Callers to my switchboard that give their name as Mr so-and-so, i.e. "it's Mr Smith here" rather than "it's John Smith". It always strikes me as pompous and old-fashioned.
When you're talking to someone and another person comes up and asks 'what's wrong?' why does there have to be something wrong?!!
People who assume I'm Irish because I'm from Northern Ireland. I'm British and most of us in NI consider ourselves so so why is Irish everyone's assumption?
Callers to my switchboard that give their name as Mr so-and-so, i.e. "it's Mr Smith here" rather than "it's John Smith". It always strikes me as pompous and old-fashioned.
I've got to admit that I do that, but only because the person on the switchboard addresses me as "Mr "
- When people you barely know or haven’t met think they know you – They SO don’t!
- When people try to shove their beliefs/opinions/ideas on you. It’s great that you think that and I’m not knocking it, but I ain’t a sheep and I’m not going to change me opinions/beliefs/ideas to suit anyone!!
- People who claim to know about something/someone (a film or band for example) but actually know naff all about it yet they still try and fob you off that they know about it. Its. Just. Laughable!
- People who whine about being cold. Either crank your heating up or if that’s too expensive close all your windows and doors and put some extra layers on. Doesn’t take a degree in applied bollocks to work out what needs to be done!
- People who take pictures of themselves in the mirror. Get yourself some real friends to take pictures ffs….
- People who obsess over celebrities etc and/or pretend to be married/dating to them *gag* Go out and get yiself a real boyfriend/girlfriend/friend!! It’s chuffing creepy when they do this…. 90% of the time the person they’re obsessing over doesn’t even know they exist.
Filling out an online form which will not believe I DO NOT have a mobile phone - some of them will not let me go further until I have filled in this box. Now I just put some random number in it, sorry if you have had a phone call for me - not my fault.
People in shops and on the phone also do not believe me - the look on their face when I say I don't have one - am I the only person without a mobile phone?
Filling out an online form which will not believe I DO NOT have a mobile phone - some of them will not let me go further until I have filled in this box. Now I just put some random number in it, sorry if you have had a phone call for me - not my fault.
People in shops and on the phone also do not believe me - the look on their face when I say I don't have one - am I the only person without a mobile phone?
Yes, it's because everyone has to fit into a stereotype - and woe betide you if you don't. People who don't have TV, for instance - always being hounded, because - everyone has a TV, don't they. And it's the same with mobile phones - everyone's got one. Well, no they haven't!
My particular gripe are all these online forms which want to fill in your address from your postcode using a database, and won't believe you when you try to enter your correct address. I know my own address for heaven's sake!:mad:
Old men called John who insist on being called Jack!
What is the point?
Jack is just another 4 letter name beginning with 'J', so they might as well be known by their actual name.
So you wouldn't mind being called "Smelly Elbow" instead of "Syntax Error"? - same reasoning applies. Honestly! Why can't someone* choose their preferred form of address?
I'd never heard the word before I started roaming the Hogwartsian corridors of DS. After a few encounters I thought, "Hmm, perhaps this isn't people just being weird or pretentious or making typos," and went off to look it up. Seems a perfectly valid word, albeit an "Esp. Scot." one, as I think most sources said.
So you wouldn't mind being called "Smelly Elbow" instead of "Syntax Error"? - same reasoning applies. Honestly! Why can't someone* choose their preferred form of address?
* Or rather: just old men, seemingly
I'd never heard the word before I started roaming the Hogwartsian corridors of DS. After a few encounters I thought, "Hmm, perhaps this isn't people just being weird or pretentious or making typos," and went off to look it up. Seems a perfectly valid word, albeit an "Esp. Scot." one, as I think most sources said.
Do you realise that the title of the thread is 'trivial' things that annoy you?
In reference to old men; it is only old men.
I've never come across young men called John wishing to be called Jack & all the young men called Jack, are called Jack, in my experience.
Do you realise that the title of the thread is 'trivial' things that annoy you?
Yes. I wasn't querying the triviality of it, but simply couldn't see WHY it's an annoyance. It's not as if this is the "Things that irrationally annoy you" thread, or whatever it was called.
