So many things, where do I start?!
Although I’ve never had any problems buying stuff from ebay.co.uk, theres still some damn annoying things about it!
Firstly, they let people get away with doing a ‘Buy It Now’ for £0.01, and then charging £10 for postage, so the person gets to avoid the fees… They need to set a standard, for UK to UK sending, if its a certain weight, you pay so much. I don’t expect (regardless of the item price) to pay £3 for what’s supposedly just postage and the item arrives with a 2nd Class stamp on it. Although the total may equal the same had the item gone for the price you’d expect, but still, I like to think I got value for money, and the way my mind works, that just doesn’t seem like it to me!
Then there’s the waiting about days and losing in the last 5 minutes… Ok so the whole point of ebay is that it’s an auction, but still! It’s just not fair. 
And theeen! There’s the people who can’t spell and/or manage to post in the right categories, it’s not hard, and just means they pay the listing fees and stand no chance of selling anything 
But saying that, it’s alot cheaper than buying things from proper shops, including online ones, because people pay what they want, and not whatever the shops decide to charge…
Anyways, off I go to watch that listing till I leave tomorrow morning for 2 weeks, I’m better win it though, or I’ll scream…
Ok, so being able to skip the windows genuine advantage crap on the microsoft site would be great, but I, and I’m sure alot of other people, just can’t afford to pay more than £90 on something that I have that fuctions perfectly as it is…
You really would think they’d be more interested in reducing the amount of pirated copies by making it cheap and easy to get licenses. If it was £10-30, then I would actually buy one, but with no good incentive and a workaround for the WGA checker no doubt on the horizon, there’s just no point wasting the money! Who cares if it’s illegal? They’ve monopolised the Operating System industry, with it now being impossible to buy a PC without a Microsoft operating system already installed (which you have to pay for on top of the price of the PC) that they just don’t deserve to rip everyone off!
Don’t you just hate people who can’t talk about anything but one thing? I’ve run a few forums in past, and all I used to get was “so whats new with <*insert whatever forum they're a member of*>?” It’s like, is there not anything else we can discuss?! I try any be friends with everyone, so sometimes it would be nice to just chat…
Ok, so I can be bad about this, and there’s certain people on my list (who shall remain anonymous!) who are just there for when I need to know something, but that’s not for want of trying to have a converstion with them… Some people are impossible to talk to, and nothing you say gets a response that you can reply to.
Then you get the people who know nothing about you, who sit making snide remarks about what you have or haven’t done, and you just feel like telling them (since they come in the “refusing to have a proper conversation”) that they should actually learn something about the person they’re talking to before jumping to conclusions! *sigh*
Mess.be is one of the best resources for MSN Messenger on the net, but the one negative about it is that it’s somewhat out-dated…
The amount of people who are (jealous for starters) who go oooon and ooon about how their site is so much better because they have an “up-to-date” (horribly looking) design.
Mess.be has been there for years so why fix a design if it’s obviously doing so well?
Ok, so my first non-rant:
TopGear on BBC Southern Counties Radio
*sniggers* Even if you don’t watch TopGear (which you should) it’s still amusing!
Ok, in order to be able to watch ANY TV channels whatsoever, I have to pay the BBC over £100 to be allowed to have something that recieves a TV signal in my home.
ITV and Channel4 have adverts in their programs as a way of generating revenue.
So let me get this straight, in order to watch a channel which uses ad’s to make money, I have to pay the BBC, who are nothing to do with ITV/CH4. I can’t even have a TV that is only tuned to non-BBC channels in my house, as that is ILLEGAL.
Can someone please explain how they worked this out to be fair?!
Now! Not only do they try and extract extortionate amounts of money from you, (this comany employed by the bbc, NOT the government as it is assumed,) they also send you nasty threatening letters, assuming you to be guilty unless you prove you don’t have a TV. This means, you have to accept that someone will turn up at your house (”any time of the day or night, on a weekday or at the weekend”) and give you a fine of £1000 unless you let them into your house to search every bit just to prove you’re not using one.
Not only is that just dodgy, but in order to get you to pay even more, any room with a lock on it (ie. if you have a lodger) that has a TV also has to be licensed. So, you’re now paying the BBC over £200 for one extra TV! I’m just astounded that they get away with it, and have for so long…
I’d much rather have ad’s on the BBC channels and not have to pay the license fee, and I’m sure I’m not the only one…
Why the philosophy: “They’ve come here illegally, but been here for years now, we should let them stay”?
In that case: “Oh, that serial killers been killing people for years, lets let them carry on as they’ve been doing it for so long”.
