Things that annoy you (51 Viewers)

[Sick Boy]

In Italy last year I was hoping to flex my Duolingo muscles (600 day streak, basically a native) but they all defaulted to English before I got the chance. I was reading signs and menus like nobody's business though

If you head to the deep south you’ll have no problems practising Italian.

 

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[ProfessorbyGrace]

Yeah, sorry if I wasn’t clear. I’ve definitely been in similar scenarios to the one you described there. Mostly in work between colleagues.

No apologies required, mate. I was just clarifying that some instances of people switching from English to Welsh in front of predominantly English speakers, can be a cultural thing or a dialectic thing.

However, yes, sometimes it is intentional and ignorant. Luckily I know enough basic Welsh to decipher if they’re slagging me off.

 

[Deleted member 5849]

If you head to the deep south you’ll have no problems practising Italian.

Best advert for the Euro, got conned by a taxi driver in Naples because trying to convert all the million Lire into pounds to work out if we were paying the right amount or not proved to be too much for us!

 

[LastGarrison]

No apologies required, mate. I was just clarifying that some instances of people switching from English to Welsh in front of predominantly English speakers, can be a cultural thing or a dialectic thing.

However, yes, sometimes it is intentional and ignorant. Luckily I know enough basic Welsh to decipher if they’re slagging me off.

I used to have it with two Romanian colleagues who would start out speaking English then suddenly switch to Romanian and then back into English.

No offence was meant by it and was just the way they communicated with each other but I found it absolutely fascinating!!

Although I did have to remind them that I missed a whole segment of the conversation on occasion.

 

[eastwoodsdustman]

Hipsters driving vw transporters badly. The BMWs of the 2020s

 

[Sick Boy]

Those days when the wind just doesn’t take the edge off the heat by the sea.

 

[LastGarrison]

This headline:


Surely it’s a bit harsh making volunteers plea to search? Thought they’d welcome all the help they can get.

 

[Nick]

Said I'd get my daughter a McDonald's breakfast as a treat. Came to get it from Gallagher retail park.

Wow is all I can say. If the police were interested in keeping the roads safe they would sit there for half hour.

 

[oscillatewildly]

In light of recent events over this side of town, lowlifes are still tear arsing it around Radford and Coundon.

 

[shmmeee]

Said I'd get my daughter a McDonald's breakfast as a treat. Came to get it from Gallagher retail park.

Wow is all I can say. If the police were interested in keeping the roads safe they would sit there for half hour.

You just need a traffic unit permanently based around Foleshill Rd/Stoney Stanton Road and they’d pay for the rest of the force alone.

 

[Nick]

You just need a traffic unit permanently based around Foleshill Rd/Stoney Stanton Road and they’d pay for the rest of the force alone.

Probably too much hassle, much easier to hide away with a speed camera catching people doing 33 in a 30.

There were so many cars that shouldn't be on the road, what looked like a couple of pissed up uber eats drivers stood about and shocking driving.

Not to mention the beggars in the drive thru, that really annoys me.

 

[dutchman]

If the police were interested in keeping the roads safe they would sit there for half hour.

The police drive that badly do they?

 

[OffenhamSkyBlue]

The police drive that badly do they?

I assumed it was a reference to how many burgers they eat while on shift

 

[Tommo1993]

The seemingly human nature thing where people like to inject a bit of malice into reporting a completely innocent way you’ve carried out a job. Why do people like to try and fuck other people over, over nothing?

Put on your compo face and cry on an email to your management.

 

[Sbarcher]

I think it tends to be a narcissistic tendency in some people. Make yourself look good by making others look bad.

 

[robbiekeane]

There’s a special place in hell for pricks who put their stuff in lockers and don’t lock them. I’m talking the free combination lockers in gyms and gym classes

Fucks me off opening every “free” locker to find someone’s shit in their cause they can’t spend 10 seconds to lock it

This is only in douchey gym classes so I probably won’t get much sympathy but

 

[dutchman]

Facebook keeps suggesting posters I've never heard of, who live half way round the world and aren't on any friend's list as 'people you may know'.

