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Really minor annoyances


I was just channel flicking and chanced upon an old Judge Judy episode. I found myself being irritated by how she pronounced the word “weren’t”. It’s an expression known as a contraction - a word formed by combining two words (were not) into one shorter word and replacing the omitted letters with an apostrophe. And she, like many Americans, pronounced it phonetically; i.e. wer-ent. I don’t know from whence the ‘ent’ bit originates.

It irritates me.
 
BiG said:
I was just channel flicking and chanced upon an old Judge Judy episode. I found myself being irritated by how she pronounced the word “weren’t”. It’s an expression known as a contraction - a word formed by combining two words (were not) into one shorter word and replacing the omitted letters with an apostrophe. And she, like many Americans, pronounced it phonetically; i.e. wer-ent. I don’t know from whence the ‘ent’ bit originates.

It irritates me.
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You could have just said Judge Judy.
Horrific harridan who has parlayed her disgusting personality into a multi million dollar TV show for vacuous losers.
 
My wife had to pay £4 supplement for gluten free pasta. That's a canny addition to a £9 bowl of pasta especially when you can a whole bag of gluten free pasta for less than £1.

It just seems like an easy way to get the money in, a bit like soft drinks in pubs.
 
The cost of soft drinks at train stations.

A busy day in an office that felt like it was 26 degrees, no fresh air all day and a bit of a headache forming. I got to the station with a bit time to kill, really fancied something cold and refreshing. A bottle of coke is £2.40. That is mote than 2 litre bottles usually cost.

Yet in the next fridge there were chilled 500ml bottles of a winter ale for £3.25. The mark up on soft drinks by comparison is huge.

I had to buy a beer for the train so that I don't feel ripped off.
 
I drive a 2009 Jeep Wrangler. If I leave the radio on when I park the car, the next time I drive it as soon as I turn on the ignition - with a key - the radio restarts too.

Due to back issues I’ve been driving the missus’ brand new Nissan giant beast SUV for people with a napoleon complex as it’s an automatic so I don’t feel like I’m being tasered every time I dip the clutch.

You get in and start by pushing a button (OK) but to get music you have to wait till you’re at a stop, do the join the dots security code on the touch screen, select music, select FM, then select the station. EVERY FRIGGIN TIME.

I realise this is an old man shouting at the clouds complaint but we discussed earlier how technology is supposed to help us but these days they load so many tech items into situations when they’re really not needed.

Why do we need a security code just to bring up a touch screen in a vehicle?

Why can’t the previous music settings just come on from the previous time the car was used?

Just pointless crap to keep nerds in a job and will problies cost an arm and a leg to repair if anything goes wrong. Is there such a thing as steampunk cars? I’m like the Amish of technology. For them technology ended with the horse and cart. For me it ended around the time of the iPhone 6!
 
When you’re halfway reversing out of a parking space and someone tries to force their way past you. Seems to happen a lot these days.
Roadhouse said:
People adding an S on the end of someone's surname for no reason. Same goes for supermarkets, tescos, aldis etc.
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Very common in Sunderland, as are phrases like “did you see that last night?”

See what? What the hell are you on about?

Me mar does this all the time. “Eee did ya see him?”
 
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Walterwhite766 said:
Anyone who parks in a disabled bay or parent/child bay who isn’t disabled or have a child with them

Why though?
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Tin hat on, but I'd rather they were reserved for elderly people and not for a fat bird who happens to have a few kids.

I grew up with parents that didn't have a car, and somehow I managed to go to the shops with them without dying.

On the other hand, they're more likely to scratch my motor, so let them park closer.
 
People who get up every 15 minutes at the match for drink/toilet then have a chat with someone in the row on the way back while everyone is stood up to let them back in
 
An ongoing annoyance: the use of ‘of’ instead of ‘have’. Bugs me.

Like in ‘should of ’ or ‘could of ’ - it’s all over these forums. It makes absolutely no sense

Apart from the fact that ‘have’ is a verb and, in the context it’s usually used on her - replaced with ‘of’, means ‘to experience or undergo’ and the fact that ‘of’ is a preposition (like above, across, along, beside, on, by) expressing the relationship between one thing and another… apart from that, it’s just taken me about half a dozen attempts to type out the incorrect phrase because autocorrect keeps putting it right for me.

In fact as I was just about to ‘post reply’, autocorrect did it again and it took several attempts to get it to accept the incorrect phrase.
 
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