The transient journey through space and time as music takes you to a safe place where we can all come together as one.
God damn she's annoying. It's making me fume just thinking about it 🙁
Can't abide her.
Just let music be music, it doesn't all have to have some deeper meaning ffs
People who walk to a supermarket.....and then dump the trolley half way back home.
LEAVE IT AT THE ****ING SUPERMARKET.
People who litter.
People who won't/can't keep their dogs under control. Oh and bag the poo but leave it out for everyone to admire.
People and organisations wanting cheap/free design work cause something something 'it'll be good exposure'. You don't try that sh1t with your dentist so respect people's trade and experience.
This is why I drink.
This is why I
drinkneed a divorce.
Clearly unreasonable behaviour.
Old men that drag a guitar and an amp to the park,then proceed to thrash out some tired old tunes (badly).
How could they not realise, that if their family doesn't want to hear them,it's a safe bet ,nobody else does.
😃
Finding threads that look interesting, which I missed earlier, have got too many posts to bother reading so you miss the 'in jokes' and potentially post duplicates*
*I didn't bother reading the previous posts so please delete if this is a duplicate
Van life people who wont use campsites (for whatever reason)
The transient journey through space and time as music takes you to a safe place where we can all come together as one.
*Grinds teeth and hefts logging axe*
"Van life people who wont use campsites (for whatever reason)"
I didn't use a campsite the four nights I was away last weekend in my van. It was great, got some proper peace and quiet without other people about.
"Looking back in hindsight". Is there another way?
People who use too many dots in their ellipses.....................
Stop at three.
People who use too many exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One, just one, will suffice.
People who leave their receipts or other litter in their shopping trolley when they return it.
Entitled sp##k-trumpets parking, usually in those enormous 'Barbarian' pickups or Range Rovers, in disabled spaces or parent and child spaces when they have no right to.
Range Rovers.
People who refuse to strap their children into the car properly, or at all. They are not an airbag.
Keyboard warriors.
"That being said" doesn't mean "now that I've got that out of the way", it means ... ohhh ... I'm too cross to even continue typing.
Sunday drivers, on motorways in particular. Litterbugs.
People who use too many exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One, just one, will suffice.
And the three in a lifetime rule.
People who use verbosity long words to mask their paucity of thought make themselves look cleverer than they actually are. eg Jordan Peterson, Boris Johnson.
I also don't understand how people repeatedly fall for this.
The concept of generations having arbitrary names and dates. Using such dates and names as insults.
Cf. "Bloody Millennials"
Millennials are in their 40s. Some are grandparents.
A plan is by its very nature about things that haven’t happened yet, forward in time if you like.
Thanks to language creep I've caught myself saying "going forward..." and I despise myself for it. Like, that's how ****ing time works. Oh, a new project, sure, I'll go and do it last April.
*I didn’t bother reading the previous posts so please delete if this is a duplicate
Oh, this is a proper piss-boiler on social media (STW and Faceache primarily), "admin, please delete if not allowed."
1) If you think whatever you're posting might not be appropriate, ask first.
2) Do you suppose that admin require your permission to remove inappropriate content? That they're sat there thinking "well, he's posted some homophobic racist Nazi propaganda on our group about kittens, but he hasn't given us permission to remove it so whatever shall we do?!?!"
WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS?! Because you know it's wrong and you hope you'll get away with it?
“admin, please delete if not allowed.”
No no no, it's always "please delete if not aloud."
Also, I think there's some rule that someone has to complain "Can't share" on every post in a closed Facebook group...
Because copy and paste has only existed since, what, the 1970s?
People (doctors in hospitals) who don't know how to answer a phone properly.
I end up playing "hello" tennis.
<Phone ringing, then answered> Hello?
Me: Hello.
Them: Hello.
Me: Hello.
Them: Hello.
And so on...
Cash machines obsession with asking if you want to check your balance. I always select "cash only" yet there's always at least 3-4 prompts along the way asking if I'm really sure I don't want to check my balance. Infuriating.
