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People who think they can shut down just about any argument by saying "First world problems".
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Or saying can I finish or can I just say say something ?
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People who run events and think it's acceptable to stamp the back of your hand. You can fuck right off with that.
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People who have had their hand stamped at some event and are wandering round the next day without having properly washed it off.
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Gavin Chipper wrote: Sat Dec 14, 2019 7:32 pm People who have had their hand stamped at some event and are wandering round the next day without having properly washed it off.
People who wear the wristbands from concerts and festivals months later
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People who say "Happy belated birthday".
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Gavin Chipper wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2020 2:38 pm People who say "Happy belated birthday".
Say or write.
Haven't got a problem with someone posting it on say , FB , but not to say it to your face.
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Marc Meakin wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2020 5:01 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2020 2:38 pm People who say "Happy belated birthday".
Say or write.
Haven't got a problem with someone posting it on say , FB , but not to say it to your face.
Well write really. My main problem with it is that it basically doesn't make any sense. It's never anyone's belated birthday. If anything they should "Belated happy birthday".
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People who lazily use obscure abbreviations/jargon, and then get annoyed when you ask what it means, suggesting you should Google it. I mean, obviously I have already Googled it, but you still need to be pulled up on it. Reading your post shouldn't require homework.
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Mark Deeks wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2019 7:02 am People who can't be arsed to put the shopping trolley back. Awful people, should be prosecuted.
This happened yesterday as I sat in a Tescos car park eating a giant pot of salad and doing some work with my [Graeme's] laptop on my knees at 8.25 am on a Saturday morning. (My life is dope.) This total and complete Karen of a 55-year-old-ish-looking woman who oozed snobbery and who had a personalised numberplate on her unnecessarily large Range Rover two spaces down from mine in a massive and very empty car park unloaded her shopping, and then just dumped the trolley in the space between us. I naturally handled this well and massively overreacted, and yet so completely in her own world was she, she somehow didn't see all my gesticulations, just driving off like nothing had happened. It never ceases to amaze me how some people are completely incapable of and/or are unwilling to see the world outside of how it most immediately affects them. I can't tell if it's ignorant, selfish, deliberate or just stupid. She had the time to apparently park as far away from the supermarket door as possible yet not the time to do the 20 extra paces required to clean up the mess she made. Whichever it was, it was rude, and I hope she is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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People (poker commentators) who pronounce the number three as tray.
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Grammar pedants, people obsessed with language's "rules" and people who think online copy should all be "sentences of ten words or less". It just doesn't make sense why you want them all like that. Surely it is the mixing up of lengths that makes the punchier ones punchy; surely it is the individuality of one's expression that makes them a writer, not a content farm. And while not all writing can be justified by this reasoning - some of it is just shit - I see no purpose to wanting to standardise the way people write, talk and communicate.

