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*Little* Things That Annoy You (Pet Peeves)

"I see what you did there"
Really? Tell me. I have no idea what you are talking about. Was it good or bad? Is it the innocent thing I think I did, or did you see some unintended thing? Do you think I did something funny? serious? offensive?
This has to be one of the most infuriatingly vague things people say on the net.
 
People who leave their shoes right in the middle of the floor for you to trip over when it's dark and/or when you're not looking where you're going.
 
When I try to search for something on a search engine and, when showing me my results, it says at the top Did you mean?
(I know what I meant, so stop trying to guess otherwise).

It's for this reason as well that I also hate predictive text on mobile phones;

Predictive Text: "I'm just going to where? Up the Pub?"
Me: "No."
Predictive Text: "I'm just going to where? Up the Road?"
Me: "No!"
Predictive Text: "I'm just going to where? Up the Shops?"
Me: "No - Shut up!"

Predictive text used to be the bane of my life till I found out you can turn it off in the settings menu on most phones.

Another thing that is seriously driving me mad lately is "Pro-Leave" Propaganda on my Facebook from the likes of UKIP and David "I'm a bell end" Cameron, I know the "Brexit" vote is next Thursday, but sod off! I still haven't decided which way to vote yet.
 
Yeah. Predictive text of any kind. Can't stand it.

Can't say I like legitimate pollsters in the election cycle either. They compound the mess criminal phone scammers make in calling me perpetually. And I can only block 12 at a time.

Imagine averaging a 100 phone calls each month and maybe one or two were from people who I know. That's gotta be the most annoying thing day end, day out for me. :mad:
 
I hate it when I look up a recipe on line, and the author thinks I want to read a mini autobiography complete with pics before I get to the actual recipe.

I also hate the soft porn that I am forced to watch in even the most innocuous TV program. I feel resentful and embarrassed to have a front row seat to checking out some stranger's backside or breasts when I wasn't even slightly interested in them. It also insults my intelligence that the producers of such stuff think that otherwise I won't be interested in watching!
 
Yeah. Predictive text of any kind. Can't stand it.

Can't say I like legitimate pollsters in the election cycle either. They compound the mess criminal phone scammers make in calling me perpetually. And I can only block 12 at a time.

Imagine averaging a 100 phone calls each month and maybe one or two were from people who I know. That's gotta be the most annoying thing day end, day out for me. :mad:
I get a lot of scamming calls, and I used to say rude things to them...until I learned that if you reply in any negative way, they will release your number to other scammers to make your life holy hell. Now when I answer the phone, I listen to their spiel and go silent. It is great fun when they keep saying hello? Hello? Click. Then of course I block them.

Is there anyway you can increase the number of calls you can block? That's a bummer if you can only block twelve, because I am sure that they just keep changing the numbers they are calling from. :(
 
I get a lot of scamming calls, and I used to say rude things to them...until I learned that if you reply in any negative way, they will release your number to other scammers to make your life holy hell. Now when I answer the phone, I listen to their spiel and go silent. It is great fun when they keep saying hello? Hello? Click. Then of course I block them.

Is there anyway you can increase the number of calls you can block? That's a bummer if you can only block twelve, because I am sure that they just keep changing the numbers they are calling from. :(
I was getting a call a day from a local newspaper offering me one free month as a trial subscription. I agreed to take them up on it the first time.I never got a single copy :rolleyes:
After a month of my business phone ringing and disrupting my day,I kept one on the line by telling him I was still very interested,but about every few minutes,I politely excused myself and asked him if he would mind if I put him on hold so I could take another call. I ran it for nearly an hour with him begging me to please let him go. Before we said our final goodbyes, I asked him if he would be willing to give me his phone number so we could discuss it more on his time...

He said he wasn't willing to do that because he didn't want to be disturbed when he wasn't working :D
 
Is there anyway you can increase the number of calls you can block?

Not without changing my phone service and number. I'm trying to hold off from having to do so...but it may be inevitable.

But I continue to NEVER answer them. I let the phone ring, connect and just hang up.
 
Maybe we should do what this guy does:

Nope. Criminals don't get mad. They get even. I prefer to remain insulated from that scenario by leaving control with their robodialer. After so many no-hit contacts they reprogam and pass my number by.

Until the next criminal scammer does the same damn thing. It never ends. :mad:
 
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When you're eating and then - just as you put food in your mouth - someone asks you a question, so you're now stuck between one of the following:

1.
Not talking as you try to chew and swallow your food quicker so you can answer, during which time you look rude for not answering straight away.
2. Talking with your mouth full, which is also classed as rude as well as looking disgusting as people can see your food swirling around inside your mouth.
3. Spitting your food out in anger, which - as you can guess - is the least common option but is obviously still rude.

Bottom line, you can't win in this situation without looking/acting rude.
 
Yeah. Predictive text of any kind. Can't stand it.

Can't say I like legitimate pollsters in the election cycle either. They compound the mess criminal phone scammers make in calling me perpetually. And I can only block 12 at a time.

