Rage...Building

[Slaggis]

Alot of things piss me off, whether it be a certain someone, or something completely random.

I got an email from love film saying I'm going to get charged because I didn't return my DVD's in time (3 month trial). I returned them in time and my account hadn't shown this. They then charged my account and I got so annoyed. I called them up, speaking to some guy who sounded like he couldn't speak english and went mental saying it's fraud etc because I had been told via email I would not be charged.

In the end I threatend to sue them and this morning I got an email saying "As a gesture of good will, we will refund your money"(Gesture of good will my arse). I was very pleased, but it worry's me that even after deleting my account, they still have my card details etc.

Anyway, this proves anger can get you somewhere, it's not always a bad thing like people say.


Pensioners! They need to stay out of my way. Where I live, they always complain about teenagers and then they push into lines in shops, moan if I'm standing somewhere waiting for someone or If It's cold and I have my hood up. Just because there old they think they can get away with anything. Then, if I say "excuse me, but I was infront of you" I get evil stares from people because the persons old.

I'm annoyed even thinking about it.

What really angers you? And has anger ever worked for/against you?


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Can a mod edit the spelling mistake in building for me, so it shows in the list of threads? (Before someone says "spelling mistakes piss me off":p)

[will']

At the moment cyclists are really pissing me off. They go on and on about cars giving them no respect yet when it comes to pedestrians they couldn't give a flying f*ck. I'm very sorry Mr. Cyclist but yes YOU DO HAVE TO STOP AT RED LIGHTS. Argh! It really really aggrivates me, I'm getting hot under the collar just thinking about it. If one even comes close to hitting me again I swear to god they're going to get a smack up side the head.

[gaggle64]

The one time I've ever been really, truly angry was last year when I lived in that shithole with the mentally deranged, and then there was so much it just clogged in my brain and I spent most of the year seething in a darkened room.

[Daft]

Anyone who suddenly stops in front of me while I'm walk should automatically go to Hell and burn for eternity.

Same for people who strategically stand on the pavement as if they were trying to block your way but they are quite clearly just being morons. I would actually be less annoyed if they were actually trying to block me.

[Jordan]

Can a mod edit the spelling mistake in building for me, so it shows in the list of threads? (Before someone says "spelling mistakes piss me off":p)

Fixed.

What pisses me off?
Oh man, worst thing that pisses me off.

Yesterday, at a bus stop waiting to take Letty home. Theres a huge pile of spit on the floor, its utterly disgusting. Then the guy behind us hocks all his snot and spits it onto the floor.

Some people are fucking animals. No, infact that puts animals down. They're worse than that. Like, bacteria or something.

[Tellyn]

Chavs. 'Nuff said.

[Letty]

I get angry when people talk behind my back about me, but close enough just so that I can hear it.

[Stefkov]

Small babies and their constant wailing. Constantly screaming and screaming and screaming while you try to wait in a quiet GP waiting area.

And people who walk really slow, walking in the middle of the path. Usually old couples who're walking around the Arndale centre slowly waiting to die.

Fancy to moving to one before I plant your face into my knee?

[Nintendohnut]

When a group of people are walking somewhere and meet someone else going in the opposite direction so they stop WHEN THE WALKWAY IS ONLY THREE PEOPLE WIDE. Then people going both ways have to file through a tiny space, giving the people evils, and they ignore it and have their pointless fucking conversation.

This is even worse when there are people standing talking on stairways.

Pisses me off so much

AND! People who randomly try to force flyers and vouchers and shit into your hands when you're walking down the street. I DON'T WANT THEM, LEAVE ME ALONE!

*calms down*

[ReZourceman]

What pisses me off?

People who think they're all high and mighty. I mean I was at this bus stop yesterday, and had to spit out some flem and shit that I had in my throat, and this guy gave me a horrible look. Like WTF.

:heh: (That annoys me to Jordan)

Everything annoys me.

[Bluejay]

Chavs. 'Nuff said.

underated (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qkLWPL0YENc)


10 bears

[thirtynine.]

One time is was skating down the road, and some old woman hit me in the groin with her handbag i got off my board and started screaming at her, her attack was unproked i then called the police and she walked off.

[kyletherobot]

strange story there.

[Slaggis]

People who take the mick, insult, make everyone else do the same out of you for no apparent reason other than fun. I hate people like that, if Karma's real then they're getting hit by a truck sometime soon.

[Dante]

People that stop walking in front of you for no reason at all.

[Brian Mcoy]

Mcoy is fucked off at people that get EMA at College and Sixth forms, Mcoy doesn't get EMA because his parents earn a bit more money then other people, Mcoy does as much if not more work and what does Mcoy get? Mcoy gets nothing while half the people who don't attend/do any thing just steal the money.

[Slaggis]

Mcoy is fucked off at people that get EMA at College and Sixth forms, Mcoy doesn't get EMA because his parents earn a bit more money then other people, Mcoy does as much if not more work and what does Mcoy get? Mcoy gets nothing while half the people who don't attend/do any thing just steal the money.

I get £30, (but I only get it on a technicality :) ), you only get it if you are in all your lessons for the week (bar appointmans etc). But I think the current things about fair. The limit for someone to get something is parent/s earning more than 32,000 or something. Anyone over that can afford to give their son/daughter more than £30 a week surely? But I think people that don't get it should have a chance to get the bonuses, I.e £100 quid at the end of a term for performing well.

[LazyBoy]

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[Stefkov]

Mcoy is fucked off at people that get EMA at College and Sixth forms, Mcoy doesn't get EMA because his parents earn a bit more money then other people, Mcoy does as much if not more work and what does Mcoy get? Mcoy gets nothing while half the people who don't attend/do any thing just steal the money.
Our household income is £100 over the lowest barrier. Don't get me started.

[will']

That whole EMA thing pisses me off anyway, if people want to learn then they should, if you need to bribe them then why bother? Theres plenty of jobs you don't need any qualifications for, just let them do that.

I wouldn't get pissed off too much with those that just take the money and don't put any effort in. Chances are they'll be on that sort of money when they're 30, with your education you'll be getting a hell of a lot more.

[Ellmeister]

Mcoy is fucked off at people that get EMA at College and Sixth forms, Mcoy doesn't get EMA because his parents earn a bit more money then other people, Mcoy does as much if not more work and what does Mcoy get? Mcoy gets nothing while half the people who don't attend/do any thing just steal the money.

What he said.

I find it annoying because being a triplet, there's 3 of us yet my parents don't earn 3 times the limit. So I don't get EMA, I don't really even get any money per week from my family seeing as if it is given to one, the other 2 gets it as well. Some people have to buy their clothes and such which is all fair but some just spend it on shit. I go to all my lessons even GENERAL STUDIES :|, yet I get nothing. My friend does the same and gets £30 plus bonuses! Wheres the fairness =/

[LazyBoy]

I'm sorry but I have to jump in for the EMA, if I hadn't have had it I wouldn't have been able to afford all my books, which would have prevented me from getting the grades I did. Is that fair just because my Mum doesn't earn as much money as you guys?

I admit some probably abuse the system, but it really was necessary for me.

[Slaggis]

Maybe it should be paid to people who are acheiving targets and working well at the end of every week or something, and then only the people on a very low income get it like people do now?

I use the 30 a week I get to buy stuff for college like books I need, clothes, and use it for money at lunch etc. Some people get the money and go and spend it on masses of alcohol etc which bugs me. It's there to make college like easier, not to get you pissed on a weekend.

[will']

Maybe things have changed since I was at college but I really don't see how you could possibly need £30 a week to enable you to go. I understand certain families need more benifits than others and there are genuine reasons for them. This is just one I have never understood. Taking rent+bills out of the equation I doubt I spend £30 on expenses a week even now I'm working and living in central London.

[Slaggis]

Maybe things have changed since I was at college but I really don't see how you could possibly need £30 a week to enable you to go. I understand certain families need more benifits than others and there are genuine reasons for them. This is just one I have never understood. Taking rent+bills out of the equation I doubt I spend £30 on expenses a week even now I'm working and living in central London.

I catch a bus, I need money for that. I eat at lunch, I need money for that.I use the school gym after college and I need money for that. I need books, school supplies etc and I need money for them. So the £30 helps out alot. And yes, If I have any left then I do save it and spend it on things I'd like at christmas etc, but most of the money goes on things for college. I think some (especially some people at my college) people complaining they don't get is because there parents earn too much is a bit selfish tbh, they can afford these things whereas some people can't

[EEVILMURRAY]

At the moment cyclists are really pissing me off. They go on and on about cars giving them no respect yet when it comes to pedestrians they couldn't give a flying f*ck. I'm very sorry Mr. Cyclist but yes YOU DO HAVE TO STOP AT RED LIGHTS. Argh! It really really aggrivates me, I'm getting hot under the collar just thinking about it. If one even comes close to hitting me again I swear to god they're going to get a smack up side the head.
I cheat against this in a sexy way, if the light goes red I won't plow through without a care in the world. What I do, if the road permits, I get off my bike, pull it onto the pavement, walk to the next spot and ride away. Genius.

[will']

I'm not questioning the fact that some people do need extra money, I disagree with the way its given out. It shouldn't go to the kids because, as others have said, its too open to abuse. If families need it to feed their kids then it should be going to the family to provide this, not the kid to fritter away as they please.

[Ellmeister]

I catch a bus, I need money for that. I eat at lunch, I need money for that.I use the school gym after college and I need money for that. I need books, school supplies etc and I need money for them. So the £30 helps out alot. And yes, If I have any left then I do save it and spend it on things I'd like at christmas etc, but most of the money goes on things for college. I think some (especially some people at my college) people complaining they don't get is because there parents earn too much is a bit selfish tbh, they can afford these things whereas some people can't

That does sound selfish, but they are complaining because they don't get £30every week for doing nothing except learning. But if you need it to spend on stuff thats fair.

I just don't like the way some people cheat the system.

[will']

I cheat against this in a sexy way, if the light goes red I won't plow through without a care in the world. What I do, if the road permits, I get off my bike, pull it onto the pavement, walk to the next spot and ride away. Genius.

This I would have no problem with, its considerate and you'll get where your going faster - everyone wins. I just can't stand the ones that think that being on a bike permits you to flout the rules of the road.

[Slaggis]

That does sound selfish, but they are complaining because they don't get £30every week for doing nothing except learning. But if you need it to spend on stuff thats fair.

I just don't like the way some people cheat the system.

Yeah, thats what I mean. Well, there should be some sort of thing where you have to spen a certain amount on school related things or something? But you're right, the system can be unfair.:)

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Like someone said earlier, Chavs. I.e people that do nothing with their life, get money off the government to carry on doing nothing and then make people who work hard for their money etc lives hell.

