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

[merf]

like that bloke on Ch4 who got 'real' footy fans talking about mee-lan

[hudson]

Full Flash (Macromedia) websites. Some are ok, but most are just annoying. Also, website ad banners that expand as you brush over them by accident.

[Brad]

I knew a girl who insisted on pronouncing 'muesli' mear-slee. She also pronounced 'bag' as 'barg'. She was born and bred in England and offered no justification for her pronunciation!

Websites that play music at maximum volume on the front page.

[charlesr]

What about sites that have 20% of the words on the page underlined and when you brush them an ad obliterates the screen..... I just stop going to those sites.

[merf]

website with moving ads that obscure the content and then hide the close button miles away on the screen so you can't find it.

[endo]

like that bloke on Ch4 who got 'real' footy fans talking about mee-lan

That does take the mick- especially as it's plain wrong. If you're going to say it that way, then say 'Milano' (but then, of course, you'd be a bellend). The perfectly acceptable, in the dictionary, official English name for that place is Milan, and that's it.

Besides, they're all amateurs anyway. For me it's Mediolanum or nothing

[hudson]

Yes to both above. Them banner ads that obscure your viewing even when you scroll out of the way. One of my fave site to get Street Fighter news (Event Hubs) has recently got an annoying ad.

[abigsmurf]

You're always continually told not to do self diagnosis and look up tests and symptons online and I always ignore this.

Went to the opticians, girl looked a bit concerned at the results of one of the standard tests and repeated it a few times. After the tests she said my pupils were dilating at different rates and she booked me a hospital appointment (stressing it's nothing to be worried about).

I did the stupid thing and looked up why this was a big deal: this can be an early sign of a tumour.

Probably a very low chance of it being that but my stupidity now has me nervy about it.
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[booth83]

The fact that i have been sat here a good 15 minutes now trying to get onto an online game of modern warfare 2 (360) all it is saying is 'testing matches' with a % that keeps going from 0 to 99.9 then back to 0 again, tried many types of game too, am i doing something wrong?

it's rapidly escalating from just an irk tbh.

[Skull Commander]

I think xbox live is buggered tonight, so your not alone. It's been acting up something chronic.

[booth83]

i've still had no luck with it, my friends have been online and playing and it managed to connect after an invite from one of them, then i got called away the moment the game started and had to switch off, i played cod:waw for about 5 minutes when that came out but other than that this is the first i've really played over live and i'm not happy with it so far.

funnily enough when i did get on the game earlier tonight all i could hear over my headset was some idiot shouting 'you british are faggots', i'll not be using the headset much i don't think, if i ever get another game that is.

[sj33]

^Some things never change, it sees. I remember when I used to play Quake 3 Arena online on the Dreamcast, I used an American version because I could use my own ISP. As soon as other people found out that I was British, there was usually a remark or two.

[usman]

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[charlesr]

On that.... How come we don't call other countries' cities by their own spelling and pronounciation? like paris: we spell it the same, but they call it "pareeee". And they call us Angleterre.... er no. It's England Why is this so difficult? It would make maps easier too.

[Darwock]

Japan does that the right way for nearly every country, except Britain. They talk about Pareee, Italia, Roma, etc... and then Igirisu for Britain. I always feel like a moron when I have to correct my students english even though they are actually using the correct name of each country/city.

I actually had one student come back from a holiday in Italy and show me pictures of her time spent in a certain water-logged city, who then said she was disappointed she had been unable to visit Venice as she couldn't find it on her map