The small things in life that annoy you

[Patrick Bateman]

On 11/09/2024 at 08:31, Patrick Bateman said:

This is not fkn news: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89w4110n89o 😡

Also, not fkn news: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5r5nk4ry6o ... FFS!

[Weston Super Saint]

4 hours ago, trousers said:

The twats I'm talking about are the ones that go to one Tesco store at a time...

Are they not going to Tesco's - I.e. the store that belongs to Tesco?

[badgerx16]

The BBC putting images like this on articles;

Commercial aircraft do not cruise at an altitude of 14 miles. That is about 6 miles higher than such planes manage, although Concord flew at around 11 miles up when supersonic.

Edited 15 September, 2024 by badgerx16

[Behind Enemy Lines]

18 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

The BBC putting images like this on articles;

Commercial aircraft do not cruise at an altitude of 14 miles. That is about 6 miles higher than such planes manage, although Concord flew at around 11 miles up when supersonic.

It’s the note at the bottom that annoys me more! As if it needs to be said the objects aren’t to scale! 

[revolution saint]

2 hours ago, Behind Enemy Lines said:

It’s the note at the bottom that annoys me more! As if it needs to be said the objects aren’t to scale! 

Apparently Yuri Gagarin was quite a big fella.

[badgerx16]

A replacement motor for my electric sander is 50% dearer than a replacement sander.

[Hamilton Saint]

Using a country's name as an adjective: "France goalkeeper saves penalty". Correct form should be 'French goalkeeper saves penalty', or 'France's goalkeeper saves penalty'.

[Weston Super Saint]

20 minutes ago, Hamilton Saint said:

Using a country's name as an adjective: "France goalkeeper saves penalty". Correct form should be 'French goalkeeper saves penalty', or 'France's goalkeeper saves penalty'.

You need to have a word with someone about going to Tesco's 😉 

[The Kraken]

20 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

You need to have a word with someone about going to Tesco's 😉 

I only shop in Sainsbo’s and Waitro’s.

[trousers]

People (mainly politicians) that call it "our" NHS rather than "the" NHS. 

Cretins. 

[saint francis]

Clothes and shoe sizes. 

A medium t'shirt might fit, be too big or too small. 

A size 8 shoe might be too big or too small.  I have a closet where I have shoe sizes that fit from sizes 7 to 10.  

If manufacturers are incapable of accurately standardising clothes and shoe sizes, which they are, then your clothes and shoe shops should size items by centimetre. This way you wouldn't have to bother trying it on, know it would fit and would be more confident buying off the internet.  

And no, I'm not putting on weight.  Well I am actually but that's not the point. 

[Turkish]

On 16/09/2024 at 19:22, The Kraken said:

I only shop in Sainsbo’s and Waitro’s.

Sains - bros and Wait- Bros in the kids language, no?

[Hamilton Saint]

On 16/09/2024 at 13:40, Hamilton Saint said:

Using a country's name as an adjective: "France goalkeeper saves penalty". Correct form should be 'French goalkeeper saves penalty', or 'France's goalkeeper saves penalty'.

On today's BBC News website: "Four members of one family killed in Italy house collapse". Correct form would be 'four members of one family killed in collapse of Italian home'. Another one: "At least 51 dead in Iran coal mine explosion". Correct form would be 'at least 51 dead in explosion at Iranian coal mine'.

[Whitey Grandad]

7 hours ago, Hamilton Saint said:

On today's BBC News website: "Four members of one family killed in Italy house collapse". Correct form would be 'four members of one family killed in collapse of Italian home'. Another one: "At least 51 dead in Iran coal mine explosion". Correct form would be 'at least 51 dead in explosion at Iranian coal mine'.

Even more annoying that many youngsters won’t see these examples as wrong.

[revolution saint]

I'm sure this has been mentioned many, many times but people dawdling and shuffling along whilst looking at their phones.  Put your phone away, get your head up and look where you're going! 

[Sheaf Saint]

3 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Even more annoying that many youngsters won’t see these examples as wrong.

Yeah but news headlines need to be concise and, as such, they have always had their own grammatical rules that you don't find anywhere else. It's not a new thing.

[CB Fry]

12 hours ago, Hamilton Saint said:

On today's BBC News website: "Four members of one family killed in Italy house collapse". Correct form would be 'four members of one family killed in collapse of Italian home'. Another one: "At least 51 dead in Iran coal mine explosion". Correct form would be 'at least 51 dead in explosion at Iranian coal mine'.