[Coolness Bears]

I don't really get angered very easily! :D

People at school annoy me but instead of getting angry i just stay quiet and ignore them because getting angry would take my energy up and i'm not wasting any on them! :)

[Ellmeister]

People that really try and force their opinions on you as though yours doesn't matter.

That and the big issue people. If one of them can tell me in good english why I should buy it, then I will =] I haven't bought 1 yet.

[Roostophe]

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And moths.

[ipaul]

I get £20 a week through EMA, but the whole thing just seems ludicrous to me. I mean I GET PAYED to be educated. Anyone else see what I mean here? Plus I would be mighty pissed off if I was like £7 over the barrier or if I'd gone to college and had not received EMA. Since they have now raised school leaving age to 18, will this affect EMA?

On topic...stuff that annoys me..

Old people when they stop FOR NO REASON:wtf:. Like they have just had an epiphany and have to stop right in the middle of the street or at the bottom of the esculator. Tw@ts blasting their shitty tunes through their mobiles on trains as well. Actually, once me and my friends fought back with this and decided to blast Pink Floyd, Muse and Trivium back at them and you couldn't hear them. They seemed most peeved.

[Emasher]

Piracy (especially people who try to claim that downloading music you don't own of lime-wire is legal because you can buy lime-wire in a store so it can't possibly be illegal).
My sister.
People who are wrong but keep arguing after you have proved them wrong and are popular with the people in the general vicinity so you loose anyway.
People who call USB flash drives memory sticks.
Bullies.
And the wankers who manage the school computer systems in my division.

[The fish]

One that front, I'll such say that God-Squad types irritate me - they talk about God all the time, regardless of the conversation topic... Also, any that have partially converted any of my friends need a slap - I like my friends sane, thank you very much.

Elsewhere:
People who walk slowly.
People who try and cut the queue in shops (especially the ones who don't apologise or move back when you catch them).
Irate American Xbox Live users.
Anyone who can't see how homosexuals aren't actually evil.
Anyone who doesn't know the meaning of being anal (in the Freudian sense).

[Slaggis]

People who call USB flash drives memory sticks.


But loads of people do that, I do that. It's easier to say than saying USB flash drive every time. I know one is a sony format and one isn't, but surely it can't annoy you that much?:)

Oh and people that try to force religion on you and people who think if you fancy someone of the same sex your automatically going to hell and deseve to be insulted constantly.

[The fish]

Piracy (especially people who try to claim that downloading music you don't own of lime-wire is legal because you can buy lime-wire in a store so it can't possibly be illegal).
My sister.
People who call USB flash drives memory sticks.

Why does it bother you so much, I concur (about mine, at times), and how are they not a stick that contains memory, respectively?

Just curious...

Oh and people that try to force religion on you and people who think if you fancy someone of the same sex your automatically going to hell and deseve to be insulted constantly.

They're blatantly just trying to distract you from the fact they have a tiny penis... :indeed:

[weeyellowbloke]

I'm generally very laid back and don't really get irritated very easily. However I agree with ipaul on the bellends who think everyone on the entire bus/train wants to listen to Ibiza Anthems 68 or RnB Kulb Klassicz. If I wanted to listen to shit like that I'd go to one of those dank sewers known has the high street club where at least they'd have decent speakers and I'd be able to hear something other then the tinny treble.

Also when technology doesn't work for reasons I cannot fathom. Most of the time my method of fixing the problem is-
Try something to fix it through menu screens..........fail
Try something else by fiddling with settings............fail
Try something manually such as switching cables or turning power supply on and off.........fail
Retry first three steps ten times
Smash technology off the wall repeatedly in frustration and buy it again new.......success it works.

[Sheikah]

Anyone who suddenly stops in front of me while I'm walk should automatically go to Hell and burn for eternity.

QFT. Those idiots think no one in the world exists except them.

A similar gripe of mine is those walking in the direction against you that make no effort to avoid you, thus you have to put in all the effort of moving aside. That happens in Manchester City Center a lot.

I'm sorry but I have to jump in for the EMA, if I hadn't have had it I wouldn't have been able to afford all my books, which would have prevented me from getting the grades I did. Is that fair just because my Mum doesn't earn as much money as you guys?

I admit some probably abuse the system, but it really was necessary for me.

EMA is a classic example of favouritism. My parents earn enough so I don't get any yet my parents don't give me money besides dinner money, definitely nothing like £30 a week. When you consider GCSE and A-level books you are provided with most of them, if you do need to buy them they certainly won't come anywhere near to the amount that adds up from all those £30s. A lot of people getting EMA waste it on absolute trash and they shouldn't have to be paid to be educated.

If they don't want to get a better job then **** them, they shouldn't have to be encouraged to better themselves.

[LazyBoy]

EMA is a classic example of favouritism. My parents earn enough so I don't get any yet my parents don't give me money besides dinner money, definitely nothing like £30 a week. When you consider GCSE and A-level books you are provided with most of them, if you do need to buy them they certainly won't come anywhere near to the amount that adds up from all those £30s. A lot of people getting EMA waste it on absolute trash and they shouldn't have to be paid to be educated.

If they don't want to get a better job then **** them, they shouldn't have to be encouraged to better themselves.

If your parents don't give you any money then its your problem, maybe they don't like you. Point is they have it to give to you.

Books for my history coursework alone cost over £200. Without them I wouldn't have got the A.

I don't get paid to get educated. I want to learn. The fact I can't with the money is what you need to understand.

I want to get a better job, that's why i'm getting an education.

Don't paint us all with the same brush facist.

[welsh_gamer]

Shop assistants who have a conversation with someone they know after they serve them, instead of getting on with their job.

People who don't flush public toilets.

"Friends" who can't wait to tell you about awful things that have been said about you.

Drivers who don't indicate, and who drive slowly in national speed limit zones but speed in 30/40 m.p.h zones.

Cyclist on pavements who expect us to move.

Warner Brothers DVD. Why do you have to go through about 4 screen's of optional language's to chose the English one?

People who still imitate Little Britain, Catherine Tate, Ali G etc. "Am I bothered?" YES!!

[Slaggis]

If your parents don't give you any money then its your problem, maybe they don't like you. Point is they have it to give to you.

Books for my history coursework alone cost over £200. Without them I wouldn't have got the A.

I don't get paid to get educated. I want to learn. The fact I can't with the money is what you need to understand.

I want to get a better job, that's why i'm getting an education.

Don't paint us all with the same brush facist.

Exactly LazyBoy, right on. I have to pay for things like geography trips, buses, books, food at college and supplies. Withoutthe £30 a week I'd have a tough time affording these things. Some people dont't just spend it on crap and some people don't have parents that earn a over 30,000. If your parents don't give you the money thats them being tight, not my fault for getting ema.

[Noodleman]

Look EMA didnt even exist when I went to College, although if it did it would have guaranteed my attendance in every lesson, as it was I barely made half of them :blush:

But anyway:

95% of other road drivers, especialy:
People who do 40mph whatever the speed limit.
White Van Drivers.
Arseholes who think they own the road and cut you up, even worse on roundabouts.
Middle lane hoggers.

[Gizmo]

The thing with EMA is that it's something thats really necessary for some people. LazyBoy is a perfect example. It's a completely fair system in theory, but in practice is a complete waste 90% of the time.

[arab_freak]

I got into a fight today because this jackass in my class annoyed the hell out of me. I was standing in front of the class door listening to some music on my phone, and he walks up and says "Get out of my way before I break that thing in half". In my head, I go "wtf?" and let him pass. And as soon as he passes through the door-frame I gave him a slap to the back of the neck. He kicked me in the right leg so I gave him another kick in the balls. A few minutes later we were downstairs talking to our school principle.

After a long discussion with her she basically told me that I was free to do whatever I wanted with him OUTSIDE school property, since "anything that happens inside school grounds is the staff's responsibility". I nodded and told the guy to meet me after school. He started saying some lame-ass threats and told me that I didn't know what he was capable of...:indeed:

During our final period he got a permission slip from our disciplinary monitor to leave early. I told him he was obviously afraid of getting hurt and he just started mumbling...a friend of mine told him to stay. After school I came up to him and told him to follow me into a nearby street where nobody from the school could see him. He started telling me that he wouldn't go and that "I'd regret it". I told him I was only doing this so he won't be embarrassed in front of the other students. He refused and started slingin' some insults. That REALLY pushed it.

I gave him a headbutt to his nose, then gave him a few punches to the face. About 30 seconds into it I found two of my friends rushing to pull me off him. I don't regret any bit of it, the fucker had it coming to him, as I've had urges to beat the hell out of him for AGES but couldn't because my school wouldn't allow me to.

This is he:
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His face is as annoying as my old avatar...even though I don't find my old avatar annoying. :P

[ipaul]

The thing with EMA is that it's something thats really necessary for some people. LazyBoy is a perfect example. It's a completely fair system in theory, but in practice is a complete waste 90% of the time.

I agree with this actually, good point and well made.

[Chuck]

brass knuckles to finish him off?

The thing with EMA is that it's something thats really necessary for some people. LazyBoy is a perfect example. It's a completely fair system in theory, but in practice is a complete waste 90% of the time.

I get EMA.... spend it on a buspass but have most to spend on shit

[arab_freak]

brass knuckles to finish him off?

No, lol. I just saw an ad for it on the Facebook Marketplace.

[triforce_keeper]

Anyone who suddenly stops in front of me while I'm walk should automatically go to Hell and burn for eternity.

Same for people who strategically stand on the pavement as if they were trying to block your way but they are quite clearly just being morons. I would actually be less annoyed if they were actually trying to block me.

Ahahaa XD

Sorry, carry on with the thread :heh:

[The fish]

In my head, I go "wtf?" and let him pass. And as soon as he passes through the door-frame I gave him a slap to the back of the neck. He kicked me in the right leg so I gave him another kick in the balls.

Assaulting a person who obviously has anger issues - nice going...

[arab_freak]

Assaulting a person who obviously has anger issues - nice going...

Anger issues my ass. You don't know him the way I do. I just wish I could videotape a single day in my class with him present.

[The fish]

Anger issues my ass. You don't know him the way I do. I just wish I could videotape a single day in my class with him present.


Most people like him only do what they do for effect. If you come across as not giving two shits about his attempts to annoy you, he'll piss off.

Also, it's A-R-S-E, unless you're wagering a donkey...

[arab_freak]

Most people like him only do what they do for effect. If you come across as not giving two shits about his attempts to annoy you, he'll piss off.

That's what my classmates and I have tried, but it's no use. Even our principle is sick of him. She told me that he CRAVES our attention by being annoying. Like he doesn't get enough attention from his parents so he needs the NEGATIVE attention from his fellow students to make up for that. She even asked him "Why do you INSIST on aggravating your fellow students when you know that you're going to get hurt in the end?" This isn't the first time it's happened to him...well it has, just never to the point of him getting punched in the face.

