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

[Johnspex]

V8mate said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

OddCat said:

Eh ?

I'd understand 'I wouldn't have a car like that because Vauxhalls are st'

It's something young people are saying.

Because internet meme.



(Honestly, PH is turning into "grumpy old middle aged men" more and more every day)

Edit: I believe it started out with "because reasons" and kind of went from there. Because reasons.

Because Internet.

Basically.

End of.

That's it exactly.

[ambuletz]

used a self service checkout in asda yesterday... I noticed that this time they've put small screens on each one at eye level with a camera embedded into it, screen on, bright white LED light on, screen showing your face with large lettering VIDEO RECORDING IN OPERATION.

pretty annoying and distracting. i know it's a detterant, but I'd much rather have no screen with my face on me and a bright light in my face either.

[RizzoTheRat]

jayymannon said:

Watching people making cups of tea in the hospital canteen using the following method:
- Pour hot water onto teabag.
- Add milk.
- Instantly remove teabag! Must have been 5-10 seconds brewing at most, grrr.

I used to work with a guy who'd take his mug to the kitchen, put hot water and milk in it, then walk back to his desk to put the tea bag in. I'm with you, it's just annoying to watch

[NorthDevon66]

RizzoTheRat said:

I used to work with a guy who'd take his mug to the kitchen, put hot water and milk in it, then walk back to his desk to put the tea bag in. I'm with you, it's just annoying to watch

Can't make a decent brew if milk is put in too quickly as it is rather effective at blocking the teabag up and stopping the flavour from getting out.

[SlimJim16v]

ambuletz said:

used a self service checkout in asda yesterday... I noticed that this time they've put small screens on each one at eye level with a camera embedded into it, screen on, bright white LED light on, screen showing your face with large lettering VIDEO RECORDING IN OPERATION.

I'd buy a pair of those comedy glasses with a plastic nose and moustache attached and put them on every time I used it.

[ambuletz]

SlimJim16v said:

I'd buy a pair of those comedy glasses with a plastic nose and moustache attached and put them on every time I used it.

genuinely made me lol,

[SlimJim16v]

The possibilities for taking the piss out of Asda here are endless. I wish I had one nearby to see how far I could push it.

[Robberto]

People who drop the word "physical" into a sentence for no discernible reason. I saw some burke on here the other day say they had "the physical paper invoice". You don't need one or other of those words.

And before anyone pipes up with "well, a physical invoice doesn't have to be on paper", when was the last time you heard of a physical invoice in any medium other than paper? Having a physical invoice implies it's on paper, not a piece of fruit or slate or anything else.

Worse, one particularly dense assistant buyer in work once told me she had "the physical order" in front of her. She failed to grasp that something that had been created on a computer at our customer and transmitted to our company via EDI for her to call up on our Oracle system to look at on her screen wasn't a physical anything.

I'm glad we fired her.

[Antony Moxey]

Calling someone a ‘burke’ deserves sacking.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Antony Moxey said:

Calling someone a ‘burke’ deserves sacking.

Unless their surname is Burke, of course.

[ambuletz]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Antony Moxey said:

Calling someone a ‘burke’ deserves sacking.

Unless their surname is Burke, of course.

[paulguitar]

For some reason I find it really annoying when car seats are referred to as 'chairs'.

[davhill]

Robberto said:

People who drop the word "physical" into a sentence for no discernible reason. I saw some burke on here the other day say they had "the physical paper invoice". You don't need one or other of those words.

And before anyone pipes up with "well, a physical invoice doesn't have to be on paper", when was the last time you heard of a physical invoice in any medium other than paper? Having a physical invoice implies it's on paper, not a piece of fruit or slate or anything else.

Worse, one particularly dense assistant buyer in work once told me she had "the physical order" in front of her. She failed to grasp that something that had been created on a computer at our customer and transmitted to our company via EDI for her to call up on our Oracle system to look at on her screen wasn't a physical anything.

I'm glad we fired her.

Just distinguish between the 'paperwork' on screen and a hard copy.

BTW, it's berk, not burke, capital 'b' or not. See Google.

[Antony Moxey]

ambuletz said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Antony Moxey said:

Calling someone a ‘burke’ deserves sacking.

Unless their surname is Burke, of course.

Good points well made. She definitely is a berk though.

[aaron_2000]

paulguitar said:

For some reason I find it really annoying when car seats are referred to as 'chairs'.

I did until I sat in a Lotus Cortina, I'd have those seats in my living room, they're absolute perfection for comfort.

[GipsyHillClimber]

I'm sure this one is mentioned a few times each year on this thread (or one of its previous incarnations), it always seems to be this time of year i see more and more people on forums i visit referring to an airport only by the airport code. Now i get that for some they must all be well known and it can save some time i'm sure, but on a public forum it just means people need to look it up if they actually care where you're talking about!

A poster on a ski forum i visit referencing their upcoming trip from LHR to YYZ before flying on to SNA a few weeks later. Is it really that difficult to type in Heathrow, Toronto and Orange County? Fair enough if you're on a plane enthusiasts forum but otherwise, why!?

It's only an annoyance to me as i don't know them all and can't just let it lie without looking them up so it really is beyond reason.

[227bhp]

davhill said:

BTW, it's berk, not burke, capital 'b' or not. See Google.

I did, interestingly it tells me:

"The usage dates from the 1930s; berk is a shortened version of Berkeley Hunt, the hunt based at Berkeley Castle, in Gloucestershire. In Cockney rhyming slang, hunt is a rhyme for , giving the word its original slang meaning."

My mother used to call people berks, I doubt she knew she was calling them s!

Edited by 227bhp on Monday 15th January 15:21

[deeen]

GipsyHillClimber said:

I'm sure this one is mentioned a few times each year on this thread (or one of its previous incarnations), it always seems to be this time of year i see more and more people on forums i visit referring to an airport only by the airport code. Now i get that for some they must all be well known and it can save some time i'm sure, but on a public forum it just means people need to look it up if they actually care where you're talking about!

A poster on a ski forum i visit referencing their upcoming trip from LHR to YYZ before flying on to SNA a few weeks later. Is it really that difficult to type in Heathrow, Toronto and Orange County? Fair enough if you're on a plane enthusiasts forum but otherwise, why!?

It's only an annoyance to me as i don't know them all and can't just let it lie without looking them up so it really is beyond reason.

They're just showing off... "We're such frequent fliers we know all the codes, yah"

[Clockwork Cupcake]

227bhp said:

I did, interestingly it tells me:

"The usage dates from the 1930s; berk is a shortened version of Berkeley Hunt, the hunt based at Berkeley Castle, in Gloucestershire. In Cockney rhyming slang, hunt is a rhyme for , giving the word its original slang meaning."

My mother used to call people berks, I doubt she knew she was calling them s!

Only Berkeley is pronounced like "bark-lee" so isn't rhyming slang because it doesn't rhyme.

[glenrobbo]

Motorway overhead matrix signs helpfully informing you that there are problems between J6 & 8

but no inkling as to where the fk those particular junctions are located.
Fair enough if you're a driver who regularly uses that stretch and have memorised where all the motorway junctions are, but not much help if you are an infrequent visitor and haven't managed to commit the whole of the motorway network and junction numbers to memory.
Are you supposed to start fumbling about with a road atlas and magnifying lens to pinpoint where they are referring to??? Aaaaagh!