Things you hate IV

The clue's in the title m8. Things you h8, not love.

 

Whoever at the BBC seems to have been corrupted by Gregory Porter’s agent. The bloke’s in everything they put on.

 

If the Mona Lisa was painted today...

 

And it's awful...

 

That is a solid list.

 

4 especially when the excuse is that it’s a hot fat guy standing over a BBQ, dishing out food, with the sweat dripping off his forehead and chest onto the food. My ex boss at works party BBQ.

 

It’s things you hate, not ‘have you had a sense of humour bypass?’

 

The correct weather for chinos was the air conditioned atmosphere of Kudos dance floor circa 1992. Beige chinos + racing green roll neck + Ian Walker style curtains was a fantastic combination. You’d have the pick of all the ladies.

 

Good list. 5 particularly resonates. What the hell is that about?

 

Only thing worse is when you see people with them removed and it looks like a smashed up fanny on each side of their head.

 

Sex spam emails - loads of them all of a sudden in the last three weeks. Yes, they all go in my junk folder but I still have to go there regularly in case any genuine email ends up there (as a fair few of them used to do in the past) - it's getting to the stage where I'm considering ignoring it completely and risk missing anything important or useful because I'm sick of ploughing my way through that rubbish (80 to 100 of them a day now).

I wonder, just what is the purpose of those spammers? Are they actually advertising sex and dating sites? (I can't see anyone being turned on by that kind of smutty stuff other than bored teenagers or the most sexually desperate creeps/losers.) Are they bait to infect people's computers? Or are they purely just to annoy the hell out of people?

 

The real question at play here, is how did the ad algorithm decide you’d be interested in these specific types of spam emails?

 

You must have been my quim rival

 

Can confirm they are viruses. I wasn't sure after the first desperate local beauty messaged me, but after the local milf wanting no strings sex and the russian girls wanting a sugar daddy also wrecked my computer i have become slightly more cautious about accepting unsolicited email offers of sex from local women.

 

It's a real mystery .

 

TV schedules getting moved around for special news items.
Taped the last episode of "Hunted" last night only to find that the last few minutes weren't recorded due to some tw*ts in London having a vote on someone. So channel 4 think that it's OK that the most important 5 minutes of a series is run late?

 

Ha, same thing happened to us. Luckily it was already available on demand from C4 on the Sky Box, as we were an hour behind having been watching the episode before.

I thought recordings were more sophisticated these days. I'm sure I had a VHS recorder back in the early 2000s that could pick up the signal from a broadcaster of a schedule change and adjust accordingly.

 

Same here, (it was available on catchup), but didn't want to ruin the vibe of hate!

 

Sorry. I will take you off my distribution list.

 

Advertising algorithms don't influence spam email. Those are sent to literally every email address the spammer can get their hands on. They even guess ail addresses by assembling random combinations of names/words and appending popular hostnames.

 

Taped? Showing your age there grandad.

Hunted I like though - but **** me it's so scripted and the contestants are idiots. "I'm going to see my kids at football training" or "let's get on the train home to see mum on her birthday" and thats if they dont think sending them a video to taunt them isn't a bad idea.

 

I went to legoland before lockdown (with my wife and son - I’m not a weirdo ) and assume your mate has moved on

the food was awful and expensive , paid for unlimited drink refills and most of the slushy machines in the park were out of order

We paid for a special room in the Lego park, came with a free gift for the little fellow , room was very poor / very expensive and the free gift was a crap (a pack of Lego with about 6 bits in it

Queues were massive (to be expected)

full disclosure I am a grumpy ******* , may not have been as bad as I’m making out my son enjoyed it but my idear of hell.

 

why do they also wear skin tight jeans that are too short and deck shoes (I live in Devon so it may just be a Devon thing)

 

I hate ear hair

since I have turned 50 it grows at a rate which is quite astonishing , I trim my ear hair 2 days later it’s back , my normal hair doesn’t grow that quick - what is the point of ear hair

 

To keep your ears warm. Obvs.

 

Same here, amazing isn’t it? it’s become not far of a daily job to keep them in check for me. I don’t actually trim them though, I pluck as many as I can out, yet they still come back with a vengeance.

 

I've decided to grow mine long. I'm currently at that difficult stage where it just needs to grow a bit more but it looks really cool. I'm sure collar length ear hair will catch on.

 

It's a social adaptation to help us cope with long term marriage.

 

Style is so arbitrary. Hip people can do stylish things with their hair or beard and yet no one wants to know if you grow your ear hair long and plait it.

 

Just don’t get to stage six.

 

Though in my case, purely playing Devil’s advocate, if these spammers’ aim is to maliciously infect a large number of people’s computers, surely they’re not going the best way about it?

Not only are a large number of these emails both extremely inane and offensive (it’s got to the point where when I’m looking at work to see how many more I’ve got in the last couple of hours, I have to be pretty discreet because the titles and previews of them are NSFW) but they are also pure porn going by the few I’ve opened. Like I said, I can’t imagine many if any people in their right mind being turned on by them enough to take the bait.

And they haven’t got the reaction they hope to achieve from me in the last three or so weeks, so why do I continue to receive them by the truckload and if anything in increasing quantity?

 

1. That's not necessarily the goal. Sometimes it is to get revenue from clicks, or promote a product, or any number of other schemes.
2. Best way? Certainly not. Easiest way, though....? Ultimately a spam network is very low effort and might incur some financial reward without any real risk of criminal action. For some people, that's enough. The simple fact is this: the spammers do it because it's financially worthwhile to do it. If it wasn't, they wouldn't do it.

Curating a list takes effort and time. It takes zero effort to continue to splurge out emails. Why would they bother?

 

My personal battle in my mid-40s is nose hair - not so much inside it, as outside on the top.

 

I get ear hair not just inside but on the edge (helix) as well. Thin and wispy and sometimes I don't notice and it's got to an inch long!

I also regularly trim the nose hair and a very random single thick hair growing on my cheek about half an inch up the outside of my nose.

 

Autotrader car dealer chains that advertise the model you're looking for as within X miles of your house when you sort by distance, then you click on them and they say "this car might not be held at your local dealership" - and then require a non-refundable £100 deposit just to get them delivered to that dealer for you to even just look at.

So it's not within X miles of my house is it numbnuts.

Some searches have a whole page of these before I get to local dealers WITH THE ACTUAL CAR IN STOCK!

There's not even a way to filter these out of your searches.

Most annoying.