The That Really Grinds My Gears thread

by Big Daddy Bee Fri 28 Jan 2011, 6:39 pm

First topic message reminder :

So then people what really annoys you.

No matter how gig or trivial it is, this is the thread to vent your anger and annoyance.

I shall start this with:

Starburst. They are not Starburst, they are Opel Fruits and always will be. And don't get me started on Snickers. STOP CHANGING THE NAME OF SWEETS!!!! :evil:

by **Pal Joey** Wed 06 Jul 2011, 12:18 pm

That's plain lazy/ignorant, luckless.

It grinds me when I hear "The President said in Washington Thursday..."

Shouldn't there be an 'on' between Washington and Thursday?

by **Pr4wn** Wed 06 Jul 2011, 12:33 pm

Adam Boulton.

by Luckless Pedestrian Wed 06 Jul 2011, 12:57 pm

It's annoying when people say 'I met up with.' That's a waste of breath. Just say 'I met.'

by **Pal Joey** Thu 21 Jul 2011, 2:14 pm

Those idiots who run along side the cyclist in the TdF wearing capes and waving their fists in the rider's face. It must be so annoying for a rider who has been busting his guts to get up the mountain to have that waiting for you!

by MtotheC's Wrasslin Biatch Thu 21 Jul 2011, 2:17 pm

The hump smiley

by Beer Thu 21 Jul 2011, 2:20 pm

Electric Demons

by Luckless Pedestrian Thu 21 Jul 2011, 2:38 pm

People who end every sentence with 'so...'

I used to work for the DWP transcribing interviews verbatim and it was deeply annoying when I knew what was coming at the end of every sentence.

by **Pal Joey** Thu 21 Jul 2011, 2:44 pm

luckless_pedestrian wrote:People who end every sentence with 'so...'

I used to work for the DWP transcribing interviews verbatim and it was deeply annoying when I knew what was coming at the end of every sentence.

and people who end their sentences with "...., right?" (all the time)

"You know what...," is also annoying at the start of any comment.

by Cari Thu 21 Jul 2011, 3:16 pm

liverbnz wrote:Drivers who drive up the rear end of slow drivers and create a convoy on the way to work as nobody can bloody get paaaaaaassssssttttt!

People who drive way below the speed limit - I got 2 bloody minors on my test for not USING the speed limits!

People with cheap stickers on their cars. Seen the worst one a few weeks ago which said "Not sponsered by mummy and daddy". Why the phluck would you wanna bring attention to that you nutrition deprived, orange-faced, poker up your rearend bint?!?

People that will go to any lengths to get attention, including making a tool of themselves in public and think they're great. *News flash* You're not great, you're a mentally insuffcient bumhole.

And breathe.

Oh man I just had a good laugh reading that. But yeah shiite car stickers are up there, especially those fecking pointless ones with "[whatever] ON BOARD" Who cares who's on board? I don't sit there and go "Oh look! That car has a Princess on board would you believe!"

by MtotheC's Wrasslin Biatch Thu 21 Jul 2011, 3:20 pm

Linebreaker wrote:
luckless_pedestrian wrote:People who end every sentence with 'so...'

I used to work for the DWP transcribing interviews verbatim and it was deeply annoying when I knew what was coming at the end of every sentence.

and people who end their sentences with "...., right?" (all the time)

"You know what...," is also annoying at the start of any comment.

It winds me up when people recite conversation they've had, and start every new speaker with "they turned around",

"Then she turned around and said I looked fat"
"And I turned around and said so do you"
"Then she turned around....

What's with all the turning around? Were they literally spinning on the spot whilst talking?

by Luckless Pedestrian Thu 21 Jul 2011, 3:26 pm

It's really annoying when people say 'like' for no reason in conversation.

So she said, like, 'get over yourself,' and I was like, 'what?' And she was like, 'you heard me,' and I was like, 'I'm not having that,' and she was like, 'whatever...'

by Cari Thu 21 Jul 2011, 3:28 pm

I think you two should read this article about Americanisms:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14201796

by **Pal Joey** Thu 21 Jul 2011, 3:34 pm

Good list Cari.

I remember hearing that "gotten" was prevalent in East Anglia hundreds of years ago...then died out, however it survived in New England, USA.