Also, it's A-R-S-E, unless you're wagering a donkey...

Pardon me, I speak "American English". Therefore my "slang" comes from there.

[The fish]

That's what my classmates and I have tried, but it's no use. Even our principle is sick of him. She told me that he CRAVES our attention by being annoying. Like he doesn't get enough attention from his parents so he needs the NEGATIVE attention from his fellow students to make up for that. She even asked him "Why do you INSIST on aggravating your fellow students when you know that you're going to get hurt in the end?" This isn't the first time it's happened to him...well it has, just never to the point of him getting punched in the face.

Pardon me, I speak "American English". Therefore my "slang" comes from there.

Well, if you feel you really, really, really need to assault a classmate (or by the looks of those brass knuckles, cause GBH and ABH), then make sure you don't through the first defence. Direct self defence looks much, much better. It doesn't look good, but no where near as bad.

Also, speaking American English gets you disliked by Commonwealth-English speakers, and most Europeans, too. I'm sure you'd rather speak the standard version of a language than the bastardised semi-pigeon (judging be their spelling of "through") language they speak state-side.

[Shino]

Also, speaking American English gets you disliked by Commonwealth-English speakers, and most Europeans, too. I'm sure you'd rather speak the standard version of a language than the bastardised semi-pigeon (judging be their spelling of "through") language they speak state-side.

Its kind of hard to know where's different, I know you guys say colour and they say color but that's it. I use the word ass many times and thought arse was only locally, not the original (luckily I have an UK English spell checker).

[The fish]

Its kind of hard to know where's different, I know you guys say colour and they say color but that's it. I use the word ass many times and thought arse was only locally, not the original (luckily I have an UK English spell checker).

Canada, the UK, Ireland, Malta, India, Pakistan, Australia, and New Zealand all spell it "colour". It's just the American's trying to be different.

[Fierce_LiNk]

What pisses me off?

Group work. I'm a naturally quiet person, and I think I'm generally polite as well. I wait for my turn to speak rather than butting in. I HATE it when we're doing some group work, and everybody just talks over you. And then afterwards it feels like I've done no work, because I don't get the bluddy chance to speak! I go to speak, and then somebody else butts in or speaks over the top of you anyway. For crying out loud, I am there you know. Give me a bleedin' chance. Even before I get the chance to speak, the way people sit, so that you can't see everybody in your group anyway.

[DomJcg]

Canada, the UK, Ireland, Malta, India, Pakistan, Australia, and New Zealand all spell it "colour". It's just the American's trying to be different.

Oddly enough, it's America's language that's most like the english language as ours has evolved, theirs has stayed the same, *goes back to reading facts in his GI book*

[Supergrunch]

Canada, the UK, Ireland, Malta, India, Pakistan, Australia, and New Zealand all spell it "colour". It's just the American's trying to be different.
I don't mind "color" much, but you've reminded me of something that does annoy me - "hemoglobin."

Haemoglobin.

Haemoglobin.

[arab_freak]

Also, speaking American English gets you disliked by Commonwealth-English speakers, and most Europeans, too. I'm sure you'd rather speak the standard version of a language than the bastardised semi-pigeon (judging be their spelling of "through") language they speak state-side.

Well I don't care, really. I've never been outside the Middle East and my teachers were all Americans. It was only natural I take their language+accent.

[thirtynine.]

Well I don't care, really. I've never been outside the Middle East and my teachers were all Americans. It was only natural I take their language+accent.
But an ass is a donkey, there is no question.

[Emasher]

Why does it bother you so much, I concur (about mine, at times), and how are they not a stick that contains memory, respectively?

It confuses people who actually know what a memory stick is.

"Flash Drive" also has less syllables than "Mem-o-ry stick" so that argument makes no sense.

Its especially annoying when someone who should know better (like a so called computer technician) says it.

[Jonnas]

It confuses people who actually know what a memory stick is.

"Flash Drive" also has less syllables than "Mem-o-ry stick" so that argument makes no sense.

Its especially annoying when someone who should know better (like a so called computer technician) says it.

Funny, in Portugal we just call them "Pens" (in actual English). I wonder where that term came from.

But an ass is a donkey, there is no question.

Well, here we are learning something new every day. So that's the origin of the word.

Shop assistants who have a conversation with someone they know after they serve them, instead of getting on with their job.


I hate these. When I went to make my inscription at my university, the lady at the counter was slow as hell. She even picked up a personal phone call while the room was full of people waiting. The lines started to move when a second woman started recieving people.
I had 5 or 6 people in front of me. With the slow woman only, we waited an hour with no real progress.
When the second woman came in, we waited 15 minutes at the most.

But something that really irritates me are a babys crying in public places. I know it's not anybody's fault, so that makes it even more irritating, since there is no way to stop it easily.

Also, rude old people. There are plenty where I live. They are the ones that spit on the streets (an old guy even spit in the subway stairs when he was behind me. Disgusting.) and push people around because they think they own the place (another old man pushed me aside unexpectedly when he was facing my back. I almost fell on the driveway.)

[Stefkov]

Funny, in Portugal we just call them "Pens" (in actual English). I wonder where that term came from.)
Called Memory Pens aswell. So. Pens is fine.

I also hate loud noises. Also C-Dawg makes my blood boil.

[Sheikah]

Exactly LazyBoy, right on. I have to pay for things like geography trips, buses, books, food at college and supplies. Withoutthe £30 a week I'd have a tough time affording these things. Some people dont't just spend it on crap and some people don't have parents that earn a over 30,000. If your parents don't give you the money thats them being tight, not my fault for getting ema.

Sorry, but, I don't know any parent who does not provide food for their children. I apologise if you are an exception but I seriously don't think people at that age were buying their own food.

And school trips? How often are they? Like once every 4-5 months? Bus fare? I remember it being no more than 40p as a student at school then 6th form. I know that a lot of poorer people had that sort of free anyway. Saying that though, I used to walk it and get the metro. A few pens don't cost much, and it's not much for a pad of A4.

All this definitely does not require weekly £30s. This is the reason why people did fine when EMA wasn't in effect. In fact, given that I was only ever given some money for food, I did perfectly well with no other money. It's a ridiculous waste of taxpayers money, as people should want to be educated to better themselves, not to get by easily while pocketing money.


If your parents don't give you any money then its your problem, maybe they don't like you. Point is they have it to give to you.

Lmao, are you off your rocker? My parents have to give me money? If you're talking about child benefits then poorer people get that too. So why do my parents have to pay me additional money for doing absolute **** all? You don't have talk a lot of nonsense.


Books for my history coursework alone cost over £200. Without them I wouldn't have got the A.

Then you're a fool for not knowing how to use the library, or for getting hold of such expensive books for something as frivolous as an A-level. Or, for needing a £200 book to get you an A grade A-level.


I don't get paid to get educated. I want to learn. The fact I can't with the money is what you need to understand.

I understand, I've got my A levels. I understand that I wasn't getting paid £30 - I went into my sixth form, learned, went home, food was in house, went to sleep. Woke up next day, went back (via metro).

If you minus food costs in my house since I think most parents would pay for that, my living costs can't have been much more than a fiver a week at that stage. But I had a job, which I used to spend on things I wanted, not to maintain myself at sixth form. :)

Don't paint us all with the same brush facist.

Then don't go using taxpayer's money to get you through something which quite blatantly you weren't requiring or gaining throughout school. A lot of people go straight from school to sixth form, often in their same school. The change is negligible, bar getting hold of a suit.

[Slaggis]

Sorry, but, I don't know any parent who does not provide food for their children. I apologise if you are an exception but I seriously don't think kids at that age were buying their own food.

And school trips? How often are they? Like once every 4-5 months? Bus fare? I remember it being no more than 40p as a student at school then 6th form. I know that a lot of poorer people had that sort of free anyway. Saying that though, I used to walk it and get the metro. A few pens doesn't cost much, and it's not much for a pad of A4.

All this definitely does not require weekly £30s. This is the reason why people did fine when EMA wasn't in effect. In fact, given that I was only ever given some money for food, I did perfectly well with no other money. It's a ridiculous waste of taxpayers money, as people should want to be educated to better themselves, not to packet £30 each week.

Food at lunch. Not food at home lol.:)

I disagree with the whole 30 a week is useless. Remember you also can get just 10 or 20 a week.

But, the fact we have to pay thousands to go to university which in itself is ridiculous and then end up with masses of debt I think the least the government can do is give us a bit of money a week. My bus fare comes to £12.50 a week(public bus, school one isn't available). My money at lunch, thats about 2 quid a day which makes a tenner. Thats 8 pounds spare for other things, minus school supplies and trips when they are needed.

I'm not as bright as I want to be, I need to work really hard to get good grades, and with doing 5 subjects I'm working basically all the time. I don't have time to get a job whilst not in college so the 30 a week really helps.

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Agreed about the shopkeepers thing, that really bugs me when there's a big line and they just talk.

[Charlie]

On the EMA thing, just because parents earn a lot more money than others. It doesn't mean they automatically give it to their children.

[Stefkov]

TBH bus fares are now 75p with the bus pass discount thingembob.
£1.40 to get to and fro school.
That's already £7 on bus fares in a week. Surviving on £3, if you get £10 a week for dinner, is impossible unless you buy sweets all week.
Well that'd the the case for me. The shopes close by have high prices aswell so...
A guy I know gets £30, he brings a sandwich for lunch then steals other peoples food...then spends the money on booze and clothes
That's the reason I hate EMA.

[Dieter]

Canada, the UK, Ireland, Malta, India, Pakistan, Australia, and New Zealand all spell it "colour". It's just the American's trying to be different.

But not even the Americans pluralise with an apostrophe. :heh:

(I'm just being picky, need to vent some studying stress : peace: )


I was standing in front of the class door listening to some music on my phone, and he walks up and says "Get out of my way before I break that thing in half". In my head, I go "wtf?"

If by 'listening to some music on my phone' you mean without headphones then was right to want to snap that shit in half. Also, if that was the case, he shoud have won the fight and broken your nose. :blank:

(Does what piss me off become clear?)

If that was not the case, however, please carry on. :smile:

You did overreact though. Annoying as he may be, the slap to the neck/back/whatever was uncalled for.

[Goron_3]

EMA is fair enough, seeing as I know a few of my mates just use it to save up for Uni stuff.

[Sheikah]

On the EMA thing, just because parents earn a lot more money than others. It doesn't mean they automatically give it to their children.

Exactly. I'm happy my parents didn't just give me money as it means I valued what money I earned myself.

Also - dinners. Am I under the impression that people are incapable of bringing some food with them? Maybe packed lunches are an instant no-no once you reach sixth form. :) And buses...when they were 50p a day, on any wage I think a parent could afford to give that to child. Or get a pass that probably reduces the cost even further.


