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

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

My irk today, which Endo may understand being a fellow skater, is that when you've stuck with a board companies decks for yrs because you've finally found a shape/pressing thats perfect for you, & then they go & change their woodshop to something totally different that feels like its been made in China.
Now I have to go thru the whole process of finding another company who's decks are half decent!

Thank you very much Stereo!

I emailed Stereo with my suspicions & I was right. BLOODY CHINA!!

Might aswell chuck it in the bin!!

[JazzFunk]

Roy 'Chubby' Brown. Live. Would've given my left ball to see this when I was 16 though I like Stewart Lee now. Belated Xmas prez from my mum, at least I'll see Chubs in the flesh before he pegs it and he should *at least* be entertaining, and hopefully it'll give my mum a laugh or three.

7.05pm have a cigarette outside the theatre, notice a markedly huge selection of fat, shaven-headed, no-necked men congregating outside. Enter 7.15pm, buy a double whisky and diet coke from the bar (?7!!!) and then get rushed to swig it down by 7.30pm.

7.30pm, curtain rises and there's five nonces in stupid, flappy suits n' hats doing this grinding 60s soul medley ****e that is f*cking interminable, after about fifteen-twenty minutes of this, a lot of the audience sod off to the bar, plus I can hear the odd shout of "Where the f*ck's Chubby?". They're done by 8.05pm (though it seems it should be 9.05pm), shamelessly promote a CD they have on sale in the theatre foyer, then there's a ten-minute interval. Assume that Chubs will have an interval of his own, so don't hit the bar.

8.15pm, Chubs appears on stage, the crowd is elated, "You fat bastard!! You fat bastard!!" etcetera. Anything he says is met with loud guffaws and claps, he simply cannot lose. Have a lot of trouble in understanding a lot of the stuff he says, maybe it's partially the sound system or the fact that Chubs was muttering ineligibly a lot of time, like he was on pain medication, f*ck knows?

Does about twenty-five/thirty minutes of the usual banter, much I'd heard before, before giving us medleys of his old songs (always the worst bit, comedy songs, "Who The F*ck Is Alice", "Sick As F*ck", "Dolly Parton's Tits"). At this point it was pretty clear there was gonna be no intermission, I would not be getting a booze-break but luckily my mum had brought along a very heavily-dose 500ml water bottle full of gin & tonic, which I swigged for a bit). At about 8.50, Chubs nips offstage for a 'costume change', then returns with that terrible fake-cock striptease schtick I've seen him do several times before, desperate stuff, even wiggles his repellent be-thonged arse at us all, put me right off stuff, gah. And that cock he uses, I mean, it's obvious the cock is just some women's tights with fabric inside, at least invest some dosh and buy a PROPER cock, something realistic, one that will at least have some shock factor for the audience. Then, that's it, 9.11pm, shamelessly promotes a CD he has on sale in the theatre foyer and he's off, doesn't even do an encore. Less than a bleedin' hour, half of it being bad music/"comedy striptease" ****.

Worse off, found out those tickets cost ?24 a pop, what a ruddy swizz(!!!!!!)

[kryss]

Respect to your mum for sneaking booze in.

[QualityChimp]

Royston Vasey's son painted my house.

I think that might be my next album title...

[endo]

I emailed Stereo with my suspicions & I was right. BLOODY CHINA!!

Might aswell chuck it in the bin!!

I hear you. I'm currently riding a Consolidated. First one ever in fact, but my bro used to swear by them in the 90s. I've ridden Toy Machines for years - Tum Yeto stuff is still US/Canada-made isn't it?

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

I hear you. I'm currently riding a Consolidated. First one ever in fact, but my bro used to swear by them in the 90s. I've ridden Toy Machines for years - Tum Yeto stuff is still US/Canada-made isn't it?

Yeah Pro model TY is Watson wood factory in USA, but I think their team/pricepoint decks are made 'elsewhere'.
Either gonna go back to Alien (USA made, nice shapes & pop) or try a DLX, Organika or Zero. Skated a Zero about 12 yrs ago, but since then they've changed wood factories & I've heard good things about them.
Used to ride nothing but Elements about 10 yrs ago (b4 they got huge when Bam joined) because they were THE best decks I'd ever ridden back then. I've never found a deck come close to them (except old Stereo decks, which were pretty close). 2 yrs later Element changed their woodshop & their decks turned to ****e

[abigsmurf]

Parents on a school run who stand and chat next to a zebra crossing with no intention of crossing.

Groups of women who stand in front of their front gate and gossip for half an hour. It took me a while to understand why that annoys me; it's because they lack the courtesy/manners to actually invite them inside their house to chat over a tea or coffee!

[Jebus]

Parents on a school run who think it's cool to sit in the playground, waiting to pick up their 6 year olds, whilst casually swearing.

Scum.

[abigsmurf]

Speaking of scum

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jul/04/milly-dowler-voicemail-hacked-news-of-world

More of these lowlives should be in jail.

[NW2013]

Parents on a school run who stand and chat next to a zebra crossing with no intention of crossing.

Groups of women who stand in front of their front gate and gossip for half an hour. It took me a while to understand why that annoys me; it's because they lack the courtesy/manners to actually invite them inside their house to chat over a tea or coffee!

Might just have jealous husbands/partners?

[averybluemonkey]

And also why go inside when you've got glorious weather like this.

[speedlolita]

Over 9000 blue screens..

I THINK it might be the latest Nvidia driver ****ing with my 8800GTX though..

Yanked off all the heatsinks on the RAM/VRMs and installed the stock cooler because I thought I might have screwed them up.. Seems to just crash randomly.. We'll see.

[importaku]

Women & busses is a particular irk of mine. If your stood at the stop waiting, common sense dictates that you have your change ready for when it arrives, unless you happen to be female & then the rules change. Every morning as im on the bus going to work you can guarantee at least one will get on (but it's usually at least three on every journey) & not have her money ready instead it's the 5 min wait as she fishes through her bag for the purse. I have actually kept watch to see if this happened to men too & guess what, it doesn't not on this bus route anyway. If anyone wants to observe this event feel to catch the 51 bus to leeds city centre at 07:30 & watch the spectacle for themselves, make sure that you don't want to get to work on time though.

Don't even get me started on people who think their handbag/manbag is important enough to have it's very own seat. Unless you can produce a ticket that you bought especially for your bag you better either move it or it's getting flung down the aisle.

[Brad]

Accidentally clicking Rebuild in Visual Studio when you mean just plain old Build
Gonna be ten more minutes til I can go home now.

[nakamura]

A barred junkie coming into my shop to ask for change and not leaving when I say no. Tells me he just came out of the nick for hitting a 'jumped up skinny prick like me'. I replied 'And you still expect me to give you change?'.