Things you hate IV

Ah, so your vaccine had the Spotify chip?

 

Voice on the radio. People love the medium that talks to them directly as if they were the only listener, which, for some small stations, they are.

 

North Norfolk Digital?

 

Disagee as an 18 year old lad the DJ mix sets from the likes of Colin Faovur were excellent. Today yes radio is monkey doo doos. As a whole is dead now when you can stream tailored playlists for free or cheaply without adverts. High quality TV will go the same way,

Clubland TV is decent to have on in the background if that is your bag.

 

Radio isn't just about hit records though. There is far more variety than that.

There are tens of thousands of radio stations out there, as this wonderful website shows. The idea that it is dead is just nonsense. People said the same about cinema a few years ago.

http://radio.garden/

 

Select radio is good for house music, I often put that on in the afternoon if I need a bit of an omph. Soundcloud or Mixcloud are completely free alternatives for things like Spotify.

 

When a footballer throws himself dramatically to the floor in an attempt to win free kick or a penalty for his team - despite not being fouled, why is it described as 'simulation'? It's not 'simulation' it's f***ing cheating! I wish commentators would use the 'c' word more often

 

People who think it's "Pepper Pig".

Idiots. All thats wrong with the world etc.

 

Isn't it?

 

I guess it depends what the question is?

 

Agree. Hanging is too good for them.

 

It's not called Lower Road for nothing, you know!

 

Ordered a Big Mac earlier. Got home to discover I got someone else's order and it was a plain Big Mac. Like totally plain. 2 patty's and 3 slices of bun. Absolutely nothing else.

I don't hate that they gave me the wrong order. I hate that someone even would order such a dry, tasteless monstrosity as a plain Big Mac!

 

Condescending Aussie cricket commentators

 

******* hell man that’s bleak. I want to find the person that ordered that and give them a cuddle.

Somethings gone seriously wrong in their life and they need support.

 

(sad violin music)

Since the dawn of time, Pthirus Pubis have been human beings constant and loyal companions. Never asking for anything, except a little blood, but are we really now saying....(extra sad voice)...goodbye old friend.

Thanks to cruel insecticide creams and shampoos, Colin the Crab Louse can't find a crotch to infect and is left, shivering out in the cold.

Little baby Lilly Louse was just an egg when she got plucked from her cosy groin home and got popped, mercilessly, between a careless thumb and forefinger. Can you bear to see such unimaginable horrors happening?

We can't just stand by and do nothing!

(warm begging voice - music turns happier) Just £5 sent to the Kremlin pubic lice appeal can buy a vodka shot for a promiscuous adolescent, giving innocent lice like Colin and Lilly a chance for a warm, hairy home this Christmas (soft glow lens and pictures of lice hopping from pube to pube).

£20 could help our campaign against the cruel practice of pubic hair depilation and shaving and help stop the wanton destruction of Colin and little baby Lilly's home. Won't you text PUBES to our charity hotline and give, give, GIVE!

You'll get a cuddly toy louse and regular letters from your adopted louse, letting you know who they're infesting and how much blood they've been sucking.

Do it now! NOW! Or it'll be all your fault every time a baby lice dies.

 

Hated for patty's, without explaining what of hers you were writing about.

 

I think we have the makings of a charriddee gig here Clive.

I’ve got commitments from Jimmy Carr, John Bishop and Michael Mcintyre. They are all keen lovers of pubic lice and want to do their bit for conservation. Music from Westlife and C0ldplay.

 

I believe the word in bold is totally redundant in this phrase.

 

What else can they do? They can hardly pretend that they are nervous.

 

TBF I think they are doing very well not to just laugh.

 

I suspect they had to go on mute when Root caught one in the nadgers

 

Apple.

I used to run a support and service department for a consumer electronics company. Our products were PC and Mac compatible. The grief and hassle I got dealing with Apple was unbelievable.
Just one example.
Dropped over £4K on a support rig ( more than 15 years ago so a lot of money back then) which didn't work out of the box. Bear in mind I was a support professional who built Pcs. It took many phone calls to convince them it was a simple failure of the graphics card. I was actually asked by their tech to remove it so that the on-board would kick in.
Problem identified, I suggested I send the card back and they swap it out. Nope Apple couldn't possibly do that as opening the box would void the warranty, despite being asked to do just that by their tech. Had to send the whole rig back for it to be replaced and we couldn't support our Mac users for weeks because of it.

