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As many of you will remember, the 'pet peeves' was good ol' SR rant, with everyone venting their annoyances. On the internet. Score.
Well anyway.. for those of you who have no idea what it's about, you basically list the things that get on your nerves, with a little rant about why under each.
Yet now, it's basically just anything that annoys you really
Warning.. this could be a long, long rant
*
People who say 'me' when talking about going somewhere
I realise, this sounds a bit strange, but what I mean is the people who talk about who's gonna be somewhere they've been talking about, when you both know you're going.. then when you ask who else is they say "me, etc". Gah!
We was
It's we were. It's really not that hard. Plain and simple.
You know what I mean?
I'm sure everyone's said or heard it a good few times in their life, when people feel the need to qualify what they've just said with 'know what I mean?', when it's totally unecessary. Blargh!
Dog crap
Come on, pick it up! How hard can it possbily be to just bend down and scoop it up.. or simply just make sure your dog doesn't lay a ten pounder right in the middle of the pavement, usually somewhere in the dark where it can't be seen. Best of all, it's next to impossible not to stand in it, then, the grip on your shoes that's been wearing for the last three years and is almost non-existent suddenly becomes flypaper for little chunks of dog dump.
Saturday Night tv
Let's be honest, it's one of the nights of the week that people would be more than happy to sit down to a little tv about the time you come in from work, or as you stagger home in a paralytic state.. yet all that's ever on is 'Ant and Dec's grab yourself a brain' or the after-midnight slot of quiz shows, that are simply moneygrabbing and pathetic.
Leering O.A.Ps
Maybe leering is too harsh a word, yet, you only have to walk past a pensioner these days for them to give you a look you'd expect Jack the Ripper to get as he walks down the road in a trail of blood, clutching a severed head.. or simply one filled with hatred. When I say walk past I don't mean swaggering past in the escaped-convict look, I mean walking past casually, maybe even giving a slight nod or smile that quickly dies on your lips.
People are never there when you want them to be
I don't mean this in the 'boo-hoo I need a shoulder to cry on' sense, more that whenever you actually need to speak to someone about something you're doing, you almost always never see them.. yet when you don't really care if a person's around or not.. there they are! all the time!
Now that's what I call Music!
Well, it's what I call awful. I hate the chart music, and it's completely beyond me why they felt the need to release more than one 'album' of this in the first place =|
Car Alarms
It's 2am. You're just drifting off to sleep. Outside in the lane and ant coughs and... BEEEEEP! BEEEEEEP! BEEEEEP! on the ten second mark, every ten seconds, for the next few hours. Arrrrgh!
Chewing Gum
There's almost nothing I like about the stuff, and genuinely can't stand the appeal of little strips of plastic coated in sugar. Having said that, I've never even had a piece in my mouth in my life. I get put off mainly by the smell of it.. warm on people's breath is horrible, and the disgusting, sticky little balls that get everywhere. Usually in your hair or all over your shoes.
Mayonnaise
Why the hell does it have to be in everything?! It doesn't mind things together, it just looks and tastes horrible, dribbling all over your clean clothes out the side of a sandwich. Hellman's makes it? Hellman's ruins it.
iTunes
It's about the worst music transferring programme imaginable, half the point of an MP3 player to remove some of the space from your pc, and yet should you want to delete anything from iTunes, the next time you try and add something else the thing that isn't there anymore will be deleted. It wouldn't bother me so much if it was only music, yet films to take me days to download - that I then want off my hardrive - are gone forever.
Age ratings
Thanks BBFC for attempting to protect our children from films they'll only watch with their parents anyway. It just seems to me that preventing people from buying alcohol and cigarettes is fair enough, but stopping people who are seventeen from buying eighteen related films and especially games is just pedantic.
DVD Boxsets
I like the amount of watching time you get out of a boxset, as compared to a film, yet the prices are too high for starters. Now sale prices on things like the American Dad boxset aren't too bad, only £9 for a boxset, but then that's only for a half series! Then there's things like the Simpsons which have only managed to release up to the now ancient Series Eight, yet charge in excess of £30 a set. Finally there's a popular, reasonably long-running series of Malcolm in the Middle which has yet to release any boxsets!
'Deals' and Catches
You've all been suckered in and annoyed by them I'm sure, yet they never stop getting on my nerves. You always seem to see a great deal which then either has so much small print that it's not a deal anymore, or is only available if you subscribe to something that then prevents you from quitting it.
The way the Simpsons went south
Let's be honest, until about Series Nine the Simpsons was brilliant, but then ended up with random endings to episodes that seemed to stem from nowhere, or too many series-specific jokes that aren't funny to those who don't watch 'em.
