What are your biggest pet peeves?

[Mark J]

13 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Now I’m not the greatest driver/parker, but unless you’re having a baby or about to have explosive diarrhea, then parking in a supermarket car park like this makes you a twat.

 

 

 

 

Maybe there were two vehicles parked at the same angle next to them when they arrived. Or they were drunk.

[Yournamehere]

4 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Maybe there were two vehicles parked at the same angle next to them when they arrived. Or they were drunk.

Or a discarded shopping trolley?

[felixthelogchopper]

2 minutes ago, Yournamehere said:

Or a discarded shopping trolley?

Or it was airdropped out of a C130 rather than parked?

[Mark J]

1 minute ago, felixthelogchopper said:

Or it was airdropped out of a C130 rather than parked?

It's an enigma.

[felixthelogchopper]

1 minute ago, Mark J said:

It's an enigma.

Looks like a Peugeot to me?

[Mark J]

1 minute ago, felixthelogchopper said:

Looks like a Peugeot to me?

I knew that was going to happen.

[Squaredy]

Not a collosal peeve, but certainly makes me wonder what planet people live on at times.

 

I run a very small sawmill business so I am not an arborist.  I get phone calls or emails from customers who have a tree they want removed asking what I will pay them for it.  Usually once I take into account transport costs the answer is "Not much" or something similar, and sometimes the response comes back "It is worth more than that as firewood".

 

Well yes it may well be, but you will have to chop it all up, split it all, season it for a good while (or build a kiln and kiln it) advertise for buyers, deal with all the enquiries, deliver it to multiple addresses, etc, etc.  

 

And even better is the odd picture I get sent of an overgrown Leylandii or similar in someone's garden asking if I will cut the tree down and pay them.  I always refer them to local tree surgeons.

[Graham]

At the moment the things that grate are:  starting a sentence with 'so', asking 'Can I get' instead of may I have and the incessant use of upward inflection.......sometimes even the whole sentence seems to be upwardly inflected.

[Steve Bullman]

23 minutes ago, Graham said:

upward inflection

so...can I get an explanation of upward inflection?

 

Nevermind, googled it

 

 

[Squaredy]

29 minutes ago, Graham said:

incessant use of upward inflection

Yes agreed....Stephen Fry put this into Room 101 years ago.  Back then it was a bit of an Aussie thing, but maybe it is spreading?