Or worse. GUM.
The stupid in-house developed application at work that, in true programming idiocy, will close the application and logout when “ctrl C” is pressed, even though the entire universe’s other 53 million computing applications understand that shortcut is for “copy”.
To make it worse, to “copy” text you have to “simultaneously right and left click-hold then mouseover a tabbed layered menu and select the hidden tab, then drag down to where it says ‘copy’”.
The developers foolishly left their names in the “about” menu, I am preparing nefarious ancient Sumerian curses to haunt them and their progeny as we speak…
Seeing the word “orientated” 
What’s wrong with orientated?
(‘loosing’ is incorrect for misplacing something and probably isn’t even a word. Orientated is a word and is the correct word for its use)
Well sure, if you’re facing Far East. 
“2. To arrange in order; to dispose or place (a body) so as to show its relation to other bodies, or the relation of its parts among themselves.”
I am sure that was how I used it. WHoosh whoosh whooooooeeeee weeeee!!
Are you annoyed by the word ‘loosing’ itself (FTR: as in ‘loose’ or, roughly, ‘releasing’), or is it that you only see it used by people who mean ‘losing’ (FTR: as in ‘lose’, ‘lost’)?
Anyway, getting into the spirit of the thing:
Bumping, tripping, knocking into things.
Computer randomly resetting.
Almost all grammatical mistakes aforementioned.
People who don’t know word I think they should
Official forms which are poorly and ambiguously worded…
I am annoyed when it is used to mean ‘misplacing’ or ‘not winning’. But surely when you want to say releasing you use ‘loosening’?
P.S. I now know ‘loosing’ is a real word. But I doubt many people actually use it for it’s real meaning.
When something that’ll cost you more than $400 (U.S.) goes wrong with your car, in that lovely period of time between the end of your warranty coverage, and the end of your payments on said car.
Especially when it’s the whole fucking timing assembly, as opposed to something you could do yourself, in the driveway, over the course of a Sunday afternoon.
A drippy, runny headcold that lasts more than a week.
Running out of cigarettes/coffee/soda/junk food/pick yer vice at around 12:41AM, when you’re pulling an all-nighter on some project, and you’ve got to either do without, or stop working and go and fetch whatever it is; both prospects breaking your concentration enough to either add an hour to the job at hand, or completely ruin your night altogether.
Realizing you’re about to become one of those people who use a credit/debit card for a $3 purchase because, despite the fact that you always try to keep at least $10 in cash on you at all times, you’ve somehow managed to cock it up, and left the house with exactly $1 in cash in your wallet.
Well, that feels a little better. Thanks Lobsang, you’re a true mate.
I’ll have to number them to keep track.
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The word “whinge” when seen in text. I understand it’s a real word, but I always see it as a typo.
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The way that one spot on your back that you can’t quite reach is the only spot on your back that ever itches.
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The sound of people eating chips.
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People who slurp liquids.
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People using periods at the end of incomplete sentences.
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Knowing that there are a billion things that annoy me but, when trying to make a list, not being able to remember a single one.
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Ummm… I’ll be back later or something.
A-bloody-men!
I was going to mention it in the OP. but the annoying thing is - I forgot.
- “Meal for one”. One what? One child? One small duck?
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kip= quick sleep, nap.
At work I was insanely tired, so I put my arm on the desk, and rest my head on it. After a while I started to get pins-n-needles feeling in the arm.
Let’s see:
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The programmer at work who ‘fixes’ problems in the proprietary program he wrote, but never tests even a single instance to be sure the fix works.
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Calling the programmer the second day to inform him that, as is usual, his fix didn’t fix the problem.
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Calling the programmer the third day to inform him that, yes, the original problem is finally fixed, but somehow two even more vitally important functions of that program have coincidentally stopped working…
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Patients who call a medical office and leave the following as amessage: “Hi, Doc, I’ve been thinking it over and maybe you’re right, so please call in a prescription for that drug we talked about.” Er? Your name? Your phone number? The name of the drug? The phone number of your pharmacy? Any clues at all so we have a chance of figuring out who the hell you are???
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People who leave the cut off tops of cans clinging to the can opener magnet.
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People who heat extremely ‘fragrant’ items in the office microwave. Do you really think having the place reek of garlic for several hours is very business like?
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Patients who call and ask for an appointment ‘any time.’ And then turn the first five slots they are offered because of prior commitments, but still keep replying “oh, anytime” when you try to dig out of them a suggestion of when they could actually come in.
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People who drop in to visit you with their children in tow. (I have no children. I have no toys for children to play with. And I find it impossible to carry on a conversation when every other sentence out of your mouth is an order address to one of the offspring.)
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Looking forward to a long hot shower all day, and coming home to find there’s not a single clean towel in the place. (Okay, my fault, but still damn annoying.)
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Cracking the last of the six eggs the recipe calls for into the mixing bowl – and nasty brownish-red goop plops down ruining the whole bowl of ingredients.
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Finding darling shoes on sale cheap – in every size but your own.
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Getting a grocery cart that ‘drifts’ viciously instead of rolling straight.
