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    Posted: August 02 2004 at 08:20
OK, here's the deal:

You get to rid the world once & for all of 5 things you hate - I'm not looking for the obvious, such as bigotry, intolerance, war, Hip-Hop, but completely irrational hates/phobias, totally personal to you.

Hate traffic cones? - put them down

Hate string? - put it down

The only condition is that you put forward a coherent argument as to why said item should be erased from existence; go on people, let rip!!

(I'll put my list down as soon as I've cut it down from approx 400 items...... )

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 02 2004 at 09:15

1. the word "proactive"-  the linguistic equivalent of the Macarena- i.e., it only really started to bother me around the 800th time I heard it...a favorite of middle-managers everywhere

2. Pickups and 4WDs that are mainly driven as commuter cars...you're using way too much petroleum and road space. If you really do a lot of hauling and offroading, fine, but how many Navigators and Escalades do you really see in the wilderness?

3. Avocado and avocado-based foods...like guacamole...the same shade of green as toxic waste, and just about as tasty

4. Bumper stickers- ok, every once in a while I get a chuckle, but I've seen enough of poorly drawn Calvins urinating on various things, endless unfunny humor (my kid beat up your honor student, etc.), and professions of facile belief (Jesus and guns are typical topics).

5. Halle Berry - come on, folks...she's not that good looking, and a reprehensible driver to boot...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 02 2004 at 09:51

1. Pastas, icky food, made from dough(if I wanted that I'd eat bread), and hardly fills my guts. Also, very lacking in meat!

2. Nonsense philosics by people younger than 14, it's never more than 'I believe the world looks this way' hardly anything to do with philosofising.

3. Having to wait before my oven is warm and my breads are baked. I WANT TO EAT RIGHT NOW DARNIT!!!!

Ok, that's about it. I'm fairly in peace with the smaller things. It's the general human behaviour that I dislike.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 02 2004 at 12:25

1. Oprah Winfre and the whole , "Someone other than "me" is to blame for my being a piss poor excuse for a human being" group. Get a freaking life and except responsibility for your own actions... pathetic f**ks!

2.  Church bells that play constantly. This new church, about two blocks from my house, plays these awful tunes twenty-four seven. I believe they contain subliminal messages.

3. American Idol and anything remotely resembling the genre. Randy Jackson should be horse-whipped for having anything to do with this sh*t. How about a show were artist who write their own music, play an instrument and avoid the over-emotive crap... f**k 'em all.

4. Plastic CD cases. Cheap... all to often, they are broken when you buy them or seem to weaken with age. Crap.... totally crap. The cardboard CD cases are a little better, however, they fall apart easily.  

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 02 2004 at 14:59

Bigotry, intolerance, war, Hip-Hop, oh sorry, you said not them...

OK

1 - "Baby on board" signs in car rear windows. Am I supposed to think "Oh, I'd better not smash into that one after all then!"?

2 - Motorists who park on the pavement. It's reached epidemic proportions in the UK. Also ones who park in disabled spaces who don't have blue (disabled driver) badges.

3 - People who think England, Britain and UK are interchangeable references to the same place.

4 - Kentucky fried chicken bargain buckets. Nothing wasted there then!

5 - Remakes of classic films which don't need to be remade - for example, Psycho, The Italian Job, Oceans eleven, etc.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 02 2004 at 16:17
Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

3 - People who think England, Britain and UK are interchangeable references to the same place.

hmm- please explain? One of these things has to be like the other.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 02 2004 at 16:52
Originally posted by James Lee James Lee wrote:

Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

3 - People who think England, Britain and UK are interchangeable references to the same place.

hmm- please explain? One of these things has to be like the other.

James,

Great Britain is made up of England, Scotland and Wales.

The United Kingdom (Full name "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland") is England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

England has land borders with Wales and Scotland. It is governed by the UK government, it does not have its own parliament. The Queen is not the "Queen of England", she is the "Queen of the United Kingdom". I think one of the main contributors to the confusion is that UK bank notes are issued by (and say on them) The Bank of England, which is actually the reserve bank for the UK.

All this of course not to be confused of course with the British Isles, which is a geographic (as opposed to political) reference to the islands which include mainland Great Britain, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey etc.!

I know it's confusing, but it really does annoy Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish people when others talk about England but mean the UK.Cry  I believe Canadians have a similar avertion to being called American?Wink



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 02 2004 at 21:32
  1. People who ask me if in Perú we wear feathers or if we  live in Macchu Picchu and are governed by an Inca.
  2. Politicians
  3. People who take spaguetti and hot soup to the beach 
  4. People who clap when the plane lands, I believe pilots business is to land the plane, no reason to applaud someone for doing his job.
  5. Scotch served with anything different than water or ice.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2004 at 00:43
  1. Speedos – The likeable way to swing your flabby stomach arbitrary and to take the risk of performing a hazardous ball-showing act.

 

  1. McDonald's – The most hideous fast/finger food ever. Can't live with it, can't live without it.

                         

  1. Newspapers heavily soaked in ink – The thickness of the printing leaves horrendous stains all over your fingertips. When suffering a severe case of nose itching right after you read the whole thing, you'll be the laughingstock for a while.

 

  1. "Cybill" – The worst TV Series of all times. The "bimbo air-headed blond girl" lifestyle turned into cliché because of this crappy show. Re-runs make me hate it even more.

 

  1. Boring Jet-set sports – Like Polo, hunting, yacht sailing… so hollow and senseless that it makes me want it more and more!