 

4 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Even more annoying that many youngsters won’t see these examples as wrong.

Because they aren’t wrong.

That’s a writing style perfectly appropriate for news reporting.

This is moaning and pointless nitpicking on a par with idiots that say “it’s only the Union Jack when it’s on a boat”.

[trousers]

Checking, and re-checking, that you're putting a t-shirt on the right way, only to then put it on back-to-front anyway.... What kind of voodoo sh*t is that?

[trousers]

Avocados

[Hamilton Saint]

And then there is the appalling and incorrect practice of turning a noun into a verb: for example, to medal at the Olympic Games (to win a medal at); to weaponise the Justice Department (to turn the Justice Department into a weapon); to summit Mt. Everest (to reach the summit of Mt. Everest), she friended me (she became my friend), to impact the process (to have an impact on the process), etc. etc.

Edited 23 September, 2024 by Hamilton Saint
adding another good example!

[whelk]

16 minutes ago, Hamilton Saint said:

And then there is the appalling and incorrect practice of turning a noun into a verb: for example, to medal at the Olympic Games (to win a medal at); to weaponise the Justice Department (to turn the Justice Department into a weapon); to summit Mt. Everest (to reach the summit of Mt. Everest), she friended me (she became my friend), to impact the process (to have an impact on the process), etc. etc.

A true friend of the ad men desperate for new strap lines. Have you laptoped?

[badgerx16]

30 minutes ago, Hamilton Saint said:

And then there is the appalling and incorrect practice of turning a noun into a verb: for example, to medal at the Olympic Games (to win a medal at); to weaponise the Justice Department (to turn the Justice Department into a weapon); to summit Mt. Everest (to reach the summit of Mt. Everest), she friended me (she became my friend), to impact the process (to have an impact on the process), etc. etc.

As well as 'to medal' there is also 'to podium'.

[badgerx16]

Another one from ''Auntie''.......….

 

The BBC have a report on an 'ancient' shipwreck in Orkney - the ship is thought to be from the 17th century. That is NOT ancient - the Romans were ancient, the period of the English Civil War is not.

[trousers]

1 hour ago, badgerx16 said:

Another one from ''Auntie''.......….

 

The BBC have a report on an 'ancient' shipwreck in Orkney - the ship is thought to be from the 17th century. That is NOT ancient - the Romans were ancient, the period of the English Civil War is not.

Out of idle curiosity, on what date in history does "ancient" cease to be applicable...?

[badgerx16]

27 minutes ago, trousers said:

Out of idle curiosity, on what date in history does "ancient" cease to be applicable...?

Ancient is at least pre-medieval, and 'early medieval' is around the time of the earliest Anglo-Saxon settlement in Britain.

However you frame it, King Charles and Oliver Cromwell are not characters from ancient history.

[Picard]

31 minutes ago, trousers said:

Out of idle curiosity, on what date in history does "ancient" cease to be applicable...?

AD 500

[badgerx16]

3 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Ancient is at least pre-medieval, and 'early medieval' is around the time of the earliest Anglo-Saxon settlement in Britain.

 

2 minutes ago, Picard said:

AD 500

There you go 🙂

Edited 26 September, 2024 by badgerx16

[trousers]

4 minutes ago, Picard said:

AD 500

Bugger... I've got a coin dated AD 501 and have been incorrectly describing it as "ancient" for years!

[Weston Super Saint]

29 minutes ago, trousers said:

Bugger... I've got a coin dated AD 501 and have been incorrectly describing it as "ancient" for years!

Next year Rodders, next year

[Whitey Grandad]

54 minutes ago, trousers said:

Bugger... I've got a coin dated AD 501 and have been incorrectly describing it as "ancient" for years!

Is it described as ‘pre-used’ ?

[whelk]

1 hour ago, badgerx16 said:

 

There you go 🙂

So not Iggy Pop then?

[Hamilton Saint]

4 hours ago, trousers said:

Out of idle curiosity, on what date in history does "ancient" cease to be applicable...?

According to my Oxford Dictionary, ancient means "of or pertaining to the world prior to the fall of Rome in 476". And "the ancients" are the people of ancient times "especially the Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, and Egyptians".

