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Pet Hates
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by Gary Dickson » Aug 24th, '07, 00:14
My pet hates:
Automatic questions - normally people asking how you are because it is expected rather than because they want to know.
My own irritability.
Anti chav sentiment.
Television.
Adverts.
Adverts in cinemas for toothpaste (or what ever). Just play the damn film!
People's inability to cope with another's pain.
When people who think I really do have special powers. This comes up occasionally when performing, especially if it is a PK effect. Ethically I find it very difficult and I have to tell them it's a trick. But at the same time I kind of want them to think it's real. Hmm, maybe I should not be a magician.
The ostracization of those who behave in an unethical manner.
American English, especially on the internet. I want to be able to spell 'centre' properly rather than being told the spell checker it is incorrect (including this site!). This is not a dig at Americans! Of course, I can still spell words properly but then I have to see lots of red lines.
Over hyped magic effects. I'm a sucker for the hype!
The English attitude to busking. It's shocking! People assume that because I earns my living on the street I'm a crack addict or a beggar, even thought I'm wearing a suit! And clean shaven! Not to mention the fact that I'm performing professional standard magic effects that obviously take time, effort, money and practice.
My own lack of awareness of, and compassion for other people.
Rain.
Emoticons.
Signs that begin with "for your own safety and comfort...".
Automatic questions - normally people asking how you are because it is expected rather than because they want to know.
My own irritability.
Anti chav sentiment.
Television.
Adverts.
Adverts in cinemas for toothpaste (or what ever). Just play the damn film!
People's inability to cope with another's pain.
When people who think I really do have special powers. This comes up occasionally when performing, especially if it is a PK effect. Ethically I find it very difficult and I have to tell them it's a trick. But at the same time I kind of want them to think it's real. Hmm, maybe I should not be a magician.
The ostracization of those who behave in an unethical manner.
American English, especially on the internet. I want to be able to spell 'centre' properly rather than being told the spell checker it is incorrect (including this site!). This is not a dig at Americans! Of course, I can still spell words properly but then I have to see lots of red lines.
Over hyped magic effects. I'm a sucker for the hype!
The English attitude to busking. It's shocking! People assume that because I earns my living on the street I'm a crack addict or a beggar, even thought I'm wearing a suit! And clean shaven! Not to mention the fact that I'm performing professional standard magic effects that obviously take time, effort, money and practice.
My own lack of awareness of, and compassion for other people.
Rain.
Emoticons.
Signs that begin with "for your own safety and comfort...".
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by Gary Dickson » Aug 24th, '07, 00:16
My pet hates:
Automatic questions - normally people asking how you are because it is expected rather than because they want to know.
My own irritability.
Anti chav sentiment.
Television.
Adverts.
Adverts in cinemas for toothpaste (or what ever). Just play the damn film!
People's inability to cope with another's pain.
When people think I really do have special powers. This comes up occasionally when performing, especially if it is a PK effect. Ethically I find it very difficult and I have to tell them it's a trick. But at the same time I kind of want them to think it's real. Hmm, maybe I should not be a magician.
The ostracization of those who behave in an unethical manner.
American English, especially on the internet. I want to be able to spell 'centre' properly rather than being told the spell checker it is incorrect (including this site!). This is not a dig at Americans! Of course, I can still spell words properly but then I have to see lots of red lines.
Over hyped magic effects. I'm a sucker for the hype!
The English attitude to busking. It's shocking! People assume that because I earns my living on the street I'm a crack addict or a beggar, even thought I'm wearing a suit! And clean shaven! Not to mention the fact that I'm performing professional standard magic effects that obviously take time, effort, money and practice.
My own lack of awareness of, and compassion for other people.
Rain.
Emoticons.
Signs that begin with "for your own safety and comfort...".
Automatic questions - normally people asking how you are because it is expected rather than because they want to know.
My own irritability.
Anti chav sentiment.
Television.
Adverts.
Adverts in cinemas for toothpaste (or what ever). Just play the damn film!
People's inability to cope with another's pain.
When people think I really do have special powers. This comes up occasionally when performing, especially if it is a PK effect. Ethically I find it very difficult and I have to tell them it's a trick. But at the same time I kind of want them to think it's real. Hmm, maybe I should not be a magician.
The ostracization of those who behave in an unethical manner.
