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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
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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
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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It was the coldest i've ever been in my life, guess it depends on where you were sat. Yeah i got the brochure for the stadium opening and the one for the game.
I didn't think it was that cold, but it was freezing walking from the train station to the ground, especially when all I was wearing was a long sleeved England kit. Did you buy one of those Brochures? I thought they were good things to keep for £3.
CarlosPeterGaryJohn wrote:
> The first match, England U21's V Italy U21's. I paid £4 for
> a hot dog when I got their and then Chicken strips and chips were
> £8 for lunch. Bit of a rip off to be honest..
I was there.
I wouldnt have minded the food being costly if it hadn't been awful. The lack of hot drinks was a killer though because it was bloody freezing.
> The first match, England U21's V Italy U21's. I paid £4 for
> a hot dog when I got their and then Chicken strips and chips were
> £8 for lunch. Bit of a rip off to be honest..
I was there.
I wouldnt have minded the food being costly if it hadn't been awful. The lack of hot drinks was a killer though because it was bloody freezing.
The first match, England U21's V Italy U21's. I paid £4 for a hot dog when I got their and then Chicken strips and chips were £8 for lunch. Bit of a rip off to be honest..
Another thing I hate is how people with no interest in football who just want to sell the tickets on for a higher price seem to end up with the tickets that are hard to get, and humble football fans such as myself struggle to get hold of tickets, my point being the England V Brazil game coming up on June 1st.
Another thing I hate is how people with no interest in football who just want to sell the tickets on for a higher price seem to end up with the tickets that are hard to get, and humble football fans such as myself struggle to get hold of tickets, my point being the England V Brazil game coming up on June 1st.
CarlosPeterGaryJohn wrote:
> The cost of food at football stadiums (I paid £4 for a hot
> dog at Wembley, what a joke!)
Indeed. What were you there for?
> The cost of food at football stadiums (I paid £4 for a hot
> dog at Wembley, what a joke!)
Indeed. What were you there for?
I had the same problem tnc, but they had me wait a day, then another day. And kept checking to see if I had it plugged into the master socket. Then on the 5th day they finally sent an engineer who fixed it within minutes.
If I have the same problem again I'll just insist they send an engineer asap.
If I have the same problem again I'll just insist they send an engineer asap.
In American Restraunts when the waiters offer you cheese with everything.
Flyers advertising Takeaway restraunts, I get them through my door all the time.
Long queues at supermarkets. Also being stuck behind a 5 year old in a sweet shop going "oh, can I have two of them, and 5 of them.."
Cynically marketed music, basically anything in the charts at the moment.
The cost of food at football stadiums (I paid £4 for a hot dog at Wembley, what a joke!)
Computer Viruses. I can't stand them, all they do is make your computer malfunction, why would you make one of these things?
The lack of decent games on the PSP, becuase it's such a good console, but there are not enough good games.
Adverts! There is all so many of them, and they are never even remotely entertaining!
Well, theres a few off the top of my head, i've got loads more. I have to disagree about the ITunes one in the original post, I find it very easy to use and it makes Windows Media Player look very basic.
Flyers advertising Takeaway restraunts, I get them through my door all the time.
Long queues at supermarkets. Also being stuck behind a 5 year old in a sweet shop going "oh, can I have two of them, and 5 of them.."
Cynically marketed music, basically anything in the charts at the moment.
The cost of food at football stadiums (I paid £4 for a hot dog at Wembley, what a joke!)
Computer Viruses. I can't stand them, all they do is make your computer malfunction, why would you make one of these things?
The lack of decent games on the PSP, becuase it's such a good console, but there are not enough good games.
Adverts! There is all so many of them, and they are never even remotely entertaining!
Well, theres a few off the top of my head, i've got loads more. I have to disagree about the ITunes one in the original post, I find it very easy to use and it makes Windows Media Player look very basic.
BT
Absolutely AWFUL customer care and dedication to satisfaction.
Broadband went off about a week back, with only the wireless symbol showing on the Hub. After finally getting through to the people, who call themselves consultants, somewhere in.. Mumbai, obviously, as none of them had much of a command of english.. they basically did nothing.
I spent the most annoying hour I've ever spent on a phone to an insistent woman who seemed to think babbling and trying to get someone with no knowledge of electrics to start unscrewing the master socket was a brilliant idea. Hmm.
After three days of that, and engineer was sent out - on Monday. However, he pretty did nothing, completely unable to determine anything, and ultimately wandering off mumbling about the problem being sorted at the exchange.
Cue two more days of phone calls to finally work out that yes, absolutely nothing had been done after the engineer left on monday. Impressive stuff.
Finally, today, a second engineer came and rewired the outside telephone wire box, moving the position of the cables. The Homehub and Wireless work again. A week later. And they're supposed to be one of 'the best' providers..
Absolutely AWFUL customer care and dedication to satisfaction.
Broadband went off about a week back, with only the wireless symbol showing on the Hub. After finally getting through to the people, who call themselves consultants, somewhere in.. Mumbai, obviously, as none of them had much of a command of english.. they basically did nothing.
I spent the most annoying hour I've ever spent on a phone to an insistent woman who seemed to think babbling and trying to get someone with no knowledge of electrics to start unscrewing the master socket was a brilliant idea. Hmm.
After three days of that, and engineer was sent out - on Monday. However, he pretty did nothing, completely unable to determine anything, and ultimately wandering off mumbling about the problem being sorted at the exchange.
Cue two more days of phone calls to finally work out that yes, absolutely nothing had been done after the engineer left on monday. Impressive stuff.
Finally, today, a second engineer came and rewired the outside telephone wire box, moving the position of the cables. The Homehub and Wireless work again. A week later. And they're supposed to be one of 'the best' providers..
Retarded London kid muggers, does it never occur to you that myself and my friends were bigger than you? You deserve the broken noses you've received everytime we face-off.
This has probably been done before, but when you sit down at the cinema or at a football match and someone really tall sits in front of you and you can barely see whats happening.
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