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TiggyCBE · 19/03/2014 09:23

...everything in the list below?

I thought I'd get everything out in one thread.

-Dresses with only one arm. You see them at award ceremonies and stuff but they look silly. I think of them as bowling dresses because the only practical point I can see to them is that it must help your bowling to have your bowling arm unencumbered by sleeve.

-People who walk too slowly. Just get out of my way! I've got stuff to do!

-People who walk to quickly. Calm down and stop jostling past me. I don't care if you've got stuff to do!

-People who start an answer to your question by sucking air through their teeth in an attempt to make it seem like their response will be truly earth shattering.

-People who think of animals as their babies. Even worse are those that dress them up in human like clothes. Get a grip women! (And I do mean women because it is only women who put bonnets on cats)

-Decorated cars. They look shit. If a VW Beetle looked so great red with black ladybird spots and eyelashes then VW would make them like that. They don't because they look shit. You're not being wacky, you're being a twerp.

-Kitchen utensil drawer. Why are they made to jam shut? Why is that thought of as a useful feature?

-Idiots that take pride in not being able to function. "I can't use a computer!" "I always avoid those self checkouts!" "It took me 5 days to put together an IKEA spoon rack!". It's a bad thing that you can't do it, not good.

-Netmums. Humourless establishment prissy doily-using maiden aunts.

-Precocious children. Yeah, but can you drive? Can you? Can you? No! because you're a child!

-Ian Hisplop/Jeremy Hardy/etc. Every silver lining has a cloud. Negative negative negative. They say everything is crap and if it's not (Olympics for example) it's quietly forgotten. If a scientist were to find a cure for cancer, they would bang on about how the scientist once got a parking ticket, "Shamed drug scientist" they would call him. And if they know everything about how to run things to make the world a better place, why don't they?

-Comedians who talk about the royal family being "German". Very lazy and xenophobic. Her family came here over 300 years ago but they're still German?

-Orange juice with "Bits". Unless they specify what the bit are I'm not drinking it. Would you eat pasta that was advertised as containing "Things"?

People who say that everything was better in the old days. Actually, I think you'll find that before the 1970s at least 50% of children were shoved up chimneys or down t'pit where they died of cholera, polio, mal-de-mare, plague, dynasty, smallpox and elfshot. Now that sort of thing doesn't happen in the South of England.

I should probably have a rest now for a bit.

OP posts:
SometimesLonely · 19/03/2014 19:17

CakeisMyMaster Yes, printed material. I've recently been reading modern novels with spelling or punctuation mistakes because spellcheck is used and not someone proofreading. Saving money? I want to highlight them especially if they're library books but then I won't feel that I can give them to someone else as a birthday gift.

LetZygonsbeZygons · 19/03/2014 19:36

people who say 'bad headache'. -are there good headaches?

'nice cup of tea'. all tea is nice!

WitchWay · 19/03/2014 19:48

People who just stop randomly on the pavement right in front of me

Drivers that don't wave Thank You when I've let them out

Stupid little ratty dogs being carried about in fucking handbags FFS

Ridiculous Baby on Board notices - Mummy's Little Princess on board etc

Those ludicrous painted-on eyebrows - have you actually looked in the mirror ?

PunkrockerGirl · 19/03/2014 19:50

Dawdlers in the supermarket - take
what you want from the shelf, put it in your trolley then get out of the fucking way!
The Calgon advert
And yes OP, people who dress their pets in human clothes. Just wrong.
Going to check out Netmums now Grin

DorisAllTheDay · 19/03/2014 19:55

[Waves to the apostrophe police. Hail sisters!]

I hate it when the BBC starts re-broadcasting a classic show and inexplicably stops mid-season. Yep, Beeb, that'll be Cagney and Lacey. I get into following it on iPlayer, then it stops in the middle of the season for a few weeks leaving me bereft, then starts up again with no warning so that I miss crucial episodes before I know it's back.

Chuggers. Yes, of course I care about children having access to clean water/the survival of polar bears/research into muscular dystrophy (that was just today). But I have standing orders to give to the charities of my choice, and I don't want to be your best friend in all the world for the ten minutes it takes to sign me up to your cause.

Chewing gum left on bus seats.

The growing gap between rich and poor.

Poncy multi-flavoured herbal 'teas'. OK, drink peppermint tea or rosehip if you must. But a delicate infusion of blackcurrent, ginseng, lime and elderflower buds is just silly.

Car drivers who deliberately drive fast through puddles at the side of the road to splash pedestrians. Think it's funny, do you? Well it's not.

