Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[ClichéGuevara]

While I'm ranting "FAQ's"

Like hell they're the questions 'frequently' asked. They rarely if ever put the price in them bits, and that must be the question most people want the answer to.

 

[Mburton1993]

And then there are the systems that have two messages in different voices that operate in different times, so occasionally one finishes and then about three seconds later the other begins, so you think that's a real person.

Yes, and it'll often be "Did you know you can find lots of useful information on our website, please go to .....". Shut up! If what I needed was there I wouldn't be here!

 

[Webbo2]

On some sites, like Amazon, they have a bit at the bottom that says 'people that bought this also bought....and then lists several alternative versions of the thing you've just bought!!! Nobody bought several versions of the same thing.

Or you buy a chainset and they say other people also bought incontinence pants.

 

[mustang1]

Car adverts.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Watching people on YouTube or Instagram who hold their wee clip-on/lapel mic in their hand while doing a piece to camera.

It's designed specifically so that you don't need to have it in your hand!

 

[slowmotion]

The newish captive screwtop lids on milk bottles. You can't comfortably grip them tightly enough.

 

[Punkawallah]

When you're on hold and the music periodically stops for a message to say "your call is important to us please continue to hold". And the pause between the music and the message is just long enough to give you that little bit of false hope that a human is there.

“Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment” ;-)

 

[Andy in Germany]

“Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment” ;-)

I ran that through a Latin translator, with a bit of work I came up with:

Primus gradus in via destitutionis est spes.

Or a Shorter version:

Primus gradus destitutionis est spes.

I am wondering where I can put this on some sort of inspirational poster or coat of arms.

 

[Punkawallah]

I ran that through a Latin translator, with a bit of work I came up with:

Primus gradus in via destitutionis est spes.

Or a Shorter version:

Primus gradus destitutionis est spes.

I am wondering where I can put this on some sort of inspirational poster or coat of arms.

Try ‘demotivational posters’, they may a,ready have one?

I got into trouble at work for their ‘The road to excellence is never ending. So technically it’s more of a death march’. We were doing ISO 9001 (or some such) at the time ;-)

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

The use of "garden village" to describe "massive new-build housing estate built on greenfield site"

Yup
the estate we live on is apparently called "Hidden Greens"

it only ever appears on the Council Tax bill and one house that has it on their number on the front door

sounds like a small group of houses on the edge of a quiet rural village

when it a large estate with 3 BIG council estates one every side except for the "Poisoned Golf Course" side

Nice place - but "Hidden Greens" is ain't

 

[lenfield]

I left a good T-shirt in a hotel wardrobe in Spain.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Or you buy a chainset and they say other people also bought incontinence pants.

Can understand if it was unnamed brand of brake pads you bought.

 

[colly]

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[Alex321]

The use of "garden village" to describe "massive new-build housing estate built on greenfield site"

Like this one on the edge of Cowbridge (not quite finished yet)

 

[Electric_Andy]

I went to the tip in the car the other day. I was wearing my tennis elbow support. The lad at the gate said "what's going on with your arm?" And I said "I've got tennis elbow". He said "Oh. I thought it was w$nkers elbow (whilst doing the actions)