I have never been to a barber's where I'm spoken to; every single barber I go to is silent and that's the way I like it

I get INTENSELY annoyed at the petrol station when the customer(s) in front go to the pay-at-pump pumps but then go into the kiosk to pay

How can people possibly take so long to decide which cheese to buy?

They're stood there for ages, and somehow they've managed to position themselves and their trolley so that the cheese aisle is blocked off to all others.

Then they look and read at every single block of cheese there.

How do you get to your age and not know what strength of cheddar you like? Oh so you then put down the mild cheddar and pick up a stilton? what the actual heck? PS. If you've got to ask your wife if you like brie then the chances are you don't.

Do you even know what cheese is?

That annoys me as well

Reminds me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iMjFoT7yWE

Sorry!

Waiting in all morning for a parcel. Went out for 5 minutes. It turns up. But at least someone was in this time.

Yes, yes grrrrrrrr

This is more noticable now its getting darker earlier....

Front foglights on in clear weather.
and

Those sitting in traffic with the foot on the brake, especially these newer LED type rear lights. Blinding when you're sat a few feet from them.

When manufacturers make plastic bottles hard to open!

You sound a bit cheesed off...

Sorry


My annoyance is I'm trying to cut out cows milk but it seems to be in every foodstuff.

Also annoyed at parents who let their kids run around the supermarket, flinging themselves around. No doubt when their child runs into your trolley and hurts themselves they'll be the first to blame you. I really do wonder about some parents - some seem afraid to get their (few) brain cells into action.

Out walking yesterday and hearing a child who must have been about 5 swearing. The parents (I assume) were with her. They did nothing.

Builders' lorries making early deliveries at weekends. There has been a noisy lorry delivering along the road for over half an hour.

It didn't wake me up, but I love the peace and quiet of weekend mornings.

If they have to have bricks and shite delivered, why can't they do it on weekdays?

Idiots posting pictures of injured/distressed animals are back on FB (Would you save me? Ignore = Heartless etc) - get this shite off my page

Where I used to live there were narrow streets with cars parked down one side. One night, the street lights were off and I saw young guy driving down with his stereo blasting away.
Another car appeared coming in the opposite direction and he had the right of way. Boy racer stops, opens his window and yells "I'm not ****ing moving!"
The other car suddenly has flashing blue lights on top and a voice replies "Oh yes you ****ing are!"

https://grammarpartyblog.com/2013/01/04/erbs-and-herbs/

So we're the ones who messed with the word by adding an unnecessary H sound! The Americans just kept the original pronunciation.

There are a few words that Brits leave the "h" sound off, depending on the region of course. Words like house and hospital, I often hear them pronounced minus the h.

Yeah, it grated a bit...

With you on that one too. Did my shop this morning and the phrases "James, stop that" and "James, come here" were ringing around the store every few seconds. Only to be changed to "No, you can't have that wait for santa" as they went up the toy aisle. (If you've got a hyper active misbehaving little scroat with you, here's a thought - don't go up the toy aisle you morons.)

And the way they say parmesan (as in cheese) - it's like "parmajahn".

And, I've just been watching "The Brady Bunch". The eldest girl in that is called Marcia (old farts here will remember). To me, that name always had a slightly different pronunciation from "Marsha". I would say the former like "Mar-see-ah". But the yanks just say it as "Marsha".

They also pronounce Graham like "Grahm" and don't seem to think the "U" in Laura is pronounced (making it "Lara").

To be a bit pedantic, there is no actual "U" sound in Laura. The "au" is just a spelling convention for a vowel which we pronounce a bit differently from the Americans.

It's the same with the way they say "awesome" which sounds a bit like "ah-sum" to our ears.

People who start threads with ''Am i the only one'' NO you're not and you know you're not, idiots.

Why can't Americans say the name Craig properly?

The first sound of Craig rhymes with brain, train, cradle, gravy, crane and other words that the colonists can say more or less accurately given their linguistic limitations. It doesn't sound like the name of a nationwide chain of bakers famous for producing pies and pasties for fat people.

Today's BBC weather presenter who kept saying that the weather is going to be nice for something called the Diwali celebrations: WHATS UP WITH THAT?? I thought the Brits were celebrating Halloween, but there was no mention of that!

Diwali involves lighting candles/lamps outside, and usually fireworks. That will be difficult if it's pouring with rain (whereas you can always take an umbrella with you for trick or treating)

People who treat Black Mirror as an oracle. I like the show, but it's not THAT deep.

Lots of Britons celebrate Diwali.

I live in Leicester and it has been said that the Diwali celebrations there - here - are the largest of anywhere outside of the Indian subcontinent. Leicester also has the largest Jain temple in the world outside India, incidentally.

Either way, Diwali is a jolly old knees up. It's a great big fat whoop it up party full of fireworks, twinkly coloured lights, greasy fried food and lovely people. What's not to like?