LizzieVereker · 19/03/2014 20:06

Mockneys. I'm looking at you, Deputy Head at my school, you're not Ray Winstone, you're from Surrey. The naughty year 11 boys will not behave better for you just because you growl at them in that stupid voice.

People who twat on about diets. I'm not interested, good for you, but take your stinky rice cakes elsewhere and let me enjoy my Toffe Crisp in peace. And stop referring to foods as "naughty" and "bad", the children at school don't need to hear it.

TiggyCBE · 19/03/2014 20:07

-Velvet art. It's always Elvis or bloody unicorns.

-Car boot sales. They used to be good but now they're more like developing world markets you see on travel shows with a variety of broken things laid out on a hairy blanket. They've lost their class.

-Monocles/cravats/informal bow ties. Nuff said.

-Black Bananas. It's every bananas desire to get to black from green as fast as bananaly possible and thereby deprive you from eating it when it's yellow and tasty. A black banana means you've been beaten by a suicidal fruit: You loser.

-'Funny' slogans on T-shirts. You know the type. Worn by idiots who think they can buy a personality. Keep away from those people. They often have body parts in their houses.

-Pears grown to look like babies. Here

-Keep calm signs. It's OVER! "Keep calm and drink more tea/dance/watch Michael McIntyre's new show/keep ferrets" etc. It's no longer funny.

-Dr Who hype. It is not a major news story that some actor is taking on a role that another actor doesn't want to do any more. The BBC should not spend a week going on and on and on and on and on about it. They never did it for Never Mind The Buzzcocks' hosts.

-My Little Ponies being cool. WTF?

OP posts:
Atbeckandcall · 19/03/2014 20:07

Tiggy, never thought of pandas that way. I now hate them too.

The competitive mum brigade. No I don't care that when your baby came out it tore you a new arsehole, and 3 hours later you were doing a weekly shop at a farmers market. By the way, I don't care that they didn't have rainbow chard for your gratin and celeriac had to do. All the meanwhile waiting for your sourdough starter to ferment, oh and look at that, you're smaller now than before you were pregnant!

Robert Webb on the Winnie The Pooh program, can't help but feel like he's taking the piss. Just want it known that I was watching this on my own 30 minutes after dd had gone to bed.

Which leads me tidily to hypnotic children's tv. I'm always more enthralled than dd, waste of my life.

I know there are more but I'm too busy watching Doc McStuffins.

Atbeckandcall · 19/03/2014 20:09

Blast, forgot this.

The STAY CALM AND …………

FUCK THE FUCK OFF WITH HOUR FUCKING SHIT SLOGANS!!!

Angry
Atbeckandcall · 19/03/2014 20:11

Sorry Tiggy, just saw your point about the stay calm wank.

Also when out to dinner, people eat like sparrows then declare how full they are after a prawn cocktail and 3 chips. Whereas I'm still hungry and I'm eyeing up a sticky toffee pudding and the cheese course.

I can't help having hollow legs Hmm

LookingThroughTheFog · 19/03/2014 20:15

People. Who. Emphasise. Things. With. Full. Stops.

unlucky83 · 19/03/2014 20:41

Cutlery drawers that jam....totally...
Mine (ikea) had a 2 in wide strip of chipboard at the front to attach the work top to then a gaping void just begging for something to ping up and get wedged in - shit design - of course the bloody thing kept jamming Angry Angry Angry
Mine got stuck for 40 mins once Sad - took all the drawers out underneath, tried shaking, banging etc, feeding a ruler and coathanger through the gap at the front -couldn't get the front off -could not get into the bloody thing at all Angry
All I wanted was a knife to butter my toast Sad
and for once all the suitable implements were clean and in the bloody drawer Shock....used my finger in the end -
When I'd lost the will to live I did manage to get it open (without resorting to a crowbar and/or chainsaw)...
Then went out and bought a piece of mdf (an off cut from B&Q cost 50p pence) the size of the void and same height as the 2 inch strip and screwed it into the worktop...has never jammed again...
Cost me 50p - 50 bloody pence - 20 mins and 4 screws to save myself 40 mins of watching my toast go cold ...
now why couldn't Ikea have done that in the first place - and it isn't just Ikea every other fitted kitchen I've looked at is the same - grrrr
And I am such an easy going person ...I really don't have anger issues Grin

drnoitall · 19/03/2014 20:45

This is great, for once I can moan without feeling like a fun sucker!

