1) The inexplicable popularity of soap operas. The FPO and both our extended families all make sure to watch EastEnders faithfully. They're all intelligent people. It's a programme aimed solely at morons. Weird, and infuriating.

2) Hip hop made after about 1998 and any kind of "clubber" music. Just fuck off. Music for idiots.

3) Those people who think Jeremy Clarkson would make a good Prime Minister. Dig a big hole, fill it with dog shit and knives, drop them all into it, then concrete it over.

...on Ms. Pond. I think she's the perfect foil for the new Doctor. Bang on with ATA and much as I love Kermayo (see what I did there) you're right - the longer podcast is TOO long. I preferred it when it was split in two with the interview in one bit and the reviews in the other. At least that way I could choose to delete the interview if I wasn't interested. Now I know I could fast forward, but

a) it's not so easy to get to the right place with FFW on an ipod and
b) I'm a grumpy old man - why should I have to bother ?

My three :

1. Why on earth do we have to have BBC HD and not BBC1 HD. Can't stand getting the progs moved around to accommodate the latest worthy BBC4 programme just because it's in HD. The HD versions often get dropped completely as well.

2. Why won't my iphone scroll the album or track names in the same way that the older ipods do ? If several tracks have the same start to the name (i.e. on an audiobook) there is no way to see which tracks are which.

3. I'm too grumpy to think of number three.

1. I want a checkout in Sainsburys where I can just buy my shopping without being asked if a. I'd had a nice day, b. got a nectar card, c. how many bags I'd recycled and I don't want someone who expects paying packing it all for me or getting in my way! I know RFID has it's critics but when I can fill a basket and walk out of the door without any involuntary human interaction it will make shopping a better experience.
2. Can people stop complaining that there's nothing decent on television please? Most people have either PVRs or VCRs and a huge number have cable, satellite or Freeview. If they can't be arsed to make sure that they have something recorded ready to watch when they're ready then it's pretty much their own fault.
3. Potholes!!

- my god doesn't it drag. Self indulgent twaddle. I've stopped listening.

1 The new multi-coloured Daleks look like Ikea condiments. Daleks should be grungy grey Motorheads, not luminous Duran Duranies

2 David Cameron rolling his sleeves up. Look he's not just rolling his sleeves up because he's warm, he's rolling his sleeves because he's getting ready to work for this country. Can you see? The rolling-up-the sleeves it's a metaphor for the hard work he's going to do. A metaphor. Yes. Well done Dave.

3 Roadworks on the motorways - everyone else drives over the 50mph temporary speed limit except me.

number 1 right now would be plastic packaging that you can't get off with a power drill and a flame thrower.

1: Parents who refuse to control their young children when shopping with them.

2: Reality TV, truly the death of television.

3: The Word review section. (ducks quickly)

I AM a grumpy old man and I almost take umbrage at my grumpiness being limited to 1 week only. However, Martin, I appreciate your good intentions and I will limit myself to the following:

1 - Drivers who tootle along in the middle lane of the motorway for miles on end. I reckon they must take some comfort in having all that 'buffer' space on either side in case anything unexpected happens. Numpties!

2 - Those charity dudes who form a chain across the main thoroughfares in Glasgow and other cities and then try to engage you in a 'quick chat'. I am a generous person and one of my jobs is with a charity but I don't see why I should have to explain myself to them. (Some of the lady dudes are OK though and I usually try to give them some 'life' guidance).

3 - Coat hangers. Naked coat hangers. More than one in the same space and they seem to take delight in entanglement.

1)People who let their Cats out to kill the Songbirds in my garden and dump on my lawn.
2)People who park shopping carts across the aisle blocking off any chance of navigating around them.
3)Musak in all forms is just plain evil and must be stamped out!

But I insist on bending the rules. That is a GOM's prerogative.

