Sir! Magazine

Gripes

What's winding people up? The great and the good let off steam.

Joe Bishop, London-based writer and Sir! Magazine contributor, in a portrait photograph for the Gripes column
Writer from that there London

Joe Bishop

Dear Sir, why can’t film trailers just go straight into the trailer. Why do they need to have a pre-trailer that says “the trailer is about to start?” I know it’s about to start, that’s why I clicked on it – I simply can’t take this anymore!

Snake Denton, writer and roving reporter, in a portrait photograph for Sir! Magazine's Gripes column
Writer & roving reporter

Snake Denton

“Dear Sir, I was out on Saturday night and my ears are still ringing. SORRY IF I SHOUT.”

Alex Bilmes, writer and editor, in a portrait photograph for Sir! Magazine's Gripes column
Writer and Editor

Alex Bilmes

"Dear Sir, how irritating is the modern obsession with classifying everyone by their “generation"? People identifying themselves and other people as Gen Z or Millennial or Boomer, as if those were actual human conditions, as if they explained every aspect of a person's personality and attitudes and tastes, as if all people born between completely arbitrary dates can be labelled and put in a box. It’s divisive, it's reductive, it's boring, it’s marketing bollocks"

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