Name THREE bugbears you have!!!
Posted by: Consciousmess on 28 November 2011
Here is a place for you to offload. As the title requests, name three bugbears you have. In other words, if these three things were addressed/removed, you'd have an albeit relatively happier life.....
But no more than THREE!!
Jon
Hi fi Jargon ( mids, highs lows, PACE, ooohmf, welly, bass, treble ect ect)
The Cirkus upgrade
Sarcastic forum mods..
DJ's who talk all over a record or cut it short.
Broadcasters on radio/tv who eat/chew food whilst trying to talk.
Radio Three concert commentators, who insist on telling me how fine the performance was that has just been given rather than letting the applause ride for a few seconds! If it was any good the applause should be comment enough, and sometimes it actually was not great and the audience is justy excited, but surely these people should have the sense to let the home listener form their own view if they want to, and confirm it [if they must] by reading the printed review in the Times or Telegraph next day!
At one time these commentators did no such thing, mostly simply rounding off the relay with the thought that he or she hoped that the listeners at home enjoyed the concert as much as the audience in the hall, before handing back to, "my coleague in Broadasting House."
ATB from George
Oh ... and car and van drivers that think something is to be gained by amber gambling at the lights. They will merely stop at the next set of lights and have gained not five seconds while potentially endangering other drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians. How important do these sad people think they are? I expect that they are so thick that they have not reckoned on the consequences of their action. So possibly rather stupid, if not willfully downright irresponsible. But I am sure that an intelligence test should be part of the driving test, so the idiots and morons could be permanently removed from behind the wheel of motorised vehicles.
Also people who insist on overtaking cyclists as they approach the traffic lights at red and then because they are not past the cyclist before coming to a halt, simply pull back into the left forcing the cylist to effect an emergency stop or crash into the curb. The great advantage the cyclist then has at this point is that he or she can have some verbal fun with the trapped driver as there is no escape till the lights go green again!
While trapped thus, I enjoy asking them if they know the Highway Code? And when assured that they do then ask them if they are perhaps blessed with one less brain cell than an Amoeba, given their implementation of it? This usually foxes them! I consider that such motorists may rightly be styled, "The scum of the Earth," though I do not make this view explicit unless provoked by an indignant response from the driver to the Amoeba point.
ATB from George
Originally Posted by George Fredrik:Oh ... and car and van drivers that think something is to be gained by amber gambling at the lights. They will merely stop at the next set of lights and have gained not five seconds while potentially endangering other drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians.
How important do these sad people think they are?
The evidence is growing...
Not one, not a single French person of any age, colour, gender, creed or any other make-up whatsoever, NO French person is capable of propelling a motor vehicle with even the slightest shred of an iota of a hint of: accuracy, style, patience, politeness or ability.
Alain Prost ? Sebastien Loeb ?
Three bugbears and no Goldilocks?
Pah!
Makes me sick! 
The differential use of the words "uprising", "unrest" and "rioting" by the media depending on the propaganda requirements.
Reporters who say things like "I an quite literally standing in the street".
The expression "almost exactly"
What about Constant Change?
2 Crappy chavvy 'reality tv' shows like 'the only way is essex' (and the people that watch them)
3 The fact that the aforementioned tv shows are so popular as to be presumptiously abbreviated in the press to 'cute' names like 'TOWIE' which I fail to understand when reading the paper, causing me to look them up and find they're merely 2 above, wasting valuable minutes of my life and thus becoming so incensed as to waste further valuable minutes of my life moaning to you lot about it
Top tip:- don't buy or read newspapers.
I just look at BBC or equivalent on the web for a round up of the news I need.
No, I've never heard a broadcaster chew food nor have I witnessed a tv newsman saying " I am quite literally standing in the street " However, I am annoyed by clever intro's in newspaper feature articles and forum posters who begin their posts by saying things like " I am leaving the forum" or people with flashy moving images in their avatar or those who've belonged to a message board for three months and have more than 5000 posts or the neighbor dog who barks his head off every time a twig breaks or a cloud blots out the sun/moon or driving on the road and you suddenly realize you are surrounded by monster trucks and SUV's or....
....or you wait around for someone to breathe, or put in some punctuation? 
.... people with flashy moving images in their avatar.
---- taken outside and shot in front of their parents.
"I did for one moment intend these remarks to be taken seriously, as I believe is clear if they’re seen in context.
If the forum and I have caused any offence, I’m happy to repeat it alongside them.”
The 'Torquemadic Pause' between forming a line of supplicant cooks and their being culled.
The Devil is in what it says on the tin (Was this review helpful to you?).
1) People eating popcorn in the cinema....
2) People opening cans of fizzy pop....
3) People talking with their mouths' full.....
Jon
1. People saying 'between (x) to (y)'. Ubiquitous on the BBC these days. Don't say 'from....and....' do they?
2. Clarkson
3. Bankers
1) People eating popcorn in the cinema....
2) People opening cans of fizzy pop....
3) People talking with their mouths' full.....
Jon
Those three things are some of my few remaining pleasures!
(p.s. you don't need the apostrophe)
1. Companies/web sites that ask you to fill out a "satisfaction survey" ... before the transaction it applies to has been completed.
2. Especially after this week ...people who take anything that Jeremy Clarkson says seriously.
3. Opening ceremonies for sporting events. Just get on with the ... football, rugby, athletics, whatever without spending millions on a bunch of school kids running around the pitch to make up pretty patterns.