Pet Peeves IV

[Hiber-nation]

There should really be a wives/partners pet peeves thread.

[Northernhibee]

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There should really be a wives/partners pet peeves thread.

Maybe a thread to swap them so people either get a break from it or realising that they've actually got it quite good?

[weecounty hibby]

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Maybe a thread to swap them so people either get a break from it or realising that they've actually got it quite good?

I'll swap mine for a solenoid for the starter motor of a 2000 Kawasaki ZRX 1100. Save me trying to order one

[CloudSquall]

Mosquito bites and mosquitos in general.


Specifically going to bed and within two seconds hearing the sound of a mosquito flying around your head, you turn on the light, and the thing has managed to warp speed into hiding.

Turn off the light and within two seconds it's back at your ear.

[Hibrandenburg]

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Mosquito bites and mosquitos in general.


Specifically going to bed and within two seconds hearing the sound of a mosquito flying around your head, you turn on the light, and the thing has managed to warp speed into hiding.

Turn off the light and within two seconds it's back at your ear.

We're plagued by them in the summer over here. I've fitted insect screens to my doors and windows and that has helped keep the house free of the little buggers, but going outside at dusk can be a nightmare in the summer.

[Bangkok Hibby]

I'm really sorry if I've posted this before but the term "eye bleeding" seen so often on the main board. Just stop and think what you're saying. Are you repeating a completely nonsensical phrase or do your eyes actually bleed?
Possibly pisses me off more than anything else I see on here.

[Hibernia&Alba]

During this spell of freezing weather, grown men going around in shorts and flip flops really bugs me. I've just seen two such clowns in the local shop. "Aye, I'll just act like I'm still in Benidorm last July, even though it's sub-zero".

[pollution]

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During this spell of freezing weather, grown men going around in shorts and flip flops really bugs me. I've just seen two such clowns in the local shop. "Aye, I'll just act like I'm still in Benidorm last July, even though it's sub-zero".

I understand that but I am truly amazed that the cold does not bother them.

[Hibernia&Alba]

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I understand that but I am truly amazed that the cold does not bother them.

Yeah, they have to be crazy. The shorts are bad enough, but flip flops, like they are sitting around the pool...

[Northernhibee]

The incorrect use of the word “officially” - as in “I officially don’t like that TV show”. Irritates the hell out of me.

[Hibernia&Alba]

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During this spell of freezing weather, grown men going around in shorts and flip flops really bugs me. I've just seen two such clowns in the local shop. "Aye, I'll just act like I'm still in Benidorm last July, even though it's sub-zero".

At the same shop tonight, it was a grown woman in pyjamas, slippers and hoosecoat, who dropped a bottle of wine when queuing. What's wrong with these people?

[CropleyWasGod]

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At the same shop tonight, it was a grown woman in pyjamas, slippers and hoosecoat, who dropped a bottle of wine when queuing. What's wrong with these people?

The poor love's fingers were probably cold. That's what's wrong.

[The Modfather]

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At the same shop tonight, it was a grown woman in pyjamas, slippers and hoosecoat, who dropped a bottle of wine when queuing. What's wrong with these people?

I saw a woman dressed like that the other week in Sainsbury’s. I took a double take but dismissed it as “fashion” and some sort of pyjama-sheik style but it seems it was more than likely just a woman in her pj’s.

[Saturday Boy]

BBC Sounds app.

Hopeless to navigate and when you finally find the programme you want to listen to, you get the news from December First.

What idiot thought that it was better than the old IPlayer Radio?

[Peevemor]

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BBC Sounds app.

Hopeless to navigate and when you finally find the programme you want to listen to, you get the news from December First.

What idiot thought that it was better than the old IPlayer Radio?

Someone who has to change things to justify their well paid job.

[Saturday Boy]

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Someone who has to change things to justify their well paid job.

Sadly so true.

Mind you, Sound of the Sixties on Sounds, is still better than getting up at six am. Even with last week’s news.

“In the clearing stands a boxer “

It so takes me back.

[Keith_M]

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Someone who has to change things to justify their well paid job.

Which is actually the motivation behind a very large amount of changes in software.


'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' used to be the motto, but that doesn't make much money or keep people in jobs.

[Peevemor]

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Which is actually the motivation behind a very large amount of changes in software.


'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' used to be the motto, but that doesn't make much money or keep people in jobs.

Another thing I don't understand, is that 25 years ago the full version of Autocad was delivered on 8 floppy disks - ie. the entire programme came in a package of less than 12MB.

Now to obtain the latest LT version, there's 4GB to download.

Now I understand that there are a few new features (though nothing mind blowing), various security measures that are now needed, etc., but what else have they put in it to make it over 330 times the size???

And they wonder why things bug/crash...

[Northernhibee]

Gregg Wallace. No programme can’t be ruined by him shouting PHWOOOAAAR at a cheese and pickle sandwich.

[The_Exile]

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The incorrect use of the word “officially” - as in “I officially don’t like that TV show”. Irritates the hell out of me.

Similar one here with people who use the word literally like this. Something along the lines of "It literally blew my mind". Did it mate? did your coupon explode and did you managed to superglue it all back together? Think you missed a bit.

A total nonsense and literally makes my head explode.................

[Scouse Hibee]

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Similar one here with people who use the word literally like this. Something along the lines of "It literally blew my mind". Did it mate? did your coupon explode and did you managed to superglue it all back together? Think you missed a bit.

A total nonsense and literally makes my head explode.................

It’s a word that is used to emphasise a point though and always has been.

[Peevemor]

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It’s a word that is used to emphasise a point though and always has been.

Incorrectly though, thus weakening the term when used properly.

[Scouse Hibee]

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Incorrectly though, thus weakening the term when used properly.

I’m not so sure it is incorrect though, it’s a word that is used to emphasise a point and listed in a dictionary as that being a use for that word.

[CropleyWasGod]

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I’m not so sure it is incorrect though, it’s a word that is used to emphasise a point and listed in a dictionary as that being a use for that word.

You're literally correct, although this does make my blood boil, literally.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...literally.html

[Northernhibee]

On a similar note, when someone describes something as "cringe", as opposed to "it made me cringe" or "that's cringeworthy".

[Peevemor]

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On a similar note, when someone describes something as "cringe", as opposed to "it made me cringe" or "that's cringeworthy".

That one doesn't bother me. It's like calling someone a w***, which literally doesn't make sense but is a great expression.

[Peevemor]

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I’m not so sure it is incorrect though, it’s a word that is used to emphasise a point and listed in a dictionary as that being a use for that word.

But when it's said that something shouldn't be taken literally, it means that what's been said isn't 100% accurate.

Therefore if what you say is true, someone can say "He was literally dead on his feet - but don't take that literally"?

My brain hurts (not literally).

[Northernhibee]

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That one doesn't bother me. It's like calling someone a w***, which literally doesn't make sense but is a great expression.

It's nails down a blackboard for me.

[pollution]

The wanton use of the word ' incredible '.

Nothing is good enough unless it is incredible. Its over use has rendered it void. My pet hate apart from six foot tall.

Since when has the plural of foot been foot?

He is six foot tall: I bet the same speaker would say the plane flies at 36000 feet. Why ??

[CropleyWasGod]

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