Rantrantrant
Things that really peeve me off?

1. On the Tube, you see those Tourists who stand on the wrong side of the esculator, stand at the top of the line AND JUST FREAKING STAND THERE.

Let's not worry about the untold thousands of people standing behind you with places to go, pehaps even late. Just. Fucking. Stand there. Don't even CONSIDER moving out off the way, we can all wait. All several thousand off us.

2. Urban music, is it just me or does it seem like we're listening to some people who've just never had too grow up. You've got some guy who can't "sing" (more like talk) in anything more than a monotone, some jumped up tarts with breast implants telling me all about how they're gonna shag this, shank that, murder this blah blah blah

Go grow up!

3. Footballers, you get paid more than most people will in their entire life in a few weeks, and yet you still. moan. like. fucking. pansys.

Stop acting like big girls and just play the damn game, if I could get paid several million a year for acting like twelve year olds then god damnit, I would so be up for that.

4. Compensation culture, oh my GODS. I am made so annoyed by this pathetic crap nowadays.

You fall over, it's not you fault, it's someone elses for making you fall over.

You carry a cup off coffee between your legs and it spills, OH NOES, it's HOT! It's not you fault that you miscarried the coffee, it's the companys fault that the coffee was hot >_<

I am completely in agreement with the phrase

"I don't believe in culling humanity, but I do believe we should remove all safety labels and let nature take it's due"
(Helo, Tue 6 May 2008, 11:20, 5 replies)

Helo new person
Nice post!

I get the feeling you've been storing that up for a while.

And it was worth it :-)
( Thinker, Tue 6 May 2008, 11:22, closed)

inmates running the assylum
Yup we are now anti darwin in allowing survival of the stupidist.
(welgar, Tue 6 May 2008, 11:25, closed)

You're right about the
anti-Darwinism.

Survival of the stupidest, while the intelligent ones are the most likely to not reproduce.

We're utterly fucked.
( Thinker, Tue 6 May 2008, 11:26, closed)

Re: 1
I agree with you there, but I won't mention it to people anymore. I was on the escalator, getting off the tube at Euston so that I could get on a train IIRC, and there's this father and son duo infront of me, I lean forwards and say "generally you keep to the right", then the dad took the son (about 20 or so by the way) by the hand and said "come on *name I didn't take time to remember*, move over to the side" it was when the kid turned round to see what was going on that I realised he had downs :S Fuck me that was uncomfortable. I'm just glad he moved out of the way so I could run up the rest of the escalator as fast as possible.
(Belgaer is, Tue 6 May 2008, 11:34, closed)

About 4
The hot coffee in the lap thing is often a half-told story. The reason why the woman was given so much compensation was because a number of people had been scalded by McDonalds coffee previously and McDonalds had been warned about it on each occasion.

The problem was, McDonalds had worked out that the amount of money they saved of coffee by super-heating the water was more than they would have to pay out in your average compensation claim. The huge fine the received (which is why it hit the news) was the courts way of saying "you can't just ignore safety rules and pay off the victims, here's a fine that actually hurts".

Still, wouldn't have happened if she had of been careful.
(ScousersPet, Tue 6 May 2008, 11:56, closed)