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Old 05-04-2015, 21:46
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Highly rated reviews that say how much their uncle loved his birthday present, but which contain no actual useful information about the product.
Almost as bad as the toothless simpletons on Amazon who give a one-star PRODUCT review, after a bad experience with the SELLER.

Morons be needing that fast-tracked lobotomy and straitjacket fitting appointment.
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Old 05-04-2015, 22:37
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Weather forecasts on the TV, especially the one on Country file every week. He drones on and on with the most boring voice. It seems to take him all of ten minutes to tell us what the weather MIGHT do next week. FGS, if people can't decide whether to take a brolly with them or a sun hat then that's too bad. Unless you are a fisherman, trawlerman, fell farmer, pilot or high rise scaffolder then it doesn't matter does it? We can't change the weather so we just have to use a bit of common sense. For those who are in dangerous jobs where bad weather could jeopardise their livelihood/well-being there is always access to local weather stations on t'internet which can be far more accurate about impending storms etc. If I was on Room 101 I would definitely nominate weather forecasts as my first choice.
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Old 05-04-2015, 22:39
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Neighbours arguing every damn day, just split up ffs!
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Old 05-04-2015, 23:01
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Probably been mentioned before but the rise of the 'Keep calm and Carry on' slogan originally used during WW2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Calm_and_Carry_On

I went to a garden centre at the weekend and they had clothing with 'Keep calm i'm doing the gardening' on the front. Iv'e seen mugs, car stickers, T-Shirts, bedding, bags ,the lot, all with variations of the slogan . It does my head in.
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Old 06-04-2015, 08:19
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My Facebook feed being taken up with stuff like "99% of people wont share this. Share if you are against child abuse" or whatever, I'm sure any sane is against this, but why the need to go on about it? Attention seeking crap.
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Old 06-04-2015, 09:34
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My Facebook feed being taken up with stuff like "99% of people wont share this. Share if you are against child abuse" or whatever, I'm sure any sane is against this, but why the need to go on about it? Attention seeking crap.
In fact, it's worse than attention seeking crap, it's called 'harvesting'. Every time someone shares or even likes these posts all their Facebook info is collected and used for scamming etc. You should never forward these. If you go to the downward arrow at the top right hand corner of the post you can usually choose to report it.
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Old 06-04-2015, 09:35
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Just sold an item on eBay and the damn buyer starts asking questions. Ask then before you buy you tosser!!!!
......can we assume ‘After-Sales service’ is not high on your agenda?
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Old 06-04-2015, 09:35
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http://daylandoes.com/facebook-like-scams/
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Old 06-04-2015, 09:56
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Other people getting in the way of my routines. I can't clean the bedroom because Mr Kivi is still sleeping, but I can't clean the open plan living room/kitchen because he's got raw fleece drying everywhere. My poor breakfast bar... He's taken over my clothes horse as well

Also, pets that are reaching maturity. My pup is humping his big brother something rotten and jizzed on my hand the other day when I intervened. He's also discovered territorial marking. In the house. Great. I can't wait til he gets his balls lobbed. It's exhausting
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Old 06-04-2015, 10:01
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Weather forecasters talking about "organised rain". What the hell's that supposed to be?

Then there's "spits and spots". Do they write their scripts out with wax crayons?
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Old 06-04-2015, 10:04
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trying to change spotlight light bulbs

the little feckers just won't screw in properly - I might have to pee in the dark unless I can persuade someone round to change them for me
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Old 06-04-2015, 12:17
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I'm intensely irritated over a discovery at the Land Registry website. Being a nosey parker, I looked up my old London flat. I bought this for £37,000 in 1992 and sold for £147,000 in 1997.

Yeah well, someone last year bought that flat for £620,000.

What irritates me is that the person I sold the flat to wasn't nice.

His general manner was brusque, but what I remember most is how he picked on his estate agent. As if he was trying to put the agent in his place. A snide comment here, a snide comment there. Mocked him often. Sometimes corrected his pronunciation. He was so set on eroding the agent's self-esteem that it was truly uncomfortable to witness.

Not only that, his girlfriend was looking to buy the flat with him. And yet he wouldn't let her ask questions. He constantly told her: "Let me do the talking." Casual comments she made during two visits were either ignored or mocked. She did look irritated at times, but she let it slide each time.

When we were exchanging contracts, her name was nowhere in sight. This suggests they split up shortly after their second visit. Either that or he had convinced her to put the property in his name only (god, I hope not).

The idea of that prat profiting £473,000 from the sale irritates me. Silly, I know, but it really, really does irritate me.
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Old 06-04-2015, 12:54
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One thing that annoys me are those sealed plastic transparent cases that so many electrical items are packed inside. The ones that give you no way of opening the case without using a knife or scissors, which results in very sharp plastic edges which can easily cut your hands.
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Old 06-04-2015, 13:06
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A minor irritant, but posters use of homonyms, (think it's homonyms), words that sound the same, but have different spellings.
e.g. He through the ball, I don't no, among his passed times is stamp collecting, he past me at 75 m.p.h., (you can say, he WENT past me),.
Years ago in the passed, there are to many dogs, on the way to Bristol we went threw Bath, etc. etc.
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Old 06-04-2015, 14:00
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I'm intensely irritated over a discovery at the Land Registry website. Being a nosey parker, I looked up my old London flat. I bought this for £37,000 in 1992 and sold for £147,000 in 1997.

Yeah well, someone last year bought that flat for £620,000.

What irritates me is that the person I sold the flat to wasn't nice.

His general manner was brusque, but what I remember most is how he picked on his estate agent. As if he was trying to put the agent in his place. A snide comment here, a snide comment there. Mocked him often. Sometimes corrected his pronunciation. He was so set on eroding the agent's self-esteem that it was truly uncomfortable to witness.

