What bugs you?

[milhouse]

sithlord said:

First team Millhouse, or I could sit here all day with Manchester United!

They have all played first team football this year (and i don't just mean in the Carling Cup)

[fazza]

Like I have said, people that go on all day about football....

[milhouse]

i have another one........ people who moan about people who talk about football all day ;) ;D

I agree with you there ;)

[fazza]

...oh, and people that agree with everything that has just been said!!!

I don't agree. Some people who agree with me are great. I've just never met them.

28. The sun low in the sky glaring through the windscreen at me as I'm driving home from work. No matter how I position my sunvizor the rays still get to me and I can't see b****r all else.
29. The September sun tracing a perfect arc to match my factory's roof windows and glaring at me all day long while I'm at my VDU.

For the sake of fairness I should not be blaming the sun, but rather the planet earth for rotating on its axis whilst travelling on its journey round the sun, which though it does move within the milky way galaxy, doesn't really move at all in relation to the earth.

Atten: M.Loake - tart points please for mentioning two types of chocolate in the one sentence. ;D

30. Plagiarism, especially the release of records which sample sections from other famous records. An example :
Out Of Touch by United Nations - dire, repetitive, downright nasty. Shamelessly sampled from the Darryl Hall and John Oates classic. >:(
The catchy hook then sells in its thousands and the public lose contact with the original good and more meaningful proper version.
I used to like Madonna, but Stuck On You is also a sample (of Gimme Gimme Gimme by Abba). Tired, washed-out and lazy. >:(
Victor Meldrew award for finding thirty things to bug me ? ;)

[fazza]

....and I'll bet you haven't been trying very hard

[mrmike007]

Daddy flipping long legs, little sods keep coming into my house uninvited, last night evicted 17 of them from my kitchen, i wouldn't mind if it was just one or two of them but if you get one you get them all. What really peeves me though is they never seem to take the hint, i swear i chucked out the same one on at least 6 occasion but he still kept coming back.

I read an article about them. The hot days and sudden shower bursts has caused a profusion of them. And we may similarly expect an influx of large and extremely well-fed harvest spiders in about a months's time. ;)

[fazza]

mrmike007 said:

What really peeves me though is they never seem to take the hint, i swear i chucked out the same one on at least 6 occasion but he still kept coming back.

This worries me! How on earth can you tell it was the same one? They all look alike to me, and I think they do to most of us, unless you are another daddy long legs yourself, of course. ;D

31. Snails.
The little blighters can climb really high, you know.
I can't grow dahlias or sweet peas because of their appetite for them, and my prize lupins lasted a day before they were chopped in half with their munching. >:(
Tried the slug pellets - they gobble 'em up with relish. Also tried the trick of sinking a paper cup full of beer into the ground: just caused some amusing wavy snail trails away from the empty cup the next morning. A complete waste of time (and beer !) :'(

I got fed up with having to flick them off the top branches of my magnolia tree, then someone gave me a tip of winding some thin wire round the base of the tree as a barrier. It soon put a stop to their little game.....

[jel]

cat litters good stuff tommo. sucks all the water out of them before they can reach the plant.

However I can't see cat litter put out in someones garden! Fancy someone comeover and they can't stop starring.

It's an interesting one, Jel. I can understand it from the absorbent properties. But we have a cat, and the first thing he's going to do is see the litter, think it's for his benefit, and crap on my plants. Cat sh!te really stinks, too. >:(
I know he'd think like that, 'cos once I left a plastic table cover in the floor of the conservatory by mistake, he thought it was for him, and pi$$ed on it. Also, if I dig over a flower bed he naturally thinks I've done it just for his benefit - a quick glance out of the kitchen window soon after, and there he is lowering his ar$e. :o
I've spent a lot of time and trouble training him to do his business in other peoples' gardens instead of mine, and found the way to ward him off is by putting down orange peel, which cats don't like.

It's a problem. Perhaps Roo could work on an invention to deter snails, incorporating the use of both cat litter and orange peel. ???

[jel]

i can now see that i should have said put a little ring of litter around the plant. it seems you and johnny would be getting lorry loads delivered and putting a two foot deep covering over your whole garden :o got a feeling there will be some tart points awarded when mick reads these last few posts ;D

Good lord, no ! The thought of all the cats in the neighbourhood using my front garden as a dumping ground. ::) And me being knee-deep in pussy ! ;)

[jel]

just get yourself a gun :o you'll never be short of a pair of furry gloves again. ;D a bit of a lot to do just to contol a few snails though :D

[mrmike007]

Pete i am not and have never been a daddy long legs.
Why i recognized this particular individual was because he was wearing a Liverpool F.C shirt.
Confirmation that yes it was Peter Crouch was that he did not play for Liverpool today, Why? because he's dead in my back garden. (did i hear cheering in the background).
Just about to dig a very long hole for him but will have to wait for the JCB.

