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Really minor annoyances


Not an original one but people who use the middle lane on the motorway when they're not over taking anyone. I get irrationally angry about it.

I'd say 80% of drivers do this. I've spent 3 days on motorways recently (Sunderland - Manchester - stoke - Oxford - Surrey - Sunderland) so did a decent loop of the countries motorways and pretty much everyone just trundles along in the middle lane.

I go around them properly then pull over into the inside lane straight away and watch behind to see if they fellow but they never do. It's not even irrational hatred as it clearly causes traffic to bunch up and slow down .
 
The amount of people that get the spelling of lose and loose completely wrong for their correct meanings

Especially on here

Don’t you mean ‘there correct meanings’?
I'd say 80% of drivers do this. I've spent 3 days on motorways recently (Sunderland - Manchester - stoke - Oxford - Surrey - Sunderland) so did a decent loop of the countries motorways and pretty much everyone just trundles along in the middle lane.

I go around them properly then pull over into the inside lane straight away and watch behind to see if they fellow but they never do. It's not even irrational hatred as it clearly causes traffic to bunch up and slow down .

I was critical of this on here once and mentioned the risks associated with undertaking in those circumstances. I was lectured on how it was perfectly ok to undertake and when I said it contravened the a Highway Code I was told Highway Code had no legal standing.

It’s a minor annoyance to me that by this point I’d given up and failed to say something like “Although failure to comply with the other rules of the Code will not, in itself, cause a person to be prosecuted, The Highway Code may be used in evidence in any court proceedings under the Traffic Legislation to establish liability.”

So the advice (where it says ‘should’ or ‘ ‘should not’ rather than ‘must’ or ‘must not’ can be used to support an assertion, by the authorities, or dangerous driving (for example)

Phew. I’ve been carrying that irritation around for ages.
 
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The dishwasher thing, complete agreement. Mrs W. is f***ing hopeless at it, although it pisses her off mightily when I unpack the refuse tip she's put in, re-order and re-load it properly and then get the other 6 or 7 items she "couldn't get in" with no bother at all.
 
sports where its become tradition to make an apoligetic gesture for doing something good by accident.

tennis when someone hits the net and the ball goes over and the player gets the point. snooker when someone accidentally snookers the other person.
 
Youtubers who prattle on for ages about things that have nothing to do with the video I've chosen to watch and then say "Without further ado".

I need an app that starts the video immediately after "Without further ado". That is the point at which the stuff I'm interested in usually starts.
 
The dishwasher thing, complete agreement. Mrs W. is f***ing hopeless at it, although it pisses her off mightily when I unpack the refuse tip she's put in, re-order and re-load it properly and then get the other 6 or 7 items she "couldn't get in" with no bother at all.
Yea my wife is exactly the same as this. I redo her terrible work without saying a word, but it’s me that gets an earful after she’s noticed :lol:
 
YouTubers that you like but do a weird gasp for breath between sentences like they're dying at sea.

I'd happily watch Ashens for hours and there's a dour Northern bloke that reviews guitar gear and I can't watch either as the way they breathe sets my teeth on edge.

Ashens is very popular so I must one of the few that notices he breathes like he's dunked his head in the bath for ten seconds.
 
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