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my turn for a rant now...

btw ID, I laughed so hard at your rant - not in a 'haha he hates so much stuff' kind of way - more a 'those are all the things I hate' kind of way

1. Chavs
2. White "gangsta's". IE the kind whos 'crews' have battles over who is 'king of da street' - Its not cool, 15 year old kids are getting killed in London and the like cos of this 'rap battles' culture and its STUPID
3. Hippies - sober them up, put them in a freezing cold house with no food then ask them how fun life is with no electricity...I DONT WANT TO HUG TREE'S LEAVE ME ALONE
4. People who ask you to sign petitions they CLEARLY have no idea about (see penn and tellers Bulls**t)
5. Chavs who play music with no headphones - your phone is NOT a mobile ghetto-Blaster
6. That idiot who says 'I know how its done, I saw it on that TV show with that masked magician guy'
7. Kids who post 'their very own made up magic tricks' on youtube...sure they can perform the trick...VERY BADLY (for the worlds worst D/L's...youtube)
8. Video blogs by emo kids
9. Emo kids (ie kids who are original...just like everyone else...you have a fringe WOW...you wear black...WOW GET OVER IT)
10. That one guy on the bus who wont move from his seat (which is labelled 'specially for the elderly') for an old man who was clearly in the war...
11. Anthony Warrel Thompson using the term 'in a bizzle' on 'Daily Chefs on ITV at 11am
12. Chavs
13. Slow internet
14. Those phonecalls asking if you are happy with your current telephone provider
15. When you go anywhere to buy something (ie Maplins or PC world) and you get talked down to by someone 5 years younger than you...

phew...that felt good to get off my chest - good one to whoever made this thread

Dan
aka Magic Trev

1. Big Brother - Great idea.. let's sit in our house watching people sitting in a house!
2. Eating liver -why would anyone want to?
3. Waiting about 4 hours to ride a roller coaster
4. Vegeterian Sausages - This is a joke right?
5. Most modern UK sitcoms - they are rubbish compared to 70's & 80's classics.
6. People who think they are Lance Burton because they have purchased one self working card trick
7. Westlife -Please go away and hide somewhere
8. People who ask for your help in a PM, you spend ages typing an answer and never get a simple thank you back!
9. People with multi - coloured dyed beards - You look like idiots
10. Gordon Ramsey - Swearing is not big or clever just very sad
11. People who spit in public - i just want to wipe their faces in it
12. Jeremy Kyle - You sir are nothing but a bully.
13. People who have stickers in car with silly messages on them - Oh dear oh dear!
14. Cricket - why? play golf instead it is great

The disapearance of proper pubs. My local was the collest pub I've ever been to. It has a snug lounge with just candle light and a log fire, a proper spit and sawdust bar with a dart board, a pool room, a 'cellar' down some tunnel like stairs which housed kind of a mini cavern club where local bands used to play, and an upstairs room where acoustic music was hopsted. On top of that, depending on what night it was, you would find random musicians playing guitars and banjo's etc, and even one night of the week where the oldies of the area would come, play the organ and have a right old knees up. Now its a couple of modern appartments...a tragedy!

Also women who's main criteria for finding a mate is money. Like where you find a really beautiful woman with a old wrinkly millionaire, and she claims its not for his money. Like she would look twice if he was skint. How many men do you know who count money as an important criteria when choosing a girlfriend/wife. Women have been treated unequally in the past, but perhaps they will never be completely equal until they (and by they I don't mean all women) stop looking to be kept women/wags etc.
And while we are on the subject, why should women tennis players complain that they should get the same winners prize as men, when they play far less sets. Mens matches can go up to 5 sets whilst womens matches are at most 3. Now it means that the men are being discriminated against as they are getting less for the time they are working. Equal pay for equal work!

The fact that some jobs/careers/opportunities go to people not because of their ability, but because of what their name is/the school they went to/who their dad is etc. Perhaps that explains why your boss is useless!

"Vegetarians" who eat fish. And chicken.

stephenmagic wrote:8. People who ask for your help in a PM, you spend ages typing an answer and never get a simple thank you back!

