People who say "slither" when they mean "sliver".
Cyclists at night without lights.
people who drink lager-tops.
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People who reference Room 101 as a depository of irritants rather than greatest fears.
Just sayin'Posted 4 years ago # -
So, people who prefix every utterance with 'So -'.
Motorists who signal just as they begin to turn a corner, long after their brake lights came on.
People who write 'discrete' when they mean 'discreet'.
Motorists who stay in the overtaking lane (which is any lane other than the left-hand driving lane) when they are no longer overtaking and the inner lanes are completely deserted.
People who say 'decimate' when they mean 'devastate'.
Motorists who accelerate vigorously between each speed-bump and then brake harshly every time they come to the next speed-bump.
People who say 'disinterested' when they mean 'un-interested'.
Spam.
People who suffer an urge to insert extra apostrophes into every word, including consistently writing 'it's' when they mean 'its'.
Timewasting cold telephone sales calls.
People whose only favourable adjective is 'fantastic', never good, nice, pleasant, great, excellent, marvellous, wonderful. delightful, superb, outsstanding, brilliant or very good - despite the fact that fantastic is the only adjective which literally means that the thing in question does not actually exist at all - it is merely a fantasy.
Cyclists who ride on crowded - or any - pavement (always illegal), when there is a clear road available for them to ride on.
People who misuse the word 'obscene' merely to describe an excessive salary or other payment, despite (however excessive, appalling, ridiculous, outrageous, unfair, absurd, unjustified) there being nothing perverted, filthy, depraved or pornographic about simply paying someone excessively.
If they regard just paying someone too much money as 'obscene', what word do they use to describe someone drinking someone else's vomit or trying to rape a six-month-old baby?
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Cunts
Posted 4 years ago # -
Cunts
Did you, perhaps, intend to post that in this thread:
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People who walk 3 or 4 abreast filling the entire pavement, and then don't move out of the way even though you've been walking towards them for at least 300 yards in a straight line.
People who reference Room 101 as a depository of irritants rather than greatest fears.
Endemol's misinterpretations of the plot of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four can go into Room 101 too, purely for the sake of irony.In the Orwellian meaning of Room 101, I'd probably have an endless loop of Mrs Brown's Boys playing. That would make me submit immediately.
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Golf.
Politicians or anyone whose response to any given issue is that we should take it seriously. As if everyone else was putting on a red nose and going 'bum'.
Incidental music filling the gap between every spoken word on TV shows.
Use of the word 'amazing' for things that are barely even quite good.
Right-wingers who somehow think they are brave rebels against the establishment. Esp. if they have lucrative columns in daily newspapers.
Female celebs who think getting their kit off is a feminist act.
People who think that having lived somewhere longer than someone else has means that their view automatically wins.
There/Their/They're - it's not THAT complicated for fuck's sake.
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I was going to start a thread giving people the chance to pick aspects of modern life that really annoy. It was going to be limited to one thing per sub. That way I was hoping for a thread that would last ages. Here's a few of my pet hates.
Middle lane hoggers (as noted above)
People who spend their whole lives looking at their phones, instead of what is around them
People who start answering a question with 'yeah no'. What the fuck is this all about? I mean what the actual fuck???Posted 4 years ago #
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