That one bugs me too. They should be gone by 2 at the latest. I think kids can miss out on learning to speak properly if they've constantly got one of these things stuck in their mouth.

People that plan to do something at a certain time then just before start doing other unnecessary things or things that can wait till later. You then end up waiting around for them.

The wife of one of my friends is like this and seems to be completely oblivious to how much she's pissing everyone off.

Today's kids are actually smarter than ever before. Tablets have been proven to improve reaction times, problem solving and critical thinking. But hey, why not continue to bash the youth, eh?

Should we really be giving speed to children.

I've given up with someone because of this. He couldn't understand me whinging at him for being late. But he'd whinge at me for being 2 minutes late.

What makes it worse is she'll usually be doing things like watching TV or browsing the net for an hour or so beforehand. Then 5 minutes before whatever was organised she'll decide she needs to start folding the washing, or checking online accounts or any other task that could have either been done before or can wait till afterwards. My friend gets annoyed at her and has told her multiple times that it's annoying but she just laughs it off and makes out he's just being grumpy.

It's trivial to me because I only encounter it once or twice every few weeks when I'm visiting but still bloody annoying as its so easily preventable. Feel sorry for my friend who has to put up with the annoyances daily.

My sister's like this, but I don't get affected by it really - it's my bro-in-law who suffers. She'll arrange to watch a DVD with him and my niece at, say, 7pm, then she'll sit around watching TV until about 6.55pm and then go off and empty the dryer or start some ironing, or check Facebook upstairs on the desktop PC that takes ages to boot up. So, there's bro-in-law and niece sitting in the living room, with the DVD on Pause just waiting for her. At 7.15pm she sits down, but in the meantime my niece has buggered off to the loo,and/or my bro-in-law has nipped outside for a ciggie, meaning she's now kept waiting. She then says, "I thought we were supposed to be watching that DVD!?" really sharply, as if she's been waiting for ages.

She phoned me and moaned about it, as if they're inconveniencing her. I explained what's really going on in my opinion, and she hasn't moaned to me since. However, I have seen her do it when I've been there, and I laugh at her. She's sort of getting the idea now.

Arrogant gits in supermarket car parks who create their own parking spaces. I'm fed up of visiting my local Sainsbury's to find people parking on chevrons at the bottom of bays, or simply abandoning their car in front of the shop. There are always plenty of free spaces yet the self-entitled lot seemingly think it's too far for them to walk so have to get as near to the door as possible.

Dumbed down kids losing the ability to communicate unless they are doing it electronically / faces stuck in tablets everyday instead of living life / kids with parents who are also addicted to the screen / Kids told they are being creative because they tapped a few buttons..... Creativity has lost all meaning!

You are way off the mark if you think kids are smarter. The future is bleak for them.

AAAAHHHH!!!!

people like this should be euthanised.

I was waiting for my order in a Mexican sit-in/takeaway a couple of years back and a mother and her two daughters aged about 11 to 13 were sitting in at a table right beside where I was standing. Their order arrived at their table (quesadillas I think it was) and as they began to eat they all sang a chorus of 'mmmm'....'MMMMMM!!!'....then the mum would go 'mmmmm?' and the girls would reply 'MMMMM!!!'.....bloody sickening it was - as if they'd never tasted food before in their lives. They shovelled it all down in minutes and then she let them order seconds and it all started again!

Geez I was glad to get out of there

Agreed. Nothing makes a child look more affected or limited than one that age with a plug in its mouth - and when they shift it to one side of their mouth and speak out of the other. Usually while clinging onto a tatty old blanket. These kids have issues, sort them out!

Personally, I'd prefer that to MIL who always has to talk while she's eating. I really don't want to see her half-chewed food!

/l\

I'm on a forum where someone ends every sentence with either and exclamation mark or a question mark. To make it even more annoying his average sentence is around 200 words long.

The collecting of fruit labels on a desk or monitor.

Drivers lording it about with one arm hanging out of the window.
They just look like arrogant to55ers.

When you are in the supermarket queue and some pushy person behind starts filling the conveyor belt with their stuff while you are still unloading so there isn't enough space for your shopping.
Once, in order to make space for me, I took one of those 'next person' stands and swept all the shopping of the person after me backwards into a heap with a 'Scuse me'.
She was speechless

You'd love the person I work beside. She always wants to know what's on everyone's computer despite the fact it's nothing to do with her and she rests her chin on people's shoulders to see and they get an earful of chomping and lip smacking.

Strangely enough, I developed a twitch and it seemed to afflict me every time she did that. There'd she be, poking her nose in and doing an impression of feeding time at the pig farm when suddenly my shoulder would shoot up. A few colleagues seem to be similarly afflicted now

I used to work with a space invader like that and she was a big woman (not that she could help that) but every time I turned around it was either boobs or arse.
Not many days went by that I didn't unintentionally cop a feel as she was suddenly there seeing what we were doing. The same went for the counter area which was tiny but if she thought she was missing something you'd soon know about it

Apparently her husband had FHM calanders above the bed.

People who sponge. I hate that. They always want you to buy something and they will pay you back later, and do you see it? No. I learned to conveniently not have any money all the time.

Me, when using a self-service checkouts - *presses button saying "I'm using my own bag", and places bag in packing area*.
Machine (before I scan first item*) - "Unexpected item in bagging area."

That couldn't possibly be the bag THAT I'VE JUST TOLD YOU I'M USING, could it?

* - I'd also need the speed of Barry Allen to put the item in the bagging area.

There are about 7 different threads about the Great British Bake Off fiasco. It's been quite interesting reading the various reactions but it's hard to keep up with all the threads. There's 2 each in Broadcasting and UK TV, it would be easier if they merged the duplicates in each forum at least.

^^^ that reminds me - cooking programs. Watching people cook and eat is not entertaining to me, unless they bring some to my house so I can taste it!

This! Every BLOODY time!

the older ones are called vapers.

Agreed.