Minor things that bother you

I think it is pretty clear who is missing a sense of humour, after that post!

 

People who say 110% effort etc., why only 110%? Why can't they give 150% effort?

In my opinion if someone says they will give me 110% effort I know they are lying.

 

Exactly. During police training there should be a module titled 'how to get a sense of humour' or some ****.

 

I'd be annoyed by anything over 100%.

 

Apart from a payrise of over 100%, but that's very wishful thinking.

 

When the Premier League is referred to as the 'Premiership'

 

The laughing/crying emoji used all over social media nowadays

 

Two bins in the office. One marked waste to energy, the other market recycling. Both have a list of what can be deposited in them. Just walked past the recycling one and could see polystyrene, bubble wrap and plastic carrier bag in it. Morons.

 

Quite annoying I know. Why can't they just call it the BPL and be done with it?

 

The general public / most other people. Sure I;ve raised that at least once in the things I hate thread.

 

Are you happy with the 'Championship' or would you prefer we played in the SBC?

 

When people use computers and do not use quite obvious shortcuts: like CTRL-X/C/V; do not pin programs to the Windows bar and instead go through every windows folder trying to find documents they use every day; or ignore right click menus etc., instead choosing to go through excruciating lengths to search through toolbars, taking about fifteen seconds for a two second job.

JUST MOVE OUT OF THE WAY AND LET ME DO IT.

 

Do we know each other?

 

Even worse ... my wife (who has used a PC everyday for the last 10 years) still shouts me if she needs a screenshot.

 

Lee Probert.

 

The Oakland Furniture Sale.

 

People who are very proud, almost nationalistic, of their country yet can't quite master the language of said country

 

Beat me to it :sign15:

 

People who spend their time trawling forums for mistakes in spellings, punctuation, etc. it is meant to be fun on here, not an English language lecture. You can love your country without being perfect.

 

Listening to people (that don't have a stutter) saying "I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I- think er-er-er-er-er- that um-um-um ..." just to fill in time whilst thinking of how best to express their opinion. Also people that when answering a question, start off by saying "So...".

I never get to hear the rest of the replies because I switch the TV/radio off straight away in both cases

 

The level of importance given to USA affairs by the BBC News.

Lead headline story one day last week:- "It's going to snow in New York."

Lead headline story the next day:- "Actually, it hasn't snowed in New York."


What is the relevance of this "news" to us exactly? Why is it the lead item?

Mind you most of the rest of it consists of fawning obituaries of soap stars, celeb gawping, a reporter doing the weather from somewhere windswept and another crouching down with kids in a primary school.

I have Al Jazeera news on instead on the TV in the mornings now. Much, much better.

 

JB. He's a ****.

 

I don't think I've ever corrected a spelling or punctuation mistake on here ever. Not even in that post, so I'm not sure why you've quoted it. I don't think its outrageous to say that you can get bothered in a minor way when someone is extolling the virtues of brasil over most other countries yet speaks worse Portuguese than I do with horrible sentence structures unbecoming of a native. Or maybe it is outrageous since you obviously think differently

 

Surely Brasil should have a capital B.

 

I don't use capitals unless they're automatically added for me. A legacy of having a broken shift key from the original 'official boards'.

 

Having a hangover which is totally disproportionate to the amount of alcohol taken on board. I can only assume it's a conspiracy by the football league.

 

Who knows. 'EPL' is another one that annoys me

 

Minor thing? Surely this belongs in the 'hate' thread.

 

Calm down Fan. Read the title of the thread. It says "minor things that bother you". What you alluded to is minor and it bothers me. That is all. I didn't say anything was "outrageous", and if you read my post, I didn't say that you correct mistakes either.

But I do find it tedious when relatively minor mistakes are pointed out. Like many others, I often have to post quickly, on the move, in a grabbed minute and on either a full keyboard, touch screen ipad, tiny android phone, and sometimes a blackberry, all with various degrees of spellchecking, etc. I just want my point considered, not my grasp of the English language.

If I have misunderstood, and HH24 says I have, just say so. No need to get upset.

 

Hah! Fan, ZZ finally got you into an argument witho you even realising it. You leftist, pc, vegan .

 

Those who have nothing better to do than to take the **** out of others :sign6:'s

 

I prefer anti-establishment pc ovo-lacto vegetarian. Show some respect you **** (I was going to use this ironically, but after googling the word, i discovered it doesn't cover Greek people. Nor spick! So now I'm just lost) *******

 

Bubble is the slur of choice, or if you're Australian, ***.

 

so many ***s in australia