Things that really ANNOYED me this year.

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Ron.M

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Things that really ANNOYED me this year.

TV Cooks saying things like...

" Right ...just stick that thing straight into the pan..."

How?...Where else were you thinking of putting it?.... Up your ass??

I have dozens more, believe me...

So what annoyed you most this year?

cheers,

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 20 2010 19:19:19

Paul Magnussen

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to Ron.M)

Tennis players saying 'If I would have known THIS I would have done THAT.'

Oh, and adverts for Viagra.

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Ron.M

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to Paul Magnussen)

Paul...

I say that all the time...and I've never played tennis in my life...

More of the negative form though...like..

"Christ, if I had only known THIS, I would NEVER have done that!"...

cheers,

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 20 2010 20:17:36

XXX

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to Ron.M)

this year the oscar goes to my health, which failed me

as a result i didnt play for more or less the whole year, let alone practice guitar properly. but boy i will strike back

"take that, health!!"

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 20 2010 20:27:04

Ron.M

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to XXX)

quote:

this year the oscar goes to my health, which failed me

How? What happened Deniz old chap?

I can't remember you complaining of anything serious?

"Complaining" (in general)...well yes....but I've come to expect that...

cheers,

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 20 2010 20:31:13

XXX

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to Ron.M)

lol do i complain often?

i had one injury on the anular finger of the fretting hand, and one injury on the index finger of the plucking hand. i played about 5 minutes per week for several months... i still have no picado

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 20 2010 20:36:54

Ron.M

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to XXX)

Sorry to hear that, Deniz..hope things are getting better.

quote:

i still have no picado

Nor do I, amigo...

I'm still trying to get the pulgar sounding right...

(PS: I too sometimes just give up for a month or two...or even three...Always sounds better to your ear when you pick it up again IMO)

cheers,

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 20 2010 20:42:11

Paul Magnussen

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to Ron.M)

You miss the point Ron: it's the grammar, the grammar.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 20 2010 21:14:37

Leendert

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to Ron.M)

hmmm....let's see here, for me, the things that come up;
Things that really annoyed me this year:

1. My boss!!....for the awful schedule's!!...can't recall the last time I had a normal weekend..
2. Republicans and them trying to stop anything which would benefit anyone else.
3. People bashing on other people.....oh wait isn't that what I am doing in 1 & 2?....never mind.
4. Hearing that in Europe right winged parties are gaining huge followers...

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 20 2010 21:37:36

kozz

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to Ron.M)

quote:

So what annoyed you most this year?

The weatherman did, because he gets paid telling us that tomorrow it could be colder than today, or warmer!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 20 2010 22:25:10

El Kiko

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to Ron.M)

I just noticed this post and thought ... Yes , I can have a liitle rant here.....
but it's not where to start , it's where to stop ..........

People who drive too slow
People who are always in the wrong lane of roundabouts
Women chatting to sales assistants about personal crap while I wait
People who try to talk smart about something they really have no idea about
Jedward
People who say "Think outside the box"
The smell of happy meals
Mouldy carrots
Claiming something under the heading I said it first
Wanting to be taller
The way bank managers talk to you
Wrong pronunciation of the word "Adidas"
Facebook
The greatness of Miley Cyrus
Being politically correct
Bad grammar
Cheap badly made commercials
Annoying cell phone ringtones
Gum on my shoe
Cheap products from China
My passport photo
Drivers who don’t indicate, You wait for them to pass but they turn off just before.
Police with speed cameras who stop you for bieng a tiny bit fast.
Abuse of power
Politicians perks
Anyone who thinks they know me better than I know myself
People who whistle tunes
TV awards (as they make stuff themselves, then vote for themselves, applaud themselves etc)
Brambles

Ah , I feel so much better , it may not be such a bad year after all

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 21 2010 1:51:29

marduk

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to Ron.M)

i was at a friends house, and he watches tv. that night i found out who justin beiber is. that was harsh

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 21 2010 2:14:37

Andy Culpepper

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to El Kiko)

quote:

Brambles

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 21 2010 2:20:40

KMMI77

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to Ron.M)

Tobacco nearly doubled in price, AGAIN!

Electricity doubled in price

Car Rego saw an increase

My car insurance increased even though it's value decreased.

Groceries continued to rise in price

My rent increased

Telecommunication providers began to charge a fee for paying your bill at a post office. Fortunately the government actually stepped in and made them refund the money to everyone.

Banks announced record profits

Australia's "democratically" elected leader prime minister was removed and replaced without warning.

Societies use of antidepressants increased

My regular restaurant gig of 6 years came to an end.

And to top it off I am one year older

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 21 2010 5:45:40

XXX

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to KMMI77)

quote:

ORIGINAL: KMMI77
And to top it off I am one year older

Thats not good.
Did you thought about possible counter measures?

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 21 2010 8:12:45

Kate

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to El Kiko)

quote:

People who are always in the wrong lane of roundabouts
Women chatting to sales assistants about personal crap while I wait
The way bank managers talk to you
Drivers who don’t indicate, You wait for them to pass but they turn off just before.

