Opened the floodgates now...
I just seem to be angry at everything in the world at the moment. It seems like the older I get the more cynical I get. Here are a couple of things that get my goat:

Man flu
I work in an office full of women, most of them in their 20s and in between doing the smallest amount of work possible they just spend their time all talking at once, trying to be the loudest and putting us always busy designers/developers off a tricky bit of code that generally involves trying to mentally cross-reference two or three multi-dimensional arrays. And they eat crisps all day whilst simultaneously complaining that they can't lose weight.
Their biggest thing is 'man flu'. Apparently, men think that they have the ebola virus every time that they're slightly poorly and yet, in my experience, it's women that spend more time in the doctor's. Walk into any GP's waiting room and count the ratio of men to women. My girlfriend has a cold about once a month. The last time I was ill and had to take time off was two years ago.

Breakfast news
I absolutely refuse to watch GMTV and so watch the BBC News instead. But I find myself getting increasingly pissed off with their thinking that they can just advertise any other BBC programming. Big news stories include some twat who won Celebrity Dance Strictly Ice Ballroom Cooking Idol or something. They think that whoever got kicked out of the Apprentice is actually important. Then they do 'wimmin's issues and you can always guarantee the guests they have on for it usually comprise of one or more of the following: a woman who did the apprentice, a woman who wrote a book about parenthood and likes to be called a 'yummy mummy' (a posh term for MILF, obviously) and some teenage girl that wrote a book about ... teenage girls. Then they bang on about how great the ladies are and how shit men are.

Adverts
I hate those adverts where you get some dick saying "I'm a photographer and I work in the harshest conditions, so I need fashionable glasses" (or something). No you're fucking not! You're an out of work actor/actress who can't get an audition for The Bill!! And here's a bit of advice for male hair stylists: GET A PROPER JOB!!

Anti-smoking nazis
Yes, you've banned smoking! The pubs are quiet! You've destroyed a way of life! You look at me like I've pissed on your dog every time I light up! What does your car exhaust spit out then? Daisies????

There's bound to be more but I'm off for caffeine and nicotine...
(Ghostlight, Fri 2 May 2008, 19:52, Reply)