Rant part 2.
Manners.
Saying "Please" and "Thank you" takes sod all in the way of effort and yet makes the world a better place. If you really cannot be bothered to do either then frankly I do not wish to know you.
In a similiar vein, if I've just held the door open for you then some little sign of appreciation would be a nice. A nod, even.
Swearing.
I swear. I swear too much and not always wisely. This is something I, rightly, feel ashamed of. But since I have a vocabulary that extends to many different adjectives what I don't do is swear every other word. It's ugly, inconsiderate and frankly, makes you sound like a total fuckwit. (By the way, swearing at your children is less than stellar parenting.)
Magazine inserts.
Specifically those bloody scratchcard things. Nobody has ever won anything worth having on them. Nobody ever will. Yet they continue to clutter up the pages of magazine and gather on the floor of Smiths like the leaves of Autumn. Why? Why do people fall for it?

And lastly:
T-shirts.
If you are not a fan of the band whose logo is across your chest then what the hell are you wearing it for? If you are wearing it to be ironic or because FHM told you that it's a cool look then you insult everybody that's ever spent their money buying the albums and the gig tickets. And personally I feel I should have the legal right to spit on you.
(Big D, Mon 5 May 2008, 21:29, 3 replies)

Agh, those magazine scratchcards...
Hate them all. You can tell they're a scam from the list of prizes on offer;

1 x £250,000 cash
2 x BMX 1 Series
5 x 60" Plasma TV
10 x iPod Touch
PLUS: DVD players, watches and crappy 'holidays' which will inevitably involve you stumping up eye-watering amounts of money for extortionate 'travel costs' in exchange for a week's accommodation in a grim Spanish timeshare villa in the middle of nowhere.
(costas, Mon 5 May 2008, 22:13, closed)

click!
for:
"gather on the floor of Smiths like the leaves of Autumn"
(twiceydrinker hmmm is it pint time?, Tue 6 May 2008, 10:18, closed)

T-Shirts
A few years ago I was talking to a girl who didn't know that the 'MC5' written across her chest was a band and not a clothing label.

Apparently she only bought the shirt because someone from Friends used to wear it.
(Dai Napoleon, Tue 6 May 2008, 12:59, closed)