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Really minor annoyances

Shops with the heating on full blast. Especially places geriatrics don't shop.

Crap music on instructional videos. Kanye's latest monstrosity or an 80's porn soundtrack aren't what I want to hear whilst listening to a plumber explain how to stop a leak.
hairynaker said:
Worst still, people who leave a bad review but then say they haven't got it yet or opened it, whoppers.
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Or one star reviews with a glowing write up. Also, people who get questions from sites when you ask them, then clog up the replies saying 'haven't used it yet so can't help'.
 
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Self service checkouts are fine but when they go wrong and there's no staff member to sort it out you are stuck there in no mans land whilst watching the other queues going down. Sticking with shopping, when I use the usual tills at my local coop and the gadgie in front of me then asks for a variety of scratch cards, and then insists paying separately. Aaaargh.
Running-slow runners who insist upon starting at the front of the race, running side by side, chatting etc.
Folks in pubs who will walk right by the bar on their way out but leave empty pints at their table.
Folks in chippies who went entering and joining the back of the queue will shout out their specific order ('How pet can yous put in a spam fritter and large addock for me'). I'm conflicted on this one as I understand why he's shouting but the workie abandoning my order to go hunting for a spam fritter etc leaves me quietly seething.
All very random, plenty more where they came from.
 
leyburnrunner said:
Self service checkouts are fine but when they go wrong and there's no staff member to sort it out you are stuck there in no mans land whilst watching the other queues going down. Sticking with shopping, when I use the usual tills at my local coop and the gadgie in front of me then asks for a variety of scratch cards, and then insists paying separately. Aaaargh.
Running-slow runners who insist upon starting at the front of the race, running side by side, chatting etc.
Folks in pubs who will walk right by the bar on their way out but leave empty pints at their table.
Folks in chippies who went entering and joining the back of the queue will shout out their specific order ('How pet can yous put in a spam fritter and large addock for me'). I'm conflicted on this one as I understand why he's shouting but the workie abandoning my order to go hunting for a spam fritter etc leaves me quietly seething.
All very random, plenty more where they came from.
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The scratch cards boil my piss. Chavvy,pig shit thick ignorance
 
People giving a really emphatic double thumbs up rather than the original and much cooler single digit.An unnecessary use of a body part which should be confined to Simon Cowell and Krankees tribute acts.
 
People who don’t know that marker pen ink obeys the law of gravity. Store a half-used pen pointing tip up and it will not write. Store it tip down and it will. I’ve demonstrated that to my family and still every time I need a marker, there it is tip up and not working.
 
When during a live performance the singer hits a high note or a section in the chorus where they ‘emote’ like fuck and the audience breaks into applause. It’s a song, not a gymnastics display for fucks sake. That’s annoying. It used to be an American habit but it’s been introduced to Brit tv via talent competitions.

Also the variations in how Americans on telly say ‘en route’

Enn Rowt
In Rowt
On Rowt
Enn Root
In Root

But, it would seem, hardly ever ‘On Root’.
 
Cheese n Ipa said:
People in supermarkets with trolleys where the person is looking at something in the fridge section but they have their trolley sideways on across the aisle. Pull the fecker in!.
Also, old people who use cheques. Anyone who uses cheques actually. Its 2024 you know.
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See also, reversing into you without looking. Cos turning the trolley around would be too much work.
 
Probably more of a major annoyance but the overall process of getting served for something these days. Over complicated and at times it just takes the piss.

At the match, you queue to use a self service till which takes longer than you actually asking someone for it. Prints a receipt then you queue at the bar to then give someone the receipt, only then so you get what you bought, want to add something? Start the whole thing again.

Self service checkouts at McDonald's but you want to pay cash? Go through the whole process and then cancel the card payment, take the receipt to the till to finish it off, always delays you.

The cinema, had to queue to order food and pay for it, then queue again to hand the receipt in to get it, couldn't add anything at the till, would have had to do the whole process again.

Lidl especially, every bastard thing you put through tells you to put in the bagging area even though you already have. You have one member of staff in charge of 8 tills running about backwards and forwards, sorting it out.

NatWest, queue for some nosey bugger to direct you to a self service till, put some cash in and it's where's that from, who's that for, just piss off it's the bairns money


Self service tills need removing and proper tills with people putting back in service. Honestly at times I'm ready to walk out of these places
 
League Wan said:
Probably more of a major annoyance but the overall process of getting served for something these days. Over complicated and at times it just takes the piss.

At the match, you queue to use a self service till which takes longer than you actually asking someone for it. Prints a receipt then you queue at the bar to then give someone the receipt, only then so you get what you bought, want to add something? Start the whole thing again.

Self service checkouts at McDonald's but you want to pay cash? Go through the whole process and then cancel the card payment, take the receipt to the till to finish it off, always delays you.

The cinema, had to queue to order food and pay for it, then queue again to hand the receipt in to get it, couldn't add anything at the till, would have had to do the whole process again.

Lidl especially, every bastard thing you put through tells you to put in the bagging area even though you already have. You have one member of staff in charge of 8 tills running about backwards and forwards, sorting it out.

NatWest, queue for some nosey bugger to direct you to a self service till, put some cash in and it's where's that from, who's that for, just piss off it's the bairns money


Self service tills need removing and proper tills with people putting back in service. Honestly at times I'm ready to walk out of these places
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😳 I looked at this thread to post almost exactly the same thing! Well, tbh, I thought my annoyance at the very very very occasional times I use a self service/ordering electronic touch pad ‘kiosk’ at a fast food place - which is these days usually limited to motorway service stations - would be perceived as an ‘old man’ whinge. But I didn’t really see the problem with walking up to a counter and saying ‘burger and chips please’.

I was at the coast the other day (Hornsea) and went to a fish and chip place. Stood at the counter and was ignored. A few people joined me. They were ignored. Then the lass said ‘if you’re waiting to be served, can you please wait outside’. They were basically packing orders into boxes and shouting numbers. So I asked “do you mean ‘waiting to order’ or ‘waiting to be served’” and she said “we’re busy, can you all wait outside”. This is on the pavement. In the rain. So we all had to troop out to wait… alongside the people holding bits of paper with numbers on them. There was discussion as to who was first and some efforts to control children. Then I said “ I can’t be arsed with this” walked 100 yards to another fish and ship place, Queued for about two minutes, placed an order and was served immediately. It was far busier than the place I’d just given up on with the same number of staff. Plus there was an adjoining fish and chip restaurant that was also busy.

Go, as they say, figure.
 
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My neighbour works away . Leaves 5am Monday, comes back end of the week
Every morning I leave for week at 7.30 ,they have a young bairn so within 20 seconds of starting my car I'm away off my drive .
Monday mornings 5am he starts his car and let's it trundle away while he fks about for 5 minutes
 
JAZZMANB said:
My neighbour works away . Leaves 5am Monday, comes back end of the week
Every morning I leave for week at 7.30 ,they have a young bairn so within 20 seconds of starting my car I'm away off my drive .
Monday mornings 5am he starts his car and let's it trundle away while he fks about for 5 minutes
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There’ll be very little wear on his engine block.
 
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