Tiny Little Things That Cause You Irrational Rage

[Zebedee Tring]

People with large handbags or backpacks on their shoulders, who bash into me on trains, buses and in the street without looking where they are going.

[aquarius moon]

Constantly reading threads about shops opening/closing, coffee shops opening/closing.

What is this going to be? What is that going to be?

People obsessing about what they've heard or are dying to know.

Like another certain designer outlet or restaurant chain arriving will have such a big impact on their lives.

I just don't get it at all.

Aren't there more important things in life to worry about?

[Jah Lush]

I couldn't agree with you more, AM. I'm as puzzled as you are about other people's obsession with all that shit.

[Robert Poste's Child]

You don't have to read them. I feel the same about football and golf.

[Jah Lush]

Fair enough.

Golf is a game played by men with small balls.

[Loz]

Maybe, but the better ones can score a hole in one.

[steveo]

It's a BOOK not a berk

It's a COOK BOOK not a kerk berk

[Salsaboy]

Is it a BOOKER not a BURQA?

[maxxi]

What are you doing?

Just lurking.

[Nigello]

People who don't open windows on buses when it's all steamed up inside, usually because they fear being slightly moistened by a stray rain drop.

[the-e-dealer]

Maybe they are doing it to annoy you!

[LouiseC]

People who think everyone wants to hear their extremely loud, hands free, phone conversation on the 19.39pm train from London Victoria when you've spent the last 11hours at work listening to other people having very loud phone conversations in your office.

[steveo]

When people dump their fag packet litter not five feet from a bin, why aren't they smacked in the face like they just trod on a rake?

[Robert Poste's Child]

I once saw someone from a local butcher's do that as they walked out of the newsagent's that was next door at the time. Ever since I've felt uneasy about how that attitude might translate into hygiene at work and he's still there so I think it every time I go in. Strange how one individual act several years ago still colours how I see their business.

[Jah Lush]

steveo Wrote:

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> When people dump their fag packet litter not five

> feet from a bin, why aren't they smacked in the

> face like they just trod on a rake?

It's not just fag packets though is it. Cans of drink, takeaway food etc etc. I tend to show them where the bin is. I hate litter bugs.

[intexasatthe moment]

Trying to think of an existing butchers shop that used to have a newsagent's next door .

What is in place of the newsagents now ? ( hasten to add that I am not interested in new shops etc ,just trying to identify butchers ) I know of one that smells badly ,though meat purchased there has never done me any harm .

[jackwelts]

not having the sports channel of the game you want to watch on tv. :/

[Zebedee Tring]

Russell Brand. The man who tells young people not to vote but who himself wouldn't be affected by the collapse of the NHS and the rest of the welfare state because he's loaded. I really despise him.

[Otta]

I used to despise him, then I had a brief period of thinking he wrote some good articles.

But I quickly went back to despising him again.

Despise might be a slightly strong word, but I do think he's living on another planet.

[Jah Lush]

Brand is an idiot for telling people not to vote. I'm not overfond of him either. Too gobby and his ego needs a planet of its own.

[El Pibe]

like any columnist (for that is what he is really) he has good days and bad days.

On the no voting thing I think he was a bit misunderstood. He was saying the current crop of self-interested shag-sacks do not deserve the validation that a vote directly implies.

He was saying that there are other ways to engage politically, and that one of them should be campaigning for genuine political reform.

He was promoting benign civil disobedience rather than apathy.

Actually he was sputing a lot of rubbish, but being generous to him i think this was what he was trying to get at.

I'm not entirely against the idea, either you engage those that feel disenfranchised with a workable alternative that they *will* vote for or you attack the system that entrenches power in vested interests.

UKIP very successful at the former, even if they're tilting at the wrong windmills, blame the EU for he ravages of globalism on one of the few bodies working to protect the little people from it, whilst championing the usual suspects that are at the root of it all, deregulation, privatisation, end to workers rights, minimum wage and so on.

[Loz]

jackwelts Wrote:

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> not having the sports channel of the game you want to watch on tv. :/

One word - wiziwig.

[steveo]

I went through a period of despising the bolloxy botoxy prat but he's back in my charts now mainly because I think he means every word he says even if it is a bit bananas, and he runs rings around all those airhead American presenters who are totally in thrall to him.

I also like the mad eyed Messiah look.

Not keen on the ubiquitous 'I'm an ex junkie' schtick.

However he's an eccentric Englishman which is a very good thing and I prefer him to just about every politician.

[El Pibe]

"However he's an eccentric Englishman which is a very good thing and I prefer him to just about every politician."

nicely put.

[StraferJack]

butcher/newsagent combo would be on east Dulwich Grove I would guess

Newsagent still there, Butcher not