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Really minor annoyances

I’m annoyed in a very minor way when people constantly use the expression “learning curve” without realising or understanding the origins of the expression as a learning theory based psychology and mathematical principle first described by Hermann Ebbinghaus in 1885
 

People who queue up at the gate at airports when the flight doesn't take off for another hour
People who don't indicate
People who think they can stop where they like because they put their hazard lights on
People who play videos/music on loudspeaker on a plane/in a pub/restaurant
Parents who let their kids run riot anywhere indoors (soft play excluded)
The woman at the swimming pool who belongs in the slow lane but insists on swimming in the medium lane, holding us all up every f***ing morning
People who whistle
People who sniff
People who yawn with excessive force (usually with long, over the top stretch)
People who cannot find their seats on planes, trains and sports/concert arenas
People who say "visa versa"
People who say "tret"
People who say "click" when they mean "clique"


That was quite cathartic.
 
Tex said:
Are you not from Sunderland?
“Tret” is a perfectly fine Mackem-ism.
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Tret gets on my wires mind. Don't mind if it's someone who knows better but is just using it informally, but there's too many people who use it and genuinely think it's a word.
 
People who give up their jobs for YouTube and say how amazing it is and how lucky I am, when in fact you work how much they earn and it's less than 500 quid a week before tax etc. just amazes me.
 
When you drop or lose one Ibuprofen or paracetamol and now you have an odd number left in the packet. And when you get down to the last one you need to take one from the next packet and now THAT one has an odd number left in it. Until the end of f***ing time
 
A poorly loaded dishwasher
Cockney Mackem said:
When you drop or lose one Ibuprofen or paracetamol and now you have an odd number left in the packet. And when you get down to the last one you need to take one from the next packet and now THAT one has an odd number left in it. Until the end of f***ing time
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Our lass takes them in singles. Which alleviates your problem but annoys me because I think she's just taking them for no reason
 
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macbook's magnetic charging cables...

went to close my laptop last night and as i did the magnetic charging cable popped out of the port and landed between the keyboard and screen as i closed it, cracking the screen in the process

f***ing shite design and an expensive fix
 
VenisonsMullet said:
It’s not like. Tret is not a word. The past tense of treat is treated.
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I didn’t say it was a “word” [obviously it is] I said it was a Mackem-ism.
It’s obviously not a queen’s / king’s English BBC Newsreader Received Pronunciation word but for me it’s one of many aspects of our wonderful dialect that sets us apart (above?) the other colloquial speech patterns around the country. See also “dinnet”, “haway”, “canny”, “shan” and countless other examples of speech that make up the dialect.
Cockney Mackem said:
When you drop or lose one Ibuprofen or paracetamol and now you have an odd number left in the packet. And when you get down to the last one you need to take one from the next packet and now THAT one has an odd number left in it. Until the end of f***ing time
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Take one next time you have a mild headache or three if you have a stinker!
Thank me later!
elder said:
macbook's magnetic charging cables...

went to close my laptop last night and as i did the magnetic charging cable popped out of the port and landed between the keyboard and screen as i closed it, cracking the screen in the process

f***ing shite design and an expensive fix
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This seems more than minor.
Becs said:
Disallowed goals when nobody knows why.
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This is definitely more than minor!
 
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Tex said:
I didn’t say it was a “word” [obviously it is] I said it was a Mackem-ism.
It’s obviously not a queen’s / king’s English BBC Newsreader Received Pronunciation word but for me it’s one of many aspects of our wonderful dialect that sets us apart (above?) the other colloquial speech patterns around the country. See also “dinnet”, “haway”, “canny”, “shan” and countless other examples of speech that make up the dialect.

Take one next time you have a mild headache or three if you have a stinker!
Thank me later!

This seems more than minor.

This is definitely more than minor!
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Just been to the Apple Store and they’re replacing it for free (after I explained how it happened)

Ower the moon!
 
Cockney Mackem said:
When you drop or lose one Ibuprofen or paracetamol and now you have an odd number left in the packet. And when you get down to the last one you need to take one from the next packet and now THAT one has an odd number left in it. Until the end of f***ing time
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We had an odd one in the cupboard for ages which was annoying me. The other day I had a mild headache and was in two minds about taking something or would it just go away. I took that odd one, both to see if it would help (it did) and to get rid of the annoyance of it taking up cupboard space.
 
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