Name your top irritation
Friday 4th September 2009, 6:00AM BST.
Oh lordy, not her again..
Chavs, tailgaters, people with bad body odour and Katie Price — when it comes to life’s little irritations we’re an intolerant bunch.
According to a new survey, more than 60 per cent of people found chavs, typically portrayed as uncultured, anti-social, baseball cap wearing youths, “very annoying”.
- What gets your goat? Tell us in the comment box below
People driving too close and people who smell netted 55 per cent and 52 per cent of the vote on the top peeves.
Other pet hates in the top 10 included people who eat with their mouth open, rude shop assistants, foreign call centres, stepping in dog dirt, people who cough without covering their mouths, slow internet connections and poor customer service.
The survey, carried out on behalf of a dairy firm, found that of the 3,000 people questioned, 79 per cent were wound up easily by the little things in life, with 65 per cent driven to distraction.
The survey also found 39 per cent of Britons were cheesed off with the nation’s obsession with Z-list celebrities, while 38 per cent were fed up with the preoccupation with Katie Price and Peter Andre’s split saga.
Now, is it just me or do we seem to be reading a different one of these surveys every other week?
And when you turn on the TV it seems to be “TV’s top 100 dramas/cliffhangers/naughty moments/dull moments/musical/non-musical/meal ideas/Cannon & Ball sketches” every single night.
I don’t know about you, but I find these pointless surveys — usually cooked up by some firm as a half-baked way of getting its name into the media, or by a TV executive with no imagination (as if such a beast could exist) — extremely irritating.
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People who do not use their car indicators to tell other drivers where they are headed consequently slowing all traffic down as nobody knows whether they can proceed or not – are you really so damn lazy you cannot flick a switch that’s right by your hand?
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One of mine is dog poo! and owners who do not clear up after their dogs.
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People who drive at 40mph in a national speed limit area, and then continue at 40mph when you reach a 30mph area!
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MOANERS!!!
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Sadly there isn’t enough space for all my irritations to be published.
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TV programmes that tell us what to eat, how to dress and clean our house. People who are so called “celebrities” and who really are nobody special and have never contributed anything to society in any way. Big Brother programme and Halfwit or whatever he is called.
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6-9 on Radio Shrops.
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Newspapers that don’t know the difference between i.e. and e.g.
The Star archive page tells readers to ‘type in the key words (i.e. jobs, Telford)’.
This should be ‘e.g. jobs, Telford’
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Spruttling. Marginally legal but morally abhorrant…at least in any civilised country.
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People who think there is such a thing as being special and judge other people as to what they think they have or have not contributed to society.
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Thread hijacks by member(s) of the Shropshire Green Party.
Oh, and supporters of speed cameras also.
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People who say, “I’m thinking in my head..” where else would you think? People who put apostrophes into any word with an s on the end. People who say, “I can eat what I like and never put weight on!” People who make noise early in the morning or late at night. I could go on but I’ll leave it at that!
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Hanwood Roundabout. People who approach the roundabout from the Nobold direction in the right hand lane then exit for Hanwood. Look at the road markings that’s why they are there.
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I’m of an age when my irritations are too plentiful and change on a daily basis. The banal, the ignorant and the stupid are always high up on my list. In which case I wonder why I’m adding my bit to this. The latest is the strange British fixation with other people’s sex lives. Most tabloids and numerous magazines are filled with details of what goes on between the sheets of “celebrity” others. Do the “real” men and women of this country not have a sex life anymore or would they sooner read about what others are doing? Aside from that my major irritation is pointless surveys. I would now like to know how many people are similarly irritated…perhaps we could have a reader questionnaire?
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My compulsion to add my comments as if any of this mattes
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Greenwash.
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Moronic chavs and smug, chattering-class liberals.
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people who throw litter out of their cars are scum
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people who stand at the main entrance of hospitals and restaurants puffing smoke in your face as you arrive or leave!
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The “public” school system, the braying idiots it produces, and the smug hypocrites who teach in it.
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Tiresome xenophobes, racists and ‘Little Englander’, who seek to blame all of our problems on people who happen to have their origins or antecedents in other lands, or who have a slightly different skin colour or religion, when in fact they should be looking to blame a global system which persists in allowing 5% of the people to own and control 95% of the wealth.
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People who complain about things that don’t exist.
For example there is no such thing as “Spruttling”.
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Selfish, impatient drivers who ignore the yellow box system and bring Shrewsbury to a standstill.
Pathetic chavs who think they are something special because they are in a’Gang’. Get them on their own and it’s a different story, they become very scared teenagers with no self confidence.
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Car drivers who do “the Telford Turn” – approaching traffic islands from the LEFT hand lane to turn RIGHT, and then going all the way round the outside of the island. Equally with, maniacs who undertake on the southbound A442 passing the Oakengates steep turnoff.
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Bad manners
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Posting a comment on this page and then having it disallowed because it might just upset someone.
They wouldn’t publish my last, I doubt they will publish thsi, what happened to freedomm of speech ?
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Oh, Steve n(#14), at last someone else who recognises the road marking on the Hanwood roundabout! I was beginning to think I was one of the only people in the county who understood them!
My main irritation after this weekend is ignorant, arrogant drivers who think they own the road and who force other drivers into hedges and ditches on country lanes because they are driving too fast to be able to stop on a narrow blind bend. I wouldn’t have thought it possible that there would be 5 of these idiots in succession on one stretch of single track lane.
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People who think they can be rude because it’s ‘freedom of speech’.
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Steven, i really want to know what you posted. Add the comment SS.
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Terry Wogan! I know I’m in a minority but I cannot stand him.
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Have to agree with Woody – Dog poo and the lack of Dog poo bins in and around Shrewsbury! Where I live and have the fortune to walk in such lovely areas, I would have to walk 1.25 miles into the Quarry to dispose of dog poo.
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The re-routing of the bus service in Bayston Hill and the curtailment of the popular 544 service around he centre of the village calling at Meole Brace retail park. Three perfectly good shelterd bus stops in the village are now redundant and will probably remain so until they rot. Youngsters will no doubt use them as meeting places in the evenings.
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Reality TV (laazy lazy lazy)
Cars
Pollution
Litter
Other people in general…
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Pompous Shrewsbury snobs who seem to think their town is some kind of Utopia and nothing bad ever happens there!
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I have to agree with Rob (#25). On several occasions I have witnessed a local firms tipper drivers departing Rampart Way in the left lane then driving all the way around the outside to exit for for the M54 cutting up anyone who is also exiting the roundabout for the M54 from the correct direction.
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‘Disabled’ drivers using their spouses priviledge to park anywhere in town, causing havoc because of the ‘I can park where I want’ ticket and the ‘Issue a ticket and I will go to the press’ brigade who think that they have more rights than the rest of us. I sympathise 100% with disabled people who deserve special treatment, but I despise those abled bodied who use badges belonging to others to obtain the same.
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people who call ‘Chavs’,'Chavs’.They have names, just like you and me.
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