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Oh dear. : A thread about things that tick you off quite a bit, and might even elicit a frown.

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Princess Augustine the Hippo
(prev. Prayerful Princess Petulant)

01:14 / 17.09.06

PS:
The juvenility of your argument strategy is actually more annoying than the sound of it. Either destroy each other utterly or act like grown-ups, point scoring is just plain stupid at this time in the morning.

23:08 / 18.09.06

What's that you say, Flatmate Who Happens To Be Umpiring For The Opposition in the last match of the season?

LBW?

Second ball?

On nought?

When I'm fully five foot out of my fucking crease?

Oh well, if you're sure....

Dance to the Beat
(prev. Better Be Ready)

00:13 / 19.09.06

I got fired today.

Don't get me wrong, it was just a lousily paid internship that was bound to end in three months when I finish college, and I have been slacking a bit too much in the last month or so, wondering how long they would take to do something (this long, it seems), and didn't care much for anymore.

But still, it feels a bit like failure. If only I had quit before they fired me.

Oh, well, out job-hunting now. It was about time anyway

Dance to the Beat
(prev. Better Be Ready)

00:17 / 19.09.06

Oh yeah, on the bright side, I no longer have to cover a story about some three year old raped, beat constantly, and then left to die... or something like that.

00:34 / 19.09.06

Hard lines, DM. I'm currently trying to jump before I'm pushed out of my job but don't think I'll make it in time.

In my experience, though, losing jobs like that can be a blessing; it's all too easy to coast along in gigs that don't inspire you and a bit of forced unemployment can really focus the mind. Doesn't help cover the rent, though..

Not in the Face

14:30 / 19.09.06

Dear Jenny Eclair

I can't say I'm impressed, amused or even the slightest titillated to find my tube of the morning plastered with adverts describing your 'hilarious' anecdotes around post-natal surgery and farts. Its not the anecdotes so much that disturb me - in another context they could be apt and informative - but you have allowed parts of your life to be sold to a deodarant manufacturer as part of a ploy to convince other women to post their own stories and hence engage with and buy the product. Hell, their stories will proably now be owned by said deodrant manufacturer, even when they have nothing to do with armpit smells.

I'm not even sure your stories are real. If they are then you should also realise that the average Sure user probably doesn't attend clinics so new they are being opened that very day by the leader of the opposition or practice in Locust yoga. Surely it would have been sufficient to say 'Sure deodarant stops me from stinking. But some'

16:16 / 19.09.06

My morning answering "professional correspondence":

Them: you dont have enough words [in your online dictionary] i looked for this word you do not have it so i will have to guess put more words in your computer please

Us: Yes we do, it's right [link]here[/link]. Please look more closely and stop wasting our time. Thank you.

Next!

Shrug: Butcher Boy

17:07 / 20.09.06

I miss Xoc and Ganesh.

Tom Waits knows Kali
(prev. Kali, owner of a mouthy cat)

17:09 / 20.09.06

Yes, well, they're off having proper lives.

Lucky buggers.

Mist combats dehydration

23:03 / 20.09.06

@Not in the Face

Yes! These adverts really irritated me, too. They seemed to be in every train I sat, and I could not figure out, what it was supposed to be advertising, only that it had to do with something being sticky. Because of the "brass band of a fart", I thought: maybe some hygiene product. But then there was something about running around naked in the streets and other anecdotes. At the end I vaguely thought: maybe deodorant. But I couldn´t make the connection between the "funny stories" and the product.

Thanks for clearing that up for me!

Our Lady Drinks Your Milkshake

23:26 / 20.09.06

The whole capaignforrealbeauty.com thing has always troubled me a little, what with it's attempted co-opting of terms such as 'campaign' and 'debate' to suggest that women should aspire to nothing more than sitting around all day swapping haircare tips. Thanks god that doesn't happen to men, oh hang on, I have to go and drink twelve pints and have a fight with a stranger. Back momentarily.

Dance to the Beat
(prev. Better Be Ready)

23:47 / 20.09.06

I miss Xoc and Ganesh.

Yeah, I've been noticing their absence. Are they out on a trip or something? Or have them - gasp - outgrown Barbelith?

