Torrential rain flooding run

[Egluntyne]

People who say 'less' when they mean 'fewer'.

[Cinnamon]

People who greet you with 'A'right?'

 

People who say 'Innit'

 

People who say 'like' inbetween their,like,sentences

 

Just people mostly

[Geoid]

Fred! I'm sure it was a slip of the finger eh, Iwescott?

It was

I was only joking!

[Valkyrie]

You just couldn't resist the urge - admit it!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

People who say 'less' when they mean 'fewer'.

 

I hate that too . I'm always correcting people on the telly/radio .

[clootie]

People who say 'less' when they mean 'fewer'.

 

I hate that too . I'm always correcting people on the telly/radio .

 

Like "10 items or less" in supermarkets? My DH is always muttering about that one when we're out and about.

[Geoid]

When people say paintball gun, its not a gun, its a paintball marker.

[clootie]

When people say paintball gun, its not a gun, its a paintball marker.

 

I didn't know that, thank you Fred

[Scramble]

When people run a red light at the zebra crossing and nearly run you over

 

People that flash you to cross the road but don't actually slow down so you don't cross as you don't want to become a pancake, then they screech on their breaks and look at you evily while you cross the road embarrassed

 

...

People who say 'like' inbetween their,like,sentences

...

 

must say I, like, do this

I don't mean to, it's the influence of people saying it around me, it gets into my head, do you know what I mean?

 

no probably not...

[Chucky Mama]

People who say seck-et-ree instead of secretary and Sickth instead of Sixth.

 

 

Am I the only one who has spent the last few days saying Sixth over and over to see whether I say it properly

[Scramble]

No

[KimmyCustard]

People that wear hats whilst driving (what is that all about?!)

 

Wonky shopping trollies

 

OH favourite - maintains that women walk 'at him' rather than attempting to go round him as he does them when walking down the street.

 

Trying to open cartons of milk/soup/juice and never managing it without muttering under one's breath and wrestling quietly with a ripped opening!

 

 

Kimmy

x

[Plum]

I can't believe how pedantic you all are. You sound like my old man.

[cloud]

Okay, here goes...

 

The little white circles in the middle of crossroads that one is expect to drive round

 

Double vexatious are the pairs of white circles on the slightly larger crossroad that one is expected to do figure of eight round, or something.

 

People who use word like vexatious, or contiguous just for effect (rather than simply for fun)

 

The word your used in place of you're. Such as Mum, your the best - saw that on a card once

 

The design of almost all supermarket car parks that direct all exiting traffic across the path of pedestrians leaving the shop

 

Pensioners shopping on Saturday, and then complaining how busy it is.

 

Big-Endians. Eggs should always be opened by tapping gently but firmly at the little end.

 

Ear hair. Just say no.

 

Cards left by postmen that state we must wait three hours before going to the post office to collect, but then never remembering to say when the card was left.

 

That deep booming voice used on all movie trailers (usually with an American accent)

 

The apparently seamless cellophane wraps on CDs and DVDs

[Snowy]

at you lot! (but i'm going to add one of my own now)

 

People who swear in front of their children, and then, when their children swear, say "I don't know where he/she gets it from"

[missuscluck]

Goodness

If I ever meet anymore of you lot I better watch out and make a list of thing of what not to say/do

 

I cant think of anything to add. I think you have just about covered it all

[Chucky Mama]

Ok, here's another one:

 

Pump toothpaste tubes that just don't pump. You have to shove the toothpaste up the darned thing in order to get it working just about everytime you use it

 

oh, and people that take for ever to buckle up and get going when you have been sitting for an eternity waiting for their space at the petrol pump or in a car park

[..lay a little egg for me]

Gosh, I've ploughed through all 7 pages and am ashamed to admit: I agree with all of them

I still have one to add (amazed no-one has said this yet):

People who misuse the apostrophe (as in tomato's, potato's etc)!!!

 

I actually stopped to rub out the apostrophe on our local farm shop's board advertising an up-coming open day where one could apparently learn all about "BEE'S" (the bee's what? Knees perhaps?)! Mind you, I haven't got as far as going around with a marker pen to add apostrophes where they are missing as Lynn Truss claimed she did in "Eats, Shoots and Leaves"!!!

[chickencam]

The apparently seamless cellophane wraps on CDs and DVDs

 

My OH hates this and always gets me to open them He really doesn't do packaging

[chick wiggle]

Im scared now

I was going to wear my omlet badges to meets or when collecting my ex batts in the hope of meeting some of you but I darent now in case I say or do the wrong thing

[clootie]

Sorry Scrambled, was that you?

[Snowy]

I've just come across a couple more violations on the school run - parents who park on the grass verges outside my house when picking up children from school - and churning them to mud as soon as it rains - mud that I can't avoid if I need to cross the road outside my house!

And groups of yummy mummies who think it is OK to stand in a big group in the middle of the pavement, complete with several pedigree pooches, so that littlest boy and I have to walk out into the road to get past them!!!

I'm not even going to mention those parents who park so tightly up to the entrance to our drive that I'd need to have a bendy car to get around them

 

*And breathes out ..... * Ah that's better!

[jlo]

Gosh, I've ploughed through all 7 pages and am ashamed to admit: I agree with all of them

I still have one to add (amazed no-one has said this yet):

People who misuse the apostrophe (as in tomato's, potato's etc)!!!

 

I actually stopped to rub out the apostrophe on our local farm shop's board advertising an up-coming open day where one could apparently learn all about "BEE'S" (the bee's what? Knees perhaps?)! Mind you, I haven't got as far as going around with a marker pen to add apostrophes where they are missing as Lynn Truss claimed she did in "Eats, Shoots and Leaves"!!!

 

I thought about adding this one but there was a HUGE thread on grammar issues last year and I seem to remember that it got quite heated and I wasn't sure that that was a good idea to resurrect that again!

 

The problem is that I then became quite paranoid about the posts that I made in case I added a redundant apostrophe or made any howlers!

 

One does not like to get on the wrong side of the Omleteers!

[chelsea]

 

Pensioners shopping on Saturday, and then complaining how busy it is.

 

 

 

 

 

lol! I am so with you on this !

 

Mind you during the working week when I am on holiday and go near a shopping centre and see -

 

a) anyone else that should be working shopping

b) a child of school age that is not in school

 

I usually "tut" and comment on why they have to be around when I am trying to shop!

[Woodcat]

People that wear hats whilst driving (what is that all about?!)

x

 

i have to admit i know of one reason for this it's sun roofs that hold water in the seal somtimes for days and then when you turn a sharp corner cascade it down the back of your neck you need somthing with a wide brim.

 

What really really really gets me is people who undertake. So what if i'm not moving into the slow lane i only keep going if i'd have to pull out again in a minute. grrrrrrrrrr. And even if somones hogging the lane it's soooooooooooo dangerous.

 

oh and BMW's with men with suits in.... 9 times out of 10 they are a pain