BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Mr Red
Date: 27 Sep 07 - 07:46 AM

Beer I agree but that would mean cider would probably be banished too or worse everyone would drink it and they would have foppish varieties and macho varieties and most would taste like beer.

No - keep the beer off the list, please.

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 27 Sep 07 - 05:09 AM

I wouldn't miss Satelite TV. Judging by the trouble a colleague is having getting her package sorted, neither would she!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Sep 07 - 01:53 PM

Yes, that's true. There are several others.

I enjoy creating fictional characters with odd personalities. I should have made a living writing comic books or something along that line.

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 26 Sep 07 - 01:27 PM

LH, Chongo is only one suspect name...

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 25 Sep 07 - 08:15 PM

beer

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 25 Sep 07 - 05:59 PM

I, too, have been troubled by the development of a bit of a...

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Sep 07 - 01:24 PM

Yeah. ;-) I LOVE Japanese food. I would rather eat the Japanese diet than any other diet on Earth. I think I AM a Japanese, trapped in a westerner's body.

I've been troubled lately by the development of a wee bit of a "belly"! Scary. The only thing I know to do about it is a whole lot of situps, and that seems to be working fairly well. I don't think it's fat, it's lack of muscle tone.

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Bert
Date: 25 Sep 07 - 01:17 PM

No wonder you're so bloody skinny LH! *GRIN*

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Sep 07 - 12:59 PM

I would not miss people who would not miss sushi. Such people simply do not deserve to live. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 25 Sep 07 - 08:25 AM

However, if they ever run an Olympic event in farting I might change my mind.

The next Olympics will be in China. That means there will be thousands of spectators who've eaten bok choi for lunch. Farting may not be an officially sanctioned event, but there's gonna be a lot of it going on anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 25 Sep 07 - 06:51 AM

"-All those flyers, coupons and junk mail in my post box."

Put all of these (as many as you can stuff in) in the pre-paid envelopes that come from credit card companies - and just pop them in the post. You get rid of the junk and a few junk peddlers get it instead (and, hopefully, have to pay excess postage).

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Bert
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 11:06 PM

However, if they ever run an Olympic event in farting I might change my mind.

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Janie
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 10:31 PM

people who enjoy farting

Everybody has to fart. If I gotta do it anyway, I may as well enjoy it:>!

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: GUEST,Bert on Kelly's machine.
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 09:37 PM

The Olympics.

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 08:54 PM

The entire town of Clarence, Missouri.

Now, it's not that I have anything against Clarence, Missouri. I'm sure it's a lovely place. But, the fact is I've never been there and have no plans of ever going there. It's not even on the way to anyplace I'd be likely to go. Therefore, I don't think I'd miss it if it was gone. In fact, I didn't even know it existed until a few moments ago when I opened a road atlas and picked a small town at random. I'm sure the people who live there would prefer that it not disappear, but that's their problem, not mine.

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Joe_F
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 08:52 PM

TV
Small-business storefronts

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: GUEST,sinky
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 07:50 PM

social security spongers,newcastle supporters,bad manners,vicious dogs and their owners,loud voices,people who enjoy farting,drunken women,and definately fag smoke,chinese tatoos that mean fuck all to me,dirty rotting teeth that never see the dentist,morbid obesity,out of tune singers,inane whistling of tunes you can never recognise,morris dancing,irish boy bands,non irish that celebrate paddys day,boy racers,DANNIEL O FUCKING DONNELL,gay t v presenters,celebrity cast off shows,simon high pants cowell,sharon witchy osbourne,slushy sickly soft rock songs,grease and people who sing grease songs at karaoke,bingo,people who eat offal,sushi,and finally religion

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: bobad
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 07:45 PM

Coffee Health Risks: For the moderate drinker, coffee is safe says Harvard Women's Health Watch

( Boston , MA ) Despite 20 years of reassuring research, many people still avoid caffeinated coffee because they worry about its health effects. However, current research reveals that in moderation-a few cups a day-coffee is a safe beverage that may even offer some health benefits. The September issue of Harvard Women's Health Watch weighs the pros and cons of this popular beverage and eases the concerns of moderate coffee drinkers.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/press_releases/coffee_health_risk.htm

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Metchosin
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 07:42 PM

Caffeine is a psychostimulant which appears to reduce cognitive decline in women and a fresh cup of coffee has more beneficial antioxidents than an orange. Everything in moderation Little Hawk.

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 07:31 PM

SUVs
Vans
Hunters
Sport fishermen
News anchors who try to be funny and friendly
Jewel cases (What's wrong with cardboard sleeves, like the ones LPs came in?)
Power Point
Jet Skis
Snowmobiles
ATVs
Primary elections (other than non-partisan ones)
Political ads
Energy drinks
Bottled water
Guns
Fireworks in the hands of amateurs
Lawns (What's wrong with woods and natural prairies?)
Leaf-blowers
Riding lawn mowers
(If your lawn is too big to mow and rake without a loud machine, it is too big, period.)
Coffee with anything in it other than coffee. (Well, maybe occasionally a little whiskey.)

