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Things that annoy

Trainspotter

Doing my shopping today got me thinking of the things that annoy me (and not just with shopping!)

Here's three to start with:

Constant rearranging of which aisle things are in at the supermarket.  It means the shopping takes a lot longer than usual, takes many visits before I know where things are (as need different things each time) and makes me go home without things I had gone for (I even manage to forget things that are on the list as they are in order as I go up and down the aisles).

Customers at the till who wait until everything has been scanned before thinking of packing them up, then packing them into bags before putting them in their trolley.  And only after all that do they get their money/card out.  (I always have my money at the till ready before they start scanning, then pack as they are going through the register, pay immediately when they have finished and continue packing.  Then by the time it hs all gone through I have finished packing and am ready to go.  And I usually add up the prices as I'm going along so I know how much it will be).

Too much choice.  For example, why can't there be one price for electricity, it all comes through the same wires.  I know once when confronted by one of the salesman for an electric company I asked how I would know what electricity was coming through my wires as I was sure sometimes I would be getting someone elses electricity, and how could I be sure theirs was as strong as the other company.  I was told it was all the same, so I said if it was all the same, why should I change?  Life is too short to keep changing over from one company to another and worrying about whether you have the best 'deal' or not.

Anyway, what are other peoples top annoyances of modern life?

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  • I'm all for being respectful to people Tom, but sometimes it goes to silly extremes.

    Nowadays it seems to me that there are people who are looking for any hint of insult or disrespect, even when something is said purely out of a sense of fun or in giving a legitimate opinion. I think it's got to the stage where any innocent remark can be interpreted as being racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. and I think there are some people who are looking to be insulted all the time.

    For example, when Wimbledon was on one of the commentators made a remark about an attractive young women in the audience to the effect that he wouldn't mind being examined by her in the dentist's chair. To me, this was an innocent remark that men have been making for time immemorial that simply reflects the differences between the sexes and was a way of paying a compliment, rather than being sexist.

    However, once Twitter got going it was portrayed as a 'sexist' reference and the poor bloke who made it was made to feel like a social pariah.

    It's got to the stage now where the freedom to express yourself has been seriously eroded due to the 'thought police' that seems to pervade our society and it just sours life and inhibits sponteneity. 

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  • I'm all for being respectful to people Tom, but sometimes it goes to silly extremes.

    Nowadays it seems to me that there are people who are looking for any hint of insult or disrespect, even when something is said purely out of a sense of fun or in giving a legitimate opinion. I think it's got to the stage where any innocent remark can be interpreted as being racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. and I think there are some people who are looking to be insulted all the time.

    For example, when Wimbledon was on one of the commentators made a remark about an attractive young women in the audience to the effect that he wouldn't mind being examined by her in the dentist's chair. To me, this was an innocent remark that men have been making for time immemorial that simply reflects the differences between the sexes and was a way of paying a compliment, rather than being sexist.

    However, once Twitter got going it was portrayed as a 'sexist' reference and the poor bloke who made it was made to feel like a social pariah.

    It's got to the stage now where the freedom to express yourself has been seriously eroded due to the 'thought police' that seems to pervade our society and it just sours life and inhibits sponteneity. 

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