Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: LilyFestre Date: 12 Apr 05 - 06:44 AM LOLOLOL!!!!! "Face it gals, I'm older and have more insurance!!!!!!" LOVE IT!!!!!! Michelle |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Peace Date: 12 Apr 05 - 05:20 AM Michelle: Take a tip from the gal in "Fried Green Tomatoes." The students will never park you in again. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: LilyFestre Date: 11 Apr 05 - 04:41 PM 1. Finding that no one put a fresh bottle of water in the fridge to get cold after they took the last one out. 2. The garbage guy who rarely comes on time. 3. Students at school who park me in from time to time. Michelle |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: mg Date: 11 Apr 05 - 03:23 PM digital radio tuners so you have to poke a button a hundred times to get a station carpet tacked down to almost any floor but especially in hospitals..how are they going to keep it clean? flourescent lights, especially in schools where they damage the health of children and staff listening to music on tapes because you have to rewind them to play the song over and over building of houses that fly away in tornados, burn up etc. children who are not taught to behave (likewise teens) mg |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Azizi Date: 11 Apr 05 - 01:37 PM 1. bugs 2. bugs 3. bugs The creepy, crawly yuckky kind. And the Internet kind too. And that other kind of bugs that are used to listen in to people's telephone conversations. What a boring job that must be! |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Fibula Mattock Date: 11 Apr 05 - 11:42 AM 1) people 2) people 3) people |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Dave the Gnome Date: 11 Apr 05 - 11:24 AM Disappearing tools. Now, where is that screwdriver? I had it 30 seconds ago! C'mon, who's moved it? Ditto to whoever was talking about people blocking up supermarket aisles. Triple so for people who have already been served blocking up the bar when I want a drink! My boss. What makes her think that Mudcat isn't a valuable use of the companies time;-) Cheers DtG |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: GUEST,ragdall Date: 11 Apr 05 - 07:03 AM 1. Dust. Where does it come from and why must it settle on my furniture and fridgetop? 2. Sock lint. How do threadbare socks manages to continue to deposit lint all over the bedroom carpet? 3.0 Well-meaning people who submit my "private" email address to sites which collect email addresses to sell, by offering a contest or a free e-card. 3.1 e-mail messages, ninety percent of which, are the email addresses of the intended recipients. This includes my "private" e-mail address, which has now been revealed to two hundred of their closest friends who may then sell it, (see 3.0). Is it so hard to use the Bcc for address lists? |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Shanghaiceltic Date: 11 Apr 05 - 02:48 AM 1. People using mobile phones in cinemas and theatres, commonplace here. 2. Idiots on bikes who cut lights and complain that you've nearly killed them. 3. Idiots in Govt, Military and Police vehicles who ignore every fceking rule that might have existed in the Chinese highway code. 4. Being asked if it is always foggy in London! 5. Not being able to find my cipin/tippers after a rather boozy session, they must be able to make homing cipin. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Peace Date: 10 Apr 05 - 10:44 PM "Come on folks, i'm from Ayrshire... round here, classy drinking is getting your Special Brew from the chiller cabinet and drinking your Buckfast from a plastic cup, rather than the bottle." Must be pretty classy. You got cups? Pardon me . . . . |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: 42 Date: 10 Apr 05 - 06:42 PM I wish I were Blissfuly Ignorant. Must be a by product of youth. J |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Metchosin Date: 10 Apr 05 - 03:47 PM Speaking of English TV programmes, I'm really, really damned pissed that Bad Girls has been dropped here in Canada! Just when I was getting into it and had discovered the fine acting skills of Linda Henry. Nobody beats the Brits when it comes to character representation. The writing, the directing and the acting are without parallel, but instead, we get more American reality shit.....f course we still have Bubbles. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Peace Date: 10 Apr 05 - 02:55 PM They are still showing Coronation Street in Canada. Mostly trying to have Canadians figure out what they're saying. It's about stuff, right? |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: John Hardly Date: 10 Apr 05 - 02:46 PM Mary, Good humour. And they say Americans don't get British humor....er....humour. Why, I bet that somewhere in the US they are still showing reruns of Benny Hill. And that Bucket woman. *fade out to sound of "yackity sax"* |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Mudlark Date: 10 Apr 05 - 02:33 PM 1. The obstinate, gross-grained contrariness of things. 