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People who can't say Thank you, without it becoming one word .- fankqueue. With extra emphasis on the K in the middle.
Also people whose wardrobe is designed to display their god awful tattoos.
Separating your recycling ✅
Rinsing the hard plastics ✅
Taking them to Sainsbury's and sticking them in a bin marked 'This is for plastic bag recycling only' ❌
And they're allowed to vote 😢
People who can’t say Thank you, without it becoming one word .- fankqueue. With extra emphasis on the K in the middle.
The corruption of TH to F grates with me generally. It's not just regional speech - that would be irritating but understandable, gods know I probably have more verbal idiosyncrasies then many - but otherwise normally-speaking people who come out with words like "nuffing."
My dad had a T - K shift, he'd say words like "bokkle." I wanted to bokkle him every time he said it.
The corruption of TH to F grates with me generally
Amen, brother (I probably shouldn't say bruvver, should I?)
words like “bokkle.”
I heard someone say Horsepickle once - they were talking about the hospital. Tossers.
People who record work meetings on their phone without telling you that they are doing it !!
gods know I probably have more verbal idiosyncrasies then many
Quite 😉
Aloof clocks without numbers of any kind.
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This is in our kitchen. I can forgive it though because it makes a delightful tweeting as the birdie comes out upon each hour.
Recycling containers which dump water all over your feet when you pick them up.
Put the drain holes at the lowest point FFS.
Don't you own a Sharpie?
I have never heard "bokkle". The correct pronunciation involves a glokkal stop, quite different.
Folk that overtake on a dual carriageway then slow down for some fxxxxng reason making you either slow down or have to overtake them
I have never heard “bokkle”. The correct pronunciation involves a glokkal stop, quite different.
A small one would be a likkle bokkle. Argh.
My accent barely bothers with the glottal stop, it's almost "bol."
Folk that overtake on a dual carriageway then slow down for some fxxxxng reason making you either slow down or have to overtake them
Ah yes. People who want to drive in front of you, slower than you. Truly bizarre behaviour amidst a sea of odd driving habits.
I had one once on a fairly quiet M6. I was sat in the first lane with the cruise control set, minding my own business. An ancient silver BMW overtook me, pulled in, then let off the gas. Whatever, I pulled out, overtook him (still on cruse), pulled back in. Shortly afterwards, he overtakes again. Rinse and repeat. In the end I took out a temporary membership to the Lane Two Owners' Club and drove from like Lancaster to Keswick with this silly bastard in anticlockwise orbit around me.
1) Printers……. Enough said I think……
2) And car parks that use parking apps other than Ringo or PayByPhone.
Which then inevitably leads to downloading yet another app , setting up a new account , new payment details just as the mobile signal fails…..
Arghhhhh!!
On social media, news etc when they show a photo of multiple famous people but the names in the description are not in the same order as the people in the photo. So when you only recognize 1 or 2, you have no idea who the others are.
"The driver has been told to wait at this stop for a few minutes to even out the service " 3 ******* stops before the end of the route.
TV chefs/cooks talking with their mouths full.
You tubers who only know the word "guys" when talking to their viewers.
Gravel bikes. Roadies being able to follow us off road is just wrong, like Daleks being able to climb stairs.
Bike storage on trains that would clearly never have worked even if it wasn't full of other random sh!t.
Taking them to Sainsbury’s and sticking them in a bin marked ‘This is for plastic bag recycling only’
But all of those things are recyclable, it's just that when Sainsburys says it can't recycle them currently because they've decided its too expensive and they don't want to. So what they want is very easily dealt with very specific plastic which they can use to claim that they're 'doing their bit' Well, **** them. The correct response to that sort of shit is
"here, have your un-necessary packing back"
Airport transfer buses that won't allow a passenger and a bike on but a family of five with 6 cases and a double pushchair is fine.
Per person I've paid more for this service. Followed by an hour wait until a driver just allows everybody on .
People on Facebook who systematically 'Like' every....single..... solitary.....photo that you put on there. Never say anything constructive, engaging, or just never say anything at all, just Like Like Like. Every one.
Just put a post on a motorbike group about a big trip we've just done. About 75 photos.
Usually one or two people pop up who've 'Liked' every single one meaning your notifications go mental and you're wading through them trying to see if anyone has actually engaged in a meaningful way at all.
