Tiny acts of anarchy

[Aperitif]

I was once househunting, the missus was unable to make it. The estate agent gave me the key to a property and let me go myself to have a look (it was empty of furniture etc). I had an overwhelming desire to "", so to speak, and there was some bogroll there. So I did

 

[Over The Hill]

I pay all my bills on direct debits except the Water. They really annoy me by charging too much and over the last couple of years they hiked up their price by loads to "make improvements". I dont see why I should pay for their infrastructure up front.

So I bin the bill, bin the red one and pay when the really nasty one comes through.

I did hear of someone who wrote "and not a penny more" on his cheques to rip of utilities.

 

[Maizie]

My late boyfriend was an odd sock wearer - he liked to test people's reaction to it. Someone once gave him, for Christmas, a set of socks with the days of the week on, and he complained that now he not only had to wear non-matching pairs, but that he had to make sure neither was the right day....

Oooh, that's good! One of my friends likes odd socks so I got her some socks from http://www.littlemissmatched.com/ (well I got them in a shop and then discovered the website)
You get three socks in a packet and while they are of the same design (e.g. stripes, argyle), they are not of matching colours. They now do adult sizes for men and women...I feel some sock-related anarchy coming on...

 

[Morrisette]

You're so right about the stupid new coins! Each one individually just looks silly, with half a crest or the bottom of the shield whatever-it-is.

I press the button on pedestrian crossings that I'm not going to use, so that the people five minutes behind me won't have to wait that five minutes in the rain to cross the road. If they would change the sequences so that they change straightaway, I would stop doing it.

 

[theclaud]

I press the button on pedestrian crossings that I'm not going to use.

Good one. I'm going to start doing this with immediate effect.

 

[Amanda P]

If I am watching TV alone (as it annoys Mrs OTH) I change channels whent the ads come on. Then I am getting the programme for nothing!

We have a hard disc video recorder. It's rare for us to watch any TV in real time now. We record things, and then watch them later. That way we can skip all the ads altogether. I haven't seen a TV ad in months. How anarchic is that?

(Especially when you then get to complete an on-line survey that asks you whether you've seen any ads for x brands of widget, and you haven't seen any of them. Hah!)

(There's a scene-finder button that allows us to really skip them, not just fast-forward through them. Clever).

The time-shifting thing means you only have to start watching the show ten minutes after its started to have caught up by the end. (Are you following this?)

I'm waiting for the video recorder which can time-shift the other way, though...

(My other tiny act of anarchy is enjoying parenthetical digressions).

(And being able to spell "parenthetical digressions").

(Please don't tell me I've spelt it wrong now).

 

[Jelly Mould]

We have a hard disc video recorder. It's rare for us to watch any TV in real time now. We record things, and then watch them later. That way we can skip all the ads altogether. I haven't seen a TV ad in months. How anarchic is that?

I got rid of the TV, and now watch whatever I want later on BBC iPlayer. Therefore I don't watch adverts or pay for a tv license! When (if) the law is changed to require a license for watching programmes after they've been broadcast, then I'll probably just stop using it. I'm not that much of a rebel...

 

[Hilldodger]

On the rare occassions I vist a supermarket I always stop just inside the door and look at which way they WANT you to walk around.

I then of course walk the other way and move up and down isles in a random manner.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

On the rare occassions I vist a supermarket I always stop just inside the door and look at which way they WANT you to walk around.

I then of course walk the other way and move up and down isles in a random manner.

As does every other person in there when I go shopping!!

 

[Landslide]

On the rare occassions I vist a supermarket I always stop just inside the door and look at which way they WANT you to walk around.

I then of course walk the other way and move up and down isles in a random manner.

...and then get trampled by all the people who actually want to get through the door.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

I once put a plastic bag in the black rubbish sack instead of the pink one

 

[johnnyh]

I put a banana skin in the bin instead of the food waste box yesterday!

 

[jack the lad]

In coffee bars and fast food places I always ask for 'small', 'medium' or 'large' instead of 'regular(tm)', 'super(tm)', 'tall(tm)' or whatever other nonsense descriptor from the book of retail b*llocks they've stuck on the price list.

 

[Mr Pig]

Your boss sounds like a pleasant sort of chap.

Another guy managed to get him by finding a job in a bar in Ibiza but telling the boss he was going on holiday. So after two weeks 'holiday' Ross fails to arrive at work on Monday morning, or ever! Boss thinks to this day that he went on holiday and found a job on impulse, he has no idea that he planned it. Everyone else in the factory knew about it all along.

 

[Arch]

(Especially when you then get to complete an on-line survey that asks you whether you've seen any ads for x brands of widget, and you haven't seen any of them. Hah!)

Ah! Yougov?

I do OnePoll as well, and delight in answering some of the dopier questions completely randomly (those about which celeb has the best smile or whatever). Of course, in any consumer context, I'm pretty anarchic, living as I do on bargains, charity shop clothes and reduced bread....