Stuff that makes you disproportionately cross

I’m not sure if this thread is being therapeutic or simply winding me up by reminding me of many many things that induce an unfeasibly high bladder temperature.

I will not ever stop until the world has been rid of this terrible curse!

But the problem doesn’t lie with the people using the phrase. There’s nothing wrong with it grammatically and It’s probably not going away, so It’s easier to just make your peace with it.

Litter on public transport….Grrr!

My daily commute is around 2hrs both ways and the number of coffee cups, food wrappers and Buckfast bottles (yes, I’m talking about Weegies), that I have to wade through to get a seat is astonishing. Do they think that a cleaner comes on the bus / subway immediately after they leave to clean up their mess?

“Are you ready”
“I just need to. . .”

That’s a no then!

Likewise
“Sorry I’m a little late”
No you’re late, own it.

No you’re late, own it.

My wife has a tee-shirt that has “Sorry I’m late, I didn’t want to come” on it.

‘What job do you do?’

‘So……………….’
I immediately imagine them hard at work at a sewing machine.
I mean when did ‘so’ become the first word in the answer to a question FFS?

The proximity of the M key and the delete key on my phone’s keyboard. My fat right thumb was not designed for this shit. All the years I’ve been using it and STILL typing anything with an M in it results in a partially deleted word.
I can’t believe the phone is still in one piece.

I mean when did ‘so’ become the first word in the answer to a question FFS?

It hasn’t, you’ve just started noticing it.

Leaving the house. I really dislike being late, I’d rather arrive an hour early than 5 mins late. Yes thats a fault and I should deal with it better but it boils my piss.
We have missed the start of weddings because apparently its difficult to leave the house at a particular time. I have tried to have a calm conversation about it, where I explain I am not breaking the speed limit to get there, and how it stresses me out/upsets me to miss the start of a good friend’s wedding and yet, every time. She knows it upsets me, and still does it, so I’m beginning to believe she does it on purpose to piss me off.
Luckily mainly everyone we know is married now.

“we’re going to ……’s birthday party at 4 for a BBQ.”

“OK, I’m going for ride in the morning”

“….. dont you dare be late…… if i have to pick you up from A&E ……..”

Cut to me ready to leave the house at 3:30. Yet we didn’t actually get there until there until past the kids bedtime, the BBQ had been packed up and everyone else had left.

Apparently this was both not an issue as no one turns up dead on time for a party, and also completely my fault.

Oh yes. So much this.
My other half is always showing me various annoying tik-tok dog videos and the first thing that always enters my mind is, why is the world full of bumbling codspanners who film everything in portrait?.
The vast majority of clips you see on YouTube etc are the middle third of the screen with either black portions or a ghosted repeat image on the sides.

There’s no real reason why all video should be landscape though. In the early days it was a circular image. It only went landscape because that’s what the National Television Standards Committee settled on in the 50’s because it works better for the majority of the time and the Phase Alternating Line standard copied that. If they’d invented a 4″ handheld device designed to be held in portrait first then you’d be getting angry about your TV being in landscape and wasting 2/3 of the image of the newsreader to empty studio either side.

See also, broadcasters insisting that filming is 4:3 compliant. When was the last time you watched something in 4:3?

Tellybox

Holibobs

You are not in some twee 70s sitcom you imbecile, speak like a normal **** human being.

When was the last time you watched something in 4:3?

I’m reading this right now on a 4:3 monitor.

(There’s always one, isn’t there…)

It hasn’t, you’ve just started noticing it.

I’m 66, believe me, it’s a fairly recent introduction. It so wee bubblingly annoying I’d have noticed years ago! 🤬

The term ‘fur babies’

Oh and in addition to those who refer to furniture or underwear as “draws” people who reply with “me either”. You either what? Either want grammar lessons or the previously mentioned nail gun therapy?

And the “liking to be on time” shite. So do I. But I also don’t like leaving half an hour before I have to just so I can sit with my thumb up my arse waiting for someone/something.

My wife gets the kids to bring their toothbrushes downstairs to brush when getting ready in the morning, as opposed to getting them to do them in the bathroom like normal people. Cue teeth being distractedly ‘brushed’ while reading a book or fighting with each other.

