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Talking about the cramping in the New York flight thread got me thinking about things that annoy me (and there's alot :-D) so thought i'd create a thread for everyone to list their pet peeves and have a bit of a rant and get some good healthy anger out. Here are a few of mine:
Not enough leg room - Whether it be on planes or buses or any public transport there just isn't enough leg room for tall people like me. (Heck even on buses there's not enough head room) Soon as i sit down i have to move a little sideways so my legs are diagonal and my knees fit into the little joins of the seats infront and it's still pretty uncomfortable. I know why companies build the transport for average people (get more seats per transport = more money) but still it'd be nice if they bothered to start making some for the lanky people like myself, we're people to you know.
Taking me nicely onto my next peeve - People who sit next to you when there's plenty of seats available - Now i love my personal space, i hate when people are up on me (unless it's a beautiful girl) and are invading it. Now it's bad enough i'm already uncomfortable sitting on whatever transport i'm using but then when i get some schmuck plonk themselves down next to me when there's a good 5 or so seats available fully open with no one else sat on them in that row then that really gets on my nerves. I'll also include the pool thing i experienced on Monday in this group as well when me and my mate were playing and then some idiots decide, with about 10 free tables elsewhere, they want to play on the table right next to us, meaning we have to wait to take our shots while they're in the way and all that nonsense.
Political Correctness - Now maybe it's just because i'm from New York where we always speak our minds and don't care who hears or gets offended by it but this really p***es me off. This has done more harm for racial relations then anything the KKK, Black Panthers, BNP etc could ever hope to do. You start telling people that they cannot do things they've done all their lives because some other people will get offended by it (which they don't by the way, it's just some upper class middle aged white people in shiny offices deciding what other groups find offensive) then that will start to breed resentment and create problems where otherwise there wouldn't have been at all.
Then there's also positive discrimination which fits nicely into this category where some people, somewhere, some time ago decided *Hey Racism and Sexism is alright, just as long as it's to white men* Sorry but you can sugarcoat it and give it a fancy name all you want, positive discrimination is just a fancy, non-threatening word for Racism and Sexism. If i'm running a business i want the very best people i can get, the most experienced and the most qualified, now if that means i end up with a workforce full of White men, or Black Women etc then so fudging what? I'm running a business to make money i don't want to hire some incompetent fool just because they're a certain colour and if i didn't my company is seen as racist, screw that.
People who run the light on Amber and then take their sweet time to get across the road and by the time they do the traffic is coming the other way making me wait some more - Had this happen to me twice in two days now, they speed up to avoid the red light and then take their sweet fricking time getting over so when i try to cross the road as they go by i can't because it's all coming the other way. If you're going to cut a light then keep your speed up and move it instead of doddering across the road, twits.
Cyclists on pavements - Or more so those idiots who get in your way and then look at you like it's your fault and you're scum. Yea douchebags you shouldn't even be on the pavement anyway so keep your dirty looks to yourself, muppets.
Council Tax - Now i have no problem paying for this if i actually get value for money and quite frankly you don't. We get our bins emptied once every fortnight, the roads are always filthy, the only police presence we have is one cop car zooming by the area at that crime hot spot of 5 in the morning every month or so and there's always broken things on the streets that are never fixed (unless it's a speed trap in which case that bad boy is fixed the very next day)
Mothers with prams - Anyone else been in town and viciously had their toes run over and their shins rammed by these idiot mothers using their babies as weapons and a ticket for right of way? You virtually have to dive out the way of some of them as they don't even motion to move out the way, they've got a pram, you haven't so they're going to win so you better get out the way or get your toes crunched.
People who wear New York Yankees baseball caps - For some reason this really does annoy me, fair enough if they follow the sport then wear it all you like but i hate those people who wear it and don't even follow the game (and probably call it stupid and rounders, gah) One of these days i'll stop someone wearing it and ask them to name the Yankees rotation or its bullpen or the starting 9, they probably won't even know what the heck i'm on about let alone be able to name the players in it. Pah
Licence Fee - Why the heck you have to pay to have a licence for a tv alone is stupid, do you need one for a DVD player? A games console? A stereo? Nope, so why the heck do you need one for a TV. Oh yes that's right, to pay for a useless, out of date pathetic piece of *bleep* organisation called the BBC. I don't watch it, i haven't watched it for about 5 years so why on earth i should have to pay to subsidise it is beyond me. To make it even worse, they have plenty of adverts and product placement and make plenty of money off other ventures anyway. Either scrap the fee or give people the option of paying it and if they don't then they don't get the BBC channels, my god what a loss that would be.
