What bugbears do you have?

Trolls!

High rising terminals.

C.

Burkinis

Zombies, the ones walking along looking at screens instead of where they're going.

Managers who don't know what they're f***ing with.

Skin on custard and gravy. Bow ties. Neoliberal economics. Apricots. Rugby. Sting. Religion (especially the one of, er, "peace"). Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea. Email. Bremainiacs going on and on and on and on and on and on. My eyesight getting worse with each passing year. Superhero movies. Bad grammar.

That particular sort of person who feels they always have to have the last word in any discussion, usually because what they have to say is so much more important than your point of view. 

Mind you, they don't really annoy me, I usually just have an inward smile at their "up themselves" attitude. 

Poo that floats and doesn't flush first time. Or those bits that stick around the inside that do not come off.

TOBYJUG posted:

Or those bits that stick around the inside that do not come off.

Maybe you should rub harder.

JamieWednesday posted:

TOBYJUG posted:

Or those bits that stick around the inside that do not come off.

Maybe you should rub harder.

Bugbears? In the US we call them dingleberries.

joerand posted:

Bugbears? In the US we call them dingleberries.

We call them Klingons. 

The over use of quotes on this forum.

Lists of inanities - bugbears for example.

G

Nettles.

Things that go mouldy when they shouldn't.

The 'perpetually offended' brigade / virtue signallers.

Internet ads.

The Twittersphere.

Aerrie-fairie spiders that are 'no body and all legs'.

Peeing too little and too often, with attendant 'low fly syndrome'.

Someone 'whistling' to get my attention (The WORST!)

The older I get, the longer the list becomes.....

Peter

People eating with their mouth open

People not saying thank you when you give way

Non use of indicators

Lack of manners in general

People claiming benefits who are capable of working

As an old biker, drivers running red lights, driving whilst on the phone, etc etc 

Tony2011 posted:

Trolls!

And yet again, the exploding sausage (x3) completely fails to communicate any sort of information or emotion. So I'll add "use of the exploding sausage emoticon" to the list. And.....

1. Organised religion. All of it. With special contempt reserved for those who would seek to control what I am allowed to do. 

2. The culture of driving absolutely everywhere.

3. Motorists whose time is apparently more valuable than my life.

dayjay posted:

People eating with their mouth open

People not saying thank you when you give way

Non use of indicators

Lack of manners in general

People claiming benefits who are capable of working

As an old biker, drivers running red lights, driving whilst on the phone, etc etc 

You seriously, seriously do not need to move to France...

Unapologetic lateness.

Everything else is just trivial, although the modern addiction to the mobile phone has added an entire category of rudeness in recent years. Having it ring and be answered by the patient during a consultation/examination is now a regular occurrence. Is there no scenario in which it can be switched off or ignored now? In the Confessional? Whilst having a colonoscopy?

Bruce

Skat Jazz......just hearing it puts me in a fowl mood

Tabby cat posted:

Skat Jazz......just hearing it puts me in a fowl mood

Wow...does it make you lay an egg?

Sorry mis -spell should have been a ducked off mood !

Dust bunnies under furniture.

Either councils who spend thousands converting  roads and pavements into cycle lanes.

Or cyclists who don't use them.

Now we have hit the subject of cyclists I feel compelled to raise my little bugbear. On 27 August I was knocked off my bike by an 89 year old driver and almost died. He was asked by the police when he saw the cyclist. His response was 'when I hit him'. The police made him take the eyesight test at the scene and he failed, and he has had his licence removed. His family had been telling him for years that he was a danger on the road but he would not stop driving. I have a fractured skull, have had to surrender my driving licence following seizures, and it's unclear if I will ever work again. 

So what is my bugbear? That there is no rigorous system in place to test older drivers to ensure that they are fit for modern road conditions, and that they can actually see what is going on around them. When I am fitter I'm going to campaign to sort this out. None of you, or your children are safe on the road, never mind how careful you are, while there are these people driving around.  

Daveas posted:

Either councils who spend thousands converting  roads and pavements into cycle lanes.

Or cyclists who don't use them.

You know we avoid "perfectly good" cycle lanes just to annoy motorists, don't you? We also love the threat of being run down and the abuse we receive. Makes us feel alive.