Tannerite – for the sake of our American Cousins, for those not aware of it, it’s a product specifically sold as an explosive which is detonated by shooting it with a gun. Many people have been wounded by doing that sort of thing – and really, when I think about it – the person who wants to use an explosive that is detonated by shooting with a gun, is the last person I’d want having explosive which is detonated by shooting with a gun.
The appropriation of public assets by private individuals – from small scale stuff like the street over road from my office having their road classified as “for access only” despite the fact it’s a dead end, making it a defacto private road, but public owned and maintained to a local village trying to have their roads classified as non through roads to stop commuters using them because it gets busy in the morning – sorry, but you knew that when you moved in, they’re not your roads! Like the guy who thinks the pavement outside his house belongs to him all the way up to George Osborne selling the first group of Royal Mail shares to his mates at a knockdown price and now trying to sell of RBS for half it’s value to make it look like hes reducing the deficit.
Tea and Coffee, because it means every workplace must have it’s own mini chemistry set to make the stuff constantly and it’s always a huge mess which is somehow acceptable, but mostly because of the way people look at you like you’ve just said you sacrifice kittens at the weekend if you let slip you don’t drink the horrible crap.
Tax Havens and ineffective tax legislation which doesn’t let it happen by mistake, but rather is carefully constructed to only allow the very wealthy to make use of them.
Caravans to save their owners from themselves – “oh I know it cost £20k, but I can go on holiday whenever I like for free!” Well Son, there isn’t an armed guard outside my house stopping me setting off to shit in a plastic bucket in a field whenever I want and £20k buys a lot of actually nice holidays.
Taxis using Bus Lanes, they’re supposed to be for public transport and environmentally friendly vehicles like Bicycles – not PRIVATE hire cars, which unless no one has notices are CARS, but unlike normal cars make every trip twice.