Little things that irk you.. (no swearing please)

[abigsmurf]

Argh! Those xmas Co-op ads are back. no doubt they'll be played every single ad break.

WEEEEEE MEEEEeeeEEET IN THE WIIIiiiiIIINTER

[NW2013]

Those adverts do remind me of Gabriella Cilmi who I'd happily bone into the middle of next week though.

[abigsmurf]

But if you boned her into the next week, who would you bone for the rest of the week?

You must think these things through!

[NW2013]

Looking like some sort of registered sex offender in passport photos. And being charged £5 for the privilege. £5! They should be printed on solid gold for that.

The existence of a cosmetics range called "Barry M" and that any woman would even contemplate buying such produce.

And at the risk of sounding a total miser, work collections/sponsorships. I don't know why anyone does it since everyone is a net loser for something they don't want anyway in all probability. I imagine most people, like me, get a birthday card and leaving present but it's always, "Ooh, X is pregnant, fiver please", "Poor X fell down the stairs, fiver please", "It's Wednesday and X is feeling a bit down, fiver please", "I'm 'zany' and doing a charity thing, fiver please". Christ alone knows what this costs me each year.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

And at the risk of sounding a total miser, work collections/sponsorships. I don't know why anyone does it since everyone is a net loser for something they don't want anyway in all probability. I imagine most people, like me, get a birthday card and leaving present but it's always, "Ooh, X is pregnant, fiver please", "Poor X fell down the stairs, fiver please", "It's Wednesday and X is feeling a bit down, fiver please", "I'm 'zany' and doing a charity thing, fiver please". Christ alone knows what this costs me each year.

Got 1 of these in work at the mo. They want us to help pay for a memorial for their little child who died due to their negligence. And to make ppl feel even more pressured into giving they've left a sheet so that you can announce to everyone that you've paid & how much.

I feel no pressure to give anything, nor do I feel like a **** for not giving.

[Ady]

Guitar bores who feel the need to point out that Guitar Hero/Rock Band isn't like the real thing, presumably for the benefit of the 3 people who thought otherwise.

Now, I care nothing for GH or RB but I am pig sick of listening to guitarist friends bleat on about how people should just play a real guitar or talk about how pushing 5 plastic buttons requires less skill etc etc...

Firstly, they're stating the obvious; of course GH/RB isn't like playing a real guitar (duh!).

Secondly, maybe the people who play these don't want to learn to play the real thing, maybe they're quite happy with the game.

Thirdly, comparing them is redundant: GH and) are VIDEO GAMES. The people who like them are GAMERS (casual or otherwise), not budding Hendrixes. Do car enthusiasts complain about people playing driving games? Do footballers complain that PES or FIFA "Isn't like the real thing" and requires less skill to play?

Proof that guitarist types are full of themselves.

[sharky_ob]

Proof that guitarist types are full of themselves.

People who make sweeping statements like this

I play bass and guitar to a reasonable standard and I really like Rock Band. I must admit, I'm much happier on the drums in game, as I do find the 5 button controller a bit weird and alien. However, as a full of myself guitarist type I would like to give music games the thumbs up.

[kernow]

Everyone I've met who plays a guitar, is usually a massive douche. Hey check me out we're going for a picnic, I'd better bring my £95 accoustic and strum along in the sun. ARGH

Oh hey I learnt how to play the first part of stairway to heaven today, .. great.. a true life skill. Listening to someone practice an instrument unless they are actually damn good, is the most painful thing in the world also.

Hi check me
I can play guitar.

[sharky_ob]

Hey check me out we're going for a picnic, I'd better bring my ?95 accoustic and strum along in the sun. ARGH

Yeah, I'll give you that. People who take their instruments along to parties (or picnics) are generally idiots and usually rubbish too. There was a supply teacher at the school where I work a few years ago who used to bring in his guitar and sit playing it at lunch time. Tool.

Having said that, I have played at parties before if I've been asked by the person who's throwing the party.

[Darwock]

My work is really irking me at the moment. I spent about five minutes tonight battering myself on the head with my squeaky toy hammer in an attempt to relieve the stress.

I have to team-teach with this one teacher who tells me she will prepare the lesson plan for the next week, then on the way to do the first lesson she reveals that she hasn't done it and asks me to do everything. Sure, excuse me while I just go to the toilet and pull a lesson plan and materials out of my arse. She has done this several times now, but in a short space of time so I didn't have time to adapt to her unreliability and it just made me look bad.

She asked me if the other schools I go to also have the HRT doing the planning or if I do it, implying that it is somehow my fault we are completely unprepared all the time. I do everything at the other schools which I don't have a problem with, because I know exactly what I have to do. Nobody tells me things will be taken care of which subsequently aren't.

Then today I was at one school, and a teacher from the other school came for a meeting and started complaining loudly in the staff room that I don't help with the daily cleaning after lunch at her school and just sit on my arse. This is true, but I'm not employed by the school and my contract says I get a 60 minute break at lunch time so that's what I do. I thought I was there to teach sodding english. Fecking Japanese unspoken obligations. I suppose I should be happy she actually said it openly so I at least know what people are thinking.

I'm so going to get a poor report from that school though, it's gonna hurt my contract renewal chances.

[Darwock]

Oh hey I learnt how to play the first part of stairway to heaven today, .. great.. a true life skill. Listening to someone practice an instrument unless they are actually damn good, is the most painful thing in the world also.

Hi check me
I can play guitar.

Pro-tip*: you can play the opening riff of 'Nothing Else Matters' without having to do anything other than pluck the strings.

If someone thinks he's a fanny magnet with a guitar just snatch it out of his hands and make everyone think you can play Metallica.

*the pro-tip thing was sarcasm, I don't know one end of a guitar from the other, in case anyone thinks I am one of those nob-ends.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Everyone I've met who plays a guitar, is usually a massive douche. Hey check me out we're going for a picnic, I'd better bring my ?95 accoustic and strum along in the sun. ARGH

Oh hey I learnt how to play the first part of stairway to heaven today, .. great.. a true life skill. Listening to someone practice an instrument unless they are actually damn good, is the most painful thing in the world also.

Hi check me
I can play guitar.

Ha ha bloody brilliant observation Kernow . I've seen, or been in the presence of these kind of tossers a few times as they're showing off.
Reminds me of those ppl that go to parks/picnics in the summer with their diablo's/juggling pins.
"So you've come to a highly populated place in your wacky clothes & brightly coloured equipment to practice. Of course you're not showing off in front of everyone"

[noobish hat]

Come off it Kernow. Stairway to Heaven? Much more likely to be Smoke on the Water.

[Decider-VT]

Guitar bores are at their worst when surrounded by others of their ilk. Apparently years of seclusion spent learning an instrument leads to a borderline autistic conversational ability if you're not willing to talk about alternate tunings, effects pedals or their band.

[SaijoBob]

I have to team-teach with this one teacher who tells me she will prepare the lesson plan for the next week, then on the way to do the first lesson she reveals that she hasn't done it and asks me to do everything. Sure, excuse me while I just go to the toilet and pull a lesson plan and materials out of my arse.

As an ex-JET I feel your pain! There was a teacher I worked with who used the day I visited her school as an opportunity to fall asleep at the back of the class. After a couple of those experiences I learned to permanently have a variety of games to play ready to blow through an hour with.

On the guitar subject - JETs who could play the guitar set my teeth on edge, more out of jealousy than anything. No lesson plan? No problem! Get that mo'fo out and play some Beatles and you've given a great cultural lesson!