More minor irritations

This thing is self perpetuating. The more I think about things that bug me the more they present themselves. Also, paradoxically, the more they amuse me. So here are a few more I remembered:

- people who brush their hair / apply make-up or clip their goddamn fingernails on the tube / bus. (I mean, what sort of an OINKY PORKY PIG are you?)

- vox pops on TV which seek out people to either state the bleeding obvious or prove a self perpetuating theory. Eg. "this is normally such a quiet neighbourhood - you'd never expect this sort of thing here.", or, "he was always such a quiet bloke, who loved his kids and kept to himself" or a version of, "it's really cold / hot / good / bad / ugly / beautiful / black / white" depending on the banality being discussed. Possibly a sub-set of this irritation is the statement whenever a kid dies: "she/he was very popular with all of his/her classmates. She/he had such potential. She/he was on the way to being a footballer / prime minister / brain surgeon / pope etc etc"

- canned laughter (that's pretty irritating too)

I should write down a list of little things I love, to try to counter all this bad energy (man) but that's a list that, surprisingly, is taking longer to compile.