Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[Windle]

In a similar fashion to 'can I get', a phrase increasingly used by cycling commentators ~ 'from the get go' . Speak English. If only there was a single word that meant the same thing, and didn't sound so clumsy and make you appear a numpty. Yes...... start, that's it!
I can just imagine Ned or Pete getting in their car to head off to the commentary box and pressing the 'Engine Get Go button'. GRRRR.

 

[youngoldbloke]

A few times a week I have chips (sometimes the owners make me 'finger dabs' which are battered chips, instead of a battered slice of potato) peas and vegetable gravy in a local chip shop. I eat this at the counter while chatting/gossiping with the shop's owners. I hear customers, mostly in their late teens or 20's saying "Can I get", instead of "Can I have". I find this trivially annoying beyond my expectations. 🧐

Shouldn't it be 'please may I have...'?

 

[grldtnr]

A few times a week I have chips (sometimes the owners make me 'finger dabs' which are battered chips, instead of a battered slice of potato) peas and vegetable gravy in a local chip shop. I eat this at the counter while chatting/gossiping with the shop's owners. I hear customers, mostly in their late teens or 20's saying "Can I get", instead of "Can I have". I find this trivially annoying beyond my expectations. 🧐

Really ! How uncouth of you standing in a chippy, dressed in your finery eating with your fingers !
If I buy a take- out I generally place it on a plate, eat with cutlery, and drink from a glass or cup,
Etiquette ,dear boy, etiquette! Standards don't you know.....

 

[Accy cyclist]

Really ! How uncouth of you standing in a chippy, dressed in your finery eating with your fingers !
If I buy a take- out I generally place it on a plate, eat with cutlery, and drink from a glass or cup,
Etiquette ,dear boy, etiquette! Standards don't you know.....

I use one of those small wooden forks. 🧐

 

[Jameshow]

That's most holidays, even if you stay in this country. We did a Fri-Fri last week but in theory it's really Sat-Thurs.

Just spend the last day out somewhere. Also the first day too.... Bonus extra day. I prefer travelling at night too less traffic.

 

[grldtnr]

I use one of those small wooden forks. 🧐

You still get grease everywhere !
However will you get those stains out of those expensive Cordings dud's,
I won't even eat chippy takeaways in the car, unless it's an old school limousine jalopy with the picnic tables in the back, the manservant can do all the cleaning.....

 

[Poacher]

Just watching the Olympics opening ceremony. FFS, BBC, you can provide all sorts of inconsequential / interesting facts about each participating country, but can't get your commentator to pronounce Dominica correctly! It's DominEEKa, not the same as the chuffing Dominican Republic, you effing idiot!

Edit: made a point of pronouncing the "Neevis" in St Kitts & Nevis correctly, though. Has someone had a word?

 

[Poacher]

Whenever I leave the living room for a while, to do something actually useful, like cooking a meal for both of us, or posting on here, I come back in and find she's switched the TV to some variant of Gogglebox!
I hate that program with all my soul and she knows it. Is there any hour of the day when it isn't on any channel?

 

[Electric_Andy]

People saying "this needs replaced". I thought it was an Americanism but I've just heard 2 Scots say it too. It may well be grammatically correct but it sounds wrong to me!

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Claire Balding

 

[grldtnr]

Claire Balding

Except Clair isn't balding, she rides a bike tho', guessing that's OK.

 

[Andy in Germany]

In the last 24 hours in Stuttgart, I've seen more entitled driving than during a month in the Freiburg region.

 

[Andy in Germany]

The estate agent today telling me "the landlord wants a tenant who will stay long term" repeatedly. I don't care what the landlord wants; I'm paying them to use their apartment, and I'll move when I choose, thankyouverymuch.

I almost want to take the apartment and leave after a year, but it's not ideal and a bit too far from work.

 

[albion]

Judging of contests.

The sooner they move to AI for sport scoring the better.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Judging of contests.

The sooner they move to AI for sport scoring the better.

True, then we'll be spared all the running about as well: just enter the averages for all the competitors and come up with a result, give them their medal/cup/plate and send them home. Much more efficient.