1. When you are about the sixth car at a set of traffic lights, and when the lights change to green, the first two cars pull away as though they have all the time in the bloody world.!.!.!
2. People who say " At this moment in time." it's gone mate, as soon as you said it.!.!.
3. Teabags that split giving you a mouthful of tea leaves .!.!
4. Rain.
Feel free to contribute. It's been a bad day........
My two:
1) Preceeding everything with 'I'm not being funny but'
2) Australian quotation innotation or whatever it's called
Bt ads.
1. When you answer a ringing phone by saying "Hello, X here", and the person at the other end says, "Is that X?"
2. People hogging lanes on motorways. If you aren't overtaking, move to the £$%^&* left!!!!!
3. "Team GB": we are not "Team GB" we are "Great Britain and Northern Ireland".
Society in general.
Threads like this. 086.gif
At the moment its those bloody calls from companies that tell me i had an accident ?
After 3 calls in one day the 4 got this...
Hello Mr daddy it appears your intitled to a clam after having an accident.
Me.. really what the bloody hell did i do this time ?
Them.. short pause you had an accident and are intitled to claim.
Me..Yeah i know you just told me how bad was i injured did i break anything or was it a stupid fall /concussion something like that !
Them..short pause again Well sir your intitled to up to £2000
Me.. Dam i was hoping i really hurt myself ,Must of just sort of fell over then ?
Them..Well sir the recent accident you had could get you up to £2000
Me..No thanks im holding out for a bigger claim !
long pause....
Me..Next time you call becareful i don't have an accident answering the phone because i could be intitled to £2000 of your companies money...
Phone goes dead and you no what i haven't had a call since Gutted i do so enjoy them....
Poor internet connection
Bt ads. Rocking from an early age. My friend.
Quote from: The Bronsons on August 07, 2012, 12:47:16 AM
1. When you answer a ringing phone by saying "Hello, X here", and the person at the other end says, "Is that X?"
2. People hogging lanes on motorways. If you aren't overtaking, move to the £$%^&* left!!!!!
3. "Team GB": we are not "Team GB" we are "Great Britain and Northern Ireland".
2 is an absolute pet hate of mine. 3 also winds me right up, how ironic that Great Britain has effectively Americanised it's Olympic team name.
Quote from: Matt_Keen on August 07, 2012, 05:44:34 AM
3. also winds me right up, how ironic that Great Britain has effectively Americanised it's Olympic team name.
What bugs me is that you get to compete as a cluster rather than individual nations/countries. I think the Nordics should enter the next winter olympics as 'Team Scandi' 086.gif
Pick any ten Sky "pundits". Shure to find the majority,if not all fit this description. I'd apply for the job myself but would not want to be associated with such people
1) "I'm not Racist/Homophobic BUT"
2) The use of the word liaise. Just hate it.
3) Tourists who work very slow down the middle of the street your trying to walk down
4) Lazy Tube Drivers
5) The sorry sate of music today- and the people who have destroyed it *cough* Simon *cough*
People who ring at the door and then smile and say 'It's alright I am not trying to sell you something' then try and sell you something.
Phone calls from people who tell me I have a package waiting in an airport worth a zillion quid but just need to make a small payment to release it.
Life. It seems a complete waste of our time. I pass the beauty without noticing it because I am too flustered and busy. I notice the ugly because I see it reflected in the eyes of others, as they look at me. :55:
People who work in electrical stores and you know more about the product you want than they do.
Slugs....... What's the point ?
Stoke City....... What's the point ?
I cant think of anything that really annoys me. Some people probably find that annoying !
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- People who say 'such and such happened at 6am this morning'. Really? Thanks for clearing up which 6am it was today.
- People who think the world will stop if they don't check their sodding phone for messages the second they get off the tube, or every 5 minutes in the cinema (warning - this one will make me go postal one day)
- Weather forecasters. Notice how they start by telling you what the weather was like earlier. This is so that you are lulled into a false sense of confidence by the time they start guessing what it will be like tomorrow.
