Stupid little things that bug you

[55yr old teenager]

Deliberately misleading news stories
Had one pop up on the phone warning 14 people in the UK killed by snakes. Like a dickhead I clicked it and it turns out 14 people killed since 1846

That genuinely made me laugh!!

 

[Bodicoteblue]

TV announcers with glottal stops and that ludicrous yoof type accent.
The use of the word ‘fantastic’ to describe virtually everything in the slightest way good.

 

[lefty goldblatt]

TV announcers with glottal stops and that ludicrous yoof type accent.

Oh yes (had to look up glottal stops, though).

I'm sick of BBC continuity announcers sounding like they're from downtown Harlem, when they're introducing a news programme. I heard one the other day, and I was half expecting him to say "innit" at the end.
I don't want Mr Cholmondley-Warner, either. Just someone with a neutral voice.

 

[Grassland Blue]

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TV announcers with glottal stops and that ludicrous yoof type accent.
The use of the word ‘fantastic’ to describe virtually everything in the slightest way good.

Absolutely...

:- )

 

[DrBlueBob]

And everyone lives in such a beautiful house !

With a beautiful wife!

And also an electronic car and loads of cushions

And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

TV announcers with glottal stops and that ludicrous yoof type accent.
The use of the word ‘fantastic’ to describe virtually everything in the slightest way good.

In today's modern English, pronouncing "want to" and "going to" as "wanna" and "gonna" is considered okay. Probably an age thing, but just on a personal level, I feel it's not what I was taught in school (many, many, years ago!).

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

People who chew gum with their mouth open and a slack jaw.
Most football managers are guilty of this, a particularly horrible site is the camera zooming in on Carlo Ancelotti or Sam Allardyce.

 

[Donmcfc]

TV announcers with glottal stops and that ludicrous yoof type accent.
The use of the word ‘fantastic’ to describe virtually everything in the slightest way good.

I have heard these yoof type announcers on both the BBC and ITV. They really piss me off.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

The knackered cartilage in both of my knees

 

[laserblue]

People who chew gum with their mouth open and a slack jaw.
Most football managers are guilty of this, a particularly horrible site is the camera zooming in on Carlo Ancelotti or Sam Allardyce.

Nobody could compete with the GPC for extreme gum chewing.