What’s the difference? They came here illegally, they should be deported, I don’t care why they came here. Ok, so if they were threatened with violence or whatever then maybe they should be considered (but if it was that bad, going through the legal options would be fine, and they would probably be let in), but it’s the ones who come here because they wanted a better job that bug me. As if there isn’t enough jobs in the UK at the moment, they then go and work for cheap rates illegally, making even less jobs! Not only do they do that, but some turn to crime aswell (as if the jails aren’t overflowing already).
Infact, just deport all illegal immigrants, all criminals, and Tony Blair too whilst you’re at it.
Why do Opera/Inetrent Explorer users always assume they are right, and when you disagree, you’re a firefox fanboy?!
Of course firefox (which remember, is just a browser) has to DIE! DEATH to the firefox browser! (I’m reffering to sites such as killfirefox.com, which is run by a bunch of very immature, quite obsessed, 11 year olds.) People need to grow up, (go and play mummies and daddies with their Barbies,) and realise it iiiis only a browser, and whilst I think firefox is great, I’m all for people using any browser they wish. Why should I care what other people are using if I’m using the one I’m most happy with?
And the moral of the story is: do whay you want but stfu as you’re doing it. If you’re happy with it then fine, just remember, no-one else cares. (And this moral applies to alot of things!)
One of my pet hates is people who are just incapable of speaking basic English..
Now, I’m not saying I’m anywhere near perfect (I speak like a twat on MSN messenger, but then again, you’re not usually required to be formal when instant messaging) but at least I try when it actually matters…
The following are one of the most commonly misused words:
There = eg. Over there! There’s (this means there is but we’ll come back to that later) a mouse there!
They’re = They Are eg. They’re not nice people They’re total imbeciles.
Their = Something belonging to them/him/her. eg. Where is their one? Their shoes are nice.
Please try to remember that.
Now, another often forgotten member of the english punctuation family!
Say hello to the apostrophe (often misspelt apostrophy): ‘. Now this little mark:
Replaces letters: as you see above, they are becomes they’re . The apostrophe replaces the *space* and the “a”. In words such as don’t (do not), can’t (cannot) and won’t (will not) it does (pretty much) the same.
Now wait! Not only does it magically do that, but it also shows that something belongs to someone! eg. A host’s website (A website that belongs to a host). Note: It works for names too. “Mary’s frog. Kangie’s drink.”
Now, if we look the above example, you absolutley cannot under any circumstances use “hosts”. Hosts (an “s” without an apostrophe) means more than one host. eg. “Look at all the hosts!”. Nor does “Marys frog. Kangies drink” work. Not in the slightest. Sorry.
Of course this work the other way… you shouldn’t just shove an apostrophe before every “s” at the end of a word, as that can also be wrong! Such as: “The cat has a fish in its mouth” would be correct. “The cat has a fish in it’s mouth” is WRONG. The cat cannot have a fish in “it is” mouth so please try and learn the difference before I kill you all. You wouldn’t put “He’s over there” or, “It’s your’s”, so don’t start with its.
I would add that if English is not your native language, then you have a good excuse, but there’s no need, as most foreign people I talk to can speak better English than alot of English people.
On a final note, here’s a list of words that do not exist, and what you should use instead of them (that’s the ones in bold) in order to sound coherent in any way:
- hoo/whoo/hu/whu = who
- wat/wot/wut = what
- wen = when
- lyk = like
- wnt = want/won’t (how do you expect anyone to know the difference?!)
- r = are
- u/yoo/yu = you
I’m afraid I haven’t included them all, but at least that will get you started. (For the love of god, abbreviations are supposed to reduce the amount of letters you type, so if the abbreviation is longer, or of equal length to the orginal word, you are categorically stupid 
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Lastly, (and this really is the last I shall say on the matter!) websites demand professionality. If you want to look like a little kid, type like one; if you want respect, type like an adult! It’s not hard! Dictionary.com is a great site, so USE IT.
What’s the big obsession with people caring what people online think about them?
Recently I’ve had alot of people saying “I heard you fell out with <*insert the name of someone I've never met in real life, and only talk to online, here*>… You’re falling out with alot of people recently!”
They all seem quite bewildered when I just shrug and say “and?”, which is just strange… Why should I care if someone I’ve never met, (never had any intention of meeting, and quite frankly, would want to meet anyways) doesn’t like me?
Ooooohhhhh the internetttttt!!!111one Everyone cares if someone they don’t know doesn’t like them anymore! The horror! The social shame! I get treated like a freak for just not caring! Am I so wrong to have more to my life than just the net..?