- Endless arguments on Twitter about which Bundesliga team to support. :dft012:
- People who make lists.
'Like...'
'There are lots of people worse off than you, you know...'
'This'll make you laugh...'
'You're gonna luv this...'
Sportsmen who every punctuate sentence with the word 'look' when making a point...
Qpr /Brentford fans who write Foolham when referring to Fulham.. Hilarious guys!
Cold callers/ PPI advisors who ring my phone whilst im watching Neighbours
QPHa fans on Twitter that think they are God's gift to football.
Indian people on the phone telling you they are called Steven.
Stupid transfer rumours
Quote from: Nick the Swede on August 07, 2012, 07:24:10 AM
Quote from: Matt_Keen on August 07, 2012, 05:44:34 AM
3. also winds me right up, how ironic that Great Britain has effectively Americanised it's Olympic team name.
What bugs me is that you get to compete as a cluster rather than individual nations/countries. I think the Nordics should enter the next winter olympics as 'Team Scandi' 086.gif
One problem with this would be English speakers continually asking why Finland had been excluded from "Team Scandi" ... :Get Coat gif:
Quote from: Ron Sheepskin on August 07, 2012, 08:42:40 AM
- Endless arguments on Twitter about which Bundesliga team to support. :dft012:
:dft001:
TVand radio advertising. ALL of it, tacky, unimaginitive, dishonest, downright annoying. People actually get paid to put this crap together.
Loud televisions.
Loud music (unless I choose it).
Cigarette smoke!!! Anywhere. It should be a mandatory jail sentence.
- People who stop at the gates at Tube stations to find their Oyster Card/Travel Card
- People who make a point of barging in front of you to get off a bus/tube, but then proceed to walk along at a crawl
- 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife
- People who think the above is a working example of irony
Quote from: ddeuce on August 07, 2012, 08:03:52 AM
5) The sorry sate of music today- and the people who have destroyed it *cough* Simon *cough*
I don't know, I'd say the state of music is pretty good nowadays thanks to the internet and the ease it gives artists to share their music. The charts are guff but they've always catered to the mainstream and I'm sure there's a correlation between that and the decline of the one-show-for-all Top of the Pops.
Quote from: Mr_Moon on August 07, 2012, 01:34:53 PM
Quote from: ddeuce on August 07, 2012, 08:03:52 AM
5) The sorry sate of music today- and the people who have destroyed it *cough* Simon *cough*
I don't know, I'd say the state of music is pretty good nowadays thanks to the internet and the ease it gives artists to share their music. The charts are guff but they've always catered to the mainstream and I'm sure there's a correlation between that and the decline of the one-show-for-all Top of the Pops.
Agreed. Popular Music and the charts have always been the sanctuary for the worst music out there. It's just a matter of looking a little further afield to find some extremely good new music. Listen to BBC 6 Music and you will get the best of it all, new and old.
bad cyclists and bad drivers.
transfer window closing after the season has started
the word 'ambition'... its not tangible, purely comes down to ridiculous sums of money
biggest clubs biggest debts go figure
the french
getting taxed to the hilt so those who can work but refuse to do so get 'paid'
OAP's shopping at the supermarket at the weekend or evening....Any other bloody time will do people.
train ticket prices
Far too many to list until they invent a bigger internet.
But I'll go along with the gratuitous insertion of "like" into an otherwise perfectly sound sentence.
It is a serious sickness and must be resisted.
Harmless Young Person: Can you tell me how to get to, like, High Street Kensington?
Me: Well, I can tell you how to get to 'actual' High Street Kensington, or I can tell you how to get to Notting Hill Gate, which is quite like High Street Ken, but not actually it. Which would you prefer?
HYP:(shuffles off quickly, somewhat alarmed at having approached a genuine looney.)
Creeping Americanisms of 'Can I get' instead of 'Can I have', which should actually be 'May I have'.
