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Really minor annoyances

People in my house who ask me to take something upstairs, when they are upstairs and I am downstairs.

It's just as easy for them to carry out their own request.
 

Apparently alternating between alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks is called 'Zebra Striping'.

People who are keen to try doing without alcohol are 'Sober Curious'.

Unsurprisingly this is young people.
HABA87 said:
People in my house who ask me to take something upstairs, when they are upstairs and I am downstairs.

It's just as easy for them to carry out their own request.
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Have you done the maths?

If they are upstairs, they have to make three journeys to end up back downstairs with the item upstairs. You would have to make two journeys.
 
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BiG said:
I’ve just synced my new iPhone with the humongous amount of music and audio book I have on my laptop. The Apple Music app (fka iTunes) has mixed up all the album artwork so that my phone and my car ‘infotainment system’ screen shows me the cover of ‘The Cure - Essentials’ whilst it’s playing a track of an album by Roy Orbison etc etc.

It’s extremely off-putting listening to a biography of Winston Churchill whilst being presented with a portrait of Annie Lennox.

I’ve googled and it’s a common problem. It’s annoying.

Also: the term ‘infotainment system’ is a minor annoyance.
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We`d never have defeated the Nazis without the leadership of Annie Lennox.
 
Dan..Dan..Dan..Dan said:
Apparently alternating between alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks is called 'Zebra Striping'.

People who are keen to try doing without alcohol are 'Sober Curious'.

Unsurprisingly this is young people.

Have you done the maths?

If they are upstairs, they have to make three journeys to end up back downstairs with the item upstairs. You would have to make two journeys.
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Not if they were staying upstairs after.
 
Becs said:
I dislike the word panties.

Like when you're reading a book and it says something like "he slowly removed her panties" and you think yeah whatever. If if said "he ripped her knickers off" it would sound more saucy.
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Steady on Becs old girl, you'll give yourself an attack of the vapours!
Hawkings Boots said:
Was driving back from Derby last night - me and them on an empty motorway and they purposely moved into the middle lane just to sit there instead. No idea what goes through the mind of people who drive like that
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My brother calls them "road captains" as they like to control how others drive.
Cockney Mackem said:
When you drop or lose one Ibuprofen or paracetamol and now you have an odd number left in the packet. And when you get down to the last one you need to take one from the next packet and now THAT one has an odd number left in it. Until the end of f***ing time
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When you drop your last codeine tablet and it automatically disappears into an unreachable dark space under your heavy computer/printer/monitor desk.
 
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S.S.R.. said:
You'd think modern tellies could do something about it themselves. Compared to all the smart features, an option for audio compression wouldn't be complex. There's umpteen different options for sound, but nae levelling.
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A Samsung TV I had did have a volume normalisation setting. It might have been only when changing channels though
 
CatOnKeyboard said:
Not walking in single file on busy paths in National Trust sort of places. We go to Cliveden for a walk frequently at this time of year as it has good paths. Often you'll see a group of people heading towards you, sometimes with pushchairs, and/or children and dogs on leads, taking up the whole width of the path and it seems that it doesn't occur to them to walk in single file or even 2 abreast so that other people can get past. Unless this is a Southern phenomenon.
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I see this all the time. It is fair enough walking side by side, but you need to be aware of faster people coming up behind and people coming the opposite way. Worst is when you get to almost nose-to-nose and still nobody has moved. Where are you supposed to go? I just stand arms folded until someone moves.

I posted on here before about it and someone claimed I was 'entitled' and why should I expect other people to move for me when they are completely blocking the path. Not sure what I was supposed to say, in the future I will shrivel away to nothing then the wide family can waddle past freely, or just turn and go the same way as them until I hit another wide family.
HABA87 said:
People in my house who ask me to take something upstairs, when they are upstairs and I am downstairs.

It's just as easy for them to carry out their own request.
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Worse was in my parents house growing up. They would start talking to you, but from different rooms through closed doors or more commonly from downstairs. Just scream "Daaaviiiiid" up the stairs. Sometimes it would be followed by other words, other times they would go to the kitchen or the living room. So you would come to the top of the stairs and shout "what?". No answer. Go downstairs, where the hell are they? Go find them, "what?" and then it was nearly always something inane. Or "your tea will be ready in 10 minutes". So I'd come downstairs 10 minutes later and 20 minutes after that tea would be ready.

My bedroom was next to my dads study and he was hopeless at using the computer. A shout would come "Agh man? Why has this done this? It looks funny". It was constant, and they were keen for me to remain local to do my degree, even Durham they said "Oh you could live here in your second year". There was no way I could have studied a degree with it, A-levels were hard enough. 15 minutes was the longest spell of concentration I usually managed.

If I want to talk to my kids, I make sure I go to them, not just bellow. If I find anyone in the house doing that, I tell them off.
 
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Following on from the kids with tablets thread, for me the biggest annoyance is when they play the things really loud for everyone to hear. Sitting down for a meal or to watch your kid playing football etc and all you can hear is a loud YouTube video, especially with ads. Me being a class parent I at least tell my kids to put the headphones or tune the sound off, better still if we are at the table then no phones, eat your food
 
I record the Graham Norton show. So I just watched Fridays show on Sunday. I’m getting a bit tired of American ‘actors’ (usually Marvel films do most of the creative output is CGI anyway) pretending or thinking it’s clever to know absolutely fuck all about the country they are are being interviewed in and thinking it’s funny/amusing to take the (mild) piss out of ‘quaint’ stuff that is just normal to us here and/or get all confused about the fact we have a selection of accents have different (English!) words for things they also have in the US. It’s almost as if even the yanks that DO leave the country, know fuck all about the rest of the world - except to profess amazement that it’s not the USA and consequently find it funny.

It’s a minor annoyance.
 
When I get the "assistant wants to use log in keychain" warning I need to constantly click "cancel" It then moves a couple of mills so the next clicks mean I have to move the cursor. Then it goes back again...
 
People who, when taking a photo with their phone, zoom the camera whilst the phone is not pointing at the scene (i.e. flat in their hand), then moving the phone up to take the photo pre-zoomed.
 
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