TBH bus fares are now 75p with the bus pass discount thingembob.
£1.40 to get to and fro school.
That's already £7 on bus fares in a week. Surviving on £3, if you get £10 a week for dinner, is impossible unless you buy sweets all week.
Well that'd the the case for me. The shopes close by have high prices aswell so...
A guy I know gets £30, he brings a sandwich for lunch then steals other peoples food...then spends the money on booze and clothes
That's the reason I hate EMA.

Yeh...there's no doubt the money should be rethought as I'm sure people get too much and end up buying stuff they want with it.

[LazyBoy]

Lmao, are you off your rocker? My parents have to give me money? If you're talking about child benefits then poorer people get that too. So why do my parents have to pay me additional money for doing absolute **** all? You don't have talk a lot of nonsense.


Read again kid. Your parents have it to give to you. They have money to give to you. Understand?


Then you're a fool for not knowing how to use the library, or for getting hold of such expensive books for something as frivolous as an A-level.


Ha, try and find the Cambridge History of China volume 7 in any library near me and i'll give it to you. And I care about my education, I needed good grades to get into a good university, so they may be frivolous to you but for us who care we need to work.


Then don't go using taxpayer's money to get you through something which quite blatantly you weren't paid for throughout school, so no reason to in 6th form either.

Books aren't provided for you where I went to college.

I wonder what it would be like if you didn't have money. Sorry, if your parents didn't have money.

[knightendo_phil]

About old people, Lee Evans says: "Teenagers and old people are very similar! They are both on loads of drugs! They both have bum fluff hair on their chins... and you wouldn't trust either of them with your car!"

And about the American spelling annoyances (I'm with ya on that one!!) Eddie Izzard had this to say, to an American audience:

(Please note words are spelt phonetically)
You say "Al-u-min-um", we say "Al-lu-min-i-um".
You say "To-mate-o", we say "Toe-mat-oe".
You say " 'erbs", we say "Herbs"... because there's a fucking 'H' in it!


I used to get angry quite easily but have found in recent years that that's just lowering myself to the level of those that are trying to get to me, and I won't give them the satisfaction. eg. On the n-revolution forum there was a girl who had thousands more posts than anyone and all she ever did (on a Wii forum) was bitch about Wii and hype 360, calling everyone all the names under the sun if they disagreed with her opinions. I retaliated for a while, then just ignored her and found myself enjoying the forum again.

... however, there are still things that can still piss me off, even if it does take a long time to get me going:

Pregnant women who smoke.

Hoodies (no disrepect to anyone who wears them - I myself have a fetching Nintendo one - it's just the phrase used for 10-15 year old thugs in Belfast) who think they can steal, swear at you, shout abuse at elderly etc and you can't touch them for it or else THEY'll take YOU to court! These are also the usual little shits that play their mp3's on their phone full blast on public transport without earplugs.

Northern Ireland's railway "service".

And finally, one of my housemates who sings country and western music late at night even though she will have asked you the night before at 8pm(!!) to turn your telly down!

[Slaggis]

Exactly. I'm happy my parents didn't just give me money as it means I valued what money I earned myself.

Also - dinners. Am I under the impression that people are incapable of bringing some food with them? Maybe packed lunches are an instant no-no once you reach sixth form. :) And buses...when they were 50p a day, on any wage I think a parent could afford to give that to child. Or get a pass that probably reduces the cost even further.

I can't earn the money myself, I don't have the time. My mum has to work part time because she has to take care of my grandad so he's still able to live on his own. I need the £30 a week to be able to go to college, without it I'd be stuck not going onto further education and getting a crappy job somewhere. The fact you seem to be forcing your opinion on people and assuming everyone is and was in the same situation you were is bollocks.

Open your eyes a little wider, some people need the money some don't. Yes, some people waste it on crap and they obviously don't deserve it, but some do.

[arab_freak]

If by 'listening to some music on my phone' you mean without headphones then was right to want to snap that shit in half. Also, if that was the case, he shoud have won the fight and broken your nose. :blank:

My Nokia n95 8GB comes with shiny black headphones. Of course I use them.

[Sheikah]

Read again kid. Your parents have it to give to you. They have money to give to you. Understand?

Read this. First of all, I am not a kid. Do not patronise, as it just makes you look a tool (edit you're actually younger than me, so even more of a tool XD).

Secondly, any money that you think my parents have to give me (I presume you are talking about child benefit money, although not entirely sure, since I know they don't have to give me any of the rest of their money) poorer parents also get.

Now, if you are stating that because my parents earn more money they have to give me money, you are wrong.


Ha, try and find the Cambridge History of China volume 7 in any library near me and i'll give it to you. And I care about my education, I needed good grades to get into a good university, so they may be frivolous to you but for us who care we need to work.

I'm at a good university too. And seriously, you don't need that book to get an A grade at A-level. Loads of people are getting A grades at A-level these days. If you really needed a £200 book just to do one piece of work you could surely have rented it from your city library. Saying that, a £200 book sounds very in-depth, so I haven't really a clue why you'd buy the whole thing when it sounds as if you'd be using just a fraction of it.

Also, were there no other people doing the same coursework in your class? Grouping together maybe? Or better yet, using journals? (In Uni they pretty much replace books in Biology work at least). So many options really.



Books aren't provided for you where I went to college.

I wonder what it would be like if you didn't have money. Sorry, if your parents didn't have money.

The same as it was, since I barely got any additional money from them? :zzz:


I can't earn the money myself, I don't have the time. My mum has to work part time because she has to take care of my grandad so he's still able to live on his own. I need the £30 a week to be able to go to college, without it I'd be stuck not going onto further education and getting a crappy job somewhere. The fact you seem to be forcing your opinion on people and assuming everyone is and was in the same situation you were is bollocks.

Open your eyes a little wider, some people need the money some don't. Yes, some people waste it on crap and they obviously don't deserve it, but some do.


If you really need that much to travel then you probably are one of the few worthy people. The fact is that a lot of people; probably most, get a lot more from EMA than require for basic needs like travel to and from sixth form and occasional stationary.

Also - no time for a job? I work on Sunday only. There is no excuse why people couldn't work on the day that I work. Unless, maybe, they're Christian. ;)

[Ashley]

The temps at work always pissed me off. Such immense levels of stupidity. I found myself in the stockroom doing the old deep breathing technique (which kinda worked) and just saying "they're humans. Humans make mistakes. Some more than others but mistakes still..."

[LazyBoy]

Read this. First of all, I am not a kid. Do not patronise, as it just makes you look a tool.

Then stop acting like one.

Secondly, any money that you think my parents have to give me (I presume you are talking about child benefit money, although not entirely sure, since I know they don't have to give me any of the rest of their money) poorer parents also get.

EMA replaces child benefit. I'll make it bold to emphasise my point


I'm at a good university too. And seriously, you don't need that book to get an A grade at A-level. Loads of people are getting A grades at A-level these days. If you really needed a £200 book just to do one piece of work you could surely have rented it from your city library. Saying that, a £200 book sounds very in-depth, so I haven't really a clue why you'd buy the whole thing when it sounds as if you'd be using just a fraction of it.

Also, were there no other people doing the same coursework in your class? Grouping together maybe? Or better yet, using journals? (In Uni they pretty much replace books in Biology work at least). So many options really.

Nowhere near a city. No metro here while we are at it as well. I did that particular essay to get into the course I wanted. No one else I know did anything close. And thats one book. I rented all the books I could, but still had to buy four others. Remember this is just one subject.

[Sheikah]

Then stop acting like one.

I think the only immature person here is you, by instantly stating I am childish because I am challenging the EMA scheme. I think, quite rightly, it pays people too much just to go to keep going through education for another 2 years. Some people may well need the money, like Haggis seemed to, but for a lot of people £30 a week (or less if their parents earn more) is excessive and gets blown on non-academic related things.



EMA replaces child benefit. I'll make it bold to emphasise my point

Obviously it's not as clear cut as that. If it was a simple replacement then there would be no change at all, as both rich and poor families would be receiving the same amount. I don't actually know about EMA replacing child benefit since I never had to even know much about it, what with not receiving any money from it.

Also, child benefit - isn't that mostly for the parent, since they are sheltering you? I'm not 100% sure on this, but I didn't know it was a 'law' that your parents had to give you this money.



Nowhere near a city. No metro here while we are at it as well. I did that particular essay to get into the course I wanted. No one else I know did anything close. And thats one book. I rented all the books I could, but still had to buy four others. Remember this is just one subject.

So you're telling me you couldn't have got a train to the city, costing maybe £20, but instead you bought the book for £200?

[The fish]

I have to say, I think the EMA thing is unfair on those who are just above the upper limit for household income, who get nothing, while a friend of mine gets £30, as it's based on just his Mum's income, and ignores the fact his Dad (who lives elsewhere) pays for pretty much everything with ease as his kids live with the Mum.

[Dyson]

Fucking EMA and bursaries and all that shit. I can't fucking stand the benefits system.

[LazyBoy]

I think the only immature person here is you, by instantly stating I am childish because I am challenging the EMA scheme. I think, quite rightly, it pays people too much just to go to keep going through education for another 2 years. Some people may well need the money, like Haggis seemed to, but for a lot of people £30 a week (or less if their parents earn more) is excessive and gets blown on non-academic related things.

You not challenging the scheme, you're flat out insulting people who need it. People like me, so I wouldn't mind if you showed some respect.

[/B]Obviously it's not as clear cut as that. If it was a simple replacement then there would be no change at all, as both rich and poor families would be receiving the same amount. I don't actually know about EMA replacing child benefit since I never had to even know much about it, what with not receiving any money from it.

Also, child benefit - isn't that mostly for the parent, since they are sheltering you? I'm not 100% sure on this, but I didn't know it was a 'law' that your parents had to give you this money.

It replaces it, but comes out at a little more money. Trust me, I would know. We could of done with the child benefit as well.


So you're telling me you couldn't have got a train to the city, costing maybe £20, but instead you bought the book for £200?

Sigh. The nearest place that stocked the book was the national library. Which as you said was a £20 ticket. Now I can't quite remember how much it was but it came out costing more to join the library and visit it on multiple occasions than buying it. There you go. Happy?

[Sheikah]

You not challenging the scheme, you're flat out insulting people who need it. People like me, so I wouldn't mind if you showed some respect.

Oh, get over yourself. Anyone needs £30. I could well have done with that money during my school years, the fact is that such an amount (or less) each week seems more than necessary. The fact is, people do end up spending it on stuff they want. I know my girlfriend used it to buy games. Some people may need some of it, but it's favouritism and I'm sure a lot of people just blow it on stuff.


It replaces it, but comes out at a little more money. Trust me, I would know. We could of done with the child benefit as well.

