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Freddie Woo tells us "I'm having to drive 500 miles to pick up my son from the ex's house because she won't let him take the train in case he gets off at the wrong station. He's 19 years old and has A-Levels and everything." - Tell us about illogical and irrational people who get on your nerves.

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 12:24)
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I find various groups of people, such as:

-homeopaths
-any and all flavors of god botherers
-party-line politicians
-chavs
-excessively polite people
-people who still convert euros to their former native currency
-pop-culture fanboys
-proponents of sexism, racism, etc. Lookism is fine though.
-anyone who uses more 'innits' than full stops
-people too stupid to use birth control
-non-emergency patients in the ER
-hippies
-people who think world peace is possible
-gun nuts
-'ban all guns' nuts
-90% of the 'green' movement
-people who dislike nuclear power
-americans who buy 500hp cars
-germans who do not do so (if financially able to)
-the general public
-PETA et al
-your mum
-every single private user of social networks (facebook)
-people who were surprised about PRISM
-Alex Jones
-The entire vatican, excepting small boys
-The US political system
-1337 h4x0rz
-'bedingungsloses grundeinkommen'(unconditional welfare for everyone) supporters
-Femen
-writers of children's books
-the people who somehow think that 6.99 is significantly cheaper than 7.00
-people who believe that any problem must have a single, simple solution
-people who think that banning drugs works
-death penalty supporters
-the nanny state
-ambulance chasers

to be irrational.

Also, I hate and sometimes pity them.

More later.
(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 14:47, 42 replies)
you're such a listo

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 14:57, closed)
I had trouble disagreeing with any of these.
Although maybe being able to rationally argue these should be on the list probably isn't healthy either...
(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 14:59, closed)
Why didn't you just put
EVERYTHING

and have done with it?
(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 14:59, closed)

well, I do have 'the general public' on there somewhere.

It is my personal belief that everyone is a bloody mentalist two hours per day. Those that seem normal just have their crazy time while alone or sleeping.
(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 15:02, closed)
dave lister

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 14:59, closed)
the listereen consciousness

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 14:59, closed)
list listofferson

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 15:00, closed)
list of the north star

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 15:00, closed)
o hai spimf

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 15:02, closed)
Why are Germans allowed 500hp cars but not Americans?
I'm intrigued.
(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 15:06, closed)
something to do with speed limits

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 15:10, closed)

The highest speed limit I've seen in Americaland was 75mph.
Zer Autobahn has a default speed limit of... No, actually, there is no default speed limit.

Something about a vehicle never exceeding even half of it's design speed is just wrong.
(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 15:11, closed)
What's that got to do with horsepower?
I don't drive high horsepower cars because they can do 175 mph. I drive them because of how fast they can get from one speed to another* (within designated speed limits of course, officer)

Arguing that Germans should drive high-powered cars for the vanishingly small percentage of German roads that it is still legal to drive at any speed on seems odd. Surely it's more relevant that the vast majority of roads in Germany are clogged with traffic and the vast majortiy in the USA are totally empty?

*and, admittedly, for how fast they can go on the track.
(, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:18, closed)
* only trains run on tracks... silly Badge

(, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:44, closed)
Most roads in the USA are empty
...because it's so long since the potholes have been filled that driving anything except a Landie or a tank above 30mph is flirting with a broken axle.
(, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 16:32, closed)
I assumed you meant that American cars are rubbish and German cars are not
500hp is no bloody use at all if your suspension is made of cabbages.
(, Sun 13 Oct 2013, 15:11, closed)
As a German you obviously like a Liszt.

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 15:10, closed)
Well played here.

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 15:16, closed)
Except Liszt was Hungarian

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 15:27, closed)
Oh shut up, Neil.

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 15:32, closed)
He was born in Austria.
So, near enough.

For non Austro-Hungarians anyway.
(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 15:38, closed)
Austria, in the Kingdom of Hungary, before the formation of Germany
I think he may have died in Germany though, it being formed at some point during his life.
So yeah, near enough.
(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 15:50, closed)
I'm Brahms and Liszt as we speak!

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 15:26, closed)
Femen?
Are you Baron Harkonnen?

Not sure what to make of "writers of children's books" - have you got something against literacy?

Lastly, are you spimf?
(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 15:11, closed)

I'm not that into little boys
(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 15:13, closed)
I wasn't offering.

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 15:27, closed)

Sure you're not offering? Speak into the microphone please. It was a reference to the fact that ol' vlad liked to pork the young'ins.

I find writers of chldrens books irrational because the books always bored me. I switched to my dad's stuff (mostly high-quality sci-fi such as Asimov, Stephenson, Banks) at 11.

And no, I am not spimf.
(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 15:58, closed)
^ is spimf

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 16:12, closed)
^This.
You ain't fooling us Spimfy.
(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 16:14, closed)
Wasn't the Baron more into young men?
I forget.

Still not following you on children's authors, though - nothing irrational about writing books for an audience that isn't you.

spimf would've 2.0'd a lot more people, so I accept that you're not him.
(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 16:29, closed)
Shut up spim... oh. Shut up whoever you are

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 15:42, closed)
Femen?
Thanks to them there were tits in the London evening standard last night - how can that not be a good thing?
(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 16:18, closed)
Fuck off, Nazi.

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 17:12, closed)
innit

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 17:17, closed)
You forgot misanthropes.

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 18:03, closed)

No, actually.

Hating everyone until they prove to be nice isn't the worst thing you could do. It's pretty sensible in fact.
(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 18:21, closed)
Haha, imagine if everyone did that, then no-one would ever prove to be nice

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 19:58, closed)
classic Spimf!

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 18:58, closed)
not enough line breaks though

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 19:19, closed)
as much as i agree with almost all of this (apart from writers of children's books)

i would have thought it was clear this was not from me

aside from the lack of line breaks, I can't be doing with the en dashes – the way they've been used is far too close to bullet points

i don't approve of bullet points

but the main thing is the distinct lack of all manner of miserable cunts calling me/GermanGuy a cunt

*stands back*
(, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 16:34, closed)
Fuck off spimf.

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 22:00, closed)

how interesting
(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 22:37, closed)

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