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Really minor annoyances


People who flash their headlights when approaching a red light. It's the infra red sensor or induction loop that sees you and changes the lights to your favour.
Petty I know but, when I worked in traffic management and operating temporary lights, I used to carry an old manual camera flash gun in my pocket. A burst of flash at the red light jumpers to make them worry for a few weeks.
 
DisillusionedOldGit said:
And orders 9 different drinks and 9 different snacks
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What bugs me (irrationally) is when queuing in a shop, and an order is placed of multiple items, then delivered/handed to the customer and the server says “anything else?” And the reason it bugs me - and is irrational - is because my brain says “if they wanted something else surely they would have said so”

But then the annoyance is elevated when the customer says “yes, I’ll have a thingy and a wotsit, had one if those… oh and an extra thing”

Boils my piss. Even worse if it’s a pub. Even worse if on both orders they say “Can I get?” or if the server uses the expression “you guys” at any point during the exchange.

I’m wring the screenplay for this scenario at the moment but the budget for the finished movie is a bone of contention and is dependent on whether or not Di Caprio accepts the role of the customer.
 
BiG said:
What bugs me (irrationally) is when queuing in a shop, and an order is placed of multiple items, then delivered/handed to the customer and the server says “anything else?” And the reason it bugs me - and is irrational - is because my brain says “if they wanted something else surely they would have said so”

But then the annoyance is elevated when the customer says “yes, I’ll have a thingy and a wotsit, had one if those… oh and an extra thing”

Boils my piss. Even worse if it’s a pub. Even worse if on both orders they say “Can I get?” or if the server uses the expression “you guys” at any point during the exchange.

I’m wring the screenplay for this scenario at the moment but the budget for the finished movie is a bone of contention and is dependent on whether or not Di Caprio accepts the role of the customer.
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Brilliant !
 
mickb2112 said:
When a meeting is coming to an end and the chair person announces that they are wrapping it up unless someone has anything to raise and someone pipes up and drones on about nowt for another half an hour.
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I was at a one day conference last year, had a train booked but left an hour spare for the complimentary drinks. On the last seminar a bloke with a beard and sandals piped up at the end with lots of stupid questions . 45 minutes later we finished and it was not worth going upstairs for a pint by that stage. I should have walked out but there was that constant feeling he was about to be done, then was not.

Lesson for the future, don’t plan which final seminar to attend based on content. Look at who is going in first.
 
DaveH said:
I was at a one day conference last year, had a train booked but left an hour spare for the complimentary drinks. On the last seminar a bloke with a beard and sandals piped up at the end with lots of stupid questions . 45 minutes later we finished and it was not worth going upstairs for a pint by that stage. I should have walked out but there was that constant feeling he was about to be done, then was not.

Lesson for the future, don’t plan which final seminar to attend based on content. Look at who is going in first.
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Please tell me the sandal simpleton was wearing socks.
 
DisillusionedOldGit said:
Please tell me the sandal simpleton was wearing socks.
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White ones I believe. He looked to be in his late 60s.

It was an IT event, and he certainly fit the image of the old UNIX engineer who has been doing this from the time an upgrade involved you soldering new components onto a big chunky board. His questions seemed to be missing the point too.
 
mickb2112 said:
When a meeting is coming to an end and the chair person announces that they are wrapping it up unless someone has anything to raise and someone pipes up and drones on about nowt for another half an hour.
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Other way around but just as irritating. Video conference that all across UK were in attendance, everybody knew it was going to be a bit intense & a feat of endurance. Only team with connectivity issues was the London lot (aka "most important"). After about 15 minutes, they managed to log in. Their team leader, hyper intelligent woman but with absolutely no self awareness, apologised. The Chair then said, "it's alright we've just been through the intros, sorted out what we need to fix, if you're happy, we'll just crack on?"

Her "Well no, I'd like you to start the whole thing again, I don't know who everybody is!"
 
DaveH said:
I was at a one day conference last year, had a train booked but left an hour spare for the complimentary drinks. On the last seminar a bloke with a beard and sandals piped up at the end with lots of stupid questions . 45 minutes later we finished and it was not worth going upstairs for a pint by that stage. I should have walked out but there was that constant feeling he was about to be done, then was not.

Lesson for the future, don’t plan which final seminar to attend based on content. Look at who is going in first.
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I always ensure I get a seat at the back near the door so I can easily slip away unobserved
 
DaveH said:
White ones I believe. He looked to be in his late 60s.

It was an IT event, and he certainly fit the image of the old UNIX engineer who has been doing this from the time an upgrade involved you soldering new components onto a big chunky board. His questions seemed to be missing the point
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Tossers like him have always decided to ask questions they think make them look clever
(they never do) before the meeting has started. Nobody is interested in anything they have to say so they shove them in at the end .
 
DisillusionedOldGit said:
Tossers like him have always decided to ask questions they think make them look clever
(they never do) before the meeting has started. Nobody is interested in anything they have to say so they shove them in at the end .
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I hated people on my uni course (Computer Science). There were always the same 5 people putting their hands up, always with that slightly nasal from nowhere in particular "student" accent, asking a question which was covered on the next slide or two. Given we all had printouts, I we could easily turn over a page (or often it was on the same page with 2-4 slides per page) and see the answer in front of us. That really felt like it was a look at me look at me.
 
DaveH said:
I hated people on my uni course (Computer Science). There were always the same 5 people putting their hands up, always with that slightly nasal from nowhere in particular "student" accent, asking a question which was covered on the next slide or two. Given we all had printouts, I we could easily turn over a page (or often it was on the same page with 2-4 slides per page) and see the answer in front of us. That really felt like it was a look at me look at me.
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Don’t go to academic conferences. I reckon about 80% of the questions asked following a presentation are not cos the questioner wants to learn something, but so he can announce to the audience how ‘clever’ he is. It’s tedious AF. After you’ve presented at a few you can look out from the podium and instantly spot who the PITA is gonna be!
 
It’s minor annoyance to me that they don’t have a scrolling banner on all of those programmes that feature ‘celebrities’, explaining who they are, and what they do, as each of them appear on screen.

I sometimes watch an entire week’s quiz programme and still don’t have a clue from whence an individuals, or two, celebrity status derives.
 
BiG said:
It’s minor annoyance to me that they don’t have a scrolling banner on all of those programmes that feature ‘celebrities’, explaining who they are, and what they do, as each of them appear on screen.

I sometimes watch an entire week’s quiz programme and still don’t have a clue from whence an individuals, or two, celebrity status derives.
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Used to go to a hairdresser and he'd give me a copy of a magazine like Hello or OK to read while I had stuff on my hair. I didn't have a clue who anyone was in them! I started taking my Kindle with me instead.
 
BiG said:
It’s minor annoyance to me that they don’t have a scrolling banner on all of those programmes that feature ‘celebrities’, explaining who they are, and what they do, as each of them appear on screen.

I sometimes watch an entire week’s quiz programme and still don’t have a clue from whence an individuals, or two, celebrity status derives.
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One of the features I quite liked on Amazon Prime is that it tells you who the actors are in a scene, with an IMDB reference iirc.

Surprised it hasn’t been picked up by others.
 
BiG said:
It’s minor annoyance to me that they don’t have a scrolling banner on all of those programmes that feature ‘celebrities’, explaining who they are, and what they do, as each of them appear on screen.

I sometimes watch an entire week’s quiz programme and still don’t have a clue from whence an individuals, or two, celebrity status derives.
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People who don’t know that ‘whence’ means ‘from where’ so when they say or write ‘from whence’ they’re tautologically saying or writing ‘from from where’.
 
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