Annoying things that rightfully annoy you • Non-Gaming • General Non-gaming • Eurogamer.net

Deleted user 17 July 2019 16:58:43

The "Stupid things that annoy you but shouldn't" thread is frequently abused for things that should annoy you. So here's a legit thread for that. Complain away!

Deleted user 17 July 2019 17:00:50

Can I start with "people creating new threads when we've already got one that we're using for this sort of thing"?

Deleted user 17 July 2019 17:06:08

No. That belongs in the other thread.

Deleted user 17 July 2019 17:21:33

People.

DasBooter 17 Jul 2019 17:27:50 546 posts
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The 30 minutes of pretentious adverts you're forced to sit through in cinemas before a film, full of the smiley, beautiful, successful residents of Generistan all gushing over the phone or car that has JUST CHANGED THEIR LIVES, all underscored with a crooning folksy sentimental version of a classic song.

Then you've got the wanky, overly loud and lengthy assaults on the senses by Dolby and Digital Cinema Media, full of deafening BLAAAAAAAARRRP noises.

Edited by DasBooter at 17:28:54 17-07-2019

RawShark 17 Jul 2019 17:27:52 2,202 posts
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Literally everything about branches of Subway. They are designed for maximum frustration.

Armoured_Bear 17 Jul 2019 17:58:08 31,233 posts
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RawShark wrote:
Literally everything about branches of Subway. They are designed for maximum frustration.

You deserve all you get for going there to eat their plastic fake food.

Ddanno 17 Jul 2019 17:59:36 1,888 posts
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Literally every comment that Ecosse makes in relation to food.

Deleted user 17 July 2019 18:04:37

Ddanno wrote:
Literally every comment that Ecosse makes

Fixed that for you

JamboWayOh 17 Jul 2019 18:08:25 25,236 posts
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Ddanno wrote:
Literally every comment that Ecosse makes in relation to food.

If it isn't hand breaded or sourced from Naples he doesn't want to know.

JamboWayOh 17 Jul 2019 18:09:55 25,236 posts
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Armoured_Bear wrote:

RawShark wrote:
Literally everything about branches of Subway. They are designed for maximum frustration.
You deserve all you get for going there to eat their plastic fake food.

Also you literally eat shit masquerading as katsu curry, so people in glass houses...

Deleted user 17 July 2019 18:19:46

GuybrushFreepwood wrote:

Ddanno wrote:
Ecosse
Fixed that for you

Fixed that for me

nudistpete 17 Jul 2019 18:19:58 1,273 posts
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Armoured_Bear wrote:
You deserve all you get for going there to eat their plastic fake food.

Food and drink snobs like this arse. If I want to eat an overpriced sandwich made at a petrol station and follow it up with a pint of Carling it's perfectly ok. Keep your shitty opinions to yourself.

JamboWayOh 17 Jul 2019 18:23:50 25,236 posts
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nudistpete wrote:

Armoured_Bear wrote:
You deserve all you get for going there to eat their plastic fake food.
Food and drink snobs like this arse. If I want to eat an overpriced sandwich made at a petrol station and follow it up with a pint of Carling it's perfectly ok. Keep your shitty opinions to yourself.

Would you like a hot egg and a crescent of crisps with that sandwich?

Armoured_Bear 17 Jul 2019 18:40:13 31,233 posts
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nudistpete wrote:

Armoured_Bear wrote:
You deserve all you get for going there to eat their plastic fake food.
Food and drink snobs like this arse. If I want to eat an overpriced sandwich made at a petrol station and follow it up with a pint of Carling it's perfectly ok. Keep your shitty opinions to yourself.

You poor soul.
That would be better than subway though.

Armoured_Bear 17 Jul 2019 18:40:41 31,233 posts
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GuybrushFreepwood wrote:

GuybrushFreepwood wrote:

Ddanno wrote:
Ecosse
Fixed that for you
Fixed that for me

Harsh.

nudistpete 17 Jul 2019 18:42:56 1,273 posts
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Armoured_Bear wrote:
You poor soul.
That would be better than subway though.

Have you not been back to the UK since "they" have seemingly made a law requiring every petrol station to have a Subway sandwich shop? Maybe this is a regional thing and southern ones have a Pret.

Deleted user 17 July 2019 21:29:17

The smell that Subway shops emit.

I'd prefer the smell of an -actual- subway over that.

