Things you hate IV

My god that's depressing.

There can't be anyone in this country that doesn't know that smoking is very bad for you and especially an unborn child.

I'm not sure if it's a belief that somehow you're tough enough to not be affected by it or simply that you are so selfish you don't care.

 

Thick people can convince themselves of anything if it helps them rationalise what they want to do.

 

That's the north for you.

 

When the baby is born fit and well they are quick to tell the world that they knew better than the medical profession. Selfish junkie ****s.

 

It’s irritating how many people have their security lights set to trigger when someone simply walks past their home on the pavement.

I’m not walking anywhere I shouldn’t, I’m not on their property, so they shouldn’t be directing a bright light at me. This Country (tut).

 

"(tut)" - Did you call ?
Utter b******s putting their lights on so that that you can see where you're walking and don't trip or step in some dog crap.

 

I can be ‘Mr Woke-Bleeding-Heart-Liberal’ at times. I found it sad that a lot of women there appeared to be on their own and startlingly young. Me and my wife can pitch up in our nice new car after a long conversation about middle names and which baby seat we want from John Lewis, all excited about the prospect of becoming parents for the first time…. Some people have ******* crap lives and I can’t imagine how terrifying it must be to be preggers without many prospects or a support network.

But I could have happily smacked the fag and the Monster can out of one girl’s hands and screamed in her face. Do yourself a favour for ****s sake.

 

Absolutely. Climbing a tree on the pavement adjacent to the first story landing window of their house is perfectly acceptable.

 

Don’t you mean?

 

I used to walk home along the canal towpath after a night out until Mrs Diamond banned it. After a short while you get your night vision going nicely when BAM, one of those security lights comes on from a boat. Why?

 

‘My other pit pony is an Arabian Stud’

 

Innit?!

 

Maybe people walking home tiddly are in the habit of making off with a canal boat for a high speed joyride (4 mph).

 

The people who install like this don't know what they're doing, if the light is pointing outwards then in the dark it will be almost impossible to see someone trying to break through the door due to the glare. Security lights should point at what needs to be secure, i.e. the door so they should point downwards.

 

Most are adjustable in range and direction - just case of getting on a ladder and adjusting but suggest you do it very quietly at about 2am so as not to disturb them.

 

The security light on the front of my house comes on when people walk past and I don't f_cking care.

 

Do you live in a lighthouse?

 

Well no boats have ever crashed into it.

 

Thank you! Very excited.

 

Did your missus think you were a keeper?

 

Modern TV and films where they blur the edges of the image. Seems to be they think it makes the centre bits sharper by deliberately making parts of the edge/ background out of focus.

 

Try watching before you're half way down the 2nd bottle...

 

There's a plague of them, apparently.

 

Or maybe have a bottle first then it will all be blurred.

 

Some of that is down to people cheaping out and filming on mobiles or small SLR type cameras rather than using proper sized cameras and professional lenses.
There's no substitute for a decent sized quality lens.

 

You could be right but I started watching The Tourist BBC last night and it was full of this issue. You would think they were using decent lenses.
There were parts where your could see the full body of two people talking as they walked towards the camera, and there feet were blurred !!
And another scene where someone in a car was talking to someone outside the car, probably 2 or 3m away, but they were all out of focus.

My wife tells me to stop moaning about it as it does not bother her....

 

The BBC were once a bastion of quality and advancement in technology but no longer. They used to use Sony Trinitron screens and Rogers Studio speakers (I own a pair). Now it's any old tat. I used to work in the industry that produced & supplied their TV lenses albeit a long time ago.

Certainly on the Sky EPG just compare the quality of their HD broadcasts (when they're not shut down due to being unable to show regional variations) to someone like Eurosprout who's HD content is second to none.
Can't comment on over the air quality through Freeview, havent used it in donkeys.

Mind you due to my advancing years and raging tinitus I can't see squat and hearing leaves a lot to be desired also so really doesn't matter. Just a shame they cna;t produce any decent content either.

 

This is one of the advantages of having a wife with hearing difficulties. The subtitles cover up a lot of these issues!

 

The Apprentice. Proof that not everything should return to pre-Covid normal.

 

They may as well just call it Love Island nowadays, turned it on and two of them are wearing ridiculous aviator style glasses, one of them tinted. Totally ridiculous and out of place if the show was actually fit for its proper premise.

 

I appear to experiencing an odd form of communication from a percentage of parents.
It appears to be a hybrid of Medieval Latin and Klingon!
Most emails don't address me,a number do not sign. What is in the middle is mostly gobbledygook and is akin to doing a 100 piece jigsaw puzzle with 99 pieces missing!
Moreover it's almost impossible to address the sender as most email addresses are very daft and give little insight into the person's name.
Easier talking to Ford and Persephone.

 

This woman:

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/love...te-comments-on-poverty-and-hard-work-12510724

Now I don’t completely disagree with her comments, as we do all have an element of control over our destiny, and you can choose to work hard and you can choose to not work hard, but she’s only got where she’s got to by going on a reality show, and she compared to most people she has absolutely no idea what real hard work actually is.

I don’t personally find her particularly attractive, but she’s got that Live Island ‘look’, which has obviously helped her get on the show, which is where all her opportunity has come from.

99.999% of the population don’t have the choice to go on Love Island and subsequently have major retailers offering them millions to promote their sweat shop tat.

I’m not a fan of cancel culture, but I hope her comments help teach her that her ‘hard work’ can be undone just as easily as it got her where she is.

 

Mrs Keighley and I still enjoy it but I agree it has drifted from its original premise and the candidates are almost universally annoying.

The Australian Celebrity Apprentice was great.