For me it's negative people, I'm not talking about people having a bad day here and there and need a moan but people who never see any positive in anything at all. The type where if they've got a new bike instead of talking about how much they're enjoying it they will be moaning about the customer service, the wait times, the components its got on it that they want to change out and then the worst offenders for example at the bottom of the trail will kick their caliper and have a flit of rage about how crap the brakes are and how they're gonna swap them out asap and blame the brakes on their new bike as the reason they've not beaten their Strava PB.
Or if you tell them you're getting a dog for example instead of asking what breed and where from and boy or girl and being happy for you will be straight in with the "Ohhh its gonna keep you up all night barking and crying, crap all over the floors, tear up your sofa, cost a fortune in vet bills" etc
Having grown up in a negative family who could never see the positives leading to a lot of depression and existential crisis in my early 20's, I absolutely detest being around overly negative people and avoid them at all costs.
Technophobes.
My partner has just asked me to type up a hand-written document. Sure, OK. The grammar was a bit lumpy in places so I corrected it. Printed out, said "there you go, I've tidied it up a bit for you, please check it."
"You shouldn't have," she replies, "it's a template."
Wait, what?
It's a standard letter she's got on her phone. She couldn't work out how to copy and paste it (🤷♂️) so she's hand written the whole thing out into a notebook and then come to me to ask me to spend half an hour typing the entire ****ing thing straight back in again. To print out. Which she could have done by pressing the 'print' button on her goddamn phone app.
Argh.
... and I am 100% expecting her to come back with it asking if I can scan it in again because she needs to email it somewhere.
Having grown up in a negative family who could never see the positives leading to a lot of depression and existential crisis in my early 20’s, I absolutely detest being around overly negative people and avoid them at all costs.
And yet...
For me it’s negative people, I’m not talking about people having a bad day here and there and need a moan but people who never see any positive in anything at all. The type where if they’ve got a new bike instead of talking about how much they’re enjoying it they will be moaning about the customer service, the wait times, the components its got on it that they want to change out and then the worst offenders for example at the bottom of the trail will kick their caliper and have a flit of rage about how crap the brakes are and how they’re gonna swap them out asap and blame the brakes on their new bike as the reason they’ve not beaten their Strava PB.
Or if you tell them you’re getting a dog for example instead of asking what breed and where from and boy or girl and being happy for you will be straight in with the “Ohhh its gonna keep you up all night barking and crying, crap all over the floors, tear up your sofa, cost a fortune in vet bills” etc
a completely negative post.
The constant need for the NHS to dumb down when speaking to its patients* So your stomach becomes your tummy, and so on. It's infantile and patronising, and I'm responsible for a great many leaflets and letters that use that sort of language. I get why; folks with poor literacy or English as a second language need some help, but the sorts of childish nonsense I see on a daily basis is wearisome. Our reference table is Adult Literacy levels, and we pitch everything at "Entry Level 2"
* This country's average reading age is apparently; 9.
Drivers who leave their wipers going after it's stopped raining. Or have them on faster than required.
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Drivers (mainly taxis & delivery vans) who seem to think that putting your hazard lights on allows you to stop anywhere you feel like. Also those that put their hazards on every time they stop, even if parked up normally. Not only is it entirely pointless but when they're between other parked cars you can't see the lights on one side and it looks like they're indicating out.
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Drivers who continually edge forwards slightly at a red light. Just to make it that bit more annoying, they're often also quite slow to pull away when it finally does turn green.
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Customer service for sellers at any large marketplace such as Amazon. Unbelievably frustrating! It's like these morons are hired specifically to be as obtuse as possible.
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Trying to deal with Cdiscount at all. Don't ask.
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Not very computer savvy clients who try and report an error in your software.
"Feature X doesn't work" (It crashes? Define 'crash'. Doesn't do anything? Any error message? From which of the various places did you try and use this feature? etc etc)
After hours of debugging and going backwards and forwards trying to replicate the issue it then turns out it's caused by something else entirely, client just assumed the problem was with feature X and kept going on about fixing it without giving clues to what on earth they were trying to do in the first place.