1. The political soap opera which we have created, which turns politicians who are supposed to be running the country into greasy, grinning salesmen. They are so terrified of saying something that might cost them popularity that they end up saying nothing. Meanwhile the media chatter endlessly about which of them looks best in a suit. We have turned this election into The X Factor.

2. The excess of unqualified, parasitic "experts" who blether on about how to eat, exercise, sit, sleep, think, go to the loo, relax, "detox", dress, diet and so on and so on ad infinitum.

3. Being treated like an idiot/baby as per my earlier post. E.g. the sign in the loo which says "wet, soap, wash, rinse, dry".

4. Train conductors on my commuter train. They know we want to snooze or be left alone with our ipods/books/DVD players but they insist on reciting their pompous scripts - "please have your travel documents ready for inspection". "A trolley will shortly be passing through the carriage serving a selection of beverages and snacks, please do not impede its access". "Please be sure to take all of your belongings with you before leaving the train". "Thank you for choosing South Eastern" - we have no bleeding choice! I could go on like this for most of the day. And then they wake you up to look at your ticket.

When watching golf on TV, it's the American golf fans who line the fairway and bellow "you the man!" and "in the hole!" at golfers the moment they've connected with the ball.

That they shriek the latter when the golfer in question has just teed off on a par five - when the last place the ball is likely to settle is "in the hole" - only serves to emphasise their stupidity/increase my ire.

Starting with a new company and coming across people who's experience has only been with that company looking down their nose at you because you don't understand a TLA used only by that company. I have 25 years experience you jumped up tosser, you have about two and I can assure you that is not what it is called in the wide world.

1. Restaurant staff that fall over themselves to get you seated, a drink, menu, food etc. and then disappear of the face of the earth when you want the coffee and the bill.

2. All customs and immigration staff the world over. Gruff and rude does not equate to efficient security. You can be efficient, secure and polite.

3. Hotel rooms that need you to put your plastic key card in a socket in order to work the lights. Thus ensuring that you will either fall over in the dark looking for the stupid socket which is never in the sort of standard height, place that light switches are in, or, will leave your room with out the key because its not with you wallet and car keys next to the tv.

...where they look really stern. This one of Andrew Rawnsley trying to smile and look stern at the same time is my favourite:

2. Product plugs masquerading as news on the BBC. Well it winds me up anywhere, but especially on the BBC and especially on BBC Breakfast. They actually remind the interviewee to get the plug in if it doesn't come up in the course of the conversation. "So, you're out on tour soon, aren't you?"

3. On a similar subject: the fact that as I live 30 miles from London, my area isn't important enough to get its own local TV bulletins so we get stuff about squatters in Notting Hill or market stall holders in Hackney or something.

........1. Shopping on a Sunday afternoon – in fact Sunday opening hours in general. Its hard to know which town centre or shop is open 10-4 or 10.30 to 4.30 or 11 to 5pm. This Sunday I got the rage for trying to buy an Indian meal deal for 2 in a high street supermarket at just after 3.30pm. The staff told me the stall was closed, they’d already packed the food away. But I pointed out “your shop is open until 4pm and its only 3.30??” Cue a shrug of the shoulders by disinterested member of staff. So I had to walk away and go for a takeaway.....Which was more than twice the price and tasted horrible.

2. More shopping woes now. Going into a large high street electrical retailer which seems to be full of 17/18year old employee’s who clearly don’t want to be there and will try and make themselves look busy or avoid any potential eye contact with customers which would mean they have to engage in conversation/give advise on their products/have to do something they’ve been employed to do – i.e. work. The same also goes for a large motoring store which sells bikes, satnavs etc. The customer service levels in these stores is abysmal as they’re pretty much staffed by kids who don’t want to be there.

I have got more but need to have a think who really deserves my wrath.

Its good to be grumpy!!

People who dress their dogs in clothes....seriously the dog does not need a jumper, its a dog, not a fashion accessory.

People complaining about soaps. "They're rubbish", "They're for morons".

So what?