Yeah, I hate that, too. It's just plain rude, which is another one of my pet hates - rude people.

the yoof of today. OK not all of them. But at my workplaces, there are two groups of 20 somethings and when I ask them what they did at the weekend the conversation is usually like so.

So get up to anything good this weekend

We got really really drunk.

well your young I will take that as a given, but what did you do

no you don't understand we got really really really drunk

Yes just like every group your age before you. You didnt go to see a film, or a show or go see a band down a local pub, anything like that?

no you don't understand we got really really really really drunk

When I was young we went to shows, see bands etc. Usually it involved getting drunk just like you but we went to see the show/band/film etc. dont you guys do any of that

[blank stares...silence]

we got really really really really drunk

well hats off to you guys you realy know how to live life to the full

Now I would not mind if they did anything, anything at all but they don't. EVER, the conversation has been the same for nearly two years. Every week all they go out to do is get drunk. Am I a grumpy old man with rose tinted glasses, I expect so, but what a waste of a life.

connor o'connor wrote:the yoof of today. OK not all of them. But at my workplaces, there are two groups of 20 somethings and when I ask them what they did at the weekend the conversation is usually like so.

So get up to anything good this weekend

We got really really drunk.

well your young I will take that as a given, but what did you do

no you don't understand we got really really really drunk

Yes just like every group your age before you. You didnt go to see a film, or a show or go see a band down a local pub, anything like that?

no you don't understand we got really really really really drunk

When I was young we went to shows, see bands etc. Usually it involved getting drunk just like you but we went to see the show/band/film etc. dont you guys do any of that

[blank stares...silence]

we got really really really really drunk

well hats off to you guys you realy know how to live life to the full

Now I would not mind if they did anything, anything at all but they don't. EVER, the conversation has been the same for nearly two years. Every week all they go out to do is get drunk. Am I a grumpy old man with rose tinted glasses, I expect so, but what a waste of a life.

LOL when i was at college one morning two girls were having a conversation about the weekend:

'I got so drunk I fell over in a ditch and passed out, It was brilliant'

WOW what am i missing, honestly;)

My kind of movie...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/chec ... am=1&asb=1

(Did I just see Dynamo in there ... ?)

Lord Freddie wrote: As much as I hate fast food places, there are times late at night such as coming back from a show when they are the only places open that sell anything anywhere near food.
The people that work there can't even get the simplest of orders right, they always make mistakes.
As I said to one of them, in one of my more grouchier moments: "You have a bottom of the barrel job and you can't even do that with any competence. What hope is there for you? This is your pinnacle."
The worker nodded forlornly and agreed. Serves her right for giving me a diet coke instead of the nice sugary type.

Once I went in to Mcdonalds and asked for a caramel sundae. She said 'we don't sell those.' I said 'Oh, what flavours do you sell?' She replied ' Toffee and Strawberry.' !

Also have you noticed how everyone is making typos on this thread because everyone wants to get their pet hate off their chest!

Lord Freddie wrote:
As much as I hate fast food places, there are times late at night such as coming back from a show when they are the only places open that sell anything anywhere near food.
The people that work there can't even get the simplest of orders right, they always make mistakes.
As I said to one of them, in one of my more grouchier moments: "You have a bottom of the barrel job and you can't even do that with any competence. What hope is there for you? This is your pinnacle."
The worker nodded forlornly and agreed. Serves her right for giving me a diet coke instead of the nice sugary type.

I had an overnight booking in London - this meant driving for 4 hours down the M1, working at a hotel until 4am, then driving back up the M1. In the wee small hours of the morning the only thought that kept me going was the promise I made to myself to stop at a motorway service on the way home and have a fried breakfast.

So on the way home I pulled into a service station, walked in, and was confronted not with anything resembling a cafe but with some god-awful costa coffee type place. (Costa Coffee? Costa bloody fortune more like). The only food available were bagles, muffins, and giant cookies. And rather than a nice pot of tea I had to decipher a giant board full of different names for coffee.

