Irritations

[Herlock Sholmes]

This one may be controversial but.....

Children in pubs, or more specifically children in pubs that I like and want to drink in!

I'm glad that there are family friendly pubs out there, that's great!

If I know where they are I can avoid them like the plague.

My issue is when screaming kids and their annoying indulgent parents rock up in my favourite watering holes with their wailing, nonsensical inane babble and attention seeking.

I can't hear my friends and their interesting grown up chat.

As decent human beings we feel obliged to keep our conversations vaguely respectable and obscenity free incase a child hears.

It's a pub FFS, not a creche!

Couldn’t agree more on this one Ms D. I don’t go into many pubs these days but I know that they are changing. Some pubs in my area used to have family rooms and those that didn’t just didn’t cater for children. For me pubs are adult spaces but it’s fine if they have enough space for a separate family room. Things like working men’s clubs are different of course and are often more geared toward families. As you know, I’m hardly Mr PC (to put it mildly) but surely it’s time to change the names of these places. The title ‘Working Men’s Club’ comes from a different era.

[Ms Diddles]

This one may be controversial but.....

Children in pubs, or more specifically children in pubs that I like and want to drink in!

I'm glad that there are family friendly pubs out there, that's great!

If I know where they are I can avoid them like the plague.

My issue is when screaming kids and their annoying indulgent parents rock up in my favourite watering holes with their wailing, nonsensical inane babble and attention seeking.

I can't hear my friends and their interesting grown up chat.

As decent human beings we feel obliged to keep our conversations vaguely respectable and obscenity free incase a child hears.

It's a pub FFS, not a creche!

[OneRound]

Small children getting in the way and generally being a bl00dy nuisance around luggage conveyor belts at airports. As experienced recently, the last thing wanted after a 13 hour flight which had been delayed by almost 3 hours to begin with.
There should be a few cages on each conveyor belt for such children and their parents/guardians to be forced into and left to travel round for the rest of the day.

[Herlock Sholmes]

People who think that wrestling is real.

[Herlock Sholmes]

TV news services who send a reporter often at a great distance to the site hours after the event ended where a news item occurred so they can do a 'live cross' to where nothing is now happening when the report could as easily have been done from the tv studio.

Good point Enigma and one that I was going to add to my post about weather reports. On my local TV station they often go over to the guy reporting the weather on a nice day to find that he’s at some local castle, stately home or park for a minute long report. We can all visualise nice weather and how people enjoy it without the ‘in situ’ report. What’s the point?

[Enigma]

TV news services who send a reporter often at a great distance to the site hours after the event ended where a news item occurred so they can do a 'live cross' to where nothing is now happening when the report could as easily have been done from the tv studio.

[Herlock Sholmes]

People who, when they are about to explain something to do with tech, begin by saying “don’t worry, it’s straightforward stuff.” It never is. Ever.

[Herlock Sholmes]

W@nky business speak;

Blue sky thinking
Run it up the flagpole
Let's circle back
Reach out (instead of contact).

All of that stuff.

Just no!!!!!!!

Definitely. I hate jargon.

[Ms Diddles]

W@nky business speak;

Blue sky thinking
Run it up the flagpole
Let's circle back
Reach out (instead of contact).

All of that stuff.

Just no!!!!!!!

[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?

c.d.

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

[c.d.]

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.

c.d.

[c.d.]

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.

c.d.

[c.d.]

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

c.d.

[Herlock Sholmes]

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