Things you hate III

Did you separate as a result of going "the opposite way" ?

 

Can I have a shout out to the people who fish for attention on these sites?

"Oh no. Not again. Why always me? :'("

"Oh what's up Hun".

"Here if you need to talk babe".

"He don't deserve you sweetie"

 

You remind me of our phone light thing.

When was that & why?

 

When Rak Su played at half time.

 

Best.
Gig.
Ever.

Like when Doyley scored, everybody will claim they were there.

We need T-shirts please.

#I was there when Ratsu played the Vic

 

I think they popped back this season didn't they?

Back on thread - Black Friday.

In the states this is a day following one of their biggest holidays, when presumably left over junk is sold off cheaply, like January Sales. The UK partaking is pure, unbridled, commercialist nonsense.

I can understand people buying an Xmas present at a slight discount, which they would have probably bought anyway, but generally, people are being suckered into buying a load of **** they don't need for not very big savings.

And the adverts and the emails. Endless. Every company I've ever had dealings with, letting me know that there is an extra 4% of bolts, nuts and washers this Friday, or get a free bag of hamster bedding with every purchase of hay over £50. Load of ****. Marketing cancer.

 

It all about seeing the in-store fighting for me. I love watching the Facebook videos on the news and in The Mail of dumb people fighting over some piece of overpriced plastic.

It rivals the drunken videos from New Years Eve, Royal Ascot, Freshers Week and that busiest Friday of the year which is due again just before Xmas. No other country in the world can do these events like us.

 

Makes me so proud

 

Yes people fighting over Polaroid or Blaupunkt TVs that have somehow magically appeared in stores for Black Friday at a huge discount.

Reminds me of the time when Ikea sold sofas for £50 at the opening of one of their London stores and people were stabbing each other to get them. The sofas themselves were the cheapest horrible most uncomfortable things you could imagine, yet these idiots would happily try and kill each other to get their hands on one for a ‘bargain price’.

 

Not even following Thanksgiving. Each year the stores opened an hour earlier it seemed, 6am; 5am; 4am till eventually they reached midnight on the Thursday.

Of course the irony is the biggest commercial day where people literally trample over each other to save a few dollars off stuff they don't need comes immediately after the day they gave thanks for all the blessings they have in life, typically family and friends. Never once heard anyone at a Thanksgiving dinner table giving thanks for their home cinema or walk-in fridge/freezer.

 

I thought Thanksgiving was to celebrate tricking the Indians into accepting beads and trinkets for their land and then murdering them all in a series of bloody massacres.

I'm not fully clued up on it tbh.

 

Yes, but no Pilgrim gave thanks for a flat screen TV, jeez.

 

Desperation on the part of the High Street.

 

I've always wondered how the Yanks have got away with smoothing over genocide with a bit of turkey.

 

I think it's the cranberry sauce that clinches it.

 

Jelly. It's cranberry jelly.

 

How very colonial.

 

Searching on the UK Amazon site for "desktop diary football" and this comes before anything "soccer" related...

 

The first thing I get is


I think your search result is more soccer related than mine.

 

More of a ‘behaviour I don’t understand’ than things I hate:

Pedestrians.

Not all of them, and not all of the time, after all, some of my best friends are pedestrians ........but........... why do they choose not to stop when they see you are reversing into/out of a parking space. They see you, they know you’re there and what your doing, they can see the reversing lights on the back of your oversized 4*4 that wont quite fit into the space and they themselves probably drive so should appreciate the situation. Still, they just dawdle on carelessly behind you often using their kids as some sort of personal shield as if that’ll stop them being flattened.

It must be a mental block that stops them recognising danger. A situation where they are the vulnerable ones but have complete vision of the scene and have the power in them to stay safe by just waiting for a few seconds. Instead they think f*ck it, I’ll take a risk. If a car was driving forward they wouldn’t do it, but a reversing car? Pfftt no idea what to do!



