General things that Annoy you

Computer applications where hitting the carriage return button sends a message rather than setting up a new line of text. MS Teams is a real bummer for this, but there are others.

I remember one year where hardly anyone completed the staff survey forms. 

My boss was just back from long term sick and he suddenly became quite emotional at the close of a meeting.  He blurted out, 'What is wrong with me?'  There were about twenty of us all looking at each other in shock.  Apparently the fact that no one could be arsed with the survey had reflected very badly on him.

I as the oldest relic in the room was able to put him right.  I told him that most bosses (at the time) pointed out the section of the survey that appertained to them and 'encouraged' their staff to fill it in - hopefully positively.  I did of course add the caveat that when the boss plays ball with us we can play ball with them.  (I was coming up to retirement anyway  ) 

Raith_C_Chattonell said:

Just browsing through the newspaper this morning - feeling slightly irritated at seeing yet more pictures of Coleen Rooney on yet  another holiday - FFS how many holidays does that girl need?  When I go on to read that she has signed a 'multi million pound' deal with Disney plus to give her side of the Wagatha Christie story. 

Jeez man!!!  There's something wrong with society, with life, with people.  

I think back to that night in the pub when I drew a circle in the spilt beer on the bar.  I said to my mate, 'If that's society, this is me over here' and I dabbed my index finger an inch outside the circle.  He said, 'No Raith, If that's society this is you over here and moved my point six inches further out.  

I now think even that was a conservative estimate.  I'm going for a lie down!

  

Venn diagrams in a pub, not something you'd see or hear about on a match day in Bermondsey.

We can take men to the depths of the ocean, or the surface of the moon, but I still can’t get reception between St Johns and Kidbrooke.

Generally people standing in doorways, entrances, exits or the narrowest parts of aisles, platforms etc causing bottlenecks pinch points etc when there's loads more space in plain view just yards away
More especially bods with trolleys, pushchairs, rucksacks, whatever making their blockage even bigger
Just get the effing eff out of everybody else's way you self obsessed inconsiderate blights on humanity - life will be so much sweeter as the number of justifiably irate people won't be bumping into you, tutting, hissing and shoving past you gormless oxygen spongers.  One bump might be a clumsy twat, two, three, more means you're the problem - best of all just stay home out of everybody's damn way.

Billy_Mix said:

Generally people standing in doorways, entrances, exits or the narrowest parts of aisles, platforms etc causing bottlenecks pinch points etc when there's loads more space in plain view just yards away
More especially bods with trolleys, pushchairs, rucksacks, whatever making their blockage even bigger
Just get the effing eff out of everybody else's way you self obsessed inconsiderate blights on humanity - life will be so much sweeter as the number of justifiably irate people won't be bumping into you, tutting, hissing and shoving past you gormless oxygen spongers.  One bump might be a clumsy twat, two, three, more means you're the problem - best of all just stay home out of everybody's damn way.

especially when they're doing it at doorways to smoke

Living in a country that is infested by legalised pick pockets. There are so many companies nowadays who seem to earn fortunes by mugging the public. The current number one on my hate list is NCP who charge £1 per minute (after a heavy up front charge) to wait in a queue to pick people up from Luton Airport. I was charged £31 the other day when I went to pick my son up. How the fuck is this legal?

People running the marathon and having to be videod having a sip of a pint🙄🙄 so staged 

it’s likely the Instagram culture of everything 

Optics. As used by politicians to describe  communications of policy.
Actually anyone using the word optics when not in a pub, using a scientific instrument or telescope. 

DaveMehmet said:

charltonkeston said:

Optics. As used by politicians to describe  communications of policy.
Actually anyone using the word optics when not in a pub, using a scientific instrument or telescope. 

The nerve of it 

Eye see what you did there @DaveMehmet

The Garner project is failing.
The Sandguard project is failing.
There's pretty much fcuk all we can do about it.

When you deliberately use up the open food/drink you don't like as much first to stop it taking room up in cupboard, and so you get to move onto the previously unopened nice stuff.

Then your wife assumes you really liked the first one as you drank/ate it all and buys more.

French numbers after 69. It's infuriatingly stupid. Why not continue with the same system that's worked perfectly well for 20+, 30+, 40+, 50+ and 60+?! But no, lets abandon all logic and make 70 be said as sixty ten, make 99 be said as four times twenty plus nineteen, and everything between be equally ludicrous. Inexplicable.

MrLargo said:

French numbers after 69. It's infuriatingly stupid. Why not continue with the same system that's worked perfectly well for 20+, 30+, 40+, 50+ and 60+?! But no, lets abandon all logic and make 70 be said as sixty ten, make 99 be said as four times twenty plus nineteen, and everything between be equally ludicrous. Inexplicable.

synonym:French

Not all french speakers adhere to those names for those numbers.  Some Belgian or Swiss dialects use the archaic septante for 70, huitante, nonante, etc.
You'd get a very funny look from most of the garlic crunching, surrender monkeys in la République Francaise if you used those much tidier and sensible terms but they'd all know what you meant.

Just seen a Very Christmas advert.

Shoot me now.