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I hate the way 'adult entertainment' is now taken to mean porn.

I'm a magician!

Oh, you mean for kids.

Not necessarily, I do a lot of adult stuff too.

ADULT stuff???!

Pete the Pornician.

Ooooooo Sunny, your three tomorrow... Happy Magic Bday hunny....

Errrr four tomorrow.... (edited for accuracy... lol...)

F x

FairieSnuff wrote:Ooooooo Sunny, your three tomorrow... Happy Magic Bday hunny....

Errrr four tomorrow.... (edited for accuracy... lol...)

F x

I'm touched that you noticed, my dear SugarPuff. Four years and 3,000-odd posts later and I'm still here posting nonsense.

Just to get us back on topic of pet hates.

People who under the illusion that driving is not a skill but simply a process in which one person uses forward momentum to ultimately reach a destination.

I am driving into work today and twice I was confronted with an apparent lack of skill on the other drivers end that required me to be a better driver than them.

Scenario #1:

Driving down a road an expressway at 60 mph (96 kph) and someone merges into my lane. This seems fine until a few seconds later I nearly run into the back of them. They decreased their speed to 40 mph (62 kph) in a matter of seconds on an expressway.

Now this wouldn't have been so bad if not for the people behind me who apparently were slightly less aware of the sudden stop. Needless to say I had to eject out of the lane into another lane while said person behind me slammed into aforementioned person in front of me. All in all the accident looked pretty minor for the speeds and masses involved. However while waiting around for the cops (I was a witness and directly involved) I heard the young woman say and I quote, "I'm sorry I started to put my lipstick on and the tube fell into my lap so I hit my breaks."

Cost of lipstick $5.99 cost of new pants, $65.00 cost of nearly killing people ...

Scenario #2:

This is the SAME trip to work. I am driving behind another car with significant distance between us. A car in the lane to the right decides too without looking of course simply pull into my lane. Now the unfortunate part of this is she decided to do it directly in front of the car in front of me. By directly I mean he had to slam on his breaks and swerve to avoid her because she was attempting to occupy the spot where his hood was.

So screeching tires and the car in front of me manages to regain the skid and hit a lane. So no one was hurt but I passed the car that started the whole mess and the person driving was? anyone anyone?

putting on her makeup.

Do people not realize that a car is a multi ton missile of death ?

Ok /rant off

--Infy

Magicians who do large scale illusions. Maybe that's just my opinion but I really hate their horrid dancing and fake smiles. Not all are bad but... it's quite a large percentage.

When I worked in Old Trafford in Manchester in the mid 1990s, driving in on the M60 each morning was a nightmare. People would regularly swerve while trying to get ready for work while doing 70+.

On the subject of driving; people in big vehicles who go round corners on country roads at stupid speeds and then, when meeting someone (me) coming the other way won't pull over because there is a puddle on their side of the road!

And cyclists telling me to slow down...... If you were on your own side of the bloody road and not wobbling all over the place because you have been looking over your shoulder for the last couple of minutes there might be room on the road for both of us; I've passed cars here before, you know.

nickj wrote:And cyclists telling me to slow down...... If you were on your own side of the bloody road and not wobbling all over the place because you have been looking over your shoulder for the last couple of minutes there might be room on the road for both of us; I've passed cars here before, you know.

Did I mention racing cyclists who think they have the right to hold up long lines of traffic while they chat 5 or so abreast about their spandex fetish?

Ian The Magic-Ian wrote:Magicians who do large scale illusions. Maybe that's just my opinion but I really hate their horrid dancing and fake smiles. Not all are bad but... it's quite a large percentage.

Siegfried, Roy and Copperfield make my skin crawl.

This woman who had a tree cut down outside her home because she said it was diseased...in reality she told me 'It made a mess on my garden'. Now this really big and beautiful tree has gone, and I hate her for that. Nature can be messy...so what, thats what makes it fun.

Tomo wrote:Did I mention racing cyclists who think they have the right to hold up long lines of traffic while they chat 5 or so abreast about their spandex fetish?

I was just thinking this before I read your post Tomo! Psychic or wot??

But yes, cyclists riding two or three abreast, chatting happily while a queue of traffic builds up behind them. I enjoy "peeping" them as I overtake. It really annoys them. Sometimes they stick the rods up at me.

Those cyclists must be related to the women at swimming pools who swim along next to each other REALLY SLOWLY blocking up the lane and getting in everyone's way. BAH!

madvillainy wrote:

Ian The Magic-Ian wrote:Magicians who do large scale illusions. Maybe that's just my opinion but I really hate their horrid dancing and fake smiles. Not all are bad but... it's quite a large percentage.

Siegfried, Roy and Copperfield make my skin crawl.

Illusionists who are all about the boxes and make no attempt to connect with their audiences.

I've seen too many of them. And very very few stage illusionists that can bridge that divide and get their audience emotionally involved at any level.

The whole subtext of 'look what I can do' does nothing for me.

So having traveled extensively the last two weeks I have some new pet hates.

#1 People who take their instruments on the plane. Look your not BB King and if your flying in coach with me I don't care how much you love that guitar it takes up an entire bin of space (Literally like 3 rows of people can't put things in the overhead storage). Get a hard case check the thing.

This does not include people with small instruments like flutes and whatnot just anything that is large and thus takes up too much space.

#2 People who do not wait to get off the plane. Look I understand you have been sitting for quite a while. I can understand wanting to get up and stretch. There are some accepted social behaviors for exiting an airplane. I.E. You let everyone in the rows ahead of you get out and get their things and move off the plane.

Yet somehow I always see the one person rush up and occasionally even push people who are holding up the line to let additional people out. I mean if you are late for your connection just mention it and people will let you buy. You don't have to be so self absorbed as to just push your way like a trout upstream.

/rant off.

how is everyone?