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Old 11-08-2014, 19:54
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Old 11-08-2014, 19:58
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Those beauty adverts that say 89% of people surveys say their skin looks much firmer. Then look harder and they only tested 100 people!
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Old 11-08-2014, 20:22
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Those beauty adverts that say 89% of people surveys say their skin looks much firmer. Then look harder and they only tested 100 people!
There was one recently that tested a number that was something like 76 or 106 people, They basically test as many as is needed to get a nice number, In this case it was 74%
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Old 11-08-2014, 20:33
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People who never finish projects at home or people who constantly keep altering things around.

There's a bloke opposite us who's been building a garrage for what must be the last 15 years at least and his house constantly looks like a building site. I don't know how people can live like that, it would drive me insane.

I had a mate from school who's dad would be constantly knocking the house around but before he got it finished he'd be ripping it apart and starting over again and it never actually got finished. Also my father in law who spends ages getting his house and garden just how he wants it and the next time we turn up he's decided to rip it all up and change it all round again and he never actually gets something how he wants it before deciding it's time for another change round.

Why can't some people just make their minds up on what they want, finish what they started and be happy with it for more than 5 minutes?
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Old 11-08-2014, 20:43
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Little Mr or Mrs. Angries, who haven't the courage to do anything about their chosen rants but rant, really annoy me but that's not trivial, so wrong thread.
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Old 11-08-2014, 20:47
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Kids who run around the supermarket like they are in a playground, and the parents who let them.
Parents who let their children do this full stop. Had a family at work the other day and they were just letting the kids run riot. It's bad enough in a normal situation, but where I work, it can be pretty bloody dangerous (which is why parents are told to hold on to their kids hands at all times). They were trying to touch the kiln - which had a fire burning in it - and they were climbing over railings onto a steep drop etc. I almost kicked the parents off the tour. Urgh. My blood pressure was not helped by them! In comparison, the kids on the next tour were an absolute dream
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Old 11-08-2014, 21:21
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People who are always looking for perfection and can't stop and soak in the good or very good. The other week we got feedback from a customer satisfaction survey. Our ratings were over 90% "very good" or "excellent" - and our manager was pleased as punch. One co-worker wanted to know what the comments were for the two or three customers who had selected "poor" or "very poor", and immediately wanted to rectify their issues.

(the issues were to do with our suppliers and there's very little our company could do resolve them - isolated incidents which because we are the front-end we get the blame for even when it's out of our control)

Just incredibly annoying because it brought the mood of the whole team down.
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Old 11-08-2014, 21:25
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The smoke alarm.. The battery's dying so it's helpfully reminding me by bleeping every 30 seconds or so. Which would be fine if I could reach the damn thing to change it, but with 15ft high ceilings I simply can't get to it (even with a step ladder) which means I've got to wait for the letting agent to send the maintenance man round with his large ladder to replace it.

Meanwhile, every 30 seconds.. beep... beep... beep...
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Old 11-08-2014, 21:34
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The smoke alarm.. The battery's dying so it's helpfully reminding me by bleeping every 30 seconds or so. Which would be fine if I could reach the damn thing to change it, but with 15ft high ceilings I simply can't get to it (even with a step ladder) which means I've got to wait for the letting agent to send the maintenance man round with his large ladder to replace it.

Meanwhile, every 30 seconds.. beep... beep... beep...
At least the sound is consistent. When the doorbell battery goes, the tone goes right down sloooooow. Bing-boooooooooooooooooong. Bing-booooooooooooooooong. Just sounds as if it's in pain.
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Old 11-08-2014, 22:14
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I second the smoke alarm In our flat it went off a few times when all you did was open a hot oven door FFS, now a new one has been put in.
On my laptop when you're typing things and the pointer suddenly decides to change position, so you have to delete lots of unnecessary things
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Old 11-08-2014, 22:18
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The smoke alarm.. The battery's dying so it's helpfully reminding me by bleeping every 30 seconds or so. Which would be fine if I could reach the damn thing to change it, but with 15ft high ceilings I simply can't get to it (even with a step ladder) which means I've got to wait for the letting agent to send the maintenance man round with his large ladder to replace it.

