[Closed] What's the most petty thing that really grinds your gears and boils your wee?

For what?

Fog lights when its not foggy.
They are not DRLs, rain lights or even headlights.
Some of them are dazzling in the rain.
Some of the dazzling ones may even have a main beam zapped back at them for a few seconds if I'm feeling particularly vexed by the brightness.

Please explain how you manage to get the shopping into the boot of your car when shopping at the supermarket, then; enquiring minds would like to know.
Who cares when you can reverse park like a god? ....but yeah, I always wonder about this. Almost to the point of starting a thread, but then I had a sandwich instead.

It was cheese and pickle.

Most of the parking spaces in my local supermarket are either side of a walkway / pavement thus adding even more to my annoyance. boot easily accessible from pavement.

Pretty much it's anyone who isn't as great as me.

For what?

Only joking.

older men and women, who are walkerists and cant afford a bike, who dress up like theyre scalling a mountain just to walk in the middle of a sustrans path.

Walkerists who scream wheres your bell, when you approach from in front or behind, and shout a cheery hello to them,

Taxi drivers who want there wing mirrors to stroke a lycra clad thigh of a cyclist,

walkerists who never acknowledge your presence, and never say hello in return (see above)

women who are so attached to their life support system secluded in their trolley, they just cant let it go.

annoying and petty neighbours,

[b]Do you have a reservation, sir?[/b]

For a pint?

Totally hacks me off. Don't bother going into the hospitality trade if you don't know what it is to be hospitable.

[b]@whytesky[/b]

Most of the parking spaces in my local supermarket are either side of a walkway / pavement

Luxury. Bloody luxury.

When I were lad we had t' lay our own pavement if we wanted t' tek shopping t' back o' car.

(Apologies to any actual Yorkshire folk in the house; truly it's God's own county.

Gimmick non-plates in gastro pubs and restaurants.

Shove your overpriced burger on a chopping board / slate, little basket of three chunky so called chips in a bit of fake newspaper, and a blob of ketchup sat on the board/slate/whatever. Give me a friggin plate and a decent portion of chips!

And don't get me started on deconstructed food. Do your bloody job and cook/prepare the bloody food for me!

http://wewantplates.com/

Intolerant people.

And me when I'm intolerant.

People who take more than 20 seconds making a transaction at a till. You have been queuing for 5 minutes, why only look for your loyalty card, hessian bag and exact change in small denominations when you real the till?

you little bollocks

People who take more than 20 seconds making a transaction at a till. You have been queuing for 5 minutes, why only look for your loyalty card

This. And the new thing of people who say, "oh, my loyalty card is on my phone..."

Cue fumbling for phone, unlocking, searching through sixteen pages worth of apps because they've never figured out how to put frequently used ones on the first page, launching it, finding the correct card and then discovering that the till has an allergy to scanning phone screens.

"Don't worry, sir/madam, I can type it on by hand."

At this point the till assistant types in a 20 character code at a rate slower than single digit carrier pigeon transmission, usually getting it wrong and having to try twice.

And then, THEN, they decide to pay using contactless and the whole get the phone out and unlock it business goes again...

Gimmick non-plates in gastro pubs and restaurants.

Shove your overpriced burger on a chopping board / slate, little basket of three chunky so called chips in a bit of fake newspaper, and a blob of ketchup sat on the board/slate/whatever. Give me a friggin plate and a decent portion of chips!

Amen, brother.

Right Len.

I do so appreciate a pop culture reference not going to waste, thank you.

People who start a new business with the word 'Artisan'
Artisan Furniture...Artisan Salad Bowls...Artisan sausage rolls....Artisan bloody hedgehog moisturiser!
Cockwombles the lot of them!

Similar to Cougar's

Gig ticket vendors that charge you P&P for the privilege of having you print out your own bloody e-tickets.

Ticket agents that refuse to give a full refund on a cancelled concert because they feel they earned their booking fee.

Sniffers folk that keep hoovering something back up their nose constantly, usually snotty nose kids but many adults who should know better

I am going to change my vote and go with the serving dinner on something that is not a plate - some of those pics on the link are simply fabulously stupid

+1 for the food on slates thing. 'Craft' Beer.. 'Artisan' Bread, Pop-Up-Poached-Egg-stall ****ery. Why does everything have to be 'a thing' with associated social-media page... Why does everything have to be so [i]nice[/i]?

Talking food.
"I'm low in fat!"
"Enjoy me with yoghurt!"
Even estate agent signs have started doing this.
"I'm sold!"

