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[getagrip]

This thread is at two pages already,  I would like to think I have performed a public service here 

[Upgraydd]

Hipsters. That is all.

[getagrip]

Hipsters. That is all.

Whining ex-pats?

[Fenton]

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.

Oz will have to learn how to run a domestic competition first.

[Subedai]

As an anti-rant, I like Aussie rules football. (He whispered from behind the fence.)

[mollinary]

This thread is at two pages already,  I would like to think I have performed a public service here 

But you would be wrong. 

[getagrip]

But you would be wrong. 

Need a rant 

[Westmarcher]

Chorizo

Its pronounced cho-ree-tho* (in Spain) or cho-ree-so (in South America)
Its not choreet-zo.
Its Spanish. Not Italian.
See how it is spelled? There is only one Z.  Not two Zs like pizza (which is Italian).
Pay attention and stop making it up!
Cho-ree-tho.
Simples.

(I quite like chorizo. Sometimes. Usually. In pizza.)

* as in thick

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

People who rant...

[Leon]

Domestic trip switches that decide to trip whenever a single light bulb blows, making it decidedly difficult to find said trip switch in the dark and restore light.  How someone decided that this is Health & Safety is beyond me.

Stupid people.  The ones for whom 'Do not use hairdryer in shower' or 'Remove trousers before using trouser press' are necessary warning signs.  We need to allow Darwinism full rein and let the stupid people do what stupid people do.  If there's a massive hole in the pavement, surrounded by fences, flashy lights and warning signs, and you still manage to fall down it, then you obviously can't be trusted with lace-up shoes or anything sharper than a spoon.

Nonsense reality TV, like Made in Essex, The Only Way is Geordie and Chelsea Shore. 

Talentless 'celebrities', the likes of which populate the above TV shows and fill the cover of almost every newspaper and magazine in the world.  We should ban the word Kardashian from the printed press.

Christmas songs.  All of them.  There is not one single half-decent one out there.



That'll do for now...

[Leman]

I like this comma, and I also like this comma. Winter pansies are pretty and Aussies are sad because they have got like the East Germans over sport, and sport is essentially rather boring. Still, one day they might find something important to be good at.

[fsn]

I have not begun to rant!

I have just been laying out my list of potential rants. Warming up, so to speak.

I've just added people who think pronouncing foreign words the way they are said in their home tongue. For goodness sake, the French can't even say "Paris" right!

... and Amercanisms. It's a "pavement" not a "sidewalk", a "lift" not an "elevator", and SONAR is ASDIC! 

... and people who apply 21st Century morality to bygone eras.

... and "your 100 best films" which are always led by last year's blockbuster.

... Rap. It's not music. It's barely poetry. It's just talking fast. An auctioneer is far more impressive. 

... and while we're on the subject, R&B is no longer worthy of the title. It should be renamed Bump 'n' Grind.

... and people who don't say "thank you" if you hold the door open for them.

... and winter pansies.

[getagrip]

People who walk in front of you at the supermarket while you're looking at something without even acknowledging your existence as part of the human race.

People who can't use commas properly.

People who go on about commas as if they're something magical.

Winter pansies.

[fsn]

... and people who eat with their mouth open

... and perpetual sniffers

... and Pomeranian dogs

... and when someone puts a post-it note on my screen

... and badly formatted documents 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

People who live in :

Sarf Eoast
Wuncorn
Aus
US
and
WALES.

The French cause dey is more arrogant dan what I is.
UKIP - on general principles.

etc etc....

IanS

[getagrip]

Tool packages which actually require you to have tools in the first place to get the buggers open

[Fenton]

Politicians from any party who have been to public school and then Oxbridge  an then get a job as an aide to another politician and then when trying to get get elected pretend they have had a normal upbringing and know what its like ' out there' in the modern workplace

[DanJ]

Christmas songs.  All of them.  There is not one single half-decent one out there.

I like 'A Fairy tale of New York' but apart from that I agree and would add any music rubbish enough to make the Brit Awards

Caravans.

People who say "Oh I wish I could do that but I just couldn't" when all they need to do is get off their fat @rs£s and make a bit of effort.

Caravans.

People who boast about being ignorant then ask you to fix their computer.

Caravaners who sit in their caravans and watch Eastenders/Corrie/Emmerdale/ on their caravan TVs - what is the bloody point in cluttering up the roads with thier caravans to just sit in a microcosm of their own front rooms watching the same cr@p on telly as they would at home?

[getagrip]

I like 'A Fairy tale of New York' but apart from that I agree and would add any music rubbish enough to make the Brit Awards

Agreed

Caravaners who sit in their caravans and watch Eastenders/Corrie/Emmerdale/ on their caravan TVs - what is the bloody point in cluttering up the roads with thier caravans to just sit in a microcosm of their own front rooms watching the same cr@p on telly as they would at home?

Good point!  They're also in the same category as the "we like it here" brigade who go the same bloody place every year.

What's the point of that?  Big world, go and see some of it!!! 

[Westmarcher]

This is good, isn't it?