Tiny Little Things That Cause You Irrational Rage

[Robert Poste's Child]

BrandNewGuy Wrote:

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> People using the ?things that have irked me today?

> thread when they should be using the ?Tiny Little

> Things That Cause You Irrational Rage?

To be fair, the irk thread has only been around for less than a fortnight, give it a chance.

BTW (personal Q, sorry), do you ever think about updating your user name? You must be practically part of the establishment by now, surely?

[BrandNewGuy]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> BrandNewGuy Wrote:

> To be fair, the irk thread has only been around

> for less than a fortnight, give it a chance.

No, I want to strangle it at birth :-)

> BTW (personal Q, sorry), do you ever think about

> updating your user name? You must be practically

> part of the establishment by now, surely?

It's a Neil Young thing...

"She's got a brand new guy.

Looks like she's never coming back to me."

Now back to your normal programming :-)

[Robert Poste's Child]

Dark.

Feel slightly sad now.

Bake-off tomorrow though, hooray. I watch on iPlayer so I can FFW whenever Sue Perkins says anything (circuitous route but back on topic now).

[Salsaboy]

Bake off.

[Zebedee Tring]

I call it The Great British Jerk Off. Tho' Strictly Come Dancing is much more irritating.

If you'd told me twenty years ago that two of the biggest TV shows in 2014 were devoted to baking and ballroom dancing, I would have thought that you were winding me up.

[vgrant]

yummy mummies

hipsters

cupcakes

bugaboos

Queues outside the butchers

Exciting new bar opening on the old inside 72 site

*I have a time machine & am posting this from 2006

[KidKruger]

The whining kid with Mom outside my bedroom window this morning.

"I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah, I want my Daddy, waaaaah".

He ain't in this house sunshine.

Tell yet Mom to get off her effing mobile and start walking. Somewhere else. With you and your stupid pink scooter.

[Robert Poste's Child]

You not a morning person either?

[Zebedee Tring]

No wonder there are kids who don't even know their own name and who haven't been potty trained by the time that they start attending school. Cos their muvvers are on the bleedin' phone the whole time and don't speak to them

[KidKruger]

she was debating with presumably a fellow yummy which cafe to choose for coffee once dumping the distraught whiney kid at nursery. JFO

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Newspaper fingerers. The ones that won't take the top free newspaper from the box at stations, must have the one below the top one. What's wrong with top one?

[Loz]

In my experience, it usually has a partly screwed up front page.

[KidKruger]

HMB it has to be untouched, untainted, brand new and just for you.

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Yeah, when it's like that fair do's maybe (and they get like that by the fingerers in the first place). Mostly though the top ones fine, they still want the one that's below. Sometimes even 2 or 3 below. Think it's more likely KKs reasoning.

Loz Wrote:

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> In my experience, it usually has a partly screwed

> up front page.

[Zebedee Tring]

People who say "bored of" instead of "bored with". When did this usage come in?

[El Pibe]

I'm, afraid you're going to have to put up with it.

It's changed from a past particple to an adjective, a very natural progression linguistically.

If you're a stickler for tradition I'd stick with ennui though ;)

[ed_pete]

"..Villagey feel.." - FFS

[Zebedee Tring]

Sorry, but how has "bored" changed from being a past participle to an adjective, and even if it had changed in this way, why should "with" be replaced by "of"? I thought that in both phrases "bored" would be regarded as a participial adjective. Perhaps someone could explain this to me.

I know that I'm going to have to put up with it; that doesn't mean to say that I can't deplore it. I reckon that is it just another example of Americanisation.

[Robert Poste's Child]

'Bored by' makes more sense to me than 'with', though arguably people may use them to mean slightly different things. Whichever one you use it can feel a clunky construction, as passives tend to.

[El Pibe]

Is it from america? Maybe, or it's just natural progression. Park it along full of, tired of, fed up of...

Even so it's widespread common usage, so you may just have to move this to irrational rage thread ;)

[El Pibe]

I actually like the way it's progresseed beyond of, which is a biot clunky, to a sort of word glue, I'm sure there's a technical term

"I'm bord o' this"

"I'm border this"

[StraferJack]

People being a stickler for traditional language and then saying "I reckon"

[the-e-dealer]

yoh homie boy.

[Zebedee Tring]

This is the irrational rage thread!

[steveo]

People who show off that they know what a past participle is.

Everyone knows, no one knows what one of them is.

Especially in French