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The Groob Posted Dec 8, 2003
"The way time moves so fast when you're enjoying yourself, and so slow when you're not"
It never fails to amaze me how quick the hour lunch break goes compared to every other hour at work.
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The Groob Posted Dec 8, 2003
People who give the two-finger victory salute when they haven't been victorious about anything.
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Snailrind Posted Dec 8, 2003
Perhaps they're being victorious about their success in behaving like a pratt.
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Researcher 185550 Posted Dec 8, 2003
People who give the *other* two finger salute to be "cool".
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The Groob Posted Dec 8, 2003
It looks silly. What's wrong with a friendly wave or a thumbs-up?
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The Groob Posted Dec 9, 2003
Fruit machine arcades in towns.
People who say 'ooooh I shouldnt' when they tuck into something.
Pompous music on politics programmes. (Breakfast with Frost is one offender, also the one with the Big Ben crocodile thing).
PS. I know Big Ben is a bell. If I said 'St Martin's clocktower' nobody would know what I meant.
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Adele the Divided (h2g2 will be your undoing) Posted Dec 9, 2003
Apparently, studies have shown that time goes faster when you're warm, that's why blessed glorious summer goes so fast!
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The Groob Posted Dec 12, 2003
The MSN popup said a couple of days ago
"Which is better, Beckham or Wilkinson?"
Do us a favour.
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AlexoOo Posted Dec 13, 2003
People who think they are clever because they can use chopsticks.
Pensioners who have all day, every day to go to the bank or post office, but still go when it's lunch time and talk to the cashier for 5 hours.
Speed bumps. Speed cameras. And poxy mini poxy roundabouts.
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stjarna Posted Dec 13, 2003
People who complain about being caught on speed cameras, especially those who are self-proclaimed 'law-abiding motorists'. Eh? If you were caught, you were breaking the law!
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dasilva Posted Dec 13, 2003
The law with regards speeding when policedby actual constabules of the law was always interpreted as being felxible in that if you were driving within the realms of all the other speeding maniacs you were probably ok.
Speed cameras can't pull you over for driving too slowly thererby causing a nuisance and increasing the risk of an accident in the queue behind you.
They also can't breathalise you for being over the 
-drive blood-alcohol limit. The increase in road deaths in the UK since speeding was largely given over to cameras can attest to that.
Cameras also can't flag you over and give you a speaking to when you're driving like a 
and endangering everyone else on the road, or that your tail lights are out whether you realised it or not.
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The Groob Posted Dec 13, 2003
They had some pringle samples in the supermarket and I decided to tuck in. The lady said 'once you start you can't stop'.
The term she is looking for is M O R E I S H
Pringles don't possess some special property that other products don't possess that makes people unable to stop eating them.
They are M O R E I S H.
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stjarna Posted Dec 14, 2003
(reply to daSilva)
Very true. However, I still see plenty of police on the roads - the speed cameras appear to be freeing the police up to do more useful work.
Still, at the end of the day anyone who gets caught by a speed camera doesn't have the right to complain that they are a law-abiding motorist. And surely missing the fact that you're about to pass a day-glo orange box on a stick could be interpreted as driving without due care and attention?
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winnoch2 - Impostair Syndromair Extraordinaire Posted Dec 14, 2003
The word 'MOREISH'
It is not a real word It was invented by some stupid TV ad
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