Dont come and live in Spain it is far worse. My last bank manager, who is definitely younger than me, called me 'hija' ( daughter). I changed banks. Also Granada has just discovered roundabouts and are putting them everywhere, then making them bigger. One roundabout was so big there was no room for cars. And people here have no idea how to drive round them. I saw a bus once reverse as it had missed it's exit. And people park on them, sometimes even double park ! And the main route out of town is only one lane which is also the entrance to the carpark so you get people cueing to park and you cant get out of town unless you use the bus lane where you will definitely get your photo taken and fined.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 21 2010 8:25:28

Ron.M

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to Paul Magnussen)

quote:

You miss the point Ron: it's the grammar, the grammar.

Ah yes...I see what you mean now Paul.

Yes that is a good example of something being annoying to you.

In my view, for something to be truly annoying, it must be something that is completely trivial and unimportant, yet has a strange and unproportionate effect in personally stirring you to rage and not readily understood by others.

cheers,

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 21 2010 8:47:10

El Kiko

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to Kate)

quote:

Dont come and live in Spain it is far worse. My last bank manager, who is definitely younger than me, called me 'hija' ( daughter).

I did live there I was in Cordoba for 10 years , and Hija (Daughter) can also means "little girl" endearing and familiar term for niña
Belive me Ireland is worse for Talking and driving, and potholes....

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 21 2010 9:24:44

Arash

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to Ron.M)

politics

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 21 2010 10:27:53

Ron.M

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to El Kiko)

quote:

Hija (Daughter) can also means "little girl" endearing and familiar term for niña

Yeah, but said by a Bank Manager to a customer sounds pretty patronizing don't you think.

Maybe like a Bank Manager here calling a woman customer "dear".

A familiar term for a Bank Manager should be "pretentious greedy fat bastard".

cheers,

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 21 2010 10:31:02

Ruphus

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to Ron.M)

This one and the couple past years:

Concertized media telling public that the vaporizing of atsronomical sums of money was to be:
# For a vast part only nominal, hence just bubble content / none-existing value. Let alone, value that hadn´t gone anywhere; with everybody only having seen loss.

# That the responsibles behind the vanish had "failed", as if the creaming off was to be unintentionally.
# States pampering the responsible institutions with additional sets of billions for the exact same game to continue, claiming that there was no way around of doing so.
Trillions thrown after criminals, while elsewise there allegedly per state was no spare of 2 or 3 billion available for social budgets.

And worst of all:

People eating the cynical ****.
Not even in a position to realize the most basic coherence, which would had been to track down where the money has gone, recover it and prosecute the "gamers". Period.

A common sense so brain-washed that it can´t distinguish the most ordinary whereabouts anymore.

Such is the most annoying thing to me. - For this year more even than for the unspeakable intellectual unindependence of past centuries.

Ruphus

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 21 2010 10:52:14

El Kiko

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to Ron.M)

quote:

A familiar term for a Bank Manager should be "pretentious greedy fat bastard".

yes we need a good acronym for that.........
Funny enough the Bankers in Portugal speak to women like that as well,.. pfff ....what a bunch of latin bankers eh?

...mine is a real total big Banker.....

(there may be a spelling mistake in that last sentence)

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 21 2010 11:51:33

Paul Magnussen

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to El Kiko)

quote:

I was in Cordoba for 10 years

Did you go to Paco Peña's Guitar Festival? Or was that after he stopped doing it?

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 21 2010 15:44:56

sean65

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to Ron.M)

"We will learn lessons from this incident and move forward....."

Just about every spineless government, police, bank, church etc who screw up and then give some pathetic press conference quote the above and MANY other cock'n'bull cliches.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 21 2010 15:58:45

Ron.M

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to sean65)

quote:

"We will learn lessons from this incident and move forward....."

Also...

"As you know, the incident is presently subject to inquiry, so you wouldn't expect me to comment on it."

"I cannot comment on individual cases."

"I haven't actually seen that particular document, so obviously cannot comment."
(Even though said document has been published in every newspaper and has been on the news for days..)

"First of all, let me express my sincerest condolences and say that my deepest thoughts are with the family and friends..." (good..wasted 6 seconds of awkward interview time..)

Many more too...

cheers,

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 21 2010 16:38:40

Doitsujin

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to Ron.M)

Oh man oh man oh man... I'm missing words.. (Or however the **** you say that in English!

)

I thought,..we had way to less monkey-pictures this year.. That would be annoying..so lets change that!"

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 21 2010 18:23:16

Ron.M

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to Doitsujin)

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Oh man oh man oh man... I'm missing words.. (Or however the **** you say that in English! )

The word is "speechless" in English, Doit...

Maybe better that way amigo, cos I know you could write a 3 page post on all the stuff that annoyed you this year, blowing us all off the thread!

A picture speaks a thousand words...

cheers,

Ron

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 21 2010 18:43:50

El Kiko

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RE: Things that really ANNOYED me th... (in reply to Paul Magnussen)

No , I used to see him from time to time and he had his workshops on , he lived just near me in the Plaza del Potro , and around the corner from that was Manuel Reyes in Calle Armas 4, also nearby was Paco Serrano in th e same street as me ....
A lot of stuff was going on then, this was in the 90's
I would see some of them in a bar called Las Plateros , in some nights.....

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