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

[glenrobbo]

glazbagun said:

I find XC for cross-country and Xmas sikilarly wierd.

When Nissan brought out their "X-Trail", my sister-in-law reckoned it was a stupid name and they should have called it the "N-Trail".

She had a point!

[Hugo a Gogo]

gothatway said:

glazbagun said:

I find XC for cross-country and Xmas sikilarly wierd.

Good point (also KX for Kings Cross) - I'm surprised it's tolerated at all in these PC days, being so clearly of Christian derivation !

The "X" comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word Χριστός, which in English is "Christ". It's been used since the 16th century

I always write Xmas just to annoy people who don't know this

[droopsnoot]

[redacted]

[davhill]

glenrobbo said:

RP?
Rocket Projectile?

Ring piece, tailpipe, rusty sheriff's badge.

[Lemming Train]

502 Bad Gateway.

Any website owner that puts their site online without paying for suitable storage and bandwidth should be forced to pay a one million pound fine and then nuked from orbit. Any website owner that chooses to use Cloudflare should get a two million pound fine and then nuked from orbit multiple times to ensure they don't do it again. Sick to death of websites clearly running on 99p per month hosting packages which result in them spending most of their time being down with 502 Bad Gateway because either the server is constantly overloaded or they've exceeded their bandwidth. Websites with database (forums, searchable databases eg.) are by far the biggest culprits. I get that databases are huge resource hogs and cost considerable money to run vs static pages but if you can't be arsed paying for it yourself or put it behind a paywall then don't bother offering the facility in the first place!

[Johnspex]

droopsnoot said:

People who sit in cars parked on the "wrong" side of the road (i.e. on my side, but facing me) with their dipped beams on, and don't realise that as they dip to the left, they're shining right at me. On the way home just now there's a lay-by on my side of the road, and there's someone in a Mercedes estate sat there with the lights on facing me. No amount of flashing my main beams made the penny drop., but I really had trouble seeing past them.

IT should be a hanging offence. Stupid and dangerous.

[silverthorn2151]

Glitter.

fking stuff.

Seem to remember that it annoyed me beyond reason last year too!

[glenrobbo]

davhill said:

glenrobbo said:

RP?
Rocket Projectile?

Ring piece, tailpipe, rusty sheriff's badge.

Ah So(Le)!
Thankyou, wise master.

Every day is a schoolday.

RP, TP & RSB duly noted as being representative of the balloon neck that is the old Chocolate Starfish.



I wonder what TSB and RBS are supposed to mean?

[anonymous-user]

silverthorn2151 said:

Glitter.

fking stuff.

Seem to remember that it annoyed me beyond reason last year too!

YES !!! It took months to get rid of last year's infestation and now it's started again ! No matter how careful you are, there is always a rogue card that turns up covered in the stuff.

[fatboy18]

droopsnoot said:

Yes, on the rare occasions I see it written, I expect it to be preceded by the word "Vosper".

Wasn't she the bird in casino royal?

[julianm]

Today's Google Doodle is 'Happy Holidays'.
It's Christmas.

[AlexC1981]

The way computers always manage to find some sort of problem when a fresh installation onto new hardware is involved.

Transferred the SSD from my sisters ancient PC into my oldish PC to give her an upgrade. The BIOS recognized the disk, but wouldn't let me use it as a bootable disk to install Windows on. After lots of faff, including changing to ATA mode, which did let me install, but wouldn't let me change it back to AHCI, I eventually found it worked perfectly in ACHI mode if I used the SATA 1 port on the motherboard instead of SATA 0. Who would have known?

[Antony Moxey]

AlexC1981 said:

The way computers always manage to find some sort of problem when a fresh installation onto new hardware is involved.

Transferred the SSD from my sisters ancient PC into my oldish PC to give her an upgrade. The BIOS recognized the disk, but wouldn't let me use it as a bootable disk to install Windows on. After lots of faff, including changing to ATA mode, which did let me install, but wouldn't let me change it back to AHCI, I eventually found it worked perfectly in ACHI mode if I used the SATA 1 port on the motherboard instead of SATA 0. Who would have known?

This annoys me beyond reason. Not that that’s what you’ve done, but that I have absolutely no idea what on earth you’re on about!

[Frank7]

davhill said:

Ring piece, tailpipe, rusty sheriff's badge.

Another, rarely used CRS for your rear was Daily, as in Daily Mail, tail.
e.g., I had a cop car on my Daily.

[MartG]

[redacted]

[nonsequitur]

julianm said:

Today's Google Doodle is 'Happy Holidays'.
It's Christmas.

From across the pond, of course.
With Thanksgiving and Christmas being in close proximity, 'Happy Holidays' is used for both.

[Labradorofperception]

yellowjack said:

Lemming Train said:

People who write "MTB" annoy me beyond the reason and is thoroughly deserving of an entry in the nonexistent 'cringe' thread for trying to act all cool with the name of their bike. Just stop it.

MTB? It's an accepted short form for "mountain bike". Nothing to do with the "name of their bike" at all. It's been that way for a long, long time too...

...at least 27 years judging from this picture...

I'm entering a race next year. It's an "XC MTB Race". It's not "cringey" or "trying to act cool", just a whole lot quicker/easier to type out than "Cross Country Mountain Bike Race".

The model name (ie: the one 'Giant', the manufacturer, gave it) of my MTB is an "Anthem". It doesn't have any other name because naming inanimate objects (and projecting personalities onto them) is just plain daft. The name I call my Cannondale Backroads "Adventure Gravel Hybrid 1990s Classic HeadShok™ Drop Bar Conversion" bike is 'Dale. This isn't because I've given it a cute name, but simply because it's a contraction of "Cannondale" and I only own one of their bikes (so far...)

And the use of "MTB" is a pretty well-accepted international "thing" too...

...and so the term "MTB" transcends language barriers.


So to your annoyance!

Edited by yellowjack on Friday 21st December 22:01

Is that first bloke Steve Gould?

Ah, the good old days of long stems, 80mm travel, canti brakes and toe clips. Givrin flex stem, Allsop beam, Kirk magnesium, thud busters, brake boosters and pints of Caffrey's

BTW - grumpy will be even more grumpy when he figures out BMX ....

[yellowjack]

Labradorofperception said:

Is that first bloke Steve Gould?

Ah, the good old days of long stems, 80mm travel, canti brakes and toe clips. Givrin flex stem, Allsop beam, Kirk magnesium, thud busters, brake boosters and pints of Caffrey's

BTW - grumpy will be even more grumpy when he figures out BMX ....

No idea on Steve Gould, sorry. I just searched out some Google images of things that might increase Ol' Grumpy's annoyance...

There was an old Trek 8000 series for sale outside my local bike shop today when I collected my road bike (as opposed to my MTB, which wasn't in for repair) after having some work done. I'm sorely tempted by it, if only for the giggle-factor on the trails...

[MartG]

Drivers who take several seconds to register that the traffic light has turned green before they realise they need to do something to make their car move

Pedestrians who start to cross just after the lights have started to change

[robemcdonald]

When ten pin bowling:
People that let their toddlers run across your lane.
People that nick the balls you are using.
People that have 20 players on one lane