Imagine averaging a 100 phone calls each month and maybe one or two were from people who I know. That's gotta be the most annoying thing day end, day out for me. :mad:

On my phone, I have specific ring for my wife, another for the rest of the family, another for friends (not many there) and another for business related calls. The rest can leave a message if they want. If I want to talk to them, I will call them back. Being old and grumpy has it's advantages.
 
On my phone, I have specific ring for my wife, another for the rest of the family, another for friends (not many there) and another for business related calls. The rest can leave a message if they want. If I want to talk to them, I will call them back. Being old and grumpy has it's advantages.

I do have an additional filter that allows for specific numbers to pass through. I've thought about that on occasion, but I'm worried that certain entities I do business with would no longer be able to get through given their numbers aren't easy to determine as they vary.

But it is an option.
 
I do have an additional filter that allows for specific numbers to pass through. I've thought about that on occasion, but I'm worried that certain entities I do business with would no longer be able to get through given their numbers aren't easy to determine as they vary.

But it is an option.

Mine works pretty good for me. The calls that are time sensitive and that I really want to get are from my wife, my customers and venders. I dislike and do not do text messaging.
 
On my phone, I have specific ring for my wife, another for the rest of the family, another for friends (not many there) and another for business related calls. The rest can leave a message if they want. If I want to talk to them, I will call them back. Being old and grumpy has it's advantages.
I agree with you on that topic...if I was important enough to call in the first place,leave a message ;)
 
When you're eating and then - just as you put food in your mouth - someone asks you a question, so you're now stuck between one of the following:

1.
Not talking as you try to chew and swallow your food quicker so you can answer, during which time you look rude for not answering straight away.
2. Talking with your mouth full, which is also classed as rude as well as looking disgusting as people can see your food swirling around inside your mouth.
3. Spitting your food out in anger, which - as you can guess - is the least common option but is obviously still rude.

Bottom line, you can't win in this situation without looking/acting rude.
When the waiters at a restaurant do this, I could cheerfully wring their necks. They see you shovel in a huge bite, then come over to perkily ask if everything's alright? Now, with the NT ability to read non verbal cues, if someone is quietly eating their food, doesn't it look like everything is alright? Nobody is choking or looking frantically around the room for help - nope. Just trying to eat and here they come forcing a response out of you. It's their own fault if they get a 3D view of unchewed food!:rolleyes:
 
When you're eating and then - just as you put food in your mouth - someone asks you a question, so you're now stuck between one of the following:

1.
Not talking as you try to chew and swallow your food quicker so you can answer, during which time you look rude for not answering straight away.
2. Talking with your mouth full, which is also classed as rude as well as looking disgusting as people can see your food swirling around inside your mouth.
3. Spitting your food out in anger, which - as you can guess - is the least common option but is obviously still rude.

Bottom line, you can't win in this situation without looking/acting rude.

I figured out my own way around this. I just cover my mouth and talk through my food (I have excellent fine motor and high oral and aural sensitivity, so I'm very good at not making those awful food noises when I talk). People point out my excellent manners and the oddness of covering my mouth, but at least I don't have a bunch of faces staring at me and waiting for my answer while I awkwardly chew my food. What's worse, being quirky or being stared at?

Which brings me to an annoyance of my own, which I'm not sure is a weird thing so much as a sensitivity. A lot of my overt behaviors that other people consider weird are really just adaptations that make sense. I have also been teased endlessly for the way I hold a sandwich, a technique I use to distribute the weight of the sandwich across a greater surface area so it doesn't dent the bottom bread. Personally, I think it's weird that more people don't hold their sandwiches the way I do.
 
When the waiters at a restaurant do this, I could cheerfully wring their necks. They see you shovel in a huge bite, then come over to perkily ask if everything's alright? Now, with the NT ability to read non verbal cues, if someone is quietly eating their food, doesn't it look like everything is alright? Nobody is choking or looking frantically around the room for help - nope. Just trying to eat and here they come forcing a response out of you. It's their own fault if they get a 3D view of unchewed food!:rolleyes:

That's when I'm tempted to speak another language to them. Some things aren't so terse in English as spoken in German.

"WEG!" :cool:

Or use some Norn Iron and tell them to "Chase yourself." But they probably wouldn't have a clue there either. :rolleyes:
 
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People who claim disability benefits for "bad backs" when there's clearly nothing otherwise wrong with them, yet genuinely disabled people have to literally try and get blood from a stone to claim anything, but the useless Clowns in the DWP are literally falling over themselves to give money to these fakers.

Also, the recent announcement at E3 2016 of the Xbox One Scorpio, I wouldn't mind getting one but I don't have the funds for a 4K TV to take advantage of it, and I don't want one even if I did have the funds, I already refuse on principle to pay extra for 4K movies down at Cineworld, especially now that I'm paying £17.40 (about $25 at current exchange rate) a month for the Unlimited card so I don't have to spend £9 a time to see normal films.
 
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