Name THREE bugbears you have!!!

The ubiquity of mobile phones, and the inability of people to ignore/switch off when the situation requires it.

Two language irritations. The new verb 'to medal' with regard to Olympic athletes, and the endless use of 'going forward' by union reps/NHS managers and the rest.

Lateness.

My inability to count to three.

Bruce

Poor use of English, CCTV does NOT prevent crime it helps to provide evidence of crime. When was the last you saw a camera get off the wall and stop a drunken brawl?

Slow responding computers.

"Smart" phones being too clever to complete a telephone call.

Jono

1. Poor grammar.

2. The creeping dishonesty in society, such that we are now at the point where no statement, written or spoken, can be believed unless you have past evidence of the honesty of the speaker.

3. The tendency of people to uprate themselves - mechanics terming themselves engineers, for instance. Why were dentists ever allowed to prefix themselves 'Dr'. Why not 'Dt.' for 'dentist', if they really needed validation that badly?

Fraser (Dr.)

Liars

Deviousness

Rudeness

People who post requests for the  3 things that xxxxxxx (insert required) lists

People who answer them 

Doh!

Actually you're right BigH, I prefer your answer.

Conceding two goals very late in the game (after the 90 minutes) when you are 2-1 in front and losing 3-2 for the third week in a row and secondly 

Bus drivers who don’t wait for people to sit down before pulling away from the bus stop;
Taxi drivers who use their horns instead of knocking on the door;
People who moan at the council about the streets being full of litter, not stopping to think that it is people who drop litter, not the council;
A room full of drama teachers listening to Bjork;
Grown men with replica shirts worn over their jumpers, who stand up and stretch out their arms when the opposing team fails to hit the target;
An assortment of scriptwriters, novelists and playwrights who own Agas but don’t know how to use them;
A musical equipment reviewer responsible for an article titled “Microphone of the Month”;
A whole wall full of teenagers spitting needlessly;
An amateur thug in camouflage trousers whose Japanese fighting dog had run amok on a Swindon council estate;
A man from the record company who said that George Michael continues to challenge social taboos through his music;
Continuity announcers introducing comedy shows;
A pub band who get uppity when everyone goes to the bar during a song they’ve written themselves;
A group of football fans referred to as Commodores, as in once, twice, three times a season, who feed sugar lumps to police horses at Cup Finals;
An artist who said his next album would be more “song-based”;
A man who informs people that he gets up at six am every morning and seemed to want a medal;
People who say they speak as they find and are somehow proud of it;
Journalists who try to spell an interviewee’s laugh;
An organisation who declared an awareness week for awareness weeks;
And a council worker who dropped litter.

Guy's teacher for not learning 'im numbers proper.

I think just one biggest one, at the moment:

People putting a different face or speaking in a different tone to pander to or butter up the specific audience they are speaking to, kind of a pretentiousness. Now don't get me wrong, this is quite normal, everyone does it to some extent sometimes, but I'm talking about more to the side of being two-faced, contemptuous, disgusting (to those who can see through said person's motives)

Good example: flexing muscle and acting all big towards subordinates, but being an utter ****ing slave dog to superiors

woah.. just thinking about it my heart rate went up

Kenny

Number One – Somebody who starts a thread with the sole purpose analyzing the replies to assess the character of the poster.

Only joking Jon. Very clever, some interesting replies.

fatcat (Eng).

This is very easy. The three things are, in this order:

1) French driving

2) French driving, & 

3) French driving

Without doubt, the single worst aspect of living in France, by a factor of fourteen million nine hundred and seventy five thousand eight hundred and sixty-two is the FACT that no French person - and I am aware of the risk of over-generalisation here, but - NO, Not one, not a single French person of any age, colour, gender, creed or any other make-up whatsoever, NO French person is capable of propelling a motor vehicle with even the slightest shred of an iota of a hint of: accuracy, style, patience, politeness or ability.

Utterly, utterly, hopeless.

In driving terms, the French make the Germans look stylish, the Italians predictable, the Spanish polite, the Indians accurate and the Portuguese sane.

Rod,

Never been to Cairo then??