Well that's me done for now, i'm sure plenty more will come to me, get going with your lists :-D
Not enough leg room - Whether it be on planes or buses or any public transport there just isn't enough leg room for tall people like me. (Heck even on buses there's not enough head room) Soon as i sit down i have to move a little sideways so my legs are diagonal and my knees fit into the little joins of the seats infront and it's still pretty uncomfortable. I know why companies build the transport for average people (get more seats per transport = more money) but still it'd be nice if they bothered to start making some for the lanky people like myself, we're people to you know.
Taking me nicely onto my next peeve - People who sit next to you when there's plenty of seats available - Now i love my personal space, i hate when people are up on me (unless it's a beautiful girl) and are invading it. Now it's bad enough i'm already uncomfortable sitting on whatever transport i'm using but then when i get some schmuck plonk themselves down next to me when there's a good 5 or so seats available fully open with no one else sat on them in that row then that really gets on my nerves. I'll also include the pool thing i experienced on Monday in this group as well when me and my mate were playing and then some idiots decide, with about 10 free tables elsewhere, they want to play on the table right next to us, meaning we have to wait to take our shots while they're in the way and all that nonsense.
Political Correctness - Now maybe it's just because i'm from New York where we always speak our minds and don't care who hears or gets offended by it but this really p***es me off. This has done more harm for racial relations then anything the KKK, Black Panthers, BNP etc could ever hope to do. You start telling people that they cannot do things they've done all their lives because some other people will get offended by it (which they don't by the way, it's just some upper class middle aged white people in shiny offices deciding what other groups find offensive) then that will start to breed resentment and create problems where otherwise there wouldn't have been at all.
Then there's also positive discrimination which fits nicely into this category where some people, somewhere, some time ago decided *Hey Racism and Sexism is alright, just as long as it's to white men* Sorry but you can sugarcoat it and give it a fancy name all you want, positive discrimination is just a fancy, non-threatening word for Racism and Sexism. If i'm running a business i want the very best people i can get, the most experienced and the most qualified, now if that means i end up with a workforce full of White men, or Black Women etc then so fudging what? I'm running a business to make money i don't want to hire some incompetent fool just because they're a certain colour and if i didn't my company is seen as racist, screw that.
People who run the light on Amber and then take their sweet time to get across the road and by the time they do the traffic is coming the other way making me wait some more - Had this happen to me twice in two days now, they speed up to avoid the red light and then take their sweet fricking time getting over so when i try to cross the road as they go by i can't because it's all coming the other way. If you're going to cut a light then keep your speed up and move it instead of doddering across the road, twits.
Cyclists on pavements - Or more so those idiots who get in your way and then look at you like it's your fault and you're scum. Yea douchebags you shouldn't even be on the pavement anyway so keep your dirty looks to yourself, muppets.
Council Tax - Now i have no problem paying for this if i actually get value for money and quite frankly you don't. We get our bins emptied once every fortnight, the roads are always filthy, the only police presence we have is one cop car zooming by the area at that crime hot spot of 5 in the morning every month or so and there's always broken things on the streets that are never fixed (unless it's a speed trap in which case that bad boy is fixed the very next day)
Mothers with prams - Anyone else been in town and viciously had their toes run over and their shins rammed by these idiot mothers using their babies as weapons and a ticket for right of way? You virtually have to dive out the way of some of them as they don't even motion to move out the way, they've got a pram, you haven't so they're going to win so you better get out the way or get your toes crunched.
People who wear New York Yankees baseball caps - For some reason this really does annoy me, fair enough if they follow the sport then wear it all you like but i hate those people who wear it and don't even follow the game (and probably call it stupid and rounders, gah) One of these days i'll stop someone wearing it and ask them to name the Yankees rotation or its bullpen or the starting 9, they probably won't even know what the heck i'm on about let alone be able to name the players in it. Pah
Licence Fee - Why the heck you have to pay to have a licence for a tv alone is stupid, do you need one for a DVD player? A games console? A stereo? Nope, so why the heck do you need one for a TV. Oh yes that's right, to pay for a useless, out of date pathetic piece of *bleep* organisation called the BBC. I don't watch it, i haven't watched it for about 5 years so why on earth i should have to pay to subsidise it is beyond me. To make it even worse, they have plenty of adverts and product placement and make plenty of money off other ventures anyway. Either scrap the fee or give people the option of paying it and if they don't then they don't get the BBC channels, my god what a loss that would be.
Well that's me done for now, i'm sure plenty more will come to me, get going with your lists :-D
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I hate old peoples patter, most of it is usually crap. Asking how the weather is and if you've got your new blinds in, and if you dried your washing today. It gets on my nerves when your trying to go someplace and there standing speaking to a member of staff about that.
Another thing is Illegal Immigrants, it annoys me that we have to pay full for everything and they come in when they dont know how to speak English and get a house and private money etc. I dont however mind if they come here to work like everyone else but its getting out of hand now, the Government have no control.
Another thing is Illegal Immigrants, it annoys me that we have to pay full for everything and they come in when they dont know how to speak English and get a house and private money etc. I dont however mind if they come here to work like everyone else but its getting out of hand now, the Government have no control.
That's what you get for living in Oregon :-P
Heh, gotta be pimpin yo!
My peeve is how here in Oregon you're not allowed to pump your own gas. I've actually had my "check engine" light go on a couple of times, because those knucklehead gas-pumpers didn't put the gas cap back on securely. Grr. Now, I always check before leaving.
My peeve is how here in Oregon you're not allowed to pump your own gas. I've actually had my "check engine" light go on a couple of times, because those knucklehead gas-pumpers didn't put the gas cap back on securely. Grr. Now, I always check before leaving.
Yup just in case they need to flirt their way out of a ticket, have to make sure the make up is ready at all times
Geffdof wrote:
> People (and I mean women) who after paying for their petrol
> take a good 10 minutes before they move their car. Just get
> in a drive off. What on earth are they doing for those several
> minutes?
We're securing the kiddo's, checking the systems (twice), and doing a glam check for take off. ;)
> People (and I mean women) who after paying for their petrol
> take a good 10 minutes before they move their car. Just get
> in a drive off. What on earth are they doing for those several
> minutes?
We're securing the kiddo's, checking the systems (twice), and doing a glam check for take off. ;)
People over 25 listening to ipods and wearing converse. Get a life. Ipods are terrible and converse offer no real support for your feet.
heh, don't you just hate when that happens and it's also a busy time with traffic so you're having to wait to find a time where you can safely shoot out onto the side of the road, overtake the fat heffers and then scoot back onto the pavement
Chr1s wrote:
> I hate people who when they get off a bus or walk through a door
> or whatever, just stand there and block everyone else because
> they're so bloody wrapped up in their own pathetic lives that
> they don't notice that people have places to go. It's the same
> with people who walk slowly on the street or people who stand in
> the middle of an aisle in a shop or a corridor at college. Have
> some damn respect for the people around you, you god damn
> idiots!
The two fat old women walking slowly side by side when you're late for a lecture is my favourite.
> I hate people who when they get off a bus or walk through a door
> or whatever, just stand there and block everyone else because
> they're so bloody wrapped up in their own pathetic lives that
> they don't notice that people have places to go. It's the same
> with people who walk slowly on the street or people who stand in
> the middle of an aisle in a shop or a corridor at college. Have
> some damn respect for the people around you, you god damn
> idiots!
The two fat old women walking slowly side by side when you're late for a lecture is my favourite.
Kawada wrote:
>Not enough leg room - Whether it be on planes or buses or any >public transport there just isn't enough leg room for tall >people like me.
>(Heck even on buses there's not enough head room) Now i love >my personal space, i hate when people are up on me (unless >it's a beautiful girl)
You remind me more and more of my brother.....
Anyhoo, I was gonig to say something but most of it has been done, one hing that wouldn't apply to you would be the way that some people jump the queue in front of you.
And, sometimes shopkeepers might serve an adult that comes in after me, and who has only come into the queue beside me, while i've been waiting for a good 20 minutes with only one fat ginnit in front of me chatting about how the weather was and how to cook a god damn casserole or something.
Thats another thing i hate, some old lady who makes in the queue in front of you and starts talking for ages, even when shes done.
Dear lord, invite her for tea tomorrow and get out of my way.
I might come up with more later.
>Not enough leg room - Whether it be on planes or buses or any >public transport there just isn't enough leg room for tall >people like me.
>(Heck even on buses there's not enough head room) Now i love >my personal space, i hate when people are up on me (unless >it's a beautiful girl)
You remind me more and more of my brother.....
Anyhoo, I was gonig to say something but most of it has been done, one hing that wouldn't apply to you would be the way that some people jump the queue in front of you.
And, sometimes shopkeepers might serve an adult that comes in after me, and who has only come into the queue beside me, while i've been waiting for a good 20 minutes with only one fat ginnit in front of me chatting about how the weather was and how to cook a god damn casserole or something.
Thats another thing i hate, some old lady who makes in the queue in front of you and starts talking for ages, even when shes done.
Dear lord, invite her for tea tomorrow and get out of my way.
I might come up with more later.
I hate people who when they get off a bus or walk through a door or whatever, just stand there and block everyone else because they're so bloody wrapped up in their own pathetic lives that they don't notice that people have places to go. It's the same with people who walk slowly on the street or people who stand in the middle of an aisle in a shop or a corridor at college. Have some damn respect for the people around you, you god damn idiots!
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