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

[prinnysquad]

As there's so much murder show hate on here due to me I don't actually hate them all but most do pale into insignificance compared to this feller.

Columbo is great.

Irk:
When you need to give birth to an otter, and you've held it in for hours, and you've managed the car journey home with ease, even though your guts feel heavy. You reach home, open the front door, and BANG! Your cake is suddenly at emergency crimping stations, having forced it's way to the front like a determined reveller. You end up sprinting upstairs with a turtle's head struggling to break free. When you slam your cheeks down, you feel like half your brown egg has already been laid, and you have visions of a mammoth papering session on completion.

For crying out loud, I've held on for hours with no hint of a mole at the counter. Would it have killed it to hang back for another ten seconds?

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

I always fear smudging

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

I think you mean smearing .


You could spend literally hrs trying to scrape off those dried out dags.........or just hang your ar$e over the bath & get the shower & some soap going on it to get it fresh as a daisy


Theres another irk - ar$e hair. It gets in the way when I need to go, but if I shave it off it'll itch & I'll feel kinda gay!

[Rep]

People who use the left lane to go around a roundabout.
Traffic filtering lanes too, seriously, who thought they were a good idea.

[wakka]

People who try to rush straight onto the tube train without letting you get off it first. Tourists. Always tourists.

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

Theres another irk - ar$e hair. It gets in the way when I need to go, but if I shave it off it'll itch & I'll feel kinda gay!

I don't mind going digleberry picking!

[Lyris]

Here's one of my biggest irks.

London Media f..., well, a thread-friendly version would be "London Media Fools", but the actual word rhymes with "stuck". Journalists who have little knowledge or love for the subject they've fallen into, but evidently think "being in the meedja" is the best thing ever.

[abigsmurf]

Euch the Evening Standard when it was part of the mail group. "lets stalk Ken Livingstone 24 hours a day and everytime he sneezes, make a scandal out of it".

Don't get me started on the Daily Hate...

[Brad]

1. Cars that - when you are on a bike - overtake you 10 feet before some traffic lights and then have to brake sharply, thus causing you to have to brake earlier also.

2. Cars that stop in the advanced bike section at traffic lights.

3. People walking on footpaths whilst their pack of dogs take up the cycle path next to them and then look all shocked and panic to get them out of the way when, surprise surprise, a bike comes along. Sometimes they'll even shout at me for going too fast. OF COURSE I'M GOING FAST! THAT'S WHY I'M ON A BIKE. IF I WANTED TO GO SLOW I'D WALK MORON!

4. People who repeat 3 above every day for the last 4 years!!!

and to redress the pro-cyclist rantings:

5. Cyclists who overtake on the left and almost knock car wing mirrors in the process.

[Dirty Sanchez]

'large people' who sit next to you on the train despite there being many skinny runts they could sit next to. Do they want a cuddle or something? Creeps me out.

[sj33]

I was reminded yesterday about another language-related pet peeve - when people say 'literally' when they really mean 'virtually'. It's particularly annoying because so few people seem to notice it, too. It shows that people don't think about what they are saying.

[abigsmurf]

Cyclists on 70mph dual carriageways: do you want to die?

Bikers and cyclists who assume that red lights and give way don't apply to them.

Bikers who take the view that "cars and trucks should be careful and looking out for me, they're in the wrong if they hit me" rather than "cars and trucks may have trouble seeing me, I should be careful".

Cyclists that those in that annoying as hell activist group who follow the principle "I have as much right to be here as a car driver, I'll drive down the middle of the road". One, you haven't passed any tests or licences, your rights are limited, two, a car driver doing 20mph on some roads would be considered a hazard by police and pulled over.

[prinnysquad]

Yeah bikers. The advert screams 'look out for bikers', but when they're weaving at 60mph, onto the other side of the road, frankly they're driving like tossbags and the onus shouldn't be on the car driver to see if some runt has pulled up alongside their door and playing chicken with oncoming traffic.

I'm sure in that advert where the guy looks left and right, and there's nothing coming, then suddenly a biker slams into the side of him as he pulls out , that the biker must be doing about 60mph in a 30 zone. It seems to hurtle along at a helluva lick. lol just watched it - what a crock. First scene, it powers into that car like a jackhammer. Second scene, it's tootling along like an old grannymob.

[Brad]

I think smurf means cyclists. I totally agree with him by the way. Many cyclists are idiots.

[abigsmurf]

yeah most of them were cyclists (but some apply to motobikes too). Edited to clarify.