In unrelated news, I definitely did not just have a disagreement with an editor about some work I submitted.
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People who vandalise the Countdown Wiki and also people who impersonate Paul Nixon (in reference to a recent scandal which I’ll not go too deep into).
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Mark Deeks wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2020 11:55 am In unrelated news, I definitely did not just have a disagreement with an editor about some work I submitted.
Yeah, it did seem a very specific gripe.
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People who post things in a whatsapp group that someone else has already posted.
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People with a fever and dry cough.
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Gavin Chipper wrote: Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:56 am People with a fever and dry cough.
People
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Ashton Hancock, oh why oh why did I do this???? I’m an idiot
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People with a trolley full of loo rolls saying "It's not what you know , it's who you know"
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People who bring up the "but it's legal tender" argument as to why their offered payment should be accepted in a transaction. Legal tender refers to repayment of a debt, meaning that if you offer to pay off a debt in legal tender then you can't be sued for failing to repay. What you are doing in a shop is an exchange, and the shop therefore has discretion over what they accept. A shop can accept anything they like - including Scottish notes, Northern Irish notes and even obsolete notes, though they are by no means obliged to. It's especially annoying when people use this for Scottish/Northern Irish notes, since these are not legal tender anyway.
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Elliott Mellor wrote: Sat Mar 21, 2020 3:27 pm People who bring up the "but it's legal tender" argument as to why their offered payment should be accepted in a transaction. Legal tender refers to repayment of a debt, meaning that if you offer to pay off a debt in legal tender then you can't be sued for failing to repay. What you are doing in a shop is an exchange, and the shop therefore has discretion over what they accept. A shop can accept anything they like - including Scottish notes, Northern Irish notes and even obsolete notes, though they are by no means obliged to. It's especially annoying when people use this for Scottish/Northern Irish notes, since these are not legal tender anyway.
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Marc Meakin wrote: Sat Mar 21, 2020 6:00 pm
Elliott Mellor wrote: Sat Mar 21, 2020 3:27 pm People who bring up the "but it's legal tender" argument as to why their offered payment should be accepted in a transaction. Legal tender refers to repayment of a debt, meaning that if you offer to pay off a debt in legal tender then you can't be sued for failing to repay. What you are doing in a shop is an exchange, and the shop therefore has discretion over what they accept. A shop can accept anything they like - including Scottish notes, Northern Irish notes and even obsolete notes, though they are by no means obliged to. It's especially annoying when people use this for Scottish/Northern Irish notes, since these are not legal tender anyway.
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People who decline LinkedIn connection requests. The hell are you using it for if it's not for that?
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People who don't spell and pronounce it "Linkedln", because that's what it looks like and what it deserves to be called. (As in with a lower case ELL, not a capital EYE.)
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Those who think that it's not the occasion to do April Fool's Jokes today. Yes, it's a bit insensitive if your joke is about the virus, but really you're just a bit too uptight if you are saying things like that, which I have been hearing.
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People who still do April Fool jokes.
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People who share motivational bollocks from influencers on LinkedIn.


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People who don't want to go on furlough if it is offered to them.
I would much rather volunteer to help The NHS , whilst being paid by the government than spend all night stacking shelves for a sister company whilst the regular staff take it easy .
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Gavin Chipper wrote: Wed Apr 01, 2020 1:57 pm People who don't spell and pronounce it "Linkedln", because that's what it looks like and what it deserves to be called. (As in with a lower case ELL, not a capital EYE.)
I'm I the only one who pronounces it Linky din ?
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People whose thumbs bend backwards.
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Gavin Chipper wrote: Sun Apr 26, 2020 4:09 pm People whose thumbs bend backwards.
Is that just the thumbs or all aspects of hypermobilty ?

I only recently found out it is a skill (?) of some people on the Autism spectrum
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Marc Meakin wrote: Sun Apr 26, 2020 4:38 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: Sun Apr 26, 2020 4:09 pm People whose thumbs bend backwards.
Is that just the thumbs or all aspects of hypermobilty ?

I only recently found out it is a skill (?) of some people on the Autism spectrum
Specifically thumbs. It's horrible to look at when someone's pressing their thumb down on something and it's bending backwards.

I'm very inflexible, so I must be really unautistic.
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People on FB who are using the care emoji indiscriminately
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People with piercings or tattoos, especially:

1. Those who generally don't like them but for some reason make an exception for earlobes

2. Those who "wouldn't get cosmetic surgery" - er, you just did.
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People who say such and such is affectionately known as....this implies that he/she is unaffectionely known as a complete twat.

