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Really minor annoyances

BiG said:
I realised is voice recognition, but I assumed there’s somebody, somewhere who might actually check it before it’s uploaded.

I have no idea what the latter part of your sentence means. Don’t feel the need to explain though. I’ll live with it 😉
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The Amazon advert song. The lass (who I’m sure was on the lottery advert where she seems genuinely surprised at the crazy frog ringtone!) is in her new apartment and she is potting those plants. She’s using Amazon to set up home. I get that.

What I don’t get is the bloody song that accompanies it! The lyrics make absolutely fooking sense whatsoever! Something about stealing ideas from your daughter.

Who’s stealing ideas from my daughter?!? I don’t have a daughter! How do you even steal ideas?! Could I report this type of theft to the police?!

Incomprehensible bollocks!
 
This business of glueing cans of beer together these days what's that about man I can barely separate them. What they using? gorilla glue?
 
Cockney Mackem said:
Sit the butter portion on the hot part of the meal for a minute or two to soften it up
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Or just hold it behind one of the engines briefly....
People constantly coughing
Noisy whinging children
Loud kitchen noises
People who say "Free" instead of "THree"

ALL of which I can hear now. My headphones are unavailable currently. It's just not my day. :(
 
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1992clock said:
This business of glueing cans of beer together these days what's that about man I can barely separate them. What they using? gorilla glue?
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The old plastic ring thing was bad for the environment as they ended up harming wildlife.

There's been loads of work trying to find a solution that keeps cans together, doesn't get damaged in store fridges and is easy to open/seperate. I was involved in auditing stores and collecting feedback on split packs.
 
Becs said:
The old plastic ring thing was bad for the environment as they ended up harming wildlife.

There's been loads of work trying to find a solution that keeps cans together, doesn't get damaged in store fridges and is easy to open/seperate. I was involved in auditing stores and collecting feedback on split packs.
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Someone needs to invent a nifty tool you put in the centre and push down like a plunger to break the glue. It'd look like the bottom of a desk chair, but smaller, with the underside curved like a butter knife. Doesn't need to be sharp.
 
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BiG said:
I seem to be on this thread quite a bit 😜

Anyway : YouTube subtitles.

Example: I’ve just watched one where Brian Johnson uses the phrase “I’ve always been a car fanatic…” and the subtitle reads “I always been a coffinattic”.

There are loads more that render what the person is saying into utter nonsensical gibberish. One presumes that the people who upload them doesn’t actually understand what’s being said anyway.
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Porn can be bad for that

Auto generated sub titles that are slightly off

Not even pretending I don't really know this
 
When you drag a window somewhere on your screen. You know exactly where you want to put it, but at the last second you just cross some snap point and a 'helpful' feature kicks in to make your window full screen/long and thin across two screens/shrink to the size of just the title bar/something random'.
 
My pet peeve....

When I go out in the pissing rain to collect an Indian takeaway.
Get home, sort the containers and start to dish up.
My wife issues instructions as to what goes where on her plate while she's busy eating the f***ing poppadoms.
Gets my goat every time 😠
 
I channel surfed today and realised that I still can’t understand the vast majority of what Bernadette (the squeaky voiced character) says in The Big Bang Theory

Another minor annoyance occurs when I notice that my wife looks a bit peaky, holds her head, sighs, sniffs a lot, or stretches …. basically when she does something that makes me ask “are you ok?” And she responds with: “what do you mean?” Or “‘OK’ like what?” Or “why are you asking?” and I get the third degree about why I asked, whereas when she asks me… and I say “I’m fine. Just a bit of a headache” or “just a twinge where I had my flu jab” or something, she’ll say “bloody typical morning man, always complaining”. And we get into the “you asked me” circular niggling argument.
 
My latest peeve ....

In UK police/detective series, when a female rises to DI or DCI, why do they walk around with their hands in their trouser pockets? It's every f***ing series. Even Lucy is doing it in The Devil's Hour ffs,!

She even stood at the pub bar with a whisky in one hand and the other hand tucked deep in her trouser pocket.

Gets my bloody goat. .
 
Rammstein said:
My latest peeve ....

In UK police/detective series, when a female rises to DI or DCI, why do they walk around with their hands in their trouser pockets? It's every f***ing series. Even Lucy is doing it in The Devil's Hour ffs,!

She even stood at the pub bar with a whisky in one hand and the other hand tucked deep in her trouser pocket.

Gets my bloody goat. .
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People who work in bars and get promoted, then have responsibility for carrying the big bunch of keys around with them. Usually attached to their belt loop so they look more important.
 
My Mrs has had a tickly cough this week, and has done that throat clearing gurgle sound every 30 seconds for a week.

It's like nails on a chalk board.
 
BiG said:
I channel surfed today and realised that I still can’t understand the vast majority of what Bernadette (the squeaky voiced character) says in The Big Bang Theory
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What about shows or films where everyone talks in a very quiet whisper all the time, so you turn the telly up. Then there is a sound effect or music and it is so loud your windows vibrate. Then you have very dark scenes all the time that might work on a cinema screen but are crap at home, especially if you are trying to watch during the day. There are a few things where I think I have not been able to see or hear anything for the last 10 minutes.
Rammstein said:
My latest peeve ....

In UK police/detective series, when a female rises to DI or DCI, why do they walk around with their hands in their trouser pockets? It's every f***ing series. Even Lucy is doing it in The Devil's Hour ffs,!

She even stood at the pub bar with a whisky in one hand and the other hand tucked deep in her trouser pocket.

Gets my bloody goat. .
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It is part of the TV image of people.

Anyone involved in any type of science wears a lab coat. An astronomer is going to sit down at their PC to calculate the course of an asteroid. Better get that white lab coat on first. Someone is going to talk through a problem on a board and not deal with any chemicals at all, they are not even involved in chemistry. Lab coat required.

Then if the character is female she must be in glasses. It is the rules. Every intelligent woman on TV wears glasses, often quite thick rimmed ones. No female, especially an attractive one, in a non nerdy area ever wears glasses.
 
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