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Annoying adverts…

Don’t you just hate annoying adverts… And I don’t just mean any adverts, I mean the ones which sponsor certain programmes, like LG sponsoring Scrubs and Kia sponsoring CSI. I don’t mind if they have a normal non-annoying ad that appears before and after every segment, but if they put on cheesy music or annoying tyre squealing (the old kia ad) then that just gets on my nerves every single time the show I am watching has to go for a break. In fact the LG ad is so annoying I now have to make sure I am into the show before I press play again (I tend to record shows now so I can skip...
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What’s so important?

Don’t you just hate it when people send you emails flagged as ‘high importance’ so that little red exclamation mark appears next to them? I mean you just know they are going to be anything but important, I’ve had it on emails ranging from pure spam for… questionable pharmaceuticals, but hey that is spam so that is not as annoying, but then people have emailed me with basic questions about things which are flagged as important, or giving me a comment about my site, really mundane stuff that just doesn’t deserve that flag. It might sound like a little rant (hey I do...
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Does anyone actually know how to drive?

This is an easy rant – have you seen how people drive nowadays?? Seriously people, trying to get somewhere by cutting me up, undertaking or going a million miles down the fast lane is just going to get yourself and others hurt, then you’ll be in hospital for weeks or dead and will be just a touch later to where you were going than if you had slowed down a bit – got it! Or how about people tailgating you? White vans… if you tailgate me I’m just making sure I have a lorry to my left then I’m slowing the hell down – let’s see how far your tailgating gets...
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Potted plants from hell…

Potted plants… loved by… well some of the world’s population anyway. Everybody seems to have them, as soon as you move to somewhere with a garden then people feel a desire to put plants in pots out there. Have potted plants if you live in a flat, put them in the ground if you have a garden! And stop asking me to shift really heavy pots around so you can ’see what they look like’ – funnily that 2 foot wide pot full of soil is pretty heavy and my enthusiasm even if it wasn’t heavy would be less than zero, so can we just hurry this up so I can watch some telly? So my...
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YouTube? More like whotube!

What is it with people posting crap on YouTube? I don’t want to watch you walk down the street with your dog, or talk about utter drivel for 10 minutes in front of the camera. I am not particularly interested in the view of young teenagers on… well anything really, but I guess they just want to be ‘on telly’. In the good old days before all this cyberspace googlewhack nonsense then the only way you could get out there on video to be seen by other people was to be famous and get on telly, or in your cheesy home videos your dad makes. Now anyone and his dog (and often just the dog)...
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What is going on with spam?

What on earth is happening in my inbox nowadays, first of all how did these people get my yahoo email address? I don’t post it anywhere, only a select few people have it, so how did all these lawyers representing wealthy people who died and want me to have their money suddenly get hold of the email address of little’ol me? And I know I shouldn’t really laugh so hard at their feeble attempts to prise my details out of me or buy their ‘medications’ to enlarge certain areas of my anatomy, I know people really do fall for this stuff, but how exactly? If I get an email to my...
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What music am I listening to?

Do you know what music you are listening to? Because I have no idea, people ask you if you like things like heavy metal, what exactly defines something as heavy metal? I mean rock yes, I know what rock is most of the time, pop, yep, classical, yes, jazz, yes, but all the rest… I think people are making things too complicated, I don’t want to try and assign one of 20 different versions of rock to a song, I just want to find out if I like it and then listen to it or not, so if you ask me if I like Grunge funk then I’ll either headbutt you or just ignore you, it depends on how important you...
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