Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)

[ClockworkCupcake]

popeyewhite said:

Bit of a leap.

My point was we could have a 'Straight Pride' festival, except most people have got more important things to do/couldn't be arsed. Why is the Gay Pride thing so important I wonder.

Maybe because it's pride in being able to be out and open, after generations of repression when it was even illegal to be gay?

Or maybe, like any carnival, it's just a good excuse for a party.

You could have a Straight Pride festival, if you wanted, but what would you be celebrating? The continuation of privileges that have been around for generations anyway. It would be like celebrating your non-birthday for 364 days of the year.

[Tyre Tread]

Stickyfinger said:

Tyre Tread said:

And without getting into too much detail, what many men don't realise (I didn't until it happened to me) is that a gentleman's physiology changes around middle age which, dependant upon how it changes can make crossing of the legs more, or less comfortable and lead to a greater likelihood of spreading. However, I don't believe there is ever any need for "SPREADING" unless there is a medical issue

Worst I have small balls and a tiny cock post ever...

Or maybe the opposite...?

[popeyewhite]

ClockworkCupcake said:

Maybe because it's pride in being able to be out and open, after generations of repression when it was even illegal to be gay?

Don't think so. Only a tiny % of gay people go on marches...unless maybe the other vast percentage don't feel as if they were repressed.

ClockworkCupcake said:

Or maybe, like any carnival, it's just a good excuse for a party.

Can't gays party without attending a carnival?

ClockworkCupcake said:

You could have a Straight Pride festival, if you wanted, but what would you be celebrating? The continuation of privileges that have been around for generations anyway. It would be like celebrating your non-birthday for 364 days of the year.

What "privileges"? But yeah, not a lot of point in celebrating being part of mainstream society I guess. Not sure I'd see that as a privilege though. Vive la difference etc.

[C70R]

V8mate said:

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Europa1 said:

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caelite said:

So all in about £3200, or £8.77/day all in... which being as I am a student and make about £9k a year is pretty bad, especially considering it's not accounting for the compulsive modifications I like to make every now and then.

Complete s who use this phrase. Probably the same ones who are forever misusing "myself" and "yourself".
Where in God's name could such an abortion of a phrase even come from?

I suspect they misheard "seeing as I am" at some point.

Even so, what kind of sh*te phrasing is that?

While I'm at it, can I add people who use "anymore" liberally, as a replacement for (the correct) "any more" or "any longer".

So you're annoyed with people who are correct? Or at yourself for being wrong?

Anymore means 'any longer' or 'ever again'.
e.g. I'm not going to eat sweets anymore.

Any more determines a further amount.
e.g. Are there any more sweets?

Two actions for you:
1) Stop using American dictionaries as sources
2) Stop sounding so smug when you're wrong

HTH

[nonsequitur]

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[mickk]

Silly adverts on pitches at stadiums.

[wst]

Last year I decided to move from my rented 1 up 1 down, into a house with my girlfriend and due to how things worked out it was cheaper (bar the deposit) to buy a big ex-council house in - consequently - a "rough" part of town. We figured that the nearby cities would really absorb most of the roughness into their dodgy areas, but instead someone has torched 7 cars and a shed here in the last week.

Whoops.

However we are at least free to make the bit within our land boundary as flipping wonderful as we like, without seeking landlord approval.

[Tyre Tread]

Spending hours looking for presents you bought for someone months ago and put "safe"

[PotatoSalad]

Sheets Tabuer said:

H&S at work, we have things called near miss

Since I was a kid I tried to understand why isn't it called near hit. It doesn't make any sense.

[popeyewhite]

PotatoSalad said:

Since I was a kid I tried to understand why isn't it called near hit. It doesn't make any sense.

Other than it was near and it missed?

[ClockworkCupcake]

Sports interviewers who seem unable to start any interview with anything other than "just talk me through..."

[anonymous-user]

Whichever plum is in charge of roads at Leeds City council. I am assume its a cycling vegetarian type with problems with self love and loathing.

For signing off on the bus lane foolishness on kirkstall road alone they should be boiled in oil.

[AstonZagato]

It sounds like the type of planners we have in Cambridge. The Hills Road cycle scheme is ridiculous.

[PotatoSalad]

popeyewhite said:

PotatoSalad said:

Since I was a kid I tried to understand why isn't it called near hit. It doesn't make any sense.

Other than it was near and it missed?

It also nearly hit.

[NoIP]

Vandenberg said:

Whichever plum is in charge of roads at Leeds City council. I am assume its a cycling vegetarian type with problems with self love and loathing.

For signing off on the bus lane foolishness on kirkstall road alone they should be boiled in oil.

I've not been down there in the last couple of months. What's changed?

[lucido grigio]

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[ClockworkCupcake]

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[leigh1050]

Tourists on the tube.

[nonsequitur]

ClockworkCupcake said:

Sports interviewers who seem unable to start any interview with anything other than "just talk me through..."

Yes, and 'did you feel the pressure' is another one.

[mickk]

Tourists and the tube!