101 Things that get on our tits but don't actually matter in the slightest. - The Bear and Badger

pantyfire

94: wet toilet bum wipes that don't come out the packet in single sheets. I hate it when two or three come out at once.

Yossarian

Skerret wrote:

My surname is constantly mis-pronounced. Had my phd grad a few weeks back and every person who addressed me up the point where I publicly received the thing was spot on; Arts Chair announcing the PhDs fucked it up. Privately livid, but couldn't even risk an eye roll cos I had 300 pairs of eyes on spot-lit me.

Are you one of the handful of people in Australia whose surname isn't Ramsey or Robinson?

Roujin

95. People who bought into wet toilet bum wipes as a thing they need in their lives.

pantyfire

Oh, I need them.

Paul the sparky

Yossarian wrote:

Skerret wrote:

My surname is constantly mis-pronounced. Had my phd grad a few weeks back and every person who addressed me up the point where I publicly received the thing was spot on; Arts Chair announcing the PhDs fucked it up. Privately livid, but couldn't even risk an eye roll cos I had 300 pairs of eyes on spot-lit me.

Are you one of the handful of people in Australia whose surname isn't Ramsey or Robinson?

Kind of. His surname is Ramsey but he pronounces it Robinson.

Skerret

Ramsibindoney. Shelling peas m8.

Escape

Skerret wrote:

Privately livid, but couldn't even risk an eye roll cos I had 300 pairs of eyes on spot-lit me.

Skerret

Yer more or less. That is the official academic procession garb.

davyK

Are there really that many people who want a new sofa for Christmas? Bloody TV ads.

monkey

Who gets sofas for Christmas? Best off waiting until

96. Boxing Day sales with all the Limited Time Offer, Must End Today, Hurry While Stocks Last, Great deals today, 0% finance for 3 years if you buy on Boxing Day, Buy now, fantastic value, please please buy, I'll suck your dick.

monkey

97. Christmas starting too early. I don't want to see anything to do with Christmas until December, excluding this forum's typical Yuletide confusion which I find amusing.

My girlfriend came home with some mince pies the other day. What a bitch. I had to have stern words with her. I was so furious I barely ate most of them.

superflyninja

98b. So annoying Im posting it twice. Drivers who drive incredibly slowly in the middle lane, in the midst of massive traffic and delays. Sure no problem Mt Truckdriver, you pull in there in front of me. Oh and you ten cars want to pull in front of me too? Fantastic,happy to oblige. Oh and now that I've let about 100 metres worth of traffic in front of me, Ill brake to create another gap to allow another 100 metres o traffic in. Im such a nice person me. Oh too bad cars behind me that the right hand lane is chokka and you have no opportunity to overtake me. Teehee. Im going to make this middle lane my own.

equinox_code

Articles detailing the Twitter chatter and contrived puns of corporate marketing teams. Surely one of the most rancid developments in recent times.

Skerret

98c. I think my indicator makes my car turn, so I don't need to use it until I actually begin turning. This applies whether I'm turning left or whether I'm turning right at a busy intersection with 10 cars backed up behind me all wanting to go straight and assuming that I do too.

Outlaw

I am completely, utterly obsessed with all things Christmas. I start to get excited for it around August. Even I hate the creeping Christmas crap that starts to appear as the kids go back to school. Don't they know there's Halloween and Bonfire night in between to get excited about first?!

davyK

I like Christmas too and quite often I will get some early present shopping done if something apt presents itself but I won't go looking for anything. It spreads the cost too. But, any Yuletide cheer before Halloween really does grate with me. And Christmas music pre-December is annoying too. I feel so sorry for people working in retail who have to listen to the same set of songs for weeks.

I actually prefer the build up to the day itself though I also like the quiet time between Christmas and New Year as it's one time of the year I can do feck all , do some gaming and holiday reading, and not get any grief or feel guilty about it.

My wife's birthday is September and my daughters' birthdays are October and November so it is pretty much present buying season for me once August ends.

Escape

Skerret wrote:

98c. I think my indicator makes my car turn, so I don't need to use it until I actually begin turning. This applies whether I'm turning left or whether I'm turning right at a busy intersection with 10 cars backed up behind me all wanting to go straight and assuming that I do too.

98d: Skarrat pinching mine.

AJ

97b. Christmas.

[Deleted User]

Love Christmas up until right after Boxing day lunch, then I am done with the whole thing and want it to be Easter.

97.5 New Years Eve
It is either shit or expensive and shit.

Kow

New Year's Eve is great if you stay at home and get drunk. Don't turn on the telly.

[Deleted User]

Did that last year, just played games.

Yossarian

Twelfty-Xrd: Sport. More specifically, the fact that talking about sport seems to make up around 50% of conversations between men and I have no interest in it. I reckon I could bring myself to care about football if each team played about half a dozen matches per year and I could follow my local team through those and pay vague attention to the results of the rest, but unfortunately caring about football seems to take a similar level of commitment to owning a dog or having a fairly quiet baby.

It would also help if my local team wasn't Millwall.

afgavinstan

I work in retail and use public transport every day. I could think of 101 for myself, probably.

equinox_code

Speaking of public transport, it takes a special kind of cunt to wake me up while i'm sleeping on the train to tell me the seat i'm sitting in is reserved... when the rest of the train carriage is empty.

monkey

Why are you sleeping in a reserved seat when the rest of the carriage is empty?

equinox_code

Someone hadnt put the little ticket things on, so i didnt know it was reserved.

Escape

afgavinstan wrote:

I could think of 101 for myself, probably.

You're not that bad, are you?

superflyninja

Yossarian wrote:

Twelfty-Xrd: Sport.

Oh Christ this. But what really gets my goat are the guys that watch ANYTHING with a ball in it. And constantly bleat on about it. See the match at the weekend? No. Really???? It was Sporting Lima versus Lima Dynamos. Best game of marbles I ever did see. Those sport guys usually tend to shout their opinions like gospel and bang on about such rubbish. Im getting interested in UFC at the moment but I wouldnt dare speak to any bloke about it and be lectured at about x y or z.

The wife's brother though. Fuckin hell. If Man Utd loose a match he gets genuinely upset to the point of not talking to people and being moody for days. A grown man apparently.

In saying that I feel like Im at a huge disadvantage when it comes to social situations. Sport is a common ground most guys tend to use to get to know each other.

Kow

I think only one of my friends has any interest in sport and it never comes up. You need to stop socialising with people you don't want to talk to.

adored

Liveinadive wrote:

Love Christmas up until right after Boxing day lunch, then I am done with the whole thing and want it to be Easter.

99.01 Creme Eggs in the shops on Boxing Day.

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