Bond and Beyond's Room 101

To steal an idea from Old Mi6, here's something fun. I want you to name one pet peeve, and I will add it to a list. Gradually what will form is an catalogue of hate and bile.

You first.

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1. Border controls at airports. Fucking hate them.

Mark Steyn wrote:

Question: what do the 9/11 killers, the Shoebomber, the Heathrow plotters, the Pantybomber, the London Tube bombers, the doctors who drove a flaming SUV through the concourse of Glasgow Airport and the would-be killers of Danish cartoonists all have in common? Answer: they’re Muslim. Sometimes they’re Muslims with box cutters, sometimes they’re Muslims with flaming shoes, sometimes they’re Muslims with liquids and gels, sometimes they’re Muslims with fully loaded underwear. But the Muslim bit is a constant. What we used to call a fact. But America’s leaders cannot state that simple fact, and so the TSA is obliged to pretend that all seven billion inhabitants of this planet represent an equal threat.

I wonder how far out the “security” perimeter will eventually be drawn. Just as the micro-regulatory coerciveness of the pre-9/11 airline cabin has now spread to the airport, so eventually post-9/11 airport “security” will spread way beyond—all because the prevailing political culture cannot tell the truth about what’s happening.

From '99-year-old Granny isn’t the problem: Airport ‘security’ has to pretend all seven billion of us on this planet are an equal threat'
by Mark Steyn January 21, 2010

http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/21/99-year-old-granny-is-not-the-problem/

2. Buffering porn.

3. The five minute abridged "teaser" versions of Czech Streets.

4. Naggers.

5. I HATE when you're talking to a couple and they're holding hands and one of them that you're talking to gestures with the hand-locked hand and the other person isn't even listening. It seems so rude.

6. Pointless remakes

7. Bonds 2-22

8. Packaging you can't get into.

9. Drivers who don't know how to use lanes.

10. Pretty boys at the gym who just work on pretty muscles and stand in big groups when you are trying to do weights at the gym. (and because summer is coming there has been a massive increase)

11. Parking

12. Bearings questions in my Maths textbook

13. Being unable to find a book/film you really want to read/watch.

14. Football agents.

1) Because they're greedy, overpaid, troublecausing bastards and 2) because they highlight just how empty-headed most footballers are that they can't even make their own decisions about their very own life.
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Khan's is left pending, due to inconsistency with past statements.

Rap is the first thing that sprang to mind. And I'm sure you'll concur, Shark.

:)

No, actually, but I might add it for the sake of fairness. Weren't you a fan of old skool 80s Hip Hop though, Khan? Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC, Public Enemy, Favlor Flav etc.

Hate and bile? Include me out.

Border controls at airports. Fucking hate them. As Mark Steyn said:

Quote :

Question: what do the 9/11 killers, the Shoebomber, the Heathrow plotters, the Pantybomber, the London Tube bombers, the doctors who drove a flaming SUV through the concourse of Glasgow Airport and the would-be killers of Danish cartoonists all have in common? Answer: they’re Muslim. Sometimes they’re Muslims with box cutters, sometimes they’re Muslims with flaming shoes, sometimes they’re Muslims with liquids and gels, sometimes they’re Muslims with fully loaded underwear. But the Muslim bit is a constant. What we used to call a fact. But America’s leaders cannot state that simple fact, and so the TSA is obliged to pretend that all seven billion inhabitants of this planet represent an equal threat.

I wonder how far out the “security” perimeter will eventually be drawn. Just as the micro-regulatory coerciveness of the pre-9/11 airline cabin has now spread to the airport, so eventually post-9/11 airport “security” will spread way beyond—all because the prevailing political culture cannot tell the truth about what’s happening.

From '99-year-old Granny isn’t the problem: Airport ‘security’ has to pretend all seven billion of us on this planet are an equal threat'
by Mark Steyn January 21, 2010

http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/21/99-year-old-granny-is-not-the-problem/

Buffering porn videos.

Fucking hate when it happens.

To which I'd have to add the five minute versions of Czech Streets. Teasers indeed.

It's not the first five minutes I object to, Shark - Mr Street's seductive techniques are a masterclass. (Keep producing more banknotes until they say yes.)

It's the five-minute abridged versions that currently occupy 99.9% of internet bandwidth that I object to.

Yes, sorry. I misread your post. I know what you mean - most of those sites (i.e. youporn, spankwire, xtube etc.) are filled with either 3 minute clips or those teasers you mention. One has to hunt very hard to find full versions, but they're still there. Usually taken down after a few months, in breach of copyright.

