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Sometimes I get annoyed by things, it could be something trivial, it could be something of major importance to the whole world and sometimes it's just total nonsense. Whatever it is I just have to say something about it. Now I hear what you're saying "what's this got to do with me?" Well nothing of course but do I care about that? Nope I'm just going to carry on regardless, maybe you'll read something on here and agree with me and maybe you'll think I'm just some idiot with too much time on my hands. Anyway if you've just read all the above you'll have an idea of how my ramblings work, no thought on how to say it, I just start typing and stop when I've had enough, I don't spell check or check the grammar.......enjoy!
Had enough already? Get me out of here!
Decided to carry on eh? You are indeed brave!
17/01/2013 - 9:23pmam....Bicycle lights!...
Firstly....ooops it's been a while! Sorry I've been busy doing stuff......but I'm back now!!
OK so let's get on with it.....How on Earth can it be legal to strap a strobe light to the front of your pushbike?!? Now, I'm not really against the flashing red light at the back of a bike.....that's sensible and makes it easier to see a cyclist in front of you on a dark road..... but on the front it's the most annoying and distracting thing I've ever seen on the road! Yes You can see them, then you can't, then you can, then you can't.....just get a proper light! I can see you and you'll be able to see the road!!!
P.S. Lycra....Just say NO!!
21/01/2006 - 12:16am....Websites!...
Don't you just hate when someone builds up a lovely website but then they just never bother to update it? It's just so annoying, you just keep going back to see what the latest news or the latest look is but nope it's the same old stuff. OK OK you spotted it it's just me rambling on about the fact that I've done nothing to the website for oooooooops 2 years!!!! I know what you're thinking "Wow nothing has annoyed him in over 2 years!!" or maybe "What the hell could he have to do that's more important than this website?" Truth is everything really! I keep meaning to come back n do stuff but I never get the chance. New years resolution: Must make more effort with website! Right glad we got that sorted. ooooooooo I thought of something annoying! see you up there ^^.
15/01/2004 - 10:45am....Real Christmas trees!...
Yes you read it right REAL Christmas trees! I love Christmas, it's a wonderful time of year but I hate pine needles! For two weeks every year you bring a dead tree into your house and hang decorations all over it. These trees might look and smell lovely but soon it's going to be dropping sharp pine needles all over your floor and after a couple of weeks it's going to be almost completely bare. So it's after xmas and your lovely new socks are full of spikey needles even though you've hoovered six times a day and the tree needs to be taken down and desposed of. The very second you touch it the last five hundred needles drop straight off and dig themselves into the carpet waiting until you're next walking around barefoot! Anyway you now need to get rid of this pain in the bottom and of course you can't be bothered right away so you decide to move it to the back garden with the intention of taking it to the local dump later. Now by later I don't mean a normal "later" which would be the next weekend or a week or two, I mean two or three months later when you're still tripping over it swearing insisting you're going to take it away next time you go out. So how can you avoid all this horror? SIMPLE! Buy a FAKE tree! Yes OK so they don't smell as nice and they're not 'traditional' but they save a lot of time, hassle and pain! All you need to do is take it out of the box, put it together and decorate it. Then when xmas is over just reverse this procedure, no fuss, no mess and no painful pine needles sticking into your feet! Oh well only 343 Days 19 Hours left until next Christmas!
13/11/2003 - 1pm....Trains!...
I've noticed that the British rail network appears to only operate in good weather conditions. Every autum/winter the train service starts to fall apart! In the summer and spring it's all fine.....errr unless it gets a bit too hot then the track starts to crack up on us. As soon as the bad weather comes along so do the problems: point failure, signal failure and let's not forget the gangs of leaves that hang around on tracks waiting to mug unsuspecting trains. This morning I was just the 1 hour late into work thanks to a "points failure" somewhere along the line, I guess on the plus side I did manage to get a seat on the train when it finally arrived! If you ask me it's about time the rail companies stopped sitting on their elbows and sorted out these problems...........oh go on pretty please after all you do want us to use your "service" right?
11/11/2003 - 4:05pm....People that insist Elvis is still alive...
He's been dead for many years ACCEPT IT!
11/11/2003 - 11:00am.....Overcrowded trains...
Every morning at about 8am I, along with a few other people, stand on a frozen platform waiting for the train to take us into work. Yeah I know loads of people do that every day but I don't care about them this is MY rant on the subject so hush ya gob......thank you. Now where was I? Oh yes the train, well more often than not it arrives perfectly on time (congrats to the train company on that one). The only problem is that by the time it reaches the station I catch it at there's already between 5 and 15 people standing. Add this to the 10 or so people that are trying to get on with me and your'e going to get a very overcrowded train. Now my station isn't the last one for this train before it reaches it's final destination (Final destination a great film!) noooooo there's actually 3 other stops at which a few more people will try to pile on. O.K. so let's look at the facts, we have lots of people wanting to get on a train enough people to fill 3 carriages, we have a train that has only 2 carriages. What's this going to get you? That's right, lots of very annoyed people including me! That's bad enough right? Oh no because the train company don't think that's bad enough, sometimes just to spice things up a little they'll send along a single carriage train!!! I swear on that day if I'd had to push up closer to the woman infront of me I would have had to marry her! It has been known for me and several other people to have to stand in the guards cabin at the end of the train because there's not enough room any where else! It's such a stupid situation, I mean sheep by law have to have a certain amount of square footage to stand in while being transported around the country but us silly buggers get no choice we're just packed in where ever we'll fit! I'm suprised I haven't seen parents storing kids in the over head luggage space just give them a little breathing room!!
06/11/2003 - 3:10pm.....Rude and impatient drivers...
I'm not a driver myself, damn those horrible driving examiners, but of course I've spent a lot of time in cars as a passenger and I have to say I get very annoyed by rude and impatient drivers. You know the ones I'm talking about, they beep their horns at you if you don't accelerate from the traffic lights at the speed of sound once the first inkling of green light has appeared. They're the kind of people who sit behind you in the fast lane of a motorway when you're doing 70mph and flash their lights at you forcing you to move out of their way so they can speed passed. As they do speed passed you're guaranteed to get a look from them that suggests you should never be allowed behind the wheel of a car because you obviously don't know how to control one and are incapable of doing a speed that is suitable for them regardless of the speed limit of the road. In most cases these annoying buggers will be a man driving a BMW or some other equally poncy car, my advice for dealing with these idiots is to wave politely at them. You have to show that you don't care how fast they want to go and what ever they do you're going to remane happy in the fact that you're not going to lose your license when the next police car comes rumbling along. If you are overly annoyed and need to show your anger at their stupidity I find it nice to wiggle my little finger at the guy thus showing that I'm aware that their overly aggressive driving is due to the fact that their little fella is a VERY little fella!
- Just a little update here I've actually been able to drive for many years now......the above is all still true though!
06/11/2003 - 12:03pm......People that insist on spamming everyone with hoax virus warnings...
Well I started writing the piece bellow about people being easily infected thanks to poor thinking about emails then I remembered the other thing that really annoys me. People, who I may refer to from time to time as 'users' will insist on forwarding virus warning that they get from others. Now of course sometimes these warnings are real, but a lot of the time they're easy to spot hoaxes. the simplest ones to spot are the ones that go on about how Microsoft and AOL say that this latest virus is the "worst ever". Forget it, these people never comment on a virus until it's been out n about for a while and only if it really buggers up one of their products. The only time you should believe a virus warning is if there is some proof to back it up, such as a link to a write up from one of the anti-virus firms. They all have full details on the different types of virus and even explain in great detail what each one does to your system. Some of the anti-virus companies even list hoax warning so you can check the one you've got. just so I'm not plugging Norton Anti-Virus all the time (Although I'll admit I think they're the best) here's a few other links to check out:-
http://www.f-secure.com/
http://www.mcafee.com/
http://www.trendmicro.com/
Update....26/12/2012 - To be honest these days I've gone off Symantec....have a look around and pick one yourself.... just read some reviews then toss a coin!
06/11/2003 - 11:30am.......People that get infected by an email virus...
So, you get an email from someone you don't know, sometimes maybe from someone you do know. The thing makes no sense what so ever and it's begging you to click on an attachment. Any normal person here would suddenly have alarm bells ringing suggesting something is a little out of place. However, there seem to be far too many people that blindly click on these files and infect their system with a virus. Here's what I suggest:-
- Slow down and READ the email, I promise you in most cases it won’t make any sense!
- DO NOT click on any links or file
attachments if you think it might be dodgy!
- check it out on one of the
many Anti-Virus websites I always use - http://securityresponse.symantec.com/
- If it has come from someone you know check with them before you open it - Better safe than sorry!
05/11/2003 - 10:00pm.........Fireworks should be for organised displays only...
Am I a party pooper? No I just don't think fireworks should be sold to the general public. I've been listening to fireworks exploding in my local area for about 3 weeks now, some nights it sounds like a war zone out there. The kind of fireworks being detonated aren't even very good ones, they can't be because they're small and cheap. I like to see a huge burst of colour and if there is a pretty display I don't mind it being accompanied by a loud bang. I do object to a loud bang and nothing else, I mean what's the point? If you're very lucky you might get a quick flash of white light and then the window shaking explosion. I'm amazed people still pay about 40 quid for a box of crappy little rockets and roman candles that last for about 5minutes when they're lit in someone's back yard at a party where most of the people are too drunk to even see them! I recently went to an awesome fireworks display with huge rockets shooting high into the sky before exploding with a shower of gorgeous colours. Unlike backyard displays there was also more than one firework going off at once creating a wonderful spectacle that had everyone "wooing" and "aahhing". How much did this event cost which included music form the local radio station and more food stands than I could shake a ketchup bottle at? Well let me tell you it didn't cost 40 quid! It was infact a charity display, no entrance fee just a few people with collecting buckets asking for donations. I was more than willing to hand over a few quid for that, the display lasted for quite a while and the array of colours and sounds was wonderful. I'm not even going to start on the subject of "over-the-counter" fireworks being used to injure and kill animals such as cats! So it's seems simple to me don't let morons lose with explosives leave it in the hands of trained people.
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