tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post2763981649621004165..comments2024-03-19T08:07:09.177+00:00Comments on THE SMALL THINGS: What do you think?Tania Kindersleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18355967725006605825noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-11610641814868218532014-07-16T13:24:37.385+01:002014-07-16T13:24:37.385+01:00Irrational/indefensible irritant: Agressive women ...Irrational/indefensible irritant: Agressive women drivers. I know men are equally guilty but for some reason I expect us to know better.<br /><br />I irritate myself with this one: In conversation I often, while listening to the other person, think of something to say and I can't wait for them to stop talking so that I can say it. Now I'm aware of it I make a conscious effort to suppress this and actually listen to them. When it's my turn to speak I'll say something relevant in reply. I've usually forgotten the original thought anyway. Now that I'm curing myself of this trait I find it incredibly annoying in others...<br /><br />Sorry for any poor grammar!Karennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-74953544341603501702014-07-16T11:43:22.570+01:002014-07-16T11:43:22.570+01:00Minor irritations that drive me batshit? As with ...Minor irritations that drive me batshit? As with you, those who say one thing and do another, which is a feature of a passive-aggressive interpersonal style. Passive aggression in general has me hopping mad, although I do realise that some people honestly cannot help the way they are. They are often the ones that are "always running late" as well.<br /><br />But my number one pet hate? Self-absorption. The sort that if you meet them in the street after a few months of not having seen them, and you ask how they are, tell you in great detail, but when the moment comes for them to reciprocate and sho an interest back, suddenly remember just how busy they are and rush off to do their errands.<br /><br />Pet hate #2 People who are SO busy all the bloody time.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13702475308562601190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-85334716646926677652014-07-16T01:17:58.414+01:002014-07-16T01:17:58.414+01:00Brilliant! Sadly, I think I am an easily irritated...Brilliant! Sadly, I think I am an easily irritated person as almost all of the above resonate with me too. Top of my list at the moment would have to be people attached to their mobile phones. So much so that it is in their hand at all times; during a meal so it can be checked constantly and even during a one-on-one conversation. There's no eye contact! And I'm talking about adults… drives me bonkers.Emnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-55474726085241935172014-07-15T22:32:54.612+01:002014-07-15T22:32:54.612+01:001. People who step on the gas pedal in order to: ...1. People who step on the gas pedal in order to: <br /><br />a) prevent someone from making a turn <br />b) get up the arse of someone driving in front of them <br />c) be aggravated that anyone is on the road at the same time they are. <br /><br />If they hadn't purposely sped up, it wouldn't be an issue.<br /><br />2. People who stop in the doorway of a store to:<br /> <br />a) tie their shoe <br />b) tend to their child in a stroller <br />c) chat on their cell phone<br /><br />3. Anyone in a movie theater who is not there to actually watch a movie. Whatever else they are doing, whether: <br /><br />a) talking/texting on their cell <br />b) talking to their friends <br />c) running in and out of the theater at random moments for no apparent reason<br /><br />These people are ANNOYING AS HELL and I want to ship them to a deserted island where they can do all those things without ruining my movie-watching experience. I've avoided this particular annoyance by simply not going to the movies any more, or, if I absolutely want to see a certain film on the big screen, going on a school night when there is less likelihood of "screaming meemies".<br /><br />4. People who hold cell phone conversations at restaurants - or any public place that I can't just walk out of because I'm engaged in the bona fide activity for which that public place was created. (Library, grocery store, post office, etc.)<br /><br />5. People who use their children as attention-getting devices. They hold extremely loud, one-sided conversations, in public places, with a child that is too young to talk themselves. They bank on other people succumbing to the social pressure of not simply beheading a person who is caring for a small child. They severely underestimate the urge their behavior creates. <br /><br />6. People who use pets as attention-getting devices. See #5, substitute "pet" for "child" - same thing.<br /><br />7. People who decide to mow the lawn, hack down a shed with a sledgehammer, jackhammer their driveway, or replace a roof at 7:30 on Sunday morning.<br /><br />8. People who work in the same room with other people for 8 hours a day that don't just shut up and work. They take their captive audience through every single personal problem they have, every stupid thought that crosses their synapses, and every tired headline that everyone else has also just read on the CNN website. For some reason, these people often have horrible grammar and pronunciation, so it's like nails on a blackboard. Everyone in the room is wishing someone else had the guts to tell this person to STFU. But everyone, including the yammering idiot, knows that the management would come down on the complainer, not the idiot.<br /><br />Reading my list, it occurs to me that I should not live on Long Island. I should live out in the country, preferably in Scotland. 8-)<br /><br /><br /><br />Marchelinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11201825708442679157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-27050765784604631752014-07-15T22:26:50.943+01:002014-07-15T22:26:50.943+01:00It was impossible to think of irritations after re...It was impossible to think of irritations after reading the lovely end of the post on the mare, the children and the vintage explorer. <br />But searching for the last time I felt that complete exasperation of why, why do you think that's acceptable...commuters, beautifully dressed with designer accessories - but with their feet up on the seats! I can't look!Sallynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-39627206120293930542014-07-15T18:32:57.709+01:002014-07-15T18:32:57.709+01:00I have a long list of "minor" irritation...I have a long list of "minor" irritations, many now fueled by spending a ridiculous amount of time on the internet where bad grammar & spelling (there's spell check! Use it!!!) abound. Your never going to get some to correct there use of those words...