People like them. They're easy entertainment. Some of them are actually quite well-written and acted. They're Britain's biggest shows. They must be doing something right. It's pure intellectual snobbery by those who like to think they're on a higher cultural plane than anyone else. Get over yourselves. Allow others to enjoy stuff you don't.

People thinking they're too grand to wait on you/clean/do menial jobs. They'd rather be a pop star. So some poor lowly paid immigrant has to do it instead.

Is there anyone with a British accent working front-facing in the service industries anymore?

1. The ubiquity of the daleks in Dr Who. I could have sworn that in the old series they only made occasional appearances, say every few years or so - and they still had an impact each time. But since the revival you can't get away from the sodding things - they must account for about 15% of the story lines since they often appear in the double episodes. Apart from the first one called "Dalek" and the hilarious slanging match with the cybermen, I could do without them. Come to think of it, almost any re-use of monsters in Dr Who is a bad idea (cybermen, ood and weeping angels spring to mind); the impact is never the same.

2. Drivers who either (a) sit in the middle lane of the motorway, or (b) keep their fog lights on whatever the conditions. Really gets my goat.

3. People who dispense unsolicited parenting advice. Particularly those who naturally assume their kids are entirely a result of their parenting skills (i.e. no nature, all nurture), because their own sample of 1 happens to fit their preconceptions.

I feel better now.

and thats the single, becoming more the norm I think these days

1) TV talent shows - I used to like New Faces but the ubiquity of X_Factor/Pop Idol/Britain Hasn't Got Talent is just overwhelming and the influence on popular music can hardly be said to be a positive one. And they've made a complete tosser not only a star but one of the most powerful men in entertainment. Awful.

2) The replacement of pubs by "bars" complete with compulsory Sky sports, seven different but identical-tasting, over-priced and over-cooled lagers but if there's any real ale at all it will be badly kept to force people to drink the aforementioned over-priced etc.

3) Celebrityism. The magazines devoted to celebrity gossip. The news items that are nothing more than press releases. The inability to make a travel docuemntary without a celeb fronting it. The absence of news from the popular papers (and, increasingly, the broadsheets). The whole, staged, saga of celebrity break-ups, make-ups and shags. I don't care and we'd all be better off not knowing.

4) David Cameron and Gideon Osborne.

Phew that's better.

1) The person who tiled the guest bedroom en-suite in my brand new house with broken, chipped and clearly defective tiles, presumably thinking that if he completed the job, I'd just put up with it because it would make so much mess to cut them out and he might not get a match from the same batch and it'll take so much time blah blah blah. (And the builder for letting him get away with slip shod work when the rest of the house is very nice, thank you.)

2) Mercedes Benz. My new C250 has spent 31 days back at the dealer since I took delivery of it in November: blown injectors, driver door opening mechanism collapsing, sundry engine management system warnings. It's my 3rd and last Merc: it's shite and so is the dealer.

3) HMV Milton Keynes. On Sunday, they offered the AC/DC "Iron Man 2" cd for £7.99 a couple of days after I gave them £9.99 for my copy.

1. People who have a group profile picture as though posing with your better looking mates will give you some sort of reflected glory. I'm undecided whether people who put a profile photo of their children up are even worse.

2. People who put cryptic crap like "almost there...." or "one down, two to go". If nobody's got a bloody clue what you're on about, why write it?

3. People who upload 90 photos, 88 of which are rubbish. If you've not got time to edit your selection, I haven't got time to look at them.

1. Windows PCs instead of Macs
2. reorganisation
3. being treated like a school kid at work, I'm 52 and have been doing this professionally for 28 years! Bint.

1. Graham Norton. Just don't get him. Presents shoddy programmes shoddily. Maybe an indicator of why I tend not to watch BBC1 much anymore.

2. People who drive cars that cost at least fifty thousand pounds but can't afford a bluetooth headset or car kit. It's usually fat blokes in Range Rovers.

