It's when I have several QOTW answers that I worry.
The more I think of things and the more things I read, the more things I think of that wind me up:

- Adverts on TV, with the exception of Joel's Crusha ones. The rest of them get the mute button unless they have clever Rube-Goldberg contraptions in them like that old Honda ad. Or bouncy balls in pretty colours. My least favourites are of course Michael Winner and the Sheila's Wheels ones, both of which are liable to make me stabby.

- Those Tagged emails that you get that say someone has Tagged you but you must join the site to see - I don't care. I don't need another social networking site - I already have Facebook, which is annoyingly addictive, Myspaz, which I next to never use, and Bebo, which I never use and only got because someone told me to.

- Will & Grace - dear God I hate that show. There are approximately three jokes - she's scatty and can't keep a boyfriend, he's gay but if he wasn't they'd be perfect for one another, the other one is an alky and has a voice like a South Park character, and the other guy is a bit hyperactive. Why did this run for eight seasons?

- Ridiculously small things make me furious on the wrong day and the best example of this is my hair straighteners. As much as I love them for their ability to prevent my hair looking like a haystack, they are those annoying slimline ones with the long cord, and they next to never stand up straight to cool. All I have to do to make them fall over is look at them.

- Letting little kids dress like sluts. This irritates me more than anyone can truly comprehend; when I was a kid, and that's no more than fifteen years ago, little kids dressed like little kids - there were no miniskirts then, no tops with slogans about boys on them, no thongs for 8-year-olds, no crop tops, and certainly no child of ten who could put make-up on better than the average adult. Even when I was little and the odd 'friend' used to try to put kiddy make-up on me I used to make a fuss, it didn't seem right somehow, and it still doesn't. Of course, I blame Bratz for this - not long ago there was a series of them that actually looked like they were supposed to be standing in an S&M dungeon - leather caps and matching catsuits. What kind of message is that to be sending out to little girls, that they have to dress like a hooker to be popular and have a nice life when all they really need is a bit of common sense and parents decent enough to not let them grow up too fast? Just as well I don't want kids.

- Binge drinking - some people I know think I'm "boring" and that I "can't hold my alcohol" because my idea of fun is not drinking till I throw up any more. Guess what? Doing shots till you don't know your own name is boring, and while I used to enjoy getting drunk as much as everyone else, these days I genuinely don't like the taste of alcohol so I have to drown it in mixers or drink Baileys or anything sweet like WKD or else the spirit - especially vodka, I can no longer stand the taste of it - makes me gag. So no housemates, I will not play Ring of Fire with you because you play to lose.

I don't think anything else annoys me.
( Maladicta, Fri 2 May 2008, 20:55, 11 replies)

I agree about the kids clothes
but you are verging dangerously close to Daily Mail territory with the peado comment. Kids aren't a greater risk from lurking sex attackers than they used to be, kids have always been at greater risk of abuse from members of their own family.

Sorry, not wanting to start argument, tend to get a bit carried away on that issue.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 2 May 2008, 21:02, closed)

You make a fair point and so I took that out.
I just think it's sad that kids aren't allowed to just be kids any more, well, it's mainly girls after all - they jump straight from being toddlers to chasing boys. I remember my then nine-year-old brat of a cousin telling me she was "in love" with H from Steps and having to leave the room both from sadness and wanting to laugh at her.
( Maladicta, Fri 2 May 2008, 21:06, closed)

It is sad
I agree. Mind you, I think little girls have always had crushes on boys, remember when Take That split up the first time and they had to set up a helpline to deal with distraught fans?
(Bazongaloid, Fri 2 May 2008, 21:18, closed)

yeah
but H from Steps?
(magic the cat will someone please think of the kittens, Fri 2 May 2008, 21:22, closed)

I used to be very into
Claire from steps. It's a good job you didn't point out he is a raging woofter. She might have had a breakdown!
(Bazongaloid, Fri 2 May 2008, 21:24, closed)

@ al
In fairness, I do remember that and I'm ashamed to say I sort of found it funny. The same as when Stephen Whatever from Boyzone came out - the hysteria was insane. Darling little Jessie might have had another tantrum in addition to her usual five a day.

When I was that age I had quite different crushes and everyone thought I was weird.
( Maladicta, Fri 2 May 2008, 21:34, closed)

which one was Claire?
Then again it never mattered to me, my dream included all the girls from Steps, an industrial sized tub of swarfega and a large conservatory full of beanbags
(magic the cat will someone please think of the kittens, Fri 2 May 2008, 21:35, closed)

@ magic the cat
This was back in the day when they were still wearing catsuits and dancing around manically together, and no one knew he was a gayer yet. Lee was the better looking one, if you had to pick, and it was that or a pit of sharks.
( Maladicta, Fri 2 May 2008, 21:35, closed)

was there a time
when nobody knew?

I think i just assumed he was before it was proved.
(magic the cat will someone please think of the kittens, Fri 2 May 2008, 21:37, closed)

I didn't have very good gaydar at that age
when Steps were cool for all of five minutes. I'm not sure I was 100% sure of what being gay involved.
( Maladicta, Fri 2 May 2008, 21:42, closed)

"make me stabby"
Inspired. *click*
(theweapon never ever bloody anything ever, Mon 5 May 2008, 7:21, closed)