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  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,147
    Downloading a load of CDs onto a USB, and carefully doing it so that the boxed set of five Dr. Feelgood albums I got for Christmas are interspersed with other LPs. Then when I play it back, the computer has decided to group them all together so I get sixty odd Dr. Feelgood tracks one after the other... 
  • When it’s freezing cold, you need a public toilet, find one and it’s locked.
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,163
    Every time Paul Elliotts or anyone else's name gets mentioned it has to accompanied by MBE CBE or whatever.

    As if we should automatically defer to them as being superior, when we know today, just about every tom dick and harry get's given them, without it necessarily being justified!
  • Billy_Mix
    Billy_Mix Posts: 2,707
    Local authorities imposing new restrictions supposedly for the residents' benefit, that 90+% of those residents rejected, restrictions that also pull the rug from under the borough's bigger employers/businesses.  And that authority won't be making money out of it.  They quote an air quality 'justification' but the restrictions in no small part just move the alleged issue to other parts of the same borough.  They serve us apparently.
  • Octopus Energy adverts on the radio with the 'real' customers ringing in😡
  • Every time Paul Elliotts or anyone else's name gets mentioned it has to accompanied by MBE CBE or whatever.

    As if we should automatically defer to them as being superior, when we know today, just about every tom dick and harry get's given them, without it necessarily being justified!

    Deference or acknowledgement? (the latter on the basis that the gong is deserved...).
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,867
    Football highlights that don’t have the timer on the screen at all times, BBC and Sky being the main ones here. TNT/BT can manage it so I don’t see why the rest don’t. 

    I’m currently watching last night’s Match Of The Day, Newcastle have gone 2-1 up, if there was a clock on the screen then I’d be thinking wow, they’ve gone from one down to two up in a matter of minutes, but no they can’t manage that. 

    See also the Jeremey Vine show on Channel 5 where they have the phone number on the screen at all times with the dialing code as 0207 when it should be just 020. 

  • When coming out with a facetious remark over text but it has been misconstrued by people who should know you better. Then having to explain the joke or you forever look like a heartless bastard. So as i'm too lazy to try and explain my comment, people just take me for a heartless bastard. 

  • When someone puts up a photo of Joe Aribo and I'm thinking "What's all that about ?"

    And again, and again .....

    Then, a few minures ago, it "came up again"....

    Clearly, it's been a while. 
  • O-Randy-Hunt
    O-Randy-Hunt Posts: 10,634
    Foxes. Little ginger w⚓️s. One in the middle of the night found it hilarious by doing laps of the street screaming its cock off. One minute you could hear it down the end of the street. Then it's outside my house then back down the other end.
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  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,890
    The latest Curry's adverts which have male and female bearded staff and the newest one where the supervisor has had a "Font of all Knowledge" installed within a store.

    Aisling Lancaster, head of brand and advertising at Currys said: “We know that our customers relish the opportunity to get hands-on with all the amazing tech we sell, and our stores are the best possible place to do this. Not only can you try out all the latest products, but you can rely on our colleagues’ unrivaled tech expertise to help find the right tech for you.

    “These ads allow us to playfully show just how far our colleagues are willing to go to make sure they are tuned in to today’s tech trends while underscoring how valuable this face-to-face service is to our customers.”

    I've got news for you Aisling, your ads are not remotely funny, clever or playful, they are cringeworthy, pathetic and embarrassing and you should find yourself a new career.

  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    The Corsa advert on Radio X. It's an immediate switch off.
  • Foxes. Little ginger w⚓️s. One in the middle of the night found it hilarious by doing laps of the street screaming its cock off. One minute you could hear it down the end of the street. Then it's outside my house then back down the other end.

    Might be screaming its fanny off, it's mating season for the little beggars.
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,163
    Every time Paul Elliotts or anyone else's name gets mentioned it has to accompanied by MBE CBE or whatever.

    As if we should automatically defer to them as being superior, when we know today, just about every tom dick and harry get's given them, without it necessarily being justified!

    Deference or acknowledgement? (the latter on the basis that the gong is deserved...).
    But does it have to be continually mentioned throughout an article, once is enough surely.
  • jondon76
    jondon76 Posts: 294
    The Blackwall Tunnel closing all the f-ing time.
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    edited January 2024
    Octopus Energy adverts on the radio with the 'real' customers ringing in😡
    On every single ad break on Heart 90s; drives me and my work oppos insane
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,907
    edited January 2024
    That as a newly married couple visiting my in laws we constantly get the lecture about having children. Even more so now that my wife's sister has a 6 month old. Even more annoying is that as a couple that doesn't want children the assumption is always that we haven't thought it through and any actual reason we might give for this is just written off. When in actual fact the opposit is true  its because we've thought it through that we don't want children. We've weighed it up and have so many valid reasons for making the choice we have such as the economic, social, political and environmental circumstances that will face the next generation. The financial and time costs to us in a challenging world as well as being acutely aware of our own mental health and generational childhood traumas and the damage of passing these on.

