This incredible notion that Clare Balding is some sort of 'National Treasure'.

Did she take over from Cheryl Cole?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_7007_incident


It's irritating when it's used in by the medja, slightly more worrying when it's a question from the support guys or senior management. I was in charge of a fairly large chunk of the UK Internet when the AS7007 thing happened. Almost 18yrs ago, I feel old

My dad is like that. When he stomps around the kitchen he also has to noisily SWING cupboards open and SLAM them shut.


What annoys me more is when they keep saying "Uh..." "and um...." etc when they start talking. I think "Why not practice what you're going to say before record the video?

I totally agree. Why do the BBC latch on to people like this who may have done something once in their life and use them across every sport programme imaginable? Sue Barker is another example.

My mum does that. She is incapable of being quiet, I had to move out when I was a student as it was impossible to study with the constant racket she made. When my dad was alive, he'd had a couple of strokes and didn't get out much so the only enjoyment he got was from reading. He had to stop because she just wouldn't give him a minute's peace.

She hasn't changed. There was some work being carried out in her house so she stayed with me for a few days recently. I was working from home on a report and she almost drove me to the brink of a breakdown. I'd get started on the report and there would be a high-pitched piercing scream from the living room, I'd rush through to see what was wrong "Nothing, I'm just yawning." Back to work - scream/yawn...type a bit ore - scream/yawn.

Then she'll burst the study door open to tell me there is something funny on TV - try to explain I'm working, apparently I'm not working just sitting at a computer. She goes away and suddenly the TV volume gets turned up along with an exaggerated laugh.
And then I have to make a few phone calls, perfect excuse for her to decide to vacuum the carpet right next to where I'm standing.

She can't sit quietly and watch something on TV, she'll be banging the remote on the side of the chair, singing along to any tune she hears (remember Hilda Ogden's singing - like that but even more irritating), constantly adjusting the volume, changing channels, reading out captions.

With her around it's next to impossible to concentrate for more than a couple of minutes without some sort of interruption. But if I complain - I'm the one in the wrong "Don't listen then."

Being annoying seems to be in the genes, my brother is the same and has two ex-wives because of it. I've a couple of cousins who are like that too, one has been fired from numerous jobs and has had the crap kicked out of him umpteen times because he just can't stop annoying people.

In CBs case - apart from her newly promoted lesbianism, I'm baffled. Just another talking head from the north London media merry go round.

You have my sympathies! How you haven't sat her outside in a box with 'Free to good home' written on it I'll never know! My mother in law is similar.

I can't remember what I came here to moan about now

"Child proof" caps on medicine bottles. I have rheumatism in my hands and I have to decant my cough mixture in to another bottle and tablets in to some other sort of containers, once I've managed to open them in the first place. Is there nothing worse than waking in the middle of the night, coughing like mad, only to have "click, click, click, click" going round and around with no result.

My mum and dad love watching Gogglebox. Probably because it reminds them of themselves. Never watched the programme but seen clips of it and quite honestly, I'd have to kill all the people on that show if they lived with me.

How can anyone live with a person who wont shut up when you're trying to watch a film or tv programme? What is it with some people they can't live without being constantly noisy or jabbering on about utter rubbish or tapping, shuffling, rustling or banging something. Some people need tying up and gagging.

This is the main reason that I don't go to the cinema. People who can't keep still, shut up, stop fiddling with their phone, eating noisily, rustling packets, slurping drinks, getting up to go the toilet every few minutes, fidgeting about and banging the back of your seat etc etc. and it's not like you can even pause and rewind it when some idiot manages to interrupt or talk all over the one bit you needed to hear.

My parents sound like your family. My mum has her own tv in her bedroom where she goes to get away from my dad who never shuts up for one second whenever the tv is on but she leaves her bedroom door open with her tv turned up full blast. The only time the house is quiet is when they go out. In fact the only time he ever gives his mouth a rest is when he's sleeping but my mum is almost as bad. I can't stand being round their house cos it's constant chatter and noise and shouting to one another from one room to the next cos they're all too lazy to get up and walk into the next room to have a conversation.

Whenever my dad comes in the house he has to ring the doorbell several times even though he's got his own key because he thinks it's funny to disturb people for the sheer fun of it. He'll then walk in to the lounge where I'm trying to see the important end of a film or tv programme and stick his freezing cold hands down my neck exclaiming how it's cold outside, again to be purposely annoying and then comes the non stop jabbering about what he's done and who he's bumped into down town as he wanders about in front of the tv like he doesn't give a shit if anyone's watching it before disappearing into the kitchen to make a brew where he clatters and bangs cupboards and rattles cups. He'll then come in to the lounge, grab the remote and say, "Are you watching this cos the football results are on now". To which I reply, "Yes actually I AM trying to watch this!!" whereby he takes absolutely no notice and keeps trying to talk to me. If I tell him to shut up and be quiet he takes offense and tells me to go somewhere else if I want to watch tv or to go in another room even though I was here first. They're the same around our house. They'll ring the bell like mad before letting themselves in then it's constant full volume chatter until they finally take the hint and leave whereby my ears are ringing and I have to take two paracetamol for my headache.

They seem totally incapable of just sitting in peaceful silence and doing a crossword or reading a book. There has to be two televisions blasting out in the house like constant background noise as they can't help but chatter all over it.

