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Really minor annoyances

BiG said:
The American pronunciation of ‘route’ as ‘rowt’
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I say route as in a driving route.

A bit of network equipment is a router, said the british way.

When I started doing woodworking with a router, I thought it was a rowter, but found that it was just Americans and for some reason a small number of British people say it that way. I have weaned myself onto saying it properly.
Unbalanced Views said:
Watching episodes of Star Trek - The next generation and poor old Patrick Stewart being made to pronounce route like a yank and use words like acclimate - it must have burned his soul
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"Old Patrick Stewart" was 47 when he first appeared as Captain Picard.

That is a year younger than I am now!
 
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When people ask you to something for them and then when you get there and try and do the job they tell you what to do or correct you. My ganny is the worst culprit, she rang about the iPad not working,listed a load of things that Google said I needed to do to fix it. I thought well why don't you do it yourself? But it's me ganny so went down to sort. Every step it was , well Google didn't say that, are you sure that's right. Ganny I've worked in IT and Electronics all my life I know what to do🤣. If a customer ever said anything like that I'd tell them to fuck off
 
League Wan said:
When people ask you to something for them and then when you get there and try and do the job they tell you what to do or correct you. My ganny is the worst culprit, she rang about the iPad not working,listed a load of things that Google said I needed to do to fix it. I thought well why don't you do it yourself? But it's me ganny so went down to sort. Every step it was , well Google didn't say that, are you sure that's right. Ganny I've worked in IT and Electronics all my life I know what to do🤣. If a customer ever said anything like that I'd tell them to fuck off
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My dad used to drive me mad for that with the computer we had when I was younger (pre internet to the home era). He would be trying do to something like produce some printed material for his teaching, decide how he thought it should be done, and fail doing the same thing repeatedly. Eventually he would summon me for help, usually by bellowing through the bedroom wall of from upstairs to where ever I happened to be.

He would show me what he was doing wrong. I'd take a deep breath and said "ok, click to open the menu". "Well that is what I did, then I did this, this, this, this and it didn't work". So I'd explain that is not what I was going to ask him to do, then I'd try again, get a step further and before I could explain the third step, he would be off on one again, flying ahead into the same failure as before. So we would start again and this time I'd get 3 steps forward. Sometimes I'd say, look just stop and don't click anything else until I say, but he wouldn't. It would take about 10 minutes to walk him through a 5 click process. Then I'd point out that he had asked me about this so many times, there was a poster on the wall next to him showing in detail with pictures how do to it. "I'm too busy to read that". I could not get through to him that if he took one minute to read it, he would not have spent the last 15 minutes struggling.
 
DaveH said:
My dad used to drive me mad for that with the computer we had when I was younger (pre internet to the home era). He would be trying do to something like produce some printed material for his teaching, decide how he thought it should be done, and fail doing the same thing repeatedly. Eventually he would summon me for help, usually by bellowing through the bedroom wall of from upstairs to where ever I happened to be.

He would show me what he was doing wrong. I'd take a deep breath and said "ok, click to open the menu". "Well that is what I did, then I did this, this, this, this and it didn't work". So I'd explain that is not what I was going to ask him to do, then I'd try again, get a step further and before I could explain the third step, he would be off on one again, flying ahead into the same failure as before. So we would start again and this time I'd get 3 steps forward. Sometimes I'd say, look just stop and don't click anything else until I say, but he wouldn't. It would take about 10 minutes to walk him through a 5 click process. Then I'd point out that he had asked me about this so many times, there was a poster on the wall next to him showing in detail with pictures how do to it. "I'm too busy to read that". I could not get through to him that if he took one minute to read it, he would not have spent the last 15 minutes struggling.
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Are you my son?
 
Tractors on the a19 at 8:30 in the morning, come on use your common sense.

People who take the time to apply to go on tipping point, spend the time to go where it’s filmed, spend all day there and they have no idea when to press the button. (I know I’m the sad one for watching it)
 
There’s an alert to tell me there’s a message on the NHS App. So I log on, type out my email address, type out my password and navigate to the message centre. And it’s a message from the medical centre telling me they’ll closed for the bank holiday or something.

But lately I’ve been getting alerts for messages, do all that… and there are no messages.

Annoying.
 
BiG said:
There’s an alert to tell me there’s a message on the NHS App. So I log on, type out my email address, type out my password and navigate to the message centre. And it’s a message from the medical centre telling me they’ll closed for the bank holiday or something.

But lately I’ve been getting alerts for messages, do all that… and there are no messages.

Annoying.
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Inform your MP.
 
SPUFF said:
Inform your MP.
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Wouldn’t it be better to do what I have done, which is to inform the people who run the app.

I just got an alert that said I had 12 messages btw. I didn’t. I had one, telling the medical centre was closed tomorrow for staff training.
 
The amount of 'content' where someone has worked hard to make a film, tv series, album etc and wants to promote it, but the interview is just something WaCkY instead, like 'why dont you eat this food and rate it for us?!'

If someone asked me to do that when I had worked hard and was proud to talk about the film I had made I would want to throw the food in their face
 
Select coaches said:
Tractors on the a19 at 8:30 in the morning, come on use your common sense.

People who take the time to apply to go on tipping point, spend the time to go where it’s filmed, spend all day there and they have no idea when to press the button. (I know I’m the sad one for watching it)
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Can't believe people who drop the jackpot token in 2 or 3.
 
BiG said:
Wouldn’t it be better to do what I have done, which is to inform the people who run the app.

I just got an alert that said I had 12 messages btw. I didn’t. I had one, telling the medical centre was closed tomorrow for staff training.
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Was just a shite joke.
 
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Sometimes the internet is the most annoying thing.

My brain just wants to shout “wtf are you talking about!?” into the void.

Example:

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Have a skim through this. A list of 11 bands that sold millions of records and played all over the world, most of whom were hugely influential but all of whom were extremely successful. But apparently they were only ‘poised for greatness’ but blew it for some reason. I haven’t read the article. Was just curious to see who these bands who blew it were. And it’s a list of some of the biggest bands that ever existed.

What the fuck is the internet talking about!!?
BiG said:
Poor old Patrick Stewart will be well aware that he’s supposed to be playing a proud French man who in every way possible, the American script writers make sound as English as possible, except for the pronunciation of a word derived from the Old French ‘rute’ (road)
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I’m coincidentally half-watching an old Star Trek (Next Generation) episode and Riker just said “en route”. He got it half right. The ‘Route’ bit was pronounced ‘rute’ in the correct way as a phrase of french origin. But the ‘en’ was pronounced phonetically. So ‘on rute’ was pronounced ‘en rute’.

8/10 for effort 😉
 
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On The Chase at the beginning the contestants say who they are and where they are from.

When it’s their turn Bradley asks them who they are and where they are from.

WE ALREADY KNOW!
 
People with no consideration.

I went to the tip earlier today, with my car rammed full of a old shed I pulled down. When I got to that section of skips, there was a bloke parked in front of the wood skip and nobody else there. Nowt wrong with that. I parked a reasonable distance behind so he could still unload and I had further to carry my big sections of scrap wood.

When he left, I jumped in my car and started driving forward to take the easier spot. I was on the move and I left my boot open, so it was clear I had a lot of wood to shift. This woman came round the corner and absolutely floored her car, then swerved in cutting me up, just to get in front of the wood skip. I had to jump on my breaks so I didn’t hit her. Proper wheel screech from her and everything. She got out and give a smug superior look before taking 10 minutes to drop in 2 small shelves.

The couple of staff up there stood open mouthed that someone had driven so stupidly just to do that. Then decided to give me a hand unloading my car.
 
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