I blame crap television such as Friends.
1. People who disagree with things I write.
2. People who agree, but don't bother to post a comment saying so.
3. People who post a comment agreeing, but don't do it enthusiastically enough.
4. People who think that posts like this mean I'm too self-involved.
Yeah, that about does it.
Quote from: HatterDon on August 07, 2012, 02:38:33 PM
1. People who disagree with things I write.
2. People who agree, but don't bother to post a comment saying so.
3. People who post a comment agreeing, but don't do it enthusiastically enough.
4. People who think that posts like this mean I'm too self-involved.
Yeah, that about does it.
I agree. Best reply of the day, by miles!
1) People who walk excessively slowly.
2) People who leave a station/shop/train and stop in the way of the entrance.
3) Groups of people who spread out and take up the whole pavement so you have to go into the road to get by. Usually families or youths.
4) People who live in England and hate it/ rediculous anti patriotism
5) Chavs
6) Graeme Souness
7) People who dont care/dont have an opinion on anything
8) New Age Chelsea fans
9) People who slate players before they've even played for Fulham
10) The abuse David Beckham gets
Defenders who pretend to shepherd the ball out for a goal kick but actually just want to bump and grind against the opposition striker.
Players who still kick the ball out because another player is down with a broken nail.
People using football as a yardstick for society and how unjust things are. e.g. Thinking nurses and soldiers should be paid the same as footballers.
Drunk people singing football chants on a night out
The EPPP
Dismissing opinions on a matter because you don't like the tone of them, even if they happen to be the most informed. (and yes that's a reference to the 'debates' on Riether, McFadden, every single footballer)
Receiving a text from someone under the age of 25, and having to find someone under the age of 25 to translate it. U no wud I men.
Approaching a line of stopped or slowing cars that has formed on the highway because it has been cut down to 1 lane only (due to construction or accident) and watching all the other #$%Holes whiz by in the closing lane trying to cut in line instead of waiting their turn and causing more of a bottleneck
Rubber neckers who must must must slow down to 5 miles per hour to see two cars off the side of the road who got in a slight fender bender thus causing mile long traffic jams...
Johnny Come Lately American "supporters" who only support a club because there happens to be an American on it, then stick around to muck things up on club message boards with their God awful political views, horrible knowledge of proper English, not to mention their views on "soccer", etc, etc.
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:wum:
Quote from: ToodlesMcToot on August 07, 2012, 05:27:33 PM
Johnny Come Lately American "supporters" who only support a club because there happens to be an American on it, then stick around to muck things up on club message boards with their God awful political views, horrible knowledge of proper English, not to mention their views on "soccer", etc, etc.
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Quote from: vagrant on August 07, 2012, 03:52:17 PM
Receiving a text from someone under the age of 25, and having to find someone under the age of 25 to translate it. U no wud I men.
I'm 15 and that took me a couple of minutes to work out
Quote from: Sheepskin Junior on August 07, 2012, 05:43:00 PM
Quote from: vagrant on August 07, 2012, 03:52:17 PM
Receiving a text from someone under the age of 25, and having to find someone under the age of 25 to translate it. U no wud I men.
I'm 15 and that took me a couple of minutes to work out
LOL
when people use the word "literally" as a way of describing something...."literally miles offside".....somehow i dont think so
Quote from: sipwell on August 07, 2012, 02:49:24 PM
Quote from: HatterDon on August 07, 2012, 02:38:33 PM
1. People who disagree with things I write.
2. People who agree, but don't bother to post a comment saying so.
3. People who post a comment agreeing, but don't do it enthusiastically enough.
4. People who think that posts like this mean I'm too self-involved.
Yeah, that about does it.
I agree. Best reply of the day, by miles!
I disagree. It seems like, ya know, actually, huh creeping Americanism. I'd write more but I have to check my v/m.
