I have to admit I feel the same whenever this is described as recent fad, when it's been part of everyday vernacular for, at least, the last 20 years.

I remember it as being old, too, but it seems that in the past it was used to indicate a funny or strange story was beginning, as in "So there I was, minding my own business, when.." etc. Nowadays, everyone uses it whenever they like, and it doesn't mean the same thing anymore.

That's just how I remember it, anyway, but it must vary from region to region.

Oh God, I'm glad it's not just me, but I'm sorry you feel that bad about it too. It's bladdy awful!

When you wait at a bar to be served, and someone else pushes in next to you and gets served instead, despite you being there first originally. Prats.

Bar-tenders in an 'award winning venue' who don't seem to know how to make cocktails. What the hell.
Anyway I had a good night out with mates but the venue was a hipster paradise full of posers, with nightmarish queues and way-too-expensive drinks. That annoyed me intensely :P

The National Lottery - taken me until now to realise that: If I want to play the National Lottery with a DIFFERENT set of lucky numbers I need to buy a ticket each week. I cannot use the online direct debit method to play this way. Oh you can select the lucky dip option but this means you will be playing THOSE numbers each week rather than (as I thought) get a new set of lucky dip numbers for every draw. Don't know why I thought this but I'm kinda pissed, darn it.

This isn't very trivial actually.

When the person at the till in a supermarket licks their fingers to open the carrier bags for my shopping.


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Always stand in front of the till. As the bar tender will always look straight up after they have served the previous customer. Usually works!

2 supermarkets have a "so tell us how we did" option on their receipts. If your one does too maybe telling them of their icky till operators behaviour will get them to issue them with rubber thimble type things for their fingers.

Idiotic poker players.

I only play for 'play money' so there is no risk and some players take that to mean they can just go all in off the bat or place silly bets when they have no hand.

The play money function is there for players to learn, and for those who do know how to play and a game without the risk of losing real life money but it gets annoying when idiots show up.

Pokerroom use to have a setting where you could alert an idiot and if they got 3 or so votes they were kicked out.

Unfortunately the one I use now doesn't have this option.

Searching for 'coat hooks' on IKEA's website and finding bed frames, bins and couches in the results...i mean just F*#K off

Ice breakers at work/uni etc. Piss off. I just want to get on with my job. I'd rather get to know my colleagues through natural conversations and get togethers, not by being made to stand up in front of everyone like a 6 year old doing Show and Tell....

Hay. And my dogs obsession with the stuff. It gets everywhere. Was pulling bits of it out of my tights earlier. The dogs keep stealing it out of the rabbits dens and it makes a bloody mess of my carpet... Stop it ya buggers!

That's the best excuse for pulling straw out of your tights that I've ever heard.

People that leave their common sense and sense of awareness at the front door of the supermarket

Me overusing the terms seem(s)/seemingly on the forums.

I just can't be bothered using an alternative though.

I've pulled many things out of my tights over the years after a hard session, Scuffy!

One more before bed. 'Bedhead'. What's up with that? In the morning half my hair is stuck flat to my head and the other half stays pristine. Can't wait til it's long enough to clip back and ignore

Yes and people who stand and wait in the entrance of a shop/supermarket. Also people who stand at the bottom of an escalator blocking others from getting on.
It's scary how some people don't have any common sense.

...and the bloody 'leaners'. The ones bent double in the middle, elbows resting on the trolley handle moving at a pace that makes continental drift look like a Formula 1 car and with the turning circle of a bloody supertanker.

Yes, and that as well. I could write a whole list on what annoys me in the supermarket

That must include the fella this weekend who weaved his trolley around several bollards and then crashed into the sliding doors before he noticed one of the several massive "OUT OF ORDER please use other doors" at my supermarket this weekend.

People that have a 'cuppa and a fag' in the morning. Or indeed a coffee and a fag.

Their breath always smells like poo after that! The drinks must amplify the smell.

I hate that. I wish someone would design a trolley that tips up when people lean on it

Coffee Breath! I'm paranoid about that. I live on too much coffee - and eat too many mints because of it.

I don't mind having knob breath thought!

Lazy writing 'tho' and 'thru' etc.

Web site search engines are always useless. Search in Google instead, using the site: keyword as in

site:ikea.co.uk hooks

much more chance of a result.

When my friend who is a second year student asks me what an ebook is.