And while I’m at it pedestrians that want to cross a road less the 10m away from a crossing. You can fck off too!

Humans! A bloody menace.


I’m off out for a walk to the pub.....

 

Swing music. All over this time of year like herpes. Michael Bublé and 57 other varieties of tedious, over-groomed, man boys thinking their dreary middle of the road crooning makes a party. It doesn’t, you might as well play music from a freshly dug corpse.

Topped by more tedious swing on ‘Later with Jools’ New Year’s Eve. Get a proper effing band on or someone who had a big hit this year. If I want Dean Martin I’d have gone to school in the 1940s. In America.

Tedious *****

 

I get slightly annoyed when bolshie school kids see my car coming and cross the road in front of me, often with one dawdling with a swagger as he shows off to his mates so I have to slow down or stop - sort of "Hey, look at me holding this car!"

But I always feel better as I give him a blast of my particularly loud horn and he jumps 4 foot in the air whilst trying to (still) look cool.

 

Just curious why you think pedestrians have to wait for you. What reason should you not wait for them? Appreciate each situation will be unique but generally I would always wait for pedestrians to pass.

 

It’s not a right of way issue. It’s looking at a what’s going on and using common sense. If I am the pedestrian in this situation and see a car manoeuvring I’ll always give it a wide berth, I definitely won’t walk behind. I can’t be sure that the driver has seen me as I know that the driver is trying to keep an eye on things that are all around them and can’t be doing all of this this all at once. Of course, I always let the pedestrians pass, shaking my head in disbelief, but letting them pass.

 

Yeah, school kids do that. They look as if to say ‘wot? you ain’t gonna run me over’ and of course they’re right. Little sh*ts.

 

Do you have the Dildo Brothers' and Knicker Girl's express written permission to authorise use of their trademarked and copyrighted materials, images and intellectual (sic.) property?

 

"Who has made Garth's team of the week ?"
Who gives a flying **** what Garth thinks ?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46494712

 

Intermittent faults.

We've had an issue with our office phones where we occasionally pickup and get just static and interference. Only happens with outside lines.

Mind you I was cheered up when mid support call to Openreach they were cut off due to their own BT broadband dropping out.
So I guess I need to nominate BT (or the vairous companies floated off of BT) who can't even sort out their own internet, let alone everyone elses.

 

BT are scum of the earth when things go wrong, (but I think my hate of them is well documented).

 

To be honest openreach have been pretty decent, but we have the issue that our phones are provided by someone else who gets the lines from BT who get openreach to sort out the infrastructure. All the open reach stuff has been replaced now so it's either BT or the third party's equipment.

 

Tinitus and the medical profession's complete lack of ability to do anything about it.

It doesn't help when I pick up the phone and get static and whistling at top volume on a random basis with respect to previous posting.

 

I find my tinnitus strangely comforting. I don't like silence and never have to have it as I'm lucky enough to have tinnitus.

 

I get a certain ringing in my ear but it's a repetitive sound. Almost like a signal I'm receiving.

And I've heard it in other things too in life. External things.

Weird. Not sure if that's a mild case of tinititus or I'm picking up random radio waves.

Or my home planet is calling.

 

If there's other stuff going on then the brain tunes it out. Some people have success with white noise generators. The biggest issue for me is it adds to background noise so that in a crowded bar for example I can't hold a conversation. I'm also very sensitive to loud noises, if anything it's made my hearing more sensitive but less selective.

Could well be. See if a tinfoil hat helps, if not it's likely tinitus.
Mine sounds like the sort of whine you get in films when a bomb has just gone off. The director mutes the sound a bit and lays a high pitched whistle down on the soundtrack to try and portray. Sometimes it's like the high pitched whistle you get when there's an old style CRT television on somewhere in the house although the source of the sound is right in the middle of my head.

I do know of someone who suffers balance problems and vertigo as well off the back of it, but thankfully I only get that if I drink too much or not enough. I forget.