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Reply 20

Lao Ma

People who say "your" instead of "You're"

There's no difference. :s-smilie:

Reply 21

Captain Haddock

Physical Geographer

There's no difference. :s-smilie:

I ummm...

What?

Reply 22

Penny Crayon

The way they changed salt and vinegar to blue packets and cheese and onions to green... I'm baffled. (not all brands though, which makes it even more confusing).

And there is quite a big difference in your and you're.. Your crisps.. You're a crisp. Its called English..

Reply 23

Giliwoo

Physical Geographer

There's no difference. :s-smilie:

There is! "Your" means "belonging to you" e.g. "Your hat, your bag, your b.o". "You're" means "You are" as in "You are fat, you are being silly, you are happy". The apostrophe is there because the expression "you're" joins two words together "you+are". I thought everybody knew this :eek:

Reply 24

Captain Haddock

Bessie

The way they changed salt and vinegar to blue packets and cheese and onions to green... I'm baffled. (not all brands though, which makes it even more confusing).

Dude that's the way it should be. Salt comes from the sea. Sea blue. Onions are vegetables. Vegetables green. Much better

Reply 25

Keybolasosa

Joey C

Erm, yes I f'n do.

And so so I!

Joey C

And just what's so wrong about this? Idiot.

Whats wrong with skipping songs to the good bit is that clearly you don't appreciate the full song for what it is.

It really grinds my gears when people don't listen to a full song. Only little bits of it.

Reply 26

AisAis

* Teachers that don't collect in work when they set it and it takes your AGES.
* Teachers who don't mark work or return work you have spent ages on to you.
* Teachers who say, 'if you waste my time, I'll waste yours'. It's not their time, they're being paid and it's their job. They'll only be wasting theirs when it's what they'd consider to be 'wasting yours'.
* Teachers who think everyone comes into school with the intent of being as malicious and obnoxious as possible and, consequently, treat everyone like criminals.
* Teachers who think you're only worth what your cat score says you're worth.
* People who, when doing things like algebra, moan 'but why do we need to know this!'.
* People who do the above in RE.
*People who do the above - or below - when reading literature.
* People who say things are boring or 'well ****' for no reason.
* People who mix up words like "its" and "it's" or "your" and "you're".
*Those who are apostrophe and capital letter ignorant.
* People who say 'was' instead of 'were' whilst speaking, and 'brought' instead of 'bought'.
* 'You always think you're right'. Hello? If I didn't think it was right I wouldn't think that, would I? What a stupid, stupid thing to say.
* Teachers who dismiss you one row at a time like year fives, for not apparent reason.
* Teachers who let you out after the bell because they spend ages collecting things in; again, unnecessarily.
* Zadie Smith's excessive use of colons in 'On Beauty'. I couldn't read it any more.
* People who use multiple exclaimation marks, or use them on the end of every sentence.
* My name starts with a capital, damn you, and so does your own name!
* People who wear to much pink or want pink everything.
* People who think having the top velcro strap of their trainers undone makes them cool. It's not, it's stupid and chavish and makes them feel like they're going to fall off.
* When my school talks about your reference as if it's what makes or breaks you as a person.
* People who are rude to their parents for no reason.
* People who think it's their right to have them parents spend money on them and are rude to them in return. Eg 'hurry up and get her dad, you ****, I want to buy these trainers'.
* People who ask 'what are you getting for Christmas?'. THAT'S NOT WHAT IT'S ABOUT.
* Those who brag how much their parents are spending on them at Christmas.
* Those who, after Christmas, say 'what did you get?'
* Or worse still, 'I'm so pissed off... all I got was PS2, a TV, some clothes and a new phone; my sister got more than me!'
* People who are to scared to do things without a big crowed of friends for support.
* People who make fun of people who read.
* Those who think it's cool to over-depend on their phones. It's a phone, not a soul. Get over it.
* Teachers who are over-dependant on the Smartboard and, consequently, make every one of their lessons involve copying down PowerPoints they downloaded from the internet instead of actually teaching anything or having to plan a lesson.
* Having a lesson as described above.
* Teachers who don't answer questions.
* When my brother doesn't lock his phone and sends me blank texts or keeps calling me.
* When my brother and/or my family moan at me for not having a job and won't believe that I'm not old enough, or that it's more important to think about my exams.
* When my dad moans that my art coursework takes up loads of room when I'm doing it.
* People who ask me what kind of music I'm into and keeping going on when I say I'm not into it that much.
* People who think I'm weird because I don't listen to music while I'm working.

