Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[Rob]

"bucket list"
"humbling experience"

[Satan]

Sam Harris.
Bill Maher
Katie Hopkins. If Hitchens were alive he'd be sharing a platform with her, which amuses me greatly because I hated him.

[JBC]

"bucket list"

Hate that one too.

"Per se"
"Raison d'être"
"Living vicariously"
"I am Jack's whatever"
"Pray tell"
"Ergo"
"Facetious"
"Anal"

[Lord Satori]

"I am Jack's whatever"

Never heard that one. What the hell is it supposed to mean?

[Mischief Maker]

A chocolate shop in the downtown area sat a professionally-printed sign on the street outside the door that read:

Your mother will love our chocolates so much that... well don't read Oedipus any time soon!

Ugh!

[BIL]

She'll love the chocolate so much you'll unwittingly kill your dad and fuck your mom before gouging your own eyes out in horror and despair? Yummm!

[BulletMagnet]

When you're so stuffed up that the only way to get anything to move is to blow your nose so hard your ears pop.

[Drum]

"I am Jack's whatever"

Never heard that one. What the hell is it supposed to mean?

It's a Fight Club reference. It doesn't mean anything.

[Rob]

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[BIL]

Uh... not sure if this annoys so much as appalls me, tbh. PIRATE HOARDERZ. "i have that soundtrack in lossless but its a private rip from a friend i cant share it."



What in the sweet, shuddering fuck? IT'S A DOGSHIT BOOTLEG ANYWAY, WHO CARES

Good lord. I could *maybe* understand if this were the early 90s and getting import movies/albums/games etc took some wherewithal, but now? WTF is the point? (to anyone not a neckbeard desperate to grow a bit of e-peen, I mean)

[emphatic]

"I am Jack's whatever"

Never heard that one. What the hell is it supposed to mean?

I know the answer's kinda been posted already, but I suggest you read/watch Fight Club. It's worth your time.

[Blinge]

Ha, Satori would read that, then promptly go and get his ass beat on the street

[emphatic]

Ha, Satori would read that, then promptly go and get his ass beat on the street

I got an "early copy" of this movie back in 1999 and showed it to a friend at work Friday. Monday, he came back to work with a broken hand.

[neorichieb1971]

The Royal baby princess news is getting on my tits. I want to watch news, not listen to what names will be chosen for 15 mins, or what the Queen will think..

[drauch]

But what if it was named NEORICHIE JR?!

[neorichieb1971]

But what if it was named NEORICHIE JR?!

I don't mind the news showing the baby for 30 seconds and moving a long, or even having its own program. But dominating the news round and round and round for what seems like days is too much. I'd rather the baby be named what it is thanks.

[Mischief Maker]

Are you crazy? The royal family are the original Kardashians: to arbitrarily be adored and lavished with riches and attention... for no clear reason. OF COURSE they're going to dominate the news!

It's not like there's anything more important going on in the world right now.

[Blinge]

The favourite bugbears of middle England are people living off public money and foreigners.
..yet the Royal Family is both and still worshipped. ho ho ho

[Ed Oscuro]

Service calls that turn into more service calls!

Get one thing fixed, and suddenly the transformer starts to buzz incredibly loudly. Somebody probably dropped it, but of course I'll have to pay for a new one. Guess I can't complain too much since I was already wondering if it was time to replace it.

[ED-057]

Recently I bought a 20" 1600x1200 LCD, just for the lulz. When it arrived, I found that it had no cables. Since all my other monitors are CRTs with non-detachable cables, this was something I had not forseen. So I went to a brick&mortar place and bought one each VGA and DVI cables.

LCDs look like ass on VGA, as we all know. So after a while I went to connect it to my old Athlon which has a DVI port, to see what it looks like then. But. The port on the monitor is at the bottom middle, facing down. It's physically impossible to plug in the cable because it hits the monitor's stand.

OK, whatevz, I unscrew and remove the stand so I can plug this thing in. It still doesn't go in. It seems that some pins exist on the cable where corresponding pinholes do not exist on the monitor. What is this nonsense? I consult wikipedia. It says there are different types of DVI connector. No rhyme or reason, but that's how it is. It also has this amusing bit:

The long flat pin on a DVI-I connector is wider than the same pin on a DVI-D connector, so even if the four analog pins were manually removed, it still wouldn't be possible to connect a male DVI-I to a female DVI-D.

