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What grinds my gears...

By Daggers, in General Chat

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CornwallFox

CornwallFox

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Plasters. The type you use to treat minor cuts. There's only one sort of plaster that's truly useful - the long oblong one - yet you get about 6 of them and an assortment of useless ones. They know very well everybody really wants 20 useful oblong plasters. Should be a law against it.

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kenny

kenny

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2 hours ago, CornwallFox said:

Plasters. The type you use to treat minor cuts. There's only one sort of plaster that's truly useful - the long oblong one - yet you get about 6 of them and an assortment of useless ones. They know very well everybody really wants 20 useful oblong plasters. Should be a law against it.

This is why we don't get on.

 

Love a square one. Oblong with next to no sticky between the edge and the pad? Useless.

 

Proper wrong-un.

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Wsl

Wsl

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On 17/12/2025 at 12:25, danny. said:

I thought I'd managed to cope, but people spelling "have" as "of" and "our" as "are" is driving me mad again today

And "loose" instead of "lose". 

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Nalis

Nalis

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'Is the (subject) in the room with us?'

 

Was funny at first but now its a fvckin boring, done to complete death, lazy one line response you see everywhere

bovril

bovril

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Very niche and doesn't really "grind my gears" that much but it's a bit annoying when highlights like the football league show on ITV4 update the score in the corner the literal second the ball crosses the line. You need that two second gap for people to look up at the scoreboard and see it change. 

ALC Fox

ALC Fox

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On 04/02/2026 at 17:55, Wsl said:

And "loose" instead of "lose". 

'Lead' as the past tense verb instead of 'led' is one that gets my goat. So many actual legitimate newspaper articles that have this mistake in as well.

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Jon the Hat

Jon the Hat

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6 hours ago, AyewJoking said:

When people use all the water in the kettle and leave it empty, rather than refill it.

How do you know if it has been boiled already or not when you come to it?

Bellend Sebastian

Bellend Sebastian

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1 hour ago, Jon the Hat said:

How do you know if it has been boiled already or not when you come to it?

A brew made with reboiled water is one of the very worst things made by man. If reboiled more than once then it's automatic referral to The Hague

Jon the Hat

Jon the Hat

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1 hour ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

A brew made with reboiled water is one of the very worst things made by man. If reboiled more than once then it's automatic referral to The Hague

Exactly, hence a filled kettle gets emptied and freshly filled in my house!  So leaving the kettle empty is the way to save water.

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Trav Le Bleu

Trav Le Bleu

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11 hours ago, bovril said:

"off of" is so annoying. Would've ruined my enjoyment of the Superbowl if I'd actually been enjoying it 

Was it someone off of the Superbowl that did this?

when_you're_smiling

when_you're_smiling

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6 minutes ago, oakman said:

That attention-seeking, curly-headed tw*t Man U supporter appearing in the sport pages of the press every day.

How much of a glory hunting melt do you have to be to expect your team to win five in a row? I’m not sure I ever expected two in a row in the title season. 

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welck12

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10 hours ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

A brew made with reboiled water is one of the very worst things made by man. If reboiled more than once then it's automatic referral to The Hague

I've seen someone microwave a brew that went cold before.  Not sure there's any punishment in the world that would be sufficient for that

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FoxesDeb

FoxesDeb

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1 hour ago, welck12 said:

I've seen someone microwave a brew that went cold before.  Not sure there's any punishment in the world that would be sufficient for that

Yeah I'm guilty of this, multiple times a day, every single day. In my defence tea which has been warmed up in the microwave is better than cold tea.

Parafox

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On 04/02/2026 at 17:55, Wsl said:

And "loose" instead of "lose". 

 

On 10/02/2026 at 07:45, Jon the Hat said:

Now you are been ridiculous.

There used to be a Pedantry Central topic for exactly this misuse of the English language.

 

 

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Parafox

Parafox

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18 hours ago, ALC Fox said:

'Lead' as the past tense verb instead of 'led' is one that gets my goat. So many actual legitimate newspaper articles that have this mistake in as well.

 

18 hours ago, bovril said:

"off of" is so annoying. Would've ruined my enjoyment of the Superbowl if I'd actually been enjoying it 

 

10 hours ago, HighPeakFox said:

Not 'would of' then? :P

There used to be a Pedantry Central topic for exactly this misuse of the English language.

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