Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)

[MartG]

Why do older people have to pay the same price for a 'Bag for Life' as young people do ?

[Clockwork Cupcake]

MartG said:

Why do older people have to pay the same price for a 'Bag for Life' as young people do ?

[Frank7]

Johnspex said:

Tyre Tread said:

Noisy fkers in communal lunch areas.

People who drag chairs making lots of noise instead of living them.

Drivers with no lights on n heavy rain on the motorway.

Supermarket browsers hogging shelves and dithering who won't move out the way when you just need to grab one item of the shelf.

MLMs who cruise up behind you and sit there as you pass inside lane traffic but don't overtake even though the outside lane is clear.

MLMs who, when your car is set on cruise control and in the inside lane, cruise up alongside youand then speedmatch you as you approach traffic on the inside lane.

And the biggest aholes those people who come charging down motorway lane3 past you and pull into the middle lane in front of you and then slam on as they try and speed.match the traffic in the inside lane as they approach a junction to try and push in-between the traffic about toexit on a slip road. I see this daily and it's mainly.young women who think the world ceases to exist behind their windscreen pillars.

The no-lights thing drives me nuts. Why don't they use those useless gantries to put the message across? Or have the BBC say it during traffic announcements?

Edited by Johnspex on Saturday 28th April 01:22

In the U.S., there is a law that says, if you have to use your wipers, then it’s mandatory to use dipped headlights, I’m not sure if it’s Federal, i.e. Nationwide, or just individual States, but it makes a lot of sense in my opinion.
Unfortunately, in the U.K., there are drivers who would die before complying with it, the kind who think that laws are made for mugs, which is ironic, as only a mug would take a chance on being hit because they couldn’t be seen, it’s okay for them to die, providing that they don’t take someone else with them.

Edited by Frank7 on Monday 30th April 01:23

[kowalski655]

MartG said:

Why do older people have to pay the same price for a 'Bag for Life' as young people do ?

So it was you texting that in to the Jason Manford show this morning?

[nute]

Tyre Tread said:

Noisy fkers in communal lunch areas.



MLMs who cruise up behind you and sit there as you pass inside lane traffic but don't overtake even though the outside lane is clear.

To be fair there seem to be far more MLM's who just don't realize that there is an inside lane at all. As far as I can tell its about 80% of the UK
population.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

The advert for watchfinder.co.uk

Who on earth puts a watch down that is worth several thousand pounds and then forgets about it for ages?

[Johnspex]

Has anyone else noticed the trend amongst the drivers of slammed hatches and 3 series to remove the front plate and put it in the front window? Why? How does something like that spread?

[davhill]

My Win 10 laptop's startup taking a 'coon's age (deffo not racist, Google it).

The startup program list isn't overlong but I'm seeing too much of the little blue whirligig. Then, it's ' Outlook (not responding) and the wait for Firefox.

I've already disabled the fast start thing in Win 10 and regularly defrag/optimise.

Bah.

[Shakermaker]

Johnspex said:

The no-lights thing drives me nuts. Why don't they use those useless gantries to put the message across? Or have the BBC say it during traffic announcements?

Edited by Johnspex on Saturday 28th April 01:22

A few years ago I was driving down to Southampton and there were clear messages on the overhead gantries which said "Don't hog the middle lane"

That was on February 26th, 2013. I haven't seen it anywhere since, but it certainly struck me as a sensible idea.

[alorotom]

Shakermaker said:

A few years ago I was driving down to Southampton and there were clear messages on the overhead gantries which said "Don't hog the middle lane"

That was on February 26th, 2013. I haven't seen it anywhere since, but it certainly struck me as a sensible idea.

They occasionally have the same on the A1 between dishforth and Scotch Corner - not that people seem to take any notice

[anonymous-user]

One from me:

Men who wear kilts for their wedding or special occasions.

They weren't born in Scotland, haven't ever lived in Scotland, but they happen to have the surname of Robertson or Macdonald or something, which apparently means they MUST wear a fking skirt while they get married.

If you are hardcore Scottish, born in Scotland, live in Scotland, getting married in scotland, and are called something like Hamish McTavish, and enjoy caber tossing and porridge eating then no problem, dress in the most Scottish things you can your hands on. Kilt, Sporran, knee socks, bagpipes... fine. I get it.

But wearing Scottish national dress while getting married just because your grandfather once lived in Aberdeen is fking stupid and you look ridiculous.

Stop it.

[Balmoral]

glenrobbo said:

Roofless Toothless said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

paulguitar said:

People pressing a button to call a lift when you are already there, having pressed it, and it is lit up to display this information.

Why?

I think you are overestimating the intelligence of the average person.

Ditto pedestrian crossings.

I like it when I get to a pedestrian crossing where somebody is waiting, having already pressed the button, and I ask them if they have tried using "the magic finger", which I hold up proudly, then give the button another press and hey presto, the lights change immediately!

It still doesn't stop the bloody cars ploughing through regardless and mowing you down though!
At least it gives them something to smile about as they watch you being loaded into the ambiwlans.

People pressing the button at a pedestrian crossing when there is no traffic and they can cross anyway. They press the button, cross immediately without waiting because it's clear, then the traffic lights go red, traffic is stopped and the green man illuminates and beeps, long after they have crossed and disappeared.

And then we have the absolute s who press the button as they are walking past, but they aren't crossing.

[MartG]

Balmoral said:

People pressing the button at a pedestrian crossing when there is no traffic and they can cross anyway. They press the button, cross immediately without waiting because it's clear, then the traffic lights go red, traffic is stopped and the green man illuminates and beeps, long after they have crossed and disappeared.

