Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[figbat]

"M3" stripes being painted on seemingly all the grilles of all the BMWs in the UK, especially 10 year old diesel 3 series. Who do they think they're kidding exactly? Nobody cares if you have an M3 anyway, it's not like that's a rare car. The real ones are easy to spot, bodywork, exhausts, ride height, you're fooling nobody with that badge on the boot or the tacky grille stripes.
Not sure why that irritates me, I know it's definitely trivial. Just a big theme around here.

Also, why do pelican crossings make pedestrians wait for 30 seconds to a minute before they change? It doesn't change the traffic flow to have the traffic stop half a minute, or a minute later. If the road is busy, the traffic has to stop at some time. If the road isn't busy, then the pedestrian doesn't need to engage the pelican crossing anyway. They cross when safe. Pointless delay... "Pedestrians, all bow down to the mighty motorist. You shall know your place and wait!"

To be fair, BMW themselves started this trend by introducing the ‘M-Sport’ variant in their car ranges, adding a few ‘M’ badges here and there and changing the colour of the wheels (and perhaps lowering the suspension). They’re all at it - Audi with ‘S-Line’, Volvo’s ‘R Design’… using the style and lettering of their performance range to titillate their run-of-the-mill models.

One for the car nerds though - where do the colours of the M badge come from?

 

[LWeleven]

Most things make me feel 🤬🤬 lol , I’m old and grumpy 😂 But leaving dishes to soak in cold dirty dish water

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Heres one that's been bugging me, it's people in online recipe comment sections trumpeting how they cooked it differently and changed the recipe. Like they know better than the professional cook.

Example: I looked up an old Nigella recipe for a fish finger bhorta which is like an Indian spiced crunchy bubble and squeak, main ingredients being fish fingers and spinach, mustard, chilli, and the usual Indian base of onion, ginger etc.
One genius commented that they loved the dish, but substituted roasted squash for the fish fingers (?), and kale for the spinach (!), and left out some of the other ingredients as they didn't like them.
You cooked a different dish you doughnut! Totally different textures and flavours!
Others are putting potatoes in, omitting onions, all sorts of culinary buffoonery.

Fine, change things, do it your way, but it's now not the same dish, and you ain't improved on it to the point where everyone needs to know. There's a good reason they're professional, successful cooks, and you're not.

 

[Dave7]

I didn't mention this in my previous post, but this woman has made me think "WHAT"?! on more than one occasion. One time when i gave my dog a dog treat while she was near to me with her dog she said "Where's his?! (her dog). Normally i'd break a dog treat in two and share it. On this occasion i intended to feed my dog a whole treat then give her dog a full treat, but as soon as i'd handed one to mine she chirped up her question/demand!! She's also chastised me for 'throwing treats' at my and her dog, instead of 'passing them gently to them'. 🧐

Sounds like she fancy you Accy

 

[Moon bunny]

One for the car nerds though - where do the colours of the M badge come from?

Blue from the Bavarian flag, red from Texaco, and purple from the collaboration between the two.

 

[figbat]

Blue from the Bavarian flag, red from Texaco, and purple from the collaboration between the two.

Nerd! A kindred spirit.

Also, whilst we’re here, I’ll frame it as an annoyance to keep on-topic: people who think (and then tell other people, who tell other people…) that the BMW badge is a propeller. It isn’t. The blue is the same Bavarian blue from the M logo, it does not represent the sky.

I am something of a brand and logo nerd, specialised subject: Wakefield/Castrol from 1899-present.

 

[Moon bunny]

Nerd! A kindred spirit.

Also, whilst we’re here, I’ll frame it as an annoyance to keep on-topic: people who think (and then tell other people, who tell other people…) that the BMW badge is a propeller. It isn’t. The blue is the same Bavarian blue from the M logo, it does not represent the sky.

I am something of a brand and logo nerd, specialised subject: Wakefield/Castrol from 1899-present.

But on the Bavarian flag, it does represent the sky. See the lyrics for the Bavarian “National” Anthem.

 

[Jenkins]

People constsntly going to the bar or loo during gigs.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Black arms on coloured cycling jackets - it's the one area that needs to be brightly coloured - when making hand signals for example.
In fact: 'any colour as long as it's black' winter cycling jackets.

 

[DaveReading]

People constsntly going to the bar or loo during gigs.

Yes, that p*sses me off, to0.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Sounds like she fancy you Accy

Just seen this post Dave. Yes, she might do.🤔 Though she has a funny way of showing it if she does. I saw her yesterday in the cemetery. She wasn't too bad domination wise, until i managed to get a word in edgewise during her yacking. Then she sternly said "I'm talking here, not you"!!. Imagine having a sexual relationship with that!!

 

[Chief Broom]

Whistling adverts on TV...every other add seems to have a backing track of some ****** whistling....as if viewers are going to think Oh that product/service gotta have integrity because theres some ****** whistling
Oh and 'Pick by Kayak' is getting annoying and still dont know what theyre about and dont care.

 

[captain nemo1701]

When you create or rename a folder on your desktop (windows 10), why do they always snap down to the line below on the left?. Can't they just stay where they are?. After all, you can move them around anywhere....

 

[swee'pea99]

Emails from my swimming pool saying 'Great News! Your booking is confirmed.' That's not great news. It's not even news. I know my booking's ok, because your website told me so, ten seconds ago. Great news is I won a thousand pounds or Boris Johnson fell down the stairs, not 'it worked'.

 

[ColinJ]

When you create or rename a folder on your desktop (windows 10), why do they always snap down to the line below on the left?. Can't they just stay where they are?. After all, you can move them around anywhere....

I just tried that on my laptop... My folders DO stay where they are when I rename them!