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The way that Adobe seem to issue Flash updates:-
a) So frequently
b) Of such size (only around 15MB or so IIRC, but why even that big?)
c) In a process that never remembers my updating preferences next time.
Filling out an online form which will not believe I DO NOT have a mobile phone - some of them will not let me go further until I have filled in this box. Now I just put some random number in it, sorry if you have had a phone call for me - not my fault.
People in shops and on the phone also do not believe me - the look on their face when I say I don't have one - am I the only person without a mobile phone?
So thats why I've been receiving strange phone calls.
Filling out an online form which will not believe I DO NOT have a mobile phone - some of them will not let me go further until I have filled in this box. Now I just put some random number in it, sorry if you have had a phone call for me - not my fault.
People in shops and on the phone also do not believe me - the look on their face when I say I don't have one - am I the only person without a mobile phone?
I was ordering flowers online for someone in Canada and it would not proceed without a Canadian phone number .I knew none so had a brainwave and put in the shops own phone number from the top of the page and on I went .!
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People who assume I'm Irish because I'm from Northern Ireland. I'm British and most of us in NI consider ourselves so so why is Irish everyone's assumption?
I've got to admit that I do that, but only because the person on the switchboard addresses me as "Mr "
Nope. Lots of parents walk their kids in and out of schools, sadly.
- When people try to shove their beliefs/opinions/ideas on you. It’s great that you think that and I’m not knocking it, but I ain’t a sheep and I’m not going to change me opinions/beliefs/ideas to suit anyone!!
- People who claim to know about something/someone (a film or band for example) but actually know naff all about it yet they still try and fob you off that they know about it. Its. Just. Laughable!
- People who whine about being cold. Either crank your heating up or if that’s too expensive close all your windows and doors and put some extra layers on. Doesn’t take a degree in applied bollocks to work out what needs to be done!
- People who take pictures of themselves in the mirror. Get yourself some real friends to take pictures ffs….
- People who obsess over celebrities etc and/or pretend to be married/dating to them *gag* Go out and get yiself a real boyfriend/girlfriend/friend!! It’s chuffing creepy when they do this…. 90% of the time the person they’re obsessing over doesn’t even know they exist.
One of my pet hates :mad: Also, the made-up word, "gawjus" :mad:
You won't, because I move over to the middle to prevent this!
People in shops and on the phone also do not believe me - the look on their face when I say I don't have one - am I the only person without a mobile phone?
Yes, it's because everyone has to fit into a stereotype - and woe betide you if you don't. People who don't have TV, for instance - always being hounded, because - everyone has a TV, don't they. And it's the same with mobile phones - everyone's got one. Well, no they haven't!
My particular gripe are all these online forms which want to fill in your address from your postcode using a database, and won't believe you when you try to enter your correct address. I know my own address for heaven's sake!:mad:
'My Bad'
and
'outwith'
My bad is just lazy speech - my bad what? achne?, bad breath?
outwith I just find meaningless.
So you wouldn't mind being called "Smelly Elbow" instead of "Syntax Error"? - same reasoning applies. Honestly! Why can't someone* choose their preferred form of address?
* Or rather: just old men, seemingly
I'd never heard the word before I started roaming the Hogwartsian corridors of DS. After a few encounters I thought, "Hmm, perhaps this isn't people just being weird or pretentious or making typos," and went off to look it up. Seems a perfectly valid word, albeit an "Esp. Scot." one, as I think most sources said.
Do you realise that the title of the thread is 'trivial' things that annoy you?
In reference to old men; it is only old men.
I've never come across young men called John wishing to be called Jack & all the young men called Jack, are called Jack, in my experience.
People who can't spell 'lose' - it's amazing how many idiots write 'loose'
Yes. I wasn't querying the triviality of it, but simply couldn't see WHY it's an annoyance. It's not as if this is the "Things that irrationally annoy you" thread, or whatever it was called.
For content:
The way that Adobe seem to issue Flash updates:-
a) So frequently
b) Of such size (only around 15MB or so IIRC, but why even that big?)
c) In a process that never remembers my updating preferences next time.
Your defiantly write.
So thats why I've been receiving strange phone calls.
I was ordering flowers online for someone in Canada and it would not proceed without a Canadian phone number .I knew none so had a brainwave and put in the shops own phone number from the top of the page and on I went .!