People who park up at petrol pumps and return to their car with 2 bags of shopping. Sod off to Tesco's if you want to do a weeks shop, "Express" after the Tesco's kind of gives it away. Also standing behind them in a Petrol station wanting to pay for your petrol when they are paying for that full weeks shop!!
14 year old tw*ts on Twitter who start transfer rumors and think they are the oracle of Football when they haven't even got hairs on their arse!
Monkeys!
(http://www.fetchmyflyingmonkeys.com/blog/photo/goat_monkey.jpg)
.....and forum posters who monitor 14 yr old twitter tweeters for arse hair. :005:
Quote from: ToodlesMcToot on August 07, 2012, 07:06:33 PM
Monkeys!
(http://www.fetchmyflyingmonkeys.com/blog/photo/goat_monkey.jpg)
.....and forum posters who monitor 14 yr old twitter tweeters for arse hair. :005:
:hook:
:wink:
Quote from: cottage cheese on August 07, 2012, 06:18:34 PM
when people use the word "literally" as a way of describing something...."literally miles offside".....somehow i dont think so
that was when I decided James Allen was a poo F1 commentator: "Nico Rosberg is literally having a baptism of fire".
No James, he's not.
Anyone seem to notice that threads like this seem only to pop up in the off season?
People who park in disabled/motorcycle/parent and child bays so they can save 15 seconds walking in to a supermarket.
1) People who can't wait a few seconds until you exit an elevator/train/etc.
2) People who need to flip on their phone before they leave church on Sunday.
3) All those Nigerians trying to sending me their money... :doh:
Quote from: cottage cheese on August 07, 2012, 06:18:34 PM
when people use the word "literally" as a way of describing something...."literally miles offside".....somehow i dont think so
I think Collins John tried it on a couple of occasions...
people who gave 110%; not possible.
People who talk jack **** on the phones on the bus when I am trying to read my book
Garry Lineker commentating on the Olympics just plain wrong ( he should get lessons from Clare Balding )
People who Spit in the street, Makes me want to rip their heads of and clean it up
Yes agree about Gary Lineker. Balding and Hazel Irvine are far better at that anchor spot. Lineker just stops me from bothering to watch.
Agree about spitting and anything else people feel it is ok to do in the street that they wouldn't do infront of their Mother.
Abuse of the word "literally".
Anyone that says "over-exaggerate".
Bullshitters.
My wife, she really gets my goat.
Quote from: Matt Inglis on August 08, 2012, 03:29:54 PM
Abuse of the word "literally".
Anyone that says "over-exaggerate".
Bullshitters.
I'm with you Mr. Inglis; however, the Oxford English Dictionary -- which is pretty much the bible on proper usage -- has taken to bending to the popular will. The latest editions allow for "literally" to mean the
exact opposite of literally. They also have decided that although "
gauntlet" is a glove and "
gantlet" is a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim, the two words are interchangable.
It used to be running the gantlet and throwing down the gauntlet, but evidently either is fine now -- which drives me nutso. At this rate, it won't be long until
a. CHOMPING ON the bit is an acceptable substitute for CHAMPING AT the bit
b. "I could care less" has the same meaning as "I couldn't care less" AND
c. "Things that really get ON my goat" is an acceptable subsitute for "Things that really get my goat."
Ah, the English language and how she's spoke.
People who go to a gym, spend ages driving in circles to park near the door. (include supermarkets too).
women drivers.
Quote from: jarv on August 08, 2012, 05:00:38 PM
women drivers.
Add to that white van drivers, BMW drivers, Mercedes drivers, Audi drivers, 4x4 drivers, motorcyclists, drivers over 70, drivers under 25, drivers who are incapable of doing more than accelerating and steering (such as looking at the road, indicating, etc...), drivers who seem to think minor B roads are F1 racing circuits. In fact, about 95% of road users
Quote from: The Doctor on August 08, 2012, 05:27:30 PM
Quote from: jarv on August 08, 2012, 05:00:38 PM
women drivers.
