The "That Really Grinds My Gears" Thread

[Pal Joey]

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by Big Daddy Bee on Sat Jan 29 2011, 05:39
So then people what really annoys you.

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

Last thread: https://www.606v2.com/t199p950-the-that-really-grinds-my-gears-thread

[two_tone]

Celebrity nicknames. Especially this abhorrent, abbreviated style of nickname that worthless gossip column-types now automatically use with famous folk.

You know the type. The first one I remember seeing was J-Lo.

Earlier today, I saw a headline about someone called K-Stew. No idea who that is but they sound like a ready meal. It's everywhere and it's ridiculous.

Please, just... F-Off.

Worse still are the nicknames they dish out to celebritiy couples - abbrieviate both first names into one name to call them by. D1ckheads.

[Crimey]

K-Stew is Kristen Stewart by the way.

[Il Gialloblu]

Celebrity nicknames. Especially this abhorrent, abbreviated style of nickname that worthless gossip column-types now automatically use with famous folk.

You know the type. The first one I remember seeing was J-Lo.

Earlier today, I saw a headline about someone called K-Stew. No idea who that is but they sound like a ready meal. It's everywhere and it's ridiculous.

Please, just... F-Off.

Worse still are the nicknames they dish out to celebritiy couples - abbrieviate both first names into one name to call them by. D1ckheads.

Which couple was given that one?

Fully agree however. Awful. I don't understand why people would use these terms.

By the way, at a stretch, our resident mod Fists of Fury could possibly be abbreviated to F-ofF.

Christ, I'm doing it now.

[Il Gialloblu]

K-Stew is Kristen Stewart by the way.

Right, thanks.

No idea.

[Fists of Fury]

Celebrity nicknames. Especially this abhorrent, abbreviated style of nickname that worthless gossip column-types now automatically use with famous folk.

You know the type. The first one I remember seeing was J-Lo.

Earlier today, I saw a headline about someone called K-Stew. No idea who that is but they sound like a ready meal. It's everywhere and it's ridiculous.

Please, just... F-Off.

Worse still are the nicknames they dish out to celebritiy couples - abbrieviate both first names into one name to call them by. D1ckheads.

right back at you my friend!!!

Which couple was given that one?

Fully agree however. Awful. I don't understand why people would use these terms.

By the way, at a stretch, our resident mod Fists of Fury could possibly be abbreviated to F-ofF.

Christ, I'm doing it now.

[two_tone]

Celebrity nicknames. Especially this abhorrent, abbreviated style of nickname that worthless gossip column-types now automatically use with famous folk.

You know the type. The first one I remember seeing was J-Lo.

Earlier today, I saw a headline about someone called K-Stew. No idea who that is but they sound like a ready meal. It's everywhere and it's ridiculous.

Please, just... F-Off.

Worse still are the nicknames they dish out to celebritiy couples - abbrieviate both first names into one name to call them by. D1ckheads.

Which couple was given that one?

Fully agree however. Awful. I don't understand why people would use these terms.

By the way, at a stretch, our resident mod Fists of Fury could possibly be abbreviated to F-ofF.

Christ, I'm doing it now.

I think Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston had one, something like Brennifer. Makes me sick.

[Cari]

Bennifer = Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez before they split up didn't it?

I see what you mean by abbreviated nicknames being annoying, especially when the abbreviation is somewhat pointless. Rihanna - it's only six blydi letters, and yet it's "abbreviated" to Ri-Ri. Why? And it sounds sh*t. Kate Middleton (who's no longer a Middleton anyway) being called K-Mizz. Why not use HerRH if you really can't be arrsed to write her title? I know I'm guilty of abbreviating names on here quite a bit, but I'm not writing for a national newspaper/magazine.

[westisbest]

The saying 'week in week out'

[Kenny]

Thieving Barstewards !!! , they just dont give a crap what heartache they cause . I seriously could do them some real harm

[Corporalhumblebucket]

Thieving Barstewards !!! , they just dont give a crap what heartache they cause . I seriously could do them some real harm

Have you been barred from the Queen Vic?

[Kenny]

Thieving Barstewards !!! , they just dont give a crap what heartache they cause . I seriously could do them some real harm

Have you been barred from the Queen Vic?

