Pet hates

[Doorman]

What are your pet hates? I've got a million of 'em but my No.1 at the moment is that patronising git on the BBC1 news at 6o/c.............Sorry, I was distracted just by thinking about him.  :x  :x  
More as I'm reminded of them.

[TeaLeaf]

You really shouldn't have asked me that question!  My pet hate - INACCURATE FINANCIAL JOURNALISM  :x  :x  :x  :x  :x

[rant]
I work in the Financial Services profession giving people investment, tax, pensions and insurance advice.  So you can imagine that over the last 10 years or so I have seen a fair amount of bad and wholly innaccurate press.  

For example, you may have seen worrying portayal of pensions on 'Panorama' on Sunday night?  Well it was total crap.  Totally wrong.  Totally misleading.  Totally aimed at scaring the pants off you.  And it probably did.

I used to occassionally write articles for some of the broadsheet financial pages, it is a huge investment of time and money.  I gave it up because of 'cut and paste' journalists who asked for a whole article on something that I painstakingly put together for them and they would then quote me, place the quote into a paragraph about something completely different and make me look like a complete muppet (no funny comments here please, this is a rant).

There was a training course not so long ago for financial journalists held at Legal & General.  It's aim was to help journalists understand what an adviser's job entailed.  As an example they were taught the 'basics' about inheritance tax.  At the end of the course a well-known (but un-named) female journalist came up and said "I never knew that about inheritance tax and I have had several books published on the subject".  

It irks me massively that a journalist can print any old tosh they want and not have to be subject to the regulation and stricture of the Financial Services Authority.  You, the reader, believe it and take action.  If they are wrong you can't sue them.  If I did that as a regulated investment adviser I'd be struck off quicker than you could say "tsk".

The really worrying thing is that if I know they get it so badly wrong for a subject I know really well, then I have to assume they get it really badly wrong for subjects that I know nothing about.....and that's frightening.

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TL.  

[OldBloke]

What are your pet hates?

Baldric's configs.

[albert]

I hate car mechanics, estate agents, property managers, bootleggers, mudsligers and cheatin' varments.     No offence to any of you who partake in any of these professions but at least one of the above have shat on me at one point in time.

[Benny]

EDIT - Mildy strong language..

hmm...

I hate when you sit down to watch TV and someone feels the need to commentate or provide anecdotes throughout the entire program whilst repeatedly asking 'What did he just say', 'What's happening'.

If you are interested, THEN STTANGOU, FTANGOS, you've ruined it for me, you've ruined it for yourself, you've spoiled my whole TANGOing day, because I was looking forward to , it is the one thing I like to watch, and strangely I'd have liked to have known what was going on, and I don't give 1 TANGO, let alone 2 what happen to your great aunty TANGO chops when she stubbed her toe....

I also don't like -
Stupid people who don't know they are stupid

The bit of gristle in the first bite of a pasty that puts you off the rest of it

KFC's policy that all staff must have body odour

oh, and unix admins who will never accept that it may be there box that is configured wrong until you log on and prove it, then they try and weasel out of it. They never log onto my kit o prove something, because they invariably can't.....Allow me to tar all SA's with that brush.

Oh, and those TANGOers that ring you in the evening or at weekends to sell you electricity or somesuch, TANGO off, I don't ring you in your personal time and try to sell you my skidded pants, so don't ring me, I don't want it, I don't want to talk to you, I don't like you, if I wanted to make small talk to a complete stranger then I would go to KFC, as they invariably don't understand unless you point and swear......ahhhh.....and witheld numbers, the caller with held their number....if it was important enough to ring, then at least leave the TANGOing number you brainless TANGOs...

I'll get back in the corner now......flibble.....grunt...


I'm going to scratch the inside of my face now, it itches.

This post has been Tango-edited by TeaLeaf.