Sharky wrote:

I want you to name one pet peeve

Naggers.

Perilagu Khan wrote:

Rap is the first thing that sprang to mind. And I'm sure you'll concur, Shark.

:)

I used to have a taste aversion to rap but I must say it has grown on me. I love all types of music besides what today is basically "country-pop" (give me some Johnny Cash though and I'll be good forever). Like it or not, people like Kanye West understand modern music production unlike a lot of musicians. I love some Jay-z and some Run DMC.

Pet-peeves though! Man, this one is really specific. I HATE when you're talking to a couple and they're holding hands and one of them that you're talking to gestures with the hand-locked hand and the other person isn't even listening. It seems so rude.

Even worse with Siamese twins. Ask Sharky to tell you about his somewhat strange threesome sometime.

Remake movies that actually add nothing new and look generally shyte when compared to the original movie.

Ah. Bonds 2-22.

Hmm... this is turning into "you say jump, Shark says how high?"

Sharky wrote:

Hmm... this is turning into "you say jump, Shark says how high?"

Hasn't it always been that way? ;)

Packaging you can't get into.
Drivers who don't know how to use lanes.

^Yes.

Pretty boys at the gym who just work on pretty muscles and stand in big groups when you are trying to do weights at the gym. (and because summer is coming there has been a massive increase)

Parking

Bearings questions in my Maths textbook

Being unable to find a book/film you really want to read/watch.

Football agents.

1) Because they're greedy, overpaid, troublecausing bastards and 2) because they highlight just how empty-headed most footballers are that they can't even make their own decisions about their very own life.

Erica Ambler wrote:

Hate and bile? Include me out.

Border controls at airports. Fucking hate them. As Mark Steyn said:

Quote :

Question: what do the 9/11 killers, the Shoebomber, the Heathrow plotters, the Pantybomber, the London Tube bombers, the doctors who drove a flaming SUV through the concourse of Glasgow Airport and the would-be killers of Danish cartoonists all have in common? Answer: they’re Muslim. Sometimes they’re Muslims with box cutters, sometimes they’re Muslims with flaming shoes, sometimes they’re Muslims with liquids and gels, sometimes they’re Muslims with fully loaded underwear. But the Muslim bit is a constant. What we used to call a fact. But America’s leaders cannot state that simple fact, and so the TSA is obliged to pretend that all seven billion inhabitants of this planet represent an equal threat.

I wonder how far out the “security” perimeter will eventually be drawn. Just as the micro-regulatory coerciveness of the pre-9/11 airline cabin has now spread to the airport, so eventually post-9/11 airport “security” will spread way beyond—all because the prevailing political culture cannot tell the truth about what’s happening.

From '99-year-old Granny isn’t the problem: Airport ‘security’ has to pretend all seven billion of us on this planet are an equal threat'
by Mark Steyn January 21, 2010

http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/21/99-year-old-granny-is-not-the-problem/

All post 9/11 airport security is one big farce anyway. It's a piece of performance art aimed at giving people a false sense of security. The next such attack is likely to be committed on a "soft" target like a train or bus. None of us are safer because we can't bring a bottle of water into our carry-on bag any longer. The real measures to prevent another 9/11 (like closed off cockpits and air marshalls) were taken in the immediate aftermath of the attacks.

Salomé wrote:

All post 9/11 airport security is one big farce anyway. It's a piece of performance art aimed at giving people a false sense of security.

I see it more as an attempt by big government to intimidate the people. It's very interesting looking at their humiliated expressions as they're obliged to remove their jackets, belts and shoes while armed guards with dogs look on. It all reminds me of something.

Arbeit macht frei...

Any more bugbears?

On October 31st the 7 billionth human being is anticipated will be born, ...... so err how about children to room 101, lets face it they only spend a tiny amount of time actually being 'cute', they consume time, money and resources and in return......nothing, well nothing conscentually only whatever ego/satisfaction a person might gets from adding into that already massive over-population?

my biggest pet peeve:

when I go somewhere and buy something and they don't say Hi, or Did You Find Every okay and then say thank you when you hand them your money in cash or on a credit card/debit card

whether it's a waiter/waitress at a restaurantr or a cashier at a grocery store or an attendant at a gas station

sometime I'd even say thank you when they give me my change just to see if they will reciprocate or say you are welcome and I can tell you, 95% of the time they don't

I hate it when the waitress doesn't ask me to meet her in the bathroom for a quickie.

Mr. Brown wrote:

I hate it when the waitress doesn't ask me to meet her in the bathroom for a quickie.

I usually give them a tip.

Oh, and some change for prompt service.