Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 2]

Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 2]

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PoleDriver

28,640 posts

194 months

Saturday 28th April 2012
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Here we go again!

singlecoil

33,629 posts

246 months

Saturday 28th April 2012
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PoleDriver said:
Here we go again!
Tell me about it. I'd hoped after Big Al's timely warning that that would be the end of it. And my effort to make a joke out of a certain poster's attempt to start it up again didn't go to well. I'm going to ignore him in the future, if he extends the same courtesy to me, all should be well.

getawayturtle

3,560 posts

174 months

Sunday 29th April 2012
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When the number 7 button on your phone falls off.

goldblum

10,272 posts

167 months

Sunday 29th April 2012
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To "turn the nannies off."

To disengage the TC or ARS or similar anti skid software in a car.

You are only allowed to use this phrase if you are under 21,have rich parents and drive idiotically in the wet in a stupidly dangerous RWD car,like a BMW.You may also visit a BMW forum or two.

The phrase might be used in conversation with your dickhe mates as confirmation of your utter manliness and control when driving sideways round a bend opposite a school in a 30.In the wet.

Of course to the rest of humanity it merely confirms you're a cu*t.


Pothole

34,367 posts

282 months

Sunday 29th April 2012
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goldblum said:
To "turn the nannies off."

To disengage the TC or ARS or similar anti skid software in a car.

You are only allowed to use this phrase if you are under 21,have rich parents and drive idiotically in the wet in a stupidly dangerous RWD car,like a BMW.You may also visit a BMW forum or two.

The phrase might be used in conversation with your dickhe mates as confirmation of your utter manliness and control when driving sideways round a bend opposite a school in a 30.In the wet.

Of course to the rest of humanity it merely confirms you're a cu*t.
Surely you're a to have a car with that st on it in the first place...

goldblum

10,272 posts

167 months

Sunday 29th April 2012
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Pothole said:
urely you're a to have a car with that st on it in the first place...
Don't think there's much choice nowadays.Anyway you can just turn the nannies off.

Jam Spavlin

909 posts

185 months

Sunday 29th April 2012
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Sandwiches where the slices of bread are not matched in shape really gets my goat for no real reason!

Negative Creep

24,983 posts

227 months

Monday 30th April 2012
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Electronic statements. Currently applying for a credit card so sent my bank and home phone statements as proof. Normally both are electronic which I have no problem with, since it just wastes paper. My bank will supply an original for a £2.50 fee, which is a bit cheeky but doesn't bother me overly since it's the first time I've ever had to order on. My home phone provider however has no way of providing an original copy, or even confirmation I actually have an account with them beyond the printable version that the credit card company won't accept.

Not providing them as standard is fine, but no facility at all? That's just stupid.

singlecoil

33,629 posts

246 months

Monday 30th April 2012
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Live Snooker! On BBC 2 at 7! Only it isn't on at 7, it's on at 12 minutes past. They've only got a 60 minute slot to start with, and now it's down to 48.

Pothole

34,367 posts

282 months

Monday 30th April 2012
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My Mother.

singlecoil

33,629 posts

246 months

Monday 30th April 2012
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People who use expressions such as

Royal Fail
Parcel Farce
Halfrauds

goldblum

10,272 posts

167 months

Monday 30th April 2012
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Grauniad


Carthage

4,261 posts

144 months

Monday 30th April 2012
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People who put money down on the counter in shops so that the other person has to pick each coin up.

Old ladies who rattle tartan shopping trolleys off your ankles.

People in 4x4s without towbars.

People who use the phrase 'with all due respect'.


goldblum

10,272 posts

167 months

Monday 30th April 2012
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Carthage said:
People who use the phrase 'with all due respect'.
Ha,yes often as a precursor to saying something disrespectful.

Pothole

34,367 posts

282 months

Monday 30th April 2012
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goldblum said:
Carthage said:
People who use the phrase 'with all due respect'.
Ha,yes often as a precursor to saying something disrespectful.
See also "I'm not trying to be funny/being funny"

Carthage

4,261 posts

144 months

Monday 30th April 2012
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Pothole said:
See also "I'm not trying to be funny/being funny"
Also, people who talk about 'silos' and 'silo thinking'.

ETA - Unless they're farmers! laugh

dibbly dobbler

11,271 posts

197 months

Monday 30th April 2012
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When somebody calls a nearby phone at work - lets it ring about 200 times (nobody is there) - then when you pick it up says 'Is so-and-so there?'

What to you think you massive Mong ?!?! Gah furious

Pothole

34,367 posts

282 months

Monday 30th April 2012
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dibbly dobbler said:
When somebody calls a nearby phone at work - lets it ring about 200 times (nobody is there) - then when you pick it up says 'Is so-and-so there?'

What to you think you massive Mong ?!?! Gah furious
Surely you let it ring that long...

Carthage

4,261 posts

144 months

Monday 30th April 2012
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dibbly dobbler said:
When somebody calls a nearby phone at work - lets it ring about 200 times (nobody is there) - then when you pick it up says 'Is so-and-so there?'

What to you think you massive Mong ?!?! Gah furious
Worse still - when people call and argue with you when you tell them they have a wrong number.

singlecoil

33,629 posts

246 months

Tuesday 1st May 2012
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Surely nothing can be annoying as people's persistent efforts to define rocket science by giving examples of what it isn't? I daresay rocket science is a big, wide ranging subject but I'm still sure it would be easier to tell me what it is by telling me what it is, rather than what it isn't.

I haven't thought to look it up yet (because I'm not interested in learning about it) but I'd be surprised indeed if any decent publication tried to define the subject by provididng a long list of things that are not it.
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