Ten things which bug the bugs out of me...

1 Politics. Everything about it. Politicians in particular, every party.

2 TV. We have to pay for the privilege of watching a TV in the UK. For me, that’s three episodes of Sherlock once a year.

3 That the faceboo0k ‘page’ “I fucking love science” has a ‘fucking’ in it. Why? Is that really, really necessary on a site which thirteen year olds can (and do) sign up to? Science belongs to all age groups.

4 Adobe Flash. It sucks. It always has, and always will. But it’s everywhere. You might not realise this, but if a browser can run flash, it means they’re paying a fee to Adobe for the honour. Roll on html5 (which is open source and free to use)—come on developers get your finger out, get it sorted.

5 People asking dumb questions online when all they have to do is talk to God (his url is google.com It’s a direct line, okay?) When someone answers the questions, they’ve often gone to google to find out.

6 Global warming...climate change. It’s the scapegoat for everything. In essence, it’s become a way of theoretical scientists keeping themselves in work so they don’t have to do something practical or productive.  

7 Religion. Ohhhh, Just don’t get me started, right?

8 The girls who go to nightclubs in short-short skirts and low cut tops then are surprised when they attract the attention of drunken (and sober) males. Yes, rape is rape and there’s no excuse, but ohhh, come on girls...get fucking real, will you?

9 Big game hunting. Jesus H Jernandez. It still goes on. We’ve got disappearing species and populations of bigger mammals dying out—and people (can you call them ‘people’?) still go out hunting big game for sport? That isn’t sport. If they want sport, they should try hand to hand combat with a Siberian tiger. Or dodging high power bullets.

10 Lists of everything. Twenty ways of this, ten ways of that... they’re taking over. Aww man, whatever happened to real article writing?