Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]
Discussion
SilverSixer said:
Ah, the old confusion over what "beyond reason" means. I had thought that, for the purposes this thread, we were taking it to mean that we are discussing things which annoy us, but for which there isn't really a rational reason for the annoyance, rather than things which annoy us simply to an extreme degree. Thereby rendering the words "beyond reason" to mean "without reason" in this case.
Interesting debating point. Some people even take to mean "and I don't need a reason" and, further, that no debate or discussion is allowable on the subject of their (or indeed any) annoyance as posted on this thread. I think it would be a very boring thread indeed if that were the case.
RobinBanks said:
However much of American English is also odd grammatically in the use of tenses and the full range of tenses is used far less (if ever) than in British English. The theory goes that this is largely due to people having to learn English as a foreign language upon moving to the US and sticking to the simple tenses. It would make sense as that is still the telling sign for even most of the very best speakers of English to whom it's a second language and is by far the hardest thing to learn and use correctly in everyday English.
It also explains some of the differences in spelling between the two, with some American words being spelled 'more phonetically' ( if you see what I mean ) - an example being jail/gaol .JonRB said:
Willy Nilly said:
The current fashion of high school proms in Britain is currently annoying me beyond reason.
Someone will be along momentarily to say that "High School" and "Prom" are both early English terms and not American in any way. 
Willy Nilly said:
The current fashion of high school proms in Britain is currently annoying me beyond reason.
Annoying YOU !!!!Wait until you have to to fork out a few quid to send your child to their 'Upper school leaving party' !!
You will be rather annoyed when you have to pay for it !!
;)viscountdallara said:
Annoying YOU !!!!
Wait until you have to to fork out a few quid to send your child to their 'Upper school leaving party' !!
You will be rather annoyed when you have to pay for it !!;)
Quite. I am quite glad that my "step-parent" thing involved a male child and ceased at 13 on my divorce. Looks like a fWait until you have to to fork out a few quid to send your child to their 'Upper school leaving party' !!
You will be rather annoyed when you have to pay for it !!
;)
king nightmare. House burglar alarms.
Seriously, what fkin use are they now ?
Been woken up twice this week by one going off somewhere nearby.
If they go off during the day, does anyone actually think 'wow, there's a burglary going on there' ? No, they think 'I wish the owners of that fkin alarm come home soon and turn the fkin thing off.'
Seriously, what f
kin use are they now ?Been woken up twice this week by one going off somewhere nearby.
If they go off during the day, does anyone actually think 'wow, there's a burglary going on there' ? No, they think 'I wish the owners of that f
kin alarm come home soon and turn the fkin thing off.'viscountdallara said:
Willy Nilly said:
The current fashion of high school proms in Britain is currently annoying me beyond reason.
Annoying YOU !!!!Wait until you have to to fork out a few quid to send your child to their 'Upper school leaving party' !!
You will be rather annoyed when you have to pay for it !!
;)Feirny said:
People who answer their mobiles with "yep!?".
aholes.
I never know what to say when answering. In the past you might have said your number, but nobody knows numbers any more just address book contacts. You might have said your name, but mobile phones are personal. So I just say "hello" these days. a
holes.Sorry if that annoys you.
JonRB said:
Feirny said:
People who answer their mobiles with "yep!?".
aholes.
I never know what to say when answering. In the past you might have said your number, but nobody knows numbers any more just address book contacts. You might have said your name, but mobile phones are personal. So I just say "hello" these days. a
holes.Sorry if that annoys you.
RobinOakapple said:
It annoys me that you should think that "hello" might possibly be as annoying as "yep!?". I see the two as being utterly different (apart from their both beings words).
It's possible to have two things, one of which is more annoying than the other, yet both are annoying. They don't automatically gain parity by being mentioned together. People who think that everything is binary or black & white annoy me.
JonRB said:
Feirny said:
People who answer their mobiles with "yep!?".
aholes.
I never know what to say when answering. In the past you might have said your number, but nobody knows numbers any more just address book contacts. You might have said your name, but mobile phones are personal. So I just say "hello" these days. a
holes.Sorry if that annoys you.
f
k off, you aren't Mr Burns 
Leafspring said:
I hate "Ahoy hoy"
fk off, you aren't Mr Burns
Just as an aside; a little snippet of history if you will, but "ahoy hoy" was the original advised way of answering the phone in the very early days of its invention. Obviously it has somewhat fallen out of fashion now, and is now an anachronism. Which is why Mr. Burns says it, of course. It wasn't invented by the creators of The Simpsons though. f
k off, you aren't Mr Burns Antony Moxey said:
viscountdallara said:
Willy Nilly said:
The current fashion of high school proms in Britain is currently annoying me beyond reason.
Annoying YOU !!!!Wait until you have to to fork out a few quid to send your child to their 'Upper school leaving party' !!
You will be rather annoyed when you have to pay for it !!
;)My daughter's "formal" as they call it in our parts, was being held a few weeks after a parent/teacher night to discuss the likelihood of A-level results. Every single teacher I spoke to had the same attitude/opinion - the girls especially were living every moment of the day in arranging their great night out and had pushed their studies completely to the side. As far as the teaching staff were concerned, they were just talking to brick walls. The exasperation was tangible.
I'll shake the hand of any headteacher who bans the fecking things.
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