Just like the whole post, not every bleedin one you melt! :-0
Reduction, reuse, and recycling of packaging materials being socially engineered into looking like consumer issues instead of manufacturer concerns.
Padlocks hanging on bridge railings.
GTF
Texas. Mostly the confusing road junctions that just merge with no indication of what the **** is supposed to happen. But also, Texas.
Lefties, good people, good intentions but how about seeing things for how they are
Lefties, good people, good intentions but how about seeing things for how they are
As a leftie, I always struggled cutting bread slices straight and I had to learn using scissors in the wrong hand.
As a left handed person ... how the **** does it affect how you slice bread?
...And I just use scissors badly in the wrong hand.
Yeah, just buy a left-handed loaf, or a left-handed knife. Buy not both, or you're back where you started.
Going back to the top of this page singletrackmind , where do folk on the map of uk stop using f instead of th , for example fousand instead of a thousand or froat instead of throat , maybe sowf instead of South
Why can't folk south of Berwick on tweed or Gretna can't pronounce 'och' as in loch, it can't be that hard to clear ones throat
News presenters who can't pronounce town names. Yes I get that there's some odd ways of saying things but if it's important enough to be on the news then take a few minutes to pronounce it correctly. 100th currently of Hawick ex resident of Kirkcudbright, holidaying near Brogue.
Why can’t folk south of Berwick on tweed or Gretna can’t pronounce ‘och’ as in loch
Au contraire mon ami, there are plenty of us who can, however, you can take your 'outwith'* and stick it with the padlochs on bridges 😉
* (it's a constant source of amusement during in-work debates about language and no end of winding folks up! 🙂 broken emojis is really rubbish)
People who complain about language pronunciation development as if at some point there was/is a 'right way' to pronounce stuff or speaking English. The Great Vowel Shift would've really got this thread rolling along
where do folk on the map of uk stop using f instead of th
Used to be the North of the Home counties, Essex, Heartfordshire, Southern Bedfordshire, that sort of area, but it's moving north over time.
Seeing a van driver throwing litter out his window and knowing there's nothing I can do to stop him continuing with that behaviour.
Points upwards with emoji finger
I chased a car around the town in my van who did that to confront them. Just saw red. Couldn't stop myself. Makes me so unbelievably angry.
Was a young girl throwing her covid mask out of her window.
Probably scared her. I should probably care about that...
The price of left handed knives.
Have you seen the price of left handed loaves of bread??
I know, bastards. 😉
I thought of something that makes me disproportionately cross earlier. I've now forgotten what it was, which made me disproportionately cross
As a left handed person … how the **** does it affect how you slice bread?
The serrated blade is not symmetrical. It counters the natural twist of your hand as you cut, if you use it wrong-handed it exaggerates it and you end up with triangular slices.
And I just use scissors badly in the wrong hand.
This is doable if you have high-quality scissors or if you understand that wrong-handed scissors push the blades apart. You need to pull your thumb to the left when cutting.
You may be over thinking things.
Having an athletic world championships featuring some runners who will now be preparing for Paris, in your capital city and totally ignoring it. Hello BBC, Scotsman....
Farmers spraying water onto crops despite the fact that it has been pissing down.
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Seeing a van driver throwing litter out his window and knowing there’s nothing I can do to stop him continuing with that behaviour."
But it is good when a passenger in a van throws rubbish out the window and the police in the following car pull the van over and charge him
You may be over thinking things.
You said yourself, you use scissors badly. I suggested why that might be the case. Perhaps you're underthinking it?
"Squirrel lovers" on facebook keeps getting inserted into my feed. It mainly consists of bad AI art of squirrels. I "blocked" 'Squirrel lovers' yesterday but still they showed up today.
Here's an example, forget about the fact this one is "Deer lovers", irrelevant.
But look at the 'love' count. Surely they're all bots that love this. Or blind? Yours, baffled of basildon.
Not quite disproportionately cross about it, but getting there.
That deer's got too many ears and how are they floating on the pond those water lilies are on?
One of them is a sodding cat, never mind the ear count in the two headed deer.
Incidentally, AI art generators make me disproportionately cross.
I waited ages for Microsoft picture thingy to draw me Jeff goldblum turning into a fly, after i typed in "teleporter accident", but all i got was seven variations of a scientist dropping his pencil in front of a dalek looking box. Extremely disappointing.