That amongst other difficulties meant I avoided them like the plague until now.

Fast forward 15 years and I want to set-up and Apple id. Problem someone has already attempted to set one up using my email address. It's likely the moron in Washington who occasionally gets invoices and password resets sent to me because he has fat fingers and his email is similar to mine.
The issue is I can attempt to log in, change the password but can't get any further as it won't let me reset the security questions due to "insufficient information". There is nowhere on the www site to sort this issue So at the moment I am prevented from using any Apple kit or watching Apple TV. I see that that not much has changed in 15 years.

In the end I've had to email their privacy team. I am not holding my breath.

 

Apple are the best. Haterz gonna hate..

Dont you appreciate how their products only work with each other and refuse to integrate with other systems? The solution is to just buy apple products doofus!

Don't you love the way you have to log in to iTunes just to listen to music you own?

Don't you love the pricing? Makes me feel important and confident in quality knowing I've paid twice the price for their products.

The feature they have of sabotaging their phones so you have to buy a new one makes sense, they can put all resources into their new products meaning they're even better which makes me trust them.

The proprietary cabling they use is also so much better than the usb-c standard, I'm fed up of not knowing if its micro USB or USB-C!! I am much happier with the 4 iterations of socket in my apple products.

After my dad locked himself permanetly out of his iPad I also gained a level of trust in their security system. So secure and so many loops to get through to read my emails. Brilliant.

I'm also secretly pleased to be part of the Apple club. I love the smugness I get in looking down my nose at samsung owners, or hahaha huawei or chortle chortle Chromebook owners. The knowing look to other apple owners... Its the same level of satisfaction I get tailgating in my BMW in the "German car lane" on the motorway.

In short I'm an apple fan and therefore I'm a ****.

 

I, sort of, 'got' that I had 'no right' to access the legally bought, through itunes* (a suite that redefined the phrase 'user friendly'), ~500GB of my music on a portable HDD when I upgraded a PC through a fresh installation of itunes (or 'easily' with anything else) but when I discovered that their version of the universal FLAC format was something called ALAC and was only recognised by Apple as a format...

*Also Billy Bragg and Lily Allen talking about how much they 'got' from the sale of their music on itunes was an eye-opener.

 

I still buy CDs albeit 2nd hand and rip them onto my NAS. Can't beat a silver disk. itunes is horrid.

I do appreciate that apple stuff just works together without any faff or compatibility issues but when it does go wrong, you're screwed. PC stuff goes wrong for a reason. More often than not it's a simple fix or replacement of one item which is half the price of apple.

 

In apple's defence, I built a 'Hackingtosh' (for a laugh) and apple UK's team at MK(?) were really good about selling my a copy of their OS X 10.2 (for about fiver) with the words when I telephoned them "...tell us how you're get on....".

It's the thing I used to tell my students about OS's: an OS is just a shelving unit to 'put' programs and devices into. If it's a Windows shelving unit you will need to plug it in so it can drain your household's electricity supply and fix securely the whole in the wall of your home that the shelf has magically removed. If it's Apple it'll be a very stylish expensive shelving unit with shelves that only accept objects that are 23.865cm high, 110.384cm deep, 9.954cm wide at an oblique angle of exactly 43.684 degrees. If it's linux you need to be trained in cabinet making to have the shelves exactly how you want.

 

Emails such as this:
Congratulations! You’re selected to apply for PayPal Credit (subject to approval)

 

I shared a student house with two compouter scientists.
Linux scares the bejeezus out of me and I did a degree in electronic engineering.

 

Wow, I'm so happy for you Diamond. After a tough year I bet that really brightened your mood.

 

Wow. Pretty made up for you m8.

I’ve had a bit of luck myself. Top clothes retailer Next has been sending me a series of emails telling me I have priority access to its online sale. All this, because I once bought a pair of trousers for work there.

Next is no shoddy retailer that allows any old hoi polloi, plebeian (other ancient terms are available) to buy its left over stock just for a bit of cash flow. Naturally, I’m stoked.

 

I too was extremely fortunate to receive an invite for the Guinness microdraft pre-sale the other day, I couldn’t believe my luck when I got straight through to be able to buy one:

https://guinnesswebstore.co.uk/guin...m_campaign=microdraught_notification_link_web

Just £750 for the machine, and the cans are an absolute bargain at £70 for 24. Naturally I snapped up one for all the family.

 

£30 on an ultrasonic jewellery cleaner from amzaon/ebay and normal cans.