3. Drivers who don't thank you for letting them out or in.

1.The lack of content and crapness of English newspapers sold abroad

2.The B/B owner in Howth, Co.Dublin, who greeted me with; "It`s about bloody time!" after we had arrived 45 minutes late due to traffic in Dublin. Land of a thousand greetings, my arse!

3. Iceland and it`s stupid bolloxy volcano

1. Microsoft Office Help. No it isn't. It's a coronary by click. I think MS deserve some sort of award. They've managed to write swathes of 'help' text which addresses nothing I've ever asked it. Quite an astonishing achievement of diversion and mis-information. Actually I'm willing to believe if I persevere with it it will finally provide the help I want but I'm normally under the desk in a foetal position by then.

2. Word processing in general. You can type a page of profundity, pause to gather thoughts, look away for a moment then look back down and the whole lot has gone. By a chance in a billon you've indavertantly hit a key combination which has erased the lot while contemplating. WHICH HAS JUST BASTARDING HAPPENED TO ME.

3. BBC News at Ten. Put it back where you found it at, at 9pm. And Huw, sit up. Stop leaning forward with one arm across the desk looking down to read your script. Face forward. Shoulders back. I don't pay good money to look at your bad posture.

1. Scallies who spend £200 on a pair of trainers but don't get their car MOT'd.

2. Journalists who offer massive amounts of money to sportsmen to see if they are corruptible.

3. Midlake. And staff in Waterstones asking "can I help you" as soon as I walk through the fucking door - "Yes, do you sell books?"

1. Numbnuts on the phone in supermarkets, at the tills, walking down the street with scant regard for anyone else around. (Surely NOTHING is that important). For a REAL Emergency Situation, the use of a mobile is necessary, but why are you still waiting in the queue at the till?
2. The lack of REAL record shops where browsing is actually an enjoyable experience
3. Why can no-one make a decision anymore? The number of people I've come across (my kids included) who'd not make a choice or guess just in case its the wrong one.
"There's no such thing as a WRONG decision"

One: SELFISH and IGNORANT people who have long conversations with other people they haven't seen in, ooh, three weeks or so, with their trolleys parked, completely obliviuos to other shoppers, while standing IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EFFING AISLE IN SAINSBURYS.

Two: The UTTER MORONS who drive eight feet off your back bumper on the M4 at rush hour in the outside lane because you are reluctant to go faster than 90 m.p.h. or get closer than 300 feet from the vehicle in front of you. The same churlish, selfish TWATS who are probably on the EFFING MOBILE while doing so.

Three: People who are TOO EFFING LAZY to look up the difference between a NOUN and a VERB and learn the simple rule that N for Noun comes before V for Verb, and that by the same token C as in LICENCE (Noun) comes before S as in LICENSE (Verb), and thereby KNOW THE BLOODY DIFFERENCE and when to use the right form.

Wow, feel much better now, thanks for that. Oh, and Ashes To Ashes 3 is ace, so there.

1. The incredibly annoying Big Issue seller who stands outside the shop I work in and says "Don't drink, don't do drugs" in a very loud voice all day long. He needs a psychology lesson...

2. Auto Tune. If you can't sing then you shouldn't be in a recording studio. Go and stack shelves or something.

3. Seeing the word 'paninis' written on menu boards across Britain. Singular - panino. Plural - panini. Paninis - double plural.

1) People who stand at the bar in busy pubs. I am a short arse and difficult to be seen. MOVE you pillocks...

2) Chummy, whimsical news readers- say the full name of your reporters and don't make jokes ever. THIS MEANS YOU EDDIE MAIR! But I will let Aasmah Mir off because she's lovely.

3) Piss awful bore and shite, pale shadow of a Richard Littlejohn wannabe (and you wouldn't think that was possible would you?), James Delingpole from The Spectator. I challenge you to read his stuff, your chin will hit the floor (but not in a good way).

Just three? Oh, alright then...

