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Really minor annoyances

Geras said:
Another motoring peeve.
2 lanes of traffic at a lights both go straight over but it changes to single lane after the lights . Theres also a right hand turn on the lights . Fuckers use the right lane but don't put a right hand indicator on until they're stopped n the queue and youve pulled up behind . Arseholes
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Similarly people who deliberately drive in the wrong lane when a road is splitting or approaching a slip road, overtake the queue and then completely block the wrong lane while they try to sneak in.

The A1/A194 split just after Washington services north bound, is a good example, especially when there were loads of roadworks. Just complete self-entitled pricks. I'm to f****ing important to wait in a queue like all you other plebs, so I'm going to go up the road marked A194 over a mile back, overtake you all, then make everyone wanting to use the A194 wait for my shit driving, because I'm more important than them too.

The worst used to be Bluewater in Kent around Christmas. Slip road full, so people would double up into the left lane rather than form a queue. Then because the left lane was full, people used to use the middle lane too. Occasionally you would have someone in the right lane to the same, so you would have at worst the entire M2 blocked by people who can't queue to do a bit of shopping or at best, reduced down to one lane with slow lorries having to move out, just so someone can get £5 off on the first day of the January sales.
 

DaveH said:
Similarly people who deliberately drive in the wrong lane when a road is splitting or approaching a slip road, overtake the queue and then completely block the wrong lane while they try to sneak in.

The A1/A194 split just after Washington services north bound, is a good example, especially when there were loads of roadworks. Just complete self-entitled pricks. I'm to f****ing important to wait in a queue like all you other plebs, so I'm going to go up the road marked A194 over a mile back, overtake you all, then make everyone wanting to use the A194 wait for my shit driving, because I'm more important than them too.

The worst used to be Bluewater in Kent around Christmas. Slip road full, so people would double up into the left lane rather than form a queue. Then because the left lane was full, people used to use the middle lane too. Occasionally you would have someone in the right lane to the same, so you would have at worst the entire M2 blocked by people who can't queue to do a bit of shopping or at best, reduced down to one lane with slow lorries having to move out, just so someone can get £5 off on the first day of the January sales.
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Sounds a nightmare mate 😕
 
Football Dinosaur said:
It's worse imo. Like saying Lee-o-nel
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Just trying to understand the thread of logic that’s appeared within the larger thread here…

What I’m picking up is that failing to pronounce the name of a football club in the manner of the language/style of the country wherein it’s situated is irritating, but pronouncing the name of a person in the language/style of the country wherein they were born and/or reside is also irritating? Got it.
 
People who are so obsessed with a band/TV series that they wont accept you dont like it and try and persuade you.

I dont like Game of Thrones. I dont like Lord of the Rings. I get why people do like these things and if you like them crack on. But knights and dragons and goblins just isnt my thing. Theres probably things I like that you dont. I like Western films but I accept lots of people dont. Thats fine


But FFS. Dont sit there and try and persuade me that if I "persevere" with the first 200 episodes ill fall in love with it. Its just boring conversation
 
BiG said:
Just trying to understand the thread of logic that’s appeared within the larger thread here…

What I’m picking up is that failing to pronounce the name of a football club in the manner of the language/style of the country wherein it’s situated is irritating, but pronouncing the name of a person in the language/style of the country wherein they were born and/or reside is also irritating? Got it.
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People putting on silly accents is irritating. It's not lee-o-nel Ritchie is it ffs!
 
Football Dinosaur said:
People putting on silly accents is irritating. It's not lee-o-nel Ritchie is it ffs!
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No. Because Lionel Ritchie is American, so it’s pronounced in the American English fashion. But a bloke from Argentina would be called Lee-o-nel (as you put it) because in Spain and Latin America their vowels are all consistently pronounced - unlike ours - but ‘I’ is pronounced closer to how we pronounce ‘Ee’

I knew a bloke called Andy Warwick once. He was a Londoner. So his surname is pronounced like the town - Warrick. But the popular songstress from American who’s surname is Dionne (not the pronunciation of ‘I’ in this case is ‘ee’ - even in English… and her surname is Wor-wick.