Margaret has one thing to say to you, Mick...........
3-0, 3-0, 3-0, 3-0.... (sorry, that's four things !)

32. When the season builds up towards its climax (Finals Night) and there has been a writeup in the local rag every week leading up to it and then, following Finals Night - nothing ! Is it too much to ask to see a list of winners and runners-up, just to complete the season ? Similarly, when a bar billiards website is left out-of-date and dormant. I know it can become a chore to keep maintaining it, but when you consider that most of the hard work was put in at the outset to get it up and running - should be a doddle to do, say, a fortnightly update, surely ? Not trying to single any one out in particular, but there are several examples accessible from this board through links, and it rankles, slightly.

[davejones]

tommo said:

32. When the season builds up towards its climax (Finals Night) and there has been a writeup in the local rag every week leading up to it and then, following Finals Night - nothing ! Is it too much to ask to see a list of winners and runners-up, just to complete the season ?

Trouble about the local press is that you can write copy and they may not have space to publish it

davejones said:

Trouble about the local press is that you can write copy and they may not have space to publish it

Very true Dave, I've been on the receiving end of this myself, and it's always at the most inconvenient time. Sports coverage shrinks at Bank Holiday weeks and we get two of 'em in May.

I used to find it important to build up a good understanding with the Sports editors, and often called in their offices for a half-hour chat and/or invited them to our Finals nights as a guest. Get a few drinks inside 'em and they're less likely to let you down. The WSCT even sponsored a runner-up perpetual cup for Horsham League once.

[fazza]

tommo said:

Get a few drinks inside 'em and they're less likely to let you down. The WSCT even sponsored a runner-up perpetual cup for Horsham League once.

I am sorry to confirm that you ARE just like me. That is EXACTLY what to do to get the coverage. Our local paper probably missed about five weeks' reports between 1979 and 1998 by us doing just that.

Unfortunately our reporter then fell ill (probably through enjoying our hospitality too much) and his replacement didn't seem so willing to have a few drinks with the likes of us.

[fazza]

If you have a local Asda, you will be with me on this one.

Why does this supermarket have to have such a yucky bright green uniform? It maybe just that our store only opens this coming Monday and all the new staff are proudly wearing their fluorescent jackets to tell everybody that they have been one of the "1000" or so lucky applicants for the jobs advertised. The colour may well fade, and I for one hope it does....quickly. Now that really bugs me!!!

[Colemanator]

fazza said:

If you have a local Asda, you will be with me on this one.

Why does this supermarket have to have such a yucky bright green uniform? It maybe just that our store only opens this coming Monday and all the new staff are proudly wearing their fluorescent jackets to tell everybody that they have been one of the "1000" or so lucky applicants for the jobs advertised. The colour may well fade, and I for one hope it does....quickly. Now that really bugs me!!!

Are you one of the lucky 1000 then pete ;D
You could always go to waitrose, there'll be a price war for sure, waitrose may be quiet this weekend, lol i can just see you in one of those uniforms ;D :o

[fazza]

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[Colemanator]

I thought that above post deserved at least one smiley ::) ;D ;D ;D ;D

[milko]

What Bugs Milko


1. Those horrible “Man eating” garden spiders, you know, the ones that build massive webs and sits in the middle waiting for poor old milko to come along and walk straight into the middle of it. I know where some are going to be on my round, so rather than getting a mouthful of spider, silk or supper leftovers (flys,moths,daddylonglegs, etc), I flap my arms in the air, people must think I’m having a funny turn if anybody is watching. ::)

2. The female spider, after the poor old male has done his good deed, she will eat him if he doesn't make a sharp exit. :o

3. Those ghastly disgusting slugs, you can guarantee on a wet night that they have climbed up the bottle and stuck themselves inside the lip, so when I puts my fingers in I get squashed slug. >:(

4. Snails, they have a liking for my customers notes, you open it and find a great big hole where they have munched at it and I’m supposed to know what the customer wants. >:(

5. Cats, their eyes staring at me in the dark as I go up the garden path. :o

6. Ice, “Milkos nightmare” I slide about like “Torvill & Dean. ;D

7. Heavy rain, I hate it, it goes right through you. I’m a bit SOGGY by the time I get home, 8 hours later, after starting out at 11.45 at night. :(

8. Customer notes, the ones that say “no milk today”, after you’ve walked half a mile up the path. >:(

9. Milk Floats, they are too slow and hold up the traffic. ;)

10. People that want to buy a pint of milk at night, with a TEN pound note. >:(

11. Idiots that keep pinching my milk, if they asked me for one, I would have given it to them, Over Their Head. >:( ;)



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