Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[Alex321]

I was asking directions today to somewhere called Pepys Court.

I was in a discussion with the security on the gate, and they had never heard of it.
After much confusion it transpired that the security team all mispronounced the name.

I said it should be Peeps. As in Samuel Pepys. But they all pronounced it Peh-peas. They had never even heard of Samuel
Pepys.

Harumph. Grumpy me.

I would only expect a reasonably well educated person to know the pronunciation, and security guards don't often fall into that category.

 

[raleighnut]

I would only expect a reasonably well educated person to know the pronunciation, and security guards don't often fall into that category.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[icowden]

I would only expect a reasonably well educated person to know the pronunciation, and security guards don't often fall into that category.

Bit of a burn on security guards!

 

[DaveReading]

Surely we need to standardise abbreviations to avoid potential confusion. We'll have to go ISO an international standardisation organisation that can help us do this.

True story though: I worked for the Danish Government in their ministry for IT, developing standards for data exchange in the government sector (e.g. an electronic invoice standard) and I met a guy who finally manage to standardise the fields for an address, after TWENTY SIX YEARS of arguing with various official bodies who all used different formats.

From 2000 onwards, I sat on a aviation industry standards body which attempted (among other things) to standardise how aircraft name taxonomy could be made more consistent.

For example, should a particular helicopter be referred to as a MBB/Kawasaki BK117D-2, a Eurocopter EC145 or an Airbus Helicopters H145 (they are all essentially the same thing).

Eventually, although the standard still exists, it appears to have been given up as a bad job as it's almost impossible to keep up with changes.

https://www.intlaviationstandards.org/

 

[Accy cyclist]

I might've posted about this before, but folk invading my personal space when talking to me really makes me feel uncomfortable! Recently I've had men, never women, start talking to me about 16 inches from my face, often with me feeling their breath on my face!😯 If I move back then they move forward! What is wrong with them! I keep a good minimum 3 foot away when talking to someone, so why can't they do the same!! 🤨

 

[raleighnut]

I might've posted about this before, but folk invading my personal space when talking to me really makes me feel uncomfortable! Recently I've had men, never women, start talking to me about 16 inches from my face, often with me feeling their breath on my face!😯 If I move back then they move forward! What is wrong with them! I keep a good minimum 3 foot away when talking to someone, so why can't they do the same!! 🤨

Might help if you didn't look like Quentin Crisp.

 

[PeteXXX]

People who don't say thank you after having put yourself out doing something for them..

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

People who are disabled just using it as an excuse to get away with basic rudeness!!

now - to be fair - my Dad was disabled from before I was born and he made sure his problems where HIS problems and, although properly offered help was accepted it was NEVER expected

However, for the last week we have been on holiday
there was a bloke on the same holiday that had a very bad limp - really very pronounced

but he used it many times as an excuse to just go where he wanted and to not bother whether or not he was standing in the way of other people
and he often wore an excessively big backpack
and would just turn round or back up without bothering checking is this means he will bang it into other people

He hit me with it several times - and we only went of 2 out of 6 trips!!!

he was perfectly capable of looking out for other people
but just didn;t think he needed to bother


Oh - and he was an entitled thick moron - which just added to the rudeness

 

[gbb]

I would only expect a reasonably well educated person to know the pronunciation, and security guards don't often fall into that category.

Lol, harsh

 

[gbb]

People who are disabled just using it as an excuse to get away with basic rudeness!!

now - to be fair - my Dad was disabled from before I was born and he made sure his problems where HIS problems and, although properly offered help was accepted it was NEVER expected

However, for the last week we have been on holiday
there was a bloke on the same holiday that had a very bad limp - really very pronounced

but he used it many times as an excuse to just go where he wanted and to not bother whether or not he was standing in the way of other people
and he often wore an excessively big backpack
and would just turn round or back up without bothering checking is this means he will bang it into other people

He hit me with it several times - and we only went of 2 out of 6 trips!!!

he was perfectly capable of looking out for other people
but just didn;t think he needed to bother


Oh - and he was an entitled thick moron - which just added to the rudeness

Or perhaps someone who completely lacked in spatial awareness. Former colleague of mine, lovely young fella, could be guaranteed to trip, fall, slip on anything at all most other people were dealing with unconsciously. Completely clumsy...

 

[gbb]

The Vauxhall Frontera advert.

Perhaps not for the reason you'd think although it's fairly childlike and comic book in essence.
No the real thing that irks me is that...is this how shallow people have become, to be swayed by comic book graphics when buying one of THE most significant purchases a person ever will ?
Is that really how shallow people are now ?

 

[PhotoNic69]

Microsoft 365
The New Outlook
Copilot

Things keep popping up wanting to help you. It's worse than the old Paperclip!!

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Lol, harsh

Once went to a social quiz at an embassy, where other embassies were repped (US, Oz, etc). Mainly the room was made up of highly educated people with a career in the foreign offices of their respective countries, intelligence analysts etc. The security guard team won, easily. The diplomatic corps analysts had all missed the fact that Astana (the city) had changed its name that week (as had the quizmaster - they had to correct him)

 

[No Ta Doctor]

The Vauxhall Frontera advert.

Perhaps not for the reason you'd think although it's fairly childlike and comic book in essence.
No the real thing that irks me is that...is this how shallow people have become, to be swayed by comic book graphics when buying one of THE most significant purchases a person ever will ?
Is that really how shallow people are now ?

If advertising didn't work they wouldn't spend countless trillions on it, and yes, we're all susceptible to it, like it or not.
When you're trying to make your decision about "one of THE most significant purchases a person ever will" you're swamped in variables and stuck in paralysis, because getting it wrong would be so bad - who wants to spend all that money and realise they should have gone for the other option? So some advert that had given you a somehow favourable impression of that purchase, just a gut feeling, will be invaluable. It's rare that these decisions are purely logical, analytical. There are advantages and disadvantages to each option, variations in price and budget etc. Eventually we all make the decision with a gut feeling.

 

[Tashman]

Cinema trailers - "In Cinemas October Three" I assume that's the same as the 3rd of October but it just sounds horrid. October 3rd is almost as bad.