Tryphena Absent

03:22 / 21.09.06

A summary of her response to capitalism by Nadezhda, aged 25.

For me this is simple- either you don't care or you do. If you don't care and I've noticed that a lot of people don't, then why do you even talk to other human beings? Why don't you go and sit alone in the dark, counting money in the counting house, and think about a way to squeeze everyone dry? You know those coins and notes by touch. You don't need the light. Or why don't you just jump off a bridge into the dark swell of the tumultuous river of death because you're so disconnected from people and the things that happen to them that there's not really much point living. Is there? Is there a point when you can't see the absurdity of a human construction governing the way we all live? Just don't be with people anymore. You don't need them. You don't even like them. You only like numbers on your bank statement. Etc. Etc.

Pool Ball Incident

07:11 / 22.09.06

Dear oh dear... I thought I was pretty good at troubleshooting technical glitches but this last job has been a nightmare. My client has cancelled my last 2 flights home as they want it fixed and alas I can't do it. I keep saying it's a hardware problem and the hardware vendor says software and around and around we go. The end client(there are 4 involved and I am on the bottom) are a bit peeved as the system is 55 runtime hours old and it won't work since we installed it when I was working like a dream. They know I have been working hard 12 - 14 hour days for the last 4 days to fix it and I am nowhere. Exactly back whre I started

The boss here thinks it's some grand conspiracy and wants to get legal. I think I better watch what comes out of my mouth from now on...

Stoatie. Stoatie? STOATIE.
(prev. Stoatie's power level is >9000)

14:56 / 22.09.06

I think the rain has killed my mp3 player.

19:27 / 22.09.06

There was hot chocolate all over the floor on the bus right where I dumped my bag, and when I picked it up I plopped it on my lap before I noticed. At least I realised it was just hot chocolate before having a freak out about the gooey brown stuff all over my bag and then trousers. So I was all drippy and mucky, but at least I smelt of Thorntons. Ho hum.

cube needs to get out more

22:50 / 22.09.06

Lying bastard pizza. Explanation on Flickr page. Too hungry and annoyed to type more.

Sainsbury's, Taste the Lie

Stoats, don't panic. Take the batteries out*, dry it thoroughly with kitchen roll and leave it somewhere warm for a day or two. I dropped mine in a vodka tonic once and it's fine.

* If it's an iPod, sorry, you're stuffed.

Stoatie. Stoatie? STOATIE.
(prev. Stoatie's power level is >9000)

22:52 / 22.09.06

It started working a bit after a few hours- it would turn on, but the buttons didn't work... now it seems mostly okay. Every now and then it tells me the system files are all missing, then when I got to try to replace them it seems to get scared into working properly. Tonight at work will be the test.

Well, they WILL go and call the damn thing an "iRiver"...

03:30 / 25.09.06

I've noticed an recent rash of Hip, Edgy New Bands posing in magazines dressed up in Clockwork Orange gear. You know, black derby, white suit, suspenders, cane, make-up on one eye, etc. Nothing against either Kubrick or the bands in question, it's just that the Alex DeLarge look has been totally played out since the late nineties.

Secret Bat-Fairies
(prev. Smith & Papers)

06:49 / 25.09.06

There are a lot of fashion spreads of bored looking models wearing faux-Punk gear as well. I think their looks of vacant ennui say it all: not a proper sneer in the lot.

07:33 / 25.09.06

I thought Motley Crue doing that look in 1993(?) or so killed any sense of 'cool' it might have had...

Disco is My Class War

07:51 / 25.09.06

I think the rain has killed my mp3 player.

Stoat, I dropped mine in a bucket of soapy water the other day. I thought my days of joyful mop-dancing with headphones were over, but once it dried out, it was fine. Give it time.

All Acting Regiment

10:59 / 25.09.06

"What's wrong with Dire Straits? Why not listen to some decent music for once?"

"See I'm a Buddhist AND a Rasta"

On the borders of Trustafaria and Alan Patridgeland, terrible breedings are occuring.

I still like my housemate, mind. It's just, well.

