The 12 Vents of Christmas 2024

oldagetraveller1

cannugec5 said:

oldagetraveller1 said:

"due to my advancing age:" Which shows by the way your post is written. i.e. good grammar and spelling.

Spot on with no.10.

I went back and looked for the numbers. There are none…

Oh, alright then, if you want to be so pedantic - the 10th "vent" in the list!

Murphybear

JadedAngel88 said:

The mse 'experts' - I've visited mse regularly since the early days. There are a few regulars that I would trust with their expertise. I have seen many threads turned into chaos because someone, not so knowledgeable, thinks they are right when they are wrong. I think they just want to cause arguments.

The other thing that irks me is when new or sometimes old users will headline their post with 'Urgent help needed' or similar. Receive time and effort from others in response, then never return. Even a thanks all sorted or something would be nice. There are many posts on here I've read that I'm dying to know the ending to but probably never will.

The other is spelling and it's only a few words and is most likely these days cause by autocorrect.

Debt - Dept

Allowed - Aloud

Advice - Advise, this one particularly annoys because when asking for advice you can hear vice not vise.

Oh and the last one. Resurrecting a thread that's 4/5/6+ years old with 'How did you get on with x,y,z. I'm experiencing similar' or simply resurrecting it to add their advice. It's most likely from googling a situation and getting posts from mse but they do show the date of when they were posted.

My pet hate is people using “to” instead of “too”.  

sonearandyetsofa

1. People who post online asking for technical help and then respond "got it sorted now" without saying what the fix was. Here I am five years later scratching my head trying to figure out how they solved the exact same problem I'm having.

2. Every single "youth of today" complaint ever made. No matter your age I guarantee that your generation was neither better nor worse than whatever generation is currently aged 13-25. The Tudor period saw legislation banning apprentices from playing music in the street and having their hair too long. Clearly this is an ongoing problem that never goes away, because teenagers are always going to be teenagers. But as it happens, jeans, rock music, pinball, metal music, video games, rap music, Myspace, txt speak, vine, instagram, minecraft, tiktok, skibidi toilet and whatever else is actually new right now because I'm happily now too old to know STILL haven't caused the breakdown of modern society.

3. Complaints about the use of the word "literally". Mark Twain literally wrote the sentence "Tom was literally rolling in wealth" back in 1876, the use of literally to mean "not in an actual real sense but emphatically" has plenty of history. It's not like you can't see exactly which way its' use is meant by context.

4. Misuses of scientific language when describing cosmetics, skincare, haircare etc. Do we need to care that something has "peptides" in it? No, because so does an egg.

5. Using acronyms without ever explaining what they mean, especially if they're technical or only used in one specific part of the internet.

6. The fact that I will be listening to the same Christmas songs every year for the rest of my natural life. You might occasionally get a new one added, but they never take one away...

7. The death of emoticons in favour of emojis. I just happen to think that <•ᴥ•> is cuter and more creative than

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8. People who make unnecessary itemised lists and people who complain too much.

Pollycat

Posters who start a thread then delete it after they've had replies. 
Just plain rude.

JulieM

Should 'of', could 'of'..........

No it's not!!!

robatwork

"How are you"
"Good"

thriftytracey

People who start every answer to a question with "So"

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

Pollycat said:

Posters who start a thread then delete it after they've had replies. 
Just plain rude.

I'll add "Posters who start a thread with very little info and never come back with more details" to that one as well as it's very frustrating. 

horsewithnoname

Tescodealqueen said:

Can we no longer be very or really happy. Do we all have to be super happy now? It grates every time

Absolutely yes! I notice people have now started saying “super super happy etc” because now “super happy “ isn’t enough. Awful. 

MattMattMattUK

In general: 

People who refuse to learn - Stop making the same mistake again and again, learn from it. Stop saying basic tasks are impossible, learn how do to them. Stop refusing to try, learn how to do something. If you need help ask, which is what makes this site so great. 

Stupid people who do not realise they are stupid - I know they cannot help being stupid, I know Dunning-Kruger means they will never realise they are stupid, neither of those things stop them being annoying.

People who refuse to take responsibility for their own actions - If someone takes an action and that action had a consequences then own it, stop trying to blame someone else, from the bad choice of which pizza to buy, to giving all your money away to someone who rings you up saying "I am calling from your bank" and everything in between, especially stop expecting the rest of us to pick up the cost. 

People who think that every mild annoyance or their inability to understand something means they should be entitled to compensation - Compensation is due in certain circumstances, not paid out at thousands of pounds for minor inconveniences.

People who say "haich" - No, just no!

This site specifically:

People who leave huge blank spaces at the ends of their posts - Why?

People who end their posts with "Has anyone else experienced the same issues?" or something similar - That is irrelevant, ask a question, people will answer, whether anyone else had the same issue is entirely irrelevant. 

People who keep asking why/complaining about not having yet received a pay-out/response for their car finance - Nothing has been confirmed yet, it will probably not be for at least a year, maybe another two. There is a sticky at the top of the board that explains that, the news articles they link to say that they will have to wait another year or more, so wait. 

People who believe in credit scores - They are not real, the same as Father Christmas, god, the tooth fairy, the flying spaghetti monster etc., stop believing in them!

Posters who ask for advice, then tell everyone who offers it that they are wrong - Just because the answer you got is not the one you wanted does not mean it is wrong. 

People who have an issue but immediately complain it must be illegal, a scam, fraud etc. when the reality is it is a mild inconvenience - Just because something is annoying or mildly frustrating does not mean it is illegal.