Add to that white van drivers, BMW drivers, Mercedes drivers, Audi drivers, 4x4 drivers, motorcyclists, drivers over 70, drivers under 25, drivers who are incapable of doing more than accelerating and steering (such as looking at the road, indicating, etc...), drivers who seem to think minor B roads are F1 racing circuits. In fact, about 95% of road users
Don't you be giving us motorcyclists grief Doc or I'll have to come over there and stick your stethoscope where the sun don't shine !
Any cold calling. Either over the phone, or doorstep.
Custard with skin on the top.
Burt Jr. being a plonker.
Quote from: The Doctor on August 08, 2012, 05:27:30 PM
Quote from: jarv on August 08, 2012, 05:00:38 PM
women drivers.
Add to that white van drivers, BMW drivers, Mercedes drivers, Audi drivers, 4x4 drivers, motorcyclists, drivers over 70, drivers under 25, drivers who are incapable of doing more than accelerating and steering (such as looking at the road, indicating, etc...), drivers who seem to think minor B roads are F1 racing circuits. In fact, about 95% of road users
Oh dear I have a BMW motorbike plus I'm a women, I'm doomed :016:
When people say ('whine' would be a better description), "See you later", when you've never met them before and never will again ; or, if it's someone you know, they really mean "See you some time". Maybe it's just in Stoke-on-Trent - yes that's where I live - but it's been an epidemic for several years.
'See you later' used to mean, 'see you later today'. Strangely, on the BBC news reports (well, Radio 5 at least) they now say, e.g., "A man will appear in court later", when they mean (and used to say), "A man will appear in court later today". That may appear to contradict my first paragraph, but it doesn't, honest !!
In traffic reports, "An earlier overturned lorry" ; earlier than what ?
People who say, "i.e." when they really mean "e.g."
Quote from: Berserker on August 08, 2012, 05:59:23 PM
Quote from: The Doctor on August 08, 2012, 05:27:30 PM
Quote from: jarv on August 08, 2012, 05:00:38 PM
women drivers.
Add to that white van drivers, BMW drivers, Mercedes drivers, Audi drivers, 4x4 drivers, motorcyclists, drivers over 70, drivers under 25, drivers who are incapable of doing more than accelerating and steering (such as looking at the road, indicating, etc...), drivers who seem to think minor B roads are F1 racing circuits. In fact, about 95% of road users
Oh dear I have a BMW motorbike plus I'm a women, I'm doomed :016:
I've got your back Beserko :048:
Quote from: Burt on August 08, 2012, 05:54:39 PM
Custard with skin on the top.
Mmmm
I remember at primary school trying to get to the front of our classes lunch queue so I would be tactically positioned at the top of the table, prime position for the skin.
Michael Gove
on the west side of the water, people who say "ATM machine." The M is FOR machine, you idgit
Quote from: HatterDon on August 08, 2012, 09:04:34 PM
on the west side of the water, people who say "ATM machine." The M is FOR machine, you idgit
And then they put in their "Pin number"
Not winning any medals today in the Olympics.
I'm going to sound like a really grumpy madam so apologies in advance :021: These things don't always annoy me but mostly when I'm overtired or hungry (which is when I'm at my most intolerant and misanthropic, haha!)
- The Lad Bible.
- People who walk slowly in central London and block the pavement. Walking slowly is fine but when you have a group of six people walking side-by-side filling up the pavement, it can be frustrating. I'm a cruel and heartless woman.
- When tourists walk through the Oyster card barriers on the tube and just stand completely still in front of the barrier. For some reason people like to stop in the most awkward of places!
- ddeuce's number #1 plus the golden, 'but my friend is...' excuse.
- What Steven Moffat has done to Doctor Who.
- The whole 'friendzone' concept and when people believe that it actually exists.
- Soups made without meat but with chicken stock.
- When people leave their mobile phones completely switched on on planes.
- Agree with Lighthouse about spitting on the street, eek.
