Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[yello]

Tennis grand slam events being called slams.

 

[swee'pea99]

My phone resetting settings of its own volition. So I suddenly find location is on, or mobile data, though I keep them off by default. I just spent a couple of minutes re-enabling instant editing for screenshots - a very useful facility that had just stopped. The answer proved to be buried in a sub-sub-menu, so there's no way I turned it off inadvertently, but sure enough, there it was: off. I turned it back on and all is well. But grrrrr. The phone does this kind of thing all the time. I suspect quite a lot of this sort of thing is down to google. Google wants me to have location turned on, so every time it updates, it turns it back on again.

 

[swee'pea99]

Lunchtime today, I fancied spaghetti hoops. I opened the tin and tipped them onto a plate ready for the microwave. Except it wasn’t spaghetti, it was tomato soup, which went everywhere. Which idiot decided to make the tins look near identical?
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Still, I got a good laugh out of it, so that's something, eh?

 

[Oldhippy]

Relentless car adverts that seem to imply driving cars is almost a sexual experience. To the point I have a one way moan at the radio!

 

[Chromatic]

Relentless car adverts that seem to imply driving cars is almost a sexual experience. To the point I have a one way moan at the radio!

Is that a euphemism?

 

[Oldhippy]

Is that a euphemism?

Never thought that through huh! 😂

 

[PeteXXX]

People who are in charge of the megaphone at an event, or demonstration, and shout through it, making what they're saying totally unintelligible.

Mind you, they're probably spouting sh1te and I wouldn't want to hear it anyway...

 

[Chris S]

Having to take a winding path through the duty-free shop at an airport to get to the departure lounge.

 

[Beebo]

The National Television Awards.
It has to be the lowest common denominator TV awards. All voted for by the “Great British public”. It just shows the level of our fellow humans.
It’s all soap operas and game shows.
Factual TV doesn’t get a look in. Best factual show was Gogglebox, which isn’t even a factual show.
Best documentary was some puff piece about Kate Garroway’s husband.

 

[yello]

All voted for by the “Great British public”.

Are they though? I mean, let me clarify, I'm sure votes are made but are they counted? Or used to determine a winner?

Just like (and this is something that further brings out the cycnic in me) when presenters (radio or TV) say things like 'tell us what you think' or 'send us your ideas' by the usual email/social media methods etc. Now obviously the presenter isn't going to read through contributions but have you ever wondered who does? IF someone does? Maybe a production staff member grabs a couple, just because, and the rest? Just get purged in some automated process.

I want them to care. I mean really care.

 

[Moon bunny]

People making a statement then ...oh! Wait...they want to say the opposite.
It is getting old, tired, boring and corny, just stop it.

 

[gbb]

Butter dishes or margerine tubs....that look like a maniacal slasher (my wife ) has been in them.
I take the contents carefully, leaving the contents tidy.. when my wife has used either....it looks like a fight took place within.
Even worse, finding a bit of swede or potato in there

 

[PeteXXX]

Butter dishes or margerine tubs....that look like a maniacal slasher (my wife ) has been in them.
I take the contents carefully, leaving the contents tidy.. when my wife has used either....it looks like a fight took place within.
Even worse, finding a bit of swede or potato in there

Worse than swede or potato are toast crumbs transferred from spreading then needing more butter!

 

[Chief Broom]

Sat nav saying "re-calculating" sounds almost sarky and would include "you idiot" if it could

 

[Blue Hills]

Having to take a winding path through the duty-free shop at an airport to get to the departure lounge.

yep - a fairly recent thing - how far can they take that?
reminds me of walking down amsterdam streets and constantly being asked if I want drugs, or of old walking in some eastern european cities and having spivs emerge out of doorways to try to do currency deals.