“Squirrel lovers” on facebook keeps getting inserted into my feed. It mainly consists of bad AI art of squirrels. I “blocked” ‘Squirrel lovers’ yesterday but still they showed up today.
I flounced from "Dull Men's Club" on Facebook because whilst the concept was fun it was full of bigots going unmoderated. I now get suggested post from a group I've left.
As a left handed person … how the **** does it affect how you slice bread?
The serrated blade is not symmetrical. It counters the natural twist of your hand as you cut, if you use it wrong-handed it exaggerates it and you end up with triangular slices.
You may be over thinking things.
This is easily explained - everyone knows things twist the opposite direction in Australia due to the Coriolis Effect. Hence reeksy not seeing the problem with a lack of left-handed-specific knives or bread.
How right-handed people manage there I don't know.
The serrated blade is not symmetrical. It counters the natural twist of your hand as you cut, if you use it wrong-handed it exaggerates it and you end up with triangular slices.
We can be assured though that he is really really good at cutting triangles.
What I've noticed you do is you pull on the thumb part of the scissors when you use standard scissors left handed.
This suggests that when right handed use scissors they naturally pull on the thumb part, and because its an unused hand position for lefties. You might think you're putting no side weight on it but you obviously are, it just feels natural because thats how you've learned to hold them.
Exactly (though ITYM that when people use scissors they naturally push on the thumb part); you're exerting a lateral force with your thumb which most people would never realise. Using regular scissors right-handed (or left-handed scissors left-handed) naturally squeezes the blades against each other. Using them wrong-handed pulls them apart. It's really noticeable if you use cheap scissors with a sloppy pivot.
I learned this under my own steam way back in infant school with kids' safety scissors. I realised I had to use them wrong-handed because they were simply unusable otherwise. With adult hindsight I'm glad I did because needing access to left-handed scissors outside of your own house would be a pain in the arse.
Being left-handed in a right-handed world is a constant stream of micro-aggressions that the majority of the populace would never even notice. I'm not sure as I'd change it though, I've come to terms with being a bit weird and I quite like it. It'd be an interesting Big Brother style experiment to reverse everything and see how righties coped. (-:
Perhaps you’re underthinking it?
It means i'm not disproportionately cross about it.
Being left-handed in a right-handed world is a constant stream of micro-aggressions that the majority of the populace would never even notice.
Maybe i'm an honorary right-hander.
I remember discovering left-handed cheque books. What an incredible difference it made to my life - being able to write on the stubs more easily.
I’ve come to terms with being a bit weird and I quite like it.
If around 1 in 10 people are left-handed (according to Wikipedia) i'm not sure we're all that weird. Actually, that's quite disappointing. Maybe we're not dying off disproportionally young any more?
Yes kids cricket. Worked hard to get both lads into cricket. Helped with junior coaching at club for decade. All through that trying to lobby agains parent coaches giving their kids and mates more game involvement. With a view to getting everyone to 16 loving the game and being involved. Being disgusted by the county setup (private school kids start hard ball a yr before everyone whose only cricket is at a club (state school kids) are allowed to. County squad established in that yr. Any talented “plebs” who want to then get involved can pay £30 a session to be part of a development squad and see if they break through). Now the club are busy recruiting these lads at 15 16, straight into 1sts 2nds and the local lads who have been involved since 6, struggle to get a game in the lower teams. I know you play sport to win but I hate it. Just canabilising the long term potential club players for a couple of years of Jonnie come latelys. I am a grumpy old man.
I remember discovering left-handed cheque books. What an incredible difference it made to my life – being able to write on the stubs more easily.
Oh, I got one of those too, back when it was Midland Bank IIRC. It fit perfectly in the bundled chequebook wallet, upside-down. Dead convenient to write in when you're at the bank and the pens are tethered on a short chain to the right-hand side of the desk.
I’d like to buy all 8 editions of Stephen kings ‘the dark tower’ for my kindle.
But it’s only available as individual downloads, not a compendium.
Isnt this why the kindle was invented?
Surely there’s much more interaction between Amazon and the great publishing houses?
And not all the Stephen king novels are available as downloads.
Id love to ‘gen up on David Ickes work, too.
You’d think that his books would have made it to ‘Prime day’.
With the staggering amount of cash at amazons disposal, use of subtitles on prime video is still fairly patchy.
maybe it should be mandatory. Besides farming out the task to those less fortunate, it saves these companies from encountering what Marx called an ‘accumulation crisis’.