[Lighthouse]

But are any of these ancients justified?

[badgerx16]

13 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

But are any of these ancients justified?

Only if they drive an ice cream van.

[trousers]

The proliferation of bands/artists releasing "special" 20th/30th/40th/50th anniversary versions of old albums.

Stop milking your gullible fans to boost your pension pots and start making some new music you lazy ****ing twats.

[rallyboy]

Mu Mu.

[badgerx16]

Those TV ads with a talking head speaking into the camera with a moving fuzzy background as the person in view rocks slightly side to side as they pretend to walk along.

 

Yes SelectSpecs, I mean you.

[whelk]

Slow speaking football pundits. Fucking get on with it. And while I’m at it you don’t need to say ‘football club’ after team name

[Gloucester Saint]

On 04/10/2024 at 08:25, trousers said:

The proliferation of bands/artists releasing "special" 20th/30th/40th/50th anniversary versions of old albums.

Stop milking your gullible fans to boost your pension pots and start making some new music you lazy ****ing twats.

I love the music of Pink Floyd but the Endless River had about two new tracks on it, the rest was off-cuts from the 1994 Division Bell album. Which was decent but 30 years old itself. At least there was some AI-related innovation in the Beatles single last year.

[trousers]

The usual idiots on Facebook responding to a "beware, there are kids knocking on people's doors" post with "yeah, but we all did it as kids..."

No. No we didn't. Yes, the thick kids did. Us more intelligent children were clever enough to find stuff to do that didn't involve distressing or inconveniencing the local neighbourhood.

Thick twats.

Edited 11 October, 2024 by trousers

[Gloucester Saint]

Receiving an online parcel with incorrect items.

Although have never had to contend with an ‘extra’ like this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39l3ex0mpgo

[trousers]

2 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Receiving an online parcel with incorrect items.

Although have never had to contend with an ‘extra’ like this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39l3ex0mpgo

You say that, but someone sent Rudolf Schenker through the post once upon a time...

[Gloucester Saint]

4 hours ago, trousers said:

You say that, but someone sent Rudolf Schenker through the post once upon a time...

Probably by his brother https://metalwani.com/2021/01/michael-schenker-on-his-brother-rudolf-he-is-a-bully-and-i-dont-connect-with-bullies.html

[badgerx16]

I don't mind people taking stupid risks on bikes if they are only likely to harm themselves, sometimes you can laugh at their plight when it all goes wrong. However, sometimes they take it too far; observed whilst driving to the shops - a man riding a bike on the pavement, no helmet, a shopping bag swinging from the right end of his handlebsrs whilst he uses his phone in his right hand..............and his small daughter sat on his shoulders ! ( Also no helmet ).

[skintsaint]

Woman reading the news on the BBC at lunch kept saying Harry Kane Milton. Even rewound it to make sure I wasn't hearing things...

[Gloucester Saint]

5 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

I don't mind people taking stupid risks on bikes if they are only likely to harm themselves, sometimes you can laugh at their plight when it all goes wrong. However, sometimes they take it too far; observed whilst driving to the shops - a man riding a bike on the pavement, no helmet, a shopping bag swinging from the right end of his handlebsrs whilst he uses his phone in his right hand..............and his small daughter sat on his shoulders ! ( Also no helmet ).

What an absolute pillock (the cyclist/biker).

[Whitey Grandad]

20 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

What an absolute pillock (the cyclist/biker).

A right helmet.

[Lighthouse]

P f**king R f**king I f**king N f**king T f**king E f**king R f**king S

Remember back in the glorious nineties when you could just plug a printer into your computer and click print and it would print something.

[rallyboy]

The media spoonfeeding trivia to simple folk. 

There's kids being burned in tents, but half of the UK is being distracted by a pointless debate on whether some fat fuck from an advert is a pervert or not. 

 

 

[Winnersaint]

People with their own YouTube Channels claiming to have heard (Band X) the first time and reacting to it on said channels. Live versions of Sultans of Swing in particular seem to be commonly used in this way. It usually starts with, "Hi I'm a guitarist and I came across this track for the first time." Yeah right, a guitarist who's never heard of Mark Knopfler kind of stretches the boundaries a bit. Also Americans putting stuff up about how different things are in the UK compared to America when they travel to or live in this country. No shit Sherlock!