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Losing your dry cleaning ticket
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Settling in with a book by a newly discovered author, and realizing around page 100 you saw the Movie of the Week it was made into, and so you’re fairly sure you know whodunnit but have to read the rest anyway just in case.
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Having your next door neighbor decide to realize a life-long dream – beginners violin lessons.
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Miscommunication with your hair stylist. “I thought you were asking if I wanted…”
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Finding that a mouse has chewed your prized HS yearbooks into bedding material.
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People who keep saying, “Oh, you’ll love tofu this way! It tastes exactly like XXXX.” A) No I won’t. I’ve eaten tofu in at least three dozen recipes. I disliked it each time. B) No it doesn’t. XXXX tastes like XXXX. Tofu tastes like tofu.
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Getting a notice from your landlord that your rent has been raised,
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retroactive to the beginning of the year.
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Cheap chocolate. Palmer and Ferrari would be criminal enterprises if I ran the universe.
Drat. 21 already. Can I have another turn, she asks plaintively.
StarvingButStrong Go nuts.
- (remembered this reading above doper’s post) Buying a sci-fi book reccomended to yuo buy a doper, reading it, and then the word ‘cock’ appears.
Ok. I can’t defend that. But it does seem to have put me off the book.
StarvingButStrong Go nuts.
- (remembered this reading above doper’s post) Buying a sci-fi book reccomended to yuo buy a doper, reading it, and then the word ‘cock’ appears.
Ok. I can’t defend that. But it does seem to have put me off the book.
No sex please. I’m british.
Double posts! I absolutely hate it when I do that… 
Kalhoun: there’s a fee for turning 40? Well, that just sucks!
I’ve probably forgotten some subtlety (or mistyped one) but I think I use “lose”=“not win” or “misplace”, “loose”=“release”, “loosen”=“slack, make less tight”. And I agree it’s very annoying when people get it wrong, (though strangly I don’t see that as much as I’d expect). But I thought I should put on record the real meanings in case it helps anyone.
Sequins/sparkles on shirts–you pick the shirt up and the damn stuff is EVERYWHERE.
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[li]Virii, and the clueless, careless, patently stupid Outlook/Windows users who propagate the damned things.[/li][li]People who think that the word whoa is spelled “woah.” Whoa is a homonym of woe, so looking at woah it should be clear that it could not be a homonym of woe and it should also be clear that it must rhyme with “Noah” and very clearly no one says woe-uh to a horse. [/li][li]Friends from California spamming me with their glurgey attempt to bankrupt Exxon.[/li][li]People who have absolutely no reason not to use alternative transportation but drive anyway.[/li][li]The new bigoted ad campaign for Frank’s Red Hot Sauce, which isn’t nearly good enough for them to make ads that do anything other than beg for people to use their crappy Tabasco-wannabe, let alone ads that insult and engender prejudice toward sexual minorities.[/li][li]The inflating effect that Atkins dieters are having on the price of eggs.[/li][li]That Nickelback song.[/li][li]The destructive effect that Atkins dieters are having on the already crappy international, kosher and vegetarian selection at my local market.[/li][li]Whatever stupid company or individual, with their name and number hidden from Caller ID, who has made four daily phone calls to my home for the last two weeks.[/li][li]The unwillingness of Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods or any other alternative shopping choices to open locations in my area which is rich with their target demographic![/li][li]I keep re-reading the same library books because I can’t find the wherewithal to try new authors.[/li][li]I need to find a new groomer for Spunky the Wonder Dog and everyone I’ve called has sounded like an idiot.[/li][li]People who respond to fact-based questions on a technical forum with non-sequiturs, unhelpful commentary and flat out stupidity.[/li][li]I can’t find a software CD that I need to return to the company that manufactured it, so that I can get a replacement.[/li][li]Despite trying the 20 degree tilt trick on a half-dozen bottles each time, the last eleven Pepsis I’ve purchased have not been winners in the free iTunes game. 1 in 3 wins my foot![/li][li]The “let’s recap crap from the past with inane commentary from b-list actors and wannabe celebrities” thing that VH1 and E! won’t let go of. 101 Reasons why the 90s Ruled with witticisms from Nicole Richie? No, I don’t think so.[/li][li]“Due to security concerns, 24-hour access to mailboxes at this Post Office will end effective immediately. Patrons may access their mailboxes between the hours of 6 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 6 a.m. and 12 noon Saturday.”[/li][li]People attempting to pass themselves off as web designers while remaining ignorant of the importance/proper use of doctypes and/or referring to HTML as “code.” [/li][li]Bloggers who use overpriced, crappy webhosts that won’t allow them to install a proper blogging software, therefore necessitating the use of a crappy, third-party commenting system.[/li][li]Verbing nouns, because it weirds language.[/li][li]Incurious and complacent people.[/li][/ol]
I know it’s accepted now, but it bugs me, and this is worth the flames, when Americans miss ‘of’ and ‘to’ from certain things.
“A couple beers”
“Write me”
To this brit it sounds wrong. It should be “A couple of beers” and “Write to me”.