The Ranting Room

Ah, well who cares, washing up isn't something I do that often.

I've never liked Marathon/Snickers Bars.

I've been told that Whispers have been discontinued, I'm rather annoyed!

And I've not been able to find Bassett's Sherbet Lemons anywhere (well, I've not looked that hard, they're bad for the teeth).

Apparently Jif was a rude word in some other language... so they changed it to Cif.  I also heard it was confused wth Jiff Lemon day... how queer.

Any ideas why Oil of Ulay changed to Oil of Olay... girls?

You've been lying down a lot recently, Jim, I think you need some "fresh"* air.

*polluted, smoggy, dirty, horrible air, not fresh in any way.

prog-chick wrote: It became MY FAULT that she overslept, MY FAULT that she is not going to Amber's house, MY FAULT that she didn't know where her sports kit was, MY FAULT her hair "wouldn't go right" etc etc etc (the etc marks are not for fun, I just lost the will to type out my list of misdemeanors!!!!) SO to the main part of my rant this sunny morn......... WHEN DO THEY START TAKING RESPONSIBILITY AND STOP BLAMING ME?????

Well -

Speaking as one who has as yet declined to breed, and speaking to one whom I know shares my view on some aspects of modern childhood (got that cattle prod yet?), I can see and recommend only one answer...

A damned good thrashing, followed by their having to walk (yes! Walk!) to school - the time it takes them to get there being used constructively by your good self to contact their head teacher and arrange another damned good thrashing when they arrive for having the temerity to expect their hard working mother to join the masses of 4WD vehicles, clogging this country's main arteries for the sole reason to despatch one (yes, one - have you ever seen a school run car containing more than one child? Got three children? Fine - Three separate trips, then!!!) over-indulged school pupil in the road (not on the pavement, you'll note, always in the bloody road) outside their place of learning... Place of learning?!? Hah!! These days, they're too ready to "teach" media studies (ie - watching Barry bloody Scott on TV), and not the core subjects, reading, writing, proper grammar, arithmetic, history and real science (do you know there is actually a three page document issued to schools these days outlining what our nanny state refers to as a risk assessment for bunsen burners?!?), all liberally punctuated with more damned good thrashings!



Sorry...

What was the question again?

Jim Garten wrote: Cillit Bang

Well I'm 25 and I know a lot of youngsters and it was only 10 to 11 years ago for me, so it's still clear in my mind!

Indeed, a cup of tea always helps.

And don't you dare bring up socks again!

Always happy to help.

Any 14 year old should be able to get out of bed on their own and early too.  You should be "ill" one day and see how they cope without you.  I bet they won't go to school.

Nobody likes school, hence their reluctance to actually make an effort.

"Oh, Mum's not up yet, cool, I'll just lay-in some more... hopefully she won't wake up for ages yet, when she does, I'll just blame it on her, because I'm not getting up, just to go to crappy school.  Mum can wake me like she always does!".

You need to tell them to start getting up on their own, they don't need to be reliant on you.  If they're at secondary school, it's not an issue, they should be able to get up!  I guess they do need a lift though... so they'll need to wake you up.  Which isn't likely to happen, to be honest.

Blacksword wrote: Give me simple cheap plastic cases any day!

I agree with that to an extent, but is it really beyond the wit of mankind to invent a CD insert that lasts longer than the time it takes to open the CD case for the first time? How many times have you bought a brand new CD, opened it & had those little tags which are supposed to hold the disc in place fall out (followed closely by the disc itself if you're not quick enough)?

No - the kind of packaging which irritates me is the special edition box sets such as Genesis' "Archives"; great album, great to listen to & full of marvellous photos & interviews etc... but where am I supposed to store it? It's way too big for any of my CD racks & even though it looks like a book, it's too tall for any of my bookcases!

And what about import CDs which for some obscure reason have an immoveable sticker right across the top sealing the case completely? Half an hour of careful peeling results in several broken nails and one broken CD outer case... then the inner tags fall out, & because you're so busy stemming the blood from ripped cuticles, you don't see where the CD itself fell!

Aaaaaanyway - my main rant for this morning (which I think will only ring bells with our UK members) concerns a gentleman who regularly appears on the idiot box in the corner of our lounge... Barry Scott.

Never heard of him?

Sure?

Mr Shouty?

No...?

Barry Scott is the guy who fronts the TV advertising campaign for the cleaning product Cillit Bang; constantly shouting, dipping pennies into his special goo to clean them, shouting, tipping it down sinks, shouting, tipping it down loos, shouting, pouring it over work surfaces and SHOUTING.

Shutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutup!!!

You just want to walk calmly up to him (and his simpering advertisement co-star "you like that one, don't you Barry?"), raise a Ruger .44 to his temple and paraphrase his advertising slogan:

"BANG! and the is gone"


But the really irritating thing about Cillit Bang commercials? They're right - it actually works...

NaturalScience wrote: Blacksword wrote: The sort of packaging I hate, Alan, is the sort that encases a new cable for your stereo or computer. A 2 metre long cable will be sealed in a moulded plastic case, which requires the sharpest knife in the drawer to get into. Normally the procedure takes about ten minutes, results in deadly sharp plastic edges and a volumous pile of waste plastic. Right, thats me done for now. Yes, this is incredibly annoying!    Who are they trying to keep out of there?

They could probably reduce the price by 50% if they didn't clad it so much rigid plastic.
    

King of Loss wrote: [Definitely worth it. You can't buy a player as good as Henry anywhere in Europe [IMG]height=17 alt=Wink src="http://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley2.gif" width=17 align=absMiddle>

oh blimey, proof that I really am losing my mind......... reading this post, for some reason I thought we were discussing vacuum cleaners........I was about to rant as my "Henry" kept breaking down until I replaced it with a dyson........ now I long for my HENRY back!

anway, we were talking footie, not hoovers!!!

Yeah, I agree......... he's a star in a gooner shirt!
     

I know exactly what you mean!  Porcupine Tree's Deadwing was a prime example of that for me.

One of my Moody Blues stickers was cool though, it was stuck in a silly place, so I moved it without a problem.

I've had some that are stuck so much, they tear, so you cannot even keep the sticker if you wanted to.  They then either leave a big white bit, or they leave a sticky bit on the case.

Another problem are bands that use a different colour dual case.  I've got a Fleetwood Mac CD (early era by the way, not the terrible latter years) in a kind of greeny metallic dual case and I managed to drop the CD (or it fell off the pile) and it's now broken.  This means it's nigh on impossible to get a replacement.