Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)

[Clockwork Cupcake]

MartG said:

This is the only SRAM I'm aware of... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-69_SRAM

There is also Static RAM (Static Random Access Memory)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_random-access...

[boxedin]

That weird wet noise some people make when talking, as if they're having to moisten the word on its way out. Its really noticeable during radio / tv interviews. I can't listen to them, whether they're interesting or not.

Snorting as well; because they have zero self-awareness.

[droopsnoot]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Then the pub was taken over by new management who actually renamed it The Mucky Duck and everyone was very annoyed about that. It's like when someone posts a subtle joke, and everyone is riffing on it with puns and winks that show they also got it, and then a Captain Obvious comes along and just straight-out says the punchline and ruins it all.

This was in the early 90's so it's by no means a new thing.

I agree - a pub fairly local to me was called "The Tollemache Arms", but was always known as "The Thatch" mainly because it's got a thatched roof, and partly to differentiate it from another pub of the same name not far away. But then it was taken over and renamed "The Thatch", and it ruined it a bit.

Edited by droopsnoot on Wednesday 23 October 18:54

[Zarco]

ChevyChase77 said:

RumbleOfThunder said:

New Hipster pub names. Generations loved these places and knew them as something proper like The Swan or The Rose and Crown. Quick lick of paint and it becomes something pathetic like "The Crafty Dog" or "The Pig and Pump". fk off.

In our town The Prince of Wales has been changed to The Last Crumb and The Eldon Arms is now The Weather Station. Both Hipster places, smelling of beard oil and around £5 a pint or more.

Fancy one up the Crumb?

[Europa1]

boxedin said:

That weird wet noise some people make when talking, as if they're having to moisten the word on its way out. Its really noticeable during radio / tv interviews. I can't listen to them, whether they're interesting or not.

I'm really struggling to imagine this one - can you give any examples, please?

[bigpriest]

talksthetorque said:

Tootles the Taxi said:

The BBC (and other TV news outlets) persisting in broadcasting from College Green opposite Parliament and having to put up with the constant wkers shouting in the background.

Just present the show from the fking multi-million pound news studio my TV licence paid for and spare me the braying of fools.

But that’s in Manchester, where there is nothing except John Cooper Clarke and a block of executive flats where a nightclub used to be

Salford. Then again, it's Manchester Docks so as you were

[RumbleOfThunder]

Europa1 said:

boxedin said:

That weird wet noise some people make when talking, as if they're having to moisten the word on its way out. Its really noticeable during radio / tv interviews. I can't listen to them, whether they're interesting or not.

I'm really struggling to imagine this one - can you give any examples, please?

I think I know what he means in a radio/podcast scenario. Some people are just very salivary and it shows up under a microphone.

[Dr Murdoch]

Waterproof plasters.

Non-'waterproof' plasters remain stuck to the skin.............when wet.

Waterproof plasters are rubbish when dry, and also when wet, pointless.

[bigpriest]

Google Maps asking me questions about places I've visited. Is there a rest room here? Is there a parking lot? Can you buy Corn Nuts? Can you buy Basket Cheese? Are there facilities for morbidly obese people in giant shorts?

[Lemming Train]

bigpriest said:

Google Maps asking me questions about places I've visited. Is there a rest room here? Is there a parking lot? Can you buy Corn Nuts? Can you buy Basket Cheese? Are there facilities for morbidly obese people in giant shorts?

Turn off location tracking in your google account settings. Problem fixed.

[bigpriest]

Lemming Train said:

Turn off location tracking in your google account settings. Problem fixed.

I don't mind the tracking, it's the American phrasing to a lot of the questions. Although I now know what basket cheese is.

[Cantaloupe]

boxedin said:

That weird wet noise some people make when talking, as if they're having to moisten the word on its way out. Its really noticeable during radio / tv interviews. I can't listen to them, whether they're interesting or not.

Not quite sure what you mean, but on a similar theme it pains me to listen to Simon Mayo as he has the
strange inability to speak for more than two minutes without pausing to swallow his own spit, surely a negative
for a radio presenter, but he does all the time while radio partner Kermode can waffle for hours without pausing to swallow.

[davhill]

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[550man]

On the topic of people making 'wet noises' when speaking - particularly on radio, the worst offender I know (and I make no comment on his politics or his ability to use 1,000 words where 10 will do) is Barry Gardiner, Labour's Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade.

I am sure he is a lovely chap but his diction when I hear him interviewed or speaking on Question TIme/Any Questions just makes me shudder. It may just be me though!

[cookmysock]

ArnageWRC said:

WindyCommon said:

Cotty said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Anything whose description contains the word "artisan"

or Home Made.

“curated” drives me mad.

And it really shouldn't annoy me, but it does; people who pronounce Sram with an 'H' = Shram. Why?

hard to say, maybe ask this bloke

[Dave.]

Spammer.....

They annoy me, even moreso if they're allowed to do it....

[FourWheelDrift]

cookmysock said:

hard to say, maybe ask this bloke

"I have a great collection of shramics"

https://www.google.co.uk/search?biw=1920&bih=9...

[Dagnir]

Cotty said:

or Home Made.

What's wrong with something being home made?!?

[Cotty]

Dagnir said:

Cotty said:

or Home Made.

What's wrong with something being home made?!?

Im referring to when its prepared in a professional kitchen in a restaurant and they refer to something as home made. Its not, its restaurant made.

[Dagnir]

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