How on Earth my dad hasn't been punched in the face by members of the public I'll never know. He not only suffers from major verbal diarrhoea and a gossip spreader but is deliberately annoying, awkward, offensively outspoken and argumentative and refuses to be told anything as he thinks he knows it all. You NEVER tell my parents ANYTHING unless you want the entire world to know. I've always said you can put my dad in a room on his own and he'll manage to fall out with himself. My parents are just an utter pair of gobshites.

Thank goodness I don't have to live with them anymore. Last time I lived with my parents I ended up punching my dad so hard I broke one of his ribs because he'd annoyed me so much. The guy is an absolute dick of the first order.

.......’The Wizard’ eh?.....I think I know your true identity;

......give us a ring immediately.........your mother ‘wants a word’ !!!!

Ha Ha. Not another set of annoying parents like mine surely. Poor kids.

My family seems to be split into two types: laid back, easy going ones and really annoying idiots who aren’t happy unless they are tormenting someone.
Apart from my mum and brother, there’s a cousin who fell out with my uncle (laid back type) after this cousin, who was in his 30s and should have known better got bitten by my uncle’s dog. The dog was a nice, affectionate, lovely little dog and whenever my cousin went to visit his dad, he’d spend all his time tormenting the dog. One day, when the dog was trying to eat its dinner, he’d keep grabbing it by the tail and pulling it away from its bowl. He was warned by his father not to do that but thought it was hilarious and pulled even harder. That resulted in him having to go to hospital to gets stitches and a tetanus shot. Then he wanted the dog put down as it “attacked” him. His old man told him to get lost and he never spoke to him again, claiming he "turned his back on his son in favour of a dog."
Another cousin is in constant trouble for that sort of behaviour. I knew someone who was my cousin’s union rep and he told me he was sick and tired of the amount of bother he was causing at work. The final straw came when a colleague was going through a marriage break up and taking it badly. My idiot cousin thought this was a perfect chance to display his wit and kept making stupid remarks and going out of his way to upset the poor bloke. His victim complained to the management and my cousin and his union rep were called in front of the boss.
Cousin tells the boss that he realises he went too far and would like to apologise to his victim and so the bloke was asked to come in. My cousin, stood up and shook the guys hand and said “Sorry about what I’ve been saying, it’s just that I’m really tired from ****ing your wife all night long for the past couple of weeks.”
That cost him his job and a couple of teeth. But again he was the victim, tried to claim unfair dismissal and have the bloke charged with assault but didn’t get anywhere with either. This clown has had some really severe beatings and has had to move towns after some of his antics, he seems to take great delight in winding up people who really should be avoided.
I don’t know what it is with them – they’ll torment someone until they get a reaction and when they get a reaction they’ll torment them to get a bigger reaction and then when their victim finally snaps, they can’t understand the reaction and “it’s poor little me, what have I done?” time.

These idiots described in various comments above seem to have Autistic traits but surely we can't blame Autism for such stupid behaviour all the time? It does make me wonder tho. My son is Autistic and doesn't seem to be able to stop himself from provoking people then wonders why he gets thumped. People with Autism cannot read other people's feelings, reactions or emotions and therefore speak their mind regardless and come across as extremely rude and selfish.

The story about the obnoxious cousins is horrific! What on earth is wrong with people who act like that, they sound like an absolute nightmare!

Like they say, you can choose your friends but not your relatives. I just choose to avoid my relatives as much as possible.

The fact that Meghan Trainer's "Dear Future Husband" sounds virtually identical musically to Olly Murs' "Dance With Me Tonight".

I'm wondering how long it'll be before the writers of the latter (written in 2011) take the writers of the former (written in 2014) to court, since there's more of a similarity between those two songs than there was between "Blurred Lines" and "Got To Give It Up".

I thought two of my cousins were bad but this takes the biscuit

Good on the uncle for not talking to his son, okay bit petty but winding his dog up, what did he expect other than to be bit? My brother likes to tease my sister's dog but he likes him really and never does stuff like that poster's cousin

It was the other way round, my cousin refused to talk to his father after that. He's also fallen out with his two sisters since then and hasn't spoken to them in over 15 years. Funnily enough, my brother hasn't contacted anyone in nearly 20 years (no great loss). Seems to be a pattern emerging, piss everyone off and then go off in the huff when they get fed up.

That sounds just like my brother. He has a high opinion of himself and thinks he's a comedian. He has an uncanny knack of winding people up. Of course, he claims it's all "banter" and being such a funny bloke, how can people not agree with him? When the inevitable reaction occurs, the target for his "humour" is completely to blame and he whines on and on as if HE'S the victim. In short: he's a massive dick. Sadly he can't see this.

when you get off one bus, and try and leggit to another bus, that bus pulls out and goes..then have to wait for another one ..it's so annoying

People who use their cutlery to point and gesture during a meal.

I find it hard to watch Come Dine With Me sometimes for this reason.

The boil on my arse cheek that's making sitting down painful

......’point of order’ but you are trying to de-rail this thread !

I’ve had that problem and no way is it ‘trivial’

Lol

Meh I get them all the time so they have become trivial to me lol, just can't wait to pop this mother ****er!