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

[merf]

the whole PS3 irks me, the updates, fact it takes ages to download a demo then you have to watch it install for a further age, lousy pads with flappy triggers and floppy sticks, the dust that sits on it.

can't think of a console I've ever owned I have less affection for.

[Jebus]

I can.

I give you...the Wii.

[Adam Stone]

Playing Little King's Story makes all those little irks go away

(yes that's like the hundredth time I've mentioned that game in the past two days, but by golly, it deserves a hundred more! More i tells ya!)

[BeyondJumpFish]

the whole PS3 irks me, the updates, fact it takes ages to download a demo then you have to watch it install for a further age, lousy pads with flappy triggers and floppy sticks, the dust that sits on it.

can't think of a console I've ever owned I have less affection for.

I agree with every word of this. It just sits next to my 360 looking sorry for itself. I have my external harddrive hooked up to at and all i use it for is a glorified jukebox...

[kernow]

Everything electronic I own dying on me eventually, despite me taking good care of it.

FFUU

[Spatial]

Everything to do with buying a house is still my number one related irk.

Latest one is that everything going along nicely and then

Bam!

The seller wants it all completed by the 18th December! What kind of a sick freak wants to move house a flipping week before Xmas day???!!!!

[Number45]

I'm changing my email address at the moment. As if it wasn't hassle enough going through login after login to change it... most of these places are STILL sending all notifications to the old address instead of the new one.

Not too much of a problem at the moment because I have access to both accounts, but that won't last forever.

[kryss]

Ordering from websites that won't let you put the actual billing address of your credit card in because it's in another country. So you have to change your address with the bank and then the website can't process your order because the address change hasn't been given enough time to go through.

*sigh*

On the other hand, paying by CC on the DSi and Wii shopping channels and them NOT asking for any address whatsoever is great. The Japanese ones don't anyway. After all, no-one in Japan would commit credit card fraud now would they?

[Adam Stone]

Women.

[Decider-VT]

American eBay resellers with deliberately vague auctions. It's really irritating when I'm trying to track down a game and the title of the listing says that it's mint but the condition in the standard eBay header of the listing itself is something like "very good". I've been stung by a couple of sellers before who point to the eBay definition if a dispute arises and claim that the game they've sent is in acceptable condition because it loads, despite being scratched to buggery. It's an underhand practice designed to offload whatever they've managed to siphon out of the pre-owned section of their local games shop.

They also seem to be incapable of answering specific questions about the condition of an item because they know that it wouldn't be of an acceptable standard to anybody that sees it. I'm fed up with their crummy listings clogging my search results and obscuring the ones that I really want to find.

[BeyondJumpFish]

All radio stations. And more accurately all adverts on the radio. Its obvious they have to compensate for the fact they can't use visuals so they just make the advert as annoying as possible.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Ahhhh speaking of radio stations.....

....those bloody mock radio stations that they play in shops!!

[Welrain]

agreed - utterly without point.

The stench of BO in Gamestation. It makes my eyes water it's so bad.

[kernow]

I've come across a lot of people that bloody stink recently, some are normal looking and you don't expect it, some you can tell they are going to reek by looking at them.

The number of times I've been behind someone in sainsburys who's blatantly just **** themselves is uncountable. Its a food store for gods sake.

I usually have no qualms about announcing it either or almost asking them why they have done so.

[Lyris]

Me having to get my teeth drilled all the time despite taking care of them.