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

[EJG1980]

The real problem is reading through other people's irks and thinking "They're right, that IS annoying!" and having to add it to your own list of irks. Eventually there will be nothing left that doesn't annoy us!

[Spatial]

That doesn't apply to me - everything already annoys me.

[abigsmurf]

Reading match reports of the MLS Cup final and seeing LA Galaxy referred to as "the Galaxy", especially when seeing it on UK based web sites.

It better not catch on over here. "Great strike from Rooney, that's 1-0, and now the United have the advantage!"

The gunners? The Hammers?

[EJG1980]

That's different, they're nicknames. Galaxy is part of their actual name, like United, or City, just doesn't sound right to me. Although I suppose with something like Rovers, it doesn't sound too bad, 1-0 to the Rovers... okay it's a badly thought out irk

I still think "the Galaxy" sounds silly though

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Women.

I dont know if its a certain irk you have, but I know what u mean (I think)

[Kieran76]

That's different, they're nicknames. Galaxy is part of their actual name, like United, or City, just doesn't sound right to me. Although I suppose with something like Rovers, it doesn't sound too bad, 1-0 to the Rovers... okay it's a badly thought out irk

I still think "the Galaxy" sounds silly though

I still call Sheffield Wednesday 'The Wednesday'. I think it wasn't until about 1930 that they were still just called 'The Wednesday'.

Cycling in the wind is really starting to irk me. It seems as if the wind changes direction throughout the day, to be blowing straight into my face no matter what direction I am facing. Cycling headlong into a 17mph wind is not easy or fun.

[kernow]

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

FFUU

Bump, just bought a new screen for my laptop after it dying.

[Number45]

Argh! Whoever submits the wrong CD track information to <insert online CD track database name>!

[Decider-VT]

People who send what was once a mint Nintendo 64 game to me in a jiffy bag.

[nintastic]

People who send what was once a mint Nintendo 64 game to me in a jiffy bag.

I soooooo feel your pain mate, blimming @@@@@@ !

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

People who send what was once a mint Nintendo 64 game to me in a jiffy bag.

Or a mint 360 game in a plastic bag with no padding whatsoever. I could literally pour the shattered contents out of the bag.

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

Cycling in the wind is really starting to irk me. It seems as if the wind changes direction throughout the day, to be blowing straight into my face no matter what direction I am facing. Cycling headlong into a 17mph wind is not easy or fun.

THAT!

Even worse is that it will get stronger the moment you reach an incline yet almost stop when you are stationary.

[sj33]

Three things are irking me on a daily basis right now.

1) When you're walking down the street, and two (or even just one) person is walking towards you. They're walking right down the centre of the pavement, even though they could shift over a bit to let other people walk by. As a result, they're needlessly taking over the entire pavement. I walk towards them, carefully walking close to the side of the footpath to kindly let them past. They don't return the favour, and just continue walking in a straight line, talking up the entire footpath. I am forced to walk in the road. The same can happen in the other direction - you're trying to walk past someone because they're taking their sweet time getting to their destination, but the insist on taking up the entire footpath. After a huge amount of patience, I have to walk into the road to get around them.
Regardless of the direction, when you go as far as walking in the road to get around them, they give you a look of disgust, as if you were trying to prove a point - you can't win! I find it difficult to comprehend how the fact that other people use the pavement can be so far outside of their consciousness.

2) When you hold the door open for someone, and they don't acknowledge it, don't say thank you, or anything. Or worse, when it's a female, and they look at you as if you're partonising them. Christ, I'd hold open the door for anyone, male or female, it's just common sense in my eyes - there's a person a few feet behind you, so you may as well do them a favour. The least you would expect is some kind of acknowledgement, but it seems that if you are thoughtful enough to do it, it's considered so small that it's not worth thanking someone for, or they're partonised... yet if you don't hold the door open, they just think you're ignorant. Can't win.

3) Maybe this is because I'm one of the older ones on my university course, but when the lecturer is trying to get the class started, yet people won't shut the hell up and let the guy teach. We had a guy the other week who had came over from the German Embassy in Japan for 3 weeks, just to teach our class. He had a well thought out lesson plan and everything, but he's not a lecturer by profession, so it was somewhat new for him. He was trying to get the lecture underway, but no-one had the decency to save their conversation until after class. I wanted to tell everyone to shut the hell up and let the poor guy teach. I don't get it.

[jimmbob]

2) When you hold the door open for someone, and they don't acknowledge it, don't say thank you, or anything. Or worse, when it's a female, and they look at you as if you're partonising them. Christ, I'd hold open the door for anyone, male or female, it's just common sense in my eyes - there's a person a few feet behind you, so you may as well do them a favour. The least you would expect is some kind of acknowledgement, but it seems that if you are thoughtful enough to do it, it's considered so small that it's not worth thanking someone for, or they're partonised... yet if you don't hold the door open, they just think you're ignorant. Can't win.

Older guy, (Late sixties or something) holding the door open for a woman. Typical city type, power dressing, nose in the air, horribly pretentious, obnoxiously loud on her mobile, you get the idea.

She glared at him, and rather than thanking him said. "You don't need to hold the door open for me just because I'm a woman."

He replied.

"I am not holding the door for you because you are a lady, I am holding it because I am a gentlemen."

[Brad]

^^^ awesome win!

There's this woman in my work's building and she walks into the lift and just says the floor number she wants and expect you to press the button for her. I just ignore her. Ignorant pig.