No just robbed

[Pal Joey]

Do you reckon you should go for look down at the river in summer?
Might see the thieves there fishing. Or were they beach rods?

[Kenny]

took everything coarse and sea rods , i would drowned them if i saw them near water !

[Lumbering_Jack]

The fact that being in a minority gets you more rights than others. Positive discrimation my arris.

[Cari]

The fact that being in a minority gets you more rights than others. Positive discrimation my arris.

That's a big contradiction there, Jack.

[Lumbering_Jack]

How exactly?

Everyone should be taken on merit. Just because certain groups are underrepresented in certain jobs should not mean they should be fast tracked through.

It's not just jobs either. A study was done on retrospective planning applications between pikeys and 'regular' folk (for want of a better word) and they were unproportianally high in favour of travellers.

[Pal Joey]

For some reason I had the experience of encountering about 3 or 4 different idiots (in the space of an hour or so) standing on the bloody busy road, driver side door open, half bent over with their arse sticking out in the traffic as I (and others of course) were driving by.

They seem to have no sense of the potential danger. Zero road sense. It's worse when they're like that and on the damn phone too.

[Cari]

To be fair Jack, you did make a very broad statement. In my view, if you're in a minority you don't get "more rights" otherwise you wouldn't be in a minority would you? Minority is relative surely? I think what you're referring to in your reply is a perceived inequality. I say perceived because inequality exists everywhere - just depends where you are and how you look at it.

[Lumbering_Jack]

To be fair Jack, you did make a very broad statement. In my view, if you're in a minority you don't get "more rights" otherwise you wouldn't be in a minority would you? Minority is relative surely? I think what you're referring to in your reply is a perceived inequality. I say perceived because inequality exists everywhere - just depends where you are and how you look at it.

You do get more rights though, hence the positive discrimination. I know a woman who applied to her local police force and of the 250 at the briefing, how many do you think we're men? A reasonable assumption would be at least 50%?

The actual number... 0

Shocking.

[Pal Joey]

We live in an age where Governments right down to the local level are trying to level the imbalances of the preceding millennia with regards to giving everyone equal opportunities, rights, etc. I think that's fine.

I'm doing a tender submission for a major state gvt project and part of the requirement is a statement that we'll not discriminate employing people based on sex, age, nationality, race... have to also consider employing people with disabilities and disadvantaged Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders. Stock standard stuff these days.

I actually feel quite warm and fuzzy about it. I like helping others as others have helped me. Give those who maybe haven't had the chance up until now to get involved in some interesting work, train them up and collaborate as part of a team.

[Lumbering_Jack]

Not at the expense if someone who is better qualified. 2 wrongs don't make a right and all that.

[Pal Joey]

It's not about that though. Of course you want the best qualified person for the job but it doesn't hurt to get other people into the fold and give them some assistance and opportunities in the workplace. I know that sounds so PC but I don't have a problem with it.

What's the alternative? A closed shop?

Recently I had a tough experience and had to sort it out dealing through some Indian lass (I could barely understand a word she was saying)... but instead of thinking 'how the f did she get that job?' - I treated her with dignity and respect - and she exceeded my expectations, got the problem sorted and more.

Maybe it's a karma thing but I really believe that if you make some 'personal connection' (talk about cricket or something) that sense of what you call negative discrimination or minority complex - says more about yourself than the other person involved.

Try it - it works.

[Kenny]

Shops that try and cram so much stock in that you cant walk round without knocking something off a rail , Sports Direct is a prime example

[Pal Joey]

Yes, we have loads of the chinese $2 dollar shops where the racks are jammed with goods. If you try to take something off... it could cause an avalanche of junk.

They then have all these signs everywhere saying that if you break something.... you'll have to pay for it!

[Lumbering_Jack]

Fat people who moan about their weight while eating a bag of crisps.

[Hero]

The entire 'Keep calm and...' range of products, posters etc.
I would quite happily smash the next mug I see with that slogan on in the office kitchen.
And on that note, motivational mugs and posters in the workplace.

[Galted]

Squirrels.

[Kenny]

Squirrels.

Red or Grey ones ?

