Things that are annoying me

1. Boxes in computer programmes that do not expand to fill the available screenspace. Surely it's not difficult. When I save or move a file, a tiny little box appears showing perhaps 3 of the available 20 options and I have to scroll down to find the one that I want; or in Oracle Financials 'Invoices' a tiny little box shows five of the line items and maybe a third of the necessary columns. As it does not allow a proper usuable export to Excel, nor a Select All - copy, I have to revert to pen and paper to make sense of it. And the editing screen in Movable Type, the CMS for this blog is pants
2. Men who assume that women, such as me, enjoy shopping (ie that I went to New York to go shopping). Also, my lack of killer nastiness that prevents me from enquiring "Did you enjoy the fight you got into last night outside the pub at closing time - oh, you didn't, how weird, you're a bloke aren't you, isn't that what blokes do?"
3. Lazy reporters on rubbish news services and the idiot academics that feed them with stories like 'By 2050 people will be having sex with - and marrying - robots', when the actual story is 'as AI becomes more advanced, coupled with the increasing speed and decreasing size of processors the permutation of binary calculations is reaching towards infinity and thus in time robots capable of an almost infinite variety of functions will become affordable to most people in prosperous societies' or 'there are a subset of people working with the computer/robot world who - for the same reason that they are technologically gifted - are fundamentally incapable of grasping the essence of humanity, which can best be illustrated by the difference in having sex with a vibrator and making love with or fucking a human
4. corporate-speak that pretends to be all fuzzy and hippy - guilty parties especially Pret a Manger, Innocent Smoothies. It was funny five years ago, now it's tedious
5. the strange phenomenom that, as the outside temperatures fall and we wear more, thicker clothes, interior temperatures are raised, thus making the cold temperatures outside come as even more of a shock when we step outside
6. Easter Eggs being on sale now in T£$co under a banner saying 'Happy Easter'