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SUV's. May are wider than their lanes here on the narrow roads of Cheshire.

Utterly absurd vehicles.

/end_of_rant


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 2:00 pm
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People who go “mmm…mmmm.mmm….mmmmmmm” when eating.

Dummies.


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 2:02 pm
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Dummies

Bravo.


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 2:24 pm
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militant language luddites


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 2:26 pm
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Ha! My bins are the same colour!

Therefore, everything you say is wrong and I retain my feelings of superiority and self-righteousness.


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 2:38 pm
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Right now? people in my house clattering about. There's painters, and a guy to come to measure to make some bookcases. I wish they would all just Foxtrot Oscar so I have have peace and quiet back


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 2:47 pm
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Insurance companies and their renewal loyalty penalty fees.
Thank you for insuring with us, and not making a clsim. Next year your premium is going up by 1/3 and it will auto renew in 5 days time.
Ditto broadband providers. Oh your leaving, have a year at half price on us as we have tucked you up for the ladt 4. No. go screw yourselves blind.


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 2:51 pm
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See also, walking pairs who instinctively head for opposite sides of the path to let you pass.

Yeah, that pisses me off. It shows collective indecision and is an invitation for someone to cross to the other side right in front of you. I've decided that when a couple do this it indicates all is not well in their relationship 😀


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 2:57 pm
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Yeah, that pisses me off.

I just stop. And look at them. They usually look spooked or angry. Win.


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 3:01 pm
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There is a young and attractive Asian girl drumming on YouTube. I’m sure the stockings and suspenders are essential to her technique.

Useless without pictures.


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 3:13 pm
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People standing to close to me. And I was like this BEFORE Covid


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 3:15 pm
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You are Sting and I claim my five Pounds.


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 3:21 pm
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Verbing nouns generally. Inbox me.

Such as "email me" or "phone me"?


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 3:23 pm
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Useless without pictures.

Pollute your own search history.
Sod it. Why bother?


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 3:29 pm
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Useless without pictures.

Pollute your own search history.
Sod it. Why bother?

Horrifying.

I can't believe she hasn't replaced the stock heads on those drums. And her snare tuning doesn't bear thinking about.


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 3:49 pm
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My very first thoughts.
#prayforpersil


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 3:53 pm
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You are Sting and I claim my five Pounds.

Well,I thought it was funny 😉

clapper


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 3:54 pm
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Because I seem to hear it more and more now, people who think the phrase is "The proof is in the pudding".

Technically true but how are you going to know the proof without EATING the pudding......


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 4:02 pm
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Who the duck would turn down a chance of pudding?!


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 4:09 pm
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You're a pudding.


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 4:17 pm
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The pops and bangs dickhead brigade. Selfish * arseholes the lot of them. Chief of which lives about 5 doors down from me, the absolute double * has woke my daughter up on more than one occasion and if it wasn’t for my wife being as level headed as she is, I would probably be doing time for scudding his fat dial of the bonnet of his piece of shit, 15 year old S3. No mate, your 4 banger turbo and Akro exhaust don’t sound good, it sounds * broken and as for a 45 year old bloke covering his car in stickers, get a life you man bun *. **** off


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 5:31 pm
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Ooh er. Until today my favourite drummer was Bill Bruford.


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 5:58 pm
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Litter.Roadside litter.Grass has been cut around here and the litter is awful.I feel embarrassed for the state of my area when I am out on the bike.
McDonald's drive through customers.See above.


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 6:20 pm
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Absolutely anything to do with the Tory party.


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 7:10 pm
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Andy Preston.


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 7:58 pm
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Bone dry fanny's.


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 8:05 pm
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Until today my favourite drummer was Bill Bruford.

My favourite period of King Crimson! Especially live.


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 8:05 pm
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Drivers who don't take up the correct position when turning right out of a T junction and you're stuck behind them waiting to turn left and can't.


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 8:06 pm
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People who catogorise others by the type of car they drive.

Also bmw drivers. Twits.


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 8:11 pm
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Bone dry fanny’s.

Bone dry fanny's what?


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 9:15 pm
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Oh. My. God. She's a grocer!
The horror!


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 9:27 pm
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love this post! Hearing the little things that drive people mad is really amusing. The single thing that I hate is when cars and motorbike drivers/riders stop in the bike zone at a junction. Its for push bikes your car or motorbike means there is no space for bicycles.


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 9:39 pm
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Ooh another ‘Things we hate’ thread. If anybody sends me an email, Teams message, basically any form of text based communication and uses more than a single ? or ! in a row I don’t respond to them as they are clearly an absolute ****.

Yes it is petty, but it really annoys me. Along with the seemingly recent trend of people using myself and yourself when they should be using me or you. Dickheads, the lot of them.


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 9:41 pm
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People starting emails with hey.


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 9:48 pm
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You, me, them, everybody. Everybody.


 
Posted : 06/10/2020 11:49 pm
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Has the Illinois State Police Department just arrived?


 
Posted : 07/10/2020 12:22 am
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Someone I work with never uses a question mark at the end of a question in an email.


 
Posted : 07/10/2020 12:30 am
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People who, whilst extremely intelligent, persist with putting K on the end of thing words.

People who shout you’re wrong even when they know you are right / people who are unnecessarily unfair and there’s nothing you can do about it.


 
Posted : 07/10/2020 1:04 am
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The use of 'new' words where there is a perfectly acceptable word that has been used for hundreds of years:
Uptick - seems to be used regularly in news bulletins and in those COVID presentations from No.10. WTF is wrong with the word 'increase' or 'upturn'
Slated - traditionally means to get criticised, now seems to be used to as a synonym for 'expected' or 'chosen'


 
Posted : 07/10/2020 2:26 am
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Doesn't "slated" essentially mean "written down" or "pencilled in"? I always assumed that was the etymology, chalk on slate.


 
Posted : 07/10/2020 2:38 am
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The bike industry. It gets worse and worse. I get there's a pandemic going on and cycling has literally exploded, but what the hell is with bike manufacturers not being able to stick to delivery dates, or worse, even launching new products knowing full sodding well they either don't have enough to meet demand or even have a single one to actually sell?

Just feels like every brand is just a giant kickstarter project at the minute. Case in point, if the info I've just been given is to be believed, the bike I ordered in June (before it was even released) will not be in my hands until February of next year... Heard of a friend of a friend who wanted two identical kids bikes for Christmas, could get one, but wouldn't have the other until July 2021!


 
Posted : 07/10/2020 11:14 am
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Overuse of the word “surge” in the media


 
Posted : 07/10/2020 11:46 am
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People with a lack of integrity / snakes in the grass / happy to take from you.


 
Posted : 07/10/2020 11:49 am
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Use of the word literally used in a non-literal sense.


 
Posted : 07/10/2020 11:50 am
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Use of the word literally used in a non-literal sense.

It literally makes my head explode it's so annoying.


 
Posted : 07/10/2020 11:54 am
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