Things you hate III

Discussion in 'Taylor's Tittle-Tattle - General Banter' started by Otter, Dec 11, 2015.

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  1. wimbornet

    wimbornet Reservist

    The same people who queue for food/drinks in a fast food place or cafe, who then upon reaching the front of the queue (and only upon reaching the front of the queue) start the arduous decision making process of what they’d like. Really!? Like you had NO idea what you wanted before reaching the front. INCONCEIVABLE!
     
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  2. Maninblack

    Maninblack Reservist

    Prompted by the rich wasteful tw at with the stupid name who spent millions just to dump a car in space (he could have done it for nothing on the Meriden estate) I give you my hatred of any money spent on space exploration. Billions spent on taking a few photos of a bit of dirt on Mars? Scientists waiting years for a pretty picture of a star exploding and then cheering like their football team has just beaten Barcelona 4-0 away? Total waste of money, akin to spending millions on Nathan Ellington (I'm still reserving judgement on Andre Gray!)
     
  3. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    Yes exactly, when somebody with a shopping trolley appears on the horizon they stop waiting to see where that person is going. Eventually they indicate while waiting for the person to fumble for their keys, struggle to open the car before taking ten minutes to load the boot in a very particular order. They’ll generally have a little chat to their passenger before struggling to get in, the passenger often waits for the doddering bugger to reverse out before they get in.

    Both of you, STOP IT.
     
  4. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    One more driving one:

    The retired buggers who insist on driving to pick up there morning paper during rush hour. I assume it’s just because they want to read the paper with their breakfast. They pull out in front of you and drive at 22 mph, we’ll why not? It’s not they’re in any hurry. As my blood pressure rises all I can wonder is where the fck do they buy their cars? The loony gear ratios are all wrong, I can’t change into 3rd gear or the engine stalls, if I keep it in second I’m revving the bollox out of it. Put your foot down you old sod or do me a favour and keep off the road while I’m going to work to pay your bloody pension!
     
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  5. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    This IS the worst.

    Unattended roadworks. What a ******* Liberty.

    B ASTAFRFDDFSSffds

    So many fantasies of just driving right through all the ******* cones laughing maniacally
     
  6. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    It’s lunchtime on a weekday. Perfect time to do my daily ******* shop as a pensioner. Or Saturday. Yes. That’s a good time. No one else with jobs will want to use shops. Good opportunity to have a chat as well
     
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  7. wimbornet

    wimbornet Reservist

    Pensioners/ Retired persons at the tip on the weekend. YOUVE GOT FIVE OTHER DAYS TO DO IT... its not a place to meet and natter, dump your stuff and clear off - chop chop!!
    Inconceivable!
     
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  8. PhilippineOrn

    PhilippineOrn First Team

    Whoa you lot are going to high blood pressure yourselves to an early grave.

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  9. wimbornet

    wimbornet Reservist

    Serenity now!
     
  10. PhilippineOrn

    PhilippineOrn First Team

    Corporations' Mission and Vision statements. I've seen more sincerity printed in a Hallmark 'Get Well Soon' card.
     
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  11. Robert Peel

    Robert Peel Squad Player

    The regressive left are the main peddlers of this ridiculous nonsense.

    No one's feelings must be hurt, but are happy to defend homophobic, mysogynistic Islamists who hate the country, because they are a minority (and generally non white) and it makes them feel good and right on.

    Majid Nawaz sums them up best: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regressive_left
     
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  12. Robert Peel

    Robert Peel Squad Player

    I'm currently at a Centre Parcs in Holland, which is full of Dutch, Germans. None of them say excuse me or thank you when you hold a door open or let them past - driving me mad.

    Also, I love the Dutch and Germans but they're an ugly bunch. Comes to something when the Brits are a more attractive nation.
     
  13. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Facebook. I'm sure it will have been shouted up before but for starters;
    • I don't care that a friend of a friend's daughter went to a tap dance lesson yesterday
    • I don't want to be a friend and share holiday photos etc with Ethel from purchase ledger. So I reject the friend request and she thinks i clearly hate her.
    • I don't want to be ostracised for not typing "lovely ladies" or "so beautiful" when a female friend posts a picture in which she clearly thinks she looks pretty and wants confirmation
    • I don't want emails from facebook saying "have you seen X's post..." without any hint of the content and so forcing me to go to their website and earn them a few ££s to read that a friend of a friends has just typed "Happy 7th birthday to my beautiful boy". 3 mins I will never get back. So I ignore those and similar "a lot has happened on facebook since you last visited" emails. Because I ignore these "click-bait no detail" emails I then find that a lot actually had happened and that one of my facebook friends had died (!!!!!!) because no one called, emailed, texted, popped round...it was just posted on facebook (true story).
     
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  14. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Tea/coffee rounds at work.

    I want one coffee in the morning and one in the afternoon. And I want it, when I want it.
    I don't want 8 coffees, so I don't want to have to make 8 tea/coffees, and I don't want to remember what 8 of my staff drink !!!

    I may be giving the impression that I'm anti-social, selfish and I have no friends, but that's probably only 95% true.
     
  15. Beekayess

    Beekayess Reservist

    I'm not on Facebook, but Mrs Beekayess is. She also rants about the items you've mentioned (although thankfully she hasn't had to deal with the final point - condolences, by the way).

    The other thing that tips her over the edge is when there's an enigmatic posting (e.g. "So proud of my boy") that forces somebody to enquire further, and then they are obliged to congratulate about something that they don't really care about.
     