1) Listen to any interview on tv or radio. Even previsously laudable and decent people are now in the habit of stating 'no, no, yes, yes ' or 'yes, yes, no, no. Why? What do you mean? (Goes to window for air...). I've had a moan on here about this before, you know. (Goes for a lie down).
2) Blue badge abusers. Need I say more?
3) Poor lane discipline on the roads, especially at roundabouts. Arghh! If you go all the way round on the outside lane then, pray tell whats the inside lane for? Hmm?

Great thread for releasing all the pent up rage and that.

to bus drivers when they get off the bus. Since when did this happen?
2. Bus drivers who don't respond to people who say "thanks" to bus drivers who get off the bus.
3. My own inner loathing.

(not the band the actual cricket one)

2/ The England cricket team with too many South Africans and Irish in it

3/ Rain in The West Indies

and everyone.

Hello birds, hello trees.

HEY GUYS turn that frown upside down :-)

1) Performance farters
2) People on TV who peddle the myth that you have to behave like a boorish, charmless nerk to be successful (Ramsay, Sugar, Bannatyne...etc)
3) Aggressively persistent salespeople

1) Performance farters
2) People on TV who peddle the myth that you have to behave like a boorish, charmless nerk to be successful (Ramsay, Sugar, Bannatyne...etc)
3) Aggressively persistent salespeople

People who tell a perfect stranger 'Smile it might never happen' and are surprised when they get a mouthful of choice expletives. Dim cheery no good tossers to a man or woman - don't try and drag everyone down to your idiotic level.

Parents who have trained their children to scream like bloody blue murder ever time a dog comes within a mile of em in a public place. Be it Yorkshire Terrier or Great Dane it is treated like a walking shitting time bomb (see The Day Today's 'Bomb Dogs')

People who say 'that was before my time' as a seemingly perfect excuse for lack of general knowledge. Read a fucking book, you cretin!

Feel the rage flow through you.....

2. Pedestrians who deliberately walk into the road when I'm on my pushbike. Not the ones who just don't look (though they deserve a slap), but the ones who've seen me and still walk out. The bike and I weigh nearly 200Kg, approaching at possibly 30Km/hr; do they think it's somehow not going to hurt if I don't swerve...?

You're perfectly within your rights to complain about this IF you're one of the miniscule percentage of bike riders who bother to obey road rules, and don't fucking become pedestrians when it suits them.

Robert fucking Peston. Why hasn't HE been taken away AND QUIETLY drowned SOMEWHERE by the peopLE IRRItated by his VOCal infleCTIONS?

Jeremy Cunting Vine.

The people who let their dog shit on my very small patch of flowers by my front door. If I ever see it hapen, they'll get turds thrown at them. In fact.. anyone who doesn't pick up their dog's leavings. One of the great un-noted changes in the last twenty years has been the reduction in dogshit.

My threepennorth...

1. The unspoken but accepted "truth" that there is something wrong and unwholesome about a pub that is not "kid friendly". I like kids, I enjoy their company and I realise they are "the future", however I am not a pariah because I don't want them running around screaming while I enjoy a pint. There are lots of entertainment places for children, pubs aren't amongst them.

2. Reality TV. In any guise.

3. Terry, my next door neighbour, what a nob.

1. Self-confessed ‘pedants’
Having a preference for accuracy isn’t being pedantic, it’s just a reasonable expectation of clarity and no more makes you a pedant than owning a copy of Echoes makes you a Pink Floyd obsessive. Anyway, if you were that pedantic you wouldn’t misuse the word.

2. Dreams that are too much like reality
If I have a dream, I want it to be dreamlike and thus easy to distinguish from real life. I do not want to spend all day wondering if such-and-such event actually happened, or did I simply dream it.

3. The little spinning beach ball
On iTunes. I'm looking at it now. Whenever you read this, the chances are I will be looking at it.

