Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

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Jameshow

Veteran
Kids YouTube videos.....

Unless you have seen them you don't fully understand!?🤣🤣🤣🤮🤮🤮
 

youngoldbloke

The older I get, the faster I used to be ...
'Optic' and 'up-tick' - increasingly used by those who want to sound clever and cool. What's wrong with 'appearance' and 'increase'?
 

figbat

Slippery scientist
Two radio adverts are annoying me at the moment.
Skoda and Hyundai.
Both are trying to get us to pronounce their name differently.
It’s nonsense, all brand names are anglicised.

Are they? Peugeot? Renault? Alfa Romeo? Those are the ones off the top of my head that are generally, usually pronounced in the native way.

Why shouldn't a brand dictate how they are said? Just like a person who corrects pronunciation of their own name. It sounds odd hearing Shkoda after years of lazily saying Skoda, but we shouldn't just ignore and often remove those diacriticals. The brand is Škoda, with the squiggle over the S. We don't use diacriticals in the English alphabet so we just lop them off wherever we find them. They mean something though and alter the pronunciation of the letter involved. There are often ways to rewrite them without - for example Nürburgring should be Nuerburgring, but most just lop off the inconvenient umlaut and go all Brit abroad on it, saying and writing it how they think it should be rather than how it is.

I get annoyed beyond expectation by such arrogant ignorance of foreign languages and dogmatic Anglicisation of everything.
 
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Beebo

Firm and Fruity
Location
Hexleybeef
Are they? Peugeot? Renault? Alfa Romeo? Those are the ones off the top of my head that are generally, usually pronounced in the native way.

Why shouldn't a brand dictate how they are said? Just like a person who corrects pronunciation of their own name. It sounds odd hearing Shkoda after years of lazily saying Skoda, but we shouldn't just ignore and often remove those diacriticals. The brand is Škoda, with the squiggle over the S. We don't use diacriticals in the English alphabet so we just lop them off wherever we find them. They mean something though and alter the pronunciation of the letter involved. There are often ways to rewrite them without - for example Nürburgring should be Nuerburgring, but most just lop off the inconvenient umlaut and go all Brit abroad on it, saying and writing it how they think it should be rather than how it is.

I get annoyed beyond expectation by such arrogant ignorance of foreign languages and dogmatic Anglicisation of everything.

Have you read the title of this thread?
it’s trivial, don’t take it so seriousl.y.
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
Don't you just hate it when you have 500 GB worth of TV recordings going back 7 years and then your Freesat recorder arbitrarily decides that it will reformat its hard drive for you and throw them all away?!!!! :cursing:

At least it answers the question "How will I ever find the time to watch all of that stuff?"... :wacko:

Now I have to find out why it did it. Maybe it is new hard drive time, or even new digi-box time?
 

Mike_P

Guru
Location
Harrogate
There is a line of thought that cats should be allowed one litter. By neutering straight away they are not evolving as much as they might away from the need to hunt to survive.
 

Accy cyclist

Legendary Member
I'd only been in Accrington town centre today for a mere minute or so when suddenly my right shoe stuck to the floor. With it being a loafer my foot lifted out the shoe, such was the lack of movement by the shoe. I managed to prise the shoe off the pavement then saw what has caused it to stick so much. Some skank had gobbed their chewing gum on the floor, right next to a bin and I had the misfortune to stand on it! :angry:
 

Electric_Andy

Heavy Metal Fan
Location
Plymouth
There is a line of thought that cats should be allowed one litter. By neutering straight away they are not evolving as much as they might away from the need to hunt to survive.

my ex wanted her cat to have a litter just because she thought every female animal should experience it. She was of course very well cared for and gave birth at our house, not in a shed
 

Alex321

Guru
Location
South Wales
There is a line of thought that cats should be allowed one litter. By neutering straight away they are not evolving as much as they might away from the need to hunt to survive.

I think that line of thought doesn't understand evolution.

You need active selective breeding to breed out such a trait, because while not a harmful trait for house cats, it isn't actually beneficial, so gives them no evolutionary advantage over cats that still have it.
 
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