Armoured_Bear 17 Jul 2019 23:00:41 31,233 posts
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nudistpete wrote:

Armoured_Bear wrote:
You poor soul.
That would be better than subway though.
Have you not been back to the UK since "they" have seemingly made a law requiring every petrol station to have a Subway sandwich shop? Maybe this is a regional thing and southern ones have a Pret.

Thankfully my only recent petrol station experience was in Scotland and either Subway wasn't there or I filtered it out.

eleven63 17 Jul 2019 23:30:53 3,052 posts
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JD Sports. It takes an inordinate amount of time to spend money (trainers). THE most complex purchasing system ever.

It is really fucking annoying.

nudistpete 17 Jul 2019 23:49:54 1,273 posts
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What do they do? I love it that at a time retail is suffering lots of shops make you jump through several hoops to buy things. Email address, postcode, inner thigh length, do you agree to receiving marketing information, blah blah. And all you're buying is some �1 tent pegs from mountain warehouse.

BreadBinLidHero 18 Jul 2019 01:26:35 10,801 posts
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It's because the vast majority of them are owned by people who have never ever served a customer.

up_the_ante 18 Jul 2019 01:51:51 1,574 posts
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eleven63 wrote:
JD Sports. It takes an inordinate amount of time to spend money (trainers). THE most complex purchasing system ever.

It is really fucking annoying.

Why do JD Sports only sell black/white/navy clothing? Actually I know the answer. My new question is why do chavs/neds only wear black/white/navy clothing?

TechnoHippy 18 Jul 2019 09:39:15 19,245 posts
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up_the_ante wrote:

eleven63 wrote:
JD Sports. It takes an inordinate amount of time to spend money (trainers). THE most complex purchasing system ever.

It is really fucking annoying.
Why do JD Sports only sell black/white/navy clothing? Actually I know the answer. My new question is why do chavs/neds only wear black/white/navy clothing?

I think I know the answer to that one.

freddymercurystwin 18 Jul 2019 10:54:07 2,825 posts
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DasBooter wrote:
The 30 minutes of pretentious adverts you're forced to sit through in cinemas before a film, full of the smiley, beautiful, successful residents of Generistan all gushing over the phone or car that has JUST CHANGED THEIR LIVES, all underscored with a crooning folksy sentimental version of a classic song.

Then you've got the wanky, overly loud and lengthy assaults on the senses by Dolby and Digital Cinema Media, full of deafening BLAAAAAAAARRRP noises.

And then you often get one unoriginal twat who answers 'Hello' back folled by some sniggers.

Rogueywon 18 Jul 2019 11:09:46 12,387 posts
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Fucking chuggers out in force in town today. The worst kind as well - the ones that continue to follow and hassle you even after you've made it clear you're not interested in giving your bank details to a stranger in the street.

Worst of it is, they were raising money for a charity that does genuinely good things (rather than a glorified lobbying shop) and which I've donated to in the past. But I now just feel a bit less well-disposed towards them.

Frogofdoom 18 Jul 2019 11:26:09 17,973 posts
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I make it clear that I don't do monthly donations and they tend to leave me alone. There was one the other day for breast cancer now who still wanted to carry on talking. He was desperate as he hadn't had anyone stop all day so we chatted for a bit. He was a lovely guy as well and understood that I wasnt going to give him my bank details. After grabbing my coffee i showed him that his chat had earned the charity a �25 donation from me and he was absolutely beaming despite the fact he didnt get a sign up.

I just dont agree with the monthly thing and prefer to give under my terms.

Nexus_6 18 Jul 2019 12:04:05 6,169 posts
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You're a better man than me. I can't stand the fuckers and have stopped even responding to them and their shit talk as I walk past. Every. Fucking. Day.
I now just either look at them without saying anything, while looking at their badge to see who they are from, or just completely ignore.
One guy that did get to me was a year or so back they were at a desk in a shopping centre, he calls out as I walk past 'hey, Jason Statham' (on the account that I'm bald) (And incredibly masculine and toned, of course...)
I snapped back with a 'fuck off' and kept walking, but his big burky mate raced after me and followed me up the escalator. I think he realised what he was doing was ridiculous as when he caught me up he acted more hurt than anything after a wee second, saying his mate said it as I was good looking....!
Pricks.

senso-ji 18 Jul 2019 15:47:17 10,271 posts
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Stupidity like this annoys me

I know it can be seen as mostly harmless to hold a ridiculous view on this, but the way a community can grow from these ideas is frightening and open to abuse (Brexit, Trump, etc).