 

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2004 at 01:03

1. Snakes... they're scary, evil and I just don't like them.

2. Car Alarms... most disturbing things in the world, especially when they keep going off under your window when you're trying to sleep

3. Disco music... it just wasn't necessary and its so cheesy

4. The Republican Convention coming to my neighborhood and putting us right smack in the middle of "The War Zone".

5. The cost of cable and phone service there days is just outrageous.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2004 at 01:28

Originally posted by landberkdoten landberkdoten wrote:

Speedos – The likeable way to swing your flabby stomach arbitrary and to take the risk of performing a hazardous ball-showing act.

BBBBWWWAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2004 at 01:35
Originally posted by threefates threefates wrote:

3. Disco music... it just wasn't necessary and its so cheesy

Some things in life are just inexplicable...

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2004 at 03:45

Alarm clocks - enough said..

Whetherspoon pubs (For the benefit of anyone not from the UK, these are a chain of sh!t pubs, that serve cheap beer to habitual underage drunks, and have a no music, no pool, no fun policy. In my town they have hi-jacked a beautiful, listed, 16th century building and turned it into the McDonalds of pubs)

Litter - Especially that from fast food outlets, who I think should have the @rses taxed off them, to pay for their mess to be cleaned up.

Tabloid news culture - Dont know about the rest of the world, but in Britain, the whole planet could be approaching armmageddon and all people would care about is who the Engalnd football manager is sh*gging!!

Big Brother - Such terrible, terrible crap!! A housefull of hateful idiots and a load of cameras filming them sitting around in their pants doing f*ck all, smoking roll ups. Cheap TV  On all the time, it seems, although its only on in the summer.

Thats me done.

 

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2004 at 04:23
Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

1 - "Baby on board" signs in car rear windows. Am I supposed to think "Oh, I'd better not smash into that one after all then!"?

I'm with you on that one, Easy Livin! I always think "Baby on board? Oh, right, behind the steering wheel...

2 - Motorists who park on the pavement. It's reached epidemic proportions in the UK. Also ones who park in disabled spaces who don't have blue (disabled driver) badges.

I went to France last week, and it's far worse over there. Agreed again - Pavements are for Pedestrians, and anyone who parks in a Disabled space but is not physically disabled must therefore be mentally disabled (no disrespect meant to anyone who really is mentally disabled).

3. Motorway drivers that sit in the middle or outside lane doing 60mph when the inside lanes are empty. WAKE UP, DUDES!!!

4. Drivers on non-motorway roads who just drive at whatever speed they feel like - normally 40 in 60mph stretches, 50mph stretches, 30mph stretches and 20mph stretches, unless there's a corner or a hill, in which case they slow down to 25mph, or unless they're in France, in which case a corner or a hill is a clear sign to overtake (apologies to my French counterparts for this generalism, but I saw this happen time and time again last week, and was nearly hit several times by drivers coming in the opposite direction whilst driving carefully with my s/o and little baby. Since my car is a UK car, that meant that they were both in danger of being hit rather than me, and I could not see very well to take evasive action if necessary).

5. Internet fraudsters, especially those involved in the Nigerian "419" scam, where you get an email telling you that someone has died and left millions of dollars... and those ones that come from eBay saying that you need to re-enter your credit card details. I also hate pop-ups, loong registration forms, uninvited porn images and eBayers that try to sell you information on how to buy something while making it look like the auction is for the item in question. 

This is SO theraputic!

Nice one, Jim!



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2004 at 13:38
Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Big Brother - Such terrible, terrible crap!! A housefull of hateful idiots and a load of cameras filming them sitting around in their pants doing f*ck all, smoking roll ups. Cheap TV  On all the time, it seems, although its only on in the summer.

Oh, I second that my man! That crappy "reality TV" show has definitely turned into this kind of sub-culture all over the world. Those sons of bit**es should be buried alive...  

 



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2004 at 13:55
Cheesus !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! only 5 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!       

People who do plastic surgery, when it´s really the inside that counts, in the long run.


People getting awards, when they´re really
not worth it.

Politicians, lawyers and criminals ( What´s the difference )

Human Stupidity

And last, but not least CLOWNS
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2004 at 14:13

Gotta hate those clowns...

What about people who make "music" (better make that MUZAK) with the sole aim of making money - and NO interest in artistic creation whatsoever, including the Record companies and industry sharks who send tapes to radio stations so they can use them as their "playlist" thereby excluding any actual talent, and "stables" of pretty girls and boys who are allowed to make records to the exclusion of anyone else until they reach their sell-by date.

Then there's people who think they can make their living by blaming others for things that have gone wrong - the blame culture. "My back hurts and it's my employer's fault entirely - I'd better sue the bastard and never go to work again" (with, of course, apologies due to anyone GENUINELY affected). Those lead-swingers make me SICK

And I get REALLY, REALLY mad at people who hurt little children or animals. It's a good job we don't carry guns in this country, because I would be doing time otherwise.  I read in today's news about two boys who broke into a zoo just to torture baby wallabies - breaking their legs and freezing them in icy water among other things.

 

Then there's frogs.

Those frogs are gonna pay.

 

But clowns are the worst...

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Originally posted by Certif1ed Certif1ed wrote:


This is SO theraputic!



Isn't catharsis fun!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2004 at 14:25
I can understand your problem with the clowns of this world  Certif1ed and I agree that anyone doing something bad to animals should be shot.!!!! 
Well Jim The Garten as well.....but only slightly It´s so easy for people to hurt animals ( Isn´t the need for power just great ) I do NOT believe in God, but sometimes when I watch my cat I get the feeling that I´m wrong, but then I go out to buy some milk, meeting other people and then I know that I´m right once again .


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2004 at 16:44

Clowns give me the creeps...

 

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