way Americans pronounce Lego. Leygo’s! Aargh!!!!
The way American's pronounce...
Aluminium
A lot of the stuff that's been posted on this thread is genuinely very wrong, and any annoyance is justified rather than disproportionate. But the American 'Legos' thing really winds me up, and it really shouldn't - why should I care? So it definitely qualifies for the thread as requested by the OP.
"Legos" see also "Math"
just *%^& off!
Leygo’s
American’s
No, no, NO! Never an apostrophe in a plural. (Just for blokeuptheroad)
Ikea
Ikea
Yeah but, no but....
Swedish meatballs!
Ikea
I read that and realised that there must be plenty of shops that make me disproportionately cross - mainly those places that sell brightly coloured tat aimed at teens. Neon Sheep, etc. And M&S obviously, because of the entitled clientele.
But these can all be trumped by the one and only M&M shop in London.
This thread can end here, because after having ten minutes of this place inflicted on you, any other minor irritations become trivial, indeed as nothing. I'm amazed that there aren't daily Falling Down type rampages performed in there by middle aged men desperate to escape the sugar rush, primary coloured madness. Maybe there are but they don't get reported. Anyway, you all need to deep dive into the M&M shop to calm yourselves down in the rest of your life. There are worse places and things than poor grammar and mugs with the handles pointing in the wrong direction. 😀
Just heard someone refer to Ordenance Survey.
Im in Aldershot FFS! The word is written on loads of signs.
Urine currently approaching 100°C.
People affecting that horrendous ghetto speak.
People from South London didn't even speak like that naturally to start with.
Why the rest of inner city UK has had to ape it baffles me.
Feel me fam ? innit blud.
Botox injected into lips. It just looks plain stupid.
Feel me fam ? innit blud.
As brilliantly displayed
Botox injected into lips. It just looks plain stupid.
god help anyone injecting botox into their lips - botox acts as a muscle relaxant. Fillers innit.
I agree tho - not a fan of the trout-pout
A young colleague saying 'sick one fam' in response to work related messages I've posted on Slack.
edit: I see trailmonkey beat me to it!
Pop ups on websites that you can't close, you have to wait for them to disappear. Mainly those ones saying along the lines of "50 people have looked at this product in the last hour", it's right in the way of the picture of the thing I might want to buy and I'm not going to buy it just because someone else has looked at it. We live in a country of millions of people, of course other people use the internet to look at things, stop telling me, I don't care.
People doing baby talk to anything/anyone. Just talk properly.
I read once that babies talk like babies because they imitate their parents etc who have spent the last year going "goo goo ga ga" at them.
Whether talking properly would result in baby's first words being "why yes Mater, I'd be quite partial to a cheese sandwich" instead of "Mama," I couldn't say.
People placing them carefully back in the draw or pot where they live.
Drawer. Jesus H Corbett, it's a ****ing drawer. Why is this such a common blind spot? There is no such thing as a "draw," that's what you do with pencils or blood.
I think it’s already been mentioned on here, but people who feel the need to correct your spelling/grammar even though they understood perfectly well what you meant.
Disprortionally cross therefore totally on-topic. So shush.
See also people who put dead matches back in the match box.
People still use matches?
Marty!
And people who only partially remove the inner film on a butter/spread tub.
Right with you here brother. I want to butter toast, not practice keyhole surgery.
Vaping ..... not the act itself, I get the idea in terms of quitting actual smoking, but specifically the need to wander around like Thomas the blueberry flavoured Tank Engine.
I didn't like your smoke when it was a cigarette and I still don't like it now I can no longer see through the sickeningly flavoured cloud you just exhaled. Still baffles me people are allowed to drive in their cloud-filled cars.
Disprortionally cross therefore totally on-topic. So shush.
ITYM 'disproportionately '? Jesus H Corbett at a spelling competition, why is this so hard? 😀
Contributors to this thread who can't spell a word which THEY correctly spelled in the thread title! 😜
People still use matches?
Proper charcoal barbecues and wood burning stoves innit. And my bee smoker (obvs).
People from Skipton.
Pacific instead of specific.
Expresso instead of Espresso.
Cream teas with the jam on before the cream.
GRRRRRRR.
ITYM ‘disproportionately ‘?
There's a difference between a typo and an actual wrong word. Smegger.
being called a socialist is meant as an insult.
One panini and one ravioli. I know it's a different language but people who should know better bloody well get it wrong too.
Artisan instead of artisanal.
Affect/effect. Yes they both have a dual usage, but only one in any given situation.
When I got my first Lego (in Germany well before it was known in the UK) it was pronounced Laygo (in Germany that is). I have continued to say it that way but I couldn't really give a stuff how anyone else cares to say it.
Porsh for Porsche and Brawn for Braun do annoy me though.
People who have their wipers on too fast, or unnecessarily.
Dunno why but if I see someone driving along in light drizzle with their wipers going at high speed it drives me nuts. Or if it stopped raining 10 minutes ago but they're still wiping away *squeak squeak squeak* aarrgh
Pavement parkers outside their own driveway
I used to walk (squeeze) past one every day on my way to work and would always kick the mirror off and stove his windows in with a bat passive-aggressively fold the mirror in. Did this almost every day, after several months he started parking on the driveway 😎
(Now I don't walk that route any more and he parks on the pavement again...)
