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Clint Boggis
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
TICTH Lance Armstrong; champion cyclist, cancer survivor, charity worker and five-star, fur-lined ocean-going cheat.
Can anything bring sport into disrepute more than this? I'm getting awfully cynical about anyone who doesn't give to charity anonymously.
As someone on the News Quiz (BBC R4) said yesterday: "this sends out completely the wrong message - it's like we're trying to tell young drug-takers that cycling is 'cool' ".
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Mere Nick
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I feel bad for Lance. He likes to cheat but is too small to be a bad guy pro rassler. It leaves him in the lurch.
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Jengie jon
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I condemn colds, at present start of academic year variety that I am down with precisely when I need to concentrate on my thesis.
Jengie
[ 13. October 2012, 16:27: Message edited by: Jengie Jon ]
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Jahlove
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Originally posted by Clint Boggis:
"this sends out completely the wrong message - it's like we're trying to tell young drug-takers that cycling is 'cool' ".
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irish_lord99
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TICTH 'Talk' Radio, and the workmates that can't stop playing it. Glenn, then Rush, the Sean... it should be outlawed by the Geneva convention!
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Doublethink.
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TICTH having to starve my cat for general anesthetic - its the not being able to explain when he starts protesting that gets to me ...
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Lamb Chopped
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TICTH arthritic knees, after a weekend of camping in the rain and being run all over creation by a bunch of enthusiastic boy scouts. Ow ow ow ow OW
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Er, this is what I've been up to (book).
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down!
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Uncle Pete
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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
TICTH arthritic knees, after a weekend of camping in the rain and being run all over creation by a bunch of enthusiastic boy scouts. Ow ow ow ow OW
I feel your pain. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) Scouter PeteC
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Nunc Dimittis
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Originally posted by lily pad:
TICTH......bedbugs
Oh totally! They are nasty little shits. You have my sympathies (I had them once for 4 months before we worked out what was eating me alive at night - it was one of the worst experiences of my life).
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orfeo
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TICTH mild migraines that hover on the edge between leaving me functional and leaving me useless. Make up your fucking mind.
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Net Spinster
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TICTH anxiety attacks which tie me up in knots.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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TICTH instruction sheets that do not match the product they came with. I have an instruction sheet that says to remove the screws to open the battery compartment. THERE ARE NO SCREWS. ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
I don't know what to do next.
Moo
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Lord Jestocost
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Wonga dot com, for luring someone I love into perdition. He was a student, FFS, which apparently makes it even easier for them to spray money in your direction than if you have a regular pay packet.
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Dark Knight
Super Zero
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TICTH the media, the mother, her family and everyone in my silly country who rushed to judge the dad as physically abusive in this absolutely despicable story.
And my spelling and grammar.
[ 15. October 2012, 13:43: Message edited by: Dark Knight ]
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Erroneous Monk
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People whose default setting is righteous indignation, to the exclusion of any compassion.
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la vie en rouge
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No, you filthy lying automated answering system, you are NOT trying to connect my call and doing your best to shorten my waiting time. If you were, I wouldn't get disconnected every 10 seconds, would I?
I can't even leave the bloody thing ringing away to itself until someone answers. I swear it's like some new punishment of Sisyphus. He pushed a rock up a hill for all eternity, I'm going to be condemned to sitting at my desk pressing "redial". FOREVER.
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Loquacious beachcomber
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Originally posted by Moo:
THERE ARE NO SCREWS.
I don't know what to do next.
Moo
Go to a singles bar and smile sweetly at a few folks?
[ETA: but don't moo!]
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JoannaP
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TICTH incompetent bureaucrats who do not follow proper processes and also their bosses who decide that the letter of the rules must be followed anyway, regardless of the inconvenience and cost to others.
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin
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MarsmanTJ
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TICTH people who decide that naming every bloody variable 'variable1' or similar variants in code that I then am expected to maintain is good practice. It would be faster to rewrite the damn thing. My boss sympathises, but our client insists that since it 'cost them a small fortune' we have to support the code they already have. They're not going to be happy when they get our bill for this 'quick bug-fix' I can tell you that...
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hilaryg
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US airways and Philadelphia airport. What's the fucking point of telling connecting passengers to check the information boards when you don't keep them up to date?! How much fucking effort does it take to make the staus "flight cancelled" instead of "on time"?! And seriously, no spare seats until the 11pm flight?
