[foot-loose]

How come I don't get a hug?

...Want a hug?

[Bonanzoid]

I'm used to that.

Want a hug?

Not from you.

[MK Chris]

Being a complete wanker and pranging my car... second time in a week only this time it's my fault and this time there's a big * off dent in my driver's door.

Why do good things never happen without shit things balancing them out.

[S4B]

Aww Topher you ok?

Annoying me today is the fact I can go and see my sister in Tunisia for about 165 pounds but I may not go cos the train fare to Gatwick is at least half as much again. What's all that about?

[S4B]

Additional annoyance so sorry for double post

My darling children (who may not live to see their twelfth birthday) have just flooded the bathroom and the kitchen in one go!

[MK Chris]

Aww Topher you ok?

I'm not too bad, but it's not clear whose fault it'll be in the eyes of the insurance people.

[timp]

what happened then?

[MK Chris]

I reversed out of the space, he went into me. I swear he was going too quick, but I probably should have been more aware of him.

[Yudster]

Aww Topher you ok?

Annoying me today is the fact I can go and see my sister in Tunisia for about 165 pounds but I may not go cos the train fare to Gatwick is at least half as much again. What's all that about?

Get a bus or a coach - it's a lot cheaper and more reliable.

[rustybike]

Annoying me today - coming here after a weekend gap and finding a million new poxy posts about how Chris is always moaning about the site. Waa Waa Waa.
So what? Just deal with it! As long as you're happy here then that's all that matters - he's hardly slagging you personally off.
Besides, I'm sure if Chris constantly said nice things about the site it wouldn't get half as much attention as it does at the moment and i'm also sure that if he really didn't like it here, he wouldn't give us the publicity that he does give us. It's actually really sad as i know 3 people at work that have visited the site due to the repuation of people always being negative and members always moaning - NOT because of the excellent picture, video and sound archive or because of the actual people who are here day on end. No.
Since the day I officially started posting here after 2 years of hiding in the shadows, i have throughly enjoyed myself, I have chatted to some lovely people who are guranteed to make me chuckle one way or another, people who i probably would never have spoken to if it wasn't for this place... but of course Chris doesn't mention these lovely things, or the positve things we say, no. Only the "moaning" which, by the way, is positive criticism from the die hard fans. Surely, if Chris was really rubbish at what he does he wouldn't have as many fans... but i'm sure he knows that already.

Done.

[Boboff]

Ah Bless, you are lovely !

[Vivienne]

annoying me today is the fact I had a horrid dream last night... I dreamt that I was a student again, and one of the other students randomly decided to drive a train past me, which skimmed past me, missing me only by inches. I woke up this morning feeling quite disrupted by this.

[Yudster]

Things which are actually only mildly irritating and normally would make me smile seem to be annoying me today. Which is annoying in and of itself. Not feeling too well either which meant I couldn't get out today, my bad ear couldn't take the cold. That's probably what's causing the bad mood.

[MK Chris]

I had a match tonight. I played pretty appallingly tonight, in my opinion and was very negative. I beat their weakest player, but lost the other two; after my last game I was so annoyed I hit the edge of my bat on my forehead and made it bleed in frustration.. the annoying thing about that is that I've got swimming tomorrow and I feel it may be sore when I get in the pool!

On the upside, we won 6-4, so the rest of my team carried me nicely.

[MK Chris]

Ah well it's my own fault, I'm too competitive for my own good. I generally have a reasonable temperament when I'm playing, but not tonight for some reason.

[foot-loose]

I was so annoyed I hit the edge of my bat on my forehead and made it bleed in frustration..

How do you make anything bleed in frustration?

Couldn't you just let it bleed normally?



Plus, I was on your site a couple of weeks ago and a wise person had posted to remind you all that when you lost, to lose gracefully. I wouldn't like to think you were showing bad sportsmanship, Mr Topher!

[MK Chris]

Haha. I'm generally a good loser, occasionally I get frustrated with myself though. There were no kids around to set a bad example to, my mum called me stupid (she has a point) and it gave everyone else a bit of a laugh.

[foot-loose]

In that case, I shall revert to my original answer...













tit.

[Bonanzoid]

I know the feeling Topher, although I have never inflicted injury upon myself.

I too lost at table tennis and ended up slamming my bat off the table and splintering it. I also lost a game of badminton when I was 9 and destroyed my precious first racket by smashing it off the ground and putting a huge dent in it (I was 9 thus couldn't actually smash it up). Although last month or so I destroyed a great badminton racket by throwing it full force at a wall after I lost to my 2 mates, as in those 2 vs. me.

I need to work on my temper and competitiveness.

[MK Chris]

The way I see it, it was better to damage myself than my bat, because I can't really afford to shell out £80 on a new one at the moment.

[Sunny So Cal]

Aww Toph. Don't feel too bad. At least it was you playing. When the Yankees lost out in October, I screamed "F@%K!", swiped my hand across the coffee table (thereby emptying all contents onto the floor) and then threw a step-stool across the room where it ricocheted off the dining room wall and slammed into my new cherry wood armoire, denting the front door. Amazingly, my German "visitor" that won't go away thought that right then would be the ideal time to ask me for "a smoothie"...

[MK Chris]

Today people are mostly asking "what have you done to your head", or the comics amongst us are asking "have you changed your religion?"

[Yudster]

Ah Topher, you are just like Mr Yudster. He is the mildest mannered most even tempered person I have ever met - but if a squash match is going badly, occasionally he can react similarly to you.

He is a good loser (when it happens) but occasionally just gets so angry with himself he does very daft things. He has been known to break a carbon framed racket (designed to cope with being regularly whacked at high velocity against the solid walls of a squash court) by smashing it on his own leg. He has broken his hand by punching a wall, and broken two toes by kicking the same wall.

Thankfully he is invariably apologetic and gentlemanly towards his opponents when such thing happen - except once, when he completely lost hs temper with a third rate player who kept trying to make up the rules as he went along and finally accused Mr Yudster of cheating - at which point he stormed off court and I told him I was ashamed of him and too embarrassed to stay, so I left. He was pretty ashamed himself I think too.

[MK Chris]

Ah, I've never broken bones, but I have been known to slap my calf quite a lot. I tend to do it with my hand, because I don't want to break my bat (my mum has broken her bat in temper before, so you can see where I get it from!) I would like to think I'm mild-mannered and even-tempered as well, at other times, though.

There's a guy who plays in the league who just gets annoyed with himself all the way through - an extremely nice bloke, but very harsh on himself.. he also slaps his calf, but he tends to do it so hard that he draws blood on a regular basis. He also tends to talk himself through his game, which is quite funny: "Oh Rob, that's lazy, just move your feet"; "Oh Robert, just get the ball back", etc.

[Sunny So Cal]

I like "Have you changed your religion?" Haha!