American English, especially on the internet. I want to be able to spell 'centre' properly rather than being told the spell checker it is incorrect (including this site!). This is not a dig at Americans! Of course, I can still spell words properly but then I have to see lots of red lines.
Over hyped magic effects. I'm a sucker for the hype!
The English attitude to busking. It's shocking! People assume that because I earns my living on the street I'm a crack addict or a beggar, even thought I'm wearing a suit! And clean shaven! Not to mention the fact that I'm performing professional standard magic effects that obviously take time, effort, money and practice.
My own lack of awareness of, and compassion for other people.
Rain.
Emoticons.
Signs that begin with "for your own safety and comfort...".
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by ominoustom » Aug 29th, '07, 02:40
Charv said/spelled as chav.
There is an R in chav.
Don't get me started on the subject.
I'm a northerner surrounded by southerner's and they all say it wrong.
There is an R in chav.
Don't get me started on the subject.
I'm a northerner surrounded by southerner's and they all say it wrong.
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by Farlsborough » Aug 29th, '07, 09:49
I believe there are two terms, "chav" and "charver" (thanks, geordies) - the former may well be a contraction of the latter originally but is it's own word now. Hey ho.
My current pet hate is when the postman just shoves a "you were out" parcel slip through the door with clearly no intention of trying for an answer first. My room is the front room of a terrace, ie. ground floor, looking onto the street - right next to the door. Granted I'm not a particularly light sleeper but when I'm expecting something exciting the merest click would have me out of bed in a flash - yet somehow every time I wake up to see a note has been carefully laid, an and I am expected to believe that he a) used the bell and/or b) knocked. Git.
Not only that, but the Leeds sorting office are so sloooow or the system so archaic that it takes 48 hours - yes, that's right, 2 days - before I can go and collect my post from an awkwardly placed depot. Tell me, someone, how I can post a 1st class letter in Truro and it will arrive crisp on the doormat of my theoretical chum in Glasgae the next morning, yet it takes 48 skin crawling hours to simply return my undelivered post to the depot 3 miles away.
My current pet hate is when the postman just shoves a "you were out" parcel slip through the door with clearly no intention of trying for an answer first. My room is the front room of a terrace, ie. ground floor, looking onto the street - right next to the door. Granted I'm not a particularly light sleeper but when I'm expecting something exciting the merest click would have me out of bed in a flash - yet somehow every time I wake up to see a note has been carefully laid, an and I am expected to believe that he a) used the bell and/or b) knocked. Git.
Not only that, but the Leeds sorting office are so sloooow or the system so archaic that it takes 48 hours - yes, that's right, 2 days - before I can go and collect my post from an awkwardly placed depot. Tell me, someone, how I can post a 1st class letter in Truro and it will arrive crisp on the doormat of my theoretical chum in Glasgae the next morning, yet it takes 48 skin crawling hours to simply return my undelivered post to the depot 3 miles away.
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by themagicwand » Aug 29th, '07, 10:29
Farlsborough wrote:
Not only that, but the Leeds sorting office are so sloooow or the system so archaic that it takes 48 hours - yes, that's right, 2 days - before I can go and collect my post from an awkwardly placed depot. Tell me, someone, how I can post a 1st class letter in Truro and it will arrive crisp on the doormat of my theoretical chum in Glasgae the next morning, yet it takes 48 skin crawling hours to simply return my undelivered post to the depot 3 miles away.
Yes, this used to be a major gripe of mine when I ran an on-line business. And the bloke behind the desk would look at me like I was some kind of idiot for asking if the parcel they had tried to deliver to me yesterday had managed to make its way back to the sorting office.
Apparently what happens is this: Postie tries to deliver parcel but for whatever reason can't. Postie takes parcel away. Sorting office closes at noon (that's right folks, in this 24 hour global village the sorting office shuts up shop at noon). Postie finishes his round after noon, so cannot take parcel back to sorting office. Postie drops undelivered parcels into local post office. Post office actually posts the undelivered parcels back to the sorting office - that is, when the post van comes to collect the mail, the undelivered parcels go back into the post system in order to be returned to the sorting office. Hence it takes 2 days for an undelivered parcel to be returned to a sorting office that is usually no more than a mile or so away. It is a ridiculous archaic system that harks back to the jobsworth mentality of the 1970's, and should be consigned to the dustbin of history - but of course if anyone should try to update the system, the unions would blow a gasket. Crazy. The answer of course is to have the sorting office open...oh I don't know...let's say...all day??? No, that would be crackers wouldn't it?