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: GUEST,ibo
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 07:28 PM

definately reality television,lets have actors and scriptwriters doing what they do best.I would not miss camp presenters,innuendo does not neccessarily mean funny.

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 07:02 PM

Coffee is quite bad for people, and it's highly addictive. It interferes with sleep patterns and does considerable damage to the digestive system over time as well as causing stress.

Just think how popular it would be if they also made it illegal! ;-)

$10 a cup. People would gladly pay. And it would taste EVEN better if it was contraband.

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Metchosin
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 05:04 PM

-All those flyers, coupons and junk mail in my post box. No! I don't want your credit cards or updated revamped phone or cable service or your ball point pens with my company name on it and no I don't want to know about your free pizza delivery, we're beyond the free zone. And if you ever really checked what we actually did, you would see that we have absolutely no use for the 1" thick catalogue for heavy equipment and bulldozers.

- Stinging nettles. Stinging nettles and I haven't been getting along at all well this year. They are particularly nasty when you hit them full on, while running in a short nightgown as you concentrate on throwing rocks at deer.

-The GST. I'm behind in my calculations as usual. I wish they would at least pay me for my time invested as their tax collector.

-A new coffee franchise every half block. People on this coast are so over-caffeinated its almost as if they were freebasing meth. I bet you could link the upsurge in aggressive driving and excessive speed directly to the increase in coffee emporiums. Yeah I know, the dark roast is supposed to have less caffeine, but the individual cup size has almost doubled over the past 10 years.   

I'm sure I could think of a lot of other stuff, but this is one of my more magnanimous? days.

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Alice
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 01:35 PM

FOX news
Rush Limbaugh radio show

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: GUEST,rock chick
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 01:30 PM

Yes David Carter you are right about Virgin Trains, GNER (Great Northern Eastern Railways) are just as bad! Toilets normally not working, air con broken, seat booked to three other people, no seats, no food in the buffet, nowhere to put your luggage, although they do normally run on time

Sorry John 'Giok' Mackenzie, but white van drivers are unbelievably rude and mostly very dangerous drivers, they sit 2" from your bumper flashing their lights, when in fact there is nowhere to go, I for one will not be intimidated by there so called road rage and will not be forced to break the speed limit.

I think I am a reasonable driver, I was driving u[p to 1000 miles a week at one time but I VERY rarely get angry in the car, cross with drivers that take stupid risks yes but road rage…not me.

John I am sure you never behaved in such a manner ;-) and I am sure you are one of the rare breed of white van drivers who is not a bad driver, but they are few and far between. Anyway I was talking about these menaces when on the motorways, as for delivery, well yes I can quite believe what you say.

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: GUEST,Neil
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 01:21 PM

Smarmy local news anchors
"Reality TV"
Commercial Country Music
Commercial Pop Music
Religion
The Bush Family Crime Syndicate (If we say that we'll miss them will
   they please go away?)
Fast food (fasting would be an improvement)
Bad stuff happening to good people
Good stuff happening to bad people

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: GUEST,rock chick
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 01:17 PM

That was me posted as guest above, forgot to put my name there!! so posting it again.

Rude children
Rude adults
White van drivers
Traffic wardens
TV
Noisy mobiles
People who shout on their mobile
GNER trains
Virgin trains
Long ques
Sick jokes about someone else's pain/hurt/loss
Canvassing telephone call
Call centres
Cardamoms
Escargot
Meat
Rush hour traffic
London
Smelly food eaten on the train or tube
Loud music (from headphone) on the train and tube
Loud mobile ring tones in public places
Large four wheel drive vehicles taking one child to school (these are off road vehicles so take them off the roads)
Large supermarkets (bring back the local shoppe man

Think thats enugh to start with.

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: pdq
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 12:39 PM

People who spend their time looking for something to whine about.

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 12:31 PM

I agree with the anchovies JennyO!!

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: JennyO
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 12:11 PM

Oh yes. And anchovies.

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: JennyO
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 11:51 AM

Here are a few random thoughts.

Little johnnie howard
Drivers talking on their mobile phones
TV shows about celebrities
4 wheel drives in the suburbs
Reality shows - especially ones like Big Brother and The Weakest Link
At least 60 lbs
Jobsworths of all descriptions
Spam
Multi lane roundabouts
High petrol prices
Mobile phones in concerts
Line dancing
Mosquitoes
Sandflies
Stinging Ants
Stink Bugs
Cockroaches
The smell of cat pee
Drivers who flash their lights
'Helpless' females
Speed humps
Slow drivers that dither around and straddle lanes and get in your way
Most pro sports
Horse racing
Voice recognition systems
White ants
Precocious bratty children
Weeds
The smell of bad potatoes
Colds
Weak bendy paper plates
The high cost of living
Snobs
The bugs and diseases that damage my vegetables and fruit
Radar traps
Religious fundamentalists of every stripe
Judgmental people
Violent criminals
Cars that break down
Artichokes


Plus a lot of things others have mentioned.