Here's what HM Revenue and customs has to say:

Child Benefit is a monthly tax-free payment made to anyone bringing up a child or young person.

I don't see it saying anything about having to give the money to the child/young person. Why would they? They're sheltering you and you're not in full time work so can't pay them back.


Sigh. The nearest place that stocked the book was the national library. Which as you said was a £20 ticket. Now I can't quite remember how much it was but it came out costing more to join the library and visit it on multiple occasions than buying it. There you go. Happy?

It cost more than £200 to join/enter a library? How many members do they have, 1?

Also there is no reason why you couldn't sell the book afterwards for maybe 75% of what you bought it, giving you the money back, meaning you wouldn't need as much of the EMA as you're saying.

[rokhed00]

Fucking EMA and bursaries and all that shit. I can't fucking stand the benefits system.

Never had any of that shit when I was a kid, we learnt for our own benefit back then, not extra pocket money.
Fucking kids today don't know they're born.

[Sheikah]

Never had any of that shit when I was a kid, we learnt for our own benefit back then, not extra pocket money.
Fucking kids today don't know they're born.

Heh...although I couldn't even claim EMA because my parents earn enough, since I didn't get any money besides travel and food I have to agree. People don't need EMA, because people got by without it before it was introduced.

I'm not saying it won't help people in more difficult circumstances. But the reality is that it's just pocket money for so many.

As another note, my parents don't actually earn all the much. They don't even have to earn that much for you not to be able to get EMA. In fact, since they are together that actually makes things worse.

[LazyBoy]

Oh, get over yourself. Anyone needs £30. I could well have done with that money during my school years, the fact is that such an amount (or less) each week seems more than necessary. The fact is, people do end up spending it on stuff they want. I know my girlfriend used it to buy games. Some people may need some of it, but it's favouritism and I'm sure a lot of people just blow it on stuff.

I need all of it. You don't know me, you can't make a judgement.


Here's what HM Revenue and customs has to say:

You're 16 when you go to college, I don't think you're classed as a child. Either way we stopped getting the money.


It cost more than £200 to join/enter a library? How many members do they have, 1?

I was factoring in the cost of multiple visits but, yes, otherwise I would have done what you said.

Also there is no reason why you couldn't sell the book afterwards for maybe 75% of what you bought it, giving you the money back, meaning you wouldn't need as much of the EMA as you're saying.

Not much of a market for them on ebay. Its not Harry Potter.

[Sheikah]

I need all of it. You don't know me, you can't make a judgement.

Well you've not shown anything that makes me think you need it. I didn't get it, I'm still alive, so I didn't need it. Neither did Rokhed by the sounds of it. Our society is too soft.

You're 16 when you go to college, I don't think you're classed as a child. Either way we stopped getting the money.

You're a young person, as specified in the HM Revenue quote, therefore wrong. The money still goes to your parents. Only EMA gives the money to the young person.



I was factoring in the cost of multiple visits but, yes, otherwise I would have done what you said.

You could easily have photocopied/scanned necessary pages or used just that one book in probably one loan for your coursework. It's A-level coursework, not a bloody thesis!


Not much of a market for them on ebay. Its not Harry Potter.


Of course you could sell it, just because it's not Harry Potter there's no reason why it wouldn't sell. If you hadn't bought it long ago it's bound to be a fairly recent edition and so I'm sure someone would buy it. Seeing as you'd be selling it cheaper than RRP I'm sure people would be more inclined to buy it.

[Slaggis]

I need all of it. You don't know me, you can't make a judgement.

You're 16 when you go to college, I don't think you're classed as a child. Either way we stopped getting the money.


Exactly. We stopped getting any money when I turned 16.

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And nope, I don't have enough time for a job, even a sunday one. I've got to pay 300 quid for a biology course from next week and I have to do that all in my own time. I have to do a 2 year course in a year and a half without a teacher. If I had the time for a job, I would gladly get one because I could do with the money for a social life :)

[Sheikah]

Exactly. We stopped getting any money when I turned 16.

Maybe because you didn't reply back to them. They should give it to you if you continue on with A levels or other kind of full-time education. Especially given your situation.


What happens as your child approaches age 16

In the school year in which your child reaches 16 we’ll write to you to find out if they are going to carry on in full-time further education or approved training and, if so, the date you expect them to leave.
After we receive your reply, we’ll write to tell you if we can continue to pay Child Benefit.


(continuing)
What counts as full-time education

Full-time education means more than an average of 12 hours a week during term time is spent on tuition, practical work, supervised study or taking exams not counting breaks for meals and homework.

Examples of further education are:

GCSEs and qualifications up to and including A level. (blah blah blah)

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And nope, I don't have enough time for a job, even a sunday one. I've got to pay 300 quid for a biology course from next week and I have to do that all in my own time. I have to do a 2 year course in a year and a half without a teacher. If I had the time for a job, I would gladly get one because I could do with the money for a social life :)

What the hell is that course, how to survive in hell? Also if you study after getting home during the week (like hell most 6th form pupils do) then I really don't see how you can't work one day a week...

[LazyBoy]

Well you've not shown anything that makes me think you need it. I didn't get it, I'm still alive, so I didn't need it. Neither did Rokhed by the sounds of it. Our society is too soft.

I'm supposed to list to you all the things I needed? Everything? Clothes, books, stationary, food, transport. Any money I earned I spent on myself, because you know the poor like to have a social life as well. People need money you know.



You're a young person, as specified in the HM Revenue quote, therefore wrong. The money still goes to your parents. Only EMA gives the money to the young person.

Then the government owes me some money, because we sure as hell didn't get it.


You could easily have photocopied/scanned necessary pages or used just that one book in probably one loan for your coursework. It's A-level coursework, not a bloody thesis!

I'm sorry that I cared about my work. If the government is giving me £30 a week to work I'm gonna bloody well do the best I can.


Of course you could sell it, just because it's not Harry Potter there's no reason why it wouldn't sell. If you hadn't bought it long ago it's bound to be a fairly recent edition and so I'm sure someone would buy it. Seeing as you'd be selling it cheaper than RRP I'm sure people would be more inclined to buy it.

You misunderstand, I did try to sell it. In the end the loss was so great that I kept 6 out of the 8 books.

I think I should cover this now. Why is it that you think just because my mother couldn't afford it on her own that I can't have the same opportunities as you?

I agree there shouldn't be that drastic cut off point, and I agree that some people abuse it, but some people need it, and I think its funny that you consider yourself qualified to judge whether or not people in lower classes need help. End of the day the only reason that you don't like it is because you don't want to share you're money with anyone, which is fair enough, its just selfish.

[Dyson]

Never had any of that shit when I was a kid, we learnt for our own benefit back then, not extra pocket money.



I quite agree. This is why it is flawed. It's bribery for the poor.

[LazyBoy]

I quite agree. This is why it is flawed. It's bribery for the poor.

That's the kind of ignorant quote I hate. Like we need to have money waved in front of us just to want to learn.

[Slaggis]

What the hell is that course, how to survive in hell? Also if you study after getting home during the week (like hell most 6th form pupils do) then I really don't see how you can't work one day a week...

Because I will have all my revisions and homwork and then have to do all the work for the Biology A-level. I'll have no class for it, it's all in my own time. Your telling me that doing 5 subjecfts at college, then doing all the homework for it when at home and then doing a Biology A-level at home with ALL the work done on my own that I have time for a job?

The course is an extra I didn't know I needed for a course so I have to pay for the full A-level + the exams myself.

Your kidding, right?

[Dyson]

And of course I knew I'd inadvertently spur that sort of comment. I didn't mean to apply it to everyone.

I should flesh out my post. I meant to say that it isn't built to give people the support they need, if it were, then the supplied would be provided, not cold hard cash.

Unfortunately, what it does instead is make the people who normally wouldn't go on to further education go on because it's piss easy cash as far as they're aware.

There are obvious exceptions; some people actually do want to go to college and they get rewarded for it. However, the problem here is that not everybody does.






You know what, I was going to try and make sense of it, then I realised it'd come out wrong and someone would think that I was having a go at them and/or a stereotype, which isn't my intention. I'll just leave my ramblings be.

Just stay safe in the knowledge that if you were going to college anyway, then good for you for getting EMA, it's not you my rants are aimed at.

[mcj metroid]

Fixed.

What pisses me off?
Oh man, worst thing that pisses me off.

Yesterday, at a bus stop waiting to take Letty home. Theres a huge pile of spit on the floor, its utterly disgusting. Then the guy behind us hocks all his snot and spits it onto the floor.

Some people are fucking animals. No, infact that puts animals down. They're worse than that. Like, bacteria or something.

Chavs. 'Nuff said.

these points are very true.. its so annoying seeing guys spitting on the floor.. Do they have hairballs or something I dont get it.

[LazyBoy]

Your kidding, right?

Exactly. I can understand if you're a facist libertarian (not an insult) who believes that you should help no one and just have your taxes go to roads, but don't tell us we don't need the money.

[Sheikah]

Because I will have all my revisions and homwork and then have to do all the work for the Biology A-level. I'll have no class for it, it's all in my own time. Your telling me that doing 5 subjecfts at college, then doing all the homework for it when at home and then doing a Biology A-level at home with ALL the work done on my own that I have time for a job?

The course is an extra I didn't know I needed for a course so I have to pay for the full A-level + the exams myself.

Your kidding, right?

Most people are advised to do 4 subjects, and often drop one in A2. If you're doing too much then that's out of choice (or necessity since you need that Biology). Also, you do a subject without a teacher then complain about the difficulty? Talk about biting off more than you can chew. Your circumstances are somewhat of an exception since you only found out that you needed the subject late on. A pretty rare circumstance that I don't think would apply to practically nearly all people on EMA.

As a tip, when you get to University there will be much more work yet people find the time to do jobs. There's less teaching time but a hell of a lot more study time.

I'm supposed to list to you all the things I needed? Everything? Clothes, books, stationary, food, transport. Any money I earned I spent on myself, because you know the poor like to have a social life as well. People need money you know.

I don't give a damn if you'd like a social life, the government shouldn't pay you to have that. Libraries are there, there's no excuse why you can't bring your own food. Even then a Gregg's pasty is under a quid...not suggesting you should eat that every day. Transport - while it may be more to some people, IMO the amount people are being paid is excess.

If you want to go out and get pissed then bloody well get a job. ;)


Then the government owes me some money, because we sure as hell didn't get it.

You have to write back to them, which you musn't have done.


I'm sorry that I cared about my work. If the government is giving me £30 a week to work I'm gonna bloody well do the best I can.

While people not being paid £30 a week will do absolute ****, failing and dropping out at the earliest stages? ;)


You misunderstand, I did try to sell it. In the end the loss was so great that I kept 6 out of the 8 books.

