The two most dreadful things in Britain.

[piku]

The Weather?

No, we like the weather, it supplies our daily background dosage of "whinge rays". We're British, we like to complain, and if there's nothing to complain about we'd probably self destruct in a cycle of meta-meta-... complaining. So the weather is important, and a standard greeting when encountering a stranger.

Another dreadful thing is how people don't really have conversations, they just wait for the other person to stop talking so they get to have a go.

And the Daily Mail.

[gumboot]

That Kraft have been able to purchase a British company (Cadbury), employing British people, by using British public money in the form of a loan from RBS under the reigns of the British Govenrment. And who, once the take over is complete, will no doubt make thousands of British people unemployed in the process in order to cut costs so they can pay us back.

I wouldn't much care about jobs or Britishness or any of that, but Kraft can't have Green and Blacks. That's wrong.

The Weather?

The weather is actually just fine. The problem is in how the British cope with it.

[defsdoor]

The weather is actually just fine. The problem is in how the British cope with it.

We cope with it fine. It's just the news and press that make a big deal about it.

We do like to talk about it a lot though.

[(o)(o)]

The weather is actually just fine. The problem is in how the British cope with it.

We cope with it fine. It's just the news and press that make a big deal about it.

The news outlets cope with public demand just fine.

[Kelloggs]

1) Stupid. It's everywhere. "I see stupid people." The March Of The Drooling Morons.
2) ...

Actually, if we could just fix 1) then we'd be in much better shape. Although, I can't for the life of me think that maybe my life would be complete if I could just find that copy of The Highway Code that has a white circle with a black line diagonally across it, denoted as "Maximum Speed: 30 miles per hour", just like the Morons have. And that's just one of the examples from the drive into work this morning, taking an hour to do 22 miles, most of it through white-circle-with-black-line territory. Then the day got worse...

[PinkFearie]

1) Supermarkets, always filled with morons who walk at a pace more often seen in Zombie films and the steering ability of a blind drunk.
2)Not enough Hello Kitty in the UK

[Orava]

1) Stupid. It's everywhere. "I see stupid people." The March Of The Drooling Morons.
2) ...

Actually, if we could just fix 1) then we'd be in much better shape. Although, I can't for the life of me think that maybe my life would be complete if I could just find that copy of The Highway Code that has a white circle with a black line diagonally across it, denoted as "Maximum Speed: 30 miles per hour", just like the Morons have. And that's just one of the examples from the drive into work this morning, taking an hour to do 22 miles, most of it through white-circle-with-black-line territory. Then the day got worse...

Horn on and flash lights continuously. They will eventually give away.

I do not mind people who drive at 20mph for a reason, it is the idiots who drive everywhere at 40mph. Country road, straight, could do 60, they do 40. A village, should do 20mph, they do 40.

Do not drive everywhere like a zombie.

[Devlin]

1) my dire employment situation *(unemployed)
2) my dire relationship situation **(single)

*God, if I get denied once more it will be probably about 300 job offer denials over the last couple years (not including ignored applications)

**I've been single for about nine months and for seven of those nine months i've been looking for a relationship, to no success. All the women i've met are either taken, not interested or have some personality trait I simply cannot stand. Plus quitting drinking for the new year is unlikely to help my chances much.

Yes i'm repeating myself from earlier in the thread, but I wanted to explain a bit why.

[piku]

1) my dire employment situation *(unemployed)
2) my dire relationship situation **(single)

Cheer up you miserable git

Your life's easy, you live at home still. It might be annoying, but at least it's warm and safe. At least when the boiler breaks, or your roof leaks or someone breaks in and steals everything you don't have to deal with it. And you don't own a car, so when that breaks down it doesn't cost you £500 to repair.

Perhaps you should turn your computer off and go out and do something else.

[moosedude]

Ant & Dec

I'll see your Ant & Dec, and raise you a Jedward.

otherwise;

1) a disturbing lack of collective common sense
2) the escalation of a completely nobody to fame who has no redeeming features apart from a sex video on the Internet

[Narrengoat]

1)People who insist voting is a valid use of my time while the evidence to the contrary is pounding them in the face with its scabby self-serving redwood of a cock, Over and over, year after year.

Silly betamax, don't you know that the only way to discharge your democratic duty is to vote for someone you don't know on the basis of things they promise to do about stuff that hasn't happened yet. After you've done that you can go back to totally ignoring the whole grizzly shebang with the satisfaction of a job well done. Anyway, if you don't vote then the BNP will get in somewhere and it will all be your fault. Somehow.

Seriously, though, if you think the excessive "I saved the free world" self-congratulation going around for what is basically putting marks on a piece of paper is a bit weak sauce, or that voting is not the endpoint of engagement in a democracy, or just think that the sneaky self-serving fuckers need to be watched like a hawk, then I suggest a half hour a week on http://www.theyworkforyou.com/ hassling your MP via email as therapy.

[bumblebee]

1) a disturbing lack of collective common sense
2) the escalation of a completely nobody to fame who has no redeeming features apart from a sex video on the Internet

Looks like trending issues but they are not British only. On the positive side, one can buy decent tea there. That's something!

[Mellers]

1. Celebrity culture
2. The vicious indescriminate ruthlessness of the press

[betamax]

Off back to Russia with you.

Too many armoured bears rummaging in the bins.

[Cloudane]

1. Immigrants
2. Muslims

Sincerely,
The Daily Mail