Pet Peeves IV

[Pretty Boy]

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Spent less than a tenner on a card and some flowers. Just a hallmark holiday.

Card and a bar of chocolate for me. She was happy, we've never made a big deal of Valentine's Day, never really felt necessary for us.

I don't really mind the marketing around it and whatever, easy enough to ignore, and each to their own. It's the people who just use it as another excuse to show off that annoy me. People posting pictures of a ridiculous bunch of flowers and a email confirmation of a holiday with a caption saying 'boy done good' on social media.

Same people with all the self awareness of a rock who post pictures of a big pile of presents for their kids at Christmas or the biggest Easter egg in the shop at Easter. That need for validation on social media always seems a pretty joyless existence to me.

[RyeSloan]

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Signing off an email, or worse a text with "Best"

I don't know why it triggers me. More of an irrational peeve, probably

“Thanks in advance” is my peeve iteration of this one.

Think it winds me up as they have asked you for something then immediately sign off with a presumption that I’ve agreed to whatever they have asked for.

Quite happy to be thanked when I’ve agreed to do it or deliver whatever it is, just not before

[Mon Dieu4]

Those Captcha things as security to prove you are a human, today it said tick the boxes with all the cars, except one was a bus so I didn't tick it and it didn't accept my response, dickhead

[Jones28]

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Card and a bar of chocolate for me. She was happy, we've never made a big deal of Valentine's Day, never really felt necessary for us.

I don't really mind the marketing around it and whatever, easy enough to ignore, and each to their own. It's the people who just use it as another excuse to show off that annoy me. People posting pictures of a ridiculous bunch of flowers and a email confirmation of a holiday with a caption saying 'boy done good' on social media.

Same people with all the self awareness of a rock who post pictures of a big pile of presents for their kids at Christmas or the biggest Easter egg in the shop at Easter. That need for validation on social media always seems a pretty joyless existence to me.

It’s one of the many reasons I chucked social media.

[J-C]

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Card and a bar of chocolate for me. She was happy, we've never made a big deal of Valentine's Day, never really felt necessary for us.

I don't really mind the marketing around it and whatever, easy enough to ignore, and each to their own. It's the people who just use it as another excuse to show off that annoy me. People posting pictures of a ridiculous bunch of flowers and a email confirmation of a holiday with a caption saying 'boy done good' on social media.

Same people with all the self awareness of a rock who post pictures of a big pile of presents for their kids at Christmas or the biggest Easter egg in the shop at Easter. That need for validation on social media always seems a pretty joyless existence to me.

She got a card and a £6 bunch of flowers from M&S and I cooked her a lovely steak with peppercorn sauce, I do all the cooking anyway so no big deal.

[Bridge hibs]

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She got a card and a £6 bunch of flowers from M&S and I cooked her a lovely steak with peppercorn sauce, I do all the cooking anyway so no big deal.

I ran my Wife a bath, first time in years, not the first time she has had a bath in years, shes no a minger 🫣

She just likes a soak her way at her temperature and her bubbly bath stuff, oh and I made the tea

[McD]

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Signing off an email, or worse a text with "Best"

I don't know why it triggers me. More of an irrational peeve, probably

I have a childish peeve about people signing of emails with just their first initial: A, P, H, whatever it is.


My reason for hating it is my first initial doesn’t work for that (I), it just looks like a mistype at the end 🤣

[overdrive]

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I have a childish peeve about people signing of emails with just their first initial: A, P, H, whatever it is.


My reason for hating it is my first initial doesn’t work for that (I), it just looks like a mistype at the end 🤣

I have an issue with initials being used at all. My initials are FW and more than once, folk have assumed the use of them meant forward rather than it meaning me.

[matty_f]

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Those Captcha things as security to prove you are a human, today it said tick the boxes with all the cars, except one was a bus so I didn't tick it and it didn't accept my response, dickhead

There was a Viz letter that suggested they change the Captcha things to prove you ARE a robot, as it would be mostly humans using it. Made sense to me.

[O'Rourke3]

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“Thanks in advance” is my peeve iteration of this one.

Think it winds me up as they have asked you for something then immediately sign off with a presumption that I’ve agreed to whatever they have asked for.

Quite happy to be thanked when I’ve agreed to do it or deliver whatever it is, just not before

I'm a thanks in advance sender but generally" if it's not you who?" rather than assuming it's a dead cert.

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[The Modfather]

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Those Captcha things as security to prove you are a human, today it said tick the boxes with all the cars, except one was a bus so I didn't tick it and it didn't accept my response, dickhead

I hate the ones that are never ending. Find the cars, done. Now find the bridges, done. Now find the stairs, done. Now find the mountains…. I’ve already given up and closed the tab by now.

[overdrive]

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I hate the ones that are never ending. Find the cars, done. Now find the bridges, done. Now find the stairs, done. Now find the mountains…. I’ve already given up and closed the tab by now.

I hate the ones where rather than it being multiple images and it saying “click on the boxes that contain a traffic light” it is just one image with a grid and it says “click in the boxes that contain traffic lights”.

There’s often a very small sliver of the item in a box that it doesn’t recognise as being right. Also in the example above, what does it count as being a traffic light? Just the bulbs? The box containing the bulbs? The pole that holds it up?

I prefer the ones where it asks you to slide an image into the correct hole, kind of like a jigsaw. No ambiguity.

[nonshinyfinish]

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I hate the ones where rather than it being multiple images and it saying “click on the boxes that contain a traffic light” it is just one image with a grid and it says “click in the boxes that contain traffic lights”.