Surely the greatest loss would be to keep the books thus make absolute 0 pence profit?

I think I should cover this now. Why is it that you think just because my mother couldn't afford it on her own that I can't have the same opportunities as you?

What opportunities? When you get to University you get a loan, and family income probably puts you into a better light regarding grants etc, despite the fact that slightly better off people will still probably be paying back loans by themselves through their own money when they get a job.

I agree there shouldn't be that drastic cut off point, and I agree that some people abuse it, but some people need it, and I think its funny that you consider yourself qualified to judge whether or not people in lower classes need help. End of the day the only reason that you don't like it is because you don't want to share you're money with anyone, which is fair enough, its just selfish.

I shall reiterate as you seem to be quite ignorant regarding this. My parents do not earn that much money, just enough so I got no EMA money. Them being together reduced the chance of me getting any EMA.

Also, my parents do not give me money (in the sense that I am funded throughout life). That is why I have a job. Therefore I have no money to share with people. Isn't using bold very fun. Either way the person assuming here is you. You think I'm some rich boy who wants to take from the poor. Bollocks to that, I work at bloody Tesco. That says enough.

[Shino]

Let me see if I got this straight, someone didn't get 30£ and so its mad at everyone who does?

[Slaggis]

Most people are advised to do 4 subjects, and often drop one in A2. If you're doing too much then that's out of choice. Also, you do a subject without a teacher then complain about the difficulty? Talk about biting off more than you can chew.

As a tip, when you get to University there will be much more work yet people find the time to do jobs. There's less teaching time but a hell of a lot more study time.


I'm not complaining at the difficulty of the course, I'm saying I have to do the course at home on my own without a teacher. I have to do it in a year and a half instead of two. I am dropping subjects for A2, in A2 I will only be doing 3 subjects, but intill then I'm doing a hell of a lot of work and am trying my best to get it done well so I can get good grades to get to the uni I want.

I don't have time for a job (I thought I'd use bold seeing as you seem to love it so much). It's my choice to do the subjects, I know, but you cannot say I don't desverve the EMA just because I don't have a job. I'm working my arse off to be able to get a great job later in life. It's pretty offencing you implying I could obviously work harder and should easily be able to get a job.

The EMA is not useless, and like dyson said it maybe should be given in the supplies rather than cold hard cash. But thats not my fault, thats the governments fault. I didn't choose to get the money, I went to college and it got given to me and so far it's been extrememly beneficial in helping me with my course and it will be a massive help in paying for my Biology course.


I'm also going to have to do volunteer work at some point to help improve my chances of getting on the course I need. I have no idea how I'm going to fit this in, let alone paid work. So please, stop thinking you're 100% right, because you just aren't.

[Sheikah]

Let me see if I got this straight, someone didn't get 30£ and so its mad at everyone who does?
XD no I'm saying what a bollocks system EMA is, which quite a few people have agreed. Paying people £30 a week to go to sixth form... :shakehead

I'm not saying that some people don't need it, just not all of that, and some people do need it but don't get it.

Haggis, I'm not saying it won't help you on your course. Just that £30 a month is too much for most people, that it does get blown on non-academic things and that families just above the threshold = children miss out.

[LazyBoy]

And of course I knew I'd inadvertently spur that sort of comment. I didn't mean to apply it to everyone.

I should flesh out my post. I meant to say that it isn't built to give people the support they need, if it were, then the supplied would be provided, not cold hard cash.

Unfortunately, what it does instead is make the people who normally wouldn't go on to further education go on because it's piss easy cash as far as they're aware.

There are obvious exceptions; some people actually do want to go to college and they get rewarded for it. However, the problem here is that not everybody does.





You know what, I was going to try and make sense of it, then I realised it'd come out wrong and someone would think that I was having a go at them and/or a stereotype, which isn't my intention. I'll just leave my ramblings be.

Just stay safe in the knowledge that if you were going to college anyway, then good for you for getting EMA, it's not you my rants are aimed at.

Thank you, that's a nice post. You understand not to lump us all in together.


I don't give a damn if you'd like a social life, the government shouldn't pay you to have that. Libraries are there, there's no excuse why you can't bring your own food. Even then a Gregg's pasty is under a quid...not suggesting you should eat that every day. Transport - while it may be more to some people, IMO the amount people are being paid is excess.

If you want to go out and get pissed then bloody well get a job. ;)

What I said. Really you should try reading my posts. I had a job. I had one night a week to go out, paid for by the job.

You have to write back to them, which you musn't have done.

Haggis and I v You. I think i'm going to go with us.

While people not being paid £30 a week will do absolute ****, failing and dropping out at the earliest stages? ;)

Yeah. Fuck yeah. I know rich kids that have had their parents pay for the best schools and the best education only for them to drop out and spend the rest of their teenage years smoking pot.

Surely the greatest loss would be to keep the books thus make absolute 0 pence profit?

No, I like having the books. I like to read.

What opportunities? When you get to University you get a loan, and family income probably puts you into a better light regarding grants etc, despite the fact that slightly better off people will still probably be paying back loans by themselves through their own money when they get a job.

Opportunities like being able to go to college because of the EMA.

I shall reiterate as you seem to be quite ignorant regarding this. My parents do not earn that much money, just enough so I got no EMA money. Them being together reduced the chance of me getting any EMA.

But apparently you don't need EMA, so what's the problem. If you were getting the money would it be a problem? And i'm the ignorant one? :indeed:

Also, my parents do not give me money (in the sense that I am funded throughout life). That is why I have a job. Therefore I have no money to share with people. Isn't using bold very fun. Either way the person assuming here is you. You think I'm some rich boy who wants to take from the poor. Bollocks to that, I work at bloody Tesco. That says enough.

And you think I'm cheat off the system, only difference is you made your assumptions first.

[Slaggis]

Haggis, I'm not saying it won't help you on your course. Just that £30 a month is too much for most people, that it does get blown on non-academic things and that families just above the threshold = children miss out.

Finally! You said most, thankyou. Thats what I mean, you can't lump everyone together, some people do need it for academic reasons.:smile:

[LazyBoy]

Finally! You said most, thankyou. Thats what I mean, you can't lump everyone together, some people do need it for academic reasons.:smile:

Finally, all I wanted

[Letty]

I get £20 a week from EMA, but I really dont think I need it. The buses are free for me, I have a job, and my mum pays for books etc, even though her income isnt that high. I think its a stupid idea, because people who were originally going oto leave arent going to stay at school for a measley £30 a week, when they could have a real, paying job.

[Sheikah]

Finally! You said most, thankyou. Thats what I mean, you can't lump everyone together, some people do need it for academic reasons.

Unfortunately EMA does lump everyone together simply by thresholds. This makes for a flawed system. Even if you need some of it, the system gives money to far more people who probably need little of it. And it doesn't give money to some people who don't also need it, but probably just as much as people who are getting it. That is why I dislike the system as a whole.


Thank you, that's a nice post. You understand not to lump us all in together.

You realise he has basically criticised the EMA system for the things I have been saying. That being that it does not include everyone, and assumes that a slightly better off family = child is funded in every single way. Also that it encourages people to stay on even if they had no intention beforehand.



What I said. Really you should try reading my posts. I had a job. I had one night a week to go out, paid for by the job.

Then clearly the things you stated you need money for weren't requiring a whole £30.


Haggis and I v You. I think i'm going to go with us.

What? You did realise I quoted the freaking HM Revenue and Customs website? Oh OK, if you think I'm lying about your parent(s) being able to claim child benefit after you're 16 despite the site saying it, keep believing it!



Yeah. Fuck yeah. I know rich kids that have had their parents pay for the best schools and the best education only for them to drop out and spend the rest of their teenage years smoking pot.

I'm not a rich kid though. I'm that low-middle range who doesn't get anything thus no additional motivation. =D



No, I like having the books. I like to read.

Bull****. You just said that you'd have sold the books but it wasn't profitable. Also you never had the books beforehand and just got it for the coursework. I really think if someone came up to you and said "I'll buy that £200 book for £150 which you probably have no real use for anymore" I defy any teenager to keep onto it. I think you just hadn't the effort or care to see how to sell it online. =/


Opportunities like being able to go to college because of the EMA.
It cost nothing for me or my family for me to go to sixth form. I guess you just got unlucky.



But apparently you don't need EMA, so what's the problem. If you were getting the money would it be a problem? And i'm the ignorant one? :indeed:

I don't need the money, bloody Rokhed didn't need the money (and had no chance to get it in 'his day'), why the hell would you need it?



And you think I'm cheat off the system, only difference is you made your assumptions first.

After shredding your statement to bits about me 'not sharing my money' - my money being non-existant and stating I work at Tesco, that is your best comeback? And still, you provide nothing to say you need £30 a week.

[Dyson]

Want to know what riles me? That..fucking...pose and look on that Paramore girl in Haggis' signature. I swear, it just goes right through me.

I just realized I hate how I don't properly understand how to use apostrophes all the time.

[Supergrunch]

If I were being picky, I'd point out that I hate incorrect use of the subjunctive.

[Dyson]

I don't even know what that means :(

[ShadowV7]

I just think it's annoying that some people get £30 a week for being at High School and all the done was blow it on DVDs and stuff for their room and never anything school wise.

Oh god the exams... he just couldn't read the questions properly or listen. You know with writting exams you get 20 odd questions (or atleast in Scotland you do) and you answer one or 2 for your essays? After being told numerous times by teachers before, minutes before the exam, what does he do? Do 7 lines for each question. Basically he f****** himself up so bad he got rejected from McDonalds.

But I know people who get like £10 and really need the money for traveling and materials etc.

I got £10 but I had a job to help with money after a while anyway so it was all good :heh:

[Slaggis]

Want to know what riles me? That..fucking...pose and look on that Paramore girl in Haggis' signature. I swear, it just goes right through me.

I just realized I hate how I don't properly understand how to use apostrophes all the time.

Haha! Sorry Dyson! I actually have one with her with a normal face, if it annoys you so much, I'll change it. :) (Though going by everyone else rating in the sig thread, no-one else minds)


--

I cannot work, my mum can't afford to pay for everything. The EMA gets me what I need for college, my courses etc. End off. I cannot be arsed to repeat myself and be ridiculed by someone telling me I don't deserve it. I nor lazyboy are "spongers".

[Sheikah]

I just think it's annoying that some people get £30 a week for being at High School and all the done was blow it on DVDs and stuff for their room and never anything school wise.


