ED's Soap Box

[fish]

Forget Speakers Corner, vent your spleen from the comfort of your own computer. Come on up, your captive audience awaits you.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Umbrellas. Can't stand them, think they should be outlawed. Always at eye-poking height wielded by selfish bods who don't want to spoil their hair. And last time I looked there were no fairways on Lordship Lane.

How cathartic.

(edited to remove swear word)

(edited to avoid offending Ben)

[Keef]

I am so with you on that, I have been scratched very close to my eye by an umbrella before, and if it had hit my eye, I would have been fcuked as the other one is already sh!t.

[ben]

Not having a go at Peckhamgatecrasher but I can't abide the use of words such as "sos" and "prolly". People saying "laters" or "enjoy" really makes my skin crawl as well.

Sorry PGC

[Annasfield]

I'm annoyed that we are all on here on Friday night!!! Why aren't we all in the pub?(6)

[Keef]

Fancy a pint? I'm bored, and my plans have fallen through.

ben I know what you mean, but I like (and use) soz. It's from my time in Liverpool.

[Annasfield]

Yes, lets got to the pub :)-D

[citizenED]

Coat-hangers. Love them when they are hanging coats - otherwise, despise them.

[Nero]

Fish, I LOVE you. (But I hate people who use unnecessary capitalisation to underline their point of view.)

Now, where do I begin?

I don't like:

People who say 'gotten' rather than 'got' because they think it lends them a certain NY-LON air.

Black people who say 'ahks' rather than 'ask' to underline their blackness. (Chav, do you have that pin you mentioned?)

White people who want adopt black slang to appear cool.

Women who pretend to like football when they don't.(Yes, some women do, but some women don't.)

People who say 'yeah, no'. They might as well say 'zdnnooxioobgivfoh', because neither has any meaning.

People who think magazinify their lives by, for example, shopping in certain shops and eating in certain restaurants.

Nero

[Jessie]

People who listen to loud music on their mobile phones (the music is invariably crap)

I loathe free london papers which have no news and clog up an already clogged london

Dogs not on leashes when they should be

Mice anywhere and at any time

[Thequietone]

Other people and everything else.

Paul

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Nero - What pin?

[Brendan]

Yeah, no, well. You know what really bugs me. People who think the perfect time to start searching through their handbag/pockets for their tube/train ticket is when they get to the ticket-barrier at a busy station. Thereby blocking the way for the rest of the people in the station.

I mean can?t they see the clues that they are going to need their ticket handy. They?re in a station for fck sakes! It is not like the barriers are invisible either. You can see them from the time you get into the station. But nooo idiots walk directly into the thing and then think, ?What?s this? My path is blocked. That?s ok I?ll just stand here and dig in my bag for a bit. Lucky my sphere of consciousness is so self-centred that the existence of the rest of the people in the city doesn?t intrude into it.?

[fish]

Nero Wrote:

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> Fish, I LOVE you. (But I hate people who use

> unnecessary capitalisation to underline their

> point of view.)

> Now, where do I begin?

> I don't like:

> People who say 'gotten' rather than 'got' because

> they think it lends them a certain NY-LON air.

> Black people who say 'ahks' rather than 'ask' to

> underline their blackness. (Chav, do you have that

> pin you mentioned?)

> White people who want adopt black slang to appear

> cool.

> Women who pretend to like football when they

> don't.(Yes, some women do, but some women don't.)

>

> People who say 'yeah, no'. They might as well say

> 'zdnnooxioobgivfoh', because neither has any

> meaning.

> People who think magazinify their lives by, for

> example, shopping in certain shops and eating in

> certain restaurants.

> Nero

>:D<

[Nero]

Chav, the pin I mentioned was the one you referred to being dropped when you told your story. Nero

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Oh yeh, ok

[Annasfield]

I blame this thread for the hangover I had this morning and in fact still have traces of now (6)