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Really minor annoyances

chunkyshanhawk53 said:
I’m sure I’ve mentioned it, but butter on planes that is rock hard is very annoying
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You put fine slices of butter onto your shitty roll
Cockney Mackem said:
Parents who park on the zigzags to drop their kids off at school. Abusing the road measures designed to protect your own kids. Morons


M&S Spreadable the worst offender for this.
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I bought some yeo valley spreadable this week .

Better than most ..
 

monkeytassle said:
Losing the rubber bit from your earphones.
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Buying a new pair of earphones after dropping one of the original ones causing it to split in two, putting it back together and then thinking it’s broken cos there is no sound only to realise the reason there is no sound is because the volume is turned right down on your phone.
 
Cockney Mackem said:
Sit the butter portion on the hot part of the meal for a minute or two to soften it up
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Normally starving and eaten it all by that point.

Plus any of the families that they don't want .. often hand over the dessert
Talking of flights


Being called to the gate dead early and then having to wait for an hour in an area with not enough seats and facilities
 
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AmblerThorn said:
Poundland

Stood in a queue for a while today while the till person had to tell every single customer they now have an app and do you want to download it now and get some points?

Works like Asda reward points you know

Seen the queue mate? That's you causing that Mr/Ms Poundland enployee

And asking for every card transaction if you want to make a charity donation - to a charity they don't even have the decency to identify - is just outlandishly rude

Actually just retailers in general as I was out shopping today. Retail experience in the UK is the pits
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Had a similar thing the other day. Popped into the Shell Garage on the A690 and the woman at the till was trying to get every single one of the 5 customers in the queue in front of me (and including me) to sign up to their app to get measly discounts on tat in the garage shop.

Took about 3 times as long for me to pay and be on my way than it would have otherwise.

No one was arsed about the app either.
 
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Epping said:
Tubs of supposedly spreadable butter that are anything but... End up shredding your bread to pieces trying to spread it
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We switched to proper butter and a butter dish because of this. Especially with soft bread rolls, 'spreadable' butter was just not working. We end up using less too.
 
Epping said:
Normally starving and eaten it all by that point.

Plus any of the families that they don't want .. often hand over the dessert
Talking of flights


Being called to the gate dead early and then having to wait for an hour in an area with not enough seats and facilities
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Ryanair do this all the time, the plane has never arrived

I understand they want to turnaround quickly but they go too far
 
Epping said:
Normally starving and eaten it all by that point.

Plus any of the families that they don't want .. often hand over the dessert
Talking of flights


Being called to the gate dead early and then having to wait for an hour in an area with not enough seats and facilities
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This.

Or morons who queue up (usually panic and rush to get in the queue as if its a call for lifeboat spaces on the titanic) and are stood there for an eternity despite everyone having allocated seats.
 
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Parking for dropping off and collecting at Leeds Bradford Airport annoys me.

Went two minutes over the allotted “1 hour free parking” when collectingand was charged £59. Learnt my lesson and used the pickup and drop off zone for dropping off. But charged £7 for pulling up, opening a door, saying ‘bye’ and pulling away.

This time (today) though it was: parking at Costa Coffee along the road, saying bye, hugs all round, popping into costa for a wee, deciding not to have a coffee and walking back to the car. I hadn’t even set off when I got a text to say ‘I’m at the checkin desk’.

Guess which method I’ll be using in future.
 
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Dunno how often this happens, but moving into a place with fuck loads of redundant phone sockets from various phone suppliers.

Got BT Broadband, and they install a fresh point at a new location in the living room. Got about two BT ones and a Virgin Media one in the living room that do nothing and obviously have wires going in from the outside, as well as various other things dotted around house. External walls are like f***ing Swiss cheese from all the pointless wires going in from a Sky Dish, TV aerial etc. etc. etc.

They're eager to penetrate - ooer - your property, but do f all when the contract ends. Suppose I'll have to go on a mission with a screwdriver and some sealant.
 
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BiG said:
Two minor annoyances.

  1. Buskers with annoyingly and unnecessary amplification. If you’re going to sing or strum on a street corner, why is it necessary for me to hear it 4 streets away?
  2. Finding out, when I log in to post about my annoyance regarding buskers that somebody has started a new minor annoyances thread.
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It's even worse on the Tube when you can hear them from another station :evil:
 
In the corner of our utility room we have a plastic crate for mixed recycling. When it gets full there are three choices. Empty the bloody thing, come to me and ask me to empty it, or continue to pile the recycling up the corner of the wall so that when I move it, it all cascades down or if I go to empty it I have to take each overfill out at a time, empty the box and come back to then round up the rest.

I prefer the first one, get annoyed at the last one, don't mind the middle one. Guess which the rest of my family prefer?
 
BiG said:
Laura Kuensberg

Except that if we’re judging by the volume and frequency at which I’m yelling at the telly, it may not be a ‘minor’ annoyance.
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I turned over after about 30 seconds having witnessed her early outright aggression towards BP

Don't do it to yourself again
 
I seem to be on this thread quite a bit 😜

Anyway : YouTube subtitles.

Example: I’ve just watched one where Brian Johnson uses the phrase “I’ve always been a car fanatic…” and the subtitle reads “I always been a coffinattic”.

There are loads more that render what the person is saying into utter nonsensical gibberish. One presumes that the people who upload them doesn’t actually understand what’s being said anyway.
 
BiG said:
I seem to be on this thread quite a bit 😜

Anyway : YouTube subtitles.

Example: I’ve just watched one where Brian Johnson uses the phrase “I’ve always been a car fanatic…” and the subtitle reads “I always been a coffinattic”.

There are loads more that render what the person is saying into utter nonsensical gibberish. One presumes that the people who upload them doesn’t actually understand what’s being said anyway.
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It's voice recognition and repetition to get paid by yt or f etc
 
monkeytassle said:
It's voice recognition and repetition to get paid by yt or f etc
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Well I realised is voice recognition, but I assumed there’s somebody, somewhere who might actually check it before it’s uploaded.

I have no idea what the latter part of your sentence means. Don’t feel the need to explain though. I’ll live with it 😉
 
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