Wife attempted to show me a friends holiday video, taken on her phone from her hotel room in Santorini. It was a panning shot of the landscape, taken in portrait. Apparently stating "there's not enough bullets for people like that" was an over-reaction. Just turn the effing phone through 90 degrees!!!
There is no such thing as a “draw,” that’s what you do with pencils or blood.
Well, how should one refer to the occasion with the big fishbowl full of plastic balls containing the names of football teams who will - in the near future - be playing one another in a knockout competition?
And furthermore, how should one describe the outcome of any of these contests where both teams score the same number of goals (or indeed fail to score any goals at all)?
Yours,
Confused of Wembley
Leaving the house. I really dislike being late, I'd rather arrive an hour early than 5 mins late. Yes thats a fault and I should deal with it better but it boils my piss.
We have missed the start of weddings because apparently its difficult to leave the house at a particular time. I have tried to have a calm conversation about it, where I explain I am not breaking the speed limit to get there, and how it stresses me out/upsets me to miss the start of a good friend's wedding and yet, every time. She knows it upsets me, and still does it, so I'm beginning to believe she does it on purpose to piss me off.
Luckily mainly everyone we know is married now.
Trains that turn up half an hour late but you then arrive in London on time anyway. So you get stressed about arriving late and rescheduling meetings etc. etc. but in the end the train is on time and all of your efforts to re-plan your day are wasted and just annoying
I'm talking about you Grand Central trains!!
The family of 4 who turn up at the table next to you & spend the next 10 minutes scraping the plastic chairs around the floor while deciding who’s gonna sit where.
The chairs weigh about a kilo each, lift the bloody things up!
I discovered today that my wife goes ballistic if you eat a two-finger Kit Kat by not splitting it, and just eating both fingers at the same time.
Yeah, that's pretty messed, Ross. You should get help with your snack dissemblage
people who don't feel the need to attempt correct spelling/grammar because they're content to let you do the extra work to try to understand what they meant.
PS. TJ have you finally found the function on your phone that capitalises the first letter of each sentence yet?
Oh, and shit Samsung phones.
People who think patience is a virtue.
One panini and one ravioli. I know it’s a different language but people who should know better bloody well get it wrong too.
Bollocks. It's not a different language. Its a word that originated from a different language and has been incorporated into our language in one form and one form only.
People who use foreign pronunciations of words that have been incorporated into English.
Eg: "the dollar bhan have moved south into Kandahar"
Nnnnnngg
And Bayern Munich..... WTAF?
Wife attempted to show me a friends holiday video, taken on her phone from her hotel room in Santorini. It was a panning shot of the landscape, taken in portrait.
Oh yes. So much this.
My other half is always showing me various annoying tik-tok dog videos and the first thing that always enters my mind is, why is the world full of bumbling codspanners who film everything in portrait?.
The vast majority of clips you see on YouTube etc are the middle third of the screen with either black portions or a ghosted repeat image on the sides.
I'm not sure if it's a disproportionate annoyance or not. It's idiocy.
Probably the thing that makes me want to actually do harm to people is hearing them say 'can I get' in shops.
I recently heard one particularly polite weapons-grade muppet say 'can I please also get....'
Still, takes all sorts.
Confused of Wembley
It wasn't intended to be an exhaustive list. None of those things you mention are something you'd slide out in the kitchen.
Its a word that originated from a different language and has been incorporated into our language in one form and one form only.
On today's menu: Panini's.
(Good god, Chrome's spellchecker doesn't flag "paninis". Dogs and cats, living together.)
How many year has people been moaning about 'can I get' on this forums? To many thats what!
I discovered today that my wife goes ballistic if you eat a two-finger Kit Kat by not splitting it, and just eating both fingers at the same time.
There's some degree of anarchistic satisfaction doing this with a four finger kit kat to be had. I suggest you try it.
How many year has people been moaning about ‘can I get’ on this forums? To many thats what!
Oh my giddy aunt
How many year has people been moaning about ‘can I get’ on this forums? To many thats what!
I will not ever stop until the world has been rid of this terrible curse!
My other half is always showing me various annoying tik-tok dog videos and the first thing that always enters my mind is, why is the world full of bumbling codspanners who film everything in portrait?.
Or why dont idiot phone designers just rotate the sensor 90 degrees.
Being 30 minutes late for everything (as detailed above.
Goes like this...
We need to leave at 8.30..
Its now 9.00...
I didnt have long enough to get ready...
Then start getting ready 30 minutes earlier FFS
Hollibobs... OMG I could pin you to the wall with a nail gun you effin XXXX
Fast food establishments should be made to be liable in clearing their trash up across the nation or councils can charge them as a percentage of the trash
oh my god I agree with so many of you... so much ammo
I do think some of you need to sort your other halves out. My wife is ADHD/OCD so loves my tidyness. People come into our house and go 'wow this is tidy'and the garden is amazing', my 11 year olds are hen pecked by me. Poor sods. Their rooms are theirs so look like a bombs hit them. I pay them to tidy.
My nan always said I would make a great wife 🙂 We are going through the loft of kids stuff tonight and getting rid of the excess. Neat & Tidy, Tidy & Neat 🙂
You should see my garage/workshop..
PS I helped at my local bike clubs 600k Audax, last shift. Most of these people are just like me. Perfect bikes and gear. You cant do a 600k Audax not organised...