[Hero]

Anyone that thinks it's funny to do the 'Simples' meerkat impression.
Or just in general people doing impressions off the tv, the likes of Borat etc.

[Galted]

Squirrels.

Red or Grey ones ?

Grey ones.

[Luckless Pedestrian]

People who go on Pointless or other general knowledge quizzes when it's clear that they don't know anything about anything. Why would you want to go on TV for the whole nation to see how stupid you are?

[Il Gialloblu]

Anyone that thinks it's funny to do the 'Simples' meerkat impression.
Or just in general people doing impressions off the tv, the likes of Borat etc.

Don't have a cow man.

[TopHat24/7]

People who go on Pointless or other general knowledge quizzes when it's clear that they don't know anything about anything. Why would you want to go on TV for the whole nation to see how stupid you are?

Haha +1

[Hero]

Anyone that thinks it's funny to do the 'Simples' meerkat impression.
Or just in general people doing impressions off the tv, the likes of Borat etc.

Don't have a cow man.

Eat my shorts.

[Kenny]

Adverts every 10 minutes on Kids TV channels , if i see that bloody Argos Alien again today i will scream !

[westisbest]

Anyone that thinks it's funny to do the 'Simples' meerkat impression.
Or just in general people doing impressions off the tv, the likes of Borat etc.

Really. This annoys you.

[Hero]

Very much, all the Fast Show, Little Britain style programmes where the following day all you here at work when something goes is the 'computer says no, cough' etc.

[VTR]

Women aged 40+ referring to their friends as "The Girls". So you get some 60 year old woman with grey hair and false teeth saying she's on a "Night Out with The Girls".

I blame Sex & The City for this.

[Galted]

I get more irritated when great big fat ones refer to each other as "the girls". With old ones it's more sad than annoying, unless they're obese obviously.

[TopHat24/7]

Women aged 40+ referring to their friends as "The Girls". So you get some 60 year old woman with grey hair and false teeth saying she's on a "Night Out with The Girls".

I blame Sex & The City for this.

SATC can be blamed for a lot....!

[Cari]

People having domestics on mobile phones in public. I realised I disliked this, when this evening, on a full commuter bus home, some bloke just suddenly starts shouting and swearing from the back of the bus. I turn around (as does everyone else) and see he's on his mobile phone ripping into his partner/family member or whoever it was. There's just no need for it. The rest of us don't want to listen to it.

[Galted]

You should copy what they say but pronounce r's as w's. Unless they look overly psychotic of course.

[Hero]

Facebook posts where there's an instruction to do something within a time period or that you must like it because if not then you must be heartless etc.

I kid you not this appeared in my timeline feed within the last ten minutes:

[Kenny]

thats disgusting Hero , but i hope you sent it on

[Derbyblue]

Facebook posts where there's an instruction to do something within a time period or that you must like it because if not then you must be heartless etc.

I kid you not this appeared in my timeline feed within the last ten minutes:

I hate when people put things like: "Like if you think cancer shouldn't exist." Stop trying to get likes nobody's a fan of cancer, instead of trying to look popular and cool by getting loads of likes give some money to charity if you're actually interested in getting rid of it.

[Galted]

Facebook posts where there's an instruction to do something within a time period or that you must like it because if not then you must be heartless etc.

I kid you not this appeared in my timeline feed within the last ten minutes:

That's quality, use it as a riposte for all the idiot do-gooders who send similar for their latest cause that everyone believes in anyway.

[Luckless Pedestrian]

I can't stand this new version of 'The Power of Love'. I'm not too keen on the original, but at least Holly Johnson gave it some welly.

[Hero]

The royal baby already is beginning to get on my wick.

Today's top news story;

Husband spends time with his pregnant wife in hospital.

[TopHat24/7]

Haha, can't get enough of it personally. Especially when it rankles bell-ends like Danny Baker with their "great, now we've all got to find another £250k pa" jokes - where are you gonna get your crap jokes from after 2013 Danny when the royal family are no longer tax-payer funded? Eh? Eh??

[Luckless Pedestrian]

What annoys me about it is that the BBC have been showing clips of how the royal baby news is being reported around the world. I don't care how it's being reported elsewhere!

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