Name 10 Things

[LadyCG]

You would abolish / send to room 101 if you ruled the world.

My top ten would be:

1. Hollyoakes
2. Ready salted crisps
3. All religion
4. Council Tax
5. Chunky heels
6. Exposed midriffs (except in the case of swimwear)
7. Starting a sentence with "so"
8. More than one anti-Tory post on public forums per month (daily posts would result in incarceration)
9. My next door neighbours' campervan
10. Prescriptions of simple analgesia that can be bought for pennies in supermarkets

[maggiebee]

Puzzled by number 10. Why would you get a prescription?

[JJ109]

1. Yer know!
2. Calling batsmen "batters"
3. Statue wreckers
4. History Changers (eg Braveheart)
5. L'escargots
6. All Religions
7. Smoking
8. Putin
9. Rudeness on AB
10. Talking on mobile phones in trains when the conversation is inane twaddle

[retrocop]

1. Private Eye
2. McDonalds
3. Electric Vehicles (except disabled aids)
4. Sadiq Khan
5. Foreign Aid
6. H of L
7. Raves
8,Starting a sentence with 'So'
9.Foul mouthed so called stand up comedians
10.Trade Unions

[ToraToraTora]

In no particular order.....
1) People who say Nucular
2) People who say Aks
3) Direct Taxation
4) The EUSSR
5) All Religion
6) The whole idea that to change sex is possible
7) All Soaps
8) Non democracies
9) All forms of smoking including vaping
10) All conspiracy loonies.

[Ken4155]

Off the top of my head and in no particular order;

1) Sportswashing
2) Reality TV
3) Interviewing MPS - they never answer the questions put to them
4) PMQs - see above
5) Transgender athletes competing against opposite sex
6) Cold-callers - phone and doorstep and incl JWs
7) 'Playful' dogs being allowed off the lead in parks
8) Extortionate prices at the vets
9) Weather forecasts - do they ever get it right?
10) Football transfer fees over £10M

[LadyCG]

Pensioners get free prescriptions, Maggie. I'd stop the prescribing of things like Ibuprofen that only cost 32p in Aldi.

[LadyCG]

I'm with you on Foreign Aid, Retro.

[scorpiojo]

1 Putin
2 Trump
3 Soaps
4 "Innit"
5 Reality TV
6 Overpriced/overpaid footballers
7 Justin Bieber
8 All religions
9 Shop assistants who are too busy discussing last night/tonight to serve anyone
10 People who use their mobiles while being served

[MargoTester]

1 religion
2 Indian call centres
3 mobile use in public places (unless an absolute emergency)
4 Alison Hammond
5. All sport to be shown only on dedicated channels only
6 Ant and Dec
7 wokeism
8 chewing gum
9 cookies on websites
10 starting a sentence with So

[Omg21]

Reality TV
Party political broadcasts on TV
Smoking
Overpaid footballers
Music that is played while waiting for someone in a call centre to answer
Bad drivers
Starting a sentence with so
People who constantly look at their mobile when in company
Using myself and yourself instead of me and you
Putin

[LadyCG]

The abolition of Wokeism would be a wonderful thing. I'd also love to ban "Human rights" lawyers challenging asylum claim rejections.

[rowanwitch]

1. Disney princesses ( tells little girls life will be wonderful if you are beautiful)
2. Social media influencers
3. Celebrities who are famous for being famous
4. Soap opera
5. Reality tv
6. Tattoos( except on sailors)
7. Multiple piercings
8. Religion ( all of them)
9. Abusers of all kinds
10. People who talk(or post) in a way that either belittles others, or with the aim of causing pain or distress.

[ladybirder]

1. People who say anythink.
2. Flies and mosquitos.
3. Bloke speeding on his bike around the park with his dog tied by rope to the handlebars, in this heat. Sweat from poor thing flying through the air as they pass. It can't have a sniff or a pee.
4. People who leave all their picnic and other rubbish behind in our beautiful parks.
5. Overweight people wearing skin tight clothing.
6. Women who dye their hair red when it doesn't suit their facial colouring.
7. Drivers who don't acknowledge when you've pulled over for them or slowed down to let them into the flow of traffic.
8. Religion.
9. People who come and sit next to you and light up their cigarettes.
10. People who say you have only 2 choices, A or B. I may be wrong but to me that is a choice, not two.
11. People like LCG who thought of asking this question and I didn't.

[choux]

I imagine that many of us suffer several annoyances and some will do so better than others. None of us will ever rule the world so perhaps try the serenity prayer:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.

Ageing gracefully helps too, for with age comes wisdom and patience :)

[maggiebee]

LadyCG - yes I understand that. What I question is why someone would go to the hassle of getting a prescription (my GP is 5 miles away)when they could buy from any supermarket.

[JimF]

"Using myself and yourself instead of me and you"

+1

[LadyCG]

They get them on repeat, Maggie, and in many cases they just stockpile them until they expire. What the NHS pay for these simple drugs is far greater than the OTC or supermarket price because Drugs companies know they can charge the NHS anything they want.

[choux]

My OH has a monthly prescription of (among many things) 100 x 500mg Paracetamol. I would have to visit a lot of supermarkets to buy that many.

[naomi24]

Because people who do that get free prescriptions. Buying over the counter costs money.

[LadyCG]

+2, Jim, that's one of my big bug-bears.