I've been in this departure lounge in this crappy terminal longer than I was on my transatlantic leg of the journey, I'm coming up to 24 hours awake, I won't get home till after midnight, god knows when I'll see my suitcase again and im very very grumpy....
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orfeo
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TICTH my local theatre for assuming that everyone comes in pairs, designing their subscription form accordingly, and fucking up things for my family for the 2nd year running.
[ 16. October 2012, 03:22: Message edited by: orfeo ]
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Spike
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Originally posted by MarsmanTJ:
TICTH people who decide that naming every bloody variable 'variable1' or similar variants in code that I then am expected to maintain is good practice. It would be faster to rewrite the damn thing. My boss sympathises, but our client insists that since it 'cost them a small fortune' we have to support the code they already have. They're not going to be happy when they get our bill for this 'quick bug-fix' I can tell you that...
Back when I worked in the dark side, I was given some very wise advice: Always assume the maintenance programmer who has to work with this code is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live!
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Morlader
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Originally posted by Gwai:
Everyone who doesn't believe in universal healthcare. A beautiful little baby died today because his mother didn't go to the doctor enough because of lack of healthcare.
![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) (baby and mother)
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Nunc Dimittis
Seamstress of Sound
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TICTH people who try to organise me. Look people, I'm a professional, ok, I know what I am doing. I am here to help you. I find it difficult to help you when you tell me what to do. I do NOT appreciate being told what to do. If you ask me to do something, then let me do it, don't step in and take over. Priests might look like bumbling old fart incompetents in the movies who are just there to read your words. But it honestly DOESN'T work like that! If you want someone who will do that, get a celebrant!
Furthermore, I CTH my own mediocrity and limitations. Smacking my head against another fricking glass ceiling. To the dead end of music and composition I can add academic theology.
And I CTH being single, getting home late at night, and having no friends online to debrief all of the above with!!
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ken
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Spammers
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L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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The Kat in the Hat
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TICTH parking lights on my car.
I turned them on last night without realising. There is no warning noise (like when you leave the main lights on), so didn't notice. Now have flat battery.
Why do we need them?
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RuthW
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TICTH people who call to say they've just sent me an email.
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marzipan
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TICTH clients who ask us to revise a drawing AFTER me & a colleague have just spent most of the weekend (and colleague spent yesterday evening) trying to draw the damn things in the first place.
Also myself, for moaning about work when I should be glad to have work never mind extra overtime work. (But really, I'd rather have spent the weekend making a christmas cake than drawing lines on a stupid page)
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Now containing 50% less cheese
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Pigwidgeon
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TICTH political phone calls (I don't answer, but I have to get up from what I'm doing to check caller i.d.); political flyers left at my door; political callers who come to my door. Three more weeks of this!
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Sioni Sais
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TICTH coding clerks. It might say analyst/programmer or developer on your job title, but if you need that level of detail before you will even estimate how long it will take to do a job, you had better steer clear of AGILE projects in future. Certainly any with me around. Don't your years of experience count for anything? Apart from the ability to CYA that is
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Sioni Sais
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Me again.
TICTH UEFA and various European football associations for doing nothing about their racist supporters.
All English clubs were banned for five yeas from all UEFA tournaments following a particularly awful incident involving supporters of just one club, but racist abuse is a regular thing across the Balkans and Eastern European and even Spain and Portugal which have black players in their national sides.
UEFA, stop holding symposia and meetings and cut out the pious handshakes, and kick these arseholes out of the game.
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Dark Knight
Super Zero
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TICTH the NRA. Listening to the debate and the absurd tap dancing by both candidates when confronting a straightforward question about AK47s.
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Kelly Alves
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TICTH the following clusterfuck participants tonight:
1. The teenage girl pedestrian who darted out in front of me dressed entirely in black, after nightfall.(At least she was at the crosswalk.)
2. The guy behind me, who arrived after I stopped, who blasted his horn and peeled around me into the oncoming lane, just barely missing the girl and fucking over several other drivers. Good thing the girl was fast.
People around here drive like a bunch of Ayn Rand enthusiasts.
(I added "clusterfuck" to spell check.)
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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orfeo
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Ticket scalpers. Burn in Hell, the lot of you.
I'd also quite like to see you rot in jail first.
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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Regardless of the etiquette of two in a row: TICTH exclusive bonus tracks added to albums in an attempt to make fans buy multiple copies in order to get every track. No, I'm not going to buy the iTunes version and the Amazon version alongside the physical CD version I actually want, just for 1 track. And that's assuming you don't use the wonders of modern technology to restrict your special versions to particular countries. I can order a CD from America, but I can't buy anything from the American iTunes store. Progress? Don't make me laugh.
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Pyx_e
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TICTH you dickless wonders who when daring to overtake another speed-averse pussy take a 5 minute run at it gradually reeling them in like some geriatric wormhole and then noticing me in your rear-view mirror decide to keep accelerating at your pitiful rate for another 5 minutes before finding yourself at 80mph lurching back to the inside lane and in a truly worrying fashion and decelerating back to a “safe” speed while wittering away to your myopic wife who now smells of old lady wee that you showed that youngster how to drive properly. Honest to God when I am King of the Church of England my third dictate will be to put you feckers in electric buggies and chain you with a 40 yard chain to the lamp post outside your warden controlled bungalow.
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Ayn Rand. What the fuck?
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Flossymole
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TICTH the arrogant, time-wasting, lying, thieving bastards who ring me up every other day to tell me I'm due a pension bonus, a bank refund, an injury claim, the Euromillions, free loft insulation or a time-share in Florida. (Why the f*** would I want a time-share in Florida? If I don't live in a climate of perpetual drizzle my skin flakes off.)
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Kelly Alves
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..whoever thought it was a good idea to have a DJ booth and some jackass with a bullhorn-- A BULLHORN-- right by the academic assesment center.
Actually I know who it was. Fuck you, Jamba Juice, and your mobile merch tent.
I just walked up to the procter and said, "I'm rescheduling." (Which meant I gave up my spot to someone on the drop-in list. Win-win.)
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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TICTH the change in policy that means that the GP will no longer say "you need some time off work" or "you're OK to go in to work" and instead ask you to make the decision about whether you're fit to work or not.
I made the mistake of going back before I was properly well last week. What makes you think I'll be any wiser this week? And I feel a wimp actually saying "please will you sign me off for a few days more?".... reminiscent of asking my mum to write me a note! You're the expert - you surely know better than I do whether I am a)likely to infect others and b) likely to delay my recovery if I go back.
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QLib
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Originally posted by Flossymole:
TICTH the arrogant, time-wasting, lying, thieving bastards who ring me up every other day to tell me I'm due a pension bonus, a bank refund, an injury claim, the Euromillions, free loft insulation or a time-share in Florida.
The free loft insulation could actually be genuine.
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Originally posted by QLib:
quote:
Originally posted by Flossymole:
TICTH the arrogant, time-wasting, lying, thieving bastards who ring me up every other day to tell me I'm due a pension bonus, a bank refund, an injury claim, the Euromillions, free loft insulation or a time-share in Florida.
The free loft insulation could actually be genuine.
I'm sure it is. I have given up telling them I don't have a fucking loft, and put the phone down.
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Bean Sidhe
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Hanging up is best, even for the arrogant, time-wasting, lying, thieving bastard. They're expected to keep you talking at all costs. Hang up and nobody can blame them.
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Niteowl
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TITCH the Boy Scouts of America who covered up for decades the crimes of scout masters and other adult volunteers in their ranks who molested the boys in their care. Not a single one was reported to the police and everyone involved was told to "keep quiet". The spokesman for the Boy Scouts admitted they were more worried about the Boy Scouts than the children.
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Sioni Sais
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TICTH Sir Alex Ferguson.
He would say that, wouldn't he.
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Flossymole
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Originally posted by Flossymole:
TICTH the arrogant, time-wasting, lying, thieving bastards who ring me up every other day to tell me I'm due a pension bonus, a bank refund, an injury claim, the Euromillions, free loft insulation or a time-share in Florida.
quote:
Originally posted by QLib: The free loft insulation could actually be genuine.
I've already got loft insulation. The nosey parkers claim to know everything else about me so they should know that. (But thanks anyway)
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Flossymole:
quote:
Originally posted by Flossymole:
TICTH the arrogant, time-wasting, lying, thieving bastards who ring me up every other day to tell me I'm due a pension bonus, a bank refund, an injury claim, the Euromillions, free loft insulation or a time-share in Florida.
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Originally posted by QLib: The free loft insulation could actually be genuine.
I've already got loft insulation. The nosey parkers claim to know everything else about me so they should know that. (But thanks anyway)
Maybe they could provide you with a free loft too. Ask them for that.
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