What Annoys you? (Research)

Sniffing.

Blow. Your. Fucking. Nose.

When people come onto conference calls and just say 'hello' like I'm supposed to know who it is.

J0nathan,
Why not?

People in inner London who drive their children to school

Definitely this. But also people who drive around London more generally.

Children

There's a design solution for this already.

Hipsters

People who ask if you’re queuing when you very obviously are

Sorry, are you in the queue?

People who stand ambiguously near queues as if they are waiting in line with everyone else, but then you stand behind them for a few minutes and they fucking aren't at all, and worse, they were fucking aware you were standing behind them and obviously you thought you were part of this complex system of waiting on obtaining a good/service but didn't fucking say anything. Wankers.

Oh, is there a queue? Sorry.

People who imagine they can get any useful information from LFGSS.

Poor grammar

Tourists

British weather

Pop music

The Northern Line

Chavs

People who call me ‘posh’ for knowing how to speak English properly

Slang which makes no logical sense as to why the slang term means whatever it means, because it’s a real word which means something entirely different

Flat-Earthers

Excessive use of emojis

People who don’t know how to proof-read

The fact that the letters ‘ph’ together make the sound of an ‘f’

The spelling of the word phlegm

Phone apps that don’t stack notifications, and allow you to wake up to 400 notifications because of some fucking group chat

Staying up at night and becoming cripplingly aware that everything ever is suspended in an infinite limbo for no apparent reason

...just to name a few

Dyson hand driers. The ones that have the holes you put your hands in like a game of 'Operation' and inevitably touch the edges of, thus contaminating yourself with the filth of others; and the air blade ones that slew the water off your hands into a fetid puddle on the floor. Basically all his hand driers.

Also, James Dyson, toffee-nosed Brexiteer who only cares about James Dyson. And makes shit hand driers.

The fact that the letters ‘ph’ together make the sound of an ‘f’

Careful now....

This.

All.

Fucking.

Day.

I agree with the Dyson rage, fuck him and his cyclone technology - his last decent invention was that wheelbarrow.

The fact it's impossible to get a drink of water on the move in the UK without resorting to plastic bottles (and basically what @pastry_bot said, the much wider issue). Not sure there's a design solution to this though because water fountains already exist, there just seems to be a national conspiracy to support the bottled water industry. I have noticed that water fountains are much more common in the U.S.

Go Sadiq
https://news.sky.com/story/sadiq-khan-plans-water-fountain-revival-in-london-to-cut-plastic-pollution-11156359

How many times did you proofread this comment? Be honest.

Also, isn't 'proofreading' spelled without a dash?

People who don’t know how to proof-read

The L in 'Northern line' doesn't need to be uppercased, and neither does the E in 'flat-earther'.

Touché. I may be a stubborn, insolent asshole, but I applaud those who can correct me. Also @Tijs that never looked right to me, and I always assumed I wrote it the correct way (since I don’t believe I’ve ever written it before), but you are right, so thanks for the correction.

I'll be surprised if this ends up with more than ten water fountains covering all of London.

People who use Touch ID at underground gates.

What is touch id?

Oh apple fingerprint scanner.
My Pixel XL does that. The sensor is on the back, so the phone is unlocked before it leaves my pocket.