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  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,413
    When your iTunes is on shuffle and some album track of the Kaiser Chief's starts playing
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,902
    brogib said:

    IA said:

    The Scottish Government's tax on carrier bags, which seems to apply to paper bags as well as plastic

    Scotrail's ban on alcohol in evening trains, including, say, the 9pm Monday train from Edinburgh to Inverness

    Scottish people composing texts entirely in their accent (eg "A wis jes back fae shoppie fan u rang")

    Scottish people calling me Ken

    I'm not far off adding "Living in
    Scotland" to this list

    That's better eh @cafcdave123 ; )
    we will be doing as THEY say come the next Parliament

  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    Counter-protests. I support the right to protest as it is a fundamental pillar of free speech and democracy, even if I fundamentally disagree with what protesters are upset about. What I can't stand are the people who specifically turn up at protests to drown out or intimidate the protesters into shutting up. That's just anti free speech.
  • People who break at speed cameras so that they are 10mph below the speed limit - just in case presumably.
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,365
    lolwray said:

    brogib said:

    IA said:

    The Scottish Government's tax on carrier bags, which seems to apply to paper bags as well as plastic

    Scotrail's ban on alcohol in evening trains, including, say, the 9pm Monday train from Edinburgh to Inverness

    Scottish people composing texts entirely in their accent (eg "A wis jes back fae shoppie fan u rang")

    Scottish people calling me Ken

    I'm not far off adding "Living in
    Scotland" to this list

    That's better eh @cafcdave123 ; )
    we will be doing as THEY say come the next Parliament

    I say let them have ago at running the country.
    They will find its almost impossible to change anything of any real note. But they might find out shuffling and moving chairs is a well paid job.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,256
    30mins as I type this trying to speak to someone at HSBC customer services
  • brogib
    brogib Posts: 2,128
    cabbles said:

    30mins as I type this trying to speak to someone at HSBC customer services

    https://translate.google.fr/?hl=fr
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,256
    Fiiish said:

    Counter-protests. I support the right to protest as it is a fundamental pillar of free speech and democracy, even if I fundamentally disagree with what protesters are upset about. What I can't stand are the people who specifically turn up at protests to drown out or intimidate the protesters into shutting up. That's just anti free speech.

    I agree. Or people that dismiss those protests as people whining. Since when has standing up for something that you believe in become such a dismissed or looked down upon thing just because you do something actionable about it. Not the same but I always think that of strikes. Massive grey area, but I lose my patience in talks at work where people generalise all public sector strikes as people just whinging, they should just get on with it etc....

  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,490

    When your iTunes is on shuffle and some album track of the Kaiser Chief's starts playing

    Their singles are shit as well so don't have them on your iTunes is the answer.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    New parents who think they are the first people in the history of the world to ever have had a child.
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  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    BBC Radio 5Live sport news reports on golf always starting with whatever Rory McIllroy is doing. Whether he is leading by 10 or 20 shots off the lead, all they report on is this curly haired clown as if there are no other golfers in the world.
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,783
    edited March 2015
    Riviera said:

    BBC Radio 5Live sport news reports on golf always starting with whatever Rory McIllroy is doing. Whether he is leading by 10 or 20 shots off the lead, all they report on is this curly haired clown as if there are no other golfers in the world.

    On a similar note - golf coverage from America always seems to place Tiger Woods at the top of all the players on the same score on the leaderboard, even when he's played fewer holes. They don't do this with anyone else.
  • NomadicAddick
    NomadicAddick Posts: 2,114
    When I mess up my quoting on CL
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    NomadicAddick Posts: 2,114
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  • People who don't finish senten
  • henrythecat
    henrythecat Posts: 479
    edited March 2015
    People who use stupid americanisms such as "my bad" (my bad what? - makes no sense), or "do the math" (should have an 's', but annoying saying regardless), or say "can I get" instead of "may I have" when ordering food in cafes/coffee shops. Talk English that makes sense.

    People in coffee shops. A list of annoyances too long to mention.

    People serving in shops and cafes who greet you with "are you ok?" instead of "how can I help you" I'm obviously not "ok" if I am standing here waiting to be served, just ask me what I want rather than how I feel.

    Commentators who say "saved by the post/bar/woodwork." No, that is a miss. The goal is the bit in the middle, anything outside is a failure to score. Idiots.

    people in shops. (ditto, people in coffee shops)

    Actually, when I think about it, it might be people in general that annoy me.
  • NomadicAddick
    NomadicAddick Posts: 2,114
    people who don't like peep show
  • NomadicAddick
    NomadicAddick Posts: 2,114
    people who take the minus offer on the chase

  • People serving in shops and cafes who greet you with "are you ok?" instead of "how can I help you" I'm obviously not "ok" if I am standing here waiting to be served, just ask me what I want rather than how I feel.

