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So Tuesday and Thursday Twitter question time or TTQT as it shall now be known, sort of got lost a bit lately but its back!

And what a way to come back, yesterday while on the bus on the way home people witnessed my anger in full flow and it brought about todays question, I was sitting minding my own business on the way home and a man sat in the seat in front of me, what he proceeded to do is one of the major things in life that really get my back up. I am 6 foot 4 inches, so quite tall, the majority of the height comes from my legs and leg room is quite precious to me on public transport, generally my knees rest on the seat in front so imagine if you will a man sitting down bouncing and leaning back like in some sort of fit all the time walloping my knees. Yes I was mad! and my knees are black now from the bruising I got for 35 minutes of my journey home.

So todays question was a simple one

“What sort of person brings out the hulk in you?”

It all started very slowly but @icedcoffee was first to answer “ah well that sucks. so what sort of person makes me mad? thats easy the one who tweets 50+ times a day!” I am sure he was not refering to me but did not give out any names!

@pixievondust was next “People who walk slowly. Makes me want to whack ‘em across the head. I’ve more, lots of people anger me hulk-style! People who blatantly scan you while talking to you. Hello? I can see you scanning and its rude and makes me feel uncomfortable!”

Icedcoffee said “I totally agree with you, im constantly overtaking ppl.. slow ppl should *not* walk in the middle of the path.”

At this stage it went very quiet until @talideon joined in “What brings out the hulk in me is belligerent silence; when you’re trying to talk to somebody and they clam up. Grr! Also, people who not just *want* to be right, but *need* to be right, and can’t take any contradiction or reasoning otherwise. Also, it gets my goat when people get angry at others for trying to do something nice for them. Chivalry’s a good thing!” This guy has issues, but in retrospect I agree with them all.

@maryrose following on from what pixievondust had said “I hate people who drive extra extra slowly in car parks. very annoying. Also people who moan about the weather when it’s bad and when its good.” Yes the question had now started to filter out through twitterland and the responses came fast and furious.

@benkenealy “People who talk really slow and deliberate like a teacher really make me green and all bicep’y.”
@patphelan “Women and their effing purses at cash registers like its a surprise they need to pay, now that’s annoying and the worst, the same women taking 90 secs to resegment the change back into the purse,arragghh”
@redmum “Ha @patphelan and men shuffling for money AFTER they get on the bus is even more annoying I am driven demented by disgusting noisy eaters, hate someone eating obnoxious smelling crisps on bus in morning ARGRghhh”

Talideon jumped in with a great one liner “I have to say, this is nicely cathartic!”

Back to the question the tweets kept flying in with next up @johnpeavoy “People in airport security queues that suddenly realise that hey, I might need to get ready…. AT THE MACHINE … Grrr! What about customer service / retail staff who never speak, just grunt a “mmm” or “na” …. ? Now we’re really cookin.”
@elfinamsterdam said “Other than slow walkers and Q skippers, negative outlook annoys me most, Whats so hard about trying to look on bright side?”
@nathaliemc added “The sort of person that he gets a one-off lift with my driving mate & I, and then hops into the front seat without asking.”

It was at this point I thanked everyone for joining in on what I thought would be a quiet question time, but oh no half an hour later I had more answers.

@karenquinn brought up the “People who can’t make up their mind in the sandwich queue at lunchtime!”
@simonmcc “Bullies, rudeness/ignoranant behaviour, seat bouncers and airplane seat recliners included!”, could not agree more Simon how could I forget the recliners!!! he went on “People who get to the door and stop, blocking all of us who have a clue where we are going!”
What I imagined would be the final answer came from the North of Ireland with @bigstevie1275 who was very late home from work but obviously saw my question from hours before, he said “I missed it at 6 because I had to work late which brings me on nicely to my answer. Bosses, why do they expect u to be able to, fit a weeks work into 1 day with pointless checks and paperwork then get u to work late then ask u to stay later than u already are then ask to plan in hours then moan because nobody wants to work extra cuz they are knackered aaaaahhhhhh then there’s old people that jump the queue in shops. Fuck off OAP I was next I’m on my break u have all day now piss off to the back of queue! Im done now LOL”

Finally 6 hours on from asking the question came @NiallHarbison saying “My answer to TTQT is…..People who are always making excuses instead of just going out and doing it!”

What a great answer to end on, and what a great reaction from twitter this evening, thank you all so much for taking part in todays TTQT, which I have to say was the most exciting and fun one to date!

If you would like to participate in the question time on Tuesdays and Thursdays about 6pm follow me on twitter my user name is mcawilliams, its a bit of a laugh and also a good way to meet new people out there!

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