I nearly choked on my noodles when I heard a girl on TV say the other day: 'howevers"... with an 's'!

by **ADMIN** Thu 21 Jul 2011, 3:41 pm

Continuing on the same vein...
People that speak with an accent that just doesn't match where they come from, the fake Manchester accent springs to mind whilst walking around the towns in Cheshire.
Sorry, but you're not a Scally, your dads a dentist and you go to school in a Qashqai, you holiday in the south of France and you eat couscous, so stop with the 'swagger' and walking about like you've dumped a load in the back of your pants where the crotch for some reason is around your knees.

by Cari Thu 21 Jul 2011, 3:46 pm

Hero - speaking of blokes wearing their trousers like that. I saw a boy the other day wearing trackie bottoms and the waistband was around his thighs. He was walking like he'd crapped himself. I really don't understand young local kids dressing like American rappers. They look stupid.

by **Pal Joey** Thu 21 Jul 2011, 3:54 pm

I must get over there someday to hear all of that, Hero. I can pick up some basic differences and hazard a guess, to within a region maybe - but you can probably tell the fake ones.

I'd be Headscratch

and asking them to please repeat.

You should hear some of the accents here. Not the stereotypical broad one (that's just put on for the tourists) but a vietnamese, lebanese or russian - aussie accent. Cringe away! I find it fascinating when a chinese bird opens her mouth and makes me sound like a foreigner!

by **Pal Joey** Thu 21 Jul 2011, 3:58 pm

That trackie-daks thing... wearing around the thighs. Laugh

They all have under-developed rear ends I suppose... sort of like a mangy hyena!

by easthfc Thu 21 Jul 2011, 5:02 pm

My flatmate is obsessed with putting the toilet seat fully down everytime he uses the loo!!! Why?!

As 2 guys living in a flat the toilet seat should be up at all times surely.

by **Pal Joey** Thu 21 Jul 2011, 5:14 pm

Surely easthfc... nothing to worry about there... unless your gf or Mum comes over.

Otherwise bolt it back to the cistern!

by Luckless Pedestrian Thu 21 Jul 2011, 5:27 pm

Hero wrote:Continuing on the same vein...
People that speak with an accent that just doesn't match where they come from

Like Lewis Hamilton's American accent, you mean? steam

by **Pal Joey** Thu 21 Jul 2011, 5:33 pm

James Murdoch has that awful mixture of an american, english and australian accent. Niether here nor there.

I guess when you have all that money you can sound however you want!

His old man on the other hand...has a south australian accent put through a tumble drier with some american traits and some rocks.

by Cari Thu 21 Jul 2011, 5:59 pm

That was like Madonna when she lived over here...she had an awful American-Posh English accent going on. Was really irritating to hear. And I hate mockneys.

by Thomond Thu 21 Jul 2011, 6:03 pm

luckless_pedestrian wrote:It's really annoying when people say 'like' for no reason in conversation.

So she said, like, 'get over yourself,' and I was like, 'what?' And she was like, 'you heard me,' and I was like, 'I'm not having that,' and she was like, 'whatever...'

You should never travel to Cork then. Cork people use it all the time! D'you noworimean like?

by Doon the Water Thu 21 Jul 2011, 8:48 pm

How can wifes just dissapear in supermarkets.

There I am walking down an aisle talking to her then look over my shoulder to see no one. I then get very strange looks and it take me 10 minutes to find her.
Happens every week

by **Pal Joey** Fri 22 Jul 2011, 1:56 am

They're complete mysteries; that's what makes them so precious.

Like little robins going from tree to tree... one blink and they're somewhere else!

by Luckless Pedestrian Fri 22 Jul 2011, 8:32 am

People wearing headphones and not looking around when they cross the road.

Also, people crossing the road and then slowing down when they know you've seen them.

by Guest Fri 22 Jul 2011, 4:46 pm

Posters that use the term rudey poo. Grow up!

by **Pr4wn** Fri 22 Jul 2011, 4:47 pm

Think that's a swear filter replacement...

by Guest Fri 22 Jul 2011, 4:50 pm

Pr4wn wrote:Think that's a swear filter replacement...

