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Title: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Highlander on August 30, 2019, 19:43:04 PM
We have had various threads on this subject but sometime ago so I thought I'd start a new one with this........

People in Tesco who "park" their big trolleys right against the shelf with an item I want while they leisurely study items on shelves on the opposite side of the aisle.

 >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Scunner on August 30, 2019, 20:06:17 PM
If we’ve done this before I’ve probably shared this one, but waiting to turn out of a T junction for people travelling on the main road who then turn into the road you are waiting in with a last second indicator.

I could rip their inconsiderate, ignorant heeds off.
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: KKOB on August 30, 2019, 20:13:20 PM
People who go on quiz shows who can't answer a question about any event that happened before the year 2000 because it was 'before my time'.
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: badger on August 30, 2019, 22:06:09 PM
Drivers like the guy today in Asda's car park that kept us waiting while he shoehorned his 4x4 in a tight space,the only empty one in the bay,when 30yards away there were plenty of empty spaces  >:(
And lazy shoppers that can't be bothered to return the trolleys to the trolley park and invariably leave it in a parking bay.
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Scunner on August 30, 2019, 22:16:22 PM
I stay in too many hotels these days. The small & friendly type are fine. At a certain level (mid range) they drive me insane with one particular thing they all seem to do.

When you arrive at reception to check in, when you arrive at that irritating "please wait to be seated" bit at the restaurant for dinner (and then again at breakfast) there is always just the one member of staff, processing some important sh1te on the till or in a book.

I don't mind that they are busy, what drives me mental is that I am now standing in front of them for some time, sometimes several minutes and they haven't even looked up. They know I am there, it is impossible that they might not have noticed.

I don't demand special attention, I don't expect them to drop everything they are doing. All I want is acknowledgement that I am actually there - they could simply look up and say "just a moment while I sort this" or similar, but what they do is ignore me till they have finished whatever that incredibly important task might be, fold up the paper they were checking, put it in it's correct file, put the lid back on their cheap, nasty Bic biro, then look up at me as if I just arrived 2 seconds ago.
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Highlander on August 30, 2019, 22:20:18 PM
And lazy shoppers that can't be bothered to return the trolleys to the trolley park and invariably leave it in a parking bay.

That was going to be my next one badger especially when you only notice after turning into the space.  >:( >:( >:(

Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Scunner on August 30, 2019, 22:21:45 PM
Drivers like the guy today in Asda's car park that kept us waiting while he shoehorned his 4x4 in a tight space,the only empty one in the bay,when 30yards away there were plenty of empty spaces  >:(
And lazy shoppers that can't be bothered to return the trolleys to the trolley park and invariably leave it in a parking bay.

As the husband of a Fiat 500 owner, those irritating Fiat 500 owners who park their Fiat 500s right into a space, particularly at airport car parking so when you suddenly realise you can't find a space and your flight is departing sooner and sooner, only to spot an empty space - which turns out to be a space with a bloody Fiat 500 parked right into it.
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Highlander on August 30, 2019, 22:26:46 PM
As the husband of a Fiat 500 owner, those irritating Fiat 500 owners who park their Fiat 500s right into a space, particularly at airport car parking so when you suddenly realise you can't find a space and your flight is departing sooner and sooner, only to spot an empty space - which turns out to be a space with a bloody Fiat 500 parked right into it.

Or worse yet a motorbike or scooter    :)    :)    :)
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Steve A on August 31, 2019, 00:40:22 AM
John chill out you will be in Calis soon drinking G&T
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: KKOB on August 31, 2019, 07:09:45 AM
When you arrive at reception to check in, when you arrive at that irritating "please wait to be seated" bit at the restaurant for dinner (and then again at breakfast) there is always just the one member of staff, processing some important sh1te on the till or in a book.
 

 If I was doing that kind of job, I'd do exactly that. Just because I could.  :)
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: saoirse on August 31, 2019, 07:57:16 AM
Babies sporting  Monday Tuesday Wednesday.....style bibs- with the wrong day on it.
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: suzyq on August 31, 2019, 09:06:03 AM
Middle lane drivers on the motorway.
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: badger on August 31, 2019, 10:51:31 AM
 :(
Middle lane drivers on the motorway.
And when you overtake them they always seem to be in a trance  :(
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Bluwise on August 31, 2019, 15:26:39 PM
The signage overload we have to put up with ---- drives me mad. 

