Little things that irk you.. (no swearing please)

[samanosuke]

Alot. I don't know where it started -- it seems to be an internet thing -- but why do so many people think that "alot" is a word? It p!sses me off no end.

[merf]

irks me having to alter every clock on everything I own twice a year just so farmers can feed spinal columns of dead cows to the ones that are still alive without having to turn on a light.

[sj33]

^On that note, I have absolutely no idea how to change the time on my watch. I'll just have to remember that it's one hour out until October.

[huxley]

The people that slashed all four of my tyres last night. I'm looking at about ?2k to replace them

Go on then tell us what you drive

[Skull Commander]

Go on then tell us what you drive

A tractor?

[Spatial]

^On that note, I have absolutely no idea how to change the time on my watch. I'll just have to remember that it's one hour out until October.

Same here - I have to fish the badly written manual out every six months

"Hold down button A while pressing and depressing Button B fifteen times in rapid succession, but only if it's cloudy outside. If it isn't hop on one leg and rapidly press button D while swivelling button C anticlockwise. That is unless it's a leap year in which case be sure to swivel it clockwise... etc"

[Sixty]

Alot. I don't know where it started -- it seems to be an internet thing -- but why do so many people think that "alot" is a word? It p!sses me off no end.

I used to think it actually was spelt like that when I was younger. Once I found out I was wrong I started writing it properly, of course. Maybe people just don't know any better, although there's less excuse in these days of instant spell checkers and things.

"Anyways" gets me. There is absolutely no need to put an 's' on the end of that word and yet SO many people do it. Really bugs me for reasons I can't explain.

[kernow]

Go on then tell us what you drive

hahah

[Lyris]

Twats I have to work with.

They tell a quick whitted joke to a customer, & so you add a little to it just for a laugh, then they suddenly see it as a contest & try to rationalise your add on as some kind of impossibilty in the real world, obviously because they think you've stamped on their amazing whit with yours. Its a f**kin JOKE ffs!!

Closely related to this: people who HAVE to be right all the time.

[Ady]

RnB singers who all seem to be jumping on the same band wagon of using a Cher style 'Do You Believe In Life After Love' voice distortion technique.

It sounds like Stephen Hawkins doing karaoke

Don't get me started on that one, mate.

My girlfriend listens to a lot of that drivel and it drives me up the wall no end. Every time I hear a vocoder, I want to hurt somebody.

[abigsmurf]

[samanosuke]

Clocks/digital displays on station platforms. Why in the name of crap are they ALWAYS blocked by some pillar. I enter my train station from the end of the platform, and it's impossible to see the clock from there because it's positioned with all the pillars along the platform in front of it. So if I arrive and the train is already there, I have no way of knowing if it's going to leave any second. So I can either get on it and have to pay full fare because I didn't get a ticket first, or I can walk all the way down the platform to the ticket machine and risk the train blasting off. I guess I could get on the train at one end, walk all the way down, inside the train, check the display, and then get off and buy a ticket if I see that I have time. A lot of hassle all because some inbred dolt went and installed the display behind a line of pillars! It's not like the pillars were put in afterwards! They hold up the sodding roof! They must have been there for decades! And I'm guessing that display was only installed a couple of years ago! Horsedong!

I like the ones that are stuck on 68 o'clock

[teddymeow]

Smaller Blu-ray publishers who don't list the regions that their films are coded to.

Fine, Warner and Universal are always region free so they don't bother but what about someone like Manga? Ichi is region free but Ghost in the Shell is apparently locked to B which is no good to me and I'll be damned if I'm going to spend money to find out for definite. Even the sites that claim to list regions aren't entirely reliable.

Also, publishers who list their film as locked to one region but actually it's totally region free such as Third Window Films Kamikaze Girls.

[Geoff D]

Smaller Blu-ray publishers who don't list the regions that their films are coded to.

Fine, Warner and Universal are always region free so they don't bother but what about someone like Manga? Ichi is region free but Ghost in the Shell is apparently locked to B which is no good to me and I'll be damned if I'm going to spend money to find out for definite. Even the sites that claim to list regions aren't entirely reliable.

Also, publishers who list their film as locked to one region but actually it's totally region free such as Third Window Films Kamikaze Girls.

Region coding in general irks me.

[dataDave]

Every time I hear a vocoder, I want to hurt somebody.

Same.

I walked into KFC yesterday and got a Zinger burger which I very clearly and concisely asked for with NO MAYONAISE. I ended up well and truly erked at having to walk back in and re-queue, then you get looked at like "It can't be that bad, can it?", well it ****ing is! Just sort it!