(sigh) (then, grrrrr) ;-)<br /><br />Other than the blatant (and rampant) racism, anti-semitism, sexism, ageism, xenophobia, intolerance & general disrespect that SEEM to be OK (in what universe!?!) to spew (again, particularly on the internet & usually anonymously), what gets to me on a one-to-one level is those people who KNOW exactly what's going to happen, especially if it involves me. <br />I call them "fortune tellers" & I know the origin of this. (Thanks, Mom."Don't pick up that stick; you'll put out your eye!") <br />These people could probably be classified along with those giving unsolicited advice, however, I find fortune tellers much, MUCH more "off the wall" -- along the lines of that poem "for want of a nail a shoe was lost", leading to the total destruction of a kingdom -- and it's ALL in their imagination!<br />Pat (in Belgium)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02367089351412953926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-63061881346640031952014-07-15T17:28:47.171+01:002014-07-15T17:28:47.171+01:00Sorry, me again. In Our Time - excessive deploymen...Sorry, me again. In Our Time - excessive deployment of the historical present.Lucillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14414527658216916537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-59965223881294729352014-07-15T17:22:33.619+01:002014-07-15T17:22:33.619+01:00Ah ha, but I am not alone I see from above. Good. ...Ah ha, but I am not alone I see from above. Good. And I will agree with Gilly's number one. JP Devlin does it to everyone, especially those poor members of the public phoning in with their anecdotes. They are asphyxiated by his air-grabbing interruptions. Lucillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14414527658216916537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-51942880886643518842014-07-15T16:44:12.347+01:002014-07-15T16:44:12.347+01:00So, ;-)
Grammar is such an obvious thing to be un...So, ;-)<br /><br />Grammar is such an obvious thing to be unreasonably annoyed by. There are two specific items I've been reminded of almost daily recently, while reviewing work documents. The superfluous use of the last word in an initialisation (PIN number, various industry specific ones that annoy me intensely), and putting apostrophes in the plurals of acronyms or intialisations (DVD's).<br />I'm also very exercised by the fact that whenever I write to my MP, he replies with a standard response that's clearly been approved by Number 10 before he sent it.Monahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00690514658812327754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-90750113620366369762014-07-15T16:10:40.131+01:002014-07-15T16:10:40.131+01:00Love these. You are such brilliant readers. Making...Love these. You are such brilliant readers. Making me laugh and making me nod my head. And a huge YES YES to the starting every sentence with a redundant so. It's really beginning to grate. Even august professors do it, especially on In Our Time. It must drive poor Melvyn Bragg insane. Tania Kindersleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18355967725006605825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-85085345421176877812014-07-15T16:03:35.192+01:002014-07-15T16:03:35.192+01:00I am, by nature, an equitable individual. I have b...I am, by nature, an equitable individual. I have become tolerant as my experience has grown. But there is something so profoundly irritating about a baseball cap worn reversed or worse, two-thirds reversed, that contempt rears her head and utters a banshee shriek.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-61203464789782042512014-07-15T15:24:26.493+01:002014-07-15T15:24:26.493+01:00At the moment it is a verbal tick: that of startin...At the moment it is a verbal tick: that of starting the answer to a question with, 'So -'.<br />I know it's only buying a millisecond of thinking time, and might have been, 'Well -' previously, but it has an air of impatience about it as if they have been interrupted and diverted from a flow of brilliance. It has an, 'As I was saying' tone to it. Perhaps no one else hears it like that. I must let it go.Lucillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14414527658216916537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-42663502101559269672014-07-15T15:20:11.687+01:002014-07-15T15:20:11.687+01:00Irritations - blimey, where do I start. I shall s...Irritations - blimey, where do I start. I shall strive to limit myself to one. Maybe two. And the first one is a two-parter. Oops.<br />Number one. I love Radio 4. But I'm getting seriously cross with the interviewers and presenters who can't let a person finish what they're saying without interrupting. Sometimes it's necessary to puncture a windbag or stop a bit of political point-scoring, I quite appreciate that. But all too often it's done to show the interviewer/presenter's power and that's just bad manners and shoddy journalism. The Today programme is full of it. Jane Garvey on Woman's Hour is also a culprit. <br />It also infuriates me when politicians and government departments aren't available for comment - even on something as august as the Today Show. They are supposed to be accountable for heavens sake> That's the two-part rant.<br />The other one I will allow myself - why do SO many people feel the need to answer questions with the word SO? <br />Going off now to fume quietly in a corner. Gilly Fraserhttp://gillyfraser.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-55827991994177742422014-07-15T15:11:14.227+01:002014-07-15T15:11:14.227+01:00I tried replying to you on Twitter, then realised ...I tried replying to you on Twitter, then realised that I don't know whether my replies are visible to non-followers now my account is locked. Doh!<br /><br />I said "A similar one: people who think a learner necessarily requires a teacher."<br /><br />DelaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com