Minor Irritations (possibly part 2!)

I am a very irritable person. In fact sometimes, I am sure my boyfriend finds me almost impossible to live wth, so thanks to him for putting up with it! I get wound up with so many things, and here's just a taster:

• Orange taking 83p out of my account. Why 83p?!
• Brita water filters not being full up when in the fridge
• Curtains remaining closed after waking up
• People who don't stand in one spot at gigs (want to go to toilet/get a drink)
• Oil splashing out of a pan
• Huffing
• People on Facebook who complain all the time (!)
• Towels on the bathroom floow
• When the pot runs out of sugar
• BT
• Post taking too long
• Karaoke versions of songs on Spotify
• New blip.fm video function
• Ungrateful people
  
• Badly parked cars
• Martin of UTV fame (if that's even his name)

Many more...could go on...but running out of thoughts for now. For those of you who wonder why Orange took 83p...join the club!

Any wonder knife crime is so high?

I am absolutely outraged by a news story I have just read. A 15 year old boy has purchased a machete over the Internet, and what's more is that it only cost £1.50. Isn't it awful to think that someones life can be taken away by a cheap piece of metal?

This lad was testing underage sales for trading standards, so there is no concern in this case over the purchased machete (just to clear that up!). The story is here.

Knives should not be available to buy over the Internet...full stop. If you need a knife for the kitchen, you go to the shops. And of course, people are going to complain if that measure is put in to place: "Oh but I live in the middle of nowhere", "I don't have time to go to shops" etc. So what, you are willing to let people keep dying because 12 year-olds can but a knife on the Internet, for those reasons?

I shudder when I walk past knives in a supermarket. They are horrible looking things, and so commonly used as weapons. At what point are the Government going to take serious measures on knife crime? All the things they are trying to do are not working, clearly. It is hard to find a day where the news headlines do not include the words "stabbed to death".

Having said this, I have to be fair. There are measure taken in shops to prevent knives being bought by youths. I was asked for ID in TJ Hughes once...I was buying household cutlery. Just for the record, I was 21! Embarrassing...yes!