When there is a queue at the ATM you get people that get a statement, take it out and read it, then put their card back in check their balance then take out some cash. Ohh and cyclists that ride side by side on a busy road, especially when there is a cycle path nearby. edit - Ohh and people that drive onto the dual carriage-way from a slip-road expecting you to slow down or stop for them, "It a Give Way, dumbass, you stop and wait until it's clear, then join the carriage-way" edit2 - At work, people that just cold transfer a customer to my phone "I don't work in customer services, I have nothing to say to customers, and I'm too ****ing busy to deal with them in the first place" That really annoys me. edit3 - The term 9/11 getting brought up in every US crime drama at some point in the episode. edit4 - Just because you know a little about PC's, people think you are their personal tech support and it won't be a problem for you to take their base unit home to fix on a Friday night.
Yep Slip lanes are a trecherous place with some drivers, also hate (usually BMW drivers) the type that go full throttle to the end of the slip lane and just pullout infront without no indication. When theres no room they just head into the hard shoulder till they find a gap. ******s. Regarding fixing other peoples PCs, play dumb, works for me. You even give a hint you know something and suddenly your swamped with requests. Got a friend who's very knowledgeable with Overclocking and hardware. He pretty much spends half the LAN sessions helping others with their software/hardware faults. Guys a saint.
People who drive on the inside lane of the motorway but aren't overtaking anyone. Grr! People who walk really slowly right infront of me and take up the whole pavement. People who takes things off the shelves in a store and put them back in a different place without even looking or caring. MY ex used to do that the whole time, I would just pick it back up and put it where it should go >.< People who hate cyclists Ignorant people You mean Grammar nazis
People who form decisions or opinions just based on hearsay and not actually know what they're on about. The bad 1/2 of the Apple 'community'. Customers who think staff should lick their shoes clean just because they're buying something. That's all I can think of for now. <A88>
People who pronounce things blatantly incorrectly, such as "Sangwige" instead of "Sandwich", or "Edinbruh" instead of "Edinburgh" edit: oh, and people who say "more then" instead of "more than", morons. And people who say "could care less" instead of "couldn't care less". It's just illogical.
No its not I could care less would indicate that you don't care, but you could care even less if you really tried. I couldn't care less would indicate that you don't care at all and there is no way that you could care any less than you already do now. If someone was telling me something about the spice girls, I would be ignoring them. If they kept on talking, I would inform them that I could care less. This gives me a bit of wiggle room! If they kept on talking I could then tell them that I am now caring less than before and that their efforts to inform me of spotty spices new haircut are futile. Eventually I would sedate them with my fist.
Creating the plural, with an apostrophe. Especially on official things (signs, shop names, adverts etc.) Using i.e. instead of e.g. and vice versa (this one isn't too bad but still bugs me).
I thought of another - people who creep over pedestrian crossings in their cars whilst queueing, rather than just waiting for there to be enough room on the other side. The number of times that I press the button, wait for the the lights go red and watch some pillock in his or her car roll right over the crossing... it makes me sad and angry.
It depends on context. Not interchangeable. "The amount of time I have spent playing games is greater than it should be" "The number of times I have spent playing games is greater than it should be" Interchangeable. "The amount of people in the room was too high" "The number of people in the room was too high"
Tbh I would even say the second example, while being possibly acceptable as either, would be correct as number. It's explained a little more here and in a few other gewgle results
this. or the IRL equivalent, people who shout all the time, people who talk over others, and attention whores. also, loose/lose
