I think of myself
as a bit of a moaner. I've lightened up recently, allowing myself to let shit films/music/standards of decency wash over me, safe in the knowledge that I am secretly far above the majority of burberry wearing, buckfast swilling, granny mugging half wits out there. Or so I like to hope.

But my Dad is an example to us all. He gets narked at the slightest of things, and often sits glowering at the TV, incandescent with rage. Some of his more frequently voiced objections include:

People who go "woo" in audiences on game shows, or whistle or shout "yay" or anything like that. He will sit there going "WOOOO! WOOOO! WOOO! WHY DO THEY DO THAT?" at the television. I think he harks back to the days of polite applause and gentlemanly handshakes.

The use of the word "guys" when in reference to women. This causes him to glow with rage.

There is a certain BBC weatherman who he finds objectionable because of "his antics". I still don't know what he means by that.

You do not want to be in the room if an advert for a dating service or a thinly veiled sex line comes on, but I feel the same about that one really.

Women who have similar voices to Mariella Frostrup. He doesn't know who she is, but if you sound like her, he will hate you, and may possibly ask you why you talk like that, after attempting to imitate you.

He's just bought a new plasma screen TV with surround sound. I think he's a masochist.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Fri 2 May 2008, 17:56, 4 replies)

Either we are cousins
or brothers. The similarities are amazing.
( Smithlick is often seen at the bottom of threads, Fri 2 May 2008, 18:10, closed)

it is possible
as your sig is also true of me too :P
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Fri 2 May 2008, 18:15, closed)

It must be a big family
'cos my (sadly departed) dad was a member of the "glare hard enough / shout loud enough at the goggle box and it'll have some effect" club as well.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Fri 2 May 2008, 18:32, closed)

me too!
Almost exactly the same, right down to the plasma tv!
He sits watching fox news, glowering, same with bbc news. He's lived in France for the last 30 years, and goes on about "the state of britain". Yeah, right.
(Alaning, Sat 3 May 2008, 15:09, closed)