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

[droopsnoot]

JonRB said:

People who think that "unique" is a variable, rather than an absolute, concept. Phrases such as "pretty unique", "very unique", "quite unique" and "more unique" tumble out of their mouths with the ill-advised enthusiasm of a Baldrick Cunning Plan.

This annoys me too, although I do concede "quite" as long as it's used in the correct context - as in "quite delightful", not to mean "a little bit".

[Studio117]

MartG said:

When someone says they "did it like a Boss"

I assume they actually did nothing and are just taking the credit.

[gowmonster]

RobinOakapple said:

Cables, connecting cables and mains cables. I must have well over 100 of them, and very useful they are. And every single sodding one of them is black. Would it really kill the makers to use some other colours?

I have the same issue, I have started to label them.

[james_tigerwoods]

gowmonster said:

I have started to label them.

That's crazy talk

[Killer2005]

People who don't know how to pronounce fifth correctly. Instead of fifth they say it as fifthth

[FourWheelDrift]

Annoys me hearing people pronouncing the G on the end of words ending ...ing. Happening becomes happeninger

[Lazadude]

Single company wholly occupying an office block of 7 floors.

Why do other floors always want to come to my departments/floors to take a dump? All 3 cubicles are engaged, if I go up or down a floor, then there's at least one free.

And I know it's other floors, as you see people leave the stairwell to go straight into the loos. If I go up one level (Where they came from), there's a spare cubicle?

Are people seriously scared to st on their own floors?

[FourWheelDrift]

Lazadude said:

Single company wholly occupying an office block of 7 floors.

Why do other floors always want to come to my departments/floors to take a dump? All 3 cubicles are engaged, if I go up or down a floor, then there's at least one free.

And I know it's other floors, as you see people leave the stairwell to go straight into the loo's. If I go up one level (Where they came from), there's a spare cubicle?

Are people seriously scared to st on their own floors?

Just time wasters, why pop off for a short toilet break when you can have a longer break by going to a different floor.

[V8mate]

FourWheelDrift said:

Lazadude said:

Single company wholly occupying an office block of 7 floors.

Why do other floors always want to come to my departments/floors to take a dump? All 3 cubicles are engaged, if I go up or down a floor, then there's at least one free.

And I know it's other floors, as you see people leave the stairwell to go straight into the loo's. If I go up one level (Where they came from), there's a spare cubicle?

Are people seriously scared to st on their own floors?

Just time wasters, why pop off for a short toilet break when you can have a longer break by going to a different floor.

I walk to a different block for my morning rituals!

Though that's because my nearest loo is an airless, windowless room with two cubicles for about 200 blokes, and my preferred destination is a bright, naturally lit, seven cubicle facility, with a local catchment of about 20.

[RizzoTheRat]

Stickyfinger said:

24/7----9/11----7/11

Please tell the BBC that I am NOT Gangsta in prison in Alabama!

24/7's fine, it's 24/7/365 that really annoys me. 24/7/52 would be fine, as would 24/365, by why do it over 7 years?

[RobinOakapple]

People who don't do No2 at home before coming to work.

[Timmy40]

RobinOakapple said:

People who don't do No2 at home before coming to work.

Eh? I thought the whole point was to s**t on work time. With the added benefit of saving on bogroll. Back in the day when I was single and shared with other blokes not needing to buy bogroll because carps were always reserved for work ( or on weekends the pub ) was a matter of some pride.

[V8mate]

Timmy40 said:

RobinOakapple said:

People who don't do No2 at home before coming to work.

Eh? I thought the whole point was to s**t on work time. With the added benefit of saving on bogroll. Back in the day when I was single and shared with other blokes not needing to buy bogroll because carps were always reserved for work ( or on weekends the pub ) was a matter of some pride.

Absolutely. I didn't factor in having to use loo roll and metred water at home when negotiating my salary.

And, in any case, it's being at work that makes me want to st.

[Hackney]

Killer2005 said:

People who don't know how to pronounce fifth correctly. Instead of fifth they say it as fifthth

This. And sickth [sic]
Does it go one, two, three, four, five, sick? No it does not.
Sixth.

[marmitemania]

Timmy40 said:

RobinOakapple said:

People who don't do No2 at home before coming to work.

Eh? I thought the whole point was to s**t on work time. With the added benefit of saving on bogroll. Back in the day when I was single and shared with other blokes not needing to buy bogroll because carps were always reserved for work ( or on weekends the pub ) was a matter of some pride.

Just touching on part of this paragraph, BACK IN THE DAY. Back in what day? This saying fu@ks me off massively. I even heard a politician on radio 4 use it. What the hell is the world coming to? Whilst I'm on a moan. Those pathetic BT adverts featuring Ewan Mcgregor. Why do they have to have such fu@ktards in those adverts? And why is Ewan complaining he's being paid a lot for doing nothing? No different to any other day then you monumental @unt.

[Captain Muppet]

hora said:

I'm a big sauna user. I lije steam sauna's. I hate the idiots who treat it like a novelty and pop in for 5mins before 'oooo this is too much'.

They tend to play tag team with two mates to keep the door constantly opened.

This annoys me 'just' ahead of those that lean against the open door to chat to a mate.

There should be a time lock in 20min stretches.

You'd like to be locked in a sauna for 20 minutes with someone who was annoyingly whiny about it after 5 minutes?

[RobinOakapple]

Constant pop-ups from Microsoft inviting me to have Windows 10 for free.

Last I heard, Microsoft is a commercial organisation, meaning they do their stuff in return for money. If they want me to have something for free, there has to be a catch.

[JonRB]

RobinOakapple said:

Constant pop-ups from Microsoft inviting me to have Windows 10 for free.

Last I heard, Microsoft is a commercial organisation, meaning they do their stuff in return for money. If they want me to have something for free, there has to be a catch.

They want to show that Win10 is a "success" by giving Win7 and Win8 users an incentive to upgrade.

Win10 is going to be the gateway to "operating system as a service" which is subscription-based, so maybe that is the catch. I don't know.

[R8VXF]

RobinOakapple said:

Constant pop-ups from Microsoft inviting me to have Windows 10 for free.

Last I heard, Microsoft is a commercial organisation, meaning they do their stuff in return for money. If they want me to have something for free, there has to be a catch.

So that you buy their other products to run on Windows. At least they have products to sell, unlike the Goog, where YOU are the product that they are selling to advertisers. HTH.

[Munter]

JonRB said:

RobinOakapple said:

Constant pop-ups from Microsoft inviting me to have Windows 10 for free.

Last I heard, Microsoft is a commercial organisation, meaning they do their stuff in return for money. If they want me to have something for free, there has to be a catch.

They want to show that Win10 is a "success" by giving Win7 and Win8 users an incentive to upgrade.

Win10 is going to be the gateway to "operating system as a service" which is subscription-based, so maybe that is the catch. I don't know.

It lets them drop support for the older versions earlier and thus saves them lots of money. Because you can just upgrade for free and continue to have support if the upgrade doesn't fix whatever the issue was.

Then they don't end up with another XP clinging on to the end of time. Particularly is it has really moved to OS as a service. Then we'll all be on the latest version, or unsupported and it's not their problem.