Stuff that REALLY annoys you.

perranegra · Post by **perranegra** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:37 pm 0

Bad speling.

Marius · Post by **Marius** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:38 pm 0

Have you ever experienced walking behind someone, usually older people, when they suddenly either stop dead in their tracks or slow down to a crawl? This usually happens when I enter a shop behind some old fossil. They have the tencency to come to a dead stop to have a look around right after they pass the entrance, which of course makes it impossible to pass them, since it's the only bottleneck in the shop.

Also, sometimes when I walk behind someone and want to pass them, they manage to suddenly change direction, so that they once again are blocking my progress. If I try to pass them on the other side, they will of course change direction once more. This can drive me absolutely crazy at times, and I get the feeling that some higher power is testing my patience.

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:50 pm 0

Marius wrote:Have you ever experienced walking behind someone, usually older people, when they suddenly either stop dead in their tracks or slow down to a crawl? This usually happens when I enter a shop behind some old fossil. They have the tencency to come to a dead stop to have a look around right after they pass the entrance, which of course makes it impossible to pass them, since it's the only bottleneck in the shop.

Also, sometimes when I walk behind someone and want to pass them, they manage to suddenly change direction, so that they once again are blocking my progress. If I try to pass them on the other side, they will of course change direction once more. This can drive me absolutely crazy at times, and I get the feeling that some higher power is testing my patience.

Yes. Many, many times.

Ollie · Post by **Ollie** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:53 pm 0

God, yes. In fairness, though, it's not just old people who stop right where they're blocking the doorway. A hell of a lot of people of all ages do that. Another one is when they meet someone they know on the street and arrange themselves to chat across the entire width of the pavement so you have to step into the road to get past.

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:58 pm 0

Television

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 2:03 pm 0

Ollie wrote:God, yes. In fairness, though, it's not just old people who stop right where they're blocking the doorway. A hell of a lot of people of all ages do that. Another one is when they meet someone they know on the street and arrange themselves to chat across the entire width of the pavement so you have to step into the road to get past.

Yes, yes, and thrice bloody argggggh yes!

Post by **RiK** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 2:06 pm 0

PVB wrote:People posting threads in the wrong section of YakYak. (not this thread though)

Note: Never, EVER, make me a full admin, cos there'll be trouble.

Well, if you can demonstrate a competant ability to fuck around with a live board with 2500 users and nearly a gig of database without fucking it up, I might just do that one day. You know, just for a laugh like

Oh fuck, all the avatars would look like Lorraine Kelly then wouldn't they??

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 2:08 pm 0

Vicky Pollard-alikes with a row of pushchairs + "x" amount of kids in tow taking up the entire width of the pavement, chatting to their Vicky Pollard-alike mate, ambling along on their way to collect their giro.

piku · Post by **piku** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 2:10 pm 0

limb_clock wrote:Standing in lines. I could actually do a small essay on this, and i will!

And I can generalise your problem to the meta-level by saying, even if you remove queueueues from checkouts, there still needs to be a holding pen for all the customers. We can all stand in a gaggle and wait for a free checkout, but unless your supermarket is infinitely long, it'll mean people have to start standing in a crowd.

And a crowd is just a really disorganised queue - there's people at the front, some in the middle, some at the back.

Queues are an unavoidable part of collections of objects. In maths they're called "sets", in computer science we call them lists, arrays, trees, etc. In london they call it the M25

What you have to do is pick a queue that has lots of men. Men don't make conversation and seem to know where their credit cards are prior to entering the queue. Men also don't tend to drag children around, nor buy loads and loads.

piku · Post by **piku** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 2:13 pm 0

RiK wrote:
PVB wrote:People posting threads in the wrong section of YakYak. (not this thread though)

Note: Never, EVER, make me a full admin, cos there'll be trouble.
Well, if you can demonstrate a competant ability to fuck around with a live board with 2500 users and nearly a gig of database without fucking it up, I might just do that one day. You know, just for a laugh like

And how would one go about doing this?

Cloudane · Post by **Cloudane** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 2:18 pm 0

Ah the old favourite checkout queues - aye, dangerous things!

It's all about assessing whether the person has their head screwed on. If they look chatty or old (or worse still, both) - move on to another queue. Also look for the ones with sour faces (mostly women), as they're the assy customers who are going to argue for an hour that the till never took 2p off that reduced tin of beans, demand to see a supervisor etc.

Another one - people who go up the escalator then as soon as they get to the top, stop dead to get their bearings. (My parents do this). Yeah, great idea - this thing's moving, people need to either step off or end up flat on their face and you're just standing there blocking the top! Get the heck out of the way, and *then* look around to see where you are!

A huge list of driving traits, but particularly those who tailgate (so I stick to the speed limit - what's the big deal?! Is trying to bully me into doing 35 rather than 30 really going to save that much time?!). Next up are those who don't particularly take notice of junctions and either come sailing out in front of you or steaming up to the give way line at a ridiculous speed and having to stamp on their brakes when you happen to be on "their" target road (how rude of us) or those who creep forward unnecessarily when they can see perfectly. Basically, impatient drivers who go far too fast. Not to mention old people who go far too slow

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 2:34 pm 0

There is only one dignified tactic when people stop dead in front of you - walk into them and let them apologise to you.

We can complain about this sort of thing all we want, but unless we educate the socially inconsiderate and the scatterbrained (amongst whom I belong on occasion) nothing will ever change.

Kenz · Post by **Kenz** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 2:34 pm 0

Motorway driving - when some prick / prickette pulls into my 2 sec safety gap that I always leave in front of me in case the car in front does something stoopid. Sometimes a person literally pulls in front directly in front of my car or is right up my arse (so to speak) - AAAAARRRGH! WANKOOOORRRRRRS!! STOP INVADING MY SPACE!!!!

Oh, and my PC overheating and switching off (leaving me with a weee-wooo-weee-wooo alarm) when I'm doing anything that uses a lot of processor power.

phattslagg · Post by **phattslagg** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 2:40 pm 0

Marius wrote:Have you ever experienced walking behind someone, usually older people, when they suddenly either stop dead in their tracks or slow down to a crawl? This usually happens when I enter a shop behind some old fossil. They have the tencency to come to a dead stop to have a look around right after they pass the entrance, which of course makes it impossible to pass them, since it's the only bottleneck in the shop.

Also, sometimes when I walk behind someone and want to pass them, they manage to suddenly change direction, so that they once again are blocking my progress. If I try to pass them on the other side, they will of course change direction once more. This can drive me absolutely crazy at times, and I get the feeling that some higher power is testing my patience.

Reminds me of my pet hate - trying to walk through gangs of schoolkids all waiting for a bus. They all face in different directions, carrying great big bags or sacks full of books over their shoulders, and have a tendency to randomly walk backwards across the pavement, or swing themselves and their book-bags about just as I'm trying to walk past them, with absolutely no awareness of their surroundings.

Kamineko · Post by **Kamineko** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 2:43 pm 0

laptoplover wrote:DVDs of series that don't contain a play all button. I don't want to put a DVD in and then interact with the menu every 20 minutes!

DVD menus period.