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Oh dear. : A thread about things that tick you off quite a bit, and might even elicit a frown.

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STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

20:06 / 07.06.07

I'm normally in favour of cyclists, so don't think this is all aimed at you guys.

BUT when I'm standing on the pavement, next to a PEDESTRIAN crossing, and you're on a FUCKING BIKE, on the OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD, a road which you are ACTUALLY FOLLOWING, but FOLLOWING ON THE PAVEMENT AND YOU'VE DECIDED YOU'D LIKE TO CYCLE ON THE OTHER SIDE FOR A CHANGE, don't. Just don't. DON'T, for fuck's sake, start giving pedestrians shit for "blocking your way" on the crossing that is actually NAMED AFTER THEM. Especially if you have plenty of fucking room to cycle past me, if that's actually what you, for whatever twisted and just plain mental reasons you may have, want to do.

Next time I see you I'm blocking the cycle lane.

Oh, and get some fucking lights. The sun's gone down. Don't be a fucking idiot.

Mysterious Transfer Student

13:30 / 10.06.07

NGgghhh.

To use some proprietary software, which you have paid for, to record a DVD from a movie file on your hard drive would be a relatively simple matter in the age of space travel, iTunes and coffee that comes in a can, would you not think?

No, seemingly it is not. It's all thanks to the intervention of tiny invisible demons called codecs (who may well have been taking notes from Barbelith's Trickster contingent) who could, if the mood struck them, allow you to create a DVD with crystal clear picture and sound quality for the viewing pleasure of your friends, but just... don't... feel like it.

Like all good victims of a shafting, I blame myself first of all. Notwithstanding which: Screw your customer testimonials, DeepBurner Pro. Screw them into the otolaryngeal tract and leave them there.

16:06 / 10.06.07

Not being allowed into a club because I was wearing women's clothes. Apparently you are allowed to wear sportswear into Burton's Chicago Rock so long as you are the right sex for objectification.

What, aren't men allowed sexy midriffs too?

I'm preparing my strongly worded letter this evening.

07:50 / 12.06.07

It might be a silly thing to be ticked off by, if not to experience full-on astonishment at the insanity of mankind, but a tooth-brush manufacturer just recently came out with a line of mass-produced trendy toothbrushes to "highlight your indidivduality"

Something about the commercial for it literally had me throwing my hands in the air and shouting at the television when I was visiting my parents. I don't own a tv or watch much of it anyway, and this perfectly illustrated the reasons why.

Be different! Be an individual! You can be cool and trendy by buying a toothbrush in one of the 19 colours and designs intended to follow the latest trends shoved down your throat by the culture-industries! By cool, be hip, be yourself, by buying a FUCKING PLASTIC TOOTHBRUSH.

And then I found out quite a few people were praising it, exclaiming: "This is what I 've always wanted"

*sigh*

Janean Patience

08:09 / 12.06.07

Princess: Apparently you are allowed to wear sportswear into Burton's Chicago Rock so long as you are the right sex for objectification.

You live in Burton, Princess? As in Burton-on-Trent, home of breweries and Marmite? The single worst town I've visited in the Midlands, and that's saying something? This - everything to do with Burton - should really be in the miserable thread.

Unless of course you live in Burton, California and the sun is shining and people are skating and everything is wonderful. Then again I don't suppose there's a Chicago Rock in California.

Regrettable Juvenilia

09:22 / 12.06.07

Seriously, trying to get into Chicago Rock in Burton dressed in partial drag must surely rank up there high on the list of inevitably fruitless exercises. I mean, you'd be on a hiding to nothing trying to push nightclub dress code boundaries in a gender-bendy direction pretty much anywhere in the Midlands, but Chicago Rock in Burton-on-Trent? I spent the best part of 17 years living in Burton-on-Trent and I can tell you that it is a town where, until relatively recently, if you wore the conservative 18-30 year old's uniform of t-shirt, sneakers, jeans and leather jacket you may as well have been clad in a pair of PVC chaps and a rainbow lycra top (I'm sure the signifiers have shuffled ever so slightly in our post-Kasabian-and-Mikey-from-BB age, but not a lot). Shit, even the indie night they used to have in Burton would have kept you out back in my day, probably for your own protection lest the Ocean Colour Scene fans took a dislike to you, and the last time I checked said indie night had closed down due to lack of interest. Points for having the chutzpah if you knew all this already, but still...

Maybe it's because I'm a Burtoner, that I love London so.

Regrettable Juvenilia

09:25 / 12.06.07

What annoys me is that it's called Chicago Rock. I like Chicago a lot. I like rock. Chicago Rock is nothing to do with either.

Janean Patience

09:39 / 12.06.07

Flyboy: I spent the best part of 17 years living in Burton-on-Trent

This explains so much about your anger.

12:04 / 12.06.07

I'm ticked off and pissed off with myself after the whole posting a gif + drama actually resulted in me saying I was leaving. Then a few days later I finish a short story and want to post back here for advice, and I have some writing to do about Taoism that I wanted to add here too, so fuck the whole situation, I'm getting on with my writing. Bumpy road and all.