People who say we don't have anymore ( insert desired item ) here I'm afraid.....wtf are you afraid of ?
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Used car salesmen.
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People who think it's hilarious to go on Facebook and write "Happy Star Wars day". What an original joke.
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Another Facebook one. Anyone who did that 10 album covers thing and chose a best of. I even saw one idiot do the entire Beatles box set as one entry.
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Mark James wrote: Mon May 04, 2020 4:42 pm Another Facebook one. Anyone who did that 10 album covers thing and chose a best of. I even saw one idiot do the entire Beatles box set as one entry.
I upset people when I just listed my 10 favourite albums in one post.
I am very anti chain letter type posts even if they are harmless.
Probably because I'm an impatient bastard at the best of times
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Grammar and spelling pedants. Basically a game of one-upmanship, of intelligent/pseudo-intellectual/people who for some reason think that they are intelligent trying to prove they are more intelligent than you. Good for you, big man, but it really doesn't matter.
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Mark Deeks wrote: Tue May 05, 2020 10:48 am Grammar and spelling pedants. Basically a game of one-upmanship, of intelligent/pseudo-intellectual/people who for some reason think that they are intelligent trying to prove they are more intelligent than you. Good for you, big man, but it really doesn't matter.
Are you including those that are fixated with apostrophes ?
Also , you made me think of this

https://youtu.be/N4vf8N6GpdM
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People who call their newborn child X AE A-12
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People that think that adding salt to sweet/dessert items is ever sensible.
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Ian Volante wrote: Wed May 06, 2020 12:38 pm People that think that adding salt to sweet/dessert items is ever sensible.
That and the idiot who thought balsamic vinegar and strawberries go together.
Although to contradict myself , a salted caramel dessert is nice but I wouldn't add salt
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Marc Meakin wrote: Wed May 06, 2020 2:46 pm
Ian Volante wrote: Wed May 06, 2020 12:38 pm People that think that adding salt to sweet/dessert items is ever sensible.
That and the idiot who thought balsamic vinegar and strawberries go together.
Although to contradict myself , a salted caramel dessert is nice but I wouldn't add salt
Salted caramel with extra salt would be a bit much.

Anyone tried peppered toffee? (With or without extra pepper)
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Marc Meakin wrote: Wed May 06, 2020 2:46 pm
Ian Volante wrote: Wed May 06, 2020 12:38 pm People that think that adding salt to sweet/dessert items is ever sensible.
That and the idiot who thought balsamic vinegar and strawberries go together.
Although to contradict myself , a salted caramel dessert is nice but I wouldn't add salt
But caramel's nice in the first place. There's a practical side to adding salt to beef to make corned beef, but caramel doesn't need to live for years in a tin, so adding salt is just silly, and probably an affront to god and man.
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I am reminded of the fad of chocolate flavoured crisps and chocolate pretzels in the 1990s.
The pretzels were quite morish but I must have been in the minority as they didn't last long
Edit... apparently you can still by the chocolate pretzels on Amazon
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People who put labels on fruit.
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Gavin Chipper wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 8:14 pm People who put labels on fruit.
My daughter lives in Japan and all the loose fruit is wrapped in plastic
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Me I guess
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People doing a "what me guv" panto act with a sprayed-on halo when they're in the shitter.
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Martin Peters wrote: Tue May 12, 2020 12:27 pm Me I guess
Do you put labels on fruit ?
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Folk who don't like The Beatles
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Paul Anderson wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2020 5:34 pm Folk who don't like The Beatles
I've never met anyone who dislikes ABBA, on a similar note.
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I never really liked the Beatles until I took hallucinogens.
Not so much that it made the music sound better (it did) but more from the destruction of the ego you get from tripping. I think I just had an aversion to them more as a rebellious thing. Like, I was expected to just automatically agree the Beatles were great so screw that. Fortunately tripping erased all that bullshit. Because of course, you should be expected to like the Beatles because they are great.

As for Abba, I think they've written even better pure pop songs than even the Beatles. I've encountered people who don't like them but their criticisms tend to have a tinge of homophobia about them, like they are afraid to admit they like them because of some percieved connotation. So yeah, don't trust these people.
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People who laugh at the jokes in Shakespeare.
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People who call daddy-long-legses craneflies.
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Jon O'Neill wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2020 11:09 pm People who laugh at the jokes in Shakespeare.
A Midsummer Nights Dream, play within a play is quite funny but generally no real laughs for me
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