I have a regular gripe each morning about my wife and daughter using my razor blades to shave their legs. Why do women do that? can't they get those female razors and stop blunting mine? i end up going to work looking like a used sanitary towel..

and on that subject, why do women insist on flushing them down the toilet, thus blocking the drains? I ended up paying so much to plumbers that i decided to get my own set of drain rods. Need any drains unblocking, anyone?

Not being able to work Hotmail despite valiant efforts by me to impart the miniscule amount of knowledge needed. Several times a night I am regaled with cries of "I want to send an e-mail!" from upstairs AND downstairs, occasionally resulting in mother/daughter confrontations as to who's communication and/or problem gets my priority attention (it's just like being at work ) "I need to email ***** about maths homework" v. "I need to email this seller/buyer about this/these eBay items..." bah! I've hardly had a bash at me Radeon since Christmas, and i went a got a new case and made a load of custom fans too. I usually post on TLR from me little lads room

another gripe.. car park charges? are they taking the p*ss? it's now almost £5 to park for an hour in our city centre, yet all the car parks are cr*p and there are rarely any new ones. So where does the money go, considering that ostensibly the revenue from parking fees is spent on improving the car parks and their security and safety. Bull.

And the council tax is going up again, 6.2%, while the services get fewer and worse. Labour can s*d off, i'm not voting for them again (well I prob will because the local Councillor is me mate from over the road, and he's head of the PTA at the little uns sschool, where we're both governors)

Oh yeh i've had me wing mirror kicked off again, that's the third time in 12 months, I even caught em on security camera this time, but the cops aint done nothing. it's nearly £200 a shot to replace my wing mirrors, so it's not worth losing me no-claims over, but with bodywork repairs and all I've spent nearly a grand because of stupid little evil b*st*rds, and indirectly another £300 on security cameras and a video capture card.

Why are razors so bloody expensive? You can get the cheap orange bic thingys but they just tear your skin off. I use the gillette mach ones...but they're a fiver for 3!! WHAT THE ****??!

I have another gripe...pointless meetings. They're the bain of my life. I have 3 today - 1 to "catch up with what we're doing" (if they were doing their jobs right they'd know what the **** we're doing), another to have lunch with a client (which is usually just an ass kiss session) and another to explain to us the "e-government initiative for 2005" (WHAT THE ****???!!)....LIKE I GIVE A ****. They're just so annoying....I have design deadlines to meet and I'm spending 80% of my day today being dragged around to pointless meetings. Its a ****ing joke.

Shaving.... well, assuming you don't shave in the dark and are steady handed, you could always revert to a cut-throat razor and strop. No more buying replacement blades but you do need to be c-a-r-e-f-u-l.

£5 / hr. for parking? Well, on average it is about $20+ / hr. on weekdays in Midtown Manhattan, but.... it's Manhattan. What's the going parking rate on high street areas of London? I thought you had to pay a tarriff just to drive into London? I wish we had that setup here for NYC. The traffic is beyond abominable.

hmmm....manhattan....stoke....manhattan....stoke.....errrr.....nuff said methinks

not sure what the rate in london is, but you can bet your arse its expensive!

Nothing like good old wigan parking - 50p for up to 7 hours - you even get a courtesy brick thrown through your window, you don't get service like that down south!

i didn't think anyone really bothered to drive in Manhattan? You tellin' me you drive to work?

well who do you think the cars belong to? people dont actually live in manhatten because of the 'minorities'

@Taw

Who me? Own a car? No. That would mean paying around $300-$400/month just to keep the silly thing in a parking garage and the compulsory insurance premiums would be the death of me anyway. But I rent cars as needed and I've had to use the Mid-Town parking garages on occasion.

@Arcon

LOL. Yeah, there are "minorities" living in NYC but pretty much everyone is a minority in NYC. Having said that, there is a serious threat of losing the middle classes to the suburbs, leaving behind only the rich and the poor. It hasn't completely happened yet (i.e., I'm still here ) but it is getting harder for the middle classes to afford it and the public schools are still a mess. If things do not improve by the time my little one is of school age, we'll have to move out too.

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I hate technology!!!!! curse the first pig to have invented a little trinket for counting, now i have to put up with no end of BAD ERRORS !!!!!! WTF is a bad error? d*mn computers ! d*mn them to hell!!!!!! sweet holy hindquarter of a horse!!!!!!!!!!! arg!!!!!! NOTHING WORKS, bleeding thing!!!!!!!!!! it's just bad error, serias error, doom error, end of the whole accursed universe error, and this has died, and that made an error, and this has performed a violation access read bull-cr*p sh*te hole!!!!!!!!!! curse bill- the spineless dog -gates, and curse micro$hit aswell!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And curse the bloated walking blubbersac that lives across the street from me!!! he lets his little sodding ill concieved brat wander the street yelling!!!! day and blue spasming hell night!!!!!!!!!! I'm going to strangle the little sodding piece of excrement!!!!!!!! if one more bleeding anus yells "whoooo hoooooo" i'm going to gut him like a kipper!!!!!!! then jump on the body till it's just a worthless sack of crushed bones and pulped organs!!!!!!!! THEN SEE HIM YELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And my neigbours accursed little white dog!!!! the good for nothing, bottom feeding, half breed, pavement special, bloated, overfed, little cr*pper!!!!!!
I can't beleive it hasn't coughed up it's lungs yet!!!! its been barking for over a week, woof after pig biting woof. It never shuts it's worthless drooling gaping hole!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm going to shoot it, then spit on it, then pee on it, then cr*p on it, then flush it in the toilet, then hit it with a shovel, then ram it into a paper shredder!!!!!!!! then see it bleeding spasming wriggiling BARK, then see it keep me up at night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111111111111111
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- End rant, and thanks for listening.....I feel better now.....gotta get me a drink...whew........

Time is a waste of life, life is a waste of time, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life.

As the 3 Anubii sped across the abyss they encountered the last thing they expected, purple howler monkeys wearing green hats

Edited by - Fear Factor on 2/6/2004 1:25:49 PM

for the record, you should retract any thanks directed at me, the need to scroll SIDEWAYS put me off reading past the first line. I jumped to the end after that in the hope of a quick summise. At any rate, i didnt read it

@MAS,

Your sig linky is on the fritz.

i want to give the person who thought prawns could possibly be good to eat in curries a good kicking...

wow krazy, you got issues boyo

Edited by - freighter fighter on 2/6/2004 4:48:09 PM

what exactly is wrong with a prawn curry? I'll have you know that King Prawn Korai is one of fav. scoffing choices, I'll happily go out and eat 2 or 3 of them and nice big naans.

I have no idea how we got on to this, but what about a "King Prawn Biriani"? They are supposed to be nice. At least, Lister aspires to eat one, and could he be wrong about curries? I think not!

well when you have them are the prawns as hard as bullets?