And then the brushes and paste vanishing every single day.

 it’s a fairly recent introduction. It so wee bubblingly annoying I’d have noticed years ago!

Lots of folk like you were complaining about this, so NPR did a survey, and they found that it was mentioned on average about every 10 minutes in radio interviews nationally, no worse than other fillers like “erm” or “like”.  You’ve just been primed to hear it is all.

So, It’s not them, it’s you. 🤣

I’m on a roll.  Doesn’t bode well for a low stress day smiling pleasantly at my fellow humans.

Chips in twee little buckets with pub food, served on a roof slate.

Anything supposedly ‘improved’ by being in a squeezy bottle.  Marmite, Golden Syrup etc.  I don’t want non drip convenience and extraneous plastic, I want the viscosity and taste I was used to, before you **** it up!

The faff of needing reading glasses AND distance glasses after 5 decades without either.

Loose spokes

Tyre levers snapping

The crotch of my ill fitting baggy shorts catching on the nose of my saddle when trying to ‘move’ on the bike, whilst looking like an uncoordinated wildebeest in a tutu on a unicycle.

Having to take reading glasses when riding, because the contacts you need to prevent you riding into a tree, mean you can’t see a map, phone, or fix a puncture without them.

So, It’s not them, it’s you. 🤣

Haha, remind me not to ask you a question then, I bet you can’t help yourself! 😜

Having to take reading glasses when riding, because the contacts you need to prevent you riding into a tree, mean you can’t see a map, phone, or fix a puncture without them.

Have you tried riding glasses with reading lenses? They have a little lens at the bottom of the plain lens so you can glance down and read a cycle computer, map, etc.

https://bbbcycling.com/uk_en/bsg-59-impress-reader

Anything supposedly ‘improved’ by being in a squeezy bottle.  Marmite, Golden Syrup etc.  I don’t want non drip convenience and extraneous plastic

Weirdo

You’re right about squeeze bottles.

Squeeze, squeeze SQUEEEEZZZZZZZEEEEE

BOOM

food ruined.

@nickjb very much not in the spirit of this thread, but thank you, they look genuinely useful and may well remove one small irritation from my life!

I will not ever stop until the world has been rid of this terrible curse!

But the problem doesn’t lie with the people using the phrase. There’s nothing wrong with it grammatically and It’s probably not going away, so It’s easier to just make your peace with it.

NEVER. Besides, this thread isn’t for making peace with things that annoy you. That’s so annoying 😉
‘You get what you’re given’ I always thought.
It just sounds horrible and it’s a creeping Americanism and Americans say so many things wrong that I just don’t know where to start. But, I’ll start with ‘I could care less’ for example.
Some things people say may be ‘correct’ but just sound bad, and so we don’t say them, but some things, such as the above ‘could care less’ are just actually wrong in the context of what they mean.

There’s no real reason why all video should be landscape though. In the early days it was a circular image. It only went landscape because that’s what the National Television Standards Committee settled on in the 50’s because it works better for the majority of the time and the Phase Alternating Line standard copied that. If they’d invented a 4″ handheld device designed to be held in portrait first then you’d be getting angry about your TV being in landscape and wasting 2/3 of the image of the newsreader to empty studio either side.

There isn’t any real reason as such no, but we’ve spent years being sold Widescreen, with epic cinemascapes across wide televisions and screens and all of a sudden everybody is filming any subject in portrait and also watching it vertically.
If you film in portrait and watch in portrait, then it doesn’t matter really I suppose, but it kind of offends my sense of composition. When I take a photo, I consider the subject and adjust the frame to what works well. There are of course no rules, and we should strive to go beyond the norm, but I’m not too sure that many folks are pushing the boundaries creatively, rather that they just don’t even consider things like that. This is fine, but again, this thread isn’t about that.

Hey, they even gave each orientation handy names to give folks a hint what might work better for a given subject…but no. 😂

Weirdo

I know! Do you know what’s even weirder? I can’t bring myself to throw out old Lyle’s Golden syrup tins* They are just such graphically pleasing mini works of art. Used as plant pots, paint tins, storing odds and ends in the garage. You don’t get that with your squeezy plastic and their too runny, imposter contents!

