Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[Andy in Germany]

And another thing! Those grooves between the whales are designed for maximum efficiency in catching dirt, fag ash, bits of pie and so on, as well as being an ideal hiding place for parasites of all kinds, including, but not limited to: fleas, lice, ticks, keds, barnacles, and various tropical worms. Just avoid them, and those that wear them.

Would i be corret in saying that you don't like them?

I'm also beginning to see a slight antipathy here.

 

[ColinJ]

- I hope you don't wear jeans with turn-ups!

I had better not tell you some of the things that I used to find in my beard on a Monday morning after a heavy weekend of partying!

 

[mistyoptic]

- I hope you don't wear jeans with turn-ups!

Not even with socks and sandals?

 

[oldwheels]

Lazy and ignorant reporting from BBBScotland or anywhere else for that matter.
Just heard a radio Scotland reporter telling how he watched police divers entering a loch wearing their oxygen cylinders.
They do contain some oxygen as they are in fact compressed air but that is not the same as oxygen cylinders and simply perpetuates a myth.

 

[Chris S]

Lazy and ignorant reporting from BBBScotland or anywhere else for that matter.

They also keep going on about the 'Moderator of the Church of Scotland'. It's the 'Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland'.

 

[ColinJ]

Lazy and ignorant reporting from BBBScotland or anywhere else for that matter.
Just heard a radio Scotland reporter telling how he watched police divers entering a loch wearing their oxygen cylinders.
They do contain some oxygen as they are in fact compressed air but that is not the same as oxygen cylinders and simply perpetuates a myth.

I think it is odd that they even mentioned what they were wearing - we all know what divers look like!

What next... This?

"And the divers were wearing cylinders, wetsuits, flippers, and masks. Everywhere they swam, trails of bubbles followed."

Surely, the important facts were that divers were there, and that was because of [the reason]?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

One that always infuriates my Dad is when on the news, a child or a young person dies and they have someone from their School or whatever saying how wonderful and loved they were, etc. Either that or something like

'The family of the teenager killed in the bus crash at the weekend have told how they were the light if their lives and will never be forgotten...'.

In my Dad's words

'Well, they aren't going to tell us they were a wee sh*t, are they, so what's even the point in telling us?'

😆

I have to agree.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

One that I have mentioned on here before is on the news, the telly or just generally, when they are talking about someone who has done something/something has happened to them at a young age or has died and they use the totally needless prefix of 'just'.

'He was was just nine'
'She was just 58'

At what age do you stop being 'just'? 🤷

 

[Alex321]

One that I have mentioned on here before is on the news, the telly or just generally, when they are talking about someone who has done something/something has happened to them at a young age or has died and they use the totally needless prefix of 'just'.

'He was was just nine'
'She was just 58'

At what age do you stop being 'just'? 🤷

At an age where it is normal for whatever happened to them to do so. It is used to emphasise the fact that it wasn't really expoected at that age.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

At an age where it is normal for whatever happened to them to do so. It is used to emphasise the fact that it wasn't really expoected at that age.

They seem to use it for just about anything though oh and if you have, say, an accident, at what age are you expected to have it? 🤷😆

Anyone with half a brain can accept things happen to people of all ages and don't need things emphasised anyway.

 

[Alex321]

They seem to use it for just about anything though oh and if you have, say, an accident, at what age ARE you expected to have it? 🤷😆

That one, the "just" is usually implying "life cut short", so it is the death (or life-changing injury) which is unexpectedly early, not specifically the accident that caused it.

And yes, it probably does get over-used.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

One that always infuriates my Dad is when on the news, a child or a young person dies and they have someone from their School or whatever saying how wonderful and loved they were, etc. Either that or something like

'The family of the teenager killed in the bus crash at the weekend have told how they were the light if their lives and will never be forgotten...'.

In my Dad's words

'Well, they aren't going to tell us they were a wee sh*t, are they, so what's even the point in telling us?'

😆

I have to agree.

There was a live interview on local TV a few years back after a man had been found murdered on an isolated footpath. The person interviewed shared his opinion that the deceased was "always a bit of a daffodil, and usually looking for a fight" They quickly cut away and I don't think the case got much more media coverage.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

That one, the "just" is usually implying "life cut short", so it is the death (or life-changing injury) which is unexpectedly early, not specifically the accident that caused it.

And yes, it probably does get over-used.

Probably?

To be fair, it is not as bad as it was, but it is still rather pointless to me.
Also it gets really stupid when people talk about someone starting something relatively ordinary at a young age

'They started ice skating at just 6'

Shuuuttuuuuppp!! Here was me thinking you had to be at least 20 before you could start! 😆
Also, look at that sentence again and tell me how necessary the word 'just' really is?
Once you realise this, you start to see how clunky and pointless it sounds...

If you never noticed it, then you'll have missed the stupid examples like that.

The point is, it is a rather pointless thing to say really unless you are treating your audience as being so thick that they need to be told that things (good or bad) happen to people of all ages.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I've decided that from now on I'm not going to be polite while driving. This thing is becoming a common occurrence. Yesterday it happened again. When I see a vehicle on the other side of the road wanting to turn right and they have a queue of traffic behind them that can't pass the vehicle's left hand side I do what many others do and flash the vehicle or give a hand gesture to say that I've stopped or slowed down to let them turn right, allowing the traffic behind them to move on. The thing that gets me is that some of those in the waiting to turn right vehicle don't turn right when I flash them with my headlights. I could flash them frantically and still they don't move. This has as affect on the vehicles behind me who can't pass me like the ones on the opposite side of the road who can't pass the vehicle I'm flashing or indicating to. Usually I give up and drive on. Then the one that really gets me is when they do respond, then turn right without acknowledging my gesture of goodwill, by simply holding their hand to to thank me, as if I have to give way to then by law or something. Yes, They simply turn right without any acknowledgement at all!! So that's it! From now on, no matter how many vehicles are queuing up behind the vehicle on the opposite side of the road wanting to turn right, I'm not going to stop or slow down to let that vehicle turn right!! I just can not live with such bad manners, so why let it happen when I have the capability to not let it happen. Nope, that's it! I'm done with them!!

 

[Accy cyclist]

Then there's another that really gets to me! Yes, It's the one where the vehicle wanting to turn right isn't even indicating to let other traffic know their intentions! I would never stop or slow down to let such a vehicle turn right, but imagine If I did, then they didn't respond to my headlight flashing, or did respond, without acknowledging my gesture of goodwill!!