Things that annoy you, that shouldn't..

[longers]

When your browsing a site and looking at some gear,and it says click here to see larger image,when it opens ,the image is the same size in the top corner of the page

Ta col - I'd forgotten that one!

Another one for me is people who use a vice to cut something and then leave the cutoff in the jaws of the vice. Not serious but bloody annoying.

 

[Dayvo]

People at work who use MY cup and don't wash it after them!

And leave skidders 'welded' to the sides of the toilet! !

 

[thejonesy]

Cars that overtake me on the bike within a nanometer of my elbow, and the car has a bike rack on the back carrying bikes. !

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Split infinitives are grammatically incorrect and really get my goat.
'Data is' . No, 'Data are'. Data = plural. Datum = singular.

Split infinitives such as "to really get", for instance. Yes I know you probably did that deliberately.
Agree with you about "data is/data are". Even Radio 4 get that one wrong and it irritates me!

 

[dangerousjules]

whats really annoying is when people say when they see you looking for something "it's always in the last place you saw it" ahhhh wtf would you really carry on looking if you had already found it and if you knew where it was would'nt you go straight there to it!

 

[Elmer Fudd]

whats really annoying is when people say when they see you looking for something "it's always in the last place you saw it" ahhhh wtf would you really carry on looking if you had already found it and if you knew where it was would'nt you go straight there to it!

On that basis when I can't find my keys I look for my glasses and find my keys . and vice versa.

 

[Dayvo]

When someone wants to emphasise something and uses their index and middle fingers as quotation marks: that "REALLY" annoys me!

 

[Andy in Sig]

One that really grips me but which I've been reluctant to mention up to now for fear of offending the one or two forummers who have adopted it (but now I'm in a bad mood cos it's raining again and so don't care any more) is the pathetic adoption of the American "hey" when they mean "hello". "Hey" is OK as a shout to get somebody's attention but even then it lacks the impact of "Oi". Why are people so weak in their own language that they feel the need to go mid-Atlantic in order to impress?

 

[Dayvo]

Not something, but someone!
Richard Quest, prize dickhead on CNN. Total to$$er!

 

[Andy in Sig]

I'd forgotten that prat. Do you think Quest is his real name?

Add to him Rachel (or Rebecca?) Anderson who is completely up herself and just as annoying.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Not something, but someone!
Richard Quest, prize dickhead on CNN. Total to$$er!

Hej Dayvo

I know what you mean, wish somebody would buy him some throat pastilles....

On the subject of Hey, where does it come from? Is it from the Nordic/Scandanavian Hej?
What about Oi, is that not Portuguese? It's certainly used in Brazil in many circumstances as one might use Hey.

Any bi-cunninglingual etymologists out there?

 

[Dayvo]

Not something, but someone!
Richard Quest, prize dickhead on CNN. Total to$$er!

Hej Dayvo

I know what you mean, wish somebody would buy him some throat pastilles....

On the subject of Hey, where does it come from? Is it from the Nordic/Scandanavian Hej?
What about Oi, is that not Portuguese? It's certainly used in Brazil in many circumstances as one might use Hey.

Any bi-cunninglingual etymologists out there?[/QUOTE]

Well, hei/hej is indeed the Scandinavian for hello (and strangely enough goodbye - like the Italian 'ciao'), but maybe this will shed some light on it:

http://www.answers.com/topic/hey

And if you can't be bothered to read it, 'hey' could be derived from how are you!

 

[barq]

Oh, I've thought of another one... It's technically off-topic because this is about things that annoy you that shouldn't, whereas I'm standing behind this one!

People being too casual about arrangements. I've really noticed this since I moved down south (sorry if that sounds a bit sweeping, but I swear it never used to happen to me in Brum). People just seem to feel free to blow you out at the last minute and not even bother to let you know. The other variant is where you try and arrange something and people say "Yeah, I'll just have too see, let's just play it by ear...". On the face of it sounds fair enough, but in reality tends to mean "I'll just see if anything better turns up, and if not they you are my fall-back plan."

 

[Dayvo]

Mark Lawrenson gets on my goat, too (metaphorically speaking, that is! I don't have a goat but he probably would if I did and knew where I lived!

 

[terry huckle]

The extremely annoying use of Americanisms, particularly the word "regular"

My bowel movements are quite regular, the local bus service may be regular (unlikely).....but when I want a cup of coffee in whatever coffee shop I`m attending, I want a normal sized one please. Thankyou.