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hairygit:
As the title suggests, what really hacks you off about the modern world. I could write a huge list, but curious to see what bugs you other guys and girls.  Some of my real pet hates.,.......... American style office speak, a couple of weeks ago the district nurse phoned about re arranging her visit, and said  "I'll see when I have a free window and we can touch base." WHAT???? When did that kind of gobbledygook become part of our language? The first part of the statement makes no sense, the second part sounded like an unpleasant procedure!   And don't get me started about "Text speak". I hate it with a vengeance, it's offensive, my daughter knows if she texts me to use proper English, otherwise I ignore it. And why are people so lazy as to use " Text speak" in e-mails? There is no justification other than laziness.  Rant NOT over, but what gets your back up?

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Trigger:
1) Cotton wool society
2) Too much Hi Vis. Even see kids with them on.
3) Government's telling porkies and the muppets  believing it.
4) The Guy that takes is child to school by car, when the Village school is 100 yards away with no roads to cross.
5) Bikers and other road users that never look in there mirrors.
6) Customers who think they know better than me and think I was born yesterday.
7) firms that say they can do a job/ work and haven't got a clue what they are doing.
8 ) Phone calls all day saying I have been in a accident or PPI or solar panels or free boiler ( Ask for the free boiler to be delivered and you will fit it  :o Tell the solar people that you need sun for them to work  :o Tell the PPI and accident callers that you want there company name and address because, you will send them a invoice for your time  :o :o
9) Turn up for an appointment at the time they gave you and then kept waiting  >:(
10) Seller on Fleabay that are trying to sell parts that are totally listed wrong.

That my grumpy old gits top TEN  ;)     

hairygit:
How about muppets walking along listening to their I pods or whatever, staring at the phone in one hand and drinking Costa/Starbucks etc coffee from a cardboard cup through a plastic lid (reminds me of a baby's feeder cup) walking straight out in front of you as you ride along, then hurling abuse at you as if it's your fault! Then watching them walk past a rubbish bin and just drop the cup on the floor!

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MrDavo:
Dodgy apostrophes. Government’s is not the plural of Government.  ;)

matthewmosse:
Racism, I hate that, it's petty and small minded, so are most prejudices. I also don't have a lot of time for excessive political correctness.
Compensation culture, I plain do not agree that everything needs to be pinned to one individuals fault, since most of the time it comes down to lots of flawed choices by often not just any one party That said, whilst I get cross about the archetypal, I was given the wrong sort of ladder and fell off ads on tv, I have had a job where you were given unsuitable kit, and folk were sent packing if they objected and eventually I fell foul of that, wound up un employed and the first thing the job centre said when I informed them of the circumstances was that it wasn't legal. Not worth persuing though. Move on, learn from it.
Auto correct, both a blessing and a curse, it keeps altering what I type, sometimes to complete indecipherable gibberish. At least a spelling error is normally self evident, if it corrects to something totally different it's worse than bad spelling.
Finally deliberate miss selling of stuff, if it's rough, sell it as rough, don't slap a coat of paint over it and say it's restored. Personally I prefer to buy rough, not restored, that way I know what problems lurk and not hidden under paint and polish.

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