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

I hate being up when there is xxxx all left to drink, whilst mrsgandalfstwin is happily snoring away in the bedroom!!!

(shouldn't this be on 'What to blame 2legs for?'



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People who cheat. Especially people who aren't even subtle about it.

I've just got back from paintballing where the rule is that if you're hit, you're out. The opposing team had a number of young lads (age 10 or so) who wouldn't leave the game when they were hit. One of them I personally shot three times in one game and he was still playing! I ended up shouting at him that he was out but he didn't hear me.

People who screen YouTube comments on their videos.

For example, someone puts up a video of a "ghost". I add a comment saying that it's almost certainly a blob of water on their camera lens, but they don't publish it. However, they do allow comments that say things like, "OMG!!! ITS A GHOST!!! GHOST'S ARE REEL!!!! OMG!!!!"

Going back to the truly petty hates: pill bugs. They make me aggressive for the mere reason that that's the symbol for the ArchiCAD bug reporter, so seeing one usually means that my computer has crashed *again* without saving my work.

AKA Woodlice. I was prompted to look up Woodlouse in Wikipedia. There are 40 different types here in the UK? They all look the same to me.

PP

Woodlice? *shudder*

Petty hate: having a carp song that keeps popping into your head

Petty Hate

Arthritis in your right shoulder when you are right handed!



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Loonycat,

it gets worse.

How do you feel about Earworms?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earworm

PP

It can be treated like OCD. I haven't reached that stage yet!

>having a carp song that keeps popping into your head<

Always prefer the trout versions myself!



PS - the "cure" apparently is to sing it all the way through - not sure what to do if you only know a couple of lines, or the chorus!

Many will mention the PH of White Vans ... I think the only thing worse is when you're stuck behind the one that does go slowly, when you're in a hurry ...

Caravans!
Grockle sheds as my grandad used to call them. The bizarre sense of entitlement that caravanners seem to have. Ramblers are the same.

Radio ident jingles - particularly where the wavelength is sung.......

"Wonderful Radio Stevenage, 99.9 fm"

Oh. Lovely. I'll go and tune to that!........Oh. I already am!"

PP

All radio station are guilty of that, Mr PP!!!




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I kinda' like those.

Talking of radio stations ... even though I don't often listen to it ... I'm feeling a little annoyed that my local station 2CR ... (2 Counties Radio - Dorset & Hampshire) ... that has been in existence for a good thirty years ... is being renamed to Heart FM ... having been swallowed up by that empire. Homogeneity ... how dull ...

Talking of radio stations? The one I work at could be going under but I don't know. It sucks. And Heart FM sucks too.

One of my regular petty hates ... charity collection sacks ... now got 4 of the buggers sat on the front doorstep awaiting collection ... they're happy to drop them off but they don't come back and get them when they're empty ...

Also the fact that their deliverers walk across my garden to get to my door rather than traipsing up and down the driveway ...

I use them to line my kitchen bin!

And my postman walks up my drive and across the unfenced border to get to next door, and back again, causing my dog to bark hysterically, even when he has no mail for me.

Deb

Yes ... that's another issue with the delivers/collectors ... the dogs at neighbours houses getting all agitated ... (Deb - at least it's your choice to have a dog - no fingerpointing intended) ... probably wouldn't be so bad but for the trend towards hardwood flooring making houses even echoier ...

Anyway encountered the 5th charity sack man today ... he was a nice bloke and recognised I didn't want another ... reckoned that the whole thing could do with being regulated because there are just too many 'charities' vying for the stuff, and some of the dodgier ones just make donations of only £5,000 per month to their chosen causes ...

Also today ... the Betterware people collected their catalogue ... but in replacement I received junk mail for another takeaway restaurant ...