You're joking?!! For what?

by **Crimey** Fri 22 Jul 2011, 4:51 pm

It begins with s and rhymes with pit.

by MtotheC's Wrasslin Biatch Fri 22 Jul 2011, 4:54 pm

spit?

by Guest Fri 22 Jul 2011, 5:16 pm

Oh right. My bad.

by Luckless Pedestrian Fri 22 Jul 2011, 5:18 pm

People who aren't American saying 'my bad.'

by Guest Fri 22 Jul 2011, 5:21 pm

I was being ironic dude.

by Cari Fri 22 Jul 2011, 7:21 pm

Freekshow...the swear filter's great. Guess the words:

oh dear
Poopie
rudey poo
soloist
Muppet
man sausage
Flip
Kumquat

by Guest Fri 22 Jul 2011, 7:34 pm

Cari wrote:Freekshow...the swear filter's great. Guess the words:

oh dear
Poopie
rudey poo
soloist
Muppet
man sausage
Flip
Kumquat

It's opened a whole new world to me! I must apologise for my ignorance!

by Cari Fri 22 Jul 2011, 7:46 pm

No worries. I didn't know it existed until I tried it. I think it's quite funny, especially when someone's in the middle of rant Very Happy

by Luckless Pedestrian Sat 23 Jul 2011, 7:56 am

FreekShow wrote:I was being ironic dude.

I'll have to take your word for it!

by asdral225 Mon 25 Jul 2011, 7:10 pm

Badly dubbed TV adverts there are a couple on at the moment for cars.
I don't remember the make or model

by liverbnz Tue 26 Jul 2011, 11:13 am

People who talk about themselves. Unless you have done something really sepcial or groundbreaking, I don't give a phuck. Don't start sentences with, 'I remember when I' or 'I've got one of those and' or 'My house/car/man sausage has'. Not In.ter.rest.ed.

by Luckless Pedestrian Tue 26 Jul 2011, 11:15 am

People who say 'myself' when they should say 'me' or 'I' in the belief that it makes them sound clever. It does the opposite.

by dummy_half Tue 26 Jul 2011, 4:08 pm

The swear filter has been creating some fun on the golf thread, with a discussion of wrist man sausaging on the backswing...

by Doon the Water Tue 26 Jul 2011, 6:27 pm

Luckless~ I know

'I can't see that happening myself though.'

Very irritating and very common.[in both meanings of the word common]

by greybeard Tue 26 Jul 2011, 10:25 pm

Imprecision.

Ireland is not in the UK, the UK is not Great Britain, Great Britain is not England. It's not a nationalist thing, I just get worked up when there's already a word for something and people say something else because they're lazy.

Oh, and I get just as worked up if I hear someone referring to Finland as Scandanavian.

Or if they say they don't 'believe in evolution' because man didn't come from monkeys. Ugh.

And people who, if you ask them to do something, make sure they give you the full 80% effort.

Gah! I hate people.

by **Pal Joey** Thu 28 Jul 2011, 3:23 pm

When someone is being interviewed and they are just about to answer the question or say something critical...then the interviewer rudley cuts in with another question mid-sentence...and then abruptly accuses the interviewee of 'not answering the question'. steam

by dummy_half Thu 28 Jul 2011, 3:39 pm

'Giving it 110%'

by Luckless Pedestrian Thu 28 Jul 2011, 4:54 pm

Dominic Littlewood. Why does the BBC continue to throw programmes at this imp?

by Guest Thu 28 Jul 2011, 9:10 pm

luckless_pedestrian wrote:Dominic Littlewood. Why does the BBC continue to throw programmes at this imp?

agree, hate him, he is cringy and acts like an idiot

by Doon the Water Thu 28 Jul 2011, 11:13 pm

30 year olds who winge on about pensions and how unlucky they are.

When I was 12 years old I had a paper round and in the spring/summer I would caddy at weekends and in the autumn/winter I would go beating at local shoots.
One summers day I did my paper round and caddied 3 rounds
At 14 years of age I worked weekends and school holidays.
At 15 years old I worked 70 hour weeks in the summer and 42 hours in the winter.
I worked and paid taxes all of my working life until I semi retired age 57.
42 years at an average of 50+ hours a week is around 120,000 working hours completed.

Today many young folk go to Uni, do thier degree take a gap year [or two] and finally start work and paying tax into the system at 25 years old.
They then have the nrerve to complain about working a couple of extra years.

by Luckless Pedestrian Sat 30 Jul 2011, 8:01 am

Newspaper reviews. What a lazy way to fill airtime, plus the reviewer is usually annoying and in love with him/herself.

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