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Really minor annoyances


Why do total utter knobs on trains who watch TV shows on their phones loudly without headphones, always watch some high pitched screamy American shit with stupid sound effects and canned laughter?
 
DaveH said:
Why do total utter knobs on trains who watch TV shows on their phones loudly without headphones, always watch some high pitched screamy American shit with stupid sound effects and canned laughter?
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I'd guess because they have the IQ of a Birdseye Potato Waffle. If they had to juggle different things like 'courtesy' and 'awareness', their CPU wouldn't cope and they'd blackout or something.
 
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This isn’t a minor annoyance but I don’t know where else to put it.

Driving in North Yorkshire. Sign says “Road Ahead Closed”. By which time we’re already on the road. We’re not alone. Cars going in both directions. We’re travelling down this road for a short distance before turning off. But there is no indication of how far up the road it is closed. Still cars moving in both directions. No diversion signs.

So we keep going in the hope that our junction is one that appears before the road is closed. There actually ARE junctions on the road as we drive down it but none are marked ‘diversion’. Presumably this is where some of the cars going in the opposite direction originate.

Along with about four other cars we keep going until we actually see where the road is actually closed. Then we all do three point turns.

We drive to the small town where we originally saw the first ‘road closed’ sign. Pull over, look on the map for an alternative route. Drive to the road where such a route starts and just along that road we see a ‘diversion’ sign. It’s totally invisible and well distant from anyone approaching the junction with the ‘road closed’ sign on it

I rant for five minutes because no matter what government is in charge, no matter who leads the council, no matter who is in charge of the road repairs, no matter who manages the road repair gang, there’ll always be some numpty who hasn’t got a scooby where a sign should be placed.
 
c032745y said:
Mrs stopped me from saying "Sorry was I not watching where you were going?" when halfwits were glued to their phones...
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I sometimes wait until they almost walk into me and then loudly say "look up". Sometimes they are so shocked they nearly drop their phone.

I've had people walk into me and when you see their phones, they are watching a TV show. I can't understand that at all. Watching TV on a phone is a shit experience. People are spending a fortune on TVs these days, because you can't possibly watch TV on anything smaller than 36"/40"/44"/52"/60" (delete depending on the year and the latest size out). But then spend half their lives watching it on a tiny little screen smaller than a beer mat, happy that they might walk into people, lamp posts, dog crap, traffic, a phone snatcher or god knows what else.

They are probably the same people who never watch anything live, but as soon as something of mild interest might happen, they are watching it in miniature through their phone screen, taking a video of it. Do people even watch these things back?
 
glendvd100 said:
People who give you their mobile number in the wrong format when they say it, like, 0765 521 8973, absolute idiots of the highest order.
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Now, see, that's exactly the format I say it in :lol:

Mobile phones originally had a four-digit code at the front then when they ran out of numbers they had to add a fifth.

Landline numbers are 11 digits, as are mobile numbers so if you were quoting a landline number from our region would you say 0191X-XXX-XXX ? Almost certainly not

I would say 0191-XXX-XXXX and the same format for mobiles. And yeah, I know some regions have five-digit STD codes in which case I'd adopt that method.
Amnorrageordie said:
People who type breaks instead of brakes.
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He hung himself; no, he hanged himself.
He broke to avoid hitting the juggernaut in front; no, he braked to avoid hitting the juggernaut in front.

That was a bad day, mind :lol:
 
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marsey said:
Now, see, that's exactly the format I say it in :lol:

Mobile phones originally had a four-digit code at the front then when they ran out of numbers they had to add a fifth.

Landline numbers are 11 digits, as are mobile numbers so if you were quoting a landline number from our region would you say 0191X-XXX-XXX ? Almost certainly not

I would say 0191-XXX-XXXX and the same format for mobiles. And yeah, I know some regions have five-digit STD codes in which case I'd adopt that method.

He hung himself; no, he hanged himself.
He broke to avoid hitting the juggernaut in front; no, he braked to avoid hitting the juggernaut in front.

That was a bad day, mind :lol:
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I always read it back to my customers who do it that way, in the correct way, and you have no idea how badly it throws them, or maybe you do.

They cannot comprehend it being read back to them "normally".:lol:
 
People who constantly switch lanes in traffic jams and thereby actually make the jams last longer

And single walkers who somehow manage to still block a 10 foot wide path walking in zigzags along the middle of it
 
glendvd100 said:
I always read it back to my customers who do it that way, in the correct way, and you have no idea how badly it throws them, or maybe you do.

They cannot comprehend it being read back to them "normally".:lol:
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Yeah, if I try to do it the accepted way I just can't get through it :lol:
 
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