12:13 / 12.06.07

The single worst town I've visited in the Midlands

Never been to Stoke then? Newcastle Under-Lyme? Hanley? Nuneaton? Rest assured there are many more at least as bad if not worse than Burton, the flyweight of midlands awful.

Regrettable Juvenilia

12:23 / 12.06.07

This is true, I think - in Burton everything is slightly half-assed and mediocre, including the nasty things.

Janean Patience

12:27 / 12.06.07

Never been to Stoke then? Newcastle-under-Lyme? Hanley?

I am, at this very moment, not unadjacent to the above towns. And, rubbish as they are in many ways, I'd still say they're preferable to Burton. Though my acquaintance with Burton was thankfully limited, further exploration promised only further horror.

"Shittest Town/City in the Midlands" would be a very close-run competition, though. And one nobody would want to witness.

06:38 / 13.06.07

I mean, you'd be on a hiding to nothing trying to push nightclub dress code boundaries in a gender-bendy direction pretty much anywhere in the Midlands

This isn't true. Pre-transition, I never had any problems in either Nottingham or Birmingham. And Birmingham's truly horrible. Or Lincoln, either, come to think of it.

13:11 / 14.06.07

Projectile vomiting. I hadn't been drinking, and I rarely do these days. I ate everything the same as my famliy. I made it myself. I have no food allergies. I am not possessed by any demons, that I know of. I had body pain, all day, then a bit of a fever, next the most forceful vomiting I have ever experienced in my life. And for no apparent reason. I feel fine now. I am not exactly "ticked off", but what the heck was that?

Tryphena Absent

13:13 / 14.06.07

Are you sure you have no food allergies?

13:17 / 14.06.07

Well, it would be new to me. I am more puzzled than pissed off, for certain. I am going to go and eat a strawberry. That is what I ate, (well, berries and yogurt), before the onset of fever and vomiting. We shall see in a moment. Or maybe that is a bad idea?

Mon Oncle Ignatius

13:20 / 14.06.07

It's certainly the scientific method...

13:21 / 14.06.07

Wait...could it kill me?

13:36 / 14.06.07

Okay. I have this most enormous strawberry. It is rather beautiful and quite fragrant. I have emergency support people on stand-by and I am going to bite into the strawberry.

13:46 / 14.06.07

OMG! It was the most beautiful strawberry in the world! Probably, because I am worried ever so slightly, that it might be my last.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

13:47 / 14.06.07

(Crosses fingers)

Mysterious Transfer Student

13:49 / 14.06.07

This is a very strange virtual spectator sport.

Justrix, we're all rooting for you.

13:54 / 14.06.07

Thanks Tranfer!

Well, it has been nearly 20 minutes, and nothing yet. How long should I leave it before I try the Raspberries?

14:05 / 14.06.07

Whilst I know yu said you had eaten exactly what your family had, did you drink anything different to them? Or perhaps earlier in the day you may have had something dodgy then which just took awhile to come out?

14:27 / 14.06.07

Hmm, gravlax and cream cheese on a thick slice of dark rye, about noon. I was sick nearly 12 hours later. Could this be the culprit? I don't usually stop at that bakery and get a sandwich. Damn seafood. How interesting, though, in not such a nice way. Hadn't really thought about that because it isn't really a part of the regular course of my daily events. Now I am ticked-off.

I am now going to have a bowl of berries and yogurt. It's my breakfast and I had been too fearful to eat it.

14:29 / 14.06.07

Gravlax and cream cheese a more likely culprit than a strawberry, for sure. Go veggie.

14:32 / 14.06.07

And miss out on Gravlax?

Our Lady Has Left the Building

14:33 / 14.06.07

Quantum go veggie

Ignore the hippy. Red meat is your friend, and will make you grow up to be a strong Viking.

Tryphena Absent

14:33 / 14.06.07

I bet you eat strawberries more often than Gravlax.

15:01 / 14.06.07

bet you eat strawberries more often than Gravlax.

Not much more. I haven't really been cooking or eating much meat. I've completely cut out red meats for myself and my son. Fish gets a big thumbs up with my son, so I use salmon in all forms - a lot. (I know it is still an animal..I am not claiming to be vegetarian, however.) Theone difference being the bakery I bought that sandwich from. I wonder if I should tell them about it. I wonder if they would even care, or just deny it.

Oh well, I had that wonderful experience with the strawberry...

15:11 / 14.06.07

Is it okay to objectify a strawberry, Anna?

Happy Dave Has Left

15:31 / 14.06.07

Red meat is your friend, and will make you grow up to be a strong Viking.

What do you mean by Viking?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:36 / 14.06.07

Is Gravlax a Pokemon?

15:58 / 14.06.07

During the Middle Ages, gravlax was made by fishermen by salting the salmon and lightly fermenting it by burying it in the sand above the high-tide line. The word gravlax comes from the Scandinavian words grav, which means literally "grave" or "hole in the ground" (in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish), and lax (or laks), which means "salmon", thus gravlax is "salmon dug into the ground".

So, the rotting raw salmon made Justrix vomit? Colour me astonished.

16:05 / 14.06.07

I don't believe that is how they make it, nowadays. Besides, I am an avid sushi-eater if we want to talk about raw fish. never had a problem. Notta once. It was clearly too old for consumption.

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