*See also Brasso tins.

I don’t think I’m a full on hoarder…yet. But it’s not looking good.

It just sounds horrible and it’s a creeping Americanism and Americans say so many things wrong that I just don’t know where to start.

The “I could care less” firstly isn’t an Americanism, There’s a oft quoted (in these sort of discussions) line from Lord Palmerston, in the mid 19th C. secondly, read it as sarcasm; “I could care less, but I’m not going to” or “I could care less, but this time I’ll make an exception” and so on. It makes more sense and is less irritating

I’m pretty sure that most shorthand speech starts off grating on those that find all shorthand speech irritating I imagine irate letters to Punch or the Times about “How’s it going?” or “What’s Up?” in very hard pressed green ink…

I laughed at the portrait/landscape joke

I get disproportionately cross when my dog walks exactly in front of me, rather than to the side, with my toe almost touching his back paws on every stride.

The “I could care less” firstly isn’t an Americanism, There’s a oft quoted (in these sort of discussions) line from Lord Palmerston, in the mid 19th C. secondly, read it as sarcasm; “I could care less, but I’m not going to” or “I could care less, but this time I’ll make an exception” and so on. It makes more sense and is less irritating

Interesting 👍

You don’t get that with your squeezy plastic and their too runny, imposter content

I’m intrigued. Are the stuff in the new bottles actually less viscous?

I’m intrigued. Are the stuff in the new bottles actually less viscous?

They most definitely are. I think in the case of Marmite, they thin it down with some kind of oil. So not only does it not adhere to your toast in the time honoured and prescribed fashion, it tastes different too. Not sticky enough to make good Marmite roast tatties either.  With the thinner Golden Syrup in the squeezy bottles, it melts too quickly on your porridge and you don’t get the sublime pleasure of eating your first mouthful of porridge with the syrupy spoon.

I’m getting angrier and angrier as I write this. This is not progress, it’s an outrage! 😄

I wasnt going to bite, but here we are.

Invariably “road users” in the facebook comments section

People bitching about bicycles and bike lanes.
People bitching about electric cars.
You know the stuff.

Also, Litter. What kind of brain dead mouth breather deems it acceptable to just “let go” of a piece of litter, rather than pocket it or carry it till the pass a bin.
i physically couldnt do it. It makes no sense.

Also landlords.

It all seems to stem from an incredibly selfish attitude to life.

“Im alright jack, someone else will clean up after me or deal with the problems i leave behind.
Me first, and ill take what i can from whoever i can take it from.”

Up against the wall with you.

Pook
Full Member
You’re right about squeeze bottles.

Squeeze, squeeze SQUEEEEZZZZZZZEEEEE

BOOM

food ruined.

+1 Encona extra hot pepper sauce I’m looking at YOU…

So not only does it not adhere to your toast in the time honoured and prescribed fashion, it tastes different too.

That’s got to be a good thing surely

^^Heretic!! Burn him!

With the thinner Golden Syrup in the squeezy bottles

What type of savage are you? Golden syrup from the tin, always.

My wife has a tee-shirt that has “Sorry I’m late, I didn’t want to come” on it.

At least she’s honest about her lack of enthusiasm but lacking in the fortitude to turn down the invitation in the first place.

What type of savage are you? Golden syrup from the tin, always.

I think sir misunderstands me and we are in fact in agreement on this most important matter. I am only aware of the shortcomings of the inferior imitation in plastic bottles because my domestic staff once failed in their procurement duties and I was obliged to try it for want of the genuine item. Never again!

I’m intrigued. Are the stuff in the new bottles actually less viscous?

Marmite definitely is, it’s a runnier consistency and tastes different. It’s referred to as Cooking Marmite in my kitchen, it’s actually a handy thing to have as an ingredient but it’s a pale shadow of its glass-encased brethren.

^^amen brother

People scraping their chairs when they get up. We’ve been staying in a succession of Paradors the last few weeks and it appears to be a national pastime. Grrrrr.

My wife has a tee-shirt that has “Sorry I’m late, I didn’t want to come” on it.

At least she’s honest about her lack of enthusiasm but lacking in the fortitude to turn down the invitation in the first place.

Which conversation are we having here? Because contextually this could go either way.