And then we have the absolute s who press the button as they are walking past, but they aren't crossing.

A crossing local to me has a very long delay ( more than 30s ) between pressing the button and the lights changing. This usually means that, despite there being traffic when the button is pressed, a gap has appeared and people have crossed long before the lights change

[Bobberoo99]

Lord Marylebone said:

One from me:

Men who wear kilts for their wedding or special occasions.

They weren't born in Scotland, haven't ever lived in Scotland, but they happen to have the surname of Robertson or Macdonald or something, which apparently means they MUST wear a fking skirt while they get married.

If you are hardcore Scottish, born in Scotland, live in Scotland, getting married in scotland, and are called something like Hamish McTavish, and enjoy caber tossing and porridge eating then no problem, dress in the most Scottish things you can your hands on. Kilt, Sporran, knee socks, bagpipes... fine. I get it.

But wearing Scottish national dress while getting married just because your grandfather once lived in Aberdeen is fking stupid and you look ridiculous.

Stop it.

[Fastdruid]

MartG said:

Balmoral said:

People pressing the button at a pedestrian crossing when there is no traffic and they can cross anyway. They press the button, cross immediately without waiting because it's clear, then the traffic lights go red, traffic is stopped and the green man illuminates and beeps, long after they have crossed and disappeared.

And then we have the absolute s who press the button as they are walking past, but they aren't crossing.

A crossing local to me has a very long delay ( more than 30s ) between pressing the button and the lights changing. This usually means that, despite there being traffic when the button is pressed, a gap has appeared and people have crossed long before the lights change

Many of them wait until there is a gap large enough for you to have safely crossed anyway. It always annoys me.

[Balmoral]

Fastdruid said:

MartG said:

Balmoral said:

People pressing the button at a pedestrian crossing when there is no traffic and they can cross anyway. They press the button, cross immediately without waiting because it's clear, then the traffic lights go red, traffic is stopped and the green man illuminates and beeps, long after they have crossed and disappeared.

And then we have the absolute s who press the button as they are walking past, but they aren't crossing.

A crossing local to me has a very long delay ( more than 30s ) between pressing the button and the lights changing. This usually means that, despite there being traffic when the button is pressed, a gap has appeared and people have crossed long before the lights change

Many of them wait until there is a gap large enough for you to have safely crossed anyway. It always annoys me.

There is a crossing near me that puts the lights on red as soon as the button is pressed, it works much better for all concerned.

[yellowjack]

Lord Marylebone said:

One from me:

Men who wear kilts for their wedding or special occasions.

They weren't born in Scotland, haven't ever lived in Scotland, but they happen to have the surname of Robertson or Macdonald or something, which apparently means they MUST wear a fking skirt while they get married.

If you are hardcore Scottish, born in Scotland, live in Scotland, getting married in scotland, and are called something like Hamish McTavish, and enjoy caber tossing and porridge eating then no problem, dress in the most Scottish things you can your hands on. Kilt, Sporran, knee socks, bagpipes... fine. I get it.

But wearing Scottish national dress while getting married just because your grandfather once lived in Aberdeen is fking stupid and you look ridiculous.

Stop it.

Kilts are not limited to the Scottish though. There are kilts and tartans both Irish and Welsh in (claimed) origin. And you can blame the British army for the survival of the kilt into modern civilian dress. After the Sottish defeat at Culloden, the garment was proscribed (banned), among other measures to control and pacify the Highland clans. An exemption was made for Scottish regiments serving in the British Army, and it is the evolution of their regimental dress that has influenced the design of the modern kilt.


This is my "family" Welsh tartan. If I had money to waste, I might even buy myself a kilt or some other garment made from it. But I don't, so I won't...


...the other thing about "Welsh kilts" is that you can dig up any number of images taken in the past of women in traditional Welsh costume, but in none that I've seen are there any kilts on any men. So I'm left wondering if the "Welsh kilt" is a figment of the modern gentleman's wedding outfitters imagination?

At the end of the day, though, it's only another item of clothing. It's like being annoyed by white tie at dinner, or morning coats at weddings. The world would be a terribly boring place if all us gentlemen turned up at weddings in lounge suits, yet women at weddings typically put a great deal of thought and effort into their outfits.

[DavieW]

Lord Marylebone said:

One from me:

Men who wear kilts for their wedding or special occasions.

They weren't born in Scotland, haven't ever lived in Scotland, but they happen to have the surname of Robertson or Macdonald or something, which apparently means they MUST wear a fking skirt while they get married.

If you are hardcore Scottish, born in Scotland, live in Scotland, getting married in scotland, and are called something like Hamish McTavish, and enjoy caber tossing and porridge eating then no problem, dress in the most Scottish things you can your hands on. Kilt, Sporran, knee socks, bagpipes... fine. I get it.

But wearing Scottish national dress while getting married just because your grandfather once lived in Aberdeen is fking stupid and you look ridiculous.

Stop it.

A similar thing that annoys me is non-Scottish "celebrities" who put on a kilt because they're performing in Scotland.

[captain_cynic]

DavieW said:

A similar thing that annoys me is non-Scottish "celebrities" who put on a kilt because they're performing in Scotland.

According to lore, you're only supposed to wear the tartan of your chieftain.

But that means any British or Commonwealth citizen can wear the Royal Stewart as that is the tartan of the queen.

[eybic]

cmvtec said:

I once had to deliver something to an old chap, a note beside the door bell button read "please ring doorbell HARD".

When I questioned how I should do this he complained to my employer about my attitude.

It's likely that the button was knackered so only worked with a hard press