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August 01, 2007

The world's biggest list of really annoying, offensive, niggling, irritating, infuriating, thoughtless, fat-headed, arrogant, anti-social behaviour

Here's your chance to perform a service to mankind. We're going to help create a nicer, more civilised society. Sort of.

Between us we are going to draw up a comprehensive list of anti-social behaviour. Not big things - murder, rape, impolite use of chemical weapons - but the small and medium sized things that make life just that bit more irritating.

I agree that this won't, of itself, make the world a better place, but a list will be a start. It will be help to get it all off our chest, for instance.

David Aaronovitch got us off to a good start this morning with this list:

1. Shoes on seats
2. Queue jumping
3. Red light jumping
4. Street spitting
5. White-van woman-baiting (“nice pair, luv!”)
6. Blatant littering
7. Young men and women not surrendering their seats for the old, infirm or pregnant
8. Incredibly loudly played music on car stereos
9. T-shirts with swear words on them
10. People who don’t acknowledge you when you have held the door open for them, made way for their car or in some other way shown them courtesy

To which I'd like to add - talking loudly on a mobile phone so that the whole carriage is forced to listen, making long speeches when called to ask a short question at a meeting, making "jocular" remarks to people about their weight (in particular saying "you're looking prosperous"), putting people on round robin email lists without their permission.

Your turn now. Remember we need a comprehensive list. But you only need to add one or two.

Place your contribution on comments or email me on commentcentral@thetimes.co.uk.

UPDATE: After a deluge of suggestions - we have a new, improved list here.

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The world's biggest list of really annoying, offensive, niggling, irritating, infuriating, thoughtless, fat-headed, arrogant, anti-social behaviour

Here's your chance to perform a service to mankind. We're going to help create a nicer, more civilised society. Sort of.

Between us we are going to draw up a comprehensive list of anti-social behaviour. Not big things - murder, rape, impolite use of chemical weapons - but the small and medium sized things that make life just that bit more irritating.

I agree that this won't, of itself, make the world a better place, but a list will be a start. It will be help to get it all off our chest, for instance.

David Aaronovitch got us off to a good start this morning with this list:

1. Shoes on seats
2. Queue jumping
3. Red light jumping
4. Street spitting
5. White-van woman-baiting (“nice pair, luv!”)
6. Blatant littering
7. Young men and women not surrendering their seats for the old, infirm or pregnant
8. Incredibly loudly played music on car stereos
9. T-shirts with swear words on them
10. People who don’t acknowledge you when you have held the door open for them, made way for their car or in some other way shown them courtesy

To which I'd like to add - talking loudly on a mobile phone so that the whole carriage is forced to listen, making long speeches when called to ask a short question at a meeting, making "jocular" remarks to people about their weight (in particular saying "you're looking prosperous"), putting people on round robin email lists without their permission.

Your turn now. Remember we need a comprehensive list. But you only need to add one or two.

Place your contribution on comments or email me on commentcentral@thetimes.co.uk.

UPDATE: After a deluge of suggestions - we have a new, improved list here.

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