Irritations

[Wickerman]

Not being a big movie watcher, but I think I was watching Prime, suddenly, in the middle of this movie the screen goes black, this window comes up:
"This uninterrupted program will return, after these messages"

[Herlock Sholmes]

The recent trend of using the word ‘batter’ in cricket. For years it’s been a word only used by those that know nothing about cricket.

[Enigma]

The bloke with all his teeth showing in the Trivago adverts.

[Herlock Sholmes]

On my father's first visit to Canada, at a cafe he went to buy a simple cup of tea.
It turned into a Monthy Python sketch, . . . hot or cold, paper cup or?, black, white or cream, china, herbal, indian, etc. etc. sugar or sweetener ?. . .
You could tell, my dad was about to explode. . .

The worst is when they just give you a cup/mug of hot water and with a tea bag dropped into it. One day you’ll go into a café and order a sandwich and someone will just put the ingredients in front of you.

[Wickerman]

Trying to buy a light bulb. It used to be all you had to do was look for the watt size you needed. Now you have to choose between watt, lumen, LED, white, soft white, cool white, warm white, dimmable, non-dimmable, standard base and God only knows what (or is that watt else).

It seems the joke now has become how many people and how long does it take to pick out a light bulb?

c.d.

On my father's first visit to Canada, at a cafe he went to buy a simple cup of tea.
It turned into a Monthy Python sketch, . . . hot or cold, paper cup or?, black, white or cream, china, herbal, indian, etc. etc. sugar or sweetener ?. . .
You could tell, my dad was about to explode. . .

[Wickerman]

The more features you have, the more things can go wrong with it. Just give me an on-off switch, and a light so my wife knows when she's left the damn thing on!

[c.d.]

I bought a coffee maker yesterday from Amazon. Same damn thing. The number of options and features available was mind boggling. I just want a cup of coffee. Is that too much to ask?

c.d.

[c.d.]

Trying to buy a light bulb. It used to be all you had to do was look for the watt size you needed. Now you have to choose between watt, lumen, LED, white, soft white, cool white, warm white, dimmable, non-dimmable, standard base and God only knows what (or is that watt else).

It seems the joke now has become how many people and how long does it take to pick out a light bulb?

c.d.

[Wickerman]

The scourge of the urban landscape, bicycle lanes in the city center, absolutely ridiculous.
In the 'burbs, fine, less traffic, more space, but in the city center with trucks, buses, trams and general traffic all battling for space, many of these inner-city lanes are just not wide enough for a dedicated bicycle lane.
Our city has made it illegal to pass a bicycle down town, and now we have cyclists riding on the footpath to avoid the traffic, which IS illegal, flying across zebra crossings, which IS illegal, running through stop-lights, which is ALSO illegal.
Yet the rest of the civilized world tolerates this, all in the name of, what?

[Herlock Sholmes]

Motorised scooter death traps.

[Herlock Sholmes]

People who deliberate engineer it so that cars and motorbikes are twice as loud as they should be.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Overly talkative taxi drivers

[Herlock Sholmes]

The fact that I’m currently in a phone queue at number two waiting just to order a prescription and that I’ve been in this ‘queue’ for one hour and eleven minutes!

[Herlock Sholmes]

Footballers who wear gloves.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Endless programmes about travel. Is there a ‘celebrity’ left who hasn’t done a programme where they travel somewhere?