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Old 28-10-2014, 21:25
Finny Skeleta
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Birthday cards. Particularly their pathetic adherence to outdated gender stereotypes.

"Hi, looking for a birthday card? Ok, if its for a female we have over here a full range of pink cards with cute teddy bears, flowers, kittens etc. or if you prefer something a little less traditional we have shoes and wine as well. On the other hand, if it's for a male then over here we have beer, golf, football and cars."

I swear it's easier to buy enriched uranium in a supermarket than it is to buy a simple, gender-neutral birthday card with just "Happy Birthday" and a bold geometric print on the front.
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Old 28-10-2014, 21:35
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Birthday cards. Particularly their pathetic adherence to outdated gender stereotypes.

"Hi, looking for a birthday card? Ok, if its for a female we have over here a full range of pink cards with cute teddy bears, flowers, kittens etc. or if you prefer something a little less traditional we have shoes and wine as well. On the other hand, if it's for a male then over here we have beer, golf, football and cars."

I swear it's easier to buy enriched uranium in a supermarket than it is to buy a simple, gender-neutral birthday card with just "Happy Birthday" and a bold geometric print on the front.
Not to mention the ones with half naked women for lads and Chippendale lookalike for women just to annoy anyone who happens to be gay.
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Old 28-10-2014, 21:40
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Pork scratching that lack porkyness and salt.
The best bits are the salty bits at the bottom of the bag. Try Black Country scratchings. They are by far the best.
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Old 28-10-2014, 22:44
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Birthday cards. Particularly their pathetic adherence to outdated gender stereotypes.

"Hi, looking for a birthday card? Ok, if its for a female we have over here a full range of pink cards with cute teddy bears, flowers, kittens etc. or if you prefer something a little less traditional we have shoes and wine as well. On the other hand, if it's for a male then over here we have beer, golf, football and cars."

I swear it's easier to buy enriched uranium in a supermarket than it is to buy a simple, gender-neutral birthday card with just "Happy Birthday" and a bold geometric print on the front.
Buying cards for my dad is a real pain as they always seem to show that dads have their own sheds which they spend most of their time in . Doesn't apply to my dad, it's either that ,boating (as a hobby) which he doesn't do or a card which says Daddy rather than Dad/father. I'm way too old to buy a Daddy card for Fathers day/birthdays.

On a plus note Tesco Direct have a few gender-neutral cards in there. I know Tesco on here is akin to the devils bottom but it does have a better selection of general cards imo.
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Old 29-10-2014, 09:05
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When you buy something cracking from Amazon and want to leave the seller some +ve feedback so others buy their product, only to realise you've forgotten your darn password, so you ask it to be reset then go to AOL for the link to reset it only to realise you've forgotten your darn password. You could wade through all those notepads looking for where you wrote it down or, the option I'm going with, say fooey to leaving that feedback, fooey to everyone who now have to buy inferior versions and fooey to that password containing notepad which will no doubt either be in the bottom of the pile and the last one I get to, or be the first one I look through but whose entry I miss cos I wasn't looking carefully enough. I'm making myself some chips.
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Old 29-10-2014, 09:07
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An empty milk carton in our fridge.

Why, son? Why would you drink it all and put it back in the fridge? There's a bin next to it, ffs.
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Old 29-10-2014, 10:21
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Birthday cards. Particularly their pathetic adherence to outdated gender stereotypes.

"Hi, looking for a birthday card? Ok, if its for a female we have over here a full range of pink cards with cute teddy bears, flowers, kittens etc. or if you prefer something a little less traditional we have shoes and wine as well. On the other hand, if it's for a male then over here we have beer, golf, football and cars."

I swear it's easier to buy enriched uranium in a supermarket than it is to buy a simple, gender-neutral birthday card with just "Happy Birthday" and a bold geometric print on the front.
Drives me mad - cupcakes, shoes and lame jokes about wine for women; beer, football, and lame jokes about farting for men. I usually find that the blank inside, non-specific-occasion cards are the best - an interesting range of pictures and designs to choose from.
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Old 29-10-2014, 10:54
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People at bus stops who just stand in front of the seat and don't actually sit down, meaning they're not using it but neither can anyone else. (They often react with annoyance if I ask them to move)

Without meaning to start a "cycling wars" debate ... people cycling over crowded pedestrian bridges, ploughing their way through the crowd, rather than getting off and pushing the bike

People who act like mini-police in public, chomping at the bit to criticise people for breaking "rules". E.g. the kind who will make a big scene when someone is in the wrong queue or didn't realise where it started or something: "Didn't you know there's a QUEUE! WE'VE all had to wait, why can't YOU! tut tut ..." (I'm talking about honest mistakes, not actual queue jumping) Or like someone I encountered on a train recently who tried to get the guard to throw me out of the "quiet coach" because I was reading a Kindle and they apparently thought that no form of electronic device should be used there, even one with no light or sound (this was a bog-standard basic Kindle that doesn't even come with the backlight ...)
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Old 29-10-2014, 12:36
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An empty milk carton in our fridge.