Another thing that bugs me is that I normally get my mail around midday. Except on Saturday when every one in the postal system is rushing to get off home early. On Saturday I get my mail around 10am. Funny that.
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by AndyRegs » Aug 29th, '07, 10:38
Those advert on TV, and articles in magazines that state you are only a 'real' women if you are fat! So what does that make slim and healthy girls? Its as bad as the fashion industry promoting anorexia, and just as unhealthy.
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by greedoniz » Aug 29th, '07, 11:24
I'll take a deep breath as this may take awhile....to be honest I thought I'd already answered this but checking back it seemed I hadn't
In no particular order
1)Meg Ryan
2)Tina Turner
3) Tv talent shows
4) Music that has no artistic merit and has reduced certain genres into either popularity contests or a marketing exercise. And no it isn't a matter of taste!
5)Blockbuster films where the script is an afterthought...an inconvenience to just get from one CGI sequence to the next
6) Office collegues who complain they dislike their job yet work unpaid overtime and take short lunches.....get a grip!
7) People who dont question authority
Gossip magazines and anyone who reads them. You are stupid. there are no excuses for that sort of moronic interesy
9) This is related but celebrity culture. There was a time where people who explore the world both physically and mentally were applauded but now it is people who have achieved nothing but trivial happenings
10) People who live off take outs and micro food.
11) People who dont take driving seriously(irratic or drunk ). You are moving a ton of metal at high speeds and can kill or be killed. I have personal experience.
12) Global businesses. Have no interest other than short term profit for their shareholders and will over time create less choice for us all.
13) Commuting. London commute is a nightmare but not because of the tight squeeze but having to look into the lifeless faces of fellow commuter staring into space.
14) Religion and anyone who thinks that faith is a virtue over reason. I find that an afront to the human race
15) Kid Worship. Yes I know all parents think their children are special, they aren't and to gear a whole culture around those horrible dribbling barrels of annoyance is absurd.
16) You must support the troops. More of an americanism but why support anyone who blindly follows orders and puts their own moral obligations second. Soldiers kill people...that is their job.
17) Patriotism. Last refuge of the scoundrel. Its a large round planet and we are all on it together. Lets not pigeon hole.
18) Rascists. You have no basis in fact other than your own ignorance and stupidipty. another affront to human kind
19) OAP's who go shopping on a saturday. You have all week to dodder around slowly. I only have the weekend and dont wish to spend half of it stubbling over those tartan bags on wheels.
I've got another 20 or 30 but will stop there..
Actually one more
20) Soap operas. Badly written and the stories are both absurd and in a 3 month rotation
In no particular order
1)Meg Ryan
2)Tina Turner
3) Tv talent shows
4) Music that has no artistic merit and has reduced certain genres into either popularity contests or a marketing exercise. And no it isn't a matter of taste!
5)Blockbuster films where the script is an afterthought...an inconvenience to just get from one CGI sequence to the next
6) Office collegues who complain they dislike their job yet work unpaid overtime and take short lunches.....get a grip!
7) People who dont question authority
Gossip magazines and anyone who reads them. You are stupid. there are no excuses for that sort of moronic interesy
9) This is related but celebrity culture. There was a time where people who explore the world both physically and mentally were applauded but now it is people who have achieved nothing but trivial happenings
10) People who live off take outs and micro food.
11) People who dont take driving seriously(irratic or drunk ). You are moving a ton of metal at high speeds and can kill or be killed. I have personal experience.
12) Global businesses. Have no interest other than short term profit for their shareholders and will over time create less choice for us all.
13) Commuting. London commute is a nightmare but not because of the tight squeeze but having to look into the lifeless faces of fellow commuter staring into space.
14) Religion and anyone who thinks that faith is a virtue over reason. I find that an afront to the human race
15) Kid Worship. Yes I know all parents think their children are special, they aren't and to gear a whole culture around those horrible dribbling barrels of annoyance is absurd.
16) You must support the troops. More of an americanism but why support anyone who blindly follows orders and puts their own moral obligations second. Soldiers kill people...that is their job.
17) Patriotism. Last refuge of the scoundrel. Its a large round planet and we are all on it together. Lets not pigeon hole.