Stereotypical English 'toffs'
In almost every Hollywood film, English people are portrayed as rich stuck-up members of the 'upper class', rather than the normal people you would see around. We always seem to gain a part as a villain or a whiney, annoying character that you can't wait to die.
WHSmith
They over price everything, the DVDs are about three times the cost that they are anywhere else, the range of CDs is pretty poor and relatively expensive, and even the stationery they're good for seems quite pricey.
The cinema
It's extortion that the price of entry is over a fiver, let alone having to shell out more than £3 even for a small popcorn. I understand and quite like the mentality that to upgrade between sizes is only a matter of pence, yet, I think that should be between medium and large, with small about half the price.
Being PC
I hate the way that everything ever said on tv, in the media, or even in schools now has to be politically correct with people screaming 'racism' at every comment and even the extreme of changing the word 'brainstorm' to 'mindmap' as it might be deemed offensive to epileptics =|
Socks
You never seem to have enough. They usually contrast to the clothes you're wearing. You wear them inside out and don't notice. They quickly wear through or get unwashably dirty.
*
And that's how for now, kids
Well anyway.. for those of you who have no idea what it's about, you basically list the things that get on your nerves, with a little rant about why under each.
Yet now, it's basically just anything that annoys you really
Warning.. this could be a long, long rant
*
People who say 'me' when talking about going somewhere
I realise, this sounds a bit strange, but what I mean is the people who talk about who's gonna be somewhere they've been talking about, when you both know you're going.. then when you ask who else is they say "me, etc". Gah!
We was
It's we were. It's really not that hard. Plain and simple.
You know what I mean?
I'm sure everyone's said or heard it a good few times in their life, when people feel the need to qualify what they've just said with 'know what I mean?', when it's totally unecessary. Blargh!
Dog crap
Come on, pick it up! How hard can it possbily be to just bend down and scoop it up.. or simply just make sure your dog doesn't lay a ten pounder right in the middle of the pavement, usually somewhere in the dark where it can't be seen. Best of all, it's next to impossible not to stand in it, then, the grip on your shoes that's been wearing for the last three years and is almost non-existent suddenly becomes flypaper for little chunks of dog dump.
Saturday Night tv
Let's be honest, it's one of the nights of the week that people would be more than happy to sit down to a little tv about the time you come in from work, or as you stagger home in a paralytic state.. yet all that's ever on is 'Ant and Dec's grab yourself a brain' or the after-midnight slot of quiz shows, that are simply moneygrabbing and pathetic.
Leering O.A.Ps
Maybe leering is too harsh a word, yet, you only have to walk past a pensioner these days for them to give you a look you'd expect Jack the Ripper to get as he walks down the road in a trail of blood, clutching a severed head.. or simply one filled with hatred. When I say walk past I don't mean swaggering past in the escaped-convict look, I mean walking past casually, maybe even giving a slight nod or smile that quickly dies on your lips.
People are never there when you want them to be
I don't mean this in the 'boo-hoo I need a shoulder to cry on' sense, more that whenever you actually need to speak to someone about something you're doing, you almost always never see them.. yet when you don't really care if a person's around or not.. there they are! all the time!
Now that's what I call Music!
Well, it's what I call awful. I hate the chart music, and it's completely beyond me why they felt the need to release more than one 'album' of this in the first place =|
Car Alarms
It's 2am. You're just drifting off to sleep. Outside in the lane and ant coughs and... BEEEEEP! BEEEEEEP! BEEEEEP! on the ten second mark, every ten seconds, for the next few hours. Arrrrgh!
Chewing Gum
There's almost nothing I like about the stuff, and genuinely can't stand the appeal of little strips of plastic coated in sugar. Having said that, I've never even had a piece in my mouth in my life. I get put off mainly by the smell of it.. warm on people's breath is horrible, and the disgusting, sticky little balls that get everywhere. Usually in your hair or all over your shoes.
Mayonnaise
Why the hell does it have to be in everything?! It doesn't mind things together, it just looks and tastes horrible, dribbling all over your clean clothes out the side of a sandwich. Hellman's makes it? Hellman's ruins it.
iTunes
It's about the worst music transferring programme imaginable, half the point of an MP3 player to remove some of the space from your pc, and yet should you want to delete anything from iTunes, the next time you try and add something else the thing that isn't there anymore will be deleted. It wouldn't bother me so much if it was only music, yet films to take me days to download - that I then want off my hardrive - are gone forever.
Age ratings
Thanks BBFC for attempting to protect our children from films they'll only watch with their parents anyway. It just seems to me that preventing people from buying alcohol and cigarettes is fair enough, but stopping people who are seventeen from buying eighteen related films and especially games is just pedantic.