Meanwhile, every 30 seconds.. beep... beep... beep...
yea, i hate that especially at night or middle of the early hours


when one is off work, something brakes or goes wrong
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Old 11-08-2014, 23:18
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People who say they'll get in touch but don't bother, or ones that finally do bother but are incredibly late.

Orange - as they keep calling me everyday

People who don't wash their hands when they go to the loo
People who don't flush the chain

Public Displays of affection. Was stuck in the queue at a theme park the other day with at least 3 overly affectionate couples D: ffs

That shitty shit shit Trivago ad with the annoying whispering woman
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Old 12-08-2014, 00:30
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People who say they'll get in touch but don't bother, or ones that finally do bother but are incredibly late.

Orange - as they keep calling me everyday

People who don't wash their hands when they go to the loo
People who don't flush the chain

Public Displays of affection. Was stuck in the queue at a theme park the other day with at least 3 overly affectionate couples D: ffs

That shitty shit shit Trivago ad with the annoying whispering woman
Totally annoys me that does. "We'll have to meet up sometime". Yeah right. Why bother when I know full well your just full of shit and don't mean it and the minute you walk out of here you'll just forget all about it. Why say it it you clearly don't mean it?
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Old 12-08-2014, 00:35
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The smoke alarm.. The battery's dying so it's helpfully reminding me by bleeping every 30 seconds or so. Which would be fine if I could reach the damn thing to change it, but with 15ft high ceilings I simply can't get to it (even with a step ladder) which means I've got to wait for the letting agent to send the maintenance man round with his large ladder to replace it.

Meanwhile, every 30 seconds.. beep... beep... beep...
Not only is it incredibly annoying when you don't have a 9v battery spare and have to sleep through the constant beeping but it's a bit like the thing when your phone battery is dying.

I'm running out of power so I'll tell you what I'm gonna do, I'll just keep annoying you and wasting more of your last few dregs of precious energy by buzzing and beeping every few seconds just so I can waste what little bit of power you might have left because that really freaking helps matters doesn't it?
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Old 12-08-2014, 09:53
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Even more annoying when my phone battery is dying when it is connected to the car via blue teeth. It interrupts the radio to play its death chirps through the car speakers. It gets switched off until I get home when it does that as I know it hasn't got enough power to take a call anyway.
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Old 12-08-2014, 09:54
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Spam email that requests a read-receipt.

People who ask for read-receipt on all their emails.

In fact, read-receipts in general. They’re just so snoopy, as if the sender doesn’t trust me to read an email so has to check up on me like a child.
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Old 12-08-2014, 10:36
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The answer-phone in my office: It's switched off, there are no messages and IT'S BL**DY BLEEPING!! I've pressed every button AND ITS STILL BL**DY BLEEPING. It runs off the mains - I've a good mind to pull the plug out and to hell with it!!
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Old 12-08-2014, 11:27
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The smoke alarm.. The battery's dying so it's helpfully reminding me by bleeping every 30 seconds or so. Which would be fine if I could reach the damn thing to change it,....
Meanwhile, every 30 seconds.. beep... beep... beep...
Luckily the ones here are within reach, well with reach when you're standing on a chair. But the first time I experience their "hey you, our battery is running down, please replace - beep beep 30s beep beep" thing was around 2am. And me with no spare battery to hand. Managed to muffle the beep by holding a sleeping bag over the alarn, and building a tower of boxes underneath to keep the bag in place. Not the most structurally sound structure ever created and it would no doubt be labeled a fire hazard, but it lessened the beepness and let me get back to sleep.
So I made sure to buy a bunch of those big batteries, the ones NO OTHER PIECE OF EQUIPMENT USES, in readiness for future beeps..... only for the council come round, replace them with no-battery ones, leaving me with a bunch of useless batteries....AND, I only realised this later, the workers took the batteries inside the alarms away with them, bastards.
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Old 12-08-2014, 11:59
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Why can't some people just make their minds up on what they want, finish what they started and be happy with it for more than 5 minutes?
Sometimes the journey is more enjoyable than the destination.
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Old 12-08-2014, 13:04
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eBay sellers who send clothes without washing them first.
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Old 12-08-2014, 13:13
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My older cousin sent me a wedding invitation recently. Shes only known me for my whole life (25 years) and talks to me on facebook, yet shes managed to spell my bloody name wrong!

