Anyone else find the little speech bubbles that come up while you are answering, ANNOYING?

Definately!. It's just an animated annoyance that doesn't allow for emphasis (Capitalisation), alternative quote marking (......) also.

As already stated it's using US English in the UK & Ireland Yahoo - why?.

I thought Yahoo were supposed to make things better (!)

Oh! I seem to have killed it by clicking on the X at top right of it's little box. Since I did that it hasn't appeared.

The bubbles are officious. There, I used my latest vocab' word in a sentence.

I find that the more a sentence would benefit from punctuation, the more the "Hmm... Looks like you have a lot of punctuation" bubble pops up.

Yes

Not only that, but they are giving stupid advice. I will make the decisions on how much punctuation I will use and where I highlight in capitals.

Yes it is annoying. I just ignore it. I thought the older spell checker was better to be honest.

Yes, especially when the spelling error one comes up when you haven't even finished the word you are typing!

yes. Most people round here need to use MORE punctuation.

[ whoops, i left the cab lock on]

yes. I'm about ready to throw my laptop. and fyi!!! a swirly light bulb is "environmentally friendly" hmmmm it looks like you have a lot of punctuation my @ss

It's the spelling one that annoys me....

It spells in US English and I spell in English English.

We frequently disagree.....

yes they are annoying, i mostly ignore them and do my own thing , and they pop-up spelling mistake when you know there is not one . those head bangers at yahoo should be replaced its them who cant spell .