"New road sign ahead"
"Sign not in use"
"Slow down"
etc etc etc etc

Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: KKOB on August 31, 2019, 15:32:54 PM
Or the ones, generally on Scottish motorways, telling drivers to 'Check Your Tyre Pressures' ! I'm sure if I stopped in the 3rd lane to do that it would cause a bit of a ruckus.
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Scunner on August 31, 2019, 16:01:15 PM
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190831/026ea13471dd77fcc0a422f568f8ff6d.jpg)
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: saoirse on August 31, 2019, 16:05:42 PM
The signage overload we have to put up with ---- drives me mad. 

"New road sign ahead"
"Sign not in use"
"Slow down"
etc etc etc etc



Exactly. Especially the PC nanny state ones like " no smoking in the filling station forecourt"
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Scunner on August 31, 2019, 16:18:04 PM
“Drive according to the conditions”

And there was me driving wholly inappropriately for the conditions till I spied that helpful sign
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: stoop on August 31, 2019, 18:17:35 PM
People who indicate left all the way round the roundabout. I'll just guess which exit they want :(
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: stoop on August 31, 2019, 18:19:09 PM
:(
Middle lane drivers on the motorway.
And when you overtake them they always seem to be in a trance  :(

Had one on the M5 last week. She never moved once. Went past her and she was indeed in a trance.
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Highlander on August 31, 2019, 19:35:48 PM
People who end nearly every sentence with "know what I mean".

E.G. I am unemployed and cannot afford to go on holiday, you what I mean.

My rough guess at the meaning would be.... you don't have a job at the moment and therefore have no spare cash for a vacation.
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: KKOB on August 31, 2019, 21:26:38 PM
Or those that start a sentence with 'So'......
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Highlander on August 31, 2019, 21:33:01 PM
Or those that start a sentence with 'So'......

Stop it. That was another of mine   ;)

Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Bluwise on September 01, 2019, 12:01:37 PM
aaarrrrggghhh, that one SO annoys me   >:( :( ;D
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: KKOB on September 01, 2019, 13:13:54 PM
So...... ?  ;)
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Scunner on September 01, 2019, 14:48:41 PM
With the modern age comes new things to p1ss me off!

In the last year or so I have been irritated by something that is new to me. People watching something on their phones in public with the volume on full!!!

I don't mean in a park or something, so far this year I have experienced it at breakfast in a hotel (and there was only me and the bloke in the room so it was deathly silent till he started), In a hotel bar/lobby area and even on a plane - some yoof watching a film on full blast :o He was in a middle seat and I couldn't believe the men sitting either side of him didn't even say a word.

If this is a glimpse of the future for our planet, I want off.
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Fran on September 01, 2019, 19:03:37 PM
Drivers who don’t know how to negotiate a staggered junction..


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Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Highlander on September 01, 2019, 21:05:20 PM
Pretentious sh*t that is talked about "art" such as has just been demonstrated on The Antiques Road Show regarding a "self portrait" of John Lennon and Yoko Ono  :( :( :(
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Highlander on September 01, 2019, 21:26:16 PM
This described by the "expert" as, wait for it.....as good as a self portrait of John as you are going to see.

(https://i.postimg.cc/bNmkWsJq/lennon.jpg)
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Scunner on September 01, 2019, 22:46:23 PM
Which one is which
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: KKOB on September 01, 2019, 22:51:02 PM
The one on the left is Highlander.
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: KKOB on September 02, 2019, 15:31:35 PM
People who end social media posts with 'X' or multiples of it.

XxX
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Scunner on September 02, 2019, 15:47:05 PM
Don’t get me started on Facebook

And those idiot people who’s life is literally a laugh a minute

Just been to Migros on the dolmus lol
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Supacabby on September 02, 2019, 17:29:56 PM
After last weeks PPP it has to be conveyancing solicitors who lie :(
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Highlander on September 02, 2019, 19:18:03 PM
The one on the left is Highlander.

The "expert" valued it at between £ 35,000 and £ 40,000 would you believe.  >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Toky on September 02, 2019, 21:33:38 PM
Cannot stand Mark Labbett's pronunciation on The Chase.  Firty Free Fousand £s.
Likewise people who refer to expresso coffee, hospikal, and of course, the horribly misused apostrophe mark
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: KKOB on September 02, 2019, 22:06:43 PM
Cannot stand Mark Labbett's pronunciation on The Chase.  Firty Free Fousand £s.


