Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[Accy cyclist]

Accrington Stanley FC have worn red shorts with their red shirts and red socks for about 7 or 8 years. I wish they'd go back to wearing their traditional white shorts!🧐

 

[Accy cyclist]

On the subject of football strips, I dislike it (almost immensely I have to say) when commentators say 'They are all in (for example) red'. Obviously they are all in red! If some were in red and some weren't it'd look quite odd. What they should say is 'they are in all red'.🧐

 

[alchurch]

Discovering that Desert Island Discs wasn't broadcast from a desert isle. What a con!

Yeah at school we thought a desert island was just large enough to grow a coconut tree in the middle .

 

[Moon bunny]

Granola.

 

[Tribansman]

Kirstie Allsopp

 

[PeteXXX]

Cardboard straws that won't puncture the drinks carton without creating a mango smoothie fountain ⛲

DAMHIKT

 

[KnittyNorah]

People who are entirely American - born and brought up there, carrying US passports, parents ditto - yet who say blithely 'I'm Scottish' or 'I'm Swedish/Polish/Spanish/whatever'. I recently even heard 'I'm a Yorkshire woman'. From someone who has never been to Europe - let alone Yorkshire! - in their life.

 

[classic33]

People who are entirely American - born and brought up there, carrying US passports, parents ditto - yet who say blithely 'I'm Scottish' or 'I'm Swedish/Polish/Spanish/whatever'. I recently even heard 'I'm a Yorkshire woman'. From someone who has never been to Europe - let alone Yorkshire! - in their life.

Sorry but that is just impossible, if she's never been here. Born here, Yorkshire, and moved, under cover of darkness, out off The County is a possibility.

 

[KnittyNorah]

Sorry but that is just impossible, if she's never been here. Born here, Yorkshire, and moved, under cover of darkness, out off The County is a possibility.

She'd just joined an internet group - which is international but heavily slanted towards UK and Australia - I'm involved with and someone asked her where she was from. She said 'I'm from Yorkshire in England' and several of us responded by saying oh where in Yorkshire, or made the usual jokes about getting a visa to cross the 'border' between Lancs and Yorks.
She said she came from near York, and someone else said, 'ooh I live in XYZ village, do you know it?' and she then said 'oh I've never been there, it's my dream to go some day, I live in Arizona and I've traced my family tree. My great great great grandfather and his entire family immigrated here.'

And then someone asked 'But where did your other 31 g-g-g-grandparents come from? Did they all come from Yorkshire too?'

LOL!

 

[figbat]

In that case I'm from somewhere on the African continent. It turns out I have been home too, or somewhere in the continental vicinity.

 

[DaveReading]

And then someone asked 'But where did your other 31 g-g-g-grandparents come from? Did they all come from Yorkshire too?'

If she was really from Yorkshire, she probably didn't have 32 different ones.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Not anymore but colleagues who used to try and schedule a meeting in the only free hours of my day, lunchtime! I used to turn down their invites, which they couldn’t quite grasp why. After a while I used to put a private meeting in my diary for every lunch time, so others couldn’t try and fill my time with their useless meetings. I’m having my break, now piss off.

 

[alchurch]

People who are entirely American - born and brought up there, carrying US passports, parents ditto - yet who say blithely 'I'm Scottish' or 'I'm Swedish/Polish/Spanish/whatever'. I recently even heard 'I'm a Yorkshire woman'. From someone who has never been to Europe - let alone Yorkshire! - in their life.

My understanding is that all whites in America come from immigrants , they certainly are not natives

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Not anymore but colleagues who used to try and schedule a meeting in the only free hours of my day, lunchtime! I used to turn down their invites, which they couldn’t quite grasp why. After a while I used to put a private meeting in my diary for every lunch time, so others couldn’t try and fill my time with their useless meetings. I’m having my break, now piss off.

Where I work it is forbidden to schedule meetings between 1200-14:00. Staff are encouraged to take a proper lunch break, away from their screen.

 

[cougie uk]

Where I work it is forbidden to schedule meetings between 1200-14:00. Staff are encouraged to take a proper lunch break, away from their screen.

That's a good rule. My last employer was global though so most team meetings were inconvenient to at least some of the team. Global teams suck.