Quote from: HatterDon on August 08, 2012, 04:43:42 PM
Quote from: Matt Inglis on August 08, 2012, 03:29:54 PM
Abuse of the word "literally".
Anyone that says "over-exaggerate".
Bullshitters.
I'm with you Mr. Inglis; however, the Oxford English Dictionary -- which is pretty much the bible on proper usage -- has taken to bending to the popular will. The latest editions allow for "literally" to mean the exact opposite of literally. They also have decided that although "gauntlet" is a glove and "gantlet" is a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim, the two words are interchangable.
It used to be running the gantlet and throwing down the gauntlet, but evidently either is fine now -- which drives me nutso. At this rate, it won't be long until
a. CHOMPING ON the bit is an acceptable substitute for CHAMPING AT the bit
b. "I could care less" has the same meaning as "I couldn't care less" AND
c. "Things that really get ON my goat" is an acceptable subsitute for "Things that really get my goat."
Ah, the English language and how she's spoke.
Good to know I'm not alone. The majority of Americanisms I can deal with, but I definitely agree that saying "I could care less" is ridiculous; makes no logistical sense.
+ Mispronunciation of mispronunciation.
People misusing "logistical". fp.gif
a. People not understanding irony.
b. People pretending they were trying to use irony when they are called out as having been wrong.
This will cause a stir no doubt but the phrase To be fair winds me up when used. What, are you implying that anything else you say isn't fair and is incredibly biased?
Quote from: Matt Inglis on August 09, 2012, 12:15:56 AM
a. People not understanding irony.
b. People pretending they were trying to use irony when they are called out as having been wrong.
a) had me worried. :dft012:
... and re. "to be fair" , whenever I catch myself saying "to be honest" I know I'm about to tell a porky.
Americans use the expression......"I lucked out"...... when they wish to say that they were lucky. To a Brit, we would imagine they are describing the opposite.
Also, Americans would say that something that could burn, is "flammable" and there they would appear to make sense over the British, where we use the word "inflammable".
I also cringe when some US commentator talks about "WIMPLETON" or "WESTMINISTER".
people who 1) use rear fog lights when there is no fog ,2). sit in the middle lane on Motor ways,3) say " know what I mean after each sentence and "like" every other word. 4) people who walk on the right, we drive on the left and pass on the left, 5). children on planes. 6) people who jump up at football when they have a perfectly good view of the pitch and then block out all behind seeing the action
People that try to text sarcastically. And people that think they know the meaning of sarcasm. People that try to be sarcastic and fail.
Basically the misuse of sarcasm
People who give their opinion as a fact.
Quote from: Matt Inglis on August 08, 2012, 11:52:32 PM
Quote from: HatterDon on August 08, 2012, 04:43:42 PM
Quote from: Matt Inglis on August 08, 2012, 03:29:54 PM
Abuse of the word "literally".
Anyone that says "over-exaggerate".
Bullshitters.
I'm with you Mr. Inglis; however, the Oxford English Dictionary -- which is pretty much the bible on proper usage -- has taken to bending to the popular will. The latest editions allow for "literally" to mean the exact opposite of literally. They also have decided that although "gauntlet" is a glove and "gantlet" is a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim, the two words are interchangable.
It used to be running the gantlet and throwing down the gauntlet, but evidently either is fine now -- which drives me nutso. At this rate, it won't be long until
a. CHOMPING ON the bit is an acceptable substitute for CHAMPING AT the bit
b. "I could care less" has the same meaning as "I couldn't care less" AND
c. "Things that really get ON my goat" is an acceptable subsitute for "Things that really get my goat."
Ah, the English language and how she's spoke.
Good to know I'm not alone. The majority of Americanisms I can deal with, but I definitely agree that saying "I could care less" is ridiculous; makes no logistical sense.
+ Mispronunciation of mispronunciation.
All intensive purposesGrrr, it makes no sense, you moron :035:
