[Glice]

Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom

And conversly: English tourists behaving like ignorant, patronising twats abroad.

There was a woman in a museum in Oxford who, in one statement, managed to make to the top five of 'Glice's list of people who need to die', nestling just between Jimmy Carr and Sting. It was an exhibition of a load of Egyptian stuff - ankhs, scarabs, amulets and the like - and she said, in a tone that simply will not come across on that internet "Oh, aren't they lovely? And we're supposed to be the civilised ones". I'd never seriously considered kicking complete strangers in the cunt until that day.

[MellySingsDoom]

RanaldoNecro - I thought it was the Belgians? (Y'know, Jacques Brel and all that).

[king_buzzo]

Originally Posted by Sonic Youth 37

Elderly drivers scare me. I hate to say it, but they do.

yes.

older people using computers

younger 11 year old kids like my brother and his friends who think they're cool and do annoying shit and make stupid noises which they think rule.

myspace

friends which come to your house and log into their msn's and stay there all day.

[acousticrock87]

Originally Posted by Glice

Believe it or not, I actual despair at a lot of grammar pedantry. But grammar puritanism irritates me more. For instance, the notion of the split infinitive being 'a bad thing' really is a bygone era. And beginning sentences with conjunctions is fine. Ending with prepositions is fine - what is a question for?

Obviously, it'd be nice if people wrote a bit better, but there is such a thing as a context, y'know?

Having said that, I'd really appreciate fewer ellipses. Thanks.

I agree with all that (except the ellipses thing, actually, but whatever). Grammar can, and should, change. People need to get over it.

[davenotdead]

when boardies don't post the names of the hot girls' pics they post

[Glice]

Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom

RanaldoNecro - I thought it was the Belgians? (Y'know, Jacques Brel and all that).

Lest we forget

[drrrtyboots]

Originally Posted by davenotdead

when boardies don't post the names of the hot girls' pics they post

Or when crypto posts pictures of his friends that he hits the clubs with, he doesn't like to reveal that info.

[cryptowonderdruginvogue]

Originally Posted by davenotdead

when boardies don't post the names of the hot girls' pics they post

Originally Posted by drrrtyboots

Or when crypto posts pictures of his friends that he hits the clubs with, he doesn't like to reveal that info.

 

[Glice]

Originally Posted by acousticrock87

I agree with all that (except the ellipses thing, actually, but whatever). Grammar can, and should, change. People need to get over it.

Well, precisely. And you're right about the ellipses, that's just my disliking of Jack Kerouac. I don't know how it is elsewhere, but there's a lot of so-called educated people in England who treat language like a museum object, who'll complete dismiss 1337 but are too guilty to apply the same logic to Patois, and will happily criticise, say, a North Yorkshire dialect.

[drrrtyboots]

I'm not the one looking for their names, my fingers ain't pale, long and skinny.

[Hip Priest]

Hypocrisy

Bullying

Bad manners

Media glorification of bullying and bad manners

The Labour Party

Marzipan

What Russell T Davies did to the cybermen

Traders on Play.com declaring an item (eg SYR8) is 'in stock' when what they mean is 'not in stock'

Pretend queries by people presenting documentaries

'Wildlife documentaries' about animals in captivity

Ant

and Dec

The trend away from shortwave radio broadcasting

Those little green things

Money being wasted, especially by politicians

The absurd proposition that Michael Owen should be in the England football team

[NWRA]

Originally Posted by RanaldoNecro

The stuff I can't stand is US tourists talking out loud in a public place esp in Europe...

Where I grew-up (York) there are always loads of American tourists, most of them very friendly and genuine, but a number of them walk around exaggerating their American accent and their American mannerisms, as if they're putting on a pantomime for your benefit. It's weird.

I agree with davenotdead. Likewise when there is a thread on here along the lines of 'your favourite -whatever- groups?' and everyone just posts pictures of said groups rather than naming them. I rarely recognise the ones I'm familiar with, let alone the ones I'm not. There's something annoyingly supercilious about it, an implied 'are you cool enough to know these by sight'? After all it must take more effort than just typing the name.

[deflinus]

people who list things that they hate

[MellySingsDoom]

^^^Drug dealers outside Melly Towers (hee hee hee )

[Danny Himself]

My grandmother treating my great-grandmother like shit.

When I invite my friend Mike over to my place and he just goes on the internet and plays my guitars and transfers his weird smell onto my furniture which I then have to febreze when he's gone whilst wondering why I'm friends with him.

When people put ho's before bro's. Especially if they're the only person you know at their birthday party and they leave you to spend the entire night flipping through their parents record collection as they fuck a bunch of stupid bitches upstairs.

People trying to 'get down with it'. I was at a baptism service in a protestant church the other day and it was ridiculous. They were passing out tambourines to little kids and the reverend was playing these cheesy songs on a casio as a bunch of people sang along out of tune. Give me a Catholic service any day- they don't bother trying to make concessions, they just get on with it and get down to some fucking SRS BUSINESS.

Realising I've spent hundreds of pounds on fast food this summer.

[Cantankerous]

dogs.

Originally Posted by Danny Himself

Realising I've spent hundreds of pounds on fast food this summer.

you're going to gain hundreds of pounds if you keep it up.

[luisxvi]

The way some people think that everyone is interested in what they have to say.

Those who have nothing to say but never shut up.

John Simm.

[MellySingsDoom]

Originally Posted by Danny Himself

People trying to 'get down with it'. I was at a baptism service in a protestant church the other day and it was ridiculous. They were passing out tambourines to little kids and the reverend was playing these cheesy songs on a casio as a bunch of people sang along out of tune. Give me a Catholic service any day- they don't bother trying to make concessions, they just get on with it and get down to some fucking SRS BUSINESS.

Yer right - being yelled at by a God-Botherer > Blue Peter love-fests (and this from someone who loathes religion in all forms).

Another - people who are too cuntish to say thanks after me helping them out w/whatever. Yeah, that's right, I'm just the home help, eh? Fuckers.

[Danny Himself]

Originally Posted by Cantankerous

you're going to gain hundreds of pounds if you keep it up.

I don't gain weight at all but I'll probably die when I'm 30 of multiple heart attacks.

[king_buzzo]

that guy who hosts the Planets Funniest Animal's show on Animal Planet.