18) Rascists. You have no basis in fact other than your own ignorance and stupidipty. another affront to human kind
19) OAP's who go shopping on a saturday. You have all week to dodder around slowly. I only have the weekend and dont wish to spend half of it stubbling over those tartan bags on wheels.
I've got another 20 or 30 but will stop there..
Actually one more
20) Soap operas. Badly written and the stories are both absurd and in a 3 month rotation
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by themagicwand » Aug 29th, '07, 11:41
greedoniz wrote:9) This is related but celebrity culture. There was a time where people who explore the world both physically and mentally were applauded but now it is people who have achieved nothing but trivial happenings
Agreed. When I was a wee lad (many many moons ago), the people who were held up as shining beacons to inspire us young 'uns to go out and do something with our lives were the brave souls who had climbed Everest, or had fought their way to the North Pole, or who had explored the Amazon, the source of the Nile, etc., or those that had risked their lives to give mankind a foothold in outer space.
These days the role models are "ladies" who have had sex with footballers or men who are in & out of drug clinics. Tsk.
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by IAIN » Aug 29th, '07, 21:33
the press...ahem..draw up a seat, this'll take a while...
ok, football...might not be popular here, but here you go anyway...
sven right, The Sun, obviously higher moral vanguards of Britishness and keeping johnny foreigners at bay (more on that later) - winston churchill eating a sausage whilst riding a giant bulldog down the street shoot immigrants...
i digress, sven goran erikson, ex manager of the en-gur-land soccer-ball club, they set him up with a fake-sheik, and then called him traitor..
lets examine this...
you are at work, someone says to you "hey..i've got a mate, thinking of buying a business, he wants you on board...big money...have what you want..." who in their right mind wouldnt listen to that offer? idiots the press...absolute idiots...
the press get him sacked, sell alot of papers, then complain about the next one...i think they'd only be happy if they hired jim davidson, but he's too busy talking about the Falklands...
anyway, what was i saying? oooooh yeah...the tabloid press...The Star, bought by people who find the Sun too high brow...the Mirror, an attempt at not quite being the Sun, and seen as "left wing"? what? yeah of course it is...
Celebrities - any make up caked loon with fake breasts can make a few quid, all the stories read the same "he was a gentleman, and i cant complain in the size of his equiment either...we did it 12 million times that night...and he even bought me weetabix in the morning..."
Pete Dochety - no, no no...sorry...but,....well...no...junkie faced pigeon eyed casper the ghost with a porkpie hat toolbox...to the gallows with him! he's not a poet, yet he doesnt know it...scum of the highest order...stick him in jail, where he can get cheaper drugs, and hopefully..well...end up the flue...an absolute shower of a man...a shower i say...
the dissing of the blaine - ach come of it...he was well alright when he first appeared...let him be...
blogs/myspace/facebook - let strangers look at you for no real reason other than somewhere in the back of your mind is "oooh, but what if he/she fancies me?" or you just wanna show off...come on now...own up, and grow up...if you've not kept in touch with someone, its probably for very good reason...either they smell, or you do...have a wash and smile..
bad parenting - look, there's no excuses at all, you had the brat, look after it properly, it is not anyone elses responsibility except the people who made the thing. Teach it manners, morals and respect and let 'em get on with it...
blaming violence in films and nowadays games: to quote peter cook, "I'm very influenced by telly, every time i watch Sooty, i want to get in a glove..." name me one games tester that ever went postal?
sexual thought existed before pornography, photography and any other media, and looking back, we were far more violent and nasty to each other than we are now believe it or not...
ranting: after afew beers, i do love a good rant at the world, strangely i've not touched the sauce today, just had a bad day at work...where's the Sun when you need 'em eh?
the dissing of east-europeans:
i get on the tube bright and early, packed full of eastern euros...jolly nice people, work hard, do a decent job and dont sit there fat necked and angry and laughing about signing on and working 3 other jobs like some essex lad builders i see...they stay out of peoples way, they all have fantastically homemade haircuts, jumpers and moustaches...and they all like they could kill you with one punch...but they wouldnt, cos they're rather nice friendly people underneath the stern looks...
plus, they have some smashing looking women...dark hair and light eyes..lovely...
immigration in general:
again, down to the moron press selling papers...10% of the population is non-british...which in itself is a juxtaposition, one of the things i love about being english/british is that we're all a rag-tag cross breed of people, a little of everyone...surely thats a good thing? the rest is horse-poo...
