Little things that irrationally irritate you

Timcito

Golf on the TV. The inactivity, the sleepy voices, the daft jargon, and the spiffy James-Bond-in-Goldfinger duds. Seeing the crowd soporifically following the 'action' out on the 'fairway' is as good a metaphor for mindless support and obedience as I've ever seen.

Shrews

Timcito said:

Golf on the TV. The inactivity, the sleepy voices, the daft jargon, and the spiffy James-Bond-in-Goldfinger duds. Seeing the crowd soporifically following the 'action' out on the 'fairway' is as good a metaphor for mindless support and obedience as I've ever seen.

'Get in the hole!' 

LightB4sound

Roadworn guitars
Relic'd gear

guyinlyon

LionAquaLooper said:
"Needless to say" followed by words
"No offence but" followed by words

People who say/write "There are no words" or "I have no words".

YOU'VE JUST USED WORDS!

guyinlyon

Cols said:

Coffee shop staff who...

Coffee shop staff that expect a tip.

guyinlyon

Philly_Q said:

I can't stand polo shirts.

I can't stand polo.

Philly_Q

guyinlyon said:

Philly_Q said:

I can't stand polo shirts.

I can't stand polo.

It's easily avoided.  Polo shirts less so.

guyinlyon

LionAquaLooper said:
- People who say "PIN Number"

ATM Machine

guyinlyon

Kalimna said:
Muppets on the road who drive 20-30mph under the speed limit,

It's a speed LIMIT, not a minimum speed, deal with it.

Oh yes, people that use "muppet" as a derogatory thing suck.

Muppets are funny, intelligent entertainment, and millions of children around the world have been help by "Sesame Street" and it's many off-shoots.

sev112

Gassage said:

Cliches irk me.

I avoid cliches like the plague.

And Spelling mistakes; I’m forming a club for people who don’t make them and you can’t join us

BillDL

guyinlyon said:

Oh yes, people that use "muppet" as a derogatory thing suck.

People that use the term "derogatory thing".

guitars4you

guyinlyon said:

Kalimna said:
Muppets on the road who drive 20-30mph under the speed limit,

It's a speed LIMIT, not a minimum speed, deal with it.

The issue with many of them who drive at say 40 in a 50 area is when the road then moves into a built up 30 zone, they still continue on at 40 - Showing that incompetence and ignorance was the issue

Kalimna

guitars4you said:

guyinlyon said:

Kalimna said:
Muppets on the road who drive 20-30mph under the speed limit,

It's a speed LIMIT, not a minimum speed, deal with it.

The issue with many of them who drive at say 40 in a 50 area is when the road then moves into a built up 30 zone, they still continue on at 40 - Showing that incompetence and ignorance was the issue

And that's exactly my thoughts too. 


It is indeed a limit, not a target, but in the absence of obstacles (e.g. parked cars, built up area, narrow road, windy road, wet/icy road surface, etc), driving so slowly can be a considerable inconvenience to other road users who perhaps have jobs or appointments to get to. Or perhaps just want to get somewhere quickly. And if you have ever driven around rural areas of Scotland you will have noticed many signs requesting that slow drivers pull over to let following traffic pass.

And muppets, whilst entertaining and sometimes informative, are puppets and have limited intelligence and understanding. Much like aforementioned road users. Deal with that.

Kurtis

If you drive too slowly in your driving test you'd probably get failed.

I was taught to safely and smartly get up to the speed of the traffic. 
Without going over obviously.

If you are going significantly slower than the rest of the cars on the road you are a danger. 

Kalimna

Other little things that irrationally irritate me : 

Plastic milk jug tops (the seal underneath the screwtop lid) when the fold-up tab peels off but the seal doesnt.
Very specific to my line of work, but glass ampoule tops that either dont snap off, or disintegrate into many razor sharp glass splinters.
Peaches and nectarines that smell divine but taste like water. (See also : strawberries and melons)
Not having the 'correct' jack connector when plugged into a single amp and trying different guitars (right angle jack - Les Paul, straight - Strat).
Enjoying a satisfying dump only to discover lack of toilet paper at an inoppurtune moment.
Watching catch-up-tv only to find the image has shrunk and a good portion of the screen taken up by someone signing the dialogue. Ive absolutely no reason to grumble at the signing person, but why shrink the original image??????
Oh, and one more thing. Whenever we're having a group chat at work and I use "So say we all" or "And the hits just keeeeep on coming" and nobody understands the reference.

That is all for now.

Snap

Not sure it this is irrational or entirely reasonable but two things that really really get on my nerves are whistling (which is intrusive and moronic) and sniffing.

You can almost guarantee that if you are on a train, some weirdo will be continually sniffing. I hate that!

Timcito

Snap said:

Not sure it this is irrational or entirely reasonable but two things that really really get on my nerves are whistling (which is intrusive and moronic) ...

Even worse are whistlers who clearly think they are good at it!    

fretmeister

It's the Register Office.
Not the Registry Office.

LionAquaLooper

Chris Martin
Bono

Kalimna

Timcito said:

Snap said:

Not sure it this is irrational or entirely reasonable but two things that really really get on my nerves are whistling (which is intrusive and moronic) ...

Even worse are whistlers who clearly think they are good at it!    

And there's a particular breed of whistler that adds a warble to the tone, like an off-kilter tremolo/vibrato.