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Really minor annoyances

glendvd100 said:
Typing on an iPhone. I’ve already made 5 mistakes typing this. It’s taken a lot longer than it should.
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Concurred.
Technology is supposed to help us.
Older iPhone keyboards in landscape made full use of the width of the screen. Now I have wasted space on either side that could be used to make the tiles wider for my sausage thumbs.
There also used to be < and > keys so you could easily jump to fix an error. Now you have to rely on the vagaries of the long press on the space bar.

Why is technology going backwards?
 

The overuse of the word "like". It's very much a younger generation thing but it's infuriating.

"I was ,like, so, like, tired so I went home and, like, went to bed and then like.....etc"

It started as an American thing, but then thanks to the crap people watch, loads of Brits have started doing it.
 
People who start responses with “so”. It’s unnecessary.

Certain colonials begin their responses with “Listen”

That is even more unnecessary and even bad mannered.

I see this disreputable behaviour often in antipodean sportsmen, particularly cricketers.
 
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Big Jeff said:
People who start responses with “so”. It’s unnecessary.

Certain colonials begin their responses with “Listen”

That is even more unnecessary and even bad mannered.

I see this disreputable behaviour often in antipodean sportsmen, particularly cricketers.
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As I keep saying - Brits have no room to criticize the irritating verbal ticks of foreigners until they completely rid themselves of the ubiquitous and pointless use of ‘to be honest’ and ‘to be fair’.
 
Tex said:
As I keep saying - Brits have no room to criticize the irritating verbal ticks of foreigners until they completely rid themselves of the ubiquitous and pointless use of ‘to be honest’ and ‘to be fair’.
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In our defence, we invented the language.

We gave it to the world.

Benevolence, intelligence, history the lot.

We are bloody brilliant.
 
Scottish people who incorrectly pronounce vowel sounds.

The Scottish routinely pronounce the letter “I” as an “e” sound and vice versa.

With is pronounced weth.

Trip is pronounced Trep.
 
Tex said:
Concurred.
Technology is supposed to help us.
Older iPhone keyboards in landscape made full use of the width of the screen. Now I have wasted space on either side that could be used to make the tiles wider for my sausage thumbs.
There also used to be < and > keys so you could easily jump to fix an error. Now you have to rely on the vagaries of the long press on the space bar.

Why is technology going backwards?
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I can press the same key 5 times and swear I’m typing, for example an “m”, and it’ll type “n” all 5 times. And don’t get me started on the space bar.
 
"Hey, you know that relatively straightforward system and plan you had in place? I've made some improvements so now it's so complicated and confusing that nobody has the faintest f***ing idea whether they're coming or going. Wondering if you could drop everything else you're doing and handle the enormous mess?"
 
When swimming pool is split and there is a part where people can mess about and there are dedicated lanes for people swimming lengths and people go in the 'faster' lane, but bizarrely don't swim. Two women today hung onto the wall talking meaning everyone who swam lengths had to cut across the lane for the last 5 yards of the lane. They were there when I got there and I swam 18 lengths before they decided they had enough.
 
Startrite said:
When swimming pool is split and there is a part where people can mess about and there are dedicated lanes for people swimming lengths and people go in the 'faster' lane, but bizarrely don't swim. Two women today hung onto the wall talking meaning everyone who swam lengths had to cut across the lane for the last 5 yards of the lane. They were there when I got there and I swam 18 lengths before they decided they had enough.
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If I take the bairn down on a weekend morning you get the usual old biddys swimming side by side with the slow swimming lane empty.... annoys the life out of me..
 
When you're drilling a hole in the wall and the drill bit comes out of the drill when pulling it out...and no way can you get the chuck to tighten properly to retrieve said drill bit.
 
Cockney Mackem said:
"Hey, you know that relatively straightforward system and plan you had in place? I've made some improvements so now it's so complicated and confusing that nobody has the faintest f***ing idea whether they're coming or going. Wondering if you could drop everything else you're doing and handle the enormous mess?"
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Been there. Management who feel the need to add value. If it gets fucked up and put back on me to manage, then I manage it by simplifying it again. I have argued before, I'm either in charge of it or I'm not.

Or I have had similar with reports. We had a senior manager who constantly tried to show how clever he was using obscure words and very strange wording patterns. Then if any document crossed his desk, even just being shown to him for awareness, he would "correct" it into his style. I usually rejected the changes because there was no way I was going to put my name to it and the end result was never anything that made sense. Meanwhile it would take him 6 weeks to sign off a purchase order, by which point you needed to get new quotes and get him to sign it again. He once delayed one purchase 6 months and added £15k to the cost through procrastination and wasting time rewriting other people's work.

The worst was coming back from holiday and being told I had been made major incident manager for something that happened while I was away. The whole issue was resolved by the time I was back, all that needed doing was the write up. I pointed out how stupid it was, give my other priorities but he insisted I should shelve everything to do it coming up with some waffle about a good exercise of having a critical eye of someone post reviewing (though declined my suggestion that I should no longer write reports for incidents I did manage). I spent a couple of days going over everything, writing up a report, and it came back with track changes. Every single word, including the title, had been changed. The only thing that remained the same was the incident number. Everything was reworded into his garbage speak. I told him where he could stick that document.
 
Crook Mackem said:
Go to make a cup of tea
Just enough water in the kettle
Boil it
Tip water in cup and start stirring
Tea bag bursts
Irritating
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We thought we'd give "Yorkshire Tea" a try . On opening the box, to my horror I discovered that the tea bags are joined together in twos . This mean I have to separate them if I want to use only one . This causes me untold problems as Iv'e suffered from Wankers cramp for many years .
 
People on films/TV programmes that are being chased but keep looking behind rather than concentrating on what's ahead and running fast.
 
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