ARGH.

 

I want to listen to Radio Scotland in the morning, but I CANT STAND the newsreader!  She has a bizarre fake newsreader intonation that is stupendously annoying after a while.  She makes every single sentence sound exactly the same whether its something joyously happy, or a massacre somewhere.  Its hard to explain unless you hear her, but it causes me to change channel every time, and not go back.  You shouldn't really be aware of a newsreader, just of what they're telling you.  A commercial station wouldn't have her, because they'd lose their audiences.

One of my biggest grips on my daily commute - vehicles with flashing amber yellow lights for no obvious reason. There are so many of them, that you end up ignoring them, so you don't notice them when they ARE important.

 

Typical examples are

Oh My GOD.  Make the rain stop PLEASE!  Its non-stop.  For weeks, and months.  Driving through floods, torrential rain, storms, howling winds and always, always RAIN.

 

Every night I hear the cars outside my flat going past with a long slooooshing noise, then in the morning i have to go out in it and make my own slooshing noise all the way to work.  No crispy frosty mornings.  No clear blue skies.  No snow.  No fog.  Just mild and wet the entire time.