1. Drivers who try to join the motorway from a slip road when the traffic is queuing by zooming up to the very last inch of the slip road and forcing their way into the traffic stream, thereby causing all the traffic behind to have to brake and halt. Simply moving into a gap that already exists, so keeping the traffic flowing, isn't good enough for these selfish tossers because they can save themselves 2 seconds of journey time at others' expense.

2. The people who let these bastards in instead of blocking them off and leaving them marooned on the hard shoulder.

3. The use of "apostrophe's" on signage wherever you go - pizza's, CD's, sandwiche's - what is wrong with these people? Has basic stuff like this been dropped from the national curriculum entirely?

1. People that I barely know who tell me via Facebook that they are 'fans' of Prep H gel or something. There is no fraction of a f*ck small enough that I could give about that - or you. See also: becoming a 'fan' of something so banal you can't believe anyone bothered to create a group for it ("so-and-so became a fan of waking up, turning over and going back to sleep lol!!!") or of an abstract concept ("so-and-so became a fan of happiness").

2. Poor table manners. I don't want to see or hear your food once it's left your plate. And I certainly don't want bits of it on my face/clothes/plate. So shut your mouth!

3. People who make sweeping generalisations about people. "I hate Germans". Really? All of them? You're telling me you've personally met each and every German on this planet and spoken to them for an adequate length of time to enable you to form such a strong opinion about them all individually? I hate those people.

And breathe....

1. Autotune
2. The fact that I can instantly recognize Autotune
3. The fact that most other (normal) people can't

1. Petrol stations with mini supermarkets attached. Leading to some pillock doing their weekly shop with traffic backed up waiting to use the pump that his car is blocking.

2. My son repling "I'm good" when asked if he would like more tea.

3. And talking about tea, hotels that insist on serving tea at breakfast using bloody vacuum pump flasks. If I have just paid £7-8 whatever for breakfast is it too much to expect a pot?

1. Petrol stations with mini supermarkets attached. Leading to some pillock doing their weekly shop with traffic backed up waiting to use the pump that his car is blocking.

2. My son replying "I'm good" when asked if he would like more tea.

3. And talking about tea, hotels that insist on serving tea at breakfast using bloody vacuum pump flasks. If I have just paid £7-8 whatever for breakfast is it too much to expect a pot?

1. Petrol stations with mini supermarkets attached. Leading to some pillock doing their weekly shop with traffic backed up waiting to use the pump that his car is blocking.

2. My son replying "I'm good" when asked if he would like more tea.

3. And talking about tea, hotels that insist on serving tea at breakfast using bloody vacuum pump flasks. If I have just paid £7-8 whatever for breakfast is it too much to expect a pot?

1. People who seemingly insist on putting up every photo they've ever taken in the last three years; and those who join every group under the sun, even though they probably contradict themselves in doing so.

2. Children (and adults) over the age of six (i.e. those who should know better), who think our shop is a dumping ground and it's acceptable to leave it in a state. After all, who gives a fuck if you leave that 'Avatar' DVD in the Children's section? It's not your job to clean it up is it? Put it back where you got it from, you pillock.

3. Traffic lights than seem to be on green for hours, but red for the briefest of moments meaning you have to run across four lanes of high-speed traffic in order to make it to the other side of the road without being flattened by a middle-aged suit in a Mazda.

The rather recent development where when you park in a city centre pay and display car park and have to key in your registration. If I pay for 2 hours I am paying for the space I use not the car I put in it. If I return after 30 minutes and want to give the remainder of MY ticket to someone else I should be able to without fear of a 5 year prison sentence or whatever the penalty is.

The likes of Jeremy Paxman on "Election night special" using the words 'moral right' about why Gordon Brown shouldn't form a coalition government if a pact between the Tories and the LibDems doesnt work out. Read the constitution you muppet.

Facebook messages telling me what someone is eating for dinner or that they havejust put another washing load in. I am not interested. Actually anyone out there think Facebook is a bit of a waste of time?

