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

[droopsnoot]

Issi said:

Jon321 said:

Adverts on eBay for electrical stuff from China or Hong Kong whereby the advert has been written with either the use of Google translate or by someone who can't fking understand English. How hard can it fking be to get someone to speak the language. Even the packaging often has numerous spelling mistakes or st attempts at translation on it.

How confident would you be with your Chinese to attempt to sell to an Oriental market?

My youngest boys Spanish teacher is, strangely enough Spanish but has lived here for years,and she confused Juggling with Jiggling recently.
Of course as soon as I heard this, I marched down to the school and demanded that she be fired with immediate effect.

I mean how hard can it fking be to speak the language?

While some of these Chinglish descriptons can be quite funny ("Small enough for big job" amused us on the side of a PC box some years ago) it seems that many British people can't write proper English, so what hope does anyone else have?

[brian394]

DVLAs web sites! Currently trying to renew my licence as it expires this year and I'm about to do my cat c and c+e in the next month, but it won't let me do it online. Keeps coming up with 'sorry, there was an error'. Phoned them, they had nothing except go into the post office or post it.

This would be fine, but they charge an extra bloody £3 for the inconvenience! Do it online, it's cheaper and you have your licence within a week. Do it by post or in the post office, it's 3weeks and £3 more. What? WHAT?!?

[fatboy18]

My Son! We have Had a lovely whirlpool acrylic bath, He decided to have a bath and fancied some low mood lighting, so he got one of those small candle tea lights and had it sitting on the bath edge, the bloody thing got hot and melted the acrylic gel coat off the bath!

To say Im furious is an understatement Bloody Teenagers!

[kuro]

When speaking to a client on the phone and people/bosses that decide to join in the telephone conversation by speaking over the top of you.

You end up trying to listen to two people at the same time and not knowing what the hell is going on!!

Apart from being annoying its downright rude.

[McAndy]

Right now: Creo Simulate. Or fail to, in this case.

[MartG]

brian394 said:

DVLAs web sites! Currently trying to renew my licence as it expires this year and I'm about to do my cat c and c+e in the next month, but it won't let me do it online. Keeps coming up with 'sorry, there was an error'. Phoned them, they had nothing except go into the post office or post it.

This would be fine, but they charge an extra bloody £3 for the inconvenience! Do it online, it's cheaper and you have your licence within a week. Do it by post or in the post office, it's 3weeks and £3 more. What? WHAT?!?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/18/the_inside_story_of_govuk/

[matchmaker]

kuro said:

When speaking to a client on the phone and people/bosses that decide to join in the telephone conversation by speaking over the top of you.

You end up trying to listen to two people at the same time and not knowing what the hell is going on!!

Apart from being annoying its downright rude.

Yes. First time this nappened to me I was told I would have to learn to listen to two conversations at the same time. fk. Right. Off.

[RobinOakapple]

I plug something in, quite often the vacuum cleaner with a long lead, go back, switch it on, nothing happens, fking socket switched off. I don't think there really needs to be switches on sockets.

[DavidJG]

Train travel. Most specifically, Virgin trains.

Once or twice a week, I travel from home near Shrewsbury up to Edinburgh for work. A day or two later I come home again, changing trains in Crewe.

So far this year, I've done the return journey about 11 times. I've made my connection in Crewe precisely once. Virgin always have an excuse for not being able to stick to their published timetable, but this doesn't alter the fact that they've managed to make travelling this route a completely horrid experience.

Add to this the Virgin 'train managers' who insist on turning the PA system volume up as high as it will go on late night / early morning trains to ensure their passengers can't sleep / relax, thenthe fact that the onboard cleaners never actually seem to clean the trains.

I've finally had enough. Virgin trains have lost a customer, and Flybe have gained one. It means driving to Birmingham airport very early on Monday mornings, but that's going to be worth it!

[Issi]

That despite how hard I work and how many qualifications I accrue, I will never, ever earn as much as Joey Essex/Charlotte Crosby/Gemma Collins et al.

[Petemate]

Wobbly tables in cafes etc. extremely annoying.

[MartG]

A couple of cases of Americans adding an unneccesary 's'

Legos instead of Lego

RPMs instead of RPM

[iva cosworth]

And also removing them.

Do the MATH.....mathematics.

[JonRB]

iva cosworth said:

And also removing them.

Do the MATH.....mathematics.

Oh god. Yes.

There are three things that will really annoy me. Guaranteed. And I don't know why they do but they do.

1. "Math" instead of "Maths"
2. "I could care less" rather than "I couldn't care less" (see this and this)
3. People pronouncing schedule as "SKED-yule" rather than "SHED-yule"

On the last one, I can forgive most Americanisms but this one really grates. I don't know why. So rock solid bullseye in the thread title requirement of "without reason".

[All that jazz]

fatboy18 said:

My Son! We have Had a lovely whirlpool acrylic bath, He decided to have a bath and fancied some low mood lighting, so he got one of those small candle tea lights and had it sitting on the bath edge, the bloody thing got hot and melted the acrylic gel coat off the bath!

To say Im furious is an understatement Bloody Teenagers!

What the heck?

You have a teenage son who likes to have baths with "low mood lighting" and "small candle tea lights"? I take it he bats for the other team then, right?

[fatboy18]

All that jazz said:

fatboy18 said:

My Son! We have Had a lovely whirlpool acrylic bath, He decided to have a bath and fancied some low mood lighting, so he got one of those small candle tea lights and had it sitting on the bath edge, the bloody thing got hot and melted the acrylic gel coat off the bath!

To say Im furious is an understatement Bloody Teenagers!

What the heck?

You have a teenage son who likes to have baths with "low mood lighting" and "small candle tea lights"? I take it he bats for the other team then, right?

No, all is cool on that front.

[All that jazz]

fatboy18 said:

No, all is cool on that front.

Orly.

[JonRB]

All that jazz said:

Orly.

Your pusuence of this line of enquiry says more about you than it does about him.

[All that jazz]

JonRB said:

All that jazz said:

Orly.

Your pusuence of this line of enquiry says more about you than it does about him.

Only in your head. I would have "concerns" about any teenage son of mine that liked to have baths with "small candle tea lights", unless of course he was in there with his bint, then it'd be fine.

[JonRB]

All that jazz said:

Only in your head. I would have "concerns" about any teenage son of mine that liked to have baths with "small candle tea lights", unless of course he was in there with his bint, then it'd be fine.

Really? You are worried that your son might be gay? In which case, I repeat what I said - says more about you that him.