The latest example:

And no, I don't know Sandra Bullock and can't imagine why Facebook would think I might?

 

[fernandopartridge]

Having to put the lights on mid morning in July because it's so dark and wet outside

 

[Sick Boy]

Entitled dog owners.

 

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

Words like " hack" I keep seeing on the internet .
" Here's a good hack for a quick healthy lunch"

It's idea, not hack. Hack is clumps of snot I cough up.afyer a heavy cold.

 

[chiefdave]

The latest example:

And no, I don't know Sandra Bullock and can't imagine why Facebook would think I might?

Facebook is basically unusable now. Wonder what their usage figures are like, must have been a huge drop off.

You literally get one post from someone you follow and then about 5 'suggested' posts that are not anything you're even vaguely interested in

 

[ccfc922]

People who make a big deal about their private roads, yet they look like they've been carpet bombed n they want parcels dropping to their door with their £7 amazon subscription. Wankers. Pay for my tyres/suspension.

 

[Sick Boy]

Best advert for the Euro, got conned by a taxi driver in Naples because trying to convert all the million Lire into pounds to work out if we were paying the right amount or not proved to be too much for us!

There are still plenty of people across the country happy to help you part with your money.

 

[Sick Boy]

Words like " hack" I keep seeing on the internet .
" Here's a good hack for a quick healthy lunch"

It's idea, not hack. Hack is clumps of snot I cough up.afyer a heavy cold.

As a noun, hack would be the cough itself.

 

[SBAndy]

Gallagher Retail Park. Fucking nuke the place.

Doesn’t help that I’ve got one of those niggly hangovers.

 

[dutchman]

Having to put the lights on mid morning in July because it's so dark and wet outside

Bugger the lights, I've got the heating on here!

 

[fatso]

The latest example:

And no, I don't know Sandra Bullock and can't imagine why Facebook would think I might?

You haven't knocked one out while looking at pics of her recently have you?

 

[Nick]

People who decide they want a 4 course meal at the cinema. It's an hour and a half, fucking animals chomping popcorn, nachos all the way through. Could barely hear the film.

 

[chiefdave]

People who decide they want a 4 course meal at the cinema. It's an hour and a half, fucking animals chomping popcorn, nachos all the way through. Could barely hear the film.

same at matches, the amount of shit some people can consume in 2 hours amazes me. not like its decent stuff or reasonably priced

 

[Nick]

same at matches, the amount of shit some people can consume in 2 hours amazes me. not like its decent stuff or reasonably priced

Least you can't hear them at matches!

 

[fernandopartridge]

Least you can't hear them at matches!

I've suggested the banning out of crisps on trains as a first policy for the new government but happy to add in this too.

 

[OffenhamSkyBlue]

Words like " hack" I keep seeing on the internet .
" Here's a good hack for a quick healthy lunch"

It's idea, not hack. Hack is clumps of snot I cough up.afyer a heavy cold.

Or a tip! Modern-speak, ADM - it does my head in too! There are perfectly good ways of expressing the same thing already, so we don't need to invent new ones. The one that gets me is "drop". Such-and-such a piece of information is about to "drop" today, the middle-aged presenters on 5Live announce. No! It will be released, announced or launched.

 

[OffenhamSkyBlue]

The latest example:

And no, I don't know Sandra Bullock and can't imagine why Facebook would think I might?

So you can't get me Sandra Bullock's contact details, is that what you are saying??

 

[OffenhamSkyBlue]

Least you can't hear them at matches!

You can at the Emirates, to be fair!

 

[skybluejelly]

Words like " hack" I keep seeing on the internet .
" Here's a good hack for a quick healthy lunch"

It's idea, not hack. Hack is clumps of snot I cough up.afyer a heavy cold.

Absolutely..but I don’t think it’s as bad as “side hustle “.. oooh I have a side hustle ..selling crap at at a car boot , or buying crap at a car boot and selling it on eBay