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

[monel]

No formatting, I don't know why, sorry. I tried.

[JSR]

In the ongoing theme: past/passed. And while I've already mentioned "could care less", I continue to see it, and it's making my head hurt.

[koopatroopa90]

Lol, some comedian discussed that phrase, might have been Michael McIntyre. I've no idea how the Americans consider it their version of our "couldn't care less" - without the "n't" you are implying you do care about whatever it is!

[toythatkills]

I don't know if it's true, but I heard that it originally began as something like "I could care less... but I don't."

Which is still a rubbish phrase, but at least it makes sense. Then it was just shortened over time with no real thought to the consequences.

[sj33]

No formatting, I don't know why, sorry. I tried.

Using NoScript?

[Dogg Thang]

As if I didn't dislike Chris Brown enough, he had to throw Bieber into the mix.

[prinnysquad]

Skanked
I've been away for two days. On my return, I check out what shiz has gone down on here. There's 87 new pages on the Paul Winehouse thread. I plough through, laughing at some points, nodding at others, and finding some tripe about banning alcohol. I type out a brief defence of my right to responsibly enjoy a drink in a controlled social environment, consuming a beverage that has proven health benefits when taken in moderation. I press the 'post' button to find that some wagon (this has got 2k written all over it) has locked it in the meantime. BAH.

The South
Just ... too busy. Too hectic. Not my thing at all. Visited a few places over the brace of days, some were lovely, some were poor, some that I thought would be nice provoked no great reaction, and some of the characters I encountered made me want to smash them up.

Audi tossers
And bmw drivers. Oh, and Passat drivers. The trip down the M1 is long. Sometimes, lorries decide to straddle multiple lanes. It becomes necessary to overtake. I'd say that for every 5 times we had to overtake, for 3 of them there'd be one of the above cars riding our ass within seconds, trying to barge us out of the way. We were overtaking at between 80 and 90 mph. Be patient, you inbred dickless chowbells.

[Neil]

Twas me Prinster sorry fella, was turning into a borefest.

As an Audi driver myself I'd never do that unless I was talking loudly on my mobile phone about benefit scroungers and golf.

[prinnysquad]

Damn you Audi guys! We got our revenge as we overtook numerous Audi drivers as we drove up past Wetherby and Scotch Corner. North East Audi drivers must be wussy.

[Neil]

True Audi drivers only ever get undertaken.Motorway=Right hand lane no moving.

[prinnysquad]

That wouldn't work in the North East. We don't even have proper motorways - the A1 is two lanes, mostly. We're too laid back for 3-lane-plus hi-jinks.

[randombs]

David Mitchell did a 'could care less' rant:



Turns out John Cleese did one, too:

[randombs]

I'm a BMW driver but I'm one of the Mr. Nice Guy ones you don't see very often. I usually have to be careful behind other cars on the motorway because they think I'm trying to hurry them up when I'm really not, so I try and leave extra room in the hope that they get the message and don't feel compelled to change lanes.

New irk: Bacon.

Seriously, that stuff is disgusting. I ordered a very nice burger at one of the hotels today and I didn't notice it'd have bacon in it. Decided to go ahead with it and... wow. Just, wow. I'm gonna have nightmares about it tonight. Probably involving those silly adverts with the guy with the really long nose getting dragged out of bed to the nearest barbecue. Even more so, now I've just typed it.

Night all

[koopatroopa90]

Twas me Prinster sorry fella, was turning into a borefest.

At least you locked it with style, made me proper lol.

Edit: RE "Could care less videos" - liked the David Mitchell one, helped in no small part by the fact he was pretty much in character as Mark in Peep Show, John Cleese one got the point across in half the time but wasn't so funny unfortunately.

[toythatkills]

New irk: Bacon.

Totally with you on that, reckon it'll be controversial though! I can't eat the stuff unless it's been grilled to oblivion and has a nice crispness to it.