[OldBloke]

:roll:    Another graduate from the 'DogMeat Charm School'   :wink:

[Dingo]

......................I hate all my pets!!   :evil:  :evil:



......but seriously (how I hate getting serious...well so women tell me, but that's another story  :roll: ).......It's got to be the tiny little key that they put on the side of the Corned Beef tins, too small to use properly, and so weak that they invariably break off halfway round so you have to get the tin opener out anyway....why not put a ring pull top on it?? or do they think your'e only going to eat the little bit at the bottom and save the rest for later!!!   :roll:  :roll:

Pushy shop assistants who leap on you as you enter saying "Can I help you?" and then attempt to show you everything in the shop except what you went in for in the first place....and then have the bloody cheek to stand outside the dressing room to ensure you don't nick the stuff!!

Being put on hold on the telephone for ten minutes with Greensleeves playing!!  Grrrrr!!!!!!!!!

Spending two hours in traffic on the M25 to discover the only reason for it is that rubberneckers want to slow down and look at the broken down car at the roadside.....Get a television like the rest of us for God's sake!!

......and last but not least, hermetically sealed crisp packets where no matter how gently you try to open them they just won't budge until you tug that little bit harder and the packet splits down both sides emptying the contents onto the floor.....Ye Gods!!  :roll:  :roll:  :roll:  :roll:  :roll:


ps Benny, I think you need to spank her more often!!  :lol:

[albert]

.......It's got to be the tiny little key that they put on the side of the Corned Beef tins, too small to use properly, and so weak that they invariably break off halfway round so you have to get the tin opener out anyway....why not put a ring pull top on it?? or do they think your'e only going to eat the little bit at the bottom and save the rest for later!!!

Ah but, my learned friend.... if there was a ring pull you'd open the top!! Whereby never ever being able to get the corned beef out unless you spoon it!

[Dingo]

Cleverly spooted Albert, but in the traditional sense of the ringpull, you wouldn't be able to get a spoon in in the first place....it would have to be a straw or one of those tiny little spoons that hang on our necklaces and are used for.... 'cough, cough' imbibing of snuff!!

Tease me as you may , I was of course referring to the new modern ringpulls for tinned goods, whereby the whole of the lid is removed in an instant, and the insertion of a fork into the soft and succulent meat is enough to prise it from it's metallic shell and be served to the delictation of those with a nearby plate of chips!!....Yummmy

[Doorman]

Oh, and car parks that are 90% trees, shrubs and little islands. Don't even mention those goddam foot thick posts that are just low enough to prang, not high enough to see. If all car parks were just vast lumps of tarmac the traffic problem would be solved in a trice. (or maybe even a twice.)

[Benny]

People who can't bastard park, taking up a space and a half, or people with short cars who park well into the space so you drive up thinking 'result' and then just as you are about to pull in you notice the little buggers..

[albert]

Women with big jeep type cars that look empty cause the car is far too big for her. She can't control it, has a downward facing mirror on the back window to see how close to the car at the back he is. She can't go down a dual carriage way cause she thinks there's not enough room and she takes two spaces in the car park. She also takes two spaces at roadside and has 10 children in the back who are getting more of her attention than the road. I can't stand going to Sainsbury's as every second car is a jeep or a people carrier or one of these massive BMW 4x4 thingys. And they always have to take every child in their street to the supermarket with them!
And who says a car is a p*nis extension, would the correct term be a p*ssy extension? Or is just insecurity? More likely far too much money, make em all drive micras or these weird Fiats with the bump on the bonnet.

[Benny]

People who sit in the middle lane when the inside is empty, get out of the way, you may want to cruise to your destination, but I want to risk my life and get there faster than you.

Getting a wet sock in the bathroom or kitchen, you know you've done it as soon as it happens, that cold feeling, bah!

[Dingo]

.....all of the above and then some!!   :lol:  :lol:






ps D, they did make the whole world a car park....then called it the M25!!
     Still no resolution to the problem  :roll:  :roll:

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