There. That will do for a start. I'm sure I'll think of more.

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: GUEST,Bert on Kelly's machine.
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 11:23 AM

But we'd miss you, you old bugger!

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: mick p r.m s.c
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 11:18 AM

WOMEN DRIVERS.

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 10:48 AM

Since I would be dead, and be nothing, with no consciousness at all, I would not miss my own life.

Art

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: PMB
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 10:38 AM

There are no virgin trains in Britain- they are all completely f***ed.

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 10:33 AM

White van man is often given too many deliveries by his greedy employer in the first place. In the second place, he is often trying to deliver to house without a name or a number on the door, or at the end onf a long drive with the name beside the doorway, and unreadable or invisible from the road. Doorbells often don't exist or don't work, householders often say they were in when he called, in spite of his having battered the door as loud as he can. When they say "I was in" what they mean is, they were about, in the garage, in the garden, in the loo, in the shower, etc etc.
Then when you do find them in there is the pantomime of not signing until they've opened it, to check if it's intact.
It's OK sir/madam just endorse the signature unexamined.
No I need to check.
OK I'll wait.
"This is not what I ordered, take it back"
I can't.
Why not?
Because it says TNT on the van outside, and your parcel came from Harrod's.
You collected it surely you can take it back?
Madam, this is Inverness and Harrod's is in Knightsbridge, I didn't go down there and collect it myself so I could deliver it to your door for the princely sum of £3.50 per parcel!

I've been there and done that, and it is a very frustrating job, so try and look at it from the other side please.

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 10:04 AM

I wouldn't miss Soup sandwiches meself.

I try to rule that out of my life!

David

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 10:01 AM

Virgin Trains is the Uk's Bigest rail network,It's crap!
I believe it's owned by Richard Branson.

"White van man"Is the guy who sits up your rear,headlights flashing,trying to get buy at all cost co's he's got fifty deliveries to do before the pubs open.
Bee-dubya-ell,that doesn't sound like you at all.

David

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 09:51 AM

I take it "Virgin trains" are trains operated by the same company that owns Virgin Airlines.

But what aare "white van drivers". I drive a white GMC van when I'm hauling my pottery to art fairs to sell. Does that make me a white van driver and, therefore, worthy of disdain? If so, should I paint my van some other color? Buy a few dozen cans of variously colored spray paints and invite people over for a van painting party?

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 09:37 AM

Telly mainly...

bad uk transport (I live in the countryside - therefore uk transport is rubbish)

erm... Oh yeah, news reports about Britney Spears.

There's more...

but those are the tops.

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 09:29 AM

I have to say I don't miss work!! I took voluntary redundancy at the beginning of August and I really don't miss the job!

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: GUEST,LTS attempting to work and failing miserably
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 09:17 AM

I would not miss several of my "work" colleagues - particularly the pair who have spent the last 45 minutes discussing loudly, the merits of the England Cricket team whilst others are trying to access Mudcat!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 09:11 AM

What is a "virgin train"?

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: PMB
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 05:47 AM

My appendix, and for that matter my brain.

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 04:16 AM

War and confict
Dentist and optician appointments (if my eyes were ok!)
The city

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: alanabit
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 04:06 AM

Can I add sugary, fizzy drinks including coca-cola?
Modern social worker/psycho babble.
Euphemisms about slaughter.(Pentagon etc)
Euphemisms about cruelty. (See above)

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: alanabit
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 03:39 AM

Chewing gum and bubble gum.
The fashion industry.
Sugar in anything other than sweets.
Animal prisons (zoos, cages and tanks etc)
The absurd "morality" laws, which hand over entire industries to criminals (drugs, prostitution, gambling etc)
Tailgaters.
Any aggressive driver.
Queue jumpers.
Royalty and all other class distinction.
Rolex.
Spam of any sort.
Just about any form of TV advertising.
Hollywood blockbusters.
Soap opera.
Celebrity culture.
Chat shows.
The music industry.
Lumbago!
Allergies.
Hypochondriacs.
Our perverse over eating culture.
Computer games.
Bullying.
Rudeness.
Privilege for successful criminals.
German bureaucracy - in fact, let's not be racist - just about any bureaucracy!

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 02:34 AM

migraines & other hot weather headaches!
cockroaches (how could I forget to list them?)

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 02:17 AM

Japanese knotweed

Subject: RE: BS: What would you not miss if it was gone?
From: Janie
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 02:09 AM

Spandex.

Polyester.

This gawdawful drought.

crabgrass and bermuda grass in the garden beds.

Johnson grass.

poison ivy.

Japanese beetles.

Fleas.

Ticks.

(I wouldn't personally miss mosquitos, but I would miss all the birds that feed on them.)

copperheads