  16. Beekayess

    Beekayess Reservist

    Not having had the chance to prove that winning the lottery won't change me.
     
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  17. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Michael McIntyre. No explanation required. But I would love to batter that whiny voice and constant smug grin into oblivion.
     
  18. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    Liked, but it just rEinforces forces why I don’t do Arsebook or Twatter or Instagram or any other of this kind of anti-social meeja.
     
  19. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    It's not obligatory to have a Facebook account, you know. If you hate it, just don't use it.
     
  20. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Or set-up the account properly to stop the stuff that's not wanted.
     
  21. Guy

    Guy Squad Player

    Whilst we're at when trying to get a quick sandwich at lunchtime waiting in long queue in self check out area behind people will multiple items in trolley when nirmal checkouts virtually deserted
     
  22. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    I just hate those aspects of it. For example they could just show the post in the email they send then you know whether you want to look at the full thing. I only tend to use it for sharing my holiday and wildlife photos with my family and friends.
     
  23. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    S0 really this post should appear in a thread entitled "Things which are useful but which have annoying elements" :D

    True of much of modern life, it seems to me!
     
  24. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    Coming up to my 2nd year anniversary of having resigned from Farcebook and missing it not one little bit.
     
  25. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    I don't mind it at all, it helps me keep in touch with people who (a) are too geographically distant for me to see/contact on a regular basis; and (b) are not within my closest circle of friends but about whose lives I am still interested to hear.

    It certainly has its annoyances though.
     
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  26. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    No its fine under things i hate. There are lots of things I use but hate, like the rail network service to Tring !
     
  27. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Robert, I like Majid a lot and I don’t like identity politics either, but I know a lot of left wing people and they all hate Islamists and have no interest whatsoever in safe spaces.

    I wonder if you have any real life experiences of either or whether safe spaces is just another example of the media taking the musings of a few student liberals as somehow important.

    What the left certainly doesn’t do is extrapolate from Islamist = bad to Islam = bad. Maybe that’s enough of a problem for some. Maybe this is better off in the politics forum.
     
  28. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    Hmmm. Well there were certainly plenty of people who are geographically distant from me, but we have emails and there's Skype or the phone to talk if we're that close.

    As for b, I found these people consisted overwhelmingly of old workmates from past jobs, or old friends from when I've lived elsewhere in the country. It might seem a bit harsh, but I reckoned the past belongs in the past. Not really especially interested in reminiscing over the old days or reading about their cousin's stag night or seeing photos of what they had for dinner or pronouncements of their religious faith or whatever.

    Need to be moving on with the future and new people you meet. And those I can talk face to face with.
     
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  29. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Sorry, I disagree. I have got back in touch with several people with whom I had lost touch via Facebook and we are all pleased to be in contact with each other again. Don't like using the "phone" so Skype doesn't appeal - plus I have relatives living on the other side of the world, for whom the time difference makes that nigh on impossible. Sure you could email but it seems a bit formal to me whereas FB allows you to just check in briefly or to have a longer "conversation" if you want: and if you use Messenger, you can potentially have that conversation in real time. Email is also a bit clunky for sharing photos too.

    I do share David Cameron's view that "you've got to be a **** to tweet", mind.
     
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  30. AndrewH63

    AndrewH63 Reservist

    And in the summer they cut their lawns on a Sunday afternoon. The only day a working man gets to sit down in the garden and relax. Cut your grass on a Tuesday - Same day as you get your cheap hair cuts. Its not rocket science
     
  31. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    U ok hun xx

    DM me babes xx
     
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  32. Banjo

    Banjo Reservist


    Absolutely right. Tbh I think Moose is also right when he says there are lot of people and I certainly also have friends also on the left who are horrified by Islamists and as well as the lunatic elements of (il-) 'liberal' left, 'safe spaces' as well as gender 'blurring' and an ever increasing erosion of free speech. Personally, I've no fear of openly criticising Islam or any other religion, my brother is gay and I have done for almost thirty years, and I certainly have no intention of stopping now.

    I generally like Maajid Nawaz I agree with a lot of what he says particularly regarding his vehement defence of free speech, like the fact he's pro gay marriage, would probably take a harder view on Israel and their treatment of the Palestinians, in spite of his opposing view on Brexit he's always argued the Remain argument well and in a reasonable and constructive way looking forwards.

    One of my favourite posters on Twitter who I really like is Paul Embery, (Regional London Secretary of the Fire Brigade Union), he once said: 'No-one has the right to not be offended. No opinion or idea is above scrutiny. Emotion must never be allowed to stifle critical thought.' I can't argue with that.
     
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  33. Banjo

    Banjo Reservist

    No the lunatic left element just extrapolate things like Brexit=racist/fascist = Brexiteer=Nazi
     
  34. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    How has nobody mentioned Valentines Day (this year):

    Pressure to waste your money on flowers, chocolate, champagne or a card, even though none are particularly what she wants, but fail to do so and it's like you've missed an anniversary (and I can compare the two with some experience).

    Then you have the pressure to go on a date night, which means going to a restaurant which is usually quite nice, on the one night of the year they stop serving proper, nice food and instead serve a ******, set menu with a choice of 2 starters and 2 mains, for twice the price you would've normally paid in a conveyor belt of falsely romantic misery.

    Just **** off Hallmark.
     
  35. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Separate thread - keep up hun xx
     
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