Its annoying because she knows how my name is spelt and has purposly decided to spell it incorrectly.

My name is spelt the conventional way but shes changed it. Its the eauivalent of sending an invite to someone who you know is called amy but adressing it to aimee.

It annoys me because its not an honest mistake by someone who barely knows me, but its intentional. Pees me right off.
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Old 12-08-2014, 13:48
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eBay sellers who send clothes without washing them first.
depending on what you bought, maybe the seller thought you wanted them unwashed. :eeeeugh:

btw: still psd off with twitter people who pick the best names and then don't post a single tweet. Someone's even got nontweeter, but I think I'm ok with that.

btw2: re: invite - are you considering sending the invite back with "hey, Aimee can't attend but Amy would love an invite, bitch" (ok, the bitch is optional).
Then if you do go to the wedding and they have gift bags for the guests (weddings do that, right, or is it just that night-out thing brides do before the wedding, whose name escapes me, darn it). Anyway, if they do have these bags, get some personalised pencils done to commemorate the event (eBay is your friend) and make sure to spell HIS name correctly but HERS incorrectly (again, the bitch is optional). Or is this a gal-gal wedding ?
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Old 12-08-2014, 14:09
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People who only post on here to start arguments or to seem superior. Does it make you feel better about yourself?
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Old 12-08-2014, 14:13
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depending on what you bought, maybe the seller thought you wanted them unwashed. :eeeeugh:

btw: still psd off with twitter people who pick the best names and then don't post a single tweet. Someone's even got nontweeter, but I think I'm ok with that.

btw2: re: invite - are you considering sending the invite back with "hey, Aimee can't attend but Amy would love an invite, bitch" (ok, the bitch is optional).
Then if you do go to the wedding and they have gift bags for the guests (weddings do that, right, or is it just that night-out thing brides do before the wedding, whose name escapes me, darn it). Anyway, if they do have these bags, get some personalised pencils done to commemorate the event (eBay is your friend) and make sure to spell HIS name correctly but HERS incorrectly (again, the bitch is optional). Or is this a gal-gal wedding ?
I didnt know what to do with it! Its a boy-girl wedding but neither of them have names that could be spelt differently!

It just bugs me that especially with her talking to me on facebook she sees my name written down so she cant use the excuse that she didnt know!
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Old 12-08-2014, 14:13
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Luckily the ones here are within reach, well with reach when you're standing on a chair. But the first time I experience their "hey you, our battery is running down, please replace - beep beep 30s beep beep" thing was around 2am. And me with no spare battery to hand. Managed to muffle the beep by holding a sleeping bag over the alarn, and building a tower of boxes underneath to keep the bag in place. Not the most structurally sound structure ever created and it would no doubt be labeled a fire hazard, but it lessened the beepness and let me get back to sleep.
So I made sure to buy a bunch of those big batteries, the ones NO OTHER PIECE OF EQUIPMENT USES, in readiness for future beeps..... only for the council come round, replace them with no-battery ones, leaving me with a bunch of useless batteries....AND, I only realised this later, the workers took the batteries inside the alarms away with them, bastards.
Last year, the guy came out to change another battery in another smoke alarm, took it down, realised he didn’t have a spare one (I had been told categorically I didn’t need to supply one) – then put it back up with the old battery still in and told me he’d be round the next week to change it. I was fuming – a whole week of beeping, drove me mad.


Another auditory annoyance:

The introduction to Steve Wright’s show on R2. The drums, the cheering, the music – it all annoys me, and reminds there’s still 3 hours to go before I finish work.
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