1. All 'traffic calming' devices (humps, chicanes etc). They don't 'calm' the traffic - they make drivers slow up quickly and swerve etc and thus have no effect on safety whatsoever.
2. Chewing gum. The streets and pavements where I live look like a hyena's pelt with the beastly stuff, not to mention that I regularly spend an hour or so bent double scraping it by hand from the floor of the 7-11 store where I work. At least build the cost of its removal from the streets into the purchase cost of the despicable stuff.
3. Health and Safety Executive legislation. It's all bullshit desighned to put a middle tier of non-producers into well paid jobs where they actually do nothing of real value. eg At my work-place a big notice informs me that I have the right to work in an environment where risks to my health and safety are minimised. To this end the other day a guy came to the shop and made us put up sighns over the hot water taps telling us we could burn our hands if we were not careful. The same legislation allowed a 24 yo man from my town to be loaded into a cannon and fired 50 feet into the air, also last week. He had been employed in the 'stunt show' for two weeks - missed the net and was killed.
4. Public holidays that aren't. The Royal Wedding in the UK was celebrated by our PM announcing a Public Holiday for the day so we could all see the ceremony. I enquired of my employers if we would get an extra days holiday since I assumed we would be open as usual (a 7-11 store) on the day. They replied "You won't and you will be."
5. Celebrities. Take the lot of them out to an island somewhere in the middle of the sea and leave them all to live with each other in a permenant state of mutual self congratulatory vanity. Thus it might be possible to get just a small proportion of the people in our chronically 'dumbed down' society to begin to think about some of the really important things that are going on in the world.
(Don't mind me folks - feeling a little bit angsty today!
)6. Helicopters that continually shatter the peace (precious little of that anyway!) of where I live making inumerable forrays to whoknows where doing Godknows what ay all times of night and day. I live in the back end of no-where for God's sake, You'd think it was bloody Saigon out there!
7. The common all Garden Strimmer. Every sunny Sunday morning without fail some lawn obsessed lunatic......... I think you get the point!
How does it happen no matter how i try to behave something still happens? Even here, something has to appear out of the blue 
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