There have been some truly spectacular rants of late and so I felt it was time we ha had a soapbox where any Tom, Dick or Nobby could come along and vent spleen.

Maybe, in time,  this will become a sticky topic,  who can say.  In the meantime gentleman and Lady of the forum: let's gripe,  b!t£h and moan

Anything goes as long as it follows the normal forum rules

PS, Michael Gove is an @r$e 

I have the Shetland flu bug....I feel cr*p...slept all day today and feel dizzy every time I stand up.....moan, moan, moan

Quote from: getagrip on 04 March 2015, 08:04:31 PM
Anything goes as long as it follows the normal forum rules

There are rules?

Quote from: Maenoferren on 04 March 2015, 09:02:52 PM
I have the Shetland flu bug....I feel cr*p...slept all day today and feel dizzy every time I stand up.....moan, moan, moan

Good moan!  A problem shared is a problem doubled,  or some such rubbish 

Where to start?

Drivers who don't indicate; the BBC disrupting the schedule for sports events that I really; really don't care about; winter pansies; cranberries;  people who don't vote; cyclists who can't decide if they're road or pavement traffic; skiers; the Hobbit being made into a trilogy; cold calls; they cancelled Firefly; people who leave dice, glasses and their dignity on a wargames table; Disney (Darth Vader in Disneyland!) politicians who can't answer a question; winter pansies; cranberries; e-smokers;  every gun in the German army (1939-45) being an 88mm; people who claim to be "cold" at 20c; the press; people who don't like Centurions; those who don't have a view of the Oxford comma; winter pansies; other people's children; BMW drivers; golfers; where are all the black women?; colony collapse disorder; religion (all of them); iTunes; cheap batteries; people who think I should like football because I have testicles; not being able to remember; the AWI; Bourbon American fall over liquid; waking to work in the rain; films that care more about the CGI than the plot (yes Marvel, I'm looking at you); junk mail; jackets worn with jeans; defaced library books; and winter pansies.  

You make many valid points apart from your stance on winter pansies. 

Quality rant; any more in there?

... ooh and people showing you their holiday/ wedding/ birthday photographs; people who think they're a photographer because they own a mobile phone; winter pansies; the Welsh language; Pepsi; utility companies; chocolates with pepper on them; telephone handset cables that get twisted; people who can't take proper messages; long life bulbs; wearing a tie and winter pansies.

Quote from: getagrip on 04 March 2015, 09:24:05 PM
You make many valid points apart from your stance on winter pansies. 

Winter pansies are an abomination against nature!

Quote from: fsn on 04 March 2015, 09:24:13 PM
... ooh and people showing you their holiday/ wedding/ birthday photographs; people who think they're a photographer because they own a mobile phone; winter pansies; the Welsh language; Pepsi; utility companies; chocolates with pepper on them; telephone handset cables that get twisted; people who can't take proper messages; long life bulbs; wearing a tie and winter pansies.

It's like throwing up isn't it; just keeps coming and you feel so much better when it's out 

Quote from: fsn on 04 March 2015, 09:25:12 PM
Winter pansies are an abomination against nature!

Are we talking about flowers or people that complain about cold weather all the time?

#fsn. But apart from that...

Quote from: Upgraydd on 04 March 2015, 09:27:30 PM
Are we talking about flowers or people that complain about cold weather all the time?

Oh yeah, that reminds me: Ozzie cricketers!  In fact anything to do with Ozzie cricket,  or Ozzie sports in general!  How can "smug" be a national pastime? 

The flowers, Man! The flowers! A flower is designed to be bright an colourful to attract insects so they can take the pollen to other plants of the same type and so fertilise them so the plant species can reproduce. The thing about winter is that most insects are in bed, not popping out to the nearest flower for a pollen refill. When was the last time you got stung by a bee when it was below 0? Exactly! No, Sirrah! No. Winter pansies are man thumbing his nose at Mother Earth. They are a gaudy indication of our disdain for the way things should be, and Gaia will have her revenge!

Quote from: getagrip on 04 March 2015, 09:32:29 PM
Oh yeah, that reminds me: Ozzie cricketers!  In fact anything to do with Ozzie cricket,  or Ozzie sports in general!  How can "smug" be a national pastime? 

It's hard work but we manage...I'd like to thank the English for inventing all these sports that we can dominate them with. It won't be long until we add Football to the list.

People who rant... 

I wear a jacket with jeans.... (agree on the winter pansies though)

Quote from: Upgraydd on 04 March 2015, 09:37:48 PM
It's hard work but we manage...I'd like to thank the English for inventing all these sports that we can dominate them with. It won't be long until we add Football to the list.

You can have it!   

Politics and by association, politicians who bleat on about the state of the country and then fiddle their expenses...in fact, most of them are self-aggrandising wastes of oxygen; footballers who deserve an Oscar for their acting ability; footballers who blatantly cheat to gain an advantage; FIFA because those at the top think more of themselves than the position they are entrusted with -mind you, that could apply to a lot of top people; the words 'Clinically Proven' in or on adverts -arsenic can be clinically proven to make your greens brighter on the wallpaper but look what it did to Napoleon. Adverts in general -stop bending the truth just to sell the product! Ignorance and bad manners; OAP's who think it is their god given right to shove you out of the way to get on the bus; queue jumpers; cyclists on the pavement...it is an offence for them to be there so FECK OFF! Drivers who have forgotten what indicators are for. Young girls and women Effing anf Jeffing in the street (I'm old school). C&W, the Smiths and doof-doof music (the type with the incessant beat and repetitive electronic noise); the worst song ever written is 'Walking in Memphis' closely followed by 'Tie A Yellow Ribbon' and 'Agadoo', shudder; the Bubble-Wrapped Slug building in the centre of Brum (the Selfridges building); people -especially wargamers with no sense of personal hygiene and rucksacks the size of a small family car surgically attached to their backs.


That'll do to be going on with.

Quote from: Upgraydd on 04 March 2015, 09:37:48 PM
It's hard work but we manage...I'd like to thank the English for inventing all these sports that we can dominate them with. It won't be long until we add Football to the list.

We don't want to take all the glory. We invent games to give others pleasure, we can't be good at everything.