These are currently my top three irritants, but they may well change tomorrow (or maybe not)

1. Miranda Sawyer

2. People who keep stoking Miranda Sawyer's inflated sense of self-worth and importance by constantly putting her on the radio and telly (I'm talking 'bout you Auntie), and in the newspapers (hey, talkin' 'bout you, Guardian)

3. Miranda Sawyer's  "controversial Manc gobshite for hire" opinions.

That is all.

K

Who is Miranda Sawyer?

If we are doing people can I nominate Jonathan Woss? I just don't get it....

Bruce, if you've never come across her then consider yourself fortunate. Some overblown, overpaid hack who seems to be there every time I switch on the radio or open a paper.

1, the medias current infacuatuation and questionable suprise and disgust with the so called hacking scandal ! pot kettle springs to mind

2, the fact that football records and that football actually  existed in England  before the invent of the Premier league seems to be forgotten or written from history !!!

3 ,, having that  hi fi upgrade niggling  feeling when you know the kids need feeding . clothing etc

ill add spelling errors to mine ,, there really is no ecxuse with spell checker availble

I have and my comment stands. The French make the Egyptians look orderly and courteous.

French cars may be marginally less smelly. But it's only marginal.

I'd like to be able to admit that my post was based on one particular bad journey home, but it wasn't. It's based on five years of having to weave around and double guess these idiots. The truly horrific thing is that you find eventually that you start to drive like them. I stopped for a pedestrian crossing once (which is - obviously - not something the French do) and someone rammed me in the rear, and then berated me for having dared to try not to kill a pedestrian thus damaging his car.

So, now I only stop for pedestrians if there isn't someone behind me.

But I still use my indicators, which marks me out as a foreigner.

+1 Rod

I was driving in Marseillles looking for a parking place, spotted a car leaving a marked bay & waited with trafficator flashing for it to pull out.

No sooner than I began turning in than a car came from the oposite direction & rammed himself in at an angle preventing me from moving into the space. 

The driver then started the horn concerto (just like Cairo) then as I wouldn't give way, he jumped out & amongst the tirade accused me of driving like a ##### inconsiderate ###### anal gland ##### Parisian.  

A nice Gendarme arrived to sort it out, but the guys got even more irate when he realised I was not a Parisian but an unspeakable Rosbifs.  Have a nice day - I DID  

My pet hate bugbears in the audio world

Recordings with 10m wide drum kits 

Singers playing a guitar that’s located in another room

Radio presenters too close to the mic with breath, whistling nose, loose teeth & too much saliva noises.

The differential use of the words "uprising", "unrest" and "rioting" by the media depending on the propaganda requirements.

Reporters who say things like "I an quite literally standing in the street".

The expression "almost exactly"

People who on this forum refer to Naim as a 'they' rather than an 'it'

People who say that they are going to give you two choices and then proceed to give you two options to chose from which, as we know, is a choice. Two choices = a minimum of three options

Er? 1 choice,  2 choices.  or both, a few is 3 or more to lowish number.

What really annoys me is pedants.

Dear H47,

ill add spelling errors to mine ,, there really is no ecxuse with spell checker availble

Like the author of this classic perhaps? I don't get too carried away by dodgy spelling, punctuation, or faulty typing, but if I did then I would eventually just depress myself with my own failings ...

I have a small list of things that really do get on my nerves though, including ... in no particular order.

People taking money from me, or even trying to, without a good cause, or worse dishonestly. People taking money off me in the form of taxation to fund things less effectively than I could fund them myself directly, or to be totally wasted on creating jobs for the boys and girls, doing jobs that actually have no value at all in the worst cases. 

Otherwise I only have one Forum related irritation, and it makes me see red. That is recomending an upgrade that bears absolutely no relation to the budget of someone asking for suggestions and advice. Say for example someone asking if a 202 is worthwhile as a step up from a 122, and being landed with the suggestion that he gets a 552, and while at it has his mains sockets rewired with a dedicated spur, thus entailing somewhere in the region of a £1000 for the same mains [just as deformed by electric motors and so forth in local manufactories etc] as before, but requiring an electrician, plasterer and decorator to be employed to get back to exactly square one!

ATB from George

The constant use by journalists of the word "Unprecedented "

DJ's who talk all over a record or cut it short.

Broadcasters on radio/tv who eat/chew food whilst trying to talk.

I could go on.......