Things you hate III

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  1. Meh!

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    Absolutely stupid post match questions to players.
     
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    El distraído Johnny Foreigner

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    Stupid tourists and Londoners who stand at some of the busiest traffic lights in London, but don't bother to press the ******* button.

    I was crossing Marylebone road last night and walked up to the crossing. Several groups were waiting but of course no one could seemingly care enough to press the button. I purposely leant over 2 people and pressed it whilst throwing a dirty look at them. It was hugely satisfying. I got an apology but I don't want or care for one - I want people to use their brain cells and press the button if they want to cross. Idiots.
     
  3. Diamond

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    Amazon Prime. Last 3 orders have been late.
     
  4. Happy bunny

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    A German study found recently that more than 90% of marine pollution comes from ten rivers in Africa and Asia. Using some of our develpment money to fund the introduction of modern waste management systems would be far more useful than getting rid of highly resource-efficient plastic packaging in supermarkets. I'm happy for microplastics and plastic straws to disappear, though
     
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    I genuinely think that people assume the lights will change automatically just because they stand waiting to cross.
     
  6. Bring Back Standing

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    I suppose that's logical really.

    After all, that's how they work for cars.
     
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    The extremely articulate and interesting Chris Packham gave a talk at my daughters' school recently. During it he was asked what he thought was the single most important environmental issue. He said the biggest threat to our species is overpopulation; that while we will undoubtedly see a reduction in biodiversity, we can survive it, but we cannot sustain current rates of population growth.
     
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  8. PhilippineOrn

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    It's true. A woman gives birth every five seconds in China (she's getting pretty fed up with it too).
     
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    HappyHornet24 Crapster

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    Ouch....
     
  10. The undeniable truth

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    You think he's impressive, you should give his brother a listen.
     
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    domthehornet Moderator

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    The creeping fad of people with signs begging for shirts or gloves from footballers at the end of games. Normally driven by reprehensible parents pushing their kids to the front of a queue for the items.
     
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    I know her. Wun Big Ming
     
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    HappyHornet24 Crapster

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    Ha! So much for us women being able to multitask....
     
  14. I Blame Pozzo

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    He is excellent I agree and a patron of Paradise Wildlife Park near my club.
    SDA has been on about overpopulation for some time now too.
     
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    Yes, Packham referred to Attenborough in his reply.
     
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    If most of the population were like those two men humanity would be fine,as would the other species.
     
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    One of my heroes, Spike Milligan, starting banging on about this in the 70's and was viewed as a crank...
     
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    Batteries, specifically the ones in mobile phones and tablets. I swear my old Nokia went a week between charges, admittedly texting, calling and playing Snake was all you could do with it but my god, a phone should last longer than an hour even playing Candy Crush.
     
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    Turn down brightness, all the way down. Switch off wife, Bluetooth and location. close all other open apps and they last a good while
     
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    Im leaving that as wife
     
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    People putting washing up in the sink with things that are soaking.

    The only thing that should go in the sink should be something with heavily baked on food that is soaking in hot soapy water to enable cleaning.
    The rest of your washing up goes in the dishwasher (empty it if its finished), or if the dishwasher is on, neatly stacked next to the dishwasher.

    I hate having to retrieve your washing up with food on it from soapy dish water because you are lazy
     
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    Things soaking shouldn't be left in the sink. They should be subjected to an initial scrub, doused in fairy, filled with hot water and put on the side to soak freeing up the sink area. Tsk....
     
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    Well I feel obliged to ask what someone called "Steve" was doing while you were typing ;)
     
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    That may solve my problem I will try
     
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    People who put plates with food on, or teabags in the sink.
     
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    Hang the bastards!
     
  27. I Blame Pozzo

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    One of my regrets is that when I coached at Finchley Manor LT&SC in the mid '80s I just missed Spike arriving to play squash.
    I left to play full time soon after and never returned until years later.
    My mobile phone appears to have gone into an electronic coma.
    I sent five emails at 7.25pm and now the blasted thing is stuck:82% battery,no swipe,no nothing and I can't turn it off!
    Off to Vodafone I go.
     
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    Try taking the battery out then putting it back in again?
     
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    And the next 3, including 2 that apparently the "courier lost". What is going on at amazon?
     
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    Corrected for you.
     
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    Thanks BBS,I'll see if I can open it!
     
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    Update. After this happened again and again I started using what little brainpower I have left and eventually discovered it was my wireless mouse causing the issue. I threw it at the cat.

    I formally apologise to Windows, (except Vista which is and always will be sh*te).
     
  33. The undeniable truth

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    Failing that, hold firmly in your right hand, turn through 90 degrees, and then throw it hard and low at the first thing you see.
     
  34. I Blame Pozzo

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    Just so!
    I chickened out and hurled it against the sofa!
    It turned itself off during the wee hours and then I recharged the battery.
    The nice man in Vodafone said it had experienced an electronic version of a detox, as the five long emails had probably pushed it over the edge!
    It seems fine now and I had the pleasure of meeting Rolo,an eighteen month old 'working seizure dog',who was with his master!
    He was lovely!
     
  35. With A Smile

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    People who have no idea and concept of the whole plastics and food packaging debate.
     
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