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[Techno]

Just don't tell anyone I taught the 'ancients' how to electroplate.
AND I invented the first battery..

You're both horrid and mean to me 
Cheers - Phil

[getagrip]

Just don't tell anyone I taught the 'ancients' how to electroplate.
AND I invented the first battery..

You're both horrid and mean to me 
Cheers - Phil

And God formed man of dust from the ground...  Genesis 2:7

Sound like the skills of anyone we know? 

[Vamboozle]

So going back to the gist of this thread I'm going to try to keep this short (so I don't come across as one of them mad shouty blokes you cross the street to avoid) - what makes me mad....

- anyone who thinks its ok to be rude and abusive just by adding "it's only banter" at the end of a sentence - no it's not banter it's just rude and abusive.

- those news voxpops where they have someone who agrees, someone who disagrees and some who doesn't know - what's the point? It doesn't add anything

- interviewing the neighbours after a murder who always state "this sort of thing never happen around here" - of course they don't unless you live in the Bronx in the 1970s

- retired types who have all day to go in the post office but choose to go in on a weekday lunchtime. Why?

- celery

[getagrip]

Old people who drive during rush hour when they've had the whole freaking day to do whatever it is they do.  Then they drive 20 miles below the actual speed limit except in built up areas where they do 40!!!

[Vamboozle]

When it snows people who drive having only cleared a letter box sized gap in the windscreen.

People who park across two spaces in a car park.

And celery.

[Westmarcher]

And God formed man of dust from the ground...  Genesis 2:7

And stuck him on ye base with ye super glue and ye baking soda. Amen.

[Fenton]

People who like their own posts on Facebook

Anyone not from the Faroe Islands

People who use Twitter

Olives

That bloke who gave me a funny look at the petrol station the other day

Speakers Corner at Hyde Park

Uncooked Tomatoes

There is just so many..........

[cbr3d.com]

Bloody coeliac disease.

Reporters who ask politicians questions and nod at the reply (that isn't reporting that is advertising).

The smell of freshly roasted coffee - it never tastes as good as it smells.

Vegetarians who eat bacon (I know two)

Hypocrits who tell us how bad things are when they live in luxury (politicians, wannabe politicians, and idiots who think we should all listen to them because they read a book once about UFO's and corn circles)

Dog owners who don't clean up after their dog defecates in a public place (I am a dog owner)

Dog owners who allow their dogs out onto the streets unaccompanied

Finding someone has stuffed one of my brushes hair first down in my brush container

Companies who 'improve' their products - 99% of the time means making them with cheaper ingredients that means that the quality is reduced.

(This is good fun, I would imagine the post count this month will be through the roof.    )

[getagrip]

Tomatoes really are vile in their raw state: acidic snot with bits in!

People who overtake on the motorway by drinking towards your rear bumper at 900 miles an hour!

[Fenton]

People who like the word ' plop'


Forum threads that go on longer than they should

[Westmarcher]

People who overtake on the motorway by drinking towards your rear bumper at 900 miles an hour!

That really is scary! 

[Vamboozle]

That bloke who gave me a funny look at the petrol station the other day

Funny happened to me too the other day.....you weren't filling up in Sussex where you? 

[Fenton]

Funny happened to me too the other day.....you weren't filling up in Sussex where you? 

I have better taste than to be seen in Sussex😂

[getagrip]

Funny happened to me too the other day.....you weren't filling up in Sussex where you? 

They're funny down there; you'll end up in the Wicker Man!  

[Vamboozle]

They're funny down there; you'll end up in the Wicker Man!  

Oi!  Just because the chalky water calcifies our brains.......

[Subedai]

I will have to stop reading this thread because I keep thinking of more.  

Adverts that say 'our best ever' now with added &*^%$ (insert whatever you want). Are they telling us that all their earlier stuff was cr*p?

How come these 'experts' keep finding new plants and extracts of said plants to add to beauty treatments.

I think I had better use a blanket 'I hate adverts'!!!!

Railway companies that keep putting up the price of tickets in the face of sh*te service.

Sunday opening of shops. (Holds hand up because he uses them but remembers when everybody managed to cope when they were shut.I would be perfectly happy if they were shut.)

Staff name badges. Hated wearing mine when I worked for a multi-national supermarket chain. Why should I want people knowing my name when I will probably never speak to them again. If people want to know my name all they had to do was ask.

People who don't acknowledge when you hold the door open for them.

University graduates who are fast-tracked to managerial positions because of their degree, most of them have the life skills and common sense of a comatose wombat.


Too much pollution, they say. Cut the number of cars on the road, they say. Use public transport instead, they say. Then the bus and rail companies put their fares up. You work it out.

Privatisation. That's just me, I'm not trying to start a political debate.

Cyclists who think the Highway Code is not for them and it's okay to jump red lights, pull out in front of or change lanes in front of cars. Is it any wonder why the accident head count is rising. And this is from a non-driving cyclist.

[OldenBUA]

People who rant about people who rant...

Threads that go from one page to seven in a single day.

[getagrip]

People who rant about people who rant...

Threads that go from one page to seven in a single day.

Mwah hah hah...my work is done 

Cyclists who slow me down on the way to work, seem to think they own the bloddy road and don't pay a bean in road tax.  THEY cause more pollution because everyone's engines are less efficient as they try to get round!

[Last Hussar]

Boy George was on the Today Programme defending the fact the Chinese were building a power station here.  Apparently that is a good thing because the Taxpayer doesn't have to pay for it.

How can anyone not see the flaw in the argument?

It's sad when you hope that the people in power are corrupt, because the only other explanation is they are completely insane.

[FierceKitty]

That empty box in the collection marked "Mexica".