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I've had a bad day. Is it lunchtime yet?
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Edit: Apparently, the STW editor turns 3 dashes into a horizontal line. Not a bad trick, except it appears not to work.
This is more amusing than annoying 😛
Drivers who leave their wipers going after it’s stopped raining. Or have them on faster than required.
Or drivers who've left the rear window wiper going, and clearly haven't looked in the R-V mirror for quite some time...
“Feature X doesn’t work”
"It doesn't work" is so frustrating. Throw me a bone here. Is there an error message? Is it on fire? No other walks of life suffer from this, you wouldn't call the AA going "my car doesn't work."
My pet hate when doing any public engagement work was the one bloke who'd always open with "I was going to join the Army but {insert some dogshit reason here}", a male only phenomenon for sure.
They were always a type.
My latest pet hate is the BS language people seem to be increasingly using to sell second hand bikes.
"This excellent example of a Specialized blahblahblah has been commissioned with full Dura Ace..."
**** off. It's not a yacht.
This is why I drink.
Dear god, she's a monster!
Or drivers who’ve left the rear window wiper going, and clearly haven’t looked in the R-V mirror for quite some time…
My Van has rear wipers, as it has rear windows, but as they are barn doors, and there is a big metal join in the middle, they are as good as pointless.
Additionally, Ford put the switch on the end of the stalk, with a sniper like hair trigger, so breathing on it wrong sets them off.
Finally, being a van, the rear windows are 6m away, so you cant hear them scraping away at the dirty window
Point is, i only ever use my side mirrors.
My OH is incapable of organising herself, and/or leaving the house on time.
She leaves the house at the time she is required to arrive at the destinations (WITHOUT EXCEPTION)
and invariably has to return to the house twice for stuff shes forgotten.
Phone
Keys
Wallet
What is in all those flippin bags?!
… and I am 100% expecting her to come back with it asking if I can scan it in again because she needs to email it somewhere.
Called it.
Fox hake.
Phone
Keys
Wallet
And yet…
a completely negative post.
Well, yeah? Perhaps you could educate me how I should explain my experiences with negative people where the topic of discussion is things that make you disproportionately cross, in a positive way? Surely, the only way to achieve that would be to omit the experiences?
My latest pet hate is the BS language people seem to be increasingly using to sell second hand bikes.
“This excellent example of a Specialized blahblahblah has been commissioned with full Dura Ace…”
**** off. It’s not a yacht.
"Wants for nothing"
Just returned home to a red envelope on the mat, here we go again with the TV Licensing/Crapita pond life. Was promised a visit on a particular date a few weeks ago but they didn't appear. Now apparently they're proceeding with the final stages of their investigation whereby an Officer from their Cambridge Enforcement Division will pay me a visit.
Is there any other organisation/governmental bureaucracy that hounds the public for not wanting to purchase a service? It's not compulsory, it's a choice. Get in the sea with your pissy little telly license, I don't want to watch live telly or BBC shite.
And breathe.
Just at Luton Airport waiting for Mrs anagallis.
People that walk around the airport with those ****ing stupid pillows still round their necks. They need ****ing throttling
My Van has rear wipers, as it has rear windows, but as they are barn doors, and there is a big metal join in the middle, they are as good as pointless.
Additionally, Ford put the switch on the end of the stalk, with a sniper like hair trigger, so breathing on it wrong sets them off.
Finally, being a van, the rear windows are 6m away, so you cant hear them scraping away at the dirty windowPoint is, i only ever use my side mirrors.
Speaking of which... I don't own a van but do hire one occasionally. Most of them come with a rear view mirror. These vans have a solid bulkhead and rear doors with no windows. Why on earth do they need a rear view mirror?
To hang your Hawaiian lei or other crap from. Another thing that makes me cross.
