Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]

[Tyre Tread]

northwest monkey said:

Tony Blair did. That really. Annoying thing. Where he. Kept fking starting. And stopping. His sentences.

This, sadly, is a ploy used by presenters to allow you time to absorb the information they are imparting and to keep your attention.

It is a style employed by most modern presenters and voice over artists.

Sadly, once you are consious of it you become hyper snsitive to it and it annoys the life out of you.

Now you know about it, welcome to my world.

It's like "The Game". Every time you think about it, you lose!

[anonymous-user]

It's like politicians saying, "And the reason behind the decision is this: blah blah blah"

Just say what the reason is, rather than try and wrap it up in a perfect standalone soundbite for use in the news. They just sound like idiots who's first language isn't English.

[MartG]

Latest annoyance is the ignorant comments on an article in which the 'journalist' has taken nearly a week to totally misunderstand what Prof Brian Cox actually said about alien life in last Tuesday's episode of Human Universe

[Squawk1066]

Tyre Tread said:

It's like "The Game". Every time you think about it, you lose!

[El Guapo]

Hooli said:

More importantly why can't you find all the letters you need for the latest word you want to left spelt on the shelf?

Is this question also available in English?

[JonRB]

El Guapo said:

Hooli said:

More importantly why can't you find all the letters you need for the latest word you want to left spelt on the shelf?

Is this question also available in English?

Some brands of spices have a big capital letter on them corresponding to the initial letter of the contents of the jar. Hooli is decrying the fact that sometimes he can't find all the letters necessary to rearrange the jars on the shelves such that they spell an amusing word.

Hope that clarifies the situation for you.

[Hooli]

JonRB said:

El Guapo said:

Hooli said:

More importantly why can't you find all the letters you need for the latest word you want to left spelt on the shelf?

Is this question also available in English?

Some brands of spices have a big capital letter on them corresponding to the initial letter of the contents of the jar. Hooli is decrying the fact that sometimes he can't find all the letters necessary to rearrange the jars on the shelves such that they spell an amusing word.

Hope that clarifies the situation for you.

That was indeed the point of my post, Thanks JonRB. I seem to recall a thread on PH once about the best words people could produce.

[IanCress]

I requested a hire car from work as I need to do a 400 mile round trip this week. It's just arrived - it does 96mph and 0-60 in 16.5 seconds. Not the greatest motorway car ever.

[silverthorn2151]

Squawk1066 said:

Tyre Tread said:

It's like "The Game". Every time you think about it, you lose!

Ah poo.

I had forgotten I was playing.

[PurpleTurtle]

JonRB said:

For the past two days the majority of the matrix boards on the M3 from Basingstoke down to the M27, and along the M27, have been displaying "RED X MEANS LANE CLOSED". This is starting to annoy me beyond reason.

(If you want to see for yourself, go to http://www.trafficengland.com/motorwayflow.aspx)

On the M40 on Sunday, lots of overhead gantries showing 'KEEP TO NEARSIDE LANE UNLESS OVERTAKING'

Cue loads of myopic fkwits slowing down to read them, thinking it was a genuine traffic alert rather than an instruction telling them to drive as they should be doing anyway.

[knitware]

IanCress said:

I requested a hire car from work as I need to do a 400 mile round trip this week. It's just arrived - it does 96mph and 0-60 in 16.5 seconds. Not the greatest motorway car ever.

I hate this! I had a 400 mile trip too, I asked for an auto something as they are usually a big car. A lovely 1.6 Astra arrived...

[ecs]

When people go for a piss and don't aim for porcelain. We've got a fairly well sound insulated bog here (you can go for a post curry st in privacy), but there's one person who likes to take noisy pisses all the time for everyone to hear :|

[V8mate]

ecs said:

When people go for a piss and don't aim for porcelain. We've got a fairly well sound insulated bog here (you can go for a post curry st in privacy), but there's one person who likes to take noisy pisses all the time for everyone to hear :

That'll be a woman.

[JonRB]

ecs said:

When people go for a piss and don't aim for porcelain. We've got a fairly well sound insulated bog here (you can go for a post curry st in privacy), but there's one person who likes to take noisy pisses all the time for everyone to hear :

I had a housemate once who pissed like a fire hydrant - that guy had some serious water pressure. And it was always directed right into the water in the toilet bowl. My bedroom was right next to the bathroom and the wall was only a partition wall (very old 2 up 2 down terraced house, where one of the bedrooms had been partitioned to add an indoor bathroom).

[ambuletz]

As a cyclist I'm now beginning to dislike other cyclists, namely the ones who can't even be bothered to afford a £1 pair of lights for the front/rear of their bike. Came across two parents and 1 child riding along a poorly lit cycle path with no lights at all.

[JonRB]

ambuletz said:

As a cyclist I'm now beginning to dislike other cyclists, namely the ones who can't even be bothered to afford a £1 pair of lights for the front/rear of their bike. Came across two parents and 1 child riding along a poorly lit cycle path with no lights at all.

As a motorist, the absolute worst are what I call 'Ninja cyclists'. No lights, no reflectors, dark clothing, riding at high speed along the pavement and zooming across junctions. Scares the st out of you when you're about to pull out of a side road and a Ninja cyclist flashes across your nose.

No prizes for guessing who would be culpable if they misjudged it, slammed into your front wing and somersaulted over the bonnet.

[MartG]

Attempting to talk to anyone in HMRC

1st attempt - queued for 27 mins then cut off
2nd attempt - queued for 38 mins then cut off
3rd attempt - 17 mins queued so far......

[WD39]

JonRB said:

WD39 said:

In self service restaurants,when one person queues for the food and the other one goes and 'reserves' a table and so making it unavailable. You often see food laden customers searching for somewhere to sit,but most are occupied by selfish unthinking persons who are waiting for their husband,colleague or friend to arrive.

I'm struggling to understand why that is selfish and unthinking. I can't really see the difference between a table being occupied by customers eating and being occupied by customers who are just about to eat.

I'm not disputing that you're 'annoyed beyond reason' by it - that's the name of the thread after all. It's definitely unreasonable and somewhat baffling though.

Thank you for the response.

I am sorry that you do not see the equation which is:

Person or persons sitting at and reserving a table while waiting for friend to purchase food at the counter,restricts person or persons who have purchased food,and have not reserved a table, from sitting down, equals selfish and uncaring.


Of course, in a busy cafe/coffee shop, there could be up to a dozen customers reserving tables, therebye limiting the number of seats for patrons with trays of food.

Edited by WD39 on Wednesday 29th October 07:54

[br d]

MartG said:

This meme.

I've seen this countless times on PH with all different taglines and still have absolutely no idea who this person is, where it's from or why on earth it's supposed to be funny.

[RyanTank]

br d said:

This meme.

I've seen this countless times on PH with all different taglines and still have absolutely no idea who this person is, where it's from or why on earth it's supposed to be funny.

Hes not saying aliens gave us all our tech and human advances, but it was aliens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDKvWiToj8Y