Tiny Little Things That Cause You Irrational Rage

[Guest]

The man sitting next to me with his legs apart by more than a 90-degree angle and his size 15 feet centimeters from my bare toes in flip flops. Why must they do that?

[stacey-lyn]

Misspelling company names generally doesn't irk me and it's often humorous. I know it's a common linguistic naming strategy to make them more distinctive etc. However, the old Burnet Ware estate agent on the corner of Peckham Rye is now 'KUMON (sic) - Maths & English study centre' (one of over 600 franchises apparently). It may be distinctive, tongue-in-cheek, attempt at humour, whatever, but it certainly doesn't work for me. It's an English study centre, for Pete's sake.

[Huguenot]

Haha, no. :)

The guy's name was Toru Kumon, and half a century ago he created a method of immersive teaching for kids who had particular needs!

It's now a franchise.

No pun intended.

[stacey-lyn]

Aha. Thanks Huguenot.

Still irks me though.

[Annette Curtain]

Ms B Wrote:

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> The man sitting next to me with his legs apart by

> more than a 90-degree angle and his size 15 feet

> centimeters from my bare toes in flip flops. Why

> must they do that?

It's a male cooling issue

[maxxi]

Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> Ms B Wrote:

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> > The man sitting next to me with his legs apart

> by

> > more than a 90-degree angle and his size 15

> feet

> > centimeters from my bare toes in flip flops.

> Why

> > must they do that?

>

>

> It's a male cooling issue

Just be thankful he wasn't 'wafting'.

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Dick Strawbridge

[Guest]

Several times on the radio recently I've heard the Covent Garden area described as 'Midtown'. Dismally sad and misguided.

[the-e-dealer]

St. Katherine's Dock (sic)

[jumpinjackflash]

why?

[the-e-dealer]

Because its St Katherine Docks.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Why don't tax discs tear along their perforations? It's not as if the tax office haven't had some years to perfect this.

[Earl Aelfheah]

People who can only compute a London telephone number by having you repeat it using the area code and the first digit of the number together (i.e. "sorry... 0207 then what?").

[computedshorty]

Do you want a Push Start?

[the-e-dealer]

Milk cartons

[KalamityKel]

those teeny milk pots you get in a hotel room...

[katie1997]

... remember when Colombo ALWAYS mentioned his wife (yet you NEVER got to see her) - well, the EDF version of that.

Except in this case, its a husband.

[Salsaboy]

Section 127.

[the-e-dealer]

MY husband will take great exception to that , justify yourself or retract!

[Yaa Berry]

I'm not sure if someone said this already but it's worth saying it again....guys who wear their trousers half way down their legs with their pants on full view.... and they've adopted a funny walk in order to keep their trousers up!?!?!? What's the sense in that??? it looks like they've 'crapped in their pants!' What a stupid look!!!

[KalamityKel]

Teenagers

[KalamityKel]

Pink blueberries

[the-e-dealer]

look when you get to my age its hard to find trousers that fit snugly.

[KalamityKel]

::o that's just norty! made me blush an everything!

[Mousey McP]

Anything fried chicken - them lovely orange Boxes, bones all over the path, the sickly smell. yuk.