January 11th, 1999

Annoying Things

  For this rant I've decided to just make a list of various things that annoy me to some extent. There's probably others, but I'm lazy - isn't that annoying??

• People I can't work out.
• People who won't shut up.
• People who won't say anything.
• Scantily clad old people.
• When my ISP chucks a wobbly.
• When my satelite TV decoder chucks a wobbly.
• Foxtel satelite and the raw deal you get in comparison with Foxtel cable.
• Computer or household electrical equipment that I need to read the manual for.
• Children in banks, post offices and shopping centres whose parents let run riot.
• Idiots that climb fences and ignore signs which have been put there for their safety.
• Tailgaters.
• Salespeople in stores who hover around you everytime you're just having a look, but can't be found when you actually need them.
• Telemarketers.
• Ads for Microsoft.
• Microsoft products.
• Microsoft.
• Ads which state the blatantly untrue/ridiculous.
• Current affair style TV shows that tackle issues such as "I can't get a job after doing my bachelor of arts degree".
• Lifestyle programmes that have handy hints like "stick a bit of velcro to your TV and remote, and you'll never lose your remote again!".
• Peugeots.
• FSM Nikis.
• Ssangyong Mussos with Mercedes badges.
• Hyundais and Daewoos with body kits.
• Car badges that have been painted gold (not as bad if it wasn't an after-market alteration).
• Journalists who don't know the right instances to use "it's/its" or "there/they're/their" (plus other similar mix ups and spelling errors). I'm sorry, but if you write for a living I think you should be able to spell. Granted, I can understand a typo now and then.
• Psuedo-experts on all sorts of matters that don't know squat about what they're talking about.

Copyright � January 11th, 1999.
Opinions expressed here are purely those of Adam Smolarczyk.