Yes yes to little rats (dogs) in clothes and handbags , pampered like baby substitutes.

Older people moaning about their ailments.

Moasters- appear to be moaning but actually boasting, oh yar got awfully sunburnt on Sunday in the Ferrari with the roof down, what a nuisance. How my heart bleeds, never.

Slogan t' shirts.

T"shirts worn by men (anyone infact ) with scantily clad females on the front, it makes them look like twats.

Anyone who says "Play dates" without laughing.

I think that's it for now.

Onetraumaatatimeplease · 19/03/2014 20:50

Tv programmes that cut off and go to fucking adverts just when it gets going. I've already got some cillit bang, I haven't had an accident so I don't require the services of a compensation lawyer, I haven't got any money so I probably shouldn't get into gambling and no I don't want to borrow any money till payday. JUST GET BACK TO THE FUCKING PROGRAMME

WhereBeThatBlackbirdTo · 19/03/2014 20:55

Oh my god - those pears! Shock

charleyturtle · 19/03/2014 20:59

I agree with the anger towards Juice with bits. I'm not made of fucking money, if I am paying out for juice I don't want little pieces of orange taking up room in the carton. If I wanted to have bits of orange in my mouth I would eat a fucking orange!

I will add:

  • Strangers who touch me too much. It must just be my loveable face (jokes, I'm hideous), but strangers always feel the need to touch me when talking to me. I can not count the amount of times an old lady has held my hand for an entire conversation. Maybe it is a generation thing but I like my space and if someone must touch me I would like to know their fucking name first.
  • People who act completely helpless (looking at you mum) so that other people will do things for them because they are too lazy to do it themselves.
  • People who say "if it's meant to be, it will be" I find this a really lazy attitude to take to life, they might as well be saying "Don't ever try to achieve anything because things will just happen for you and that's the way it is".
  • Women who refer to themselves as a "mumma bear" or any variant on that.
  • ANYONE WHO SAYS "HUN"/ "HUNNI"/ "HONEY BUNNY FUCKIDY CUNTS" ETC. It had to be in capitals because I hate it the most.
WidowWadman · 19/03/2014 21:08

Ludways - "I loathe stupid incorrect spellings, like Perfekt. It's not fucking quirky, it's wrong!!! Grrr!"

It's neither quirky nor wrong, it's German.

taxi4ballet · 19/03/2014 21:08

-Road signs which read: "Follow Directional Signage"

-Car indicator light bulbs that don't work (oddly this seems to affect large new expensive cars the most...)

-Rock-hard fruit that goes off before it ripens

Oh, and to the poster whose goldfish keep getting eaten by a heron - buy an inflatable toy crocodile and float it in the pond, works a treat!

ifyourehoppyandyouknowit · 19/03/2014 21:09

Bubs, bubba, mama, mamabear, hun.

I see what you mean mean about pandas. They do need to stop being such doormats.

Any dog smaller than your knee hight. Just get a fucking ferret instead.

Boys who tuck their hands down the front of their trousers. Your dick is not going anywhere, don't worry.

ifyourehoppyandyouknowit · 19/03/2014 21:10

*height.

PoppettyPing · 19/03/2014 21:11

Bahaha @ as fast as bananaly possible

Completely obscure iPhone autocorrects. I want to type "quay". No I did not want to type "qawwali". What the shit even is that?

charleyturtle UGGHH "if it's meant to be it's meant to be" reminds me of stupid twatnuts who say "everything happens for a reason". No it fucking doesn't!

BuggarMeGently · 19/03/2014 21:12

Can I add a serious one, at the risk of ruining a mood? Checkout cashiers who feel the need to TUCK my change into my hand, close my fingers around it, and then ask DH if "she'll be all right getting to the exit". Grrr

sazzle82 · 19/03/2014 21:13

When I tell people I don't like dogs, and they then tell me I will like theirs. Trust me, I won't.

When people are rude to you over the phone on a way they would never be to your face. Grow up, I just work here, there really isn't any need for you to call my mother a cunt no matter what the issue is (this did actually happen).

Attention seeking Facebook statuses that go as follows

"Cnt belev the cheek ov sum ppl"
"U ok hun?"
"Pm me"
"ok hun"

Christ, just text each other!

ifyourehoppyandyouknowit · 19/03/2014 21:14

Text speak that is longer than the proper word would be.

LettertoHermioneGranger · 19/03/2014 21:17

Bowling dresses. This is now permanently part of my vocabulary.

I like you, Tiggy.