    We have plenty of reasons all valid. We aren't just gonna have kids in an attempt to fulfil some of our own unmet emotional needs as so many of our parents generation did. Now piss off and let us live life 
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,959
    That as a newly married couple visiting my in laws we constantly get the lecture about having children. Even more so now that my wife's sister has a 6 month old. Even more annoying is that as a couple that doesn't want children the assumption is always that we haven't thought it through and any actual reason we might give for this is just written off. When in actual fact the opposit is true  its because we've thought it through that we don't want children. We've weighed it up and have so many valid reasons for making the choice we have such as the economic, social, political and environmental circumstances that will face the next generation. The financial and time costs to us in a challenging world as well as being acutely aware of our own mental health and generational childhood traumas and the damage of passing these on.

    We have plenty of reasons all valid. We aren't just gonna have kids in an attempt to fulfil some of our own unmet emotional needs as so many of our parents generation did. Now piss off and let us live life 
    Still think you will regret it though, especially in your later life. Children give so much to couples. 
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,907
    That as a newly married couple visiting my in laws we constantly get the lecture about having children. Even more so now that my wife's sister has a 6 month old. Even more annoying is that as a couple that doesn't want children the assumption is always that we haven't thought it through and any actual reason we might give for this is just written off. When in actual fact the opposit is true  its because we've thought it through that we don't want children. We've weighed it up and have so many valid reasons for making the choice we have such as the economic, social, political and environmental circumstances that will face the next generation. The financial and time costs to us in a challenging world as well as being acutely aware of our own mental health and generational childhood traumas and the damage of passing these on.

    We have plenty of reasons all valid. We aren't just gonna have kids in an attempt to fulfil some of our own unmet emotional needs as so many of our parents generation did. Now piss off and let us live life 
    Still think you will regret it though, especially in your later life. Children give so much to couples. 
    Lol you either forgot a smiley or have completely missed the point of my post. It isn't and shouldn't be about what they give to me or add to my life (that's where so many of our parents generation went wrong and why there are so many generational mental health issues - a friend training to be a psychiatrist wrote her PHD research paper on it and it was an interesting read) it should be about raising a human of the future and whether you can give them the best opportunities or whether you want to put them through the situation in the world. 
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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,593
    That as a newly married couple visiting my in laws we constantly get the lecture about having children. Even more so now that my wife's sister has a 6 month old. Even more annoying is that as a couple that doesn't want children the assumption is always that we haven't thought it through and any actual reason we might give for this is just written off. When in actual fact the opposit is true  its because we've thought it through that we don't want children. We've weighed it up and have so many valid reasons for making the choice we have such as the economic, social, political and environmental circumstances that will face the next generation. The financial and time costs to us in a challenging world as well as being acutely aware of our own mental health and generational childhood traumas and the damage of passing these on.

    We have plenty of reasons all valid. We aren't just gonna have kids in an attempt to fulfil some of our own unmet emotional needs as so many of our parents generation did. Now piss off and let us live life 
    We used to get this a lot, it’s annoying. I was 30 when I met my now wife and although she’s a few years younger than me, we were later than most to settle down. Initially we weren’t going to have kids and got sick of being asked “when are you going to have a baby”? Even one of my mums friends asked me when I was going to give her a grandchild.

    We ended up changing our minds, and whilst I’m glad we did, I can see why people choose not to.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,839
    That as a newly married couple visiting my in laws we constantly get the lecture about having children. Even more so now that my wife's sister has a 6 month old. Even more annoying is that as a couple that doesn't want children the assumption is always that we haven't thought it through and any actual reason we might give for this is just written off. When in actual fact the opposit is true  its because we've thought it through that we don't want children. We've weighed it up and have so many valid reasons for making the choice we have such as the economic, social, political and environmental circumstances that will face the next generation. The financial and time costs to us in a challenging world as well as being acutely aware of our own mental health and generational childhood traumas and the damage of passing these on.

    We have plenty of reasons all valid. We aren't just gonna have kids in an attempt to fulfil some of our own unmet emotional needs as so many of our parents generation did. Now piss off and let us live life 
    Don’t worry you can get your own back, for every time they say ‘it’ll be you next’ whenever they hear of a new pregnancy, you can say the same re funerals. 
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,839
    I can’t imagine life with out my kids. 
    They have given me 13 years of joy. 

