Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)
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Le Mans commentators. FFS SHUT UP!!!! I would genuinely rather watch the action in silence than listen to your crushingly dull, smug and everlasting conversations about an incident that happened in 1972 or what sort of stitching they use in their fireproof underwear. If ever the phrase ‘less is more’ was apt it would be for this event. Carlton Kirby would do well to have it printed on his microphone, the clueless t**t.
Two things for me today:
1) Josie Lawrence on Just A Minute; and
2) A colleague emailing to ask if some documents have come back from being authenticated by one of the embassies in London. I am struggling to resist the temptation to reply along the lines of "Oh yes, they cam in days ago and are sat on my desk; I just decided not to tell anyone or send them on to you."
1) Josie Lawrence on Just A Minute; and
2) A colleague emailing to ask if some documents have come back from being authenticated by one of the embassies in London. I am struggling to resist the temptation to reply along the lines of "Oh yes, they cam in days ago and are sat on my desk; I just decided not to tell anyone or send them on to you."
Clockwork Cupcake said:
Interviewers, particularly motorsports, who tell the interviewee to "talk [them] through" something.
What's the annoyance with this? I can see why interviewers would use this sort of line in order to elicit something more than a one word answer from the interviewee.DRFC1879 said:
What's the annoyance with this? I can see why interviewers would use this sort of line in order to elicit something more than a one word answer from the interviewee.
Are you asking me talk you through why it annoys me? 
It's become such a lazy cliché that the constant repetition of it now annoys me, that's all.
gottans said:
A loaf of bread specifically intended for toasting has an odd number of slices, who toasts a single slice of bread?
Expected better of Mr Warburton.
I toast three slices if I'm having scrambled eggs. Odd numbers sometimes works.Expected better of Mr Warburton.
Edited by gottans on Monday 18th June 21:34
I hate "medium" sized slices where one is always thicker than the other. How can this happen in our technologically advanced society?
gottans said:
A loaf of bread specifically intended for toasting has an odd number of slices, who toasts a single slice of bread?
Expected better of Mr Warburton.
And why the fExpected better of Mr Warburton.
Edited by gottans on Monday 18th June 21:34
k are burger buns invariably sold in packs of six, when burgers are sold in packs of four ?Cliftonite said:
PistonHeads forums' alleged "Search" facility.
It actually works quite well nowadays, but who knows why the default search parameters are by some spurious 'relevance' instead of 'last post date, descending'. Change it to that (two clicks with.....a bit of.....delay) and you're golden.
loudlashadjuster said:
but who knows why the default search parameters are by some spurious 'relevance' instead of 'last post date, descending'. Change it to that (two clicks with.....a bit of.....delay) and you're golden.
Yes, that's been annoying me recently as I've been frantically searching for a thread containing advice that has suddenly become relevant. Not so much the clicking away from "relevance", but the thought that when choosing "last post date", someone thought that the best thing to do is to sort them in ascending order first and make me run a second sort so I don't have to read through posts from more than ten years ago.Oh, and the way that when you narrow down the search on the left hand side by hovering over a section and clicking on "Only" for a specific section, there's no indication in the browser or in the header tab that anything is happening at all - it all just appears to freeze up for ages until it suddenly shows the narrowed results.
MartG said:
gottans said:
A loaf of bread specifically intended for toasting has an odd number of slices, who toasts a single slice of bread?
Expected better of Mr Warburton.
And why the fExpected better of Mr Warburton.
Edited by gottans on Monday 18th June 21:34
k are burger buns invariably sold in packs of six, when burgers are sold in packs of four ?
ViaGoGo. I have just bought three tickets for Within Temptation who are playing in Glasgow in November. Including booking fee, £25-50 each direct from the Within Temptation website and their ticket agent Music Glue.
The same tickets are available on ViaGoGo. For £67-00 each. Thieving bds! Oh, and here's the good part. It is clearly printed on the tickets that only tickets bought from Music Glue are valid and any others will be rejected. 
The same tickets are available on ViaGoGo. For £67-00 each. Thieving b
ds! Oh, and here's the good part. It is clearly printed on the tickets that only tickets bought from Music Glue are valid and any others will be rejected. Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff