Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]
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Double-barrelled surnames.
Why?
Everyone could have a double-barrelled surname if they wanted just by adding their mother's maiden name to their actual surname but they don't because they're normal. What makes double-barrellers think that they need two surnames instead of making do with one like everyone else? It's a totally unnecessary affectation and a waste of everyone's time.
Why?
Everyone could have a double-barrelled surname if they wanted just by adding their mother's maiden name to their actual surname but they don't because they're normal. What makes double-barrellers think that they need two surnames instead of making do with one like everyone else? It's a totally unnecessary affectation and a waste of everyone's time.
rohrl said:
Double-barrelled surnames.
Why?
Everyone could have a double-barrelled surname if they wanted just by adding their mother's maiden name to their actual surname but they don't because they're normal. What makes double-barrellers think that they need two surnames instead of making do with one like everyone else? It's a totally unnecessary affectation and a waste of everyone's time.
Because it's the name on their birth certificate. Why?
Everyone could have a double-barrelled surname if they wanted just by adding their mother's maiden name to their actual surname but they don't because they're normal. What makes double-barrellers think that they need two surnames instead of making do with one like everyone else? It's a totally unnecessary affectation and a waste of everyone's time.
Why should they change their name just for your sensibilities?
AstonZagato said:
m8rky said:
Today, all the idle, feckless, lazy, inconsiderate, arrogant, f
khead wkers that think it is ok to launch fag butts, sweet wrappers, bits of sandwich out of their car window. Been behind 5 of the s today.
Is it that hard to dispose of properly you ignorant wkers. I hope you tread in a fking gigantic dog turd.
s.
Rant over.
I live on a quiet country road. The end of my driveway is always littered with detritus thrown from passing cars. Cans, fag packets, McDonalds cups, crisp packets. The type of thing that the scum of society might consume (proved by the fact that only the scum of society would throw it out of the window rather than take it home and put it in a bin. khead wkers that think it is ok to launch fag butts, sweet wrappers, bits of sandwich out of their car window. Been behind 5 of the s today.Is it that hard to dispose of properly you ignorant w
kers. I hope you tread in a fking gigantic dog turd.s.Rant over.
The black bag was then "returned to sender" and emptied into the front garden of the offender...
Whassup !
Just why ? I hear this mainly on US TV shows but it is creeping in here.
One person says whassup, the other responds with whassup.
Why would one think that there was something up with the other, and even more so why would the second person not respond with "nothing, I am fine, how are you" instead of asking the first what problems he had.
The other is "that's what I am talkin' about" when in fact they had not been talking about any such thing.
Just why ? I hear this mainly on US TV shows but it is creeping in here.
One person says whassup, the other responds with whassup.
Why would one think that there was something up with the other, and even more so why would the second person not respond with "nothing, I am fine, how are you" instead of asking the first what problems he had.
The other is "that's what I am talkin' about" when in fact they had not been talking about any such thing.
Corpulent Tosser said:
Whassup !
Just why ? I hear this mainly on US TV shows but it is creeping in here.
One person says whassup, the other responds with whassup.
Why would one think that there was something up with the other, and even more so why would the second person not respond with "nothing, I am fine, how are you" instead of asking the first what problems he had.
The other is "that's what I am talkin' about" when in fact they had not been talking about any such thing.
even worse is 'sup.Just why ? I hear this mainly on US TV shows but it is creeping in here.
One person says whassup, the other responds with whassup.
Why would one think that there was something up with the other, and even more so why would the second person not respond with "nothing, I am fine, how are you" instead of asking the first what problems he had.
The other is "that's what I am talkin' about" when in fact they had not been talking about any such thing.
Morningside said:
Corpulent Tosser said:
Whassup !
Just why ? I hear this mainly on US TV shows but it is creeping in here.
One person says whassup, the other responds with whassup.
Why would one think that there was something up with the other, and even more so why would the second person not respond with "nothing, I am fine, how are you" instead of asking the first what problems he had.
The other is "that's what I am talkin' about" when in fact they had not been talking about any such thing.
even worse is 'sup.Just why ? I hear this mainly on US TV shows but it is creeping in here.
One person says whassup, the other responds with whassup.
Why would one think that there was something up with the other, and even more so why would the second person not respond with "nothing, I am fine, how are you" instead of asking the first what problems he had.
The other is "that's what I am talkin' about" when in fact they had not been talking about any such thing.
Myself.
We rented some space in a workshop to store my MG Midget over the winter, and made sure it was properly protected and covered up. We retrieved it on Friday and I decided to give it a good clean ahead of sending it in for an MOT later this week. I've discovered a whacking great scratch in the OSF wing, a tear in the hood and one of the studs has been ripped clean out of the side of the hood rendering it impossible to close properly.
A new hood is at least £250. The paint i can live with as it needs work anyway, but I'm annoyed beyond reason because I wasn't really happy about leaving it there in the first place and I should have stumped up more cash to have it stored properly...
We rented some space in a workshop to store my MG Midget over the winter, and made sure it was properly protected and covered up. We retrieved it on Friday and I decided to give it a good clean ahead of sending it in for an MOT later this week. I've discovered a whacking great scratch in the OSF wing, a tear in the hood and one of the studs has been ripped clean out of the side of the hood rendering it impossible to close properly.
A new hood is at least £250. The paint i can live with as it needs work anyway, but I'm annoyed beyond reason because I wasn't really happy about leaving it there in the first place and I should have stumped up more cash to have it stored properly...
Issi said:
I walked past two young lads, sat in a generic little car at the end of my quiet suburban street (about 4 miles from the nearest McDonalds/KFC etc), at 10 a clock at night, having a pre-midnight feast of crap.
I knew, I just knew that when I walked back from the pub an hour later, it would be all of the road.
I was sorely tempted when I first walked past to knock on the window and say 'Please don't dump your crap on the street when you've finished eating' but knew that this would probably cause them to kick off.
Bloody annoying but what can you do? (apart from picking it myself and putting it in my own bin when I got home.
I don't understand why they wouldn't choose to just sit down in the place they bought it from and eat it there, what's the attraction of eating in your car?
Rolled up the end of a quiet dead end road that is popular with local dog walkers like myself. I noticed a car parked in a gateway with youngsters standing all around. I also noticed a nearly finished litre bottle of coke on the roof. While I was sorting out my dog they get in the car and drove off. As I walked past where they had parked I was surprised not to see the empty bottle. Reminding myself not to be so judgmental I carried on. A further 100 yards round the next bend there it was in the verge still with a small amount of it's contents inside. So they had seen me approach and put it in the car. Then dumped it as soon as they were out of sight. So it's not as if they are totally ignorant to what is right and wrong. Just fI knew, I just knew that when I walked back from the pub an hour later, it would be all of the road.
I was sorely tempted when I first walked past to knock on the window and say 'Please don't dump your crap on the street when you've finished eating' but knew that this would probably cause them to kick off.
Bloody annoying but what can you do? (apart from picking it myself and putting it in my own bin when I got home.
I don't understand why they wouldn't choose to just sit down in the place they bought it from and eat it there, what's the attraction of eating in your car?
king callous. 
colonel c said:
Issi said:
I walked past two young lads, sat in a generic little car at the end of my quiet suburban street (about 4 miles from the nearest McDonalds/KFC etc), at 10 a clock at night, having a pre-midnight feast of crap.
I knew, I just knew that when I walked back from the pub an hour later, it would be all of the road.
I was sorely tempted when I first walked past to knock on the window and say 'Please don't dump your crap on the street when you've finished eating' but knew that this would probably cause them to kick off.
Bloody annoying but what can you do? (apart from picking it myself and putting it in my own bin when I got home.
I don't understand why they wouldn't choose to just sit down in the place they bought it from and eat it there, what's the attraction of eating in your car?
Rolled up the end of a quiet dead end road that is popular with local dog walkers like myself. I noticed a car parked in a gateway with youngsters standing all around. I also noticed a nearly finished litre bottle of coke on the roof. While I was sorting out my dog they get in the car and drove off. As I walked past where they had parked I was surprised not to see the empty bottle. Reminding myself not to be so judgmental I carried on. A further 100 yards round the next bend there it was in the verge still with a small amount of it's contents inside. So they had seen me approach and put it in the car. Then dumped it as soon as they were out of sight. So it's not as if they are totally ignorant to what is right and wrong. Just fI knew, I just knew that when I walked back from the pub an hour later, it would be all of the road.
I was sorely tempted when I first walked past to knock on the window and say 'Please don't dump your crap on the street when you've finished eating' but knew that this would probably cause them to kick off.
Bloody annoying but what can you do? (apart from picking it myself and putting it in my own bin when I got home.
I don't understand why they wouldn't choose to just sit down in the place they bought it from and eat it there, what's the attraction of eating in your car?
king callous. It's as if they are thinking (doubtful at best) 'Not going to use the bin bruv, cos that's wot normal people do'
Rostfritt said:
People who gob bits of chewing gum into urinals. Some poor bd whose job is already not particularly pleasant has to pick that out, all because you couldn't spit it into the bin. Same 'it's someone else's job to clear that up' mentality as all other litterers.
d whose job is already not particularly pleasant has to pick that out, all because you couldn't spit it into the bin. Same 'it's someone else's job to clear that up' mentality as all other litterers.
+ people who gob chewing gum anywhere that isn't a bin. I'm sick of seeing pavements defaced with the stuff.
I make no claims to be a paragon of virtue, but even as a kid, with all my faults and stupidity, the worst place I ever put chewing gum was down roadside drains - and that only when there was no bin.
Articles which describe electric cars as 'zero emissions' - they are not, they just emit stuff elsewhere i.e. at a power station.
Add in the energy losses inherent in transmitting the power and charging the batteries ( never mind the environmental issues around manufacture and disposal of their batteries ) and what you have is an inefficient vehicle powered by burning coal.
The same applies to hydrogen powered vehicles - where do they think the hydrogen comes from ?
SUV's are often castigated by the treehuggers for being 'big' and weighing 'two tonnes or more' - oddly the same description has been applied to Toyota's Mirai but apparently it's OK because it's powered by hydrogen
Add in the energy losses inherent in transmitting the power and charging the batteries ( never mind the environmental issues around manufacture and disposal of their batteries ) and what you have is an inefficient vehicle powered by burning coal.
The same applies to hydrogen powered vehicles - where do they think the hydrogen comes from ?
SUV's are often castigated by the treehuggers for being 'big' and weighing 'two tonnes or more' - oddly the same description has been applied to Toyota's Mirai but apparently it's OK because it's powered by hydrogen
MartG said:
Articles which describe electric cars as 'zero emissions' - they are not, they just emit stuff elsewhere i.e. at a power station.
Add in the energy losses inherent in transmitting the power and charging the batteries ( never mind the environmental issues around manufacture and disposal of their batteries ) and what you have is an inefficient vehicle powered by burning coal.
The same applies to hydrogen powered vehicles - where do they think the hydrogen comes from ?
SUV's are often castigated by the treehuggers for being 'big' and weighing 'two tonnes or more' - oddly the same description has been applied to Toyota's Mirai but apparently it's OK because it's powered by hydrogen
Shhhh....Add in the energy losses inherent in transmitting the power and charging the batteries ( never mind the environmental issues around manufacture and disposal of their batteries ) and what you have is an inefficient vehicle powered by burning coal.
The same applies to hydrogen powered vehicles - where do they think the hydrogen comes from ?
SUV's are often castigated by the treehuggers for being 'big' and weighing 'two tonnes or more' - oddly the same description has been applied to Toyota's Mirai but apparently it's OK because it's powered by hydrogen
Greenies don't respond well to logic.
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