I see... In other words I had to break off the four analog pins AND the long flat pin. :p

[system11]

The favourite bugbears of middle England are people living off public money and foreigners.
..yet the Royal Family is both and still worshipped. ho ho ho

The royal family is a net contributor to the public purse just FYI, it's funny how brain dead people are on the subject. Individually many of them do significant amounts of charity work too on top of all the promotional appearances.

A good example is Prince William - he does an amazing job and uses his opportunities to help others. He will make a good king one day assuming nothing changes.

[Skykid]

Tory victory?

When I return to England I suppose I can expect foodbank users to have increased to 500,000, zero hour contract employees to have hit a million, the deficit to have trebled, disabled and the elderly to have had further benefit cuts and be living in poverty, and students to be basically on the scrap heap by the time they graduate with unrecoverable debt - oh, and the NHS to be privatised so poor people can't afford to buy medicine.

I think I'll stay out here a while longer.

[Blinge]

pretty much.

[Ed Oscuro]

Tory victory?

At least SNP won a landslide in their area. Wasn't expecting them to be a bright spot after the referendum but their other priorities are somewhere in line with what I'd think of as Whig ideas. Time for New New Labour?

[Weak Boson]

I can't believe all the polls were so wrong. The exit poll was shocking enough, never mind the result.

Now Miliband is going, but we were only just getting to know each other.

I was thinking about studying abroad anyway.

[Skykid]

Basically they're all useless candidates, it's just about choosing the lesser of several evils and hoping it's not too bad. Quite how you end up with 5 more years of David Cameron from that equation is beyond me, but we can all agree the collective business powers pulling the propaganda strings to lobby the shiny faced Etonion back into power (and their palms) is as beautifully effective as ever.

I find it interesting that for the second time in 2 elections London was vast majority Labour. He won't be welcome too far from his doorstep it seems.

Those twats who actually voted for him, you brought this on yourselves! Enjoy your next five years of pain and suffering.

[Xyga]

Politics. Nuke'em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[Ed Oscuro]

Politics. Nuke'em from orbit.

Holy shit, though.

I can almost imagine the Tory reasoning here:

"Oh, look at SNP getting all this attention for one whole year. We'll just have to outdo that"
Two years of uncertainty in the British economy, yep, that's surely what conservativism is about. Quadruple-dip recession ahoy!
I'm not the biggest fan of the Brussels-style system, and it's fine to have a bargaining chip, but this is plain nuts.

Condolences to not only Britain, but also the EU. Mostly Britain, though, since that's where people are going to not be investing.
Still, things could be worse. We could have actual fascists pledging for war, so I guess if you have to choose a way to split intergovernmental unity, I guess this counts as only a whimper...for now.

[Satan]

Basically they're all useless candidates, it's just about choosing the lesser of several evils and hoping it's not too bad. Quite how you end up with 5 more years of David Cameron from that equation is beyond me, but we can all agree the collective business powers pulling the propaganda strings to lobby the shiny faced Etonion back into power (and their palms) is as beautifully effective as ever.

I find it interesting that for the second time in 2 elections London was vast majority Labour. He won't be welcome too far from his doorstep it seems.

Those twats who actually voted for him, you brought this on yourselves! Enjoy your next five years of pain and suffering.

The British need to get to grips with the fact that no matter how it's spun: they can't have what they perceive to be democracy when they have a House of Lords and a House of Windsor. I love it when royalists who believe whatever bullshit the official state propaganda channel spoon feeds them, repeat it almost word for word like a drone. The monarch is quite explicit during the opening of parliament as to whom the government serves, and it isn't the electorate. They are being deceived on a grand scale.
Britain needs to put down its media and collectively nip itself.
Democracy as a term of propaganda has absolutely nothing to do with its perceived meaning among the unwashed. I'd suggest Chomsky on the topic, but will probably get irrationally labelled a Blowhard by a mental person and that's fine, I'm well used to it. I wouldn't expect any less. At this point, the misanthrope in me rather enjoys it.
I believe this government will effectively 'jump the shark' during its term and provoke unrest, but by then it may be too late. I'm especially looking forward to the level of thought control applied this government, during the last we saw Benefit Devil Immigrant Scroungers, I wonder what depths will be ploughed during the next five years? I suspect MY BROTHER IS IN ISIS AND ON BENEFITS or THOSE PALESTINANS ARE ALL ISIS, AREN'T THEY OR WHAT? hosted by Kay Burley and Jeff Brazier's ghost.

[Skykid]

^ Ha ha