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

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

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227bhp

10,203 posts

128 months

Thursday 11th June 2015
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JonRB said:
"Very unique"
"Quite unique"
"Pretty unique"
"So unique"

Unique is a binary absolute, surely?

It's like when somebody describes someone as "so gay". If you're not 100% gay then surely you're bisexual?
'I'm a bit gutted'

JonRB

74,560 posts

272 months

Thursday 11th June 2015
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227bhp said:
'I'm a bit gutted'
That's slightly different, though, as 'gutted' is "upset, disappointed, let down, despondent" which isn't an absolute; you can be anything from 'mildly miffed' through to 'totally, suicidally upset'. But 'unique' is a binary state. If something is not actually unique then it's merely rare. smile

MartG

20,678 posts

204 months

Thursday 11th June 2015
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People who post up an infographic, which has been posted up many times over the last 4+ years and every time has been shown to be totally wrong, then immediately descend to personal insults when this fact is pointed out to them

Yes, one of 'those' Facebook conversations frown

Einion Yrth

19,575 posts

244 months

Friday 12th June 2015
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JonRB said:
If you're not 100% gay then surely you're bisexual?
Or hetero, like most of us.

MartG

20,678 posts

204 months

Friday 12th June 2015
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When the local council sends you a bill for £3.05 and you try to pay online, but the minimum online payment amount is £5.00 frown

And you just know that it will cost them more than the original amount to repay the £1.95 overpayment biggrin

Timmy40

12,915 posts

198 months

Friday 12th June 2015
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People who think they can wader all over fields because there's a footpath running through them. A footpath is a right of way following a clearly marked route, it doesn't give you the right to wander all over the general vicinity trying to find places to shag or pee.

nicanary

9,795 posts

146 months

Friday 12th June 2015
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colonel c

7,890 posts

239 months

Friday 12th June 2015
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Timmy40 said:
People who think they can wader all over fields because there's a footpath running through them. A footpath is a right of way following a clearly marked route, it doesn't give you the right to wander all over the general vicinity trying to find places to shag or pee.
Conversely, Land owners who grow crops or allow crops to be grown over footpaths and other rights of way. Forcing users to either abandon their journey or find a unauthorised way round.

AstonZagato

12,704 posts

210 months

Friday 12th June 2015
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Timmy40 said:
People who think they can wader all over fields because there's a footpath running through them. A footpath is a right of way following a clearly marked route, it doesn't give you the right to wander all over the general vicinity trying to find places to shag or pee.
Much of the problem came from the "Right to Roam". The militant ramblers love the idea they can go where they want.

Negative Creep

24,980 posts

227 months

Saturday 13th June 2015
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Car dumping its coolant last night - can't figure out the source but seems to be either a well hidden pipe or the water pump. This coming a few days after I also managed to twist me knee making it painful to walk more than a few steps, it's my only form of transport and I need to be in work for 7am Monday. Brilliant

MartG

20,678 posts

204 months

Saturday 13th June 2015
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'Remove before use' stickers which use Nokia-grade adhesive frown

JonRB

74,560 posts

272 months

Saturday 13th June 2015
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The advert where the smug guy is cycling down the cobbled street, and the woman is walking down the pavement. And she gets to a barrier across the pavement and stops because she is too myopic to see that the pavement is blocked until she almost walks into the barrier. And then smug bicycle guy rings his bell and gives her a lift round the obstacle because, you know, it is absolutely impossible for a pedestrian to step into an empty road to walk round an obstacle.

RobinBanks

17,540 posts

179 months

Saturday 13th June 2015
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The people who use the word 'driver' to mean 'car'.

I'm fairly sure that the driver is the person who drives the car rather than the item being driven.

JonRB

74,560 posts

272 months

Saturday 13th June 2015
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RobinBanks said:
The people who use the word 'driver' to mean 'car'.

I'm fairly sure that the driver is the person who drives the car rather than the item being driven.
That's well sick, man. wink


LordJammy

3,112 posts

189 months

Saturday 13th June 2015
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Drivers that have their wipers going full speed when there's only light rain falling.

RobinBanks

17,540 posts

179 months

Saturday 13th June 2015
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JonRB said:
That's well sick, man. wink
You've just reminded me of another one I've seen today somewhere on the forum.

"That car sounds well!"

My question would be, "do you mean that it's good at sounding or that it doesn't sound ill?"


WD39

20,083 posts

116 months

Saturday 13th June 2015
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ChrisW_77 said:
GravelMachineGun said:
Noisy people at work.
Always singing.
Always tapping.
Always humming.
Eating like a horse.
Stamp stamp stamp.

fk off.
Yes, this drives me very close to committing murder every day.

And whoever decided that open plan offices were a good idea can fk off too.
You missed out the whistlers.

JakeT

5,428 posts

120 months

Saturday 13th June 2015
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LordJammy said:
Drivers that have their wipers going full speed when there's only light rain falling.
This is so true. Either means auto wipers or are totally clueless as how to use the controls of their car.

JonRB

74,560 posts

272 months

Saturday 13th June 2015
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LordJammy said:
Drivers that have their wipers going full speed when there's only light rain falling.
I'm so glad that you posted that because I have wanted to post something like this for weeks. But haven't.

Several times over the past... well, months really... I have found myself in stop-start traffic where I have my wipers on slow intermittent and the person in front has theirs on full fastest speed. And it really does annoy me beyond reason. As in, I genuinely do not know why it irritates me so much but it does.



davhill

5,263 posts

184 months

Saturday 13th June 2015
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Just caught an ad for Morrisons on GOLD.

"Smoky pulled pork beefburgers."

How the raging fk can a burger made of pork be a 'beef' burger. Situations vacant: advertising copywriter.
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