DRR... DRR... DRR...
(prev. Mordant)

13:48 / 25.09.06

The doorhandles in my flat are exactly the right height to catch on my sleeves when I walk around in a baggy t-shirt. The sensation is exactly like having an aggressively pushy person grab your sleeve to talk to you and I get all cross.

Tabitha Tickletooth

13:43 / 27.09.06

I'm really disappointed that Liberty have chosen to involve themselves with this speed camera challenge to the European Court of Human Rights.

I understand the prinicple involved but still - you go to the Liberty site and you see reference to torture, terrorism, ID cards - nary a mention of their hard work fighting for the rights of rich pricks in their Rolls Royces (I originally saw this item on BBC news yesterday, where Idris was pictured mowing down peasants in his Roller - or similar footage) to endanger other people on the road and not expect to be accountable for their actions. The challenge is bad enough, but do a human rights campaign organisation really feel this is the best use of their resources?

Actually, this whole rights of drivers bullshit often tips into hatred and rage, but at the moment, I'm maintaining a simmer on disappointed tutting.

All Acting Regiment

13:47 / 27.09.06

I found myself thinking that the top gear guy getting brain damage was a good thing. That's how much rights-of-drivers people piss me off.

Tabitha Tickletooth

13:48 / 27.09.06

Legba - you are not alone...

cube needs to get out more

13:56 / 27.09.06

I have a yen to reclaim the negative use of "politically correct" whenever someone comes up with driver's rights. Y'know, applying it where people wouldn't expect it:

"Speed cameras? They don't stop accidents! I know how to drive safely."
"Oh, come on, drivers' rights is just political correctness gone mad, and you know it!"

"Liberty and livelihood! We should be allowed to hunt, they don't understand our ways.."
"The right to hunt? Don't you start getting all PC on me."

Nah, it wouldn't work, would it? Might be worth a try. I'm thinking of experimenting with the phrase "that's just religious correctness gone mad", though.

[Thoughts inspired by over-use of the PC phrase at work today]

pointless & uncalled for

14:09 / 27.09.06

Driving is a privilege. The only right I genuinely respect in this is right of way.

Privileges have to be earned continually and part of earning the privilege to drive should be accepting responsibility for your actions.

Of course there is no reason why personal responsibility cannot be attached to ownership of a vehicle in the absence of a willingly culpable driver.

All Acting Regiment

14:10 / 27.09.06

On a related note, I've found it quite successful to employ the phrase: "Offensive or not, the word is A Fence. A Fence to keep the scary people out, yes?" against people who are Just Having a Laugh.

Wristwatch Nuke
(prev. Evil Scientist)

14:17 / 27.09.06

I found myself thinking that the top gear guy getting brain damage was a good thing. That's how much rights-of-drivers people piss me off.

I found myself thinking "Wrong one."

Clarkson pisses me off so much more than Hammond. Hammond's just a speed freak AFAIK. Clarkson decided to use his mate's brush with death as another chance to have a go at Health and Safety PCGONEMAD!11!

14:18 / 27.09.06

Agree entirely about the driving / speed camera thing. Limits are there for a reason etc. The argument from campaigners is that the government/councils whoever put lower speeds in and then try to trick them into breaking it - ie, cameras aren't there to save lives but make money - which admittedly might have some truth to it.

pointless & uncalled for

14:27 / 27.09.06

cameras aren't there to save lives but make money.

It's a crying shame isn't it. If only there were some way to not have to pay speeding fines. Just one simple easy way to avoid them which didn't involve the cost of taking cases to the European Court. Any suggestions.

14:29 / 27.09.06

Liberty also chose strange bed-fellows in the Nat West 3 if memory serves. You know, the ones who pocketed £7m in a Cayman Islands account and made out that extradition to Texas was akin to extraordinary rendition.

Jodrell Bankheist, I feel your pain. After 1 of my 4 shocking lbw decisions this year I smashed my bat against a concrete post and broke its handle. More headsick and rage than ticking off though.

pointless & uncalled for

14:32 / 27.09.06

Liberty are rather obliged by their remit to take on some unpopular cases. Human rights apply to us all, not just the socialistically photogenic cases.

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