Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[ColinJ]

5 carriage trains between Scotland and Devon and vice versa. I am currently on one heading north with 6-7 carriages worth of passengers crammed onboard! This is often the case so I wish that one or two extra carriages would be added to trains on this route.

 

[joeegg]

Overuse in the media of the word " vulnerable ".
I never hear friends or family using this word to describe someone.
As an example, is it not possible nowadays to describe someone as physically or mentally disabled . Or is the v word used as a one size fits all to cover any human condition.

 

[Alex321]

Overuse in the media of the word " vulnerable ".
I never hear friends or family using this word to describe someone.
As an example, is it not possible nowadays to describe someone as physically or mentally disabled .

It is seen as negative terminology nowadays, so in print or "proper" online news articles, no, you will very rarely see that phraeoloigy.

Or is the v word used as a one size fits all to cover any human condition.

It is rather.

 

[figbat]

Overuse in the media of the word " vulnerable ".
I never hear friends or family using this word to describe someone.
As an example, is it not possible nowadays to describe someone as physically or mentally disabled . Or is the v word used as a one size fits all to cover any human condition.

Overuse and mispronunciation of the word ‘vulnerable’. Generally I hear ‘vunrubble’.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Look at this cheeky cow! She's parked at least a yard in the disabled parking bay, without a blue badge! If the other bloke who parks in the bay like me hadn't gone out I wouldn't have been able to get my car in, meaning her denying me access to the disabled bay! I did think about knocking on the door of the care home she works in across from my flat and asking her to move her car now there are othe spaces available, but I can't be bothered with any hassle it'd cause and with it being there till probably lunchtime tomorrow it'll probably get ticketed by the perking enforcement lot who seem to make quite a few appearances around here!

That white line in where the bay ends.

No blue badge on the dashboard.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

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 ?

Years ago, there was an advert for Volvo (I think... It might actually have been Honda, as her husband (see below) drove one, but, anyway...) with a choir of people just making (albeit very good) car noises (Footsteps, central locking, door shutting, engine start up, acceleration, braking, etc).
It came on one day whilst watching TV with a family friend, who had owned Volvos. She was in utter praise for the advert and said that it would make her want to buy the car in question.

I wonder if it would have worked so well, has she not been so biased (the make of car), but that aside, she was basically swayed by a group of people all going

"NNNNNEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHH!!! 🤣🤣🤣



And this was a highly intelligent Consultant Psychologist too!

 

[Gwylan]

Can we expand this to capital punishment for anyone who has "designed a form" and made it impossible to actually fill in - usually by using repeating "...."?

Then turn it into a pdf that requires some other app or something to fill it in

 

[Chris S]

AI making up answers when you search for something on the web. There are plenty of bullsh*tters on forums already.

 

[PhotoNic69]

When you want to sign into some form of Microsoft 365 thing through a web browser and it says "Signing you in" then after a while says "Please wait while we sign you out", then "Please close all browser windows"...
Grrrrr...boils my p!ss it does!

 

[Windle]

Durham County Council, (the subject of my ire on numerous occasions) who decide to cut the grass alongside the West Auckland / Tindale bypass with a tractor at 8 o'clock in the morning.

 

[Jenkins]

Amazon & Ebay - stop showing me alternative recommendations for something I've just purchased. Why would I want to buy a pair of headphones (or whatever) when I bought some a couple of weeks ago?

 

[Alex321]

Amazon & Ebay - stop showing me alternative recommendations for something I've just purchased. Why would I want to buy a pair of headphones (or whatever) when I bought some a couple of weeks ago?

That annoys me too, but it doesn't really know you actually bought them, all it knows is that you have been looking at them.

So I understand why it happens, but that doesn't stop it being annoying.

 

[lenfield]

That annoys me too, but it doesn't really know you actually bought them, all it knows is that you have been looking at them.

I don't know about Amazon but ebay can see your purchase history.

 

[Alex321]

I don't know about Amazon but ebay can see your purchase history.

Only if you have bought from them.

 

[ColinJ]

I am setting up my new Android tablet and am very happy with most things so far.

One thing that is really annoying me though is a bug with the Outlook app. I bought a nice keyboard case for the tablet and it has a small trackpad built in. That trackpad is more useful than I thought it would be so I may not end up buying a Bluetooth mouse after all. The problem with Outlook is that if I hover the mouse/trackpad pointer on an entry in a list of emails a little preview popup appears. It doesn't go away again by itself and it stops me scrolling to elsewhere in the list unless I click somewhere else first. That very quickly becomes a right pain!

Oh, and while editing that paragraph, another annoyance made itself obvious - the keyboard does not have a delete key. It is annoying to have to move the cursor right and then use backspace to delete back to where I started from.

Ha - and while I am at it, I just realised that I have a US keyboard cover. It is set up as a UK keyboard but the key caps show what a US keyboard would type. PS I have changed the setting to US international so it is now typing what the key caps actually show. I just need to find out how to type the pound symbol... £ (I cheated and used the screen keyboard for that. I'll find out how to do it properly tomorrow. No, I do not have a numeric keypad to do it with ALT-0163!)