It was all very disappointing and it made me angry. Why do painfully middle class twenty-somethings who work as "creative directors" for multi-national companies have the right to impose thier values and tastes on the rest of us? Just because a few hurray henrys in London wouldn't be seen dead eating bacon & eggs, that means that the rest of the nation has their "taste" imposed on us, and now rather than good "comfort" food being available when you need it most, you are subjected to the spectacle of 50 year old truckers looking slightly efeminate as they wrestle with a blueberry muffin and slurp a pint of frothy coffee.

When did every coffee house or cafe in the UK suddenly decide they had to look like they've been transplanted from the set of Friends? It's awful, sad and laughable (though not in a good way). It's a though the people who design and conceive these places think that everyone else in the UK aspires to be Ross & Rachel, drinking lattes and eating a bagel. We don't. Sometimes we just want bacon & eggs and a pot of tea.

Now that M&S have taken ove Little Chef, be prepared to say hello to more Costa Fortune coffe houses on a motorway or A road near you!

Yes, in Britain we should have the right to be like Stan Ogden!
Another part of our culture that the Blairite regime has destroyed.

The smoking ban annoys me too. Just have smoking and non-smoking places. Bar staff complaining of the smoky atmosphere? Don't work in a bleedin' pub then! It's like a fireman who doesn't want to work in a smoky atmosphere.

Most of the bar staff that complain are generally ZA,AU or NZ backpackers who are so dim they cannot get any other kind of employment.
I say go to night school and educate yourself if you don't like that kind of work. Why should the rest of us suffer?


If you told Winnie Churchill that in 2007, two fellers could marry but he wouldn't be able to puff his cigar in a pub, then he would have surrendered to Hitler and told him he couldn't do any worse to the country than a grinning goon will in years to come.

Pizza staff who can't understand English. Happens to me every time I call to order a pizza. They must choose the member of staff with the poorest English and put the poor sod on phone duties.

"Hi, I'd like a Super Supreme with extra onions. Delivered, please."

"Your address, sir?"

"123 Peck Road."

"Did you say "beg"?"

"No, Peck. P-E-C-K"

"B... sorry, how do you spell that?"

"P. P for pepperoni. E for echo. C for charlie. K for kilo."

"Yes, Peck...?"

"Peck Road."

"Sorry, pedalow?"

"No! Road. R-O-A-D. Road! Peck. Separate word! ROAD!"

"Your order please, sir?"

"Aaaaaaaarrrggghhhhhh!!!! Forget it, I'll get a damn curry!"

[Click]

An extreme example, you may think, but I have actually had to spell "road" to one of these guys before. The mind boggles, it really does.

And taxi drivers who can barely speak English and don't know the area they're working in and expect you to direct them. I always tell them I'm knocking a few quid off as I'm doing part of their job for them.

Get an A-Z or furkin' TomTom!!!

I can beat that! a few years ago i want on a coach trip to a concert at wembley arena. The driver got near London and had to stop at a garage to ask directions

The fact that a lot of people think only rappers can be black, and that if they're rappin they're just sayin "Yeh n****r n****r babes boobs bling bling and all this. A lot of them are, and it's sad, but a lot of them don't. The fact that black people complain of racism when a lot of them call themselves n*****s. I think that nobody should be allowed to use words like that!
When your called racist for speaking the truth. Example: Muslim women, they have to be covered up because of their religion. Ok, that's fine. However, how do you know if it's a women, in the airport? I mean, I've seen loads of people in long black robes go past and they were allowed to keep it on, makes me feel a bit uncomfy.
If your immigrating to England, learn the language!!!

People trying to change your religion. In India most people are Hindu and some are Muslim, they have their moments, but they can get on. Why are our churches being burnt down and mosques being built?

Promoting terrorism East and West. "We are fighting the war on terror" No your not.

Global warming.

AND: The fact that a group of teens would want to damage somebodies car, and then stab him when he approached to try and get them to go away. Who would want to do that? Really? Also, who would want to shoot somebody? AND the fact that these sick b******s will probably get ten years or something stupid like that. An eye for an eye!