Stuff that REALLY annoys you.

[leekfiend]

Never been so close to insanity and mass-murder myself.

Went one better - landlord was coming to show prospective new people around so I mentioned the hideous smell of mould in Master CompSci's room, at which he rang him and 'gave him both barrels', as he put it. Housemate has now fucked off and not been seen in several hours

Then our landlord turned up after the prospectives so I had plenty of time to brief them on his lies and bullshit

I win.

Is this the cunty housemate that attacked you?

Oh, and yes, you do win

[DutchLlama]

Privatization really annoys me, or at least the way it's done in this country.

The government sells off public owned assets to private companies who then get state monopolies

Last year I bought a satellite dish and receiver and since I cancelled my cable I was looking into watching TV via the satellite dish (also because they switched off public television on the analogue bands). Turns out that there is only one provider of smart cards for satellite receivers in this country if you want to see the "public" television (which is heavily encrypted and not FTA like the BBC or the German public channels, we pay for those channels through taxes and then they say that we have to pay "rights" to watch them. ), the company Canal Digitaal, which has been granted a state monopoly. Their offerings are rubbish, you have to pay 30 euros per month if you want to see some fairly common channels, which you get for free on cable.

Also there are only three companies who carry them in this country, Canal Digitaal, KPN and UPC (who have technologies based on DVB-T, cable and internet television), so you can only get their products and usually you have to buy other products from them if you want to get them. I was interested in the KPN "Mine" TV via internet product but I can't get it as I have internet from Orange.

It's the same with postal services, energy and public transport. You can often only deal with one company who then fleece the market because they have no competion. And then they call this "leaving things to market forces".

[supermonkeyworld]

I don't know much about the postal and public transport companies in the UK, but there is no monopoly when it comes to energy providers, although that may certainly not be true in the future.

[Kamineko]

Big Brother.

I don't normally complain about twaddle like this, engaging in with it and it's fans somehow seems like a validation of it's intended purpose: "yes it's shit but at least it gets people talking and it makes you think". I just try to ignore it, change the channel when it's on and just treat it as the background hum of modern life.

But the recent 'racism' debacle has pushed that hum into an all consuming din. Newspapers, news bulletins, politics, magazines, radio, tv. It's infecting everything with it's cretinous drivel to the point where it's impossible to switch off, impossible to ignore the fever pitch of cretinous, shrill, half-witted jibberish spouted by all and sundry.

And that's the worst part. If this was just confined to the type of people who have a predeliction for meaningless gossip then it wouldn't be a problem. But even the most sensible people, the kind of people who can articulate an intelligent and well reasoned argument are doing just that about Big Brother, seemingly oblivious to the fact that IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER!

It's a fucking game show. A GAME SHOW. A game show where the primary draw isn't the wit and humour of the presenter, not the deviousness of it's challenges, not even the lure of big prizes and flashing lights. It's the possibility of seeing stupid people argue. That's it.

If you've spent more than a few minutes of your life watching, discussing or even thinking about BB you've wasted that time and you really need to find something else to do with your time.






And yes, I'm fully aware of the irony of that final statement.
Sorry if that's offensive to anyone but I've just had more than I can take this week.

[RedOktober]

Well said, K. I agree entirely.

[Cloudane]

I watched it a few times. Let's see, once they were just sat there asleep and nothing happening. Another time they were such fake and eccentric people (so incredibly blatantly for the sake of fame) - that I couldn't bear to watch it. Cringe worthy!

The latter I remember too well, there were two blondes put in after everyone else. One was attractive and the other a fat trogg, and the fat trogg insisted on flashing her tits at every opportunity. Ghastly!

[Snakey]

Nnnooo! That's a perfectly good console display device ruined!

[Kamineko]

He's clearly taking shelter from aggressive cheese inside an already broken microwave oven.

[Marius]

Reality shows in general is stupid beyond belief. It goes to prove just how low the media is willing to sink for that extra buck. Hell, people are willing to be the laughingstock of an entire nation just for a shot at their fifteen minutes of fame.

Imagine watching you child making a complete and utter fool of himself in front of millions of viewers. I could never again show my face in public.

[Stone]

Is this the cunty housemate that attacked you?

No, this is his replacement. He's still not come back

Stone

[leekfiend]

Is this the cunty housemate that attacked you?

No, this is his replacement. He's still not come back

The landlord replaced him with another cunty one??

Dude, you got the shitty end of that stick

[DutchLlama]

That Big Brother thing was picked up by our news as well.

Funny thing is that the housemate (Jade Goody) who was evicted because she cursed that Indian actress for being dark wasn't too lily white herself. I think it is what psychologists call "projection", pointing the finger to the "darky" because she wasn't so secure about her own skin colour. (also her face looks like that of a pig, whatever she is famous for it's not because of her looks I reckon).

I never watch the Dutch Big Brother. Only seen a few bits of episodes of the first show in 1999 and never watched it after that. I really don't see what is so interesting about watching some idiots making fools of themselves in a house.

[Tael]

I thought this thread would be the best place to mention my latest dealings with a telemarketer. Apparently, if I switch my mobile to a $20 plan I could get $50 worth of free calls/messages each month, even though I only spend $10 a month because that's all I use. "You're getting $10 a month of calls/messages for $10, but with us you'd get $70 worth for $20." So if I spend an extra $10 I get $60 worth of calls/messages I won't use? That's fucking brilliant!

[Kamineko]

Now what's exactly in there, eh?

[Alarm]

Now what's exactly in there, eh?

According to the filename, water.