Not only that, his girlfriend was looking to buy the flat with him. And yet he wouldn't let her ask questions. He constantly told her: "Let me do the talking." Casual comments she made during two visits were either ignored or mocked. She did look irritated at times, but she let it slide each time.

When we were exchanging contracts, her name was nowhere in sight. This suggests they split up shortly after their second visit. Either that or he had convinced her to put the property in his name only (god, I hope not).

The idea of that prat profiting £473,000 from the sale irritates me. Silly, I know, but it really, really does irritate me.
It's not silly - it's understandable! He sounds like a right git. Try to take comfort from the fact that a big chunk of that will have to be put towards a new property if he bought another in London last year (ignore the fact he might have put a small deposit down ). Or maybe he died and they sold it to give someone else the money. (Sorry! Really dark humour there!)


My annoyance (today) is that if Bank Holidays are for anything at all for me nowadays, it's for my boiler to break down. At Christmas I had a week without heating or hot water (Boxing Day onwards), and last night the thing conked again.

Where's the goddamned rolleyes smiley??
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Old 06-04-2015, 14:08
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Weather forecasts on the TV, especially the one on Country file every week. He drones on and on with the most boring voice. It seems to take him all of ten minutes to tell us what the weather MIGHT do next week. FGS, if people can't decide whether to take a brolly with them or a sun hat then that's too bad. Unless you are a fisherman, trawlerman, fell farmer, pilot or high rise scaffolder then it doesn't matter does it? We can't change the weather so we just have to use a bit of common sense. For those who are in dangerous jobs where bad weather could jeopardise their livelihood/well-being there is always access to local weather stations on t'internet which can be far more accurate about impending storms etc. If I was on Room 101 I would definitely nominate weather forecasts as my first choice.
Agreed, and connected to this - why do the brief 2 minute weather forecasts generally spend the first minute telling us what the weather was like today? WE KNOW, we were THERE!!!!
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Old 06-04-2015, 16:29
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A slightly sunny and pleasantly warm Bank Holiday didn't prepare me for the abundance of pasty, flabby, tattooed, white skin that would be put on display.
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Old 06-04-2015, 16:38
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The misuse of the word 'coupe' by many car manufacturers these days.

Many of them will append the word coupe to a humdrum 2 door saloon, or a 3 door hatchback that is in no way a true coupe & if that wasn't bad enough, they'll charge you more for the privilege.
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Old 06-04-2015, 16:56
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The fact that theres no rolleyes smiley.
Bring it back!
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Old 06-04-2015, 20:43
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trying to change spotlight light bulbs

the little feckers just won't screw in properly - I might have to pee in the dark unless I can persuade someone round to change them for me
You can get a special suction tool that attaches to the lamp and allows one to screw or push fit the the lamp into the transformer/housing very easily:

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/3109023...3D810003976722
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Old 07-04-2015, 11:11
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When going to an outdoor event in the countryside it seems that every other person has a dog on one of thos bl**dy awful extending dog leads. I was brought to an abrupt halt yesterday on many occasions by these gadgets. They are OK when walking a dog away from crowds but FGS, owners, put them on a proper lead when milling through hundreds of people, also with dogs and baby buggies. Then there are those, also at the same event who insist on bringing their terriers (which incidentally I love) who then try to attack anything that moves, especially if another terrier so much as looks at them. There are also those people who have half a dozen dogs of various shapes and sizes which are attached to one another as well as their owner. Incidentally this was not a dog orientated event.
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Old 07-04-2015, 11:45
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When going to an outdoor event in the countryside it seems that every other person has a dog on one of thos bl**dy awful extending dog leads. I was brought to an abrupt halt yesterday on many occasions by these gadgets. They are OK when walking a dog away from crowds but FGS, owners, put them on a proper lead when milling through hundreds of people, also with dogs and baby buggies. Then there are those, also at the same event who insist on bringing their terriers (which incidentally I love) who then try to attack anything that moves, especially if another terrier so much as looks at them. There are also those people who have half a dozen dogs of various shapes and sizes which are attached to one another as well as their owner. Incidentally this was not a dog orientated event.
My mate calls them Barking Tripwires. They are a real nuisance, I've lost count the number of times I've had run ins with dogs owners because I've been tangled up in them or they are on one side of the pavement, the dog is on the other and I'm expected to jump over the lead.
The most stupid thing I've seen is one of my mum's neighbours who will be having a conversation with someone while dog is on the opposite pavement!
I've seen a driver stop just in the nick of time otherwise I dread to think what would have happened to the dog, but somehow it was all his fault as she has a "legal right" to walk her dog.
I wonder how that will hold up in court when some motorcyclist ends up in hospital because of her actions.
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Old 07-04-2015, 11:49
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Ukip

Nope, not getting political. It is just that using the word as Ukip instead of UKIP - it is an acronym so it ought to be full caps. Yes, MS Word will autocorrect it back down but that doesn't mean you should let it.

Especially if you are a professional writer, a journalist for example, perhaps writing the main headline on the front page of The Daily Telegraph...
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-the-papers-32199099


* same moan about MS Word, it sometimes won't let me type the unit for kilopascals as kPa, it assumes I hit shift too late and swaps it for Kpa, which is nonsense. Sometimes it is a battle royal to get it right.
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Old 07-04-2015, 19:54
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Watching tv shows last night and now not being able to remember what happened in some of them.
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Old 07-04-2015, 20:12
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Crap meat, like own brand supermarket chicken slices. The "contains 25% chicken" label you read on the back after consuming it is a slap in the face.
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