Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[MontyVeda]

Then the name will be obscured if you move six feet to the left ...

only a fool would stand six feet to the left

 

[ColinJ]

Just centre the wording over the feckin doorway

Then the name will be obscured if you move six feet to the left ...

Do the sign twice? Once over the doorway, and again at the other end!

 

[Beebo]

Car parking payment apps.
Why can’t there be one standard one, instead of having to download and enter details almost time I park somewhere new.

 

[oldwheels]

Not all that trivial.
Just seen an ad for Fair Isle Knitwear made in England. Really annoys me such theft of a name which to the casual buyer is probably not apparent.

 

[Blue Hills]

Bicycle related - the normally great Shimano stamping its part numbers, on mechs and the like, in really tiny lettering - often in really odd hidden places and even when I have found them, cleaned them, shone an oblique strong light at them and peered through my reading glasses at them, I am quite often still not entirely sure what the damn ID is. Often wonder if doing a mini "brass rubbing" on them may help.
Not a nerdy point - often important to try to figure out if the spec of a thing is suitable.
Why why why shimano?

 

[Chris S]

People turning the handlebars upside down on old bikes and calling them 'path racers'.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Pretentious arty black on black advertising photos esp of black bikes on black backgrounds. Not clever, getting very boring.

 

[raleighnut]

Liz Truss

 

[mistyoptic]

Pretentious arty black on black advertising photos esp of black bikes on black backgrounds. Not clever, getting very boring.

Maybe because the art department see so many cyclists dressed in black, on black bikes, on shady lanes - or, maybe don't see them

 

[swee'pea99]

Switches. Over the last couple of years I've had to discard a hob, an oven and a kettle which were working absolutely fine, and were 98% sound, because flimsy switches had broken and could not be replaced. I've managed to bodge a repair on our Electrolux cooker hood - a thousand pound piece of kit, relying entirely on a switch so badly designed that

every switch is connected only by a tiny tab of perishable plastic at the top. Not only that, some genius at Electrolux has designed it so that the actual switch is not located centrally, but off in one corner, setting up a leverage point that positively invites a slightly over-enthusiastic prod to twist and snap.

FWIW, the hob and the oven were also Electrolux. Not that I'm pissed off or anything, but certainly I for one will never buy anything Electrolux ever again.

 

[Oldhippy]

I found a new annoyance today, I got a bus for a change and had to endure some t*at talking about the pizza his mate had just ordered and regular updates of where he was and when he would arrive. I'm a placid man but he came close to having his phone accidentally falling out of the window. Think I will stick to the bike in future.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Sky TV claiming that their version of the BBC series Never Mind the Buzzcocks is - somehow- a 'Sky original'. They did the same with the recent remake of the Wolfgang Peterson original 'Das Boot' submarine drama.

Note to Sky - you are remaking other people's original ideas, not yours.

 

[Chief Broom]

Tourists in the Highlands wearing ridiculous hats of the kind Indiana Jones would be proud of You would think theyre hiking it up the Klondike fighting indians and wrestling bears...

 

[youngoldbloke]

Tracking that only tells you when the parcel has been delivered, not before.

 

[Drago]

People with such poor self control that they keep dragging politics back onto this forum.