    They are in their 30’s mind ….
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,959
    That as a newly married couple visiting my in laws we constantly get the lecture about having children. Even more so now that my wife's sister has a 6 month old. Even more annoying is that as a couple that doesn't want children the assumption is always that we haven't thought it through and any actual reason we might give for this is just written off. When in actual fact the opposit is true  its because we've thought it through that we don't want children. We've weighed it up and have so many valid reasons for making the choice we have such as the economic, social, political and environmental circumstances that will face the next generation. The financial and time costs to us in a challenging world as well as being acutely aware of our own mental health and generational childhood traumas and the damage of passing these on.

    We have plenty of reasons all valid. We aren't just gonna have kids in an attempt to fulfil some of our own unmet emotional needs as so many of our parents generation did. Now piss off and let us live life 
    Still think you will regret it though, especially in your later life. Children give so much to couples. 
    Lol you either forgot a smiley or have completely missed the point of my post. It isn't and shouldn't be about what they give to me or add to my life (that's where so many of our parents generation went wrong and why there are so many generational mental health issues - a friend training to be a psychiatrist wrote her PHD research paper on it and it was an interesting read) it should be about raising a human of the future and whether you can give them the best opportunities or whether you want to put them through the situation in the world. 
    Mate, I love your contributions on here. All I would say is never say never. 

    I'm in my sixties now, but honestly the older I get I realise how much is learned through life experiences. It's the only advice I  can give  to my two lads who are slightly older than yourself. 

    Besides my 4 months old grand daughter is going to find the answer to climate change. 🙃 
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,907
    That as a newly married couple visiting my in laws we constantly get the lecture about having children. Even more so now that my wife's sister has a 6 month old. Even more annoying is that as a couple that doesn't want children the assumption is always that we haven't thought it through and any actual reason we might give for this is just written off. When in actual fact the opposit is true  its because we've thought it through that we don't want children. We've weighed it up and have so many valid reasons for making the choice we have such as the economic, social, political and environmental circumstances that will face the next generation. The financial and time costs to us in a challenging world as well as being acutely aware of our own mental health and generational childhood traumas and the damage of passing these on.

    We have plenty of reasons all valid. We aren't just gonna have kids in an attempt to fulfil some of our own unmet emotional needs as so many of our parents generation did. Now piss off and let us live life 
    Still think you will regret it though, especially in your later life. Children give so much to couples. 
    Lol you either forgot a smiley or have completely missed the point of my post. It isn't and shouldn't be about what they give to me or add to my life (that's where so many of our parents generation went wrong and why there are so many generational mental health issues - a friend training to be a psychiatrist wrote her PHD research paper on it and it was an interesting read) it should be about raising a human of the future and whether you can give them the best opportunities or whether you want to put them through the situation in the world. 
    Mate, I love your contributions on here. All I would say is never say never. 

    I'm in my sixties now, but honestly the older I get I realise how much is learned through life experiences. It's the only advice I  can give  to my two lads who are slightly older than yourself. 

    Besides my 4 months old grand daughter is going to find the answer to climate change. 🙃 
    Likewise mate. I'm not necessarily saying never but it's certainly not on the cards for a good while. What annoys me most is the assumption we haven't thought it through because we think differently to them when the opposite is actually true and we've thought it through much more than people whose default is to have kids.
  • The important thing is to keep practising.
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    The discarding of Christmas trees in the street, take them to a recycling centre!
    Aren't they in the street to be collected and taken to the recycling centre?
    No doubt but just think people are lazy,just leaving them in the street where they lay for weeks on end until the councils get round to picking them up. Just gets my goat🤷‍♂️
    Round our way they pick ‘em up on the same day they collect the refuse/recycling. From front gardens, or on the pavement. 
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,867
    Why do sets of metric sockets or spanners seem to have the 18mm one missing? Must be a reason for it but when you really need one and it ain’t there it’s a pain in the arse. 
  • buckshee said:
    Why do sets of metric sockets or spanners seem to have the 18mm one missing? Must be a reason for it but when you really need one and it ain’t there it’s a pain in the arse. 

    Have you tried posting this on the Millwall MB? :)
  • Companies asking you to write reviews on their products. Look if it's shit I won't be back to buy from you again, if it ain't then I will.  Trustpilot. How do I know that 'Jack from Barnsley's' telling the truth about the product,  I don't know him from Adam.
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