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Really minor annoyances


BiG said:
On tv - typically American cop shows - whenever a police car attends a scene, it’s always with a blaring siren and full flashing blue lights. Even when there’s no traffic. Even when it’s obvious that the villains will scarper as they see and hear a whole load of sirens and flashing lights coming down the road

Watched a programme set in rural New Zealand last night. The cop/ditictive (new Zealand pronunciation of ‘detective’) got a call in her car and sped off to attend at a cabin halfway up an isolated mountain. It was a long straight country road with no vehicles or any suggestion of people or housing for miles around. No cars in front and no cars behind. But the siren was turned on that nobody could hear and the lights that nobody could see were flashing away.

I know it’s for dramatic effect but it irritates me because I find myself thinking ‘why?’
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The security guards where I used to work tried to mimic them.

I remember once playing football at the onsite sports centre with the last booking. Some went straight home and the rest of us went for a shower before a pint. The lad on for the evening, didn’t check so locked up and set the alarm.

We came out to darkness and the alarm going off, locked in. I grabbed the internal phone and called security, who were a 4 minutes walk down the road. Over 15 minutes later a car roared into the car park, turned sharply spraying gravel, screeched to a halt, just like in American cop shows, the doors flung open. Then two portly security guards heaved themselves out the car and slowly ambled down the path to let us out.
 
When you need to pump your tyres up and someone has just randomly parked in front of the air machine.

Drives me mad and I just want to get out and slash their tyres.
 
PaddySAFC97 said:
When you need to pump your tyres up and someone has just randomly parked in front of the air machine.

Drives me mad and I just want to get out and slash their tyres.
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Buy yourself a portable tyre compressor.. Its a great expensive thing to have in the boot.

But no need to meet such persons on the forecourts again.
 
PaddySAFC97 said:
When you need to pump your tyres up and someone has just randomly parked in front of the air machine.

Drives me mad and I just want to get out and slash their tyres.
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people who use those air machines. hoying money away.
GravesendLad said:
Buy yourself a portable tyre compressor.. Its a great expensive thing to have in the boot.

But no need to meet such persons on the forecourts again.
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people who use those tyre compressor thingys. i always have a foot pump in the boot, proper old school.
 
“Oftentimes”. What’s wrong with ‘often’?

“Right now”. What’s wrong with ‘now’?

“Super…”. What’s wrong with ‘very’?

“Stand in line”. What’s wrong with ‘queue’?
 
BiG said:
“Oftentimes”. What’s wrong with ‘often’?

“Right now”. What’s wrong with ‘now’?

“Super…”. What’s wrong with ‘very’?

“Stand in line”. What’s wrong with ‘queue’?
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Oasis would be knackered. Champagne Verynova, Everybody, Right Here, Now...
 
BiG said:
“Oftentimes”. What’s wrong with ‘often’?

“Right now”. What’s wrong with ‘now’?

“Super…”. What’s wrong with ‘very’?

“Stand in line”. What’s wrong with ‘queue’?
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“These trainers are offered in three new colourways at a very affordable price point”

Why not ‘colours’ and ‘price’?
 
The trainline website. It always tries to find you the cheapest ticket and there is no way to say just give me the times I said.

So you put in you want to arrive at say 11am, and it decides the cheapest way for you to do it is to leave at 11:30pm the previous day and sleep on a London platform before getting the first train out the next morning and arriving 4 hours early. Meanwhile the time you actually want to leave always ends up being either the last train on the first page or the first train on the second page, causing you to flick between them while you weigh up your options.

There have been a few times when because of all the jumping about between outbound, return times, and return ticket options, I have ended up booking the wrong train and even immediately changing it incurs a fee.
 
DaveH said:
The trainline website. It always tries to find you the cheapest ticket and there is no way to say just give me the times I said.

So you put in you want to arrive at say 11am, and it decides the cheapest way for you to do it is to leave at 11:30pm the previous day and sleep on a London platform before getting the first train out the next morning and arriving 4 hours early. Meanwhile the time you actually want to leave always ends up being either the last train on the first page or the first train on the second page, causing you to flick between them while you weigh up your options.

There have been a few times when because of all the jumping about between outbound, return times, and return ticket options, I have ended up booking the wrong train and even immediately changing it incurs a fee.
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Use national rail for that
 
monkeytassle said:
Falvourful. Americanised shit word.
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I would have said it’s non-existent word, (even without the typographical misspelling) except I checked:

“The earliest known use of the adjective flavourful is in the 1920s. OED's earliest evidence for flavourful is from 1927, in the Daily Express”

So it’s a (albeit relatively recent) British-English shit word. If you’re referring to the American-English shit word, then it would have to be flavorful. Without the u.

Still annoying though-but.
 
People who look directly at their passanger while driving . Watch the feckin road .
Two right penelope pit stops in front of me in a Merc today having a whale of a catchup by the looks .
 
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