What things annoy more than other things?
We all have our own personal annoyances, and some are probably more popular than others.
Here are some I thought of:
1. People who smoke, smoking in general, especially when people smoke where there are No Smoking signs or where smoking is banned.
2. Lying.
3. Hypocrisy.
4. Inconsistency (behaviour, character, use of words/styles in published texts).
5. The Imperial system and other measurements people use that are not metric (because only the metric system is good enough).
6. am and pm times (because the 24-hour clock is so much easier to use).
7. Russell Brand and his immature humour, pathetic girly hairstyle and everything else about him.
8. The annoying music during the countdown to the headlines as used on BBC News 24.
9. People who do not show respect to others.
10. George Bush and his foreign policies (especially the ones that drove all muslims to hate the West, invading Iraq, etc.)
11. When people confuse the letter O with the number zero, as in saying, for a phone number, something like oh two oh seven five three, etc... when they really mean zero two zero seven five three, etc...
12. When people use "double" for repeated numbers, e.g. in a phone number that ends 1244 they might say "one two double four", when the number is actually "one two four four" -- if I were dialling it I would like to dial the digits 1244 rather than wonder which key is the "double" key on the phone keypad.
13. People who sweat a lot and do not use any kind of deodorant, shower gel, soap, etc., and end up stinking the place out.
14. Bad breath (do some people not realise that they can buy mouthwash?).
15. When people locate places wrongly, such as putting a place in London in some other place where it used to be many years ago before they were born, e.g. Croydon is actually a town (and a London Borough) in Greater London, not in Surrey, although it used to be in Surrey (but that is ancient history so why pretend it is still correct?).
16. Bendy buses in London -- the streets are too narrow for them, people can steal rides on them making them more expensive to run and thus higher fares for everyone who pays to use buses in London. What was Ken Livingstone thinking of when he bought those awful things?
17. Ken Livingstone, former Mayor of London (replaced by Boris Johnson by democratic vote in 2008, thankfully).
18. The stench of pig flesh, especially bacon which is particularly vile in smell.
19. Microsoft Windows in general. It has its good points but too many things just go wrong with using Windows so it is best to not use it but find an alternative OS.
20. People who are nasty, vile, aggressive or vulgar.
This list is not in any particular order, and you will perhaps agree with some of these, or not many, or maybe even most. But this is just one person's viewpoint.