+1 for the food serving thing. That link leads to some mental serving ideas.

can i add 'authentic' to the list?
Because I think Tesco Authentic Italian Pasta has probably been made in a factory in Grimsby.
Also Tesco 'Delicious' filled pasta shapes. Well, I think its up to me to decide if something is delicious or not ,it is not the job of the packaging.

Does this include trainers even thoiugh I'm not currently training

Yep, although I understand the lines may get blurred at 'fashion' trainers for some. Whilst I clearly appreciate I may be in the minority and wrong, but trainers for me are for a specific sporting purpose.

and a sweat hoody in spite of not being a boxer?

No it's more people having to dress in a manner that they feel makes their main hobby, interest or passion obvious at all times. Clearly I do irritate myself as my obsession for dressing to the occasion identifies me as a fashion nazi.

Ah estate agents; why do they describe so many properties as 'stunning' when they are clearly nothing more than bog standard?

How few have any proper understanding of construction, property maintenance, local building materials, building regs?

If they want to change the general image that most of the house owning population have of them then understand what it means to be professional and offer a professional service - only suitably trained and qualified employees.

Also....

People casually tossing the words racist, fascist and nazi around. If any of them knew the horrors that lie beneath the real use of those words, they'd stop. Using them to describe someone you don't agree with blunts the reality. A dreadful reality.

People who have lived near airports for 20 years and complain about the sound or airplanes.

Why the **** did you move there is the first place your ****ing ****s. Obviously there will be places, what the **** do you think happens at an airport.

@flashy - how true.
It doesn't fall into the 'petty' category but it needs to be said.

Flashy - sometimes its merited tho. But I agree - often overused like comparing the SNP to Nazis during the independence referendum

People in supermarkets who when shopping lean on the trolley, as if it was a life support system.

recieving work emails from other companies or professionals who don't bother with the signature and contact details at the bottom.

Having to take out and manually scan in my tesco club card when I can pay by just touching my wallet on the scanner.

I find the american date format (MM, DD, YY) disproportionately annoying..... but not as annoying as British people (usually on commercial radio or TV adverts) saying "January thirty" or "February one" instead of "the thirtieth of January" or "the first of February".

Hanging's to good for em

Having to take out and manually scan in my tesco club card

The idea of earning points for things

Tesco 'Delicious' filled pasta shapes.

teamhurtmore - Member

Do you have a reservation, sir?

You'd be surprised how frequently customers who do have a booking fail to mention it, resulting in a lost table.

No, given that 80% of your tables are empty I assume that this would not be necessary

Maybe they're empty because they're reserved! 💡

Let me check

Don't bother, I will go somewhere more welcoming

Yay! 😛

Folk that jump out of their seat, grab their suitcase and charge down the aisle of the plane as soon as the seat belt sign goes off. Then they get stuck a few rows down and no one can move. Nice one. Especially the fat nobber with 2 large bags the other day.

Following on from that, people who do the same in trains, block the isle so no one can stand, as the train approaches the platform. Fair enough they might have a connection to catch so they want to be off quickly...

...only to then stand still and straddle the escalator, blocking the way for every one else for a second time. They then look at you in disgust when you politely but firmly ask them to move, because you do actually have a connection to catch.

Old blokes who whistle in public.

Stranger's that tell you why they have ordered food the way they have....'I can't stand soggy bacon', 'I'm vegan', 'I only like fresh tomatoes' etc just because you are stood next to them, and people that put fruit on their cereal.

People who don't know how to use apostrophe's. (Sic)

Also on the flying front...

Wheeled/massive carry on for long haul on a proper airline. Check it in.
People flying long haul in a suit. Why? Uncomfortable, and ruins your suit.
Bare feet.

Homemade signs featuring comic-sans.
RM.

Ageist gits who can't whistle a decent tune.

rogermoore - Member

Homemade signs featuring comic-sans.
RM.

😉

CaptainFlashheart - Member 
Wheeled/massive carry on for long haul on a proper airline. Check it in.

Because of rip off baggage fees and weight limits. Carry on, so long as it can just about fit in the overhead, no fee. Same weight on the plane.

Though many are taking the piss with the size of the stuff.

Was annoyed in a coffee shop recently, went in with the kids, they weren't running around but full of enthusiasm. Evil looks from big group sitting at a table all with laptops out not talking to each other. May have riled the kids up a bit after that......

People casually tossing the words racist, fascist and nazi around. If any of them knew the horrors that lie beneath the real use of those words, they'd stop.

The people who these words are being tossed at are the same people who actively dislike having other people of different colours / races / religions in the same place as them. I have no qualms about referring to them as racists, and any of them who fantasise about Nigel Farage leading the country go automatically into the Fascist camp.

I don't think it dilutes the past; you aren't a "little bit racist", it's a binary state.