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Really minor annoyances


PhilY said:
Courtesy is one thing and is in the gift of the pedestrian, in this case, to bestow or not.

It is not courtesy for the poster to assume that he can have right of way - or to rail against pedestrians who choose not to provide that courtesy.
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People who choose not to "bestow" courtesy when they easily can are minor annoyances as per thread.
Have a nice day you loiterer 😄
 
Amnorrageordie said:
People, usually taxi drivers, women on their phones or other food delivery drivers, parked up facing oncoming traffic with their headlights on.
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Often with their doors wide open stopping you getting past. Not to mention u-turns without warning in the middle of the road, jumping red lights, parking two abreast on a busy road while they nip in to get their next delivery. Music banging out of their cars when they park in the middle of the road (with their door open) when making a delivery.

Deliveroo/Just Eat drivers should have their very own category of annoyances. Worst drivers ever.
 
People saying avaiDable instead of avaiLable.

As in "Are you avaidable to start?"

No such word and a boss at work uses it constantly.
 
When you mail someone with a spreadsheet with a big long list of things for their team, making it clear it is part of a bigger spreadsheet and I just need a comment in one column for every line listed. 2 weeks later they return it with "improvements". Lines added for things I don't care about, rows or cells merged, a colour coding scheme, and perhaps extra fields.

You start expecting a cut and paste job for the bigger picture and end up spending ages doing it almost a line at a time translating it back in the format you asked for. But you can't moan too much because at least they supplied lots of information, rather than the other teams who didn't respond at all.
 
Thatheaderman said:
"Aksk"

As in "ask a question"

Boils my piss
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I always hear it as "Axe a question"

Ibrufen instead of Ibuprofen
Filum instead of Film
"Can I get a" instead of "Can I have a"

A modern twist is "I feel nauseous", whilst it has become grammatically correct to say it, to me it's still wrong.
"I feel nauseous", if something is nauseous, then it makes you feel sick, like boiling fat etc. So when you say "I feel nauseous" it means I feel as though I make you feel sick, which actually is partly correct :)
 
mickb2112 said:
When a road is closed and there`s a diversion and you follow the signs and then you get to a junction or roundabout and those diversion signs miraculously disappear and you have no idea which way to turn.
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Or "Road Ahead Closed" signs with no context or further information.

9 times out of 10 it means a lane, a side road or a slip road. It doesn't always mean the road you are on. You end up driving on thinking "what, where" and find out it didn't apply to you anyway. But then that 1 in 10 it does and you end up at the road block having to turn around.
 
DaveH said:
Or "Road Ahead Closed" signs with no context or further information.

9 times out of 10 it means a lane, a side road or a slip road. It doesn't always mean the road you are on. You end up driving on thinking "what, where" and find out it didn't apply to you anyway. But then that 1 in 10 it does and you end up at the road block having to turn around.
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The A66 this weekend on Saturday and Sunday - without even a diversion sign with lorries and caravans trying to go down a narrow road to get round to Keswick with traffic coming the other way leading to huge jams. Not one single policemen in place to direct traffic or signs to give guidance.
 
a1970man said:
I always hear it as "Axe a question"

Ibrufen instead of Ibuprofen
Filum instead of Film
"Can I get a" instead of "Can I have a"

A modern twist is "I feel nauseous", whilst it has become grammatically correct to say it, to me it's still wrong.
"I feel nauseous", if something is nauseous, then it makes you feel sick, like boiling fat etc. So when you say "I feel nauseous" it means I feel as though I make you feel sick, which actually is partly correct :)
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Correctly expressed it is “I AM nauseous”
 
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mickb2112 said:
Often with their doors wide open stopping you getting past. Not to mention u-turns without warning in the middle of the road, jumping red lights, parking two abreast on a busy road while they nip in to get their next delivery. Music banging out of their cars when they park in the middle of the road (with their door open) when making a delivery.

Deliveroo/Just Eat RIDERS should have their very own category of annoyances. Worst drivers ever.
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corrected. on the road, on the pavement, parked up wherever they like, blocking the pavements, weaving in and out of people walking. I hate them.
 
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