STEPHEN FRY

With my boy my attention is my most valuable commodity. I try to use it wisely which means when he throws a paddy, provided he is safe he gets ignored and unsurprisingly he stops within seconds.



Reminds me of my mum, telling us what she did the one and only time my older brother had a tantrum while she was feeding me. He started banging his head against the wall (which might explain a few things X-D ) then looked round to make sure she was watching. She turned away and carried on attending to me - and he didn't bother trying it again!

If I get started on the things that wind me up I'll never stop... edited highlights could include the rubbish that seems to pass for popular music these days; anyone who runs red lights, talks on a mobile while driving or doesn't appear to understand the function of those little flashing orange lights on either side of their motor vehicle; people who just don't listen to me even when I manifestly know what I'm talking about; oh, and people, really. Individuals I like, some of them I love, but the great unthinking mass of populace is a bit more difficult...

(Goes off to practise shaking her fist at clouds)

- Men (and women) who moan about Feminists and women drinking pints (I'll keep drinking all the pints I want, just because I'm female doesn't mean I have to drink half-pints or 'women's drinks'). People who think you're supposed to behave and dress in a certain way and like certain things because you're female. No, no and no.

- People who are prejudiced towards other groups of people that don't cause any harm. Especially homophobes, racists and sexists.

- MySpace. Hideous layout. Every profile I've seen on there seems to have been written by an illiterate.

- Commercials. Especially ones on the tv and radio. Noisy irritating buggers.

Are you aware of the many studies of women linking pint drinking to the desire for butt sex?

What's your point?

I was with shrizmo when she write this. we were in a library and there was a really anoying kid crying.
A baines (also know as Daniel) is a very anoying species of what is called a boy!!!
but you can easily mistake him for a frog. His not that bad, i kinda feel sorry for him.

- I still can´t find my remote control
- call center operators who constantly disrupt my work and try and talk me into a new phone contract and whatnot.

- Cyclists flying past full tilt with no clearance whilst i run along the canal..
- Queue jumpers
- The fact that Caramac bars are so hard to find now
- Opal fruits and snickers getting renamed
- That we have no culture of customer service
- That kate bush has not had her archive put to dvd
- Ignorance, in general
- Thieving posties, lost tons of stuff
- Male pattern baldness : how on earth did evolution let this one gather steam?!

- Queue jumpers

Especially at Christmas. People turn so rude then and think it's okey to behave like that just because it's Christmas. I can always see them out of the corner of my eye edging slowly forward trying to push in front of me.

- Opal fruits and snickers getting renamed

Add to that that stupid stunt pulled by Kellogs where they renamed Coco Pops to Choco Crispies and had people voting which name they preferred and changed it back again. An obvious cash-in on the election at the time.

- That we have no culture of customer service

Poor working conditions in retail has just sucked the willpower right out of the staff. When you work in those places you don't want to try and do your best, you just think about getting out of there (I never stayed in a retail job more than a few months, too abysmal). It's depressing and it shows when you're on the other side as the customer. It's so rare to find helpful, keen and interested staff. At Ottakers I came across a woman who was always really eager to help and find anything for me. Go down the road to Waterstones and what do I get? "Er I dunno if we have that book...." *stands there like a moran instead of even looking at the computer catalogue search*

- Ignorance, in general

Don't get me started on that one. I could take all morning with it but I've got to go to work in a few minutes.

- Thieving posties, lost tons of stuff


Same here. It's even more annoying when it messes up applictions because they lose your references in the post. I send everything important recorded delivery now (and keep copies of everything). You just can't rely on the Postal service.