A few of the top of my head...
...bear with me.

"I could care less"
This seems to be a common occurrence on message boards populated by Americans.

It's "I COULDN'T CARE LESS".

Saying you could care less implies that your level of care for the given subject is not at its lowest point, and thus you must care about the subject a bit. The point of the phrase is to say the you do not care at all about the given subject, and so you could not care any less about it. It really isn't hard!

Tabloid Newspapers
Their ability to blow everything out of proportion in such a way that it is harmful.

When Northern Rock applied for a loan from the Bank of England the papers plastered it everywhere, and so all the people who held accounts with them panicked and withdrew their funds, leading the bank to an amazing downfall, the government having to bail it all out, and a substantial contribution to the downturn in the economy.

The tabloids failed to mention that a number of banks, including Barclay's had made similar applications for Loans, and that it is a common occurrence in the banking world.

If they had just left things alone it might have panned out a bit better. I don't like the fact that some bored reporter can jump on a non-story, blow it out of proportion, harm the economy and not get any repercussions.

Madeleine McCann
Links in with the above. It is obviously a very sad story, sympathy for her etc, but seriously we really didn't need all that coverage, it obviously didn't help.

In fact I am of the opinion that the coverage could very well have killed her. A kidnapper holding a child which anyone could recognise is going to get rid of that child, probably in small pieces in a shallow grave.

Also some of the reports stated that it was a tragedy as all parent's have left their children alone briefly at some point. NO THEY HAVEN'T. Maddy's parents were irresponsible.

I think someone has mentioned the other children that have gone missing since, but have not got any sort of coverage. Obviously not white and blond enough.

There was a news article yesterday nearly a year after the abduction with the headline "McCanns 'will not give up' search". NO SHIT, who would?

This is not News, it is grief porn.

Microsoft Internet Explorer
I do a lot of html and css coding in my job. Why Microsoft, despite there being clear rules and guidelines from the W3C about how to handle this code, does your browser fail so miserably?

I can write a nice bit of css code that produces a nicely laid out page, which looks all shiny and pretty in every other web browser out there, but when I view it in Internet Explorer it looks like some mental case coded it, all because you failed to make a proper browser.

Unfortunately because you have the market lead because you bundled it with you OS, and because people are lazy and can't bothered to look elsewhere I am forced to make changes to my code to accommodate your 'tard of system.

Proprietary Formats
Blu-ray or HD-DVD? Don't care, just team up, make one universal type of format and stick with it, make money on good affordable hardware and content. You are alienating your buyers when you confuse them like this, and they end up buying neither. Beta-Max, failed, mini-disc, failed, all for similar reasons.

Fanboys
GTAIV is pretty much the same experience on both Xbox360 and PS3, so stop arguing about it you complete arsetards, it is clear you merely consider your console as an extension of your tiny tiny penis.

Crappy Drivers
Unless you have an obvious reason, do 30 in a 30, 40 in a 40, 50 in a 50 etc. The signs are telling you what to do yet still you cannot grasp it. It is not 40 everywhere! Also look up how to use indicators, and how to slow down using the brake so people behind you can tell what you are doing.

'P' Plates
You have just passed your driving test, which says you are competent to drive an auto-mobile on the road. If you are not confident enough that you have to point this out to everybody then you shouldn't have passed. You are just pointing out that you are a crap driver. I'm certainly not going to treat you any differently because you have only just passed. You're officially on my roads now...

Modern Car Engines
If the petrol pump on a morris minor broke, I could refer to a manual, drain the petrol, unscrew the old one with a few spanners, replace with new, refill and away I could go. With modern cars I would have to drain petrol, jack up the vehicle, remove 10 pipes, 5 sensors, half the engine, and part of the suspension, just to get to it.

I don't have all the facilities and tools required to do this, so I have to take it to one of your garages (because you have invented random proprietary tools to remove the parts) and then charge me the price of my house for the privilege.


I sound like quite an angry person after that, but really I'm not. The disturbing thing is, there is probably more...

^{Grumble Grumble}
(stubbledchin, Fri 2 May 2008, 12:07, 4 replies)

Yes!
"I think someone has mentioned the other children that have gone missing since, but have not got any sort of coverage. Obviously not white and blond enough."

Glad someone else agrees with me!

Click for you.
(Half of Stephen Fry's right buttock pissed on your dog on, Fri 2 May 2008, 12:16, closed)

Totally with you on 'Could Care Less'
and i'm also unhappy with 'I lucked out' when they actually mean 'My luck was IN'

I saw an American Box of Sharpie pens recently and it had the statement:

"Will write on most anything"

???
(Phlash, Fri 2 May 2008, 15:05, closed)

Northern Rock
Actually not the Tabloids but our own licence fee funded BBC journalist Robert Peston.

The BBC seem to be on a mission to make rather than report the news.
(Outtheresomewhere, Fri 2 May 2008, 18:01, closed)

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Your officially on my roads now...



you're...
I don't really have a problem with this but some posters seem to have big issues (and they're not even homeless)
(tubeman trousers, Fri 2 May 2008, 19:55, closed)