At my local leisure centre you have parents - whilst waiting for their kids - who park with the engine running in disabled spaces or anywhere else except an actual space. This is despite there being regular messages sent out by the football club requesting they don't do this.
Same for people parking in the bus stop layby outside Tesco instead of using the ample sized carpark only a short walk away.
How about people vaping indoors in public spaces. As much as they are many times better than cigarettes, I still don't want to breath that crap.
Excessive packaging gets my goat too, it seems to be the more you pay for something, the more packaging you get.
I definitely think the list gets longer as I get older, maybe this is due to just experiencing more with age or maybe it's just that I'm being a miserable bugger 😂
As for cheese, I sometimes just snap a corner off and eat it as it is. This really annoys my wife, but then so does eating a banana (she hates the noise), being bare foot and my breathing 😂
Just returned home to a red envelope on the mat, here we go again with the TV Licensing/Crapita pond life. Was promised a visit on a particular date a few weeks ago but they didn’t appear.
Ignore it. They have no powers.
I have a TV licence, but the shitty attitude from the enforcement types is almost enough to make me want to cancel it in protest.
At my local leisure centre you have parents – whilst waiting for their kids – who park with the engine running in disabled spaces or anywhere else except an actual space.
I live near a chippy. There's double yellows outside the shop which runs up to the disabled bay outside my house. There's ample parking like ten yards past that. The amount of "but I'll only be a couple of minutes" brigade is... I was going to say 'astonishing' but it's not is it, it's wholly predictable.
Thanks to language creep I’ve caught myself saying “going forward…” and I despise myself for it. Like, that’s how ****ing time works. Oh, a new project, sure, I’ll go and do it last April.
I despise you for it too
People that overtake you then slow down.
And cars that stop to let you cross a minor road on your bike/on foot, when they have right of way, and youre waiting for them to go away, so you can cross the road on your own.
People at a filling station who filled up, then leave their car in the way to go into the shop for half an hour to pay, deliberately, when theres a big queue of real people trying to get gas and get on their way
This is making me cross now
starting an epic days journey at 7.30am, someone is all ready, and insists on leaving at 0730 on the dot, when youll still be 5minutes, so you forget everything you really need,, and you know damn well that in an hour's time they'lll be 10 minutes behind you, or having a breakdown and relying on you to have the tools you left behind to fix it
Just returned home to a red envelope on the mat, here we go again with the TV Licensing/Crapita pond life. Was promised a visit on a particular date a few weeks ago but they didn’t appear.
I regard this as threatening behaviour.Its not'innocent until proven guilty'. And im not telling them if i watch tv or not
Ignore it. They have no powers.
I have a TV licence, but the shitty attitude from the enforcement types is almost enough to make me want to cancel it in protest.
*I know my rights* (groan) but it's a disgusting business model whereby you're presumed guilty until proven innocent. I'm still on monthly letters that are addressed to the "Legal Occupier" whatever that is. Why should anyone be obliged to inform them every 2 years that they're (still) legally license-free.
Better stop there!
It is and you aren't. They're working on the notion that everyone probably has a TV. It's bullshit of the highest order, especially in now the days of Netflix et al. About the only broadcast / iPlayer TV I watch is Only Connect and Doctor Who.
People that overtake you then slow down.
We've discussed this before too, though perhaps not on this particular thread. Drivers who want to drive in front of you, slower than you. I once wound up with a stereotypically predictable marque essentially orbiting me for many miles up the M6 whilst I had the cruise control set.
See also, those who come flying out of a side street like their head is on fire when there's nothing behind you, only to then dribble up the road leaping on the middle pedal anytime they're at risk of troubling 20mph.
And cars that stop to let you cross a minor road on your bike/on foot, when they have right of way, and youre waiting for them to go away, so you can cross the road on your own.
I don't mind this per se, but give me some sort of indication? In their heads I assume they're being polite, in mine I'm like "well, what are you doing?" Flash, wave, something, throw me a bone here rather than creating an artificial Mexican Standoff, because now neither of us is going anywhere.
