Silly things...

[flarewearer]

...that annoy you. Have you noticed things that annoy you, bug you or just make you stop and think thereby wasting 5 of your valuable seconds? You have? Why not share them here, I'll start us off;

All day breakfasts only available till 2PM

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[DrAlex]

The tiling job in the men's bathroom of the Union bar. It's something of a pet peeve of mine because I know how to tile.

A blind monkey could have done a better job.

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[Dave the Explosive Newt]

I've probably said this before - but people who just saunter (not run) across a busy road (not at a zebra crossing), making you slow down. I'm a car, it's a road, it's my right of way. Damnit.

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[Fozzy Bear]

French fries are not French.
The world series is only played by Americans.

i'm sure there are more but i cant think of them at the moment.

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[DrAlex]

Quoting fozzy bear from 14:33, 22nd Jan 2006
The world series is only played by Americans.

Fear not, fellow baseball fan, the World Baseball Classic is coming in March and hosts teams from around the globe!

Also, it's American teams, but, like football, players come from around the world.

Another thing that gets me is when people don't know the difference between "irony" and "sarcasm". For instance, my calling Fozzy Bear a "fellow baseball fan" was ironic, but not sarcastic.

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[Cain]

Quoting fozzy bear from 14:33, 22nd Jan 2006
The world series is only played by Americans.

However, the Bank of Scotland Scottish Premier League has players who are not employees of the Bank of Scotland. What's with that?

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[Frasier Fan]

Quoting Cain from 15:15, 22nd Jan 2006

Quoting fozzy bear from 14:33, 22nd Jan 2006
The world series is only played by Americans.

However, the Bank of Scotland Scottish Premier League has players who are not employees of the Bank of Scotland. What's with that?

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I hold an element of surprise

To be fair, most of the players in the Scottish Premier League would be better working in a bank than they are at playing football.

[Gubbins]

Quoting Cain from 15:15, 22nd Jan 2006

However, the Bank of Scotland Scottish Premier League has players who are not employees of the Bank of Scotland. What's with that?

Sssh - they'll be wanting us to sponsor the World Series next!

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...but then again, that is only my opinion.

[exnihilo]

Quoting flarewearer from 14:04, 22nd Jan 2006All day breakfasts only available till 2PM

Following from that...

"Good food served 12-3."

And the rest of the time??

[flarewearer]

"permanently low prices, forever"

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[Mr Comedy]

Dodgy London supermarkets - "Fresh Veg"

[Light the Rag]

Quoting DrAlex from 14:12, 22nd Jan 2006
The tiling job in the men's bathroom of the Union bar. It's something of a pet peeve of mine because I know how to tile.

A blind monkey could have done a better job.

Since when did the union have a bathroom? I've only ever seen lavatories and urinals in there. (I hear there's a shower, but I've never heard mention of a bath).

[Fozzy Bear]

Why some annoying furniture store always advertises "These savings MUST end Monday 8pm" just to have a new promotion on the same things starting the next day. surely that must be against the law.

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[Gubbins]

Quoting light the rag from 16:45, 22nd Jan 2006
Since when did the union have a bathroom? I've only ever seen lavatories and urinals in there. (I hear there's a shower, but I've never heard mention of a bath).

This confuses me - outside my room I have the "Bathroom". Next door is the "Toilets". Due to the frequent colloquialism of 'bathroom' to mean 'toilet(s)', it confuses me for a second, which is okay, because I'm being an idiot. However, the "Bathroom" has only showers, and THAT is what pisses me off. Grrr...!

Oh yeah, and people who can't accept that rules should allow flexibility - I mean things like rejecting a student's PhD thesis because they'd used a slightly different word in the title to the one they 'should' have.

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...but then again, that is only my opinion.

[Al]

"Since when did the union have a bathroom?"

The "guest suite" used to have a bathroom. With a bath!

[queen of scots]

Far too many things annoy me...and I'm in a foul mood today...but the top things at the moment are:

- the word limit for PhD theses.
- the fact PhD extension fees have almost tripled since I started.
- the stupid timetabling of the trains from Leuchars.

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[Guest]

Quoting Al from 18:07, 22nd Jan 2006
"Since when did the union have a bathroom?"

The "guest suite" used to have a bathroom. With a bath!

Where's the quest suite?

[Guest]

Quoting DrAlex from 14:36, 22nd Jan 2006

Fear not, fellow baseball fan, the World Baseball Classic is coming in March and hosts teams from around the globe!

Also, it's American teams, but, like football, players come from around the world.

Not quite true, Cuba are playing in it for certain (having just been given permission) and I believe there may be teams from japan as well.

The world series is called that because it was first sponsored by the newspaper The World - even i know that and I'm neither a baseball fan nor an american...

[DrAlex]

I think we have a misunderstanding...

World Baseball Classic: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/wbc/index.jsp

World Series: Championship game between AL Champion and NL Champion (ergo always an American MLB team).

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[exnihilo]

Quoting from 18:17, 22nd Jan 2006
The world series is called that because it was first sponsored by the newspaper The World - even i know that and I'm neither a baseball fan nor an american...

I'm neither American nor a baseball fan either, but it is astonishing just how often that particular false claim is made - and often in just such an exasperated way.

http://www.snopes.com/business/names/worldseries.asp