    Quite agree. A really annoying one in cafes and restaurants is immediately after placing your order with waiter/waitress he/she says "you've got it". No, I haven't.
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,365
    The phrase "perfect storm". Used whenever someone wants to make a drama out of an event.
    Also , been mentioned lots of time before but worth another, "gate" on the end of any news story.
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  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited March 2015

    People who use stupid americanisms such as "my bad" (my bad what? - makes no sense), or "do the math" (should have an 's', but annoying saying regardless), or say "can I get" instead of "may I have" when ordering food in cafes/coffee shops. Talk English that makes sense.

    People in coffee shops. A list of annoyances too long to mention.

    People serving in shops and cafes who greet you with "are you ok?" instead of "how can I help you" I'm obviously not "ok" if I am standing here waiting to be served, just ask me what I want rather than how I feel.

    Commentators who say "saved by the post/bar/woodwork." No, that is a miss. The goal is the bit in the middle, anything outside is a failure to score. Idiots.

    people in shops. (ditto, people in coffee shops)

    Actually, when I think about it, it might be people in general that annoy me.

    I'm with you all the way on this. People are the problem.

    "My bad" is something that makes me cringe when I hear it. We have a woman at work who says it amongst other things. Another one of her favourites is "Happy Friday". Every time she says it I get the urge to stab her in the eye with a biro (harsh I know). But I do like the idea of screaming "happy EYEDAY" after doing it!
  • Shag
    Shag Posts: 4,555
    Inane questions on websites .

    Do you want to sign up to our newsletter ?
    Do you want to add a 25p charitable donation ?
    Do you want to save your card details ?
    Do you want to create an account ?
    Do you want us to add you to our 3rd party emailing list and flog all your details to anyone who wants them ?
    Do you want the pc to store your password ?
    Do you want to complete the survey and have absolutely no chance in winning a non exsistent prize ?

    FCK OFF
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    Clickbait, and the general stupidity that they resort to for clicks.

    "This man has been banned from gyms because his muscle-building workout is too successful"

    No, he hasn't.
  • Your password must have a lower case letter, an upper case letter, a number, a non alphanumeric character and the forename of a famous ventriloquist. Please try again.
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998

    Your password must have a lower case letter, an upper case letter, a number, a non alphanumeric character and the forename of a famous ventriloquist. Please try again.

    The interesting thing is that this in no way makes it harder for a computer or a hacker to break your password but it does make it harder for you to remember it.

    An 8-character password containing a mixture of upper & lower case characters, numbers and special characters is a lot easier to decrypt than a 10-character all lower case password.

    Being forced to change your p/word periodically (most employers force you to change your log-ins once a month) don't make any meaningful difference to data protection either. Which is another general annoyance of mine, and the fact that all this leads to is most people in the office just use Password1 then change the number everytime they need to.
  • I've already been reprimanded for my use of "my bad" already today by @Greenie, now I'm getting torn a new one in here as well!

    I'm sorry, I realise what I said was wrong - the phrase is stupid, I agree.

    It was said in the heat of the moment, it was a mistake ... one that I will not make again.

    Now please, may the CL gods have mercy on me and can this be the last spoken about my error.

    :-)
  • That there's only 24 hrs in a day and that the clock don't stop ticking

  • People who use stupid americanisms such as "my bad" (my bad what? - makes no sense), or "do the math" (should have an 's', but annoying saying regardless), or say "can I get" instead of "may I have" when ordering food in cafes/coffee shops. Talk English that makes sense.

    People in coffee shops. A list of annoyances too long to mention.

    People serving in shops and cafes who greet you with "are you ok?" instead of "how can I help you" I'm obviously not "ok" if I am standing here waiting to be served, just ask me what I want rather than how I feel.

    Commentators who say "saved by the post/bar/woodwork." No, that is a miss. The goal is the bit in the middle, anything outside is a failure to score. Idiots.

    people in shops. (ditto, people in coffee shops)

    Actually, when I think about it, it might be people in general that annoy me.

    My five year old son brings home books to read and we as parents have to write a comment in his reading record about his progress etc. In the book he brought home last night it contained the expression "can I get? ". Getting enshrined into English this!
  • brogib
    brogib Posts: 2,128
    Riviera said:

    BBC Radio 5Live sport news reports on golf always starting with whatever Rory McIllroy is doing. Whether he is leading by 10 or 20 shots off the lead, all they report on is this curly haired clown as if there are no other golfers in the world.</</del>blockquote>

  • brogib
    brogib Posts: 2,128
    edited March 2015
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