Why, son? Why would you drink it all and put it back in the fridge? There's a bin next to it, ffs.
That sounds similar to eating some sweets and putting the wrappers back in the box. Of which I'm guilty.
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Old 29-10-2014, 14:19
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posters on forums who type a whole paragraph that takes up nearly the whole page..i don't bother reading them that long , then they end it with rant over lol
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Old 29-10-2014, 14:45
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Not to mention the ones with half naked women for lads and Chippendale lookalike for women just to annoy anyone who happens to be gay.
Not only gay, im a straight woman but i dont find shiny tanned 8 packs that attractive
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Old 29-10-2014, 20:48
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Tesco Express outside Cardiff Central train station (yes, you)

Call me demanding if you will but it would be nice to have the till manned. You can't purchase everything via the self-service checkouts.
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Old 29-10-2014, 20:59
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Tesco Express outside Cardiff Central train station (yes, you)

Call me demanding if you will but it would be nice to have the till manned. You can't purchase everything via the self-service checkouts.
A popular annoyance
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2013981
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Old 29-10-2014, 21:25
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Job searching - it just sucks all the energy right out of you. I'm sick of it.

Also the fact that I can't take a quick shower anymore. Everytime I wash my hair it takes at least 40mins cus so much of my hair falls out.It starting to creep me out now.
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Old 30-10-2014, 15:45
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When I've stocked up on something I'll need in the future only to have something better always comes along that will do the job better for cheaper. Even though this miracle of engineering has been heavily discounted down from stupidly expensive to dirt cheap I'm still annoyed intensely.
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Old 30-10-2014, 16:24
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Some car drivers beeping when they seem to beep for no reason and the beeping starts other car drivers off beeping. They should only beep when there is something worth beeping about
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Old 30-10-2014, 18:47
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Some car drivers beeping when they seem to beep for no reason and the beeping starts other car drivers off beeping. They should only beep when there is something worth beeping about
Don't ever visit Malta....
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Old 30-10-2014, 20:06
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Seeing a biro without a lid on it - and I have no idea why (a) it annoys me or (b) why I think it's going to go dry without a lid.
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Old 31-10-2014, 12:13
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People who seem to dither and take too long at a cash machine. FFS it takes about two seconds to make a selection but even after that they waste time getting a purse out of a handbag, putting said cash away in there before allowing the next person in the queue.
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Old 31-10-2014, 12:49
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People who seem to dither and take too long at a cash machine. FFS it takes about two seconds to make a selection but even after that they waste time getting a purse out of a handbag, putting said cash away in there before allowing the next person in the queue.
And when they finally do get the money put away in their wallet, they pull out yet another card and feed that into the machine so they can go through the whole charade again!
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Old 31-10-2014, 13:08
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When you ring a phone number to enquire about something, then it tells you to ring another number for that enquiry. But you call that number and it reverts you back to the original number you called.
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Old 31-10-2014, 15:41
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People in the shopping precinct or in shops asking to sponsor such and such ? No, please don't ask me..Does anyone do, do that, or do they just say No Thanks, or just walk right passed them
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Old 31-10-2014, 15:45
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...other people's kids can be awfully annoying...it just doesn't seem to register that not everbody loves their little cherub/princess like they do...
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Old 31-10-2014, 15:50
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talking about kid's, the thing that annoys me is a screaming having a paddy child round the shops. the kid saying i want, i want , i want ..happened a lot this week, also on buses, child or kid's having a paddy and screaming ft, even with ipod earplugs on i can hear them..Mother is always on the phone or looking out the bus window to even notice them
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Old 31-10-2014, 15:52
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People who act like mini-police in public, chomping at the bit to criticise people for breaking "rules". E.g. the kind who will make a big scene when someone is in the wrong queue or didn't realise where it started or something: "Didn't you know there's a QUEUE! WE'VE all had to wait, why can't YOU! tut tut ..." (I'm talking about honest mistakes, not actual queue jumping)
Yes, I've had that. Why wouldn't I go to a spare till if no one else seems to be queueing there?
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