That's speechism. You mind the 'Fought Poleese' don't come lookin' for ya.  ;)
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Scunner on September 02, 2019, 22:15:56 PM
You have to accept that some people will have poor grammar and punctuation. However, not understanding the difference between 'bought' & 'brought' makes me want to throttle them.
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: marina on September 02, 2019, 22:20:44 PM
You beat me to it Scunner. I hate that and yet you see it regularly  >:(
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: mercury on September 02, 2019, 23:31:49 PM
Women usually who call other women "Hun"
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Scunner on September 02, 2019, 23:38:30 PM
People who holiday in places, or worse still buy a property and can't even spell the place. You can imagine with my history I've seen pretty much all of them, Chalis, Chalish, Calais, Fetihye, Fetiyer, Hisonaru, Uzumulu...

...but the one that makes me cringe is nothing to do with Turkey...The "Grand Canaries" :(
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Highlander on September 02, 2019, 23:40:52 PM
Couldn't agree more with that one   :)
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Scunner on September 02, 2019, 23:47:26 PM
Since I'm here for a change (home :D ) here's an irrational one...

In those awful queuing mazes you find at banks and the like where you are routed up and back several times like bleedin sheep...the ones at the airport check in (and passport control when you get home) - not the queuing, but people who stay where they are when the queue moves forward. They are in front of us and everyone in front of them has moved on 5 metres but they just leave it as a 5 metre gap.

Grrr one day I will just walk round them into the space :D 
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Highlander on September 02, 2019, 23:48:02 PM
People who pepper their texts with acronyms especially obscure acronyms which the writer have specialist knowledge of but which the reader would never have heard of and couldn't possibly guess. :( :( :( :(
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Highlander on September 02, 2019, 23:50:33 PM
but people who stay where they are when the queue moves forward. They are in front of us and everyone in front of them has moved on 5 metres but they just leave it as a 5 metre gap.
 

Same scenario in queuing traffic  >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Scunner on September 02, 2019, 23:53:05 PM
Just one more major irritation as I need sleep :D

People in banks primarily, but I note it is becoming more widespread into retail, who will process your transaction and while doing so will totally invade your life by asking inane cr4p like "so what else are you up to today?" - "none of your business d1ckhead, just shut up & pay that cheque into my account" :D
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Scunner on September 02, 2019, 23:54:28 PM
People who pepper their texts with acronyms especially obscure acronyms which the writer have specialist knowledge of but which the reader would never have heard of and couldn't possibly guess. :( :( :( :(

I have a friend with his own text abbreviation language who I swear could condense the Complete Works of Shakespeare into 3 letters
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: DavidNicholson on September 03, 2019, 09:47:29 AM
People who seem to think that the words "something" , "nothing" and "everything" end in a "K"!!!!
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Highlander on September 04, 2019, 21:13:57 PM
Cyclists who.......

Cyclists who.......

Oh to hell with it.......

Cyclists period.
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: KKOB on September 05, 2019, 07:52:43 AM
I'm sure I've seen a picture of you in Lycra H. Or was it just another alcohol fuelled nightmare ?
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: wickwilly on September 05, 2019, 19:43:21 PM
people who write of instead of have. Ie I could of gone out. I could of won the lottery .
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: kaptainkrunchie on September 06, 2019, 08:32:12 AM
People who spell "does" as "dose". "Dose" is when you have green stuff coming out of your willy. (So they tell me)
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: Highlander on September 30, 2019, 20:14:07 PM
People who claim that photos like this are natural colours and have not been massively enhanced.

(https://i.postimg.cc/Fsf6JbVP/skye.jpg)
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: saoirse on October 01, 2019, 09:24:49 AM
As this pet hates thread shows how easily people can be annoyed heres an excellent tip to really annoy people

Next time you are in a supermarket stocking up on bozze- perhaps for a bbq or party- lift a packet of nappies from the shelf and bring it with you to the till

Set down your 4 cases of beer, 5 bottles of spirits 4 bottles of wine etc on the checkout conveyor

Then set the nappies next to them

As cashier and fellow customers watch pretend to be adding up the total cost of all your purchases in your head

Then lift the packet of nappies off the check out belt setting them aside not to be purchased

The dirty looks tut tuts and mumblings of " disgraceful " are priceless!!!!
Title: Re: Pet hates (Series 3)
Post by: KKOB on October 01, 2019, 10:43:46 AM
Or, just make out you've forgotten your wallet and walk out.