(How much do I love that you left the "ranty-pants" bit in?)

Red and white peppermint hard candies are evil and untasty. Why are they still made?

Tell us just how much you adore and worship Fianna Fáil and all those who sail (or is that swindle and connive?) in her...

EastEnders. I think you could enjoy that one :)

People with iffy personal hygiene who ride public transportation. In summer.

People who simply will not shut up about their new diet, and who loudly police the lunch of innocent bystanders.

I would like to hear about the evils of overproduced manufactured pop music and the industry that makes that The Best Thing and ignores music made by actual musicians.

The evils that cats perpetrate when humans aren't watching!

I won't actually do the "put this in your journal" part (I'm not feeling like it, these days) so feel free to ignore my rant request.

But I'll keep an eye out for a good rant on nepotism in publishing - goodness knows, you don't actually need me to tell you to rant about it, some of what you wrote already about a certain politico's offspring was already highly read-worthy.

Crazy(and crosses her eye at the displays of that person's book in the shop, just to send bad karma)Soph

Bosses who fail to give you back your chapter corrections when there are only three days until the deadline for submission and it has to be sent to another country.

Or if that one's too specific: women who perpetuate the patriarchy by laughing along with horrible sexist jokes.

livejournal being looked down on by slashdot because it's majority (shock horror!) female.

Air freshener, including those horrid tree-shaped things that taxi drivers have hanging up in their cars.

Dort accents.