Stuff that makes you disproportionately cross

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.

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?

Forum users who sign off their posts with their username.

Pauly

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.

I quite like Absolute Radio…Adverts and the phone in competition are annoying but it makes good background.

If the atmosphere you’re trying to create is “waiting at the special collections desk of a plumber’s merchant”, then yes.

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. 😉