DVD Boxsets
I like the amount of watching time you get out of a boxset, as compared to a film, yet the prices are too high for starters. Now sale prices on things like the American Dad boxset aren't too bad, only £9 for a boxset, but then that's only for a half series! Then there's things like the Simpsons which have only managed to release up to the now ancient Series Eight, yet charge in excess of £30 a set. Finally there's a popular, reasonably long-running series of Malcolm in the Middle which has yet to release any boxsets!
'Deals' and Catches
You've all been suckered in and annoyed by them I'm sure, yet they never stop getting on my nerves. You always seem to see a great deal which then either has so much small print that it's not a deal anymore, or is only available if you subscribe to something that then prevents you from quitting it.
The way the Simpsons went south
Let's be honest, until about Series Nine the Simpsons was brilliant, but then ended up with random endings to episodes that seemed to stem from nowhere, or too many series-specific jokes that aren't funny to those who don't watch 'em.
Stereotypical English 'toffs'
In almost every Hollywood film, English people are portrayed as rich stuck-up members of the 'upper class', rather than the normal people you would see around. We always seem to gain a part as a villain or a whiney, annoying character that you can't wait to die.
WHSmith
They over price everything, the DVDs are about three times the cost that they are anywhere else, the range of CDs is pretty poor and relatively expensive, and even the stationery they're good for seems quite pricey.
The cinema
It's extortion that the price of entry is over a fiver, let alone having to shell out more than £3 even for a small popcorn. I understand and quite like the mentality that to upgrade between sizes is only a matter of pence, yet, I think that should be between medium and large, with small about half the price.
Being PC
I hate the way that everything ever said on tv, in the media, or even in schools now has to be politically correct with people screaming 'racism' at every comment and even the extreme of changing the word 'brainstorm' to 'mindmap' as it might be deemed offensive to epileptics =|
Socks
You never seem to have enough. They usually contrast to the clothes you're wearing. You wear them inside out and don't notice. They quickly wear through or get unwashably dirty.
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And that's how for now, kids
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People who tag things incorrectly on Last.FM
Britney Spears. I'm talking to you. Get off my folk metal station!
Britney Spears. I'm talking to you. Get off my folk metal station!
Rastab wrote:
> Someone clearly doesn't know how to use iTunes properly.
>
> Check "Manually Transfer Music" (or whatever it is) in
> your iPod preferences.
=cO
Know the specific box I have to check?
If you do I'll love you forever, and give you sweeties
> Someone clearly doesn't know how to use iTunes properly.
>
> Check "Manually Transfer Music" (or whatever it is) in
> your iPod preferences.
=cO
Know the specific box I have to check?
If you do I'll love you forever, and give you sweeties
And.. does this mean I can then delete all the music from my hardrive, as long as manually select songs is selected?
tnc wrote:
> And.. does this mean I can then delete all the music from my
> hardrive, as long as manually select songs is selected?
Yep.
Plug in your iPod, go to it's preferences and tick the "Manually Manage Music" box. Also make sure it's not sync'd.
Try deleting one song from your HD first just to make sure it works, but I'm fairly confident you'd be alright in then deleting all your music. Just make sure you don't plug it in anywhere to automatically update or owt.
Alternatively: Read the fagging instructions.
> And.. does this mean I can then delete all the music from my
> hardrive, as long as manually select songs is selected?
Yep.
Plug in your iPod, go to it's preferences and tick the "Manually Manage Music" box. Also make sure it's not sync'd.
Try deleting one song from your HD first just to make sure it works, but I'm fairly confident you'd be alright in then deleting all your music. Just make sure you don't plug it in anywhere to automatically update or owt.
Alternatively: Read the fagging instructions.
Doesn't, and never had, any
Ipods suck dude, get over it.
tnc wrote:
>
> Age ratings
>
> Thanks BBFC for attempting to protect our children from films
> they'll only watch with their parents anyway. It just seems to
> me that preventing people from buying alcohol and cigarettes is
> fair enough, but stopping people who are seventeen from buying
> eighteen related films and especially games is just pedantic.
>
I liked the old age rating system. The film makers would make the film then the BBFC would decide the rating depending on how appropriate it was for viewers of a certain age.
It worked well with extreme violence and gore gaining an 18 rating, moderate violence with some swearing getting a 15 and the odd swearword and a punch getting a 12.
Now with the invetion of 12A the whole system is messed up. I cant remember the last time I saw a 15 film. You either have extreme violence in an 18 or fairly tame action ni a 12A, there is hardly any middle ground these days and the reason is because of that stupid "A" on the end of 12A.