sitting on your bed typing, when you get cramp and howling in pain like i just did...owwwwww...
ok, football...might not be popular here, but here you go anyway...
sven right, The Sun, obviously higher moral vanguards of Britishness and keeping johnny foreigners at bay (more on that later) - winston churchill eating a sausage whilst riding a giant bulldog down the street shoot immigrants...
i digress, sven goran erikson, ex manager of the en-gur-land soccer-ball club, they set him up with a fake-sheik, and then called him traitor..
lets examine this...
you are at work, someone says to you "hey..i've got a mate, thinking of buying a business, he wants you on board...big money...have what you want..." who in their right mind wouldnt listen to that offer? idiots the press...absolute idiots...
the press get him sacked, sell alot of papers, then complain about the next one...i think they'd only be happy if they hired jim davidson, but he's too busy talking about the Falklands...
anyway, what was i saying? oooooh yeah...the tabloid press...The Star, bought by people who find the Sun too high brow...the Mirror, an attempt at not quite being the Sun, and seen as "left wing"? what? yeah of course it is...
Celebrities - any make up caked loon with fake breasts can make a few quid, all the stories read the same "he was a gentleman, and i cant complain in the size of his equiment either...we did it 12 million times that night...and he even bought me weetabix in the morning..."
Pete Dochety - no, no no...sorry...but,....well...no...junkie faced pigeon eyed casper the ghost with a porkpie hat toolbox...to the gallows with him! he's not a poet, yet he doesnt know it...scum of the highest order...stick him in jail, where he can get cheaper drugs, and hopefully..well...end up the flue...an absolute shower of a man...a shower i say...
the dissing of the blaine - ach come of it...he was well alright when he first appeared...let him be...
blogs/myspace/facebook - let strangers look at you for no real reason other than somewhere in the back of your mind is "oooh, but what if he/she fancies me?" or you just wanna show off...come on now...own up, and grow up...if you've not kept in touch with someone, its probably for very good reason...either they smell, or you do...have a wash and smile..
bad parenting - look, there's no excuses at all, you had the brat, look after it properly, it is not anyone elses responsibility except the people who made the thing. Teach it manners, morals and respect and let 'em get on with it...
blaming violence in films and nowadays games: to quote peter cook, "I'm very influenced by telly, every time i watch Sooty, i want to get in a glove..." name me one games tester that ever went postal?
sexual thought existed before pornography, photography and any other media, and looking back, we were far more violent and nasty to each other than we are now believe it or not...
ranting: after afew beers, i do love a good rant at the world, strangely i've not touched the sauce today, just had a bad day at work...where's the Sun when you need 'em eh?
the dissing of east-europeans:
i get on the tube bright and early, packed full of eastern euros...jolly nice people, work hard, do a decent job and dont sit there fat necked and angry and laughing about signing on and working 3 other jobs like some essex lad builders i see...they stay out of peoples way, they all have fantastically homemade haircuts, jumpers and moustaches...and they all like they could kill you with one punch...but they wouldnt, cos they're rather nice friendly people underneath the stern looks...
plus, they have some smashing looking women...dark hair and light eyes..lovely...
immigration in general:
again, down to the moron press selling papers...10% of the population is non-british...which in itself is a juxtaposition, one of the things i love about being english/british is that we're all a rag-tag cross breed of people, a little of everyone...surely thats a good thing? the rest is horse-poo...
sitting on your bed typing, when you get cramp and howling in pain like i just did...owwwwww...
- IAIN
by Lord Freddie » Aug 29th, '07, 22:12
1) Racists
2) Bigots
3) Narrow minded people
4) Foreigners and coloureds
2) Bigots
3) Narrow minded people
4) Foreigners and coloureds
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by Lord Freddie » Aug 29th, '07, 22:14
abraxus wrote:Pete Dochety - no, no no...sorry...but,....well...no...junkie faced pigeon eyed casper the ghost with a porkpie hat toolbox...to the gallows with him! he's not a poet, yet he doesnt know it...scum of the highest order...stick him in jail, where he can get cheaper drugs, and hopefully..well...end up the flue...an absolute shower of a man...a shower I say...
Hey! Let him carry on what he's doing. I got good odds down the bookies that he'll die this year. Seeing them tomorrow about Amy Winehouse...
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