There’s often a very small sliver of the item in a box that it doesn’t recognise as being right. Also in the example above, what does it count as being a traffic light? Just the bulbs? The box containing the bulbs? The pole that holds it up?

I prefer the ones where it asks you to slide an image into the correct hole, kind of like a jigsaw. No ambiguity.

That traffic light example is exactly what I thought of when this was mentioned.

As I understand it that type of captcha works by consensus (i.e., there isn't a correct answer programmed in, the 'correct' answer is whatever most people select). So you're trying to guess 'which boxes would most people say contain a traffic light?'

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

The son on the new On the Beach advert gets right on my bosoms. 🤬

[Fuzzywuzzy]

Adverts using some classic songs and changing their lyrics which just makes them seem dirty now

[speedy_gonzales]

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The son on the new On the Beach advert gets right on my bosoms. 🤬

If that's the same husky wee kid from their adverts last year, then yeah, totally get that!

[Wilson]

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If that's the same husky wee kid from their adverts last year, then yeah, totally get that!

The gist of the advert is that they think they're something special because of some kind of priority access? I think the kid is quite good for the role - certainly outshines the other family members. And if you want to punch him in the face then job done?

I prefer this holiday advert to jet2 (I think) where everyone is young and ripped and can't walk anywhere without holding on to somebody's hand...

[Northernhibee]

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The gist of the advert is that they think they're something special because of some kind of priority access? I think the kid is quite good for the role - certainly outshines the other family members. And if you want to punch him in the face then job done?

I prefer this holiday advert to jet2 (I think) where everyone is young and ripped and can't walk anywhere without holding on to somebody's hand...

The kid from the Muller Rice advert is similar and would benefit from a slap as well.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

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And if you want to punch him in the face then job done?

Annoying little fuds on adverts are highly unlikely to encourage me to invest any £s in the product being advertised.

[Hiber-nation]

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Annoying little fuds on adverts are highly unlikely to encourage me to invest any £s in the product being advertised.

Yep "Marmite" characters. That's why I refuse to use Go Compare.

[hibsbollah]

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“Thanks in advance” is my peeve iteration of this one.

Think it winds me up as they have asked you for something then immediately sign off with a presumption that I’ve agreed to whatever they have asked for.

Quite happy to be thanked when I’ve agreed to do it or deliver whatever it is, just not before

I say that all the time as an email sign off I bet you'd hate me in the workplace.

[Hiber-nation]

Starting up the car on a Sunday morning to go for the rolls and Radio Scotland is still on from yesterday. No idea of the programme that's on but it's boring as hell.

[easty]

The over complication of clothes washing. My missus routine.

Why do we need washing liquid, fabric softener, and wee baw scent booster things? Why can't all those 3 jobs be done with one thing?

Why does my house go through a bottle of fabric softener every 2 weeks when the bottle says it does 50 washes? There's 2 of us. The washing machine is on maybe 4 times a week.

[Jones28]

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The over complication of clothes washing. My missus routine.

Why do we need washing liquid, fabric softener, and wee baw scent booster things? Why can't all those 3 jobs be done with one thing?

Why does my house go through a bottle of fabric softener every 2 weeks when the bottle says it does 50 washes? There's 2 of us. The washing machine is on maybe 4 times a week.

And they smell rotten, IMO.

I don’t want to smell like the inside of the factory that produces the stuff.

[Hibby Bairn]

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Starting up the car on a Sunday morning to go for the rolls and Radio Scotland is still on from yesterday. No idea of the programme that's on but it's boring as hell.

usually some accordian eightsome reel p!ish

[Wilson]

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Annoying little fuds on adverts are highly unlikely to encourage me to invest any £s in the product being advertised.

Probably not. But then, I find myself annoyed by almost every radio advert - to the point where I just can't listen to it. I think they are just aimed at everyone who isn't me!


I think clever advertising went out in the 90s and now they compete to be memorably irritating.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

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Probably not. But then, I find myself annoyed by almost every radio advert - to the point where I just can't listen to it. I think they are just aimed at everyone who isn't me!


I think clever advertising went out in the 90s and now they compete to be memorably irritating.

I tend to TiVo non BBC stuff so I can avoid the adverts. Keeps the anger levels manageable. 😊

[overdrive]

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I tend to TiVo non BBC stuff so I can avoid the adverts. Keeps the anger levels manageable. 😊

Don't upgrade to the newer Virgin box... for some channels you think you are recording something but all it is really doing is taking you the catch up for the programme meaning you can't fast forward through the ads. It isn't on everything but when it does happen it is really annoying. One of the many reasons I would recommend to not upgrade the box or upgrade to the newer software if possible.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

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Don't upgrade to the newer Virgin box... for some channels you think you are recording something but all it is really doing is taking you the catch up for the programme meaning you can't fast forward through the ads. It isn't on everything but when it does happen it is really annoying. One of the many reasons I would recommend to not upgrade the box or upgrade to the newer software if possible.

I'm yet to stumble across that.

[lyonhibs]

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The over complication of clothes washing. My missus routine.

Why do we need washing liquid, fabric softener, and wee baw scent booster things? Why can't all those 3 jobs be done with one thing?

Why does my house go through a bottle of fabric softener every 2 weeks when the bottle says it does 50 washes? There's 2 of us. The washing machine is on maybe 4 times a week.

There's 4 of us and the kids are incessantly grubby so the washing machine barely ******g stops. That routine is giving me the heeby jeebies - we shove (almost) everything in at 30 or 40, some "all rounder" laundry detergent and occasionally a scoop or 2 of stain remover and away we go.

Also, as mentioned elsewhere, the idea that anything with "Spring breeze" or "Mountain blast" on it as a scent smells remotely as advertised is laughable.