Things that Annoy

[Robert]

I ordered some suzette,
I said "Could you please make that crepe?"

(Bob Dylan)

[Mayerling]

Cafe’s that think that a ‘cup of tea’ is a mug of hot water with a bag on a string in it and a small jug of milk.

Thats called ‘providing the ingrediants.’

Morons!

True story from 1980. I went into upper Manhattan near Lincoln Center. At that time there was a restaurant, "Le Crepe", specializing in French crepes. I went in and the crepe was okay, but I noticed on the menu "French Cheese Cake". I ordered a piece. They brought it. I recognized it was a slice of the "French Cheese Cake" made by Sara Lee at the time.

[barnflatwyngarde]

Cafe’s that think that a ‘cup of tea’ is a mug of hot water with a bag on a string in it and a small jug of milk.

Thats called ‘providing the ingrediants.’

Morons!

Yep, I'm with you on that one.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Cafe’s that think that a ‘cup of tea’ is a mug of hot water with a bag on a string in it and a small jug of milk.

Thats called ‘providing the ingrediants.’

Morons!

[Herlock Sholmes]

[barnflatwyngarde]

HOLMES : Listen, Herlock : take neither the first cab that should present itself, nor the second -

HERLOCK : SHUT UP!!!

Now, that is genuinely funny!

[Robert]

HOLMES : Listen, Herlock : take neither the first cab that should present itself, nor the second -

HERLOCK : SHUT UP!!!

[Herlock Sholmes]

Lying bloody taxi firms!!!

Genuine. Last Saturday.

Booked a taxi via their automated booking - 10 mins and no show.

I called up - automate reply - your taxi will artive in 3 minutes

6 mins and no show.

Called again - your taxi will arrive in 2 mins.

5 mins later and no show

Called again - your taxi will arrive in 2 mins!

I was expecting a bloody steam roller to turn up how long it was taking.

I got through to the operater who apologised and said ‘give me five minutes.’

It came in 9 minutes!

It was a black cab and id specifically asked for a normal car because my dad is 80 and in poor health and cant get into a black cab. So he went away saying hed arrange for another taxi.

We waited 10 mins then called back. No taxi had been booked!! I was ready to kill. He booked the taxi and said 5 minutes.

It came in 11 minutes!! Then proceeded in the wrong direction despite me telling him where we were going.

[Herlock Sholmes]

The ‘giz a fag and spare change’ crew now appear to all be working from the same script as within the last 2 weeks or so ive been approached by four who all opened up by saying:

‘I dont like being cheeky mate but.......”

Is someone coaching them?

Im also slightly reluctant to give money to someone that has a pretty decent mobile phone!

[martin wilson]

Energy suppliers staff standing in the high street accosting passers by. They're a bloody nuisance. Same with charities.
Throw in buskers, the giz a fag and spare change crowd and it's like running an obstacle course when all you want is a quiet mooch around the shops. Sod off and leave me alone.

[Herlock Sholmes]

You're right there, HS. Saw hardly anything of Chrissie Hynde when The Pretenders were on stage at last year's Glastonbury.

Graham

Just ego’s trying to show off their ‘imaginative’ camera work. No one’s interested in their camera work though. They just want to watch the band.

[Graham]

Similarly if there’s a band playing on stage and the camera is swooping around like Douglas Bader in a dogfight! Why cant they just point it, face on, at the band. Who wants to watch the audience?

You're right there, HS. Saw hardly anything of Chrissie Hynde when The Pretenders were on stage at last year's Glastonbury.

Graham

[Herlock Sholmes]

Similarly if there’s a band playing on stage and the camera is swooping around like Douglas Bader in a dogfight! Why cant they just point it, face on, at the band. Who wants to watch the audience?

[Graham]

I love cookery progs on the box, but what really pisses me off is the way the camera stays on the face of whoever is doing the cooking, so we are unable to properly see precisely what's happening on the stove! The worst in this respect is Saturday Kitchen. The much-missed Keith Floyd always ordered the cameraman - usually a bloke called Bruce - to focus on the food and not on his face.

Graham

[yen_powell]

It also pisses me off when TV announcer constantly, endlessly and annoying persist in referring to Coronation Street (which i hate) as The Cobbles!

I always thought cobbles were rounded stones packed down into cement. What I see in Coronation Street are what I call setts, squared granite pieces laid on top of concrete or mortar feed and then pointed.