Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]
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james_tigerwoods said:
"Mate"
I hate this with a passion: there's a guy that calls my son "little mate", another that calls his kids his "mates" and another who calls his wife "mate" - in the local social club (cheap beer) I get called mate.
It's a horrible over familiarisation (sp) and an awful way to address someone. Anyone...
A colleague,who I don't actually speak to as he's such a twunt, calls his mother "mate" on the phone.I hate this with a passion: there's a guy that calls my son "little mate", another that calls his kids his "mates" and another who calls his wife "mate" - in the local social club (cheap beer) I get called mate.
It's a horrible over familiarisation (sp) and an awful way to address someone. Anyone...
iva cosworth said:
james_tigerwoods said:
"Mate"
I hate this with a passion: there's a guy that calls my son "little mate", another that calls his kids his "mates" and another who calls his wife "mate" - in the local social club (cheap beer) I get called mate.
It's a horrible over familiarisation (sp) and an awful way to address someone. Anyone...
A colleague,who I don't actually speak to as he's such a twunt, calls his mother "mate" on the phone.I hate this with a passion: there's a guy that calls my son "little mate", another that calls his kids his "mates" and another who calls his wife "mate" - in the local social club (cheap beer) I get called mate.
It's a horrible over familiarisation (sp) and an awful way to address someone. Anyone...
His mom what the hell, does sound like a twunt, that would be like me calling my father "buddy". I may refer to him as my old man but call him papa...Even in Oz where mate is a general term of referring to a male friend, calling a kid little mate is not too odd but referring to your own kids as your "mates" is a bit... weird
Marketing E-mail from Amazon
"Dear Amazon.co.uk Customer,
As you've shown an interest in books, we thought you might like to find out about the selection on offer in our Books Store."
And then goes on to list a load of s
te from the 'bestsellers' list which is of absolutely no interest whatsoever to me. For fk's sake they have a list of books I've bought from them over the years and never once have I bought the type of anodyne crap they're trying to push at me - they know I buy books about aircraft/spaceflight/cars and some science fiction/fantasy - why the fk do they think I'd buy some piece of st by Jeffery fking Archer or a fking vegetarian cookbook ?
"Dear Amazon.co.uk Customer,
As you've shown an interest in books, we thought you might like to find out about the selection on offer in our Books Store."
And then goes on to list a load of s
te from the 'bestsellers' list which is of absolutely no interest whatsoever to me. For fk's sake they have a list of books I've bought from them over the years and never once have I bought the type of anodyne crap they're trying to push at me - they know I buy books about aircraft/spaceflight/cars and some science fiction/fantasy - why the fk do they think I'd buy some piece of st by Jeffery fking Archer or a fking vegetarian cookbook ? Edited by MartG on Sunday 25th January 01:46
MartG said:
E-mail from Amazon
"Dear Amazon.co.uk Customer,
As you've shown an interest in books, we thought you might like to find out about the selection on offer in our Books Store."
And then goes on to list a load of ste from the 'bestsellers' list which is of absolutely no interest whatsoever to me. For fk's sake they have a list of books I've bought from them over the years and never once have I bought the type of anodyne crap they're trying to push at me - they know I buy books about aircraft/spaceflight/cars and some science fiction/fantasy - why the fk do they think I'd by some piece of st by Jeffery fking Archer or a fking vegetarian cookbook ?
Perhaps they are hoping to broaden horizons. "Dear Amazon.co.uk Customer,
As you've shown an interest in books, we thought you might like to find out about the selection on offer in our Books Store."
And then goes on to list a load of s
te from the 'bestsellers' list which is of absolutely no interest whatsoever to me. For fk's sake they have a list of books I've bought from them over the years and never once have I bought the type of anodyne crap they're trying to push at me - they know I buy books about aircraft/spaceflight/cars and some science fiction/fantasy - why the fk do they think I'd by some piece of st by Jeffery fking Archer or a fking vegetarian cookbook ? james_tigerwoods said:
"Mate"
I hate this with a passion: there's a guy that calls my son "little mate", another that calls his kids his "mates" and another who calls his wife "mate" - in the local social club (cheap beer) I get called mate.
It's a horrible over familiarisation (sp) and an awful way to address someone. Anyone...
Pal, mate, son (unless it is my father saying it) , lad. I hate this with a passion: there's a guy that calls my son "little mate", another that calls his kids his "mates" and another who calls his wife "mate" - in the local social club (cheap beer) I get called mate.
