Things Cadwalen doesn't like

All Disney songs that have a timpani flourish leading into a keychange for the final chorus, jingoists (esp. Merkins), the French, Cyclists, everyone on Canal Street, the Religious Right, People who claim to know more than their lecturers but still fail to get a good degree, Films that try to be deep and meaningful without saying a single original thing, Hippies, Arts graduates who quote statistics without having worked with any since they got moved to Second Set Maths in the 4th Form, 13 year old MUD players who think that just because you've provided them with a free service, you somehow owe them something because they've used it, cyclists, Sky One documentaries about people getting a free holiday and their tits out, Microsoft's insistence that people would rather have yet more features than a stable fucking OS, Linux users who insist that linux is easy to use when it quite patently takes fucking months of learning to even approach the level of control that's intuitive in Windows, UA 'experts' who are so used to being knowledgable in certain fields that they convince themselves that they are also expert in all other subjects brought up, despite not knowing anything more than something they saw on BBC2 a couple of years ago, Scallies, Persons of foreign extraction (esp. Greeks) who stick in closed communities of their own without ever interacting with English people (have I done my 'UMIST Against the War in the Balkans' rant recently?), anyone above the age of 30 who's never worked outside of academia, Women, Tony Blair, 99% of garages, People who call my office phone for someone who hasn't worked here for 3 years, People who call my office phone to try to get through to support without queueing (and who _KNOW_ that the number they've dialled isn't support), Esther Rantzen and all other such faded celebrities whose public work for charity is blatantly insincere in motive, people who go to faith healers, people who ride bicycles on the road, extremely ugly people who keep setting themselves up for a joke that you just can't bring yourself to make because they're _that_ fucking hideous, gangland types you find yourself doing business with, getting screwed over by, and not really wanting to go to trading standards about it because you want to keep your kneecaps, computer games in which you're more likely to be killed because of the crap control system (and/or collision detection, AI, or similar), managing to have both loads of money and no money at all _at the same time_, socks that just vanish in large quantities, Avril Fucking Lavigne, the cleaners at Manchester Science Park, FreeBSD (get a fucking life), the Mobile Phone Wars, Goths, all major news media, all minor news media, socialists, people who take a bicycle onto a road and don't have a fucking clue how to ride it safely and unobtrusively, deluded Mac users, football fans, people who act like they're all european and shit just because they've been to Spain a couple of times on holiday and camped instead of staying in a hotel, the wilfully poor, opinionated secondary school teachers who used to be the most opinionated, unpopular, bitches when they were in school and who are trying to do it all over again using their newfound powers to force everyone to listen to their ignorant self-important shit, and people who think there's something wrong with a jolly good shag. And probably other things as well, but that's just off the top of my head.

Cadwalen, 13 Feb 2003