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    Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

    That teeth-gritting bit at the end of newspaper articles where the government have shown themselves - with sufficiently presented proof - to have fucked over the most vulnerable parts of society, only for a government spokesperson's quote to pop up with some smugly-anodyne rejoinder saying 'we have put £13 million into our new scheme which will ensure all homeless people will have mansions and servants by the end of the year. Now stop this complaining at once.' Obviously, it's right-to-reply, but they're generally done in an dismissive, alls-right-with-the-world manner that ignores any doubts about whether what they're doing is shit.

    You're on a crowded tram and someone still wants to read the fucking paper. Pages, out wide. And to the porky bloke I see every morning who seems to walk through life with an open book inches in front of him: go to a fucking library.

    Shouty, unreasonable people on public transport who stop any bus or tram due to their wanky behaviour. They're outnumbered by a great number of passengers who, in a perfect world, would grab the sod (it's usually a bloke) and chuck him out onto a pavement. That day must come.

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    Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

    I read this as "milfing in action" and imagined ian.64 was going to give us a blow-by-blow account of picking up a lady in a nightclub last night who has had to leave this morning to pick her children up from a sleepover, ruining his romantic plans for a picnic on a heath somewhere later.

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      #3
      Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

      I'm on my way!

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        Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

        Rogin the Armchair Fan wrote: I read this as "milfing in action" and imagined ian.64 was going to give us a blow-by-blow account of picking up a lady in a nightclub last night who has had to leave this morning to pick her children up from a sleepover, ruining his romantic plans for a picnic on a heath somewhere later.
        I didn't.

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          Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

          ian.64 wrote: I'm on my way!
          You are "boring" Bob Grover.

          I claim my £20.

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            #6
            Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

            Twenty?!? Bloody inflation.

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              My price has risen considerably since my discreet introduction into the world of the gigolo escort business.

              £22 and a KFC family bucket. I play hardball.

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                Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

                When books have endnotes rather then footnotes. The actual annoyance really kicks in when the author sometimes uses these for annotations on the text but most of the time just has them for references.

                I'm fed up of flicking through to the back of a book to discover that it's just a reference but I missed an annotation a couple of pages back. Especially when the annotation is a couple of paragraphs long.

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                  #9
                  Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

                  BBC podcasts thanking me for 'taking the time to download this BBC podcast'.

                  Except I didn't download it. My phone did. I just pressed the Subscribe button once.

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                    Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

                    Levin wrote: When books have endnotes rather then footnotes. The actual annoyance really kicks in when the author sometimes uses these for annotations on the text but most of the time just has them for references.

                    I'm fed up of flicking through to the back of a book to discover that it's just a reference but I missed an annotation a couple of pages back. Especially when the annotation is a couple of paragraphs long.
                    Oh god yes this.

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                      #11
                      Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

                      Levin wrote: When books have endnotes rather then footnotes.
                      I don't know if eBooks have contributed to this. The Amazon format, for one, doesn't support footnotes, only endnotes.

                      Edit: By that I mean the files for ePub, Amazon and the ones for typesetting originate from the same source.

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                        #12
                        Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

                        I'm often surprised by what gets chosen for footnotes. The Poisoners Handbook [excellent] has plenty that ought to have been part of the text itself. No idea why they got relegated to the bottom of the page.

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                          Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

                          I am disappointed to discover that this thread isn't a vehicle for Ian to vent his frustration at not being able to find high quality official merchandise celebrating the 60th birthday of Dick Bruna's best loved creation.

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                            #14
                            Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

                            Did Meneer Bruna ever get his damages from Sanrio for obviously ripping him off?

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                              #15
                              Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

                              Miff is used locally as a word for the female genitalia.

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                                Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

                                After the shock of finding out Hello Kitty isn't a cat, I'm half-expecting someone to come and tell me Miffy isn't a rabbit.

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                                  #17
                                  Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

                                  Nijntje, as she's known in her homeland, got herself into a bit of bother during the Utrecht stage of the Tour de France:

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                                    Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

                                    I always wanted to know why it looks like her mouth's been sewn up. There was a cartoon a while back and she spoke in that - how?
                                    HOW?

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                                      Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

                                      Stumpy Pepys wrote: After the shock of finding out Hello Kitty isn't a cat, I'm half-expecting someone to come and tell me Miffy isn't a rabbit.
                                      Mind. Blown. Just read the story about Hello Kitty.

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                                        #20
                                        Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

                                        What? What story about Hello Kitty?

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                                          #21
                                          Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

                                          Geoffrey de Ste. Croix wrote: Nijntje, as she's known in her homeland, got herself into a bit of bother during the Utrecht stage of the Tour de France:

                                          Another blow to our tattered faith in cycling as the race marshals tear open the suspicious looking boxes in the Miffymobile, finding an enormous stash of Belgian Mix...

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                                            #22
                                            Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

                                            MsD wrote: What? What story about Hello Kitty?
                                            Hello Kitty is not a cat - she's a British girl

                                            My niece firmly believes herself to be a leopard, so there may be win/win outcomes to be negotiated here.

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                                              #23
                                              Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

                                              Species delineation boundaries are kind of blurred in our household, too.

                                              Edit: not like that.

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                                                #24
                                                Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

                                                Like what, then?

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                                                  Minor Annoyances II: Miffing In Action

                                                  This kind of thing?

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