Pet Hates....

[EltonFrog]

TV News items where they have to provide pictures to match the spoken words. So, for instance "costs have gone up" accompanied by a picture of a lift going up - because you might not understand what going up means.

Or "the value of the pound in your pocket" accompanied by a picture of some pound coins, in case you don't know what a pound coin looks like.

And so on.......

Oh yes! That's a goodun, I hate that too, they often show shots of people walking about, just in case we've forgottom what people look like, and for good measure when a news item about schools is on, they show shots of children's legs in a playground. Feckin idiots.

And news reporters who talk to each other and not the viewer, "well John, I'm outside number 10...' what the feck are you doing there anyway, what's the point?

 

[EltonFrog]

?...People who decide to ring a call centre whilst one of their children is screaming louder than very loud thing screaming into a very large PA system....

Oh and this.

 

[Cubist]

And in my last job working at a call centre:

People who say "I'll just write it down" and then proceed to spend the next 20 minutes of my life trying to find a pen and a piece of paper......

People who decide to ring a call centre whilst one of their children is screaming louder than very loud thing screaming into a very large PA system....

People who ring a call centre whilst obviously eating their breakfast/dinner loudly into the phone...

However, the call centres think nothing of ringing me when in having my dinner, or trying to deal with screaming kids......

 

[SamC]

Re: the call centre thing. I work in a small office which probably doesn't qualify as a "call centre" but is essentially phone work (no cold calling though).

People call me from what sounds like the central reservation of the M6 during rush hour, in gale force winds whilst surrounded by 12 screaming children and a pack of barking dogs, then proceed to complain that they can't hear me!

Or, "is there something wrong with your phone, this is a very bad line!". Erm, considering I'm in an office, on a landline and you're standing in the middle of a supermarket on your mobile, I'm guessing my line probably isn't the problem.

Oh, and the people who forget that they have actually asked me to call them back and then verbally abuse me because they think I'm cold calling them.

And the majority of people who don't listen to a word I'm saying. Me: "I just have to read you a section from our data protection statement". Them: "I went to hospital and the doctor and then when I went to work they said they weren't going to pay me". Erm...

A woman called me whilst chomping very loudly on her tea the other day, so I asked her so many questions in quick succession that she didn't have the opportunity to have another mouthful until the end of the call .

 

[donnydave]

There's a lot of special places in hell being referenced here. Not exactly a pet hate but in my mind a "special place" in hell is somewhere it isn't so bad, i.e. next to the buffet

 

[ComedyPilot]

People who walk on grass (to shortcut 5m of path), men who wear hats indoors, men who shake hands limply and/or sitting down, people who say no to new experiences or 'I don't like that' having never tried.

 

[Tanis8472]

Limp handshakes !!!! yuk

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

People who walk on grass (to shortcut 5m of path), men who wear hats indoors, men who shake hands limply and/or sitting down, people who say no to new experiences or 'I don't like that' having never tried.

Oi, I prefer walking on grass! If it's public spaces you're talking about, when people cut onto the grass it's where they want to go - and the path is often in the wrong place.

 

[ThinAir]

The taxman.

 

[EltonFrog]

The taxman.

Defo that, the daffodil.

 

[SamC]

"I don't like vegetables".

Yes, but you're an adult, and since eating a vegetable isn't going to kill you, surely you'd try and eat them anyway on the basis that you'd prefer not to die at the age of 45 from a heart attack?

 

[User169]

James Martin!

 

[EltonFrog]

Pay Pal, Now that's an institution I really hate.

 

[Svendo]

And to reward you for 'getting off the plane quicker', the baggage handlers will recognise your initiative by ensuring your particular bag is first off the carousel before they even consider putting the other passenger's bags on. And I hope you get a crick in your neck for standing there with your head at an unnatural angle to 'speed up your egress'.

While we're on this subject, people who stand right next to the carousel with their trolley, so you can't see if your bag is coming and can't get to it if it is. Selfish Idiots.

 

[hopless500]

Do you have any? What are they?

I'm incredibly laid back, but have recently found certain things that have really started to boil my p155. There are some other things that have always grated on me, but I can kind of let slide...

Don't get me wrong, I don't get all "high and mighty" about any of these, but I just wondered of I was alone in any of these things, or they are quite common.

Here is a list:

People who eat noisily.
People who chew with their mouths open.
People who don't wash their hands after going to the bog.
Bad spelling.
Bad grammar.
Flys.
People who abuse ASLs.
People driving using mobile phones.
Loud, drunk people.

What are yours? GO.....

Edit: list by no means exhaustive!

Flies maybe?