Someone asking : how long will it take me to drive to 'X' (for example: Cornwall, Durham, whatever - a journey that they've never driven before)
(i'll say something conservative, considering the likelihood of bad traffic, roadworks, pee-stops, etc.
"8 hours or so should do it" (if X=Cornwall)
...
'Nooo' they'll say, 'i reckon i can do it in 6!'.
A) only if you wait 7 hours and leave at 1am (making for a total of 13hours, if i'm being picky)
B) if you're so confident, then why did you ****ing ask me?!!!
And cars that stop to let you cross a minor road on your bike/on foot, when they have right of way, and you're waiting for them to go away, so you can cross the road on your own.
A different version of this has recently started happening to me. I'll be waiting to pull out and a car will slow down and waggle a finger to show I can go, then turn into the road I was pulling out of. If they had INDICATED then I would have been gone before they got anywhere near me, instead of my sitting there like a div. They then expect thanks for the favour they've done me. I especially hate this when I'm on a bike because I start ranting and they sometimes hear my lack of gratitude. 😀
People who come to me and say 'just a quick question '. You have no idea if it is quick or not as you have been struggling with it for a week and have destroyed your computer following crap you read on the internet. You imagine it should be quick but clearly it is a real issue
I've only just recently managed to get over that one without therapy
And thank you stw for the other posts. They have made me laugh and helped me rebalance a bit
And can I add, listening to people discuss how the climate crisis can be solved by other people changing their habits while they drive to the airport in their suv to fly to a climate crisis conference 'just because'. They can go **** themselves with a big ****ing stick
I think I need to read a few pages of this thread again.
And have a leffe
B) if you’re so confident, then why did you ****ing ask me?!!!
See also: "I've just bought this, is it any good?" Well if it's not then it's a bit late, isn't it.
People who come to me and say ‘just a quick question ‘.
Questions are always quick. Answers, that's what takes up the time.
I used to be an asshole with this at work, but it amused me. "Can I ask you a question?" Yes, you just did, would you like to ask another?
One lad got wise to this, "Can I ask you two questions?" Sure, what's your second? It turned into a running gag, we've both left that company now and that's still how he phrases it when he needs something.
People who come to me and say ‘just a quick question ‘. You have no idea if it is quick or not as you have been struggling with it for a week and have destroyed your computer following crap you read on the internet. You imagine it should be quick but clearly it is a real issue
I'm remembering why it was always such a pain to have to go seek help from smart-alec IT guys, intent on brightening up their dull existence by making snotty comments.
And have a leffe
Not since they dropped it from 6.6% to 6%. Don't f*** with one of my favourites to save a few pence in tax you bastards.
I’m remembering why it was always such a pain to have to go seek help from smart-alec IT guys, intent on brightening up their dull existence by making snotty comments.
Or alternatively, training users in how to provide useful problem descriptions.
A typical exchange:
ring ring hello?
"My computer isn't working, can you come and look at it?"
In what way isn't it working?
"It's just not working, can you come up?"
So, what, it's got no power, there's an error message, what?"
"Can you just come up and look?"
So I trail upstairs to the other end of the building to find that her account's locked out and I have to go right back down to where I was just sat in order to reset her goddamn password which would have been a ten second fix rather than 15 minutes if she'd actually read words.
I’m remembering why it was always such a pain to have to go seek help from smart-alec IT guys, intent on brightening up their dull existence by making snotty comments.
I don't think I have ever made a comment to someone asking (apart from the post above), but it really did cause pain
Edit: +Cougar's post.
People that say 110%. 'I gave it 110%!'
People that don't know how roundabouts work.
To be fair to them, it's getting worse probably because no bugger indicates.
However, give way to the right. It's incredibly simple and yet, I've actually had people flash me out when opposite me waiting to turn across me.
No, just effin go, otherwise you eff up the whole system!
People that wait at the end of a line of traffic for you to pass through, when the gap is actually wide enough for both of you AND probably a couple of wide beam canal boats.