Let me explain... If a film company in the past cut out the odd action scene and swear word to reduce a rating from a 15 to a 12 they may get a few extra customers, i.e. anyone aged 12-14. There is a bit on an incentive there but they could possibly loose some of their targe audience in the process so the incentive wasnt great.
These days, however, if they do the same thing (remove the odd fight or swear word) the rating is a 12A so the ammount of people who can see the film increases hugely because essentially anyone can go, plus all of those extra people HAVE to take a parent too meaning even more people pay to see the film. This is a huge incentive to film companies to force cuts from films. By removing the odd splatter of blood and an F word they can increae their proffits hugely.
This has left a huge void in the market with films being either hugely violent like Saw or child friendly like Spiderman. There are very few middle of the road films these days. Things like Get Shorty spring to mind. A gangster film thats not overly violent yet slightly too grown up for a youngster. These days it would be cut slightly, have a 12A ratting and make more proffit, but would it be a better film for it? Probably not, but film companies arent interested in making films, they are interested in making money.
>
> Age ratings
>
> Thanks BBFC for attempting to protect our children from films
> they'll only watch with their parents anyway. It just seems to
> me that preventing people from buying alcohol and cigarettes is
> fair enough, but stopping people who are seventeen from buying
> eighteen related films and especially games is just pedantic.
>
I liked the old age rating system. The film makers would make the film then the BBFC would decide the rating depending on how appropriate it was for viewers of a certain age.
It worked well with extreme violence and gore gaining an 18 rating, moderate violence with some swearing getting a 15 and the odd swearword and a punch getting a 12.
Now with the invetion of 12A the whole system is messed up. I cant remember the last time I saw a 15 film. You either have extreme violence in an 18 or fairly tame action ni a 12A, there is hardly any middle ground these days and the reason is because of that stupid "A" on the end of 12A.
Let me explain... If a film company in the past cut out the odd action scene and swear word to reduce a rating from a 15 to a 12 they may get a few extra customers, i.e. anyone aged 12-14. There is a bit on an incentive there but they could possibly loose some of their targe audience in the process so the incentive wasnt great.
These days, however, if they do the same thing (remove the odd fight or swear word) the rating is a 12A so the ammount of people who can see the film increases hugely because essentially anyone can go, plus all of those extra people HAVE to take a parent too meaning even more people pay to see the film. This is a huge incentive to film companies to force cuts from films. By removing the odd splatter of blood and an F word they can increae their proffits hugely.
This has left a huge void in the market with films being either hugely violent like Saw or child friendly like Spiderman. There are very few middle of the road films these days. Things like Get Shorty spring to mind. A gangster film thats not overly violent yet slightly too grown up for a youngster. These days it would be cut slightly, have a 12A ratting and make more proffit, but would it be a better film for it? Probably not, but film companies arent interested in making films, they are interested in making money.
Unskippable anti-piracy ads on DVDs.
I've paid for it, I want to watch the programme(s) I've paid for and not be warned about piracy. It makes me wish I'd just downloaded the damn thing in the first place because then I'd avoid having to sit through these crappy 'warnings' - so it creates the complete opposite reaction to the one they want.
Also: unskippable trailers.
I've paid for it, I want to watch the programme(s) I've paid for and not be warned about piracy. It makes me wish I'd just downloaded the damn thing in the first place because then I'd avoid having to sit through these crappy 'warnings' - so it creates the complete opposite reaction to the one they want.
Also: unskippable trailers.
Hedfix has beaten me to it =) I really detest the anti-piracy ads at the beginning of DVDs. I think Fox DVDs (like Family Guy, etc.) all have them.
What I probably hate more is the trailers and the Warnings at the beginning that won't allow you to skip or jump to the main menu. It's really annoying. Also the "views expressed in the commentary and interviews are not the views of this company" blah blah, I don't care already. =)
What I probably hate more is the trailers and the Warnings at the beginning that won't allow you to skip or jump to the main menu. It's really annoying. Also the "views expressed in the commentary and interviews are not the views of this company" blah blah, I don't care already. =)
Other People
Other People suck! It doesn't matter how good a day you're having, Other People are guaranteed to ruin it without even trying. I dont know why i bother with them.
I had planned a longer rant on why people suck but i dont think i need to tell anyone because you all know it anyway.
Other People? F**k 'em
Other People suck! It doesn't matter how good a day you're having, Other People are guaranteed to ruin it without even trying. I dont know why i bother with them.
I had planned a longer rant on why people suck but i dont think i need to tell anyone because you all know it anyway.
Other People? F**k 'em
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