What your pet aversion?

[AlexS]

I have two at the moment,

1. is those stupid stickers they put on every piece of wood you buy these days, and they charge so much you can't afford to cut them off and they are impossible to get of.

I hate the stickers they put on the back of every sheet of abrasive. I'm glad I now use so much that it's worthwhile buying in packs of 50 just to avoid the little b!@#$%^s.

(& cheaper too.)

[soundman]

Fasteners with individual labels and bar codes, in particular masonry expansion bolts.
The blasteed stickers are realuy sticky and you have to take them off or they don't go in the correct size hole.
If these were only in the chain stores I'd be happy... I don't buy fasteners there...... but the manufacturers put them on at the factory.... so even if I buy by the box at my friendly local bolt shop I still have the problem.


Radio adds specificaly designed to sound bad & be iritating


Any form of gartuitous or contrived cuteness used to sell a product, even worse, badly behaved or dirty children protrayed as being cute or endearing.

I simply do not understand how it is acceptable to use
Pictures of small children/ babies, on cards, posters or in advertising, naked, with no pants, in the bath, sitting in custard or large fruit & vegitables or anything of the like
Who the ....... thinks this is a good idea.
Print this stuff on greeting cards and make a fortune, get caught with this stuff on your hard drive & get prosecuted as a pedophile. BH I don't understand........Is this cute or is it child abuse?



cheers

[mick101]

What is my pet aversion.. ?

Watching the local news the other night & the reporter referred to petrol as gas. She wasnt talking about LPG either.

[Big Shed]

What is my pet aversion.. ?

Watching the local news the other night & the reporter referred to petrol as gas. She wasnt talking about LPG either.

Just another Americanism creeping into our language. Television has a lot to answer for!

So much American "culture", so little local content.

To top it all, even the written language is being corrupted, how often do we see "colour" written as "color" these days (in fact the spell checker tells me that the first version is wrong!)

[soundman]

.. Don't get me started on americanisms.
Its bad enough that we are stuck with a whole pile of wood working americanisms, due to at least half the english language woodworking material and products being american.

But basic cultural use of americanisms... Americanising our sporting coverage realy anoys me, its bad enough that they want to shoot all sport in closeups so you cant see the game play but ther is certainly no excuse to americanise the comentary style. we have had our own high energy comentary style for years we dont need the "shouty, low word count, no information style" the sepo's seem to favour. we most certainly do not need to use or accept terms foreign to our games. There most certainly is NO "touchdown" in any form of popular football in this country, "touchdown" is a girly term for those who need a suit of armour and a helmet to play a game of football.
Just as bad is hearing words like trunk, hood, store, mall, waitup.... & i could go on being used in australian childrens telivision and advertising

BH it has taken us 200 years to get rid of the undesirable parts of the vicrorian english now we have this #$%@ poluting our culture.

AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGH

cheers

[Iain]

Boot Camp, horse shyte, here it was, is and always will be Rookies, sanctimonious yankee crap.
What really floored me was 'fALL', seems it was the original English reference to Autumn in the 1700's

[echnidna]

Dipsticks with more authority than their capabilities

[specialist]

People who leave things in front of machines and in walkways.

[TomH]

1) Dropping or knocking over something that's been sanded or finished (always lands on the front most prominant corner).
2) Knocking chisels off the bench.
3) Trying to catch above chisels when falling only to stab yourself in the hand.
4) Cutting a tenon without making allowance for the tenon.
5) Buying sufficient wood for a large project only to find out you are short, which only ever seems to happen when you are cutting the last crucial component.
6) Getting tear-out when you least expect it.
7) Smashing your finger with the hammer in the midst of a crucial gluing session, feeling the intense pain but realising due to the drying and wiping down that you can't stop the task.

[Bob38S]

When members don't acknowledge the advice given in reply to a question asked by them. They may not like the advice given but not acknowledging the effort gone in replying is a complete lack of manners and insulting.


Also those members who only come on line to ask a question and then disappear until they need another question answered. A bit of involvement and posting non questions as well as questions is what keeps this board alive.


Both of the above are my pet aversions and I consider those members leeches and I don't reply to those anymore.


Peter.

Agree with all of the above, don't think I have forgotten to reply to all of the help I have had [if I have - please put this down to senior moment, which are tending to become more frequent lately].

As for the "leeches" mentioned, I can appreciate the sentiments [which are similar to my own] but I still try and encourage/help them in the hope that they will later bring something to the table for us all to share.

Regards,
Bob

[jisk]

There most certainly is NO "touchdown" in any form of popular football in this country, "touchdown" is a girly term for those who need a suit of armour and a helmet to play a game of football.

In rugby union, a touchdown is when a player touches the ball down behind his own try line (which then results in a 22 drop out or 5 metre scrum, depending).

Of course, it could be said that rugby union isn't popular football in this country .

[Tex B]

Things I try to avoid the most tend to be safety related - not using pushsticks, no splitter on the table saw, big forstner bits in hand drills, that kind of thing. I've really gotten attached to my fingers and would like to keep them all.

Tex

[silentC]

Jeeps, Tex, that sentence would give a Russian conniptions...

[Tex B]

Jeeps, Tex, that sentence would give a Russian conniptions...

I'm trying very hard to avoid Americanisms here, Silent. If it's obtuse enough, I can always claim I was misunderstood.

What really gets me is trying to figure out how many board feet I can fit in the trunk and still have enough gas to get to the mall for a pop and a moon pie


Tex

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Moon pie? I'm not even going to try and guess what goes into that, but I'll bet it's nowhere near what my grubby li'l imagination keeps suggesting...