Which given that most people aren't A grade students, probably equates to the majority of people. A system that doesn't work for most people is flawed. I respect the fact that people like Haggis are in difficult circumstances, but the system overall is wrong in too many ways. I don't aim to lump people who try and people who don't together, just that the system is unfair. =O

[mcj metroid]

i have no idea what the ema system is all i know is we dont get one here.. and if we do why wasnt i fucking told.. where is conzer? :)

[LazyBoy]

You realise he has basically criticised the EMA system for the things I have been saying. That being that it does not include everyone, and assumes that a slightly better off family = child is funded in every single way. Also that it encourages people to stay on even if they had no intention beforehand.

No he criticised the system, you criticised me. Take a page from his book.


Then clearly the things you stated you need money for weren't requiring a whole £30.

I worked one night a week. Earned practically nothing.

What? You did realise I quoted the freaking HM Revenue and Customs website? Oh OK, if you think I'm lying about your parent(s) being able to claim child benefit after you're 16 despite the site saying it, keep believing it!

I will. You know why....its true.

Bull****. You just said that you'd have sold the books but it wasn't profitable. Also you never had the books beforehand and just got it for the coursework. I really think if someone came up to you and said "I'll buy that £200 book for £150 which you probably have no real use for anymore" I defy any teenager to keep onto it. I think you just hadn't the effort or care to see how to sell it online. =/

Damn right I would of sold it, but no one offered me £150. I tried to sell it, but i'm not going to sell a book worth that much for £10


It cost nothing for me or my family for me to go to sixth form. I guess you just got unlucky.

At birth


I don't need the money, bloody Rokhed didn't need the money (and had no chance to get it in 'his day'), why the hell would you need it?

Because my family has no money. How haven't you got that by now.



After shredding your statement to bits about me 'not sharing my money' - my money being non-existant and stating I work at Tesco, that is your best comeback? And still, you provide nothing to say you need £30 a week.

Spongers.

Ha I provided plenty. Your just so arrogantly attached to your ill-informed and ignorant view on the world that you refuse to accept that some people need it. Why don't you pull your head out of your arse and think, "wait, hold on a second, I haven't been in the same situation as Haggis or LazyBoy, maybe I don't know what the fuck i'm talking about."

[Sheikah]

No he criticised the system, you criticised me. Take a page from his book.

Oh come on. You really think I have been saying "Oh that Lazyboy is a right #@?! I have been quite blatantly saying "EMA doesn't cover the low-middle range", "EMA is too much for most", "EMA encourages people for the wrong reasons" etc. Of course I have been saying the same points as him. I have also been questioning your use of the EMA money, because I don't think you need it. But that's just my opinion.




I will. You know why....its true.
Blind ignorance will get you nowhere in life. =/

Just fire up the website, it will explain to you your parents are still eligible. No more on this matter; if you're just going to keep denying hard facts then there's no point in discussing this.



Damn right I would of sold it, but no one offered me £150. I tried to sell it, but i'm not going to sell a book worth that much for £10

No one offered...maybe because you didn't list it on a website? It's not like normally people just say completely out of the blue "Hey do you have Roman History by Joe Bloggs 2nd Edition?" - "Why yes I do! What a coincidence!".

You would get a lot more than £10 for it, people can easily find out the RRP. Obviously you wouldn't get full price but certainly a decent amount.



Because my family has no money. How haven't you got that by now.

Rokhed had no money! I'm not being funny here, but for a person to attend a 6th form, buy the occasional A4 pad, travel to and from with passes and buy some lunch (not from Marks and Spencer), it shouldn't cost £30 a week, for most people at least. It doesn't sound like it costs you £30 a week for sure.



Ha I provided plenty. Your just so arrogantly attached to your ill-informed and ignorant view on the world that you refuse to accept that some people need it. Why don't you pull your head out of your arse and think, "wait, hold on a second, I haven't been in the same situation as Haggis or LazyBoy, maybe I don't know what the fuck i'm talking about."


I'll repeat what you said again to reveal how much of a hypocrite you are. Ill-informed and ignorant view right back at you:

and I think its funny that you consider yourself qualified to judge whether or not people in lower classes need help. End of the day the only reason that you don't like it is because you don't want to share you're money with anyone, which is fair enough, its just selfish.

Sheer ignorance. You honestly think the EMA is a great system. Well, it would be odd for you to think otherwise since you are being paid by it. I don't think we could ever expect you to see anything wrong with being paid money. Everyone likes money!

Yes, some people are in difficult circumstances, yet I don't believe paying £30 to everyone under a threshold is fair, not just because of the amount but how it excludes several people who you seem to think are rich boys. The tables here turn really, and the person who thinks anyone slightly better off than themselves deserves nothing is you. Shame.

[M-PG71C]

Intolerance and ignorance both piss the hell out of me. Being a Korean living in America with my religion being Christianty (It seems people in the Southern U.S. firmly believe that all Christians must be white and anyone below that is clearly in the wrong) puts me in one very unique niche. It also makes it significantly worse when someone of your own race goes into a popular university and kills over 33 people, making it the single greatest school shooting in history as far as numbers are concerned.

The amount of racism and bigotry I've seen directed towards me in life is enough to make anyone sick. But there is nothing I can really do about it. Those kind of people will exist and continue to exist. At least I can say I'm not a Muslim, they have it harder here. A lot of Americans have a tendency to believe that someone who is a Muslim is clearly a terrorist, and that is blantly wrong. There may be a significant movement considering those kind of organizations but the grand majority does not apply.

But getting this concept through their head is kind of difficult but I digress. But even with that said, despite the sheer amount of racism I've experienced, I'm still in the common belief that the majority of the American people are good and are certainly brighter than the people I have made an example out of above. Just stay away from the service sector economy people and you're good to go, LOL! :P

[LazyBoy]

Oh come on. You really think I have been saying "Oh that Lazyboy is a right #@?! I have been quite blatantly saying "EMA doesn't cover the low-middle range", "EMA is too much for most", "EMA encourages people for the wrong reasons" etc. Of course I have been saying the same points as him. I have also been questioning your use of the EMA money, because I don't think you need it. But that's just my opinion.

Yeah you've been attacking my legibility for. You don't know who I am.


Blind ignorance will get you nowhere in life. =/

How right you are.

Just fire up the website, it will explain to you your parents are still eligible. No more on this matter; if you're just going to keep denying hard facts then there's no point in discussing this.

If you're going to keep denying that I DIDN'T GET IT I agree.


No one offered...maybe because you didn't list it on a website? It's not like normally people just say completely out of the blue "Hey do you have Roman History by Joe Bloggs 2nd Edition?" - "Why yes I do! What a coincidence!".

You would get a lot more than £10 for it, people can easily find out the RRP. Obviously you wouldn't get full price but certainly a decent amount.

What, are you trying to convince me I didn't do it. You except me to turn around and think, "wait maybe he's right. Maybe I didn't try to sell it." Seriously what are you trying to do?


Rokhed had no money! I'm not being funny here, but for a person to attend a 6th form, buy the occasional A4 pad, travel to and from with passes and buy some lunch (not from Marks and Spencer), it shouldn't cost £30 a week, for most people at least. It doesn't sound like it costs you £30 a week for sure.

It did. You can believe, or continue arguing against a brick wall.


Sheer ignorance. You honestly think the EMA is a great system. Well, it would be odd for you to think otherwise since you are being paid by it. I don't think we could ever expect you to see anything wrong with being paid to do something that you shouldn't be paid to do.

Never said the EMA was a great system. I actually said it was flawed too. Try reading. I said some people really need it, like Haggis and I, and others I know.

And you're only pissed because you aren't getting it.

Yes, some people are in difficult circumstances, yet I don't believe paying £30 to everyone under a threshold is fair, not just because of the amount but how it excludes several people who you seem to think are rich boys. The tables here turn really, and the person who thinks anyone slightly better off than themselves deserves nothing is you. Shame.

Oh yeah, i'm feeling it now.

[Sheikah]

What, are you trying to convince me I didn't do it. You except me to turn around and think, "wait maybe he's right. Maybe I didn't try to sell it." Seriously what are you trying to do?

So where did you list it then? By the sounds of things you haven't tried to sell it at all, rather you're just saying you did now so you don't sound like a bit of a wally for spending £200 on a comprehensive book and never using it again. :p

What was the name and author of the book?



And you're only pissed because you aren't getting it.

XD I'm 20 and in my final year of uni, do you think I am suffering right now? I am just very unimpressed by this system of favouritism and generally a waste of taxpayers money. Note generally, not entirely.



Oh yeah, i'm feeling it now.

Who cares what you're feeling... you can't yell ignorance when that's all you use to get by.

[LazyBoy]

Who cares what you're feeling... you can't yell ignorance when that's all you use to get by.

I'm going to make this the last thing I say to you because it's not like you even have an opinion anymore, you're just stupid, and carrying on this conversation is only feeding the idea that I or anyone else gives a crap what you think.

You don't know me, you don't know my situation. You don't know shit.

[Supergrunch]

I don't even know what that means :(
I wasn't talking about your post, it's just something that annoys me when I'm feeling pedantic.

[Sheikah]

I'm going to make this the last thing I say to you because it's not like you even have an opinion anymore, you're just stupid, and carrying on this conversation is only feeding the idea that I or anyone else gives a crap what you think.

You don't know me, you don't know my situation. You don't know shit.

I know that you're an arrogant person who has just got through this argument on sheer denial and ignorance. Your entire argument rested on my supposed 'ignorance', which fell flat when your own ignorance shone through by saying that I was some rich kid who doesn't share my money.

But yeh, you'll probably go through life thinking that everyone owes you something because you've got such a hard life, arguing until blue if anyone dares challenge any system that may be benefiting you.

What do I know though, I'm obviously a rich boy funded heavily by my parents, which logically explains why I am under employment by Tesco and didn't go to a private school, rather a government funded secondary school.

Fool to me. :)

[mcj metroid]

Intolerance and ignorance both piss the hell out of me. Being a Korean living in America with my religion being Christianty (It seems people in the Southern U.S. firmly believe that all Christians must be white and anyone below that is clearly in the wrong) puts me in one very unique niche. It also makes it significantly worse when someone of your own race goes into a popular university and kills over 33 people, making it the single greatest school shooting in history as far as numbers are concerned.

The amount of racism and bigotry I've seen directed towards me in life is enough to make anyone sick. But there is nothing I can really do about it. Those kind of people will exist and continue to exist. At least I can say I'm not a Muslim, they have it harder here. A lot of Americans have a tendency to believe that someone who is a Muslim is clearly a terrorist, and that is blantly wrong. There may be a significant movement considering those kind of organizations but the grand majority does not apply.

But getting this concept through their head is kind of difficult but I digress. But even with that said, despite the sheer amount of racism I've experienced, I'm still in the common belief that the majority of the American people are good and are certainly brighter than the people I have made an example out of above. Just stay away from the service sector economy people and you're good to go, LOL! :P


racism bothers me a lot.. Truth is though you mostly see it with much older people.. Nothing bothers me more than homophobes though.. I firmly believe that there will be a time when ..

well you know wne someone is called a rasict they are a bad person but then someone says they are homophobe and they don't seem bad
I think that will change.

it's a little diffcult to word that one:)

[knightendo_phil]

i dunno, in my day we had to survive on pocket money lol. feel old now :D my girlfriend is a good bit younger than me and was able to get EMA, which she used for petrol for her car which got her to and from school (her 'A'-levels by the way, so she got it till she was 18, but mabe that's just Northern Ireland) and to and from the part-time job she had too. Thing is, her parents were both on good wages, but because they were split up she still got it. They even admitted that they were surprised she got it, technically they shouldn't have but being split up adds a lot of "points" to the application, which I feel is incredibly unfair on those families that are still together!

god, i remember being at primary school and getting 50p pocket money and that could buy my He-Man comic AND sweets!! NOW i feel old lol!!

[AshMat]

WEll when i'm getting £30 a week just for going to college this time next year, i'm gonna spend it on whatever the fuck i feel.
Imo, the only people who really hate it are the ones sore they're not getting it.

[Cube]

Imo, the only people who really hate it are the ones sore they're not getting it.

Obviously. But the way they work out who gets it is utterly retarded.

[EEVILMURRAY]

Right. Enough of this EMA Bullshit.

Last night at a pub brought something which I despise to my attention. Football viewers.

I am a self confessed non-football fan, I don't mind playing it but watching it is so bloody boring, but there are people who get well into it as if they might have some impact on the outcome of the game.

When someone misses a shot everyone moans, some people grab their heads, that's how frustrated they are. People who have been told their mum has died show less grief than when whoever misses a shot.

[Mr_Odwin]

No more insulting each other in arguments about EMA (or anything else for that matter).

[Shorty]

What really angers you? And has anger ever worked for/against you?
People with signatures taller than 150px.

Other than that... meh, I'm not easily angered. Although I often get very shouty and slammy when trying for the 100th time to get past a very difficult part of a game. One fairly recent example would be the last few videos on EA's 'skate.' - people kept telling me to calm down and try another day.

[knightendo_phil]

Right. Enough of this EMA Bullshit.

Last night at a pub brought something which I despise to my attention. Football viewers.

I am a self confessed non-football fan, I don't mind playing it but watching it is so bloody boring, but there are people who get well into it as if they might have some impact on the outcome of the game.

When someone misses a shot everyone moans, some people grab their heads, that's how frustrated they are. People who have been told their mum has died show less grief than when whoever misses a shot.

I just don't get football, English football I mean. It's just so... meh. And yes the way people get on when watching it is kinda laughable. Don't let it anger you Eevilmurray, just take comfort in the knowledge that you have a much fuller life than they obviously do if watching football is the most important/most dramatic thing in their lives. (This is not aimed against all footie fans obviously, just those that go WWAAYY over the top.)

[ReZourceman]

Can't see whats so bad about Ema tbh.

She seems like a nice lass.

[Jonnas]

Right. Enough of this EMA Bullshit.

Last night at a pub brought something which I despise to my attention. Football viewers.

I am a self confessed non-football fan, I don't mind playing it but watching it is so bloody boring, but there are people who get well into it as if they might have some impact on the outcome of the game.

When someone misses a shot everyone moans, some people grab their heads, that's how frustrated they are. People who have been told their mum has died show less grief than when whoever misses a shot.

For your own sanity, don't come to Portugal.
And if you do, avoid malls and the Metro (or public places in general) during game days.

[EEVILMURRAY]

For your own sanity, don't come to Portugal.
And if you do, avoid malls and the Metro (or public places in general) during game days.
Normally I don't have a problem with it, I've been in pubs many a time and seen the reactions. But last night was 100% overboard, probably because it was a student bar. I kept clocking one dude whose hands were always on his head because the game stressed him out that much...

[Stefkov]

Having to wait for people is annoying.
Especially if you go to town to hand out some CVs, then your mum wants to spend 20 minutes in BHS deciding what colour bag she wants, a brown or black one.

[Jordan]

Thats another of my gripes Stefkov.

Women and shopping is the most disgracefully boring thing EVER. EVER. FUCKING EVER.

I'd rather play ET on the Atari 2600 than go out with a girl clothes shopping.

[EEVILMURRAY]

The lovely non-repetitiveness that is the Kaiser Chiefs lyrics. What a bag of wank.

[Roostophe]

Last night at a pub brought something which I despise to my attention. Football viewers.

I am a self confessed non-football fan, I don't mind playing it but watching it is so bloody boring, but there are people who get well into it as if they might have some impact on the outcome of the game.

When someone misses a shot everyone moans, some people grab their heads, that's how frustrated they are. People who have been told their mum has died show less grief than when whoever misses a shot.

I never really "get into" a match, especially when I'm a neutral spectator.

But on the rare occasions where I go down to Villa Park to watch a match, I'll never randomly scream "COME ON!" (yeah, that's really gonna help them. ¬_¬).
But I will sing along when a song/chant gets going, and when we score I will celebrate and cheer. Because you just have to.
Compared to when I'm watching it on telly, I'm a completely different person when I'm down the Villa.

[Raining_again]

The only thing that really gets on my nerves is having to do the answer machine at work.

It's about half an a4 page of text to read in something like 3 mins. And it has to be done on 3 different answering machines :shakehead

[Slaggis]

People that say something but mean something else.

For instance, my head of year.

"Yes Josh, you can do the biology course"

later on I got told by him

"Hmm, I'm not sure if you can Josh"

Today I got told

"I don't think you could get the grade Josh, I don't believe you'll apply yourself, I'm just being honest here".

Me

"I'm sorry sir but for fuck sake make your mind up, I'm in 6th form not year 7 sir, so treat me with a little respect".

It worked too! He apologised and didn't send me out for swearing. Woo. I hate how the teachers don't bother taking us seriously unless you scream at them.

Also I'm annoyed at myself, I let people insult me too much. I just laugh, and tell them to ef off, when infact I really should just tell them where to shove it. Funny taking the mick is great, when I find it funny, not when everyone else but me does.

[DomJcg]

My Internet, going every 30 seconds and taking 5 minutes to load afterwards >.>

[EEVILMURRAY]

My Internet, going every 30 seconds and taking 5 minutes to load afterwards >.>
I have something similar, when I'm at my home at uni, when starting my computer up, it won't let me connect to the internet. It takes about 5-7 minutes and it tells me there's no firewall turned on.

When the red shield disappears from the bottom right I know Windows has realised its' own firewall is on, thus the internet works.

[Stefkov]

Something that annoys me is spelling. Yes this is the internet, call me whatever but I actually do get kinda peeved at people putting there instead of they're. Not just on here, but this is the only place that I come that I expect people to have good grammar.
I also laugh at their education.

[triforcemario]

Chain mail, that's what really fucking pisses me off. People feel it's necesary to send me about 2 million fucking copies of fucking chain mails telling me that MSN is closing down, and passing the message onto 15 contacts will save your fucking account, or that if you don't send the message onto 10 contacts, your true love will go off with some other bloke.

God, the tempation to send them Goatse or lemon party is overwealming.

Also, something else which pisses me is Maths B (I think it's called Calculus in Britain), which is monotonous to put it bluntly.

[Jimbob]

The following really make me angry

The Elderly - They jump the queue, hog all the seats on the bus without moving over for you then expect you to vacate the seat on the bus for them to sit down.

Chavs - Need i say more, they really wind me up completely and they make me want to smack some sense into them. They are all "innit" and stuff like that.

My Parents - Soft buggers they are. When i was younger, they wanted the best from me so punished me whenever i went wrong with groundings and no tv, games or internet for a period of time, they even took all my stuff from my room to make me study of which i am thankful for. Now with my younger sister who always is in trouble they leave her, may ground her from time to time but don't follow the punishment through and before it is up, she is back out with her mates and the parents don't care. My sister got put on report, and my folk rewarded her with a grounding but no removal of stuff. She could still browse the net and watch DVD's to her hearts content. Same can be said about housework, she does bugger all and no-one makes her do anything.

Well, enough of my gripe. I have more to add to the list, will post them all tomorrow sometime.

[Stefkov]

Regarding the Parents I know exactly what you mean. Exactly.
Me and my bro were punished for wrong doings as children. Now my sister? Answers back and gets away with fuck all. All she does is have to cry and everythings alright again. She's fucking 11 and all she has to do is cry to get off the hook.

[triforcemario]

Another thing that makes me hate this world: Fat ***** who think they're superior to you by picking fights with me for no reason at all, although they have the intellence of a fucking walrus. Actually, take that back, that's insulting Walruses.

Seriously, WTF is wrong with these retarded chimps we call human beings?!

[Gizmo]

I hate people who think they are amazing at something, but aren't, and everyone else knows. More specifically, football. Today in PE the teacher was off so we got to do whatever and obviously all the guys played football. Our team didn't have anyone who wanted to play in goals so we decided to take it turns after every goal. But of course this stupid **** didn't want to go in goals. He's a striker. Then, he has the audacity to complain to my friend when he makes a mistake in goals.

"You go in and do better then"
"Why the **** would I go in goals?"
"Because we are taking turns each since nobody wanted to go in"
"**** off"

What makes him so high and mighty that he doesn't need to go in goals for his turn? Also, we had a team of six while the rest were 5, so we had to have a sub coming on and off every so often. Of course, he played the full period.

The most annoying thing is no matter how much they piss you off you can't confront them because instantly 20 other of his equally-retarded mates turn up. And most of them will have knives or broken bottles of ****ing buckfast.

[Sheikah]

I hate people who think they are amazing at something, but aren't, and everyone else knows. More specifically, football. Today in PE the teacher was off so we got to do whatever and obviously all the guys played football. Our team didn't have anyone who wanted to play in goals so we decided to take it turns after every goal. But of course this stupid **** didn't want to go in goals. He's a striker. Then, he has the audacity to complain to my friend when he makes a mistake in goals.

"You go in and do better then"
"Why the **** would I go in goals?"
"Because we are taking turns each since nobody wanted to go in"
"**** off"

What makes him so high and mighty that he doesn't need to go in goals for his turn? Also, we had a team of six while the rest were 5, so we had to have a sub coming on and off every so often. Of course, he played the full period.

The most annoying thing is no matter how much they piss you off you can't confront them because instantly 20 other of his equally-retarded mates turn up. And most of them will have knives or broken bottles of ****ing buckfast.

Those kinds of people have a god complex. Don't worry, he will probably kill himself driving at 90 in a built-up area.

[Dante]

I cant stand people that find bullying and mistreating people as a funny thing to do.

[triforcemario]

I cant stand people that find bullying and mistreating people as a funny thing to do.QFT, brother. I have that very shit done to me quite often :shakehead