2. Labels on even soft fruit, peaches, plums, which must be washed labels and all, as removing the label removes the skin. 3. Scratchy labels on T shirts, blouses, anything that fits around the neck. At least you can turn underwear inside out...while showing off your CK's... |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 10 Apr 05 - 02:29 PM A u is nice to add. You're showing your true colours. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Bill D Date: 10 Apr 05 - 01:30 PM you won't feel the fetters, if you just add some extra letters. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: John Hardly Date: 10 Apr 05 - 01:28 PM I wish I were a Brit I'd never again say "shit" It sounds so erudite when made to rhyme with "white" And "fecking", so I've heard, Is another British word just oozing savoir-faire To the backward Yankee ear. Only the uncultured masses Refer to "tits" and "asses" The Queen sits on 'er "oss" so that's the proper way to go. oo oo oo I wanna be like You oo oo I wanna walk like you, talk like you |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 10 Apr 05 - 09:21 AM And those commercials that rattle on for two minutes, and you don't have a clue, at the end, what they were advertising. And the fact that you have set your volume to hear the programme comfortably, then the ads arrive and they crank up the watts till it blows you out of your chair. Don T. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Peace Date: 09 Apr 05 - 08:56 PM 1) Commercials on the bloody TV. I don't have a TV, don't want a TV and don't watch TV. But the commercials are there and that really pisses me off. 2) Those stoopid commercials for movies thht are on the VHS in front of the movie ya really want to watch. 3) Those stoopid commercials for movies that are in front of the movie ya really want to watch that are the movie you are about to watch, and now ya don't have to because ya saw every scene in the movie that's worth watching before ya get to the bloody movie. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 09 Apr 05 - 06:26 PM 1. British Telecom 1571 Voicemail that cuts in on the second ring, and prevents me from calling my elderly mother, because she can't get to it in time. She didn't request it, and has repeatedly told them she doesn't want it. 2. British Telecom staff who have been telling me for two years "Yes, we understand the problem, and we will discontinue 1571 on your mother's number immediately". It's still on! 3. British Telecom, for insisting that customers pay Premium Line Charges incurred as a result of fraudulent setups, which BT could easily prevent, were it not for the fact that they get one third of the money. Accessories before and after the fact usually are prosecuted, but not, it seems, BT. Don T. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Metchosin Date: 09 Apr 05 - 03:21 PM jeez, in some parts around here its a bottle of aftershave beneath the Johnson street bridge. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: GUEST,LDB Date: 09 Apr 05 - 03:20 PM 1. Customer Service Centers of large companies that advertise that they are always ready to help you and then have 47 items on their phone menu and none of them lead to a real person. 2. Customer Service Centers of large companies that advertise that they are always ready to help you and then have 47 items on their phone menu and none of them lead to a real person 3. Customer Service Centers of large companies that advertise that they are always ready to help you and then have 47 items on their phone menu and none of them lead to a real person |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Blissfully Ignorant Date: 09 Apr 05 - 02:47 PM Good grief, it's the piss-up police! :0) Come on folks, i'm from Ayrshire... round here, classy drinking is getting your Special Brew from the chiller cabinet and drinking your Buckfast from a plastic cup, rather than the bottle. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Metchosin Date: 09 Apr 05 - 02:42 PM Well hell, if you just want to get pissed without pretention, why not mix a bit of absolute ethol alcohol with pancake syrup. Sort of like making your own Southern Discomfort. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: GUEST Date: 09 Apr 05 - 02:39 PM More refined than sucking the piss out of dead horse, really. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Blissfully Ignorant Date: 09 Apr 05 - 02:36 PM Lol....besides, nothing complements a debaucherous evening quite so well as Jack. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Peace Date: 09 Apr 05 - 02:34 PM LOL Uh, yes, it has a delicate nose and a fine bouquet. Robust yet smooth with just a hint of the soils close to Muscat. Fine legs. Yes, huh. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Blissfully Ignorant Date: 09 Apr 05 - 02:32 PM I just like it...it's expensive enough to sound classy, but you don't find pretentious twits standing around discussing it's 'deep blackberry and peat overtones, with just a hint of rat piss' :0) |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Peace Date: 09 Apr 05 - 02:30 PM Jaysus, BI, why Jack Daniel's? No GOOD hooch in Scotland? |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Blissfully Ignorant Date: 09 Apr 05 - 02:28 PM Bloddy hell, that shop down the road is messing with my head....just went down and and was sold a bottle of Jack Daniels without a moments hesitation, then went to the tobbacco counter where i had to produce my birth certificate (i'd come prepared this time) to purchase cigarettes... |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Metchosin Date: 09 Apr 05 - 02:11 PM One of my monkeys is drawer in our kitchen that we call Jack's drawer, because nobody wants to admit possession. It is filled to the brim with stuff that was once deemed too valuable to toss. Old screws and other small parts of stuff, the purpose of which has long been forgotten, old combs, kinder egg toys, small prizes from bygone Christmas crackers, tiny flashlights, which someone hoped eventually to figure out a way to replace the battery. There's everthing from random guitar strings of unknown guage and blue hockey tape?, to small packets of motel soap. Scattered in the bottom, beebees, bobby pins, thumb tacks, push pins and paper clips and pill bottles half filled by some brave soul who abandonded an attempt to organize the mess. As a result Jack's drawer has now spread to the drawer below, now known as, Jack's other drawer. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Peace Date: 09 Apr 05 - 01:59 PM Bananas and people who don't let ya know about them. I haven't bought bananas in years because I couldn't see the point. I would skin 'em and throw away the bone. Then there was nothing left to eat. SOMEONE coulda told me. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Blissfully Ignorant Date: 09 Apr 05 - 01:10 PM Oh, and gasket compound with an unnatural attraction to my hair. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Blissfully Ignorant Date: 09 Apr 05 - 12:53 PM 1 That shop down the road which had consisitently provided me with alchohol for three years, until the day i turned eighteen when i was asked for ID which i didn't have. 2 Dogs with an unnatural attraction to peoples legs. 3 Running out of smokes three minutes after the shop shuts. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 09 Apr 05 - 12:30 PM gnu, another fun tip... When someone passes you at night and cuts you off, follow them just a little to the left, off-center. Your headlights in their side mirror can be irritating. I learned this when commuting. Of course you can always act real dumb (easy for me) if the person has road rage and tries to come after you. I also learned while commuting in the "East End" of a big city vs. the "West End." The BMW's are the rudest drivers. Those junkers with no tail lights are ususally more polite. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 09 Apr 05 - 12:17 PM About the only thing that ever irritates me is people parking in a handicapped spot without a sticker. It doesn't seem to bother other people as much as it bothers me. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: George Papavgeris Date: 09 Apr 05 - 11:46 AM Here's a gorilla: People who say they'll call you back in half an hour, and you then wait for them for 2 hours, not doing what you intended, in case they call. Happened just now. Well, sod Charlie boy; I don't care if he was too busy in that crowd. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: GUEST,Bee-dubya-ell Date: 09 Apr 05 - 10:20 AM Re the turn signal thing above... The difference between small-town driving and big-city driving in a nutshell: In a small town, turning on one's turn signal to signal a lane change means "May I come over, please?" In a big city, turning on one's turn signal to signal a lane change means "I'm coming over!" If you wait for drivers in Atlanta to be courteous, you'll run out of gas before you ever get off the Loop. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Sorcha Date: 09 Apr 05 - 09:53 AM When they put the price label over the information you want to read. When the sale flyer indicates an item is on sale. I go to get it, but it's out of stock Cling film |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: RangerSteve Date: 09 Apr 05 - 09:38 AM And another thing, while I was typing the above, I got cut off. My internet provider thinks that if I spend more than three minutes at a web-site without clicking something, or showing some other sign of life, that I'm not using the computer, and therefore should be cut off. I'm reading, goddamn it. I don't have the attention span of an MTV viewer. I like to read. I'll decide when I want to shut down my computer. OK? |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Bill D Date: 09 Apr 05 - 09:37 AM those are called "embedded problems" John Hardly, defined as......noooooo!!!!!!! arrgghh...*thump* |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: John Hardly Date: 09 Apr 05 - 09:37 AM ...they bug the shite out of me. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: John Hardly Date: 09 Apr 05 - 09:36 AM Oh... 4. Americans on international chat/discussion forums who adopt "Brit-speak". I wish they'd bugger off. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: RangerSteve Date: 09 Apr 05 - 09:35 AM People who walk around shirtless with their underpant showing above their pants. It's called UNDERwear. It goes UNDER your pants. I can't believe this needs to be explained. I am not impressed with your Calvin Klein underpants. Actually, I think it's ridiculous that you paid twice the price for something that is probably no better than the less expensive brands. Yuppie women who stand in the grocery store aisle, bragging to each other about their childrens' soccer scores and totally ignoring the people who want to pass by. You can say "Excuse me" until you're blue in the face, and the most you'll get is that they'll look at you as if you're covered with rodent shit, but mostly they just ignore you. People who can't close the milk cartons at the self-serve coffee counters in convenience stores. It takes a fraction of a second out of your lives to flick the carton closed, but you can't do it. Didn't any of you people have mothers? CLOSE THE DAMNED CARTON WHEN YOU'RE DONE!! Thank you. Steve |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: John Hardly Date: 09 Apr 05 - 09:34 AM (related to number 2 -- simultaneous problems/breakdowns -- you can't figure out what's wrong with something because, as it turns out, there are actually two things wrong with the thing) |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: John Hardly Date: 09 Apr 05 - 09:32 AM 1. "arguements", "discussions", "debates" -- whatever you wanna call 'em -- that begin with a dictionary definition. 2. chain-reaction problems (I can't fix this until I fix this until I fix this until I...) 3. my swiss cheese memory. I can remember what I don't need at random times and never what I do need when I need it. I can literally be in a discussion completely unaware that I know something and then, suddenly remember almost everything about it. I can play a song through a krillion times and forget it on the krillion-and-first time through. |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 09 Apr 05 - 09:31 AM I'll take the easy ones: 1. SUVS (Just had a guy back into me across two lanes of traffic while I was sitting quietly, parked in my car. 2. People talking on cell phones while they're driving SUVS. 3. People who sing two songs in a row in a sing around when the rule is that everyone just sing ONE SONG! Them ain't monkeys, brucie... they is King Kong and his two brothers, Fred and George. Jerry |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: Bill D Date: 09 Apr 05 - 09:09 AM Amos...I guess I should have defined 'stupidity' as the congenital sort of brain dis-function.... Of course, the stupid CAN also exhibit a level of ignorance, which is probably the 'willful' aspect we both decry......(Neither is likely to use the locution 'decry') |
Subject: RE: BS: Me an' my monkey. What bugs you? From: George Papavgeris Date: 09 Apr 05 - 06:01 AM Oooh, come on guys, you used up almost all of mine! But not quite... 1) Intolerant people; I can't abide by them, I won't give them a second chance :-) 2) Bigotry 3) Holier-than-thou-ness, in any form. I once walked into a lift having recently put out a cigarette, and no doubt my breath smelled; the lady that joined me in the lift immediately began a tirade about secondary smoking and berated me for having entered the lift with her and endangering her life. I told her that, no matter how hard she tried, I would not french-kiss her - what else could I say? 4) The hair I sometimes find in my toothbrush - how did it get there? 5) E-numbers on food packages that tell me sod all about the ingredients 6) Itches in the middle of the back, where I cannot reach (I have three back-scratchers in the house, but when outside I have been known to use door-posts, knives, and in one case a frying-pan) 7) Fresh today: The Curator and GUEST,RUN-with--an-accent; but that's really a combination of 1), 2) and 3) above plus ignorance and malice. |