They expect you to thank them as you pass, but how can I thank and respect such poor spatial awareness. I will not do it! 😂
I've actually had - actually, this was in the same call as I mentioned above just now - "I don't understand this computer shit." Well, sure, otherwise I'd be out of a job. But why is "reading" a step too far?
I've said this many times now on STW, it is not possible to resolve a problem until we've first defined it, and nonsense problem descriptions like "it doesn't work" is why Techs may get "snotty." It's frustrating as all hell and compounded when people dive in going "oh, well, when mine didn't work in a wholly unrelated situation I buried a brick in the front garden and set fire to the cat an it all started working again!"
Problem description ==> problem resolution.
Nonsense ==> more nonsense.
And I get it, describing an issue effectively a skill in itself. It took me a fair while to learn. But don't get snippy when someone who wants to help you is trying to extract some form of useful information out of a hostile witness.
TL;DR: "There are two people in the world right now who care about your problem, and one of them is rapidly losing interest."
But don’t get snippy when someone who wants to help you is trying to extract some form of useful information out of a hostile witness.
Who are you addressing here? What's "frustrating as all hell" is (or was, as I don't have to deal with this any more, thank god) when you have a problem that's stopping you doing your job, and you approach someone who can help - indeed, someone who is paid to help - and they respond with some witless put-down about how many questions you asked (to be honest I never heard that one, but plenty of others along the same lines).
Or drivers who’ve left the rear window wiper going, and clearly haven’t looked in the R-V mirror for quite some time…
See also driving along with wing mirrors folded in.
People who turn on o lights blinding anyone following at slightest bit of fog, where normal tail still give perfectly good visibility. It's like they can't think for themselves or understand why fog lights are needed or that they are counter effective if used incorrectly
Who are you addressing here?
No-one specifically on this thread.
Rather, I'm bristling at wilful stubbornness. People who wear their own ignorance as a badge of honour. People who think that reading a sentence is beneath them or too difficult. My partner is the world's biggest technophobe and even she can manage "the screen is black" or "it's on fire" rather than "it doesn't work."
Also, I'll refer you back to the thread title.
I’ve actually had – actually, this was in the same call as I mentioned above just now – “I don’t understand this computer shit.” Well, sure, otherwise I’d be out of a job. But why is “reading” a step too far?
I ended up as de facto IT support for a team I used to work in, solely based on the fact that I was far better with computers than my supposed boss and her colleagues who seemed inordinately proud of the fact they knew **** all about computers beyond the power button.
This is not something to be pleased about! FFS.
Also, entirely unrelated - when you go to a website and it pops up the standard note about cookies and gives you the option to accept cookies (one click) or...the option to go through pages of drivel unticking individual boxes before you can finally get it to accept that you want the cookies to **** off and die.
Accept. Reject.
Click. That's all I want.
People who turn on o lights blinding anyone following at slightest bit of fog, where normal tail still give perfectly good visibility
+1
it doesn’t seem to compute that if the visibility is ok so that you can drive at 80 mph in the outside lane of a motorway, a rear fog light isn’t really necessary. Or that if a car has stopped behind you at a set of traffic lights the driver has seen you so you can turn the effing light off now
Disc adaptors. Take it off means needing to redo the caliper distancing thing.
So if fork needs a service and needs taken off you have to redo it all. Cant see why nobody has come up with a system that retains the setting.
kayak - when george/gideon osborne said, about something I can't remember, we're giving this 110% that should have been the moment everyone realised he was a crap chancellor.
Didn't understand maffs FFS.
They expect you to thank them as you pass, but how can I thank and respect such poor spatial awareness. I will not do it! 😂
Hahah same. Get this a lot on a bicycle. See also the people who wait but can't be assed to wait long enough for you to actually pass but still seem to expect thanks. No thanks for those bastards either.