Haha, I'm moaning loads today.

Reply 27

HistoryStudent

Peart

I hate people who say "I like all types of music!!!!" No, you don't.

But what if they do like all types of music? It is possible, you know, and how do you know that they don't?

Reply 28

F1 fanatic

My biggest one at the moment:

Cyclists who ignore the rules of the road, namely traffic lights and pedestrain crossings. You are on the road, therefore you must obey the rules of the road!! I nearly got taken out by one again the other day :mad:

Reply 29

contractador

- people who can't clean their stuff up after them
- people who leave their phones unlocked and ring/text me (sucks having a as the first letter of your name)
- lecturers who destroy your ability to enjoy a subject
- name jokes (do you really think that you're the first person to make that stupid comment about my name that's not even funny? Don't you notice how no one laughs when you say it for what has been the millionth time?)

Reply 30

tulipsandsunshine

People who do not callback! And then when they remember the next day they tell you that they forgot about it and that is supposed to make you feel better.

Reply 31

LFC24

People who don't text back even if they have free texts.
People who never talk on MSN, and always leave their status as Away.

Reply 32

Penny Crayon

Peart

Dude that's the way it should be. Salt comes from the sea. Sea blue. Onions are vegetables. Vegetables green. Much better

Hehe, yeah sure, i can see the logic. But they either do it one way or another. Walkers do it the other way round and the others the other way.. ARGH! :confused:

Reply 33

hannah_dru

Joey C

People who never talk on MSN, and always leave their status as Away.

People who add me and never say a word. Or people who say "Hi" and "How are you?" and that's it. What's the point?

Reply 34

o-e-s-j

a little obscure, but i hate it when people complain about a firefox extention being too large when its only about 300kb - you probably have a 300gig hard drive, stop bashing someone who stopped clogging his own hard drive with porn long enough to make something that people appriciate!!!

phew :*|

Reply 35

spamking

*people who moan about every little thing

Reply 36

Clubber Lang

There are plenty of songs out there which are very long but only have a few minutes worth that are worth listening to...

I wouldn't bother forwarding on a CD but when its easy to do on WinAmp..

Reply 37

Giliwoo

Joey C

People who don't text back even if they have free texts.
People who never talk on MSN, and always leave their status as Away.

Ditto. I find people who don't make an effort in conversations, really irritating. And when you try to keep the conversation going, say something like "well this is fun" or "well that was a random thing to say".

Reply 38

pritnep

AisAis

* People who ask me what kind of music I'm into and keeping going on when I say I'm not into it that much.
* People who think I'm weird because I don't listen to music while I'm working.

I get these too a lot but I guess we are the type of people that aren't so dependant on music. I go through phase with music where I will listen to it a lot then go off listening to it for awhile. I guess I am just not one of those people that needs music to live.

hannah_dru

People who add me and never say a word. Or people who say "Hi" and "How are you?" and that's it. What's the point?

Exactly it's like it becomes a popularity contest to add as many 'randoms' as you can and yet they never talk to you. I think the same would stand for myspace when people add randoms never talk to them and for that matter have never meet or know the first thing about them.

Reply 39

Krechie

Boys/men who think they own the earth when they drive past a girl and beep at them and shout 'A'RIGHHT DARRRLHINN' out of their *usually* ford fiesta.