It's a horrible over familiarisation (sp) and an awful way to address someone. Anyone...
If anyone addresses me as any of these words my opinion of them is usually brain dead idiot and the majority of the time it's a correct assumption. It especially riles me if it is someone who is serving me in a shop/restaurant ect, I find it extremely rude I am not your pal or your mate or even your buddy I am a customer paying for a service so have a bit of respect and learn how to address people!!! cretins!!!!!!
"Mate" is okay in London, it's just the local 'generic person' word. It's not as endearing as "Moi Lover", though, which I first heard from a lady behind a bakery counter in Bath. It worried me momentarily as she must have weighed 18 stone - I like to think I would have avoided/escaped/remembered! 
grumbledoak said:
"Mate" is okay in London, it's just the local 'generic person' word. It's not as endearing as "Moi Lover", though, which I first heard from a lady behind a bakery counter in Bath. It worried me momentarily as she must have weighed 18 stone - I like to think I would have avoided/escaped/remembered!
My Cornish mate got told 'we don't want your sort here' when he first went into a Brighton pub & greeted the barman as 'Alright my hansome'.
ALL of the nonsense clickfodder links that turns up everywhere with the sole purpose of filling up pages. '15 amazing pictures from history. 12 secret health disorders of celebrities pets. Doctors, dentists, whoever hate this mums weird weight loss/ tooth whitening/ soup reheating trick, like and share this page to win a Mercedes/ iPad/ used newspaper, 5 amazing Snapchat photos, this thing happened and you'll never believe what happened next'
Ian974 said:
ALL of the nonsense clickfodder links that turns up everywhere with the sole purpose of filling up pages. '15 amazing pictures from history. 12 secret health disorders of celebrities pets. Doctors, dentists, whoever hate this mums weird weight loss/ tooth whitening/ soup reheating trick, like and share this page to win a Mercedes/ iPad/ used newspaper, 5 amazing Snapchat photos, this thing happened and you'll never believe what happened next'
That ^^^^^^ That st.I've unfollowed loads of feeds on Facebook for this - And I'm now unfollowing friends because of it. It's just f
king noiseCobnapint said:
Been done to death on PH before, but I feel this thread warrants - Formula 1 drivers and team principles that keep saying "for sure".
fk. OFF. 
So it's not just me then. I think it must be due to the Americanisation of English when it's spoken internationally. We would probably say "certainly" rather than "for sure".f
k. OFF. 
nicanary said:
Cobnapint said:
Been done to death on PH before, but I feel this thread warrants - Formula 1 drivers and team principles that keep saying "for sure".
fk. OFF.
So it's not just me then. I think it must be due to the Americanisation of English when it's spoken internationally. We would probably say "certainly" rather than "for sure".f
k. OFF. 
Fat people who walk in the middle of the pavement
You've got 2ft either side of you. Walk on one side and I can get past your fat ass without walking in the road
And women stopping for a conversation in shop doorways.
Move yourselves to the side a couple of feet and people can get past you. And don't get upset when someone politely asks you to move.
Morons who can't plug in a television but get upset when I ask them "where do you think the round plug goes, maybe in the round hole." And blaming it on your age when your in your early 40's.
Its not new technology its a bloody TV antenna connection that's been the same for years.
You've got 2ft either side of you. Walk on one side and I can get past your fat ass without walking in the road
And women stopping for a conversation in shop doorways.
Move yourselves to the side a couple of feet and people can get past you. And don't get upset when someone politely asks you to move.
Morons who can't plug in a television but get upset when I ask them "where do you think the round plug goes, maybe in the round hole." And blaming it on your age when your in your early 40's.
Its not new technology its a bloody TV antenna connection that's been the same for years.
When the newspapers are printed and folded in half, but they don't fold them perfectly in the centre so one half of the paper overlaps/sticks out further than the other half. When I find this I always have to go to the centre page and refold the paper perfectly down the centre line again to bring the zen back in line.
Does this piss anybody else off too?
Does this piss anybody else off too?
Edited by NBTBRV8 on Monday 26th January 10:54
NBTBRV8 said:
When the newspapers are printed and folded in half, but they don't fold them perfectly in the centre so one half of the paper overlaps/stocks out further than the other half. When I find this I always have to go to the centre page and refold the paper perfectly down the centre line again to bring the zen back in line.
Does this piss anybody else off too?
No. And you're a neurotic mess. Does this piss anybody else off too?
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