Irritations

[Simon Wood]

Speed bumps, shrink wrapping, cyclists in clusters, and people who leave shopping carts/trolleys in parking spaces.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Jeez, Herlock. Did you get up on the wrong side of bed today?

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Just a few on my list that I hadn’t posted yet c.d.

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Rap music. I would rather get a root canal done than listen to that stuff.

Hate on me if you want. I don't care.

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Stock market "experts" who tell you that the market is experiencing "Goldilocks" conditions and tell you to expect huge returns in the coming months only to be followed the next day by other "experts" who predict immediate worldwide economic collapse.

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Jeez, Herlock. Did you get up on the wrong side of bed today?

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[Herlock Sholmes]

People who say ‘literally’ before things that aren’t literally true.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Modern slang where a totally random, inappropriate word is substituted for another. Like ‘sick’ or ‘dank’ to mean good. What’s the point of observing any rules of speech? I’d love to go up to someone that uses this kind of speech and say “elephant, understandably, trouser press, sometimes,’ instead of “ hello Tom, happy birthday,” then when they say that they can’t understand you I’d just say that I thought that it was ok to use a language comprising of random words?

[Herlock Sholmes]

Cafés that put butter on bacon sandwiches.

[Herlock Sholmes]

People who pout stupidly when taking a selfie.

[Herlock Sholmes]

People that won’t use their phone in the normal way. They hold it out in front of them with the caller on speaker phone so that everyone has to listen to their inane conversation.

[Herlock Sholmes]

The fact that this country collapses into turmoil when we have a light dusting of snow or a couple of inches of rain. Then 2 weeks without rain and there’s talk of hosepipe bans. We might complain that we don’t live in a tropical climate but we certainly live in a mild one weather-wise and yet we still can’t cope. It’s always been like this. Our weather is rarely a surprise us so why can’t the authorities cope?

[Herlock Sholmes]

The person that invented ‘cookies,’ (and I’m not talking about biscuits). Every bloody website you visit you have to accept or reject. Just ban them. Problem solved.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Adults with illegible handwriting. It’s not difficult to form letters so why can’t people write properly. Why write something in the first place if you don’t appear to care if anyone can read it or not?

[A P Tomlinson]

TV weather reports and reporters. It’s simple, just tell us what the weather is going to be like tomorrow. I don’t need to know what part of the planet the wind is coming from and I never need to hear the words ‘low pressure’ or ‘isobars.’ And I certainly don’t need the person giving the report to do it as a kind of choreographed performance art piece.

Looking online for weather forecasts - Tuesday between 12.00 and 14.00: Rain - 50%.
What does that mean? It's going to rain for an hour? Sporadically? Or there's a 50/50 chance it MIGHT rain at some point during that 2 hour period?
Yesterday it suggested that this afternoon would be relatively sunny, so I thought "I'll cut the grass tomorrow!"
Checkedthe same source (BBC Weather) this morning... oh no... it's going to get cloudy at 11. and rain from lunchtime through till late afternoon. Bugger that then, I'll rearrange some calls and pull them forward and cut the grass later in the week.
Today has been an absolute bloody delight as far as weather is concerned. Barely a cloud in the sky or a waft of wind to be found...

[Herlock Sholmes]

Where I am they have spent ages doing cycle paths. And now they have them cyclists don't use them they still ride on the pavements. Which is against the law but it's not enforced nowadays.

There’s a percentage of cyclist who think that laws don’t apply to them.