And my daughter’s bloke is Spanish and his name is Adrián. And it’s not pronounced in Ad-rye-an. Or even like Adrian Chiles name. Even Adrian Chiles name isn’t pronounced like a plural version of the South American country.

You must be constantly irritated. 😉
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Late edit. One more thing. My name is pronounced BeeG
 
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Manners and entitlement. Both seem to be an issue these days. I’m only 43 but when I was a kid me mam would kick off if I wasn’t polite and said please and thank you. Also then entitlement you see these days from all walks of life, old, young, black, white, I’ve seen them all do it it proper does my head in. Was standing in line in the pharmacy and this women maybe ten years or so older than me walks in sees I was already there decided to pick something off the counter and as the lady came to say who’s next just hands the item to her. Didn’t ask if I was being served, didn’t wait her turn it proper annoys me entitled behaviour like that.
 
Mackemansj1 said:
Manners and entitlement. Both seem to be an issue these days. I’m only 43 but when I was a kid me mam would kick off if I wasn’t polite and said please and thank you. Also then entitlement you see these days from all walks of life, old, young, black, white, I’ve seen them all do it it proper does my head in. Was standing in line in the pharmacy and this women maybe ten years or so older than me walks in sees I was already there decided to pick something off the counter and as the lady came to say who’s next just hands the item to her. Didn’t ask if I was being served, didn’t wait her turn it proper annoys me entitled behaviour like that.
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Americanisms, it's queue. Unless you're in the US...
 
"Could you stop what you're doing for a minute so I can ask you about the...

The, uh...

You know, the uh...

The...

Thing, you know...

Um...

Sorry, this must be making you really, uh,

Really, uh...

Late, yeah, late"
 
I’ve mentioned this before but online recipes containing a novel about the how the author used to have this with their grandparents in Sicily in the 1980s, how it was the highlight of the week, how it shaped your life, do you want to sign up for our recipe club, here’s 85 pop ups about newsletters, special offers, cookery clubs and some first world problem we are shilling the ‘solution’ to.

No just fuck off, I want to know the thing I clicked on the link for.
 
Gentwo said:
I’ve mentioned this before but online recipes containing a novel about the how the author used to have this with their grandparents in Sicily in the 1980s, how it was the highlight of the week, how it shaped your life, do you want to sign up for our recipe club, here’s 85 pop ups about newsletters, special offers, cookery clubs and some first world problem we are shilling the ‘solution’ to.

No just fuck off, I want to know the thing I clicked on the link for.
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With you on this one. And then when you scroll down, you find it is odd ingredients you don't have, or can't get here, and the killer - everything is measured out in cups or quarts.
 
A glass and a half of milk in every bar.

How big is the glass - as shot glass?, a half pint?, a pint?, a stein sized glass???? And how big is the bar?? Is it a single row of squares?, a double row? or a git big bar? yet it`s a glass and a half in every bar.

Be. More. Specific. 😤 😤 😤
 
mickb2112 said:
A glass and a half of milk in every bar.

How big is the glass - as shot glass?, a half pint?, a pint?, a stein sized glass???? And how big is the bar?? Is it a single row of squares?, a double row? or a git big bar? yet it`s a glass and a half in every bar.

Be. More. Specific. 😤 😤 😤
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Errr… I don’t think that’s relevant any more.

The wording in the bar is now : “The equivalent of 426ml of fresh liquid milk in every 227g of milk chocolate.”

(I looked it up)

I’d hazard a guess that most chocolate these days wouldn’t be considered chocolate at all when the slogan you quoted was created in 1928
 
BiG said:
Errr… I don’t think that’s relevant any more.

The wording in the bar is now : “The equivalent of 426ml of fresh liquid milk in every 227g of milk chocolate.”

(I looked it up)

I’d hazard a guess that most chocolate these days wouldn’t be considered chocolate at all when the slogan you quoted was created in 1928
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Not what it says on the ad....makes it even worse. I`m now even MORE annoyed 😤 😤 😤 😤 😤 😤
 
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