peeves

pet peeves, we all have them.
given i am a person who sees the world as half empty rather than half full you can guess i probably have more pet peeves than most. i tell you it is hard being a misanthrope.

so in no particular order here are some of my current peeves.

richard littlejohn - he is like a scab you know you shouldn't pick but you can't help yourself. i know i will never agree with him, but i still look through the sun to see if he has a commentary piece in there. how he gets away with it i don't know.

umbrellas - great idea: keep the rain off, stay dry. just a shame so many people are happy to stroll down very crowded main roads with things that are best described as prototypes for the usa's missile defense shield. these umbrellas don't just keep people dry they are keeping small countys dry. ok it's the brollys themselves i hate it is the tossers who use them and think that it is ok to go around with a dangerous weapon and not make the slightest effort to make sure they do not take your eye out!

personal stereos - have them, enjoy them, show them off as a work of art - but please please please get decent headphones so that i am not badgered by your bad taste in music.

mobile phones - a necessary evil i know but i still don't like them. it seems people have forgotten how to talk at a normal level when they have used the mobile. i have no interest in your conversation, so keep it down. and when you are walking in the street with your phone remember there are other people around so we do not want to have to avoid you when you are falling around in some sort of spastic fit because a friend on the other end of the conversation has told you a dull joke.

buses - people who constantly ring the stop button even though the big light says the bus is stopping. (true do it often enough and it begins to sound like a stockhausen piece and i begin to like it but that don't happen often.)

ugly blokes with pretty girlfriends - this is self evident really.

computers - they do not like me it is official. yet another one died on me. why doesn't it happen to other people? don't know.

christmas - yup the whole thing about christmas is annoying, especially the false enjoyment of the thing. suddenly everyone is your friend. and then you have to spend weeks hearing about how much fun everyone had, this is magnified by parents.

fashion parents - there comes a moment when in a conversation you realise you are talking to that sort of parent because no matter what you are talking about it will get turned around to their children.

3 for 2 offers - damn then they always work but i am always left with the feeling that the third book will never be read. (actually in some cases that is true of the first and second ones!)

thats enough for now.

blimey in my world the glass is always half empty.