Left hand scissors have the blades the opposite way round from right handed ones. I have lh and rh scissors in my class.
Makes trimming your nails so much easier.
Motorbikes* with music speakers.
Volume set to 11 so they can hear what's playing while wearing a helmet.
* usually a big lardy cruiser
My coffee machine bleeping madly at me that the reservoir needs refilling. On removing said reservoir 2 seconds later, a second cacophony of beeps warning me it has been removed. I'm removing it because you bloody told me it needed filling....
I'm seriously considering getting the tools out and de-beeping that blooming speaker!
Drivers that fail to stop before the white line at traffic lights but stop with their vehicle straddling the line.
I’m seriously considering getting the tools out and de-beeping that blooming speaker!
There's probably a setting involving a complicated pattern of button pressing to turn the beeps off. Think of it like an old school cheat code.
That may be true. It would - however - involve reading the manual. Which feels less fun that attacking the bleeping thing with a selection of ever more destructive tools 🙂
a second cacophony of beeps warning me it has been removed
My Mini (and presumably ever other car) does this. It'll tell me I've not shut the boot properly, it then tells me that I've both taken off my seatbelt and that the driver's door is open...Yeah, cheers for that.
That is annoying. Reminds me of what I use to think of 'peak bong' renting any car in the US in the 90s, especially those with the seat belts that automatically extended. Bonging away while you're attempting to wrestle what probably looked a good idea in a lab into some kind of non bonging configuration. Hateful.
Related (and I've turned it off now) was the 'move' alert on my Garmin watch. Having just completed some all day ride so slumped on the sofa incapable of independent movement, it'd INSIST I got up and walk around as "I hadn't done enough exercise today"
peak bong’ ....in the 90s
Yes.
Being left-handed in a right-handed world is a constant stream of micro-aggressions
*points at the sinister man* 🙂
I moved away 30+ years ago and in the intervening time no one has learned to drive or park. I maintain if you want to practise for rush hour Parisian peripherique then small towns in SW Scotland are the best place as there's no rhyme nor reason to the next angle of attack. Yes I'm blocked in and that silver car is parked.
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Actually I'm on holiday so not cross.
My coffee machine bleeping madly at me that the reservoir needs refilling.
My air fryer beeps when it's done. 60 times. Six zero, sixty, I counted it. That's at least 59 too many.
It wouldn't get past about ten, before the "unbeeping hammer" was righteously smiting the unworthy 🙂
People who park one wheel on the pavement. A wheelchair or pushchair can't get past on the pavement and cars still need to wait for a gap to pass the van. I'm looking at you https://www.bucksgardenrooms.co.uk/ - 3 vans in Hyde Heath today
User Manuals/training for IT stuff, particulary software that is esigned to be used by non-IT specialists. Things like useful user interfaces on data bases etc...
Apple have never produced a manual for an iPhone, and yet anyone in teh world can pretty much pick one up and use it.
Why do UI designers not grasp that fact that, if you cannot make it sufficnelty intuitive/self explanatory to not need a manual/dedicated trainnig, its not firt for purpose?
My Samsung washing machine that plays the North Korean? at every opportunity.
Actually, about the whole Stephen king on a kindle experience. I found that it’s more streamlined and cheaper on the actual kindle itself.
still no dark tower compendium and David Ickes publishers could gen up on the economic concept of price elasticity.
Ok this is not really a minor thing but I hate and loathe the way folk say to disabled or dying folk "you are so brave" Away and shite. Brave is when you have a choice. You get no choice in these things - your only choice is to make the best of it or hide under the duvet.
Its effing patronising to say "look how brave they are" or " aren't you being brave"
When Julie was dying we had a pact that if anyone called her brave then she could punch them 🙂 One doctor came close to getting lamped. Patronising cow!
Team orders in F1.
That these are no longer in print:
Nice, handy A6 size.
Maybe included with a subs to STW?
Back to the kindle.
You download a sample of a book. Then when you buy the book, it still retains the sample in your library. Why? It’s just a waste of storage, and it’s all too easy to click on the sample, instead of the purchased version.
GRRRRRRR!
and at this price, doesn’t it warrant a reprint?
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it’s still relevant ten years after its last edition. It’s not like the hills have up-sticks and taken off:)
^^maybe in a version for anyone who struggles to pronounce ‘Trossachs, Loch, etc’^^