Pet Peeves IV

[sleeping giant]

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People who don't know where to position their car when turning right.

Stupid assholes

[lord bunberry]

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I hate that too, but have to admit to having previously being guilty of it.

The thing is that, even if you're first off the plane, you inevitably end up waiting at the luggage carousel anyway!!

That's not entirely true. I'm currently on holiday in lanzarote and when I got to the luggage carousel my cases were amongst the first out. My Mrs noticed they had tags on them stating that we had priority luggage. On my return I'm going to fight my way off the plane

[snooky]

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Pet peeve threads getting resurrected. Technically this should be a separate thread, Pet Peeves V?

(That question mark was put in their intentionally btw, so was the word their and the acronym btw.... Lol)

Not a fan of Roman numerals in place of real numbers either.

I started the Pet Peeve threads years ago as a filler for the summer months. I would have started PP V this year but IV never really stopped.

Btw, I like Roman numerals but it's okay if you don't

A Roman soldier walks into a bar, holds up two fingers and says "Five beers please" (boom? boom?)

[Geo_1875]

TV programmes that film someone doing their job and pass themselves off as entertainment.

[SuperAllyMcleod]

Smokers who don't seem to believe that throwing their fag ends away in the street is littering!

[easty]

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Smokers who don't seem to believe that throwing their fag ends away in the street is littering!

Especially at a bus stop, when they're about 2 metres away from a bin. Does my head in!

[snooky]

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TV programmes that film someone doing their job and pass themselves off as entertainment.

I cringe at the dialogue used by police spokemen after a major incident. It's always loaded with stiff pseudo-intellectual English.
Just tell it like it is, FFS.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

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TV programmes that film someone doing their job and pass themselves off as entertainment.

What, like live sport?

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

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Smokers who don't seem to believe that throwing their fag ends away in the street is littering!

To continue the smoking theme, patients standing smoking in smoking areas outside hospitals, mental!

[stantonhibby]

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TV programmes that film someone doing their job and pass themselves off as entertainment.

TV programmes where at the start of the show they show so many highlights to come that it's barely worth watching. Even the news does it.

[snooky]

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TV programmes where at the start of the show they show so many highlights to come that it's barely worth watching. Even the news does it.

I think they call these teasers.
If it's any consolation to you, this type of editing is 10 times worse in North America.
I just switch the tv off whenever they start that crap.

[Future17]

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TV programmes where at the start of the show they show so many highlights to come that it's barely worth watching. Even the news does it.

On a similar theme, when a TV series starts with "previously on...." and it takes 5-15 seconds of refresher scenes for my girlfriend to say "we've already seen this".

[lord bunberry]

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TV programmes where at the start of the show they show so many highlights to come that it's barely worth watching. Even the news does it.

I mentioned this earlier in the thread. I've now started recording my favourite programmes and fast forwarding the teaser bit at the start. It was starting to spoil my enjoyment of the show.

[Scouse Hibee]

Aggressive hard men when in groups.

[Pretty Boy]

Sensationalist 'interest' stories in crap papers:

'Doctor laughed seconds before he dismembered my son in error'. Usually accompanied by a picture with a picture tagline of 'knife: similar to the weapon used' and a further photo of a person either staring into space or randomly pointing.

[SuperAllyMcleod]

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On a similar theme, when a TV series starts with "previously on...." and it takes 5-15 seconds of refresher scenes for my girlfriend to say "we've already seen this".

Worse still, and Channel 4 are particularly guilty of this, is when you go for a 4 min ad break and they then give you a summary of what has happened so far at the beginning of the next part after the ads.

I assume it's for a generation with the attention span of a goldfish.

[Hiber-nation]

News reporters who say "try and" do something instead of "try to". I would have got my knuckles rapped for that in P6 but now it seems acceptable for the BBC Breakfast news to do it.

[McD]

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Worse still, and Channel 4 are particularly guilty of this, is when you go for a 4 min ad break and they then give you a summary of what has happened so far at the beginning of the next part after the ads.

I assume it's for a generation with the attention span of a goldfish.

its mostly just filler/padding. Make a show last the full hour without there being anything like that in actual content. There's a lot of American shows that run for an hour over there, but are half an hour here, with chunks of 'recapping' and 'reminders' after each point that the Americans would have an ad break.

[Scouse Hibee]

People walking across the road whilst talking on a phone paying no attention to traffic, then getting upset as I blow my horn and they ****** themselves. :-)

[Geo_1875]

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People walking across the road whilst talking on a phone paying no attention to traffic, then getting upset as I blow my horn and they ****** themselves. :-)

Or the ones wearing big **** off headphones while staring at their phone who wander in front of traffic 10 yards from a pedestrian crossing.

[Craig_HFC]

The big group of tourists that congregate on Waterloo Place every ****ing morning! They stand in a group on the corner which makes it difficult to actually walk past them without bumping into one of them or their massive rucksacks.

[Hibrandenburg]

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People walking across the road whilst talking on a phone paying no attention to traffic, then getting upset as I blow my horn and they ****** themselves. :-)

I use my phone all the time when out walking and to date there's never been a probl

[snooky]

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I use my phone all the time when out walking and to date there's never been a probl

FFS, how long is your cable?

[#FromTheCapital]

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People walking across the road whilst talking on a phone paying no attention to traffic, then getting upset as I blow my horn and they ****** themselves. :-)

Or the ones who cross the road without looking behind them at a junction you're just about to turn in to. They see you about to turn and do the fake jog to make it look as if they're making an effort.

[Hibrandenburg]

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FFS, how long is your cable?

It's a Gramophone, it doesn't have a cable.

[Hibee87]

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Or the ones who cross the road without looking behind them at a junction you're just about to turn in to. They see you about to turn and do the fake jog to make it look as if they're making an effort.

To elaborate on this, the ones who do as you say but from the other side of the road and do the fake job over the half of the road YOUR NOT ON then proceed to walk the rest of the way when you are on that side of the road.

I also had a group of wee neds walk out infont of my car, one of them trying to stare me out thiking he was hard or somthing by continuing to walk. I dipped the clutched and the wee guy shat himself then made some gesture, didnt quite catch it as I was laughing as i drove away

[snooky]

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It's a Gramophone, it doesn't have a cable.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

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FFS, how long is your cable?

Thats a bit personal, is it not? ;-)

[Hibrandenburg]

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Thats a bit personal, is it not? ;-)

It's no big secret

[snooky]

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Thats a bit personal, is it not? ;-)

It's okay. I'm just pulling his wire.