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Really minor annoyances

germanyjim said:
When you’re giving details to someone on the phone, or in person, and they say, “Perfect” after every detail.
First name - ‘Germany’ reply “Perfect”. Surname - ‘Jim’ reply “Perfect”.
Phone number - ‘12345678’ reply “Perfect”.😠
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Similar for overly emphatic waiters / waitresses:

- Could you fill up our waters when you come back around please?
- Absolutely!

A simple ‘yes’ would be fine!
Redandwhitedust said:
Give me a bit of Seasonal "Where Eagles Dare" or "Heroes of Telemark" any day. Proper festive war movies
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Yes! Great Escape, Battle of the Bulge Guns of Navarone … that’s what Christmas is all about. Sticking it to the Nazis!

I remember as a young lad feeling a bit anticlimactic after all the big performance of Christmas and our Mam said she was hosting family, friends and neighbours on New Years Eve. Me and me brothers weren’t banished from the front room but this was obviously going to be a more grown up doo so we went in the living room just as Bridge on the River Kwai was starting so I’ll always credit that epic for rescuing me from the post Christmas blues!😁
 
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Tex said:
😁😁
Similar for overly emphatic waiters / waitresses:

- Could you fill up our waters when you come back around please?
- Absolutely!

A simple ‘yes’ would be fine!

Yes! Great Escape, Battle of the Bulge Guns of Navarone … that’s what Christmas is all about. Sticking it to the Nazis!

I remember as a young lad feeling a bit anticlimactic after all the big performance of Christmas and our Mam said she was hosting family, friends and neighbours on New Years Eve. Me and me brothers weren’t banished from the front room but this was obviously going to be a more grown up doo so we went in the living room just as Bridge on the River Kwai was starting so I’ll always credit that epic for rescuing me from the post Christmas blues!😁
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Completely forgot about Navarone (guns of, and force 10 from)... then theres Zulu if you fancy mixing up the enemy a bit...
 
Been looking forward to my Christmas dinner at my dad's all year, he came down with some cold / viral thing yesterday ffs. So I either risk it or just stay away (as I can imagine his wife will probably catch whatever he's got and it will just be risking getting ill myself for the sake of a dinner - he reckons he'll be fine by Thursday but I'm not so sure, grrrr).
 
My wife 'tidied' the kitchen table the other day. She basically put the Cuban Cigar I got my dad and a bunch of gift cards I got work colleagues somewhere else. Well over £100 of stuff/presents she moved and can't remember where. The kitchen table is still unusable as a kitchen table full of her crap.

I also have issues with the cupboard where we keep her mugs, I've absolutely no idea why she needs about 30/40 of the things (I've never counted) and yet still manages to bemoan the lack of storage space.
 
Very minor annoyance - every time my mother in law comes round, she immediately puts all cups/glasses in the dishwasher, even when we weren't finished drinking from them. By the end of her visit every bloody cup we own is in the dishwasher 😄
 
look out piano said:
Been looking forward to my Christmas dinner at my dad's all year, he came down with some cold / viral thing yesterday ffs. So I either risk it or just stay away (as I can imagine his wife will probably catch whatever he's got and it will just be risking getting ill myself for the sake of a dinner - he reckons he'll be fine by Thursday but I'm not so sure, grrrr).
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I would probably just risk it myself. Without sounding too grim, you never know when it's your last Christmas with a loved one, especially parents. Wish I'd done a few more with mine when they were here.
 
Big Jeff said:
Fridges that beep when the doors open.

When you are putting shopping in the fridge it’s going mental.
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I don't hate them, but there should be settings. Like, I don't mind if it beeps a couple of times just in case I've wandered off and not noticed it isn't closed. But I should have the option to either disable the beeping, or restrict it to like 5 beeps. Got one that doesn't let you, can't turn it off, so it'll just beep continuously even if I'm just putting the shopping away so I'm well aware it's open
 
Select coaches said:
I tootle along at 80, which in reality is 70-75. I don’t expect a knock at the door for saying that.

What I do though is keep a reasonable distance from the car in front, don’t use my phone, undertake or take risks. There are far more dangerous things than speeding, unless it’s ridiculous speeding.
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Most do a bit over 70 in the outside lane. But I can’t say a number over 70 as the actual limit is 70. The outside lane in reality would be keeping up with the flow and then moving over when someone is trying to get in your boot.
 
Big Jeff said:
Bus drivers who drive at 16 mph like the git I was behind this morning.

In a 30!
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There was probably a mobility scooter in front of him 😂
Those tw*ts shouldn't be allowed on the road.
Tex said:
This time of year when the collective membership of the SMB seems to hand in their balls en masse in a desperate and risible attempt to win the contest of who cried the most when watching ‘Its A wonderful Life’.

It’s an enjoyable Christmas film but it’s only a film. You already know the ending which is happy. But just like clockwork in comes the annual bollocks of:
“gets me every time”
“got dust in me eyes”
“someone’s chopping onions”
“always blub at the end”

Ad nauseum. Grow a pair you bunch of poofs. No wonder we lost the empire. If I’d had overly emotional softies like that stood next to me at Dunkirk on D Day we’d all be speaking French by now.
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👏👏👏 Congrats on being at Dunkirk and still with us.
 
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I didn’t know where to post this but as it’s an annoyance to someone else but it involves a degree of evil mixed with a similar amount of slightly amusing genius, i wanted to share.

My daughter can’t stand Ryan Reynolds, the actor bloke. Don’t know why and neither does she. She just doesn’t like him.

Her fella decided it would be amusing to take her phone and, presumably open the dictation connected to internet search, and repeatedly, whilst she frantically chased him around the room to stop him, say ‘Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Reynolds’ …etc… so that she now constantly gets stuff about Ryan Reynolds in her news feeds and apps and alerts etc about the minutiae of his life, I presume, and his every waking moment.

In terms of irritating somebody, that’s got to be quite original and interestingly revealing about her blokes creative abilities.
 
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chunkyshanhawk53 said:
:lol: strange hill to die on this.
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They’re class to walk on like, you feel like Linford Christie. In recent times we’ve had mental long distances to cover in Schiphol and Milan’s main airport in October and they were a godsend to get us further quicker with less effort. It’s not as if the people who don’t want to walk are forced to along with you, just stand at one side and let the walkers pass you on the other :lol:.
 
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Sgt Pepper said:
They’re class to walk on like, you feel like Linford Christie. In recent times we’ve had mental long distances to cover in Schiphol and Milan’s main airport in October and they were a godsend to get us further quicker with less effort. It’s not as if the people who don’t want to walk are forced to along with you, just stand at one side and let the walkers pass you on the other :lol:.
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so you're another one of those types eh? :lol:

back to minor annoyances, there's 3 ways i can come home after i finish work, one is a bit longer but easier, one is shorter but more traffic and one is much shorter and quicker than the other two but involves going over a level crossing and a bit of single track road with a poor surface. whenever i choose the latter there's nearly always a bastard train coming and the gates come down.
 
humbug said:
so you're another one of those types eh? :lol:

back to minor annoyances, there's 3 ways i can come home after i finish work, one is a bit longer but easier, one is shorter but more traffic and one is much shorter and quicker than the other two but involves going over a level crossing and a bit of single track road with a poor surface. whenever i choose the latter there's nearly always a bastard train coming and the gates come down.
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One of those types who, along with the vast majority, walk on them, while a minority just stand still? Aye that’s me ;).
 
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