Then, crossing for bikes & pedestrians across dual carriageway, next to roundabout, traffic approaching roundabout. I used to think people should let me go, then when they did, I'd never be able to see if the inside lane was clear so I'd just stand there for a second and they'd get impatient with me because their generosity only stretches to 3 seconds of their time. They move on and I see oh yeah no traffic, or, oh yeah a big ****ing speeding bastard. I used to feel like a begger, and the stress of trying to cross because the lights take ages, and look there's a big ****ing roundabout right in front of you, you have to stop anyway... So I just stand there on my bike staring at anything but the cars going past patiently waiting for the second the lights turn red and cross slowly as possible.
Shoe sizes. I wish there was a standardised sizing system based on a few different widths. Maybe have a scale online you can print off to try against your foot. I know you should always try on shoes before buying them but I also like online prices.
Also, just when you find a make of shoe that fits perfectly, they change their last.
Apparently some people who constantly pass you on the motorway before slowing down making you overtake, do this on purpose to keep them entertained om a long car journey. I find it incredibly annoying.
they knew **** all about computers beyond the power button.
But pressing that twice will fix most problems
Questions are always quick. Answers, that’s what takes up the time.
Yes, the thing that really pisses me off is when someone asks a question that doesn't have a simple answer, then they get annoyed because the answer is too complex for them. For example:
Q: "What pressure should I put in my tyres?"
A: "Well, it depends on a lot of things. How wide are your tyres, what do you weigh, what type of terrain, what type of riding do you do?"
Q: "Stop mansplaining shit, just answer the question."
A: "Ok, probably 25 psi front and 30 psi back would be ok for a mountain bike."
Some time later.
Q: "I helped my friend set the tyre pressures on their bike to the pressures you recommended. But then the back tyre went flat when he rode up a curb. The bike shop said the tyres should be pumped up to 60 to 80 psi."
A: "Was it a mountain bike?"
Q: "No, what difference does that make?"
Or the iPad fanbois insisting that everyone should use iPads.
Fanboi: "Why do you still use Windows, it's horrible, I used it back in 1995. Now I do all my work on an iPad, it's lovely."
Me: "Yes, they are really nice, but I use some specialized software and hardware that you can't run on an iPad."
Fanboi: "Like what? There are millions of iPad apps, you just need to search the App Store to find something."
Me: "Well, this, this, and this are Windows only and there isn't any Mac equivalent, let alone iPads. The only way to do my work is to use a Windows PC."
Fanboi: "Yeah, well I don't need to do that, I can do all my work on an iPad, you should try one..."
You get bonus points for pointing out that I could learn how to program in R, complete a graduate degree in statistics, then create R packages to do the analysis in Linux instead of using Windows to run the software that I already have.
The answer to all stupid questions is (in)judicious use of the engineers hammer.
Seeing someone walking their dog or pushing a pram but transfixed by their phone (probably watching cute dog clips)
Random acquaintance who ask on social media or group email asking you to fund their kids holiday.
Little Alfie is really good at football and his team are off to Barcelona to play spains top under 6 teams. Except its going to cost £2600 ( an amount that always seems to be 3 x what you might pay as an individual).
Can you please donate an amount to makes Alfies dreams come tue?
There is also a new take on this. Jemima and her well to do pals are off to the Himalayas to do a school research project on how climbing is affecting global warming, would you like to help us to pay for this pointless jolly?
No, tje irony is off the scale. Now im sure Jemima, aged 15, is thought of as a bright cheery clever girl. But i somehow doubt the ecological study she completes at 12,000ft will be revolutionary, and will probably be all about how cold it is, there's no wifi, no McDonald's, no hot running water or flushing toilets. And they don't speak English.
Or the iPad fanbois insisting that everyone should use iPads.
... at rock concerts.
Who takes an iPad to a gig? Yeah, sure, I'm certain everyone stood behind you paid nearly £100 to watch the show through your 10" screen. Asswipe.
Oh oh oh stupid big flags at festivals. Why? You're blocking the "view" for folk behind and you're just going to abandon it in the camping field anyway. Should be trampled into the mud until their entrails form a nutritious slurry for the returning grass.