h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It was a post on how to deal with people who are arogant, and don't acknoweldge other peoples presence, or appologies. And how to deal with those who steal other peoples food from kitchens in shared student homes or in halls of ressidence, a little bit OTT; there is a line around here somewhere; WOOPS stepped over it!!!

Garages who plaster their name on the PAINTWORK of the cars they sell.

I am NOT going to pay £7000 or more in order to advertise your business for you, thank you VERY much.

Lack of sleep.

I hate having a bad memory. I may already have mentioned this but I can't remember.

Just thought of another one. You know your automatic pilot: the mental thing that kicks in when your doing a repetitive job or a performing a task that you've carried out many times before? Well, mine's useless and it drives me nuts. Without reference to my conscious wishes, it takes it upon itself to do things like make a cup of tea or coffee ... simultaneously, in the same cup, or dress me in odd socks, or put my t-shirt on inside out etc etc.

Yeah, thats a major problem; like when you automatically wonder off to the toilet for no reason, just an autopilot type response, to, for example, drinking coffee. And even worse; when "autopilot" insists on you going to read your Emails or visit H2G2, just because you turned your computer on, when you actually need to urgently write 40,000 words within a few hours, print, bind and hand in the repot, and still make it sound sensible, plausible and relibile.. I think this is related to sleep as well; I can sucessfully work solidly for three days with no sleep, as long as it is all autopilot stuff; writting essays/reports/referencing/revising etc.
(Whats that smell?)

people in the car who talk through(or worse yet, sing badly along with) songs i really like. makes me want to scream"shut up or i will bop you over the head!".

When people revive long dead threads

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It drives me spare when you post and someone takes the p*ss.

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It drives me spare when people don't leave the correct link

I REMEMBER this thread! I've been meaning to post to it for years.

I get infuriatated by coat hangers - when I've got loads of shirts to iron and start collecting up hangers to put them on ... aaaaargh !!!- they all get caught up together!

Well I can report that my brother still hates push handles on pull doors

My pet hate is people who treat automated processes (programs, coin-op machines, etc.) as if they were sentient.
I got the following froma developer today:
"For reasons best know to itself at this stage, the program seems to have ignored them"

none disabled people palking in disabled parking spaces

And what about the disabled people who take the last free parking space for non-disabled people, leaving the disabled space free? (I've actually had that happen to me)

OK OK ... I would still never park in a disabled space, even in the above situation.

People who cause a massive queue at the supermarket car park in the desperate search for a space 15 yards closer to the shop than another

My apathy and lethagy

People who can't take a joke.

People who don't understand metaphors and then act like *you're* the stupid one.

People who call fines from speed cameras a stealth tax.

People who refuse to be helped but won't help themselves.

Pigeons

Politics since 1995.