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

[koopatroopa90]

har har. Although I guess wasps do have the light/dark hair colour thing going down...

[cutmymilk]

Women who seem to think that the Cruella DeVille hairstyle is an attractive look. You know what I mean: part dark colour, then with this added blotch of peroxide blonde thrown on somewhere.

Also a few skater related irks that endo might understand:

Skaters who wear basketball shirts. Looks dumb. All started by the overrated Chad Muska.

Skate Co's that started moving their production to China, which it turns out arent really that much cheaper to produce in the end but have destroyed the quality that was once there.

After all the Hype, Swansea's Exist Skatepark finally opens but looks f*ckin tiny in the vids I've seen on youtube . Wish Len's old skatepark was still there

Outsider companies who have come into the skateboard industry because its popular & easy to make a quick buck off of, but will bugger off as soon as it goes quiet again. I'm looking at Nike in particular, because it seems as tho nearly every skater I see seems to have jumped like a sheep onto the Nike bandwagon, while REAL skate shoe companies run & started by REAL skateboarders that are trying to produce new & better skate specific shoes seem to be losing out just cos skaters want to be seen wearing a swoosh on their foot.

Ive owned skate shoes from a few different companies and 6.0s are by far the best Ive worn! VANS went crap for a while and their current range are actually copies of 6.0s to a large extent!

Granted, I don't skate :P

[randombs]

Shouldn't it be straight female wasps, though? Deduct a point...

I was originally gonna put gay male wasps and then decided to do a gender/sexuality-swap while typing in case someone got annoyed.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Ive owned skate shoes from a few different companies and 6.0s are by far the best Ive worn! VANS went crap for a while and their current range are actually copies of 6.0s to a large extent!

Granted, I don't skate :P

Well what a surprise! And just because they are the best you've worn doesnt mean they skate good btw

[cutmymilk]

Comfy, though! For milling around they are great. Need to get a new pair at some point...

I used to skate a bit, that was 10 years ago. Would probably prefer something chunkier on a board, still.

[SuperDanX]

Woman with tattooed feet/legs, actually tattooed women in general. Moronic.

Also men in flip flops must die.

[monel]

Woman with tattooed feet/legs, actually tattooed women in general. Moronic.

Also men in flip flops must die.

I met a girl who who had 'Love and emotion' tattooed on her foot. I just don't get that one, and the placement?

I've got nothing against tattoos in particular, just think about what you are about to permanently mark your body with.

[Nocturne]

I should of taken a picture of the tattoo/pen work I saw the other day. A woman had the outline of a tribal sleeve (the dime a dozen ones that look like waves, done by someone with a shaky hand), which she had coloured in with a pen that was transferring onto her clothes and running in the heat.

To add my irk - Sky Player/Sky GO. My internet apparently cut out for 000.03 of a second, meaning I had to let a film buffer for an hour to get back to the 50 minute mark I was at in the film.

[Fader209]

Woman with tattooed feet/legs, actually tattooed women in general. Moronic.

Also men in flip flops must die.

And tattooed men are ok then?

[endo]

Also a few skater related irks that endo might understand:

Skaters who wear basketball shirts. Looks dumb. All started by the overrated Chad Muska.

Yup, usually with a cap on at some stupid angle. Please do go away. This was basically what I was trying to get at in one of my earlier irks- skaters (well people who call themselves such) being more concerned with what they're wearing than what they're doing. Ur doin it rong.

With you on big business getting a slice of the pie too. Took Nike several stabs before they went over with the kids. Doubt they'll stick around if the arse falls out of it again. It also irks me when people who've always railed against exactly this kind of corporate invasion show up on ESPN or whatever when the lure of the money finally proved irresistible. More so when they claim to be doing it purely for cynical reasons like they need a new TV or whatever. Like they're some kind of subversive agitator. Balls.

[endo]

The French attitude to driving is incredible. I'm constantly astonished at how vast numbers of drivers, young and old, male and female, manage to get their ****boxes to go so fast, although in the last 2 weeks I figured that it's mainly by a combination of apexing blind corners and prayer.

Try Italy for bad driving. I thought I'd seen bad when I was living in France. Italy's the only place I've been where apparently it's OK and quite normal to just drive into parked vehicles to get into/out of a tight space/make more room so you can park etc. Liberal horn use whenever you feel like it is encouraged too. I've had several close shaves over there, even in my fiancee's little hometown. Rush hour in Turin or Milan is a hoot too.

[toythatkills]

To add to the thread, a giant wasp has settled right in the corner of one of my windows so I can't get a glass over it

It was still there, five hours later. I had to take action, so got rid of it in a scheme involving Christmas wrapping paper and my own sheer manliness.

Well, the Christmas paper at least.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Yup, usually with a cap on at some stupid angle. Please do go away. This was basically what I was trying to get at in one of my earlier irks- skaters (well people who call themselves such) being more concerned with what they're wearing than what they're doing. Ur doin it rong.

You can add skaters who fly around while listening to their ipod to my irk too. Its bloody unsocial imo.

With you on big business getting a slice of the pie too. Took Nike several stabs before they went over with the kids. Doubt they'll stick around if the arse falls out of it again. It also irks me when people who've always railed against exactly this kind of corporate invasion show up on ESPN or whatever when the lure of the money finally proved irresistible. More so when they claim to be doing it purely for cynical reasons like they need a new TV or whatever. Like they're some kind of subversive agitator. Balls.

And 1 prime example in my eyes is Koston. Was never a big fan in the early H-Street/start of Girl days, but grew to respect his skills & attitude.
Then he flamed Paul Rodriguez for leaving Girl & eS shoes to join the corporate Nike (Koston also skated for eS at the time). Then stated that he could never leave even for huge money to join a corporate name, then leaves Lakai to join Nike himself! WHAT A TOTAL HYPOCRITE! I guess money talks despite him earning huge amounts anyway.

The original interview posted on solecollector back in 2005 seems to have gone, but heres some of it here:

http://www.sublimited.net/skateboard-industry-news/eric-koston-interview-on-sole.html

Lost all respect for the guy after he joined Nike.

[Dogg Thang]

What is with web/software companies making their products worse? Chat thing in Facebook, no idea what's going on now. Not a big deal as I'm not much of a Facebooker but still weird. Let's break it!

Even Google is beginning to get messy. Do I really need an Images tab on the top AND on the left? Or icons on the mobile version? No, Google, I do not.

[abigsmurf]

Bad management.

Rather than make the current features better, they've got to add big shiny new features.

Not that I've first hand experiences.

*grumbles about going live with a web app that maxes out the server with just 10 users because we're always adding stuff rather than testing and working on stability*