1. Workplace 'innovations' that waste, rather than save time.

2. Numpty 'managers' who are too bloody thick to appreciate that their 'innovation' is wasting my f*cking time. My time.

3.Weekends spent catching up with work, which has not been done partly due to introduction of 1. (And the fact that my heart or brain or both might explode due to the level of stress / lack of exercise caused by 1. and 3.)

Yes. I am feeling stressed.

For a long time I have thought that Jeremy Clarkson is playing the part of Jeremy Clarkson.

I find that he is just saying what people expect him to say, I think some of his more ''unconventional'' comments are said solely to infuriate.

I have watched him on TV, even read ( & enjoyed !!) one of his books, I even agreed with him about Brunel (I still voted for Lennon though)but I think he is in a position where people hang off of his every word, & his celebrity status places him in a position where he doesnt have to face critiscm of some of his unsavoury // offensive views & comments.

I think the man is a bully, & I would rather feast on my own entrails than ever see him in a position where he could actually do something.

For a long time I have thought that Jeremy Clarkson is playing the part of Jeremy Clarkson.

I find that he is just saying what people expect him to say, I think some of his more ''unconventional'' comments are said solely to infuriate.

I have watched him on TV, even read ( & enjoyed !!) one of his books, I even agreed with him about Brunel (I still voted for Lennon though)but I think he is in a position where people hang off of his every word, & his celebrity status places him in a position where he doesnt have to face critiscm of some of his unsavoury // offensive views & comments.

I think the man is a bully, & I would rather feast on my own entrails than ever see him in a position where he could actually do something.

I like a small gig, but...

1. Club venues where the stage is too low for anyone to see
2. Acts performing at such venues who sit down in order to play (drummers not included)
3. Bar/Toilets in said venues being nearer the stage, instead of the back, so that you have to battle your way to the front in order to engage in any of the liquid-based acts that a night out might involve.

1. People moaning about the weather. I rather like the definite seasons we have here. If only it wasn't ruined by the predictable chorus of bleating miserablists!

2. The continual over-estimation of the talents of the England football team. I could elaborate, but i'm sure you know what I mean.

3. Extremists, of any order. Do us all a favor, remove the blinkers and get real. (Not expecting this suggestion to work.)

In fact they're rarely ever right.

One such gentleman came up to me on the till yesterday and asked why a particular DVD (Star Wars V) wasn't in the sale (it was, so I found him the correct copy). As he now didn't need the full-price DVD he had in his hand, he offered to put it back, which I was grateful for.

Now, bare (or is it bear?) in mind, he only had to walk ten yards to put it back where he found it, he decided just to put it in the first place he could (War and Westerns)- which naturally didn't please me, and I told him so, and explained to him that the DVD didn't go there, and that he should've known that considering he found it originally.

Of course, rather than apologise for his error, or his laziness, he criticised me for my attitude, suggesting my customer service was terrible, and for allowing him to do my job. I told him it shouldn't be my job to tidy up after customers, and I'll treat customers how they treat me (i.e, if they respect me, I'll respect them) so he called me a prick as he walked out.

Charming, indeed.

1. People who can't be bothered to say hello, goodbye, please or thank you to people working in shops etc. It makes the nost mundane job more bearable if people can manage to be polite.

2. People who take their children to coffee shops and let them run loose whilst they sit gossiping (You know the "Yummy Mummy" types)The number of times someone has been carrying a tray of hot drinks and said children nearly trip them over..grrrr.

3. The phrase "Yummy Mummy" and people who think they are one. I saw a woman once with a bag with the phrase written across it..I don't think they should be the ones to decide whether they are or not.

4. Old people who complain about young people and how bad mannered they are..when most young people I have met have better manners than most old people I have met.

5. Misuse of apostrophes. There is a takeaway that I go past on